The Top Star Chef Becomes a Hit with Insectoids

1. I don't know what it's like for other people to have their souls transmigrate, but Ling Lu thinks it's awful.

One second, he was onstage at a top chef competition, holding a kitchen knife and carefully sizing up the ingredients in front of him.

The next, he was standing in a prison cell, bringing his hand down with a knife and slicing through the lock.

A prison guard stared at him and asked his superior, "Prisoner 09-017 is preparing to escape. Should we execute him immediately?"

Execute him???

Who the hell gets executed from the start???

Wait! Put the gun down first. I'm not trying to escape!

2. A huge piece of breaking news has just swept across the Qiangyun Empire on Hodal Star: A guilty E-class male insect has somehow become the personal chef of the empire's richest citizen, the cold and beautiful Twick.

He even uses the money he borrowed from Twick to open a ramshackle little restaurant in the middle of nowhere, the kind of place whose sign falls over at the slightest breeze.

On opening day, all sorts of insects gather to gawk at Ling Lu.

They see the male insect sitting on an adorable pill bug mount, holding a playing card between each finger. Like a magician, he flicks out several cards with a whoosh, and food they've never seen before materializes right on the table.

In no time, Ling Lu's restaurant becomes the talk of every street and alley, including among the insects themselves.

The many female insects all squeal, "Ahhh, he's so handsome! I want to marry him!!"

3. Everyone realizes that Ling Lu seems to attract a rather wide range of insects.

The notoriously ill-tempered prince: "How much does Twick pay you? I'll pay double! Just come with me!"

The picky major general with a string of impressive military exploits: "Cuddle! I want to cuddle the food!"

The dignified, high-ranking imperial marshal: "I want every dish you make in this life to pass only through my mouth."

Even Twick shows up.

All the insects stare in shock as they watch the icy beauty, who never smiled and never took male insects seriously, kneel on one knee and kiss the male insect's ring finger.

A smooth-talking, straightforward chef gong + X + a cold beauty shou who responds to kindness, not force

One-on-one, happy ending, both pure, a product of wild imagination (with many personal headcanons)

Interstellar + farming + food + cute pets + card-drawing System

Reading guide:

1. This story is set in a future era where the ratio of male to female insects is relatively balanced.

2. The gong's rank increases with money. As he grows richer, he'll gradually rise from E to S.

3. The gong has a card-drawing System. The food at his restaurant is made by combining cards and materializing them.

My upcoming shou-focused story, Daily Demon Hunting with a Vampire Butler. If you're interested, please add it to your collection~

One day, Xie Lan wakes from a long coma and travels from the nineteenth century to the modern day.

If he has awakened, it means the twelve demons of Hell have returned to the human world.

To deal with them, he has no choice but to lie low in a modern world that is both utterly unfamiliar and astonishingly advanced, and search for the equipment he used in the past.

But when he returns to his castle, a coffin that has been usurped throws a wrench in his plans. His demon-hunting sword should be inside it.

Xie Lan opens it impatiently. After accidentally cutting his palm and letting a drop of bright red blood fall, he successfully awakens a tall, handsome vampire.

Xie Lan looks at his wound and the smiling man before him.

Xie Lan: I quit. Whoever wants to hunt demons can do it.

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As an ancient vampire, Xiville grew tired of the hustle and bustle of the world after falling into a coma from severe injuries. He simply lay down in a coffin and sealed himself away.

Then one day, someone else who claimed to have just woken up lifted the lid of his coffin and used his blood to bind him in a hundred-year master-servant pact.

Fine, he can only be a butler for someone else now.

Fine, his master turns out to be a demon hunter and apparently doesn't need him.

But he doesn't have to be so dismissive, hey!

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Xiville rests her chin on her hand, looking like a young girl. "Aren't you a demon hunter? Will you hurt me?"

Xie Lan, looking thoroughly impatient: "Do you have no idea who you are? You're not a god, a demon, a ghost, or a monster."

He looks at the other person apologetically. "You're not even human."

Xiville: ...

Do demon hunters have no hearts?

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Xiville has three secrets. First, she likes kneeling on one knee and calling Xie Lan "Young Master" (it feels like a proposal). Second, she likes being ordered around by Xie Lan (and then being fucked). Third, she likes Xie Lan.

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A formidable demon hunter shou, cold on the outside and warm at heart, X a formidable vampire gong who loves to banter with his young master

One-on-one, happy ending plus, a product of wild imagination

(Note: The shou will spend some time in a boy's form early in the story, then return to his adult form.)

Theme: The bittersweet and the sour are all flavors one must experience in life.