Going Viral for My Cooking in the Interstellar Era

[Completed. The story next door is currently updating.]

Next door: My Boyfriends Are Never Human (Nonhuman Love Interests)

"The Darkest Hour" is a hugely popular full-dive mystery game, famous for its realistic characters and highly unpredictable plots. Many players are scared witless by the game’s hidden bosses, yet keep entering the game to meet their doom.

Qin Yuan'an was dragged in to help make up the numbers. She had no sense of involvement, never took the initiative to stir up trouble, and dutifully embodied what it meant to be a couch-potato player.

But even being a couch potato wasn’t easy. In every game, her character had a lover, and all of those lovers seemed to have rather strange identities...

World One:

Qin Yuan'an, who had always kept to herself, got a boyfriend. But no one else had ever seen him, and he never came to see her either. No one even knew his name.

So her classmates guessed that Qin Yuan'an had made up her boyfriend.

Whenever other people gave her curious, probing looks, Qin Yuan'an never answered, which only made the rumor seem more believable.

A lot of accidents had happened at school recently. Some people heard strange noises in the school corridors at night, saw filthy stains in the bathroom, or spotted eerie figures in mirrors...

The players’ mission was to find the culprit behind it all. After staking out the school for several days, they finally discovered the mastermind on the rooftop.

A chilling wind blew. The monster’s shape kept changing, at times resembling a gigantic beast and at others a vicious animal. Its strange movements made it all the more eerie and inscrutable.

In its hands, long, slender needles kept darting back and forth. The needle shafts flashed silver, and their tips had the unsettling beauty of something that had just passed through a corpse.

Noticing the players, the monster looked up. Beneath its clean, pale little face was a twisted body.

The players shuddered and scattered in panic, thinking they were about to be eaten.

Qin Yuan'an, who always stayed out of things and never drew attention to herself, walked over with a blank expression. As if she hadn’t noticed its bizarre body, she patted the monster on the head and said sternly, "Don’t play with just anything."

The other players saw Qin Yuan'an’s suicidal behavior and thought she wouldn’t live to see the next day.

Then they saw that the monster wasn’t angry even after being hit. It obediently extended a small part of itself, stretching it out and thinning it until it could just about take the shape of a finger, then touched Qin Yuan'an’s hand.

It gave Qin Yuan'an the sweater it had clumsily knitted, apparently trying to win her favor.

Qin Yuan'an took the BOSS’s "finger" and said, "Sorry, this is my boyfriend. He still hasn’t quite mastered shapeshifting. Come on, say hello to big brother."

The monster extended a part of its body and obediently waved its "hand."

Her big brother was stunned and horrified. "I do not approve of this marriage!"

World Two: ...

A heroine who often acts like a couch potato but has sharp instincts and is good at being direct x clingy, outwardly harmless but truly vicious nonhuman BOSS boyfriends

[Blurb for this story]

Qin Xi transmigrated to the interstellar era and inherited a restaurant that had been abandoned for many years. In this era, everyone lived on nutritional supplements. Qin Xi couldn’t stand it, so she had to feed herself and, while she was at it, make a fortune.

Her braised pork won the heart of the chief scientist. Mapo tofu was the little imperial princess’s favorite. Spicy and sour fish was a huge hit with the Federation military... With her homestyle diner, Qin Xi became the most popular person in the interstellar era!

Qin Xi raised a red panda. It had glossy fur, a huge fluffy tail, and loved people. Best of all, it ate whatever she made and was never picky.

It would even act cute and beg to be held. Who could resist that?

One day, a friend who had come over for a meal saw someone pretending to be a red panda to act cute again. The friend was appalled: "Is this really the sharp-tongued, stubborn, refined, and picky person I know? Did you get swapped out for a red panda?!"

One day, a picture appeared on the interstellar network showing the little restaurant’s owner embracing someone else. Everyone started trying to figure out who was lucky enough to be with Qin Xi.

But despite all the discussion, no one guessed the right person. At last, that someone couldn’t hold back any longer.

A certain chief scientist claimed the photo: "Mine. Do not disturb."

Theme: Cook with care and enjoy life