[This novel is too cold to climb the rankings or get contracted. I've run out of inspiration, so updates will be whenever I can.]
Song Yi was bound to a System. Each time, he had to earn one million points of public acclaim.
Song Yi: Sure, just give me a wok.
1. Entertainment industry arc
[Character setup: A celebrity whose career just imploded, with enough haters online to circle the globe thirty times.]
After his manager finished dealing with the scandalous news, he hurried over to console him. But when he knocked and opened the door, he saw...
Song Yi had already sold all his designer clothes. He was wearing a pink apron that cost 19.9, holding a bowl of rice in his left hand and a bowl of beaten eggs in his right.
Manager: ...What's this?
Song Yi [calmly]: Egg fried rice.
#Haven't seen him in three days, and now I hear my artist has become a chef#
A year later, everyone was begging Song Yi not to leave the entertainment industry.
Manager: ? Why is that?
Everyone [in tears]: If he leaves, he'll definitely just open a restaurant! Right now, we can watch him cook live and learn from him, but once he leaves, who'll ever get a table at his restaurant?!
2. Cultivation arc
[Character setup: A good-for-nothing with a mixed spirit root, who cultivated diligently for ten years and barely managed to enter the Qi stage. During a mission, a talented fellow disciple used him as bait, ruining his spiritual foundations and leaving him crippled.]
The Sect Leader was dismissive about the incident: "He's just an outer disciple."
The Elder was cold and heartless: "Now that he's crippled, expel him from the sect."
His fellow disciples brushed him off: "Give him five spirit stones. That'll count as compensation from me."
Song Yi left the sect in silence, then turned around and joined the Culinary Sect, becoming one of the most looked-down-upon culinary cultivators in the cultivation world.
A year later...
"The Hollow Spirit Sect Leader has gained ten pounds in a month. Fasting pills are a thing of the past!"
"No one in the cultivation world has ascended in a hundred years, and the next to do it is a culinary cultivator?"
"From an unknown cripple to a generation's culinary god, Song Yi's life is like a wish-fulfillment novel!"
3. Interstellar ABO arc
[Character setup: A mermaid Omega kept at home by her abusive scumbag husband.]
A year later...
The Restaurant Association specially introduced the Regulations on Lawful and Orderly Dining to prevent scalpers buying places, queue-jumping under false names, AI booking bots, and other such practices.
But even after the regulations were issued, people in the know still complained in tears:
"Song Yi's restaurant has been open for three years, and I still haven't gotten to eat there. I can't get a reservation. I just can't!"
As for the scumbag...
"Did you line up? Did you get a reservation? Dream on if you think you'll see Chef Song!"
4. Ancient setting
[After the flood that year, Fragrant Feast Restaurant spread throughout the kingdom, and the emperor bestowed a golden plaque upon it.]
5. Modern school setting
[The fried rice cakes, candied hawthorns, starch sausages, and jianbing sold outside school gates.]
6. Era setting
[From a fragrant pastry shop in the alleys to a nationwide restaurant chain with 8,000 branches.]
Theme: As long as you hold on to what you love, you can have a wonderful life.
Ah? I don't understand. Did the protagonist take out the recipe and give it to another store? I always feel a bit too easy to bully⊙⊙, maybe repaying evil with kindness? (???????)
Alas, I really don't like the plot where the protagonist, Wu Chang, gives the formula to others. Why?
Very true hhhhhhhh, I really want to eat it, even if I am allergic to it
Go ahead, this article is beautiful! Please update!
(Sticky ink pad) (press the pink paw print)
Little kitten, white and white, waving its tail and pressing its paws
(Pacing) (clawing)
I've been working overtime until now. I'm asking for leave today.
Go,
Hahahaha more more more! I'll bring you cake