I Set Up a Stall for Fun, Not Profit [Gourmet]

Gu Qianjin bound herself to a Food Stall System. The System could improve her cooking, let her run a mobile food stall, and keep leveling up. It even came with a perk that refunded her losses several times over. Gu Qianjin: Wait, did you say I get money back when I lose money?! Airheaded System: Yep. Lose a hundred, get a thousand back. The System’s intention was to encourage its Host to work hard and improve her cooking. It never expected to run into a crooked Host like Gu Qianjin. Running a stall took hard work. Losing money was a much faster way to get rich. Sorry, but if I don’t take advantage of this loophole, I’m letting down all of China. To lose money, Gu Qianjin set up a stall selling deep-fried skewers outside a school with strict rules that banned students from buying snacks. The sharp-eyed dean was like a wolf, and the school administrators were cunning as foxes. If even one student managed to buy a skewer, she’d admit defeat! But Gu Qianjin never expected the students to go to such lengths for a single skewer. They pulled out every trick in the book: create a diversion, lure the enemy out, make a clean getaway, and more. After a month of hard work, Gu Qianjin hadn’t managed to lose a single cent. Meanwhile, the students’ physical fitness had improved dramatically. Their hundred-meter sprint times broke city records for school discipline. On the day one student received his medal, he gave an emotional speech from the podium, thanking Gu Qianjin for all the invaluable experience he’d gained chasing administrators and fleeing from them. Gu Qianjin: Silence.jpg She’d miscalculated. Who knew these students would be so determined! Gu Qianjin decided to change locations and headed straight for the city’s top gym. There was no way she’d sell any beef noodles there, let alone make a profit! But she never expected beef noodles to taste even better after a workout. It started with one gym member who insisted he wasn’t interested, then one person told another, and another. When the gym’s trainers and members ran into each other in front of the beef noodle stall, they all fell silent. Members: Coach, you... Coach: Hear me out. Beef is high in protein, and noodles are carbs. How is that not the perfect post-workout meal? Gu Qianjin: ????? After a year of hard work, Gu Qianjin had been forced to become S City’s food ambassador. Through her efforts alone, she had revived a neglected mountain temple, brought a historic site deep in the forest back into the spotlight, and saved a movie theater on the verge of bankruptcy... When a leader from the city’s Bureau of Culture presented her with a medal, Gu Qianjin shed “tears of gratitude.” All she wanted was to lose money!!! Coming soon: Can’t I Use My Criminal Investigation System to Tell Fortunes? [The 1990s] In the early 1990s, a fortune-teller with uncanny powers appeared on Temple Street in Hong Kong. They said she could identify the troublemakers around you, and she was never wrong. They said she had helped the Hong Kong police solve one strange case after another! They said a single sentence from her had helped the wealthy Gu family make three billion, and her name was known throughout Southeast Asia. Gu Qingqing: That’s right. It’s me. But I’m no fortune-teller. I’m just an ordinary criminal investigation enthusiast who transmigrated here from the future. Gu Qingqing never expected that after working herself to death, she’d transmigrate into the body of an orphan who had come from the mainland to seek refuge with her uncle, a con artist in Hong Kong. The bad news was that not long after she arrived, someone showed up to smash her uncle’s fortune-telling stall and cause trouble. It looked like her uncle was about to lose his sign, and the two of them were about to lose their livelihood. The good news was that Gu Qingqing had bound herself to a Criminal Investigation System. It included forensic examination, technical investigation, criminal profiling, and all kinds of knowledge about astronomy, geography, tomb raiding, pickpocketing, and more. A married woman suspected her husband of cheating and asked Master Gu to find his mistress. With one glance, Gu Qingqing spotted the housekeeper looking shifty. When a string of murders rocked Hong Kong, the police were stumped and had no leads. Gu Qingqing took one look, activated her forensic skills, and used a single fingerprint to identify the killer just as he was about to flee! As for the story about making three billion, she came from the future and knew exactly where the next thirty years’ opportunities lay. She was familiar with all the gossip about Hong Kong’s famous figures and knew every twist and turn in the fortunes of its wealthy families. Gu Qingqing: I’m not bragging. Even the best fortune-teller couldn’t make predictions as accurate as my cheats. A reporter asked Gu Qingqing, “Master, how do you make such accurate predictions?” Gu Qingqing replied solemnly, “Because I believe in science.” Theme: Food makes people happy