I'm Just a Cook

Fuling had just won the championship of a cooking competition when she unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of a disgraced outcast who had been driven from her family.

This was still the Interstellar Era, a wasteland when it came to good food.

Starving and seeing green, Fuling discovered that her original self had even found a part-time job in a cafeteria. She rushed through the hiring assessment and started work.

Then she found out that people here cooked to feed their guardian spirits?

In the Interstellar Era, everyone wanted to become a spirit summoner. After failing to awaken her abilities, Fuling could only fall back on her old trade and become a spirit chef, a profession everyone looked down on.

When the spirit summoners, tormented by terrible food and beaten up by their guardian spirits, learned that Fuling was a brand-new student who had not even enrolled yet, they begged her: Please, could you stop barging in and making things worse?

Fuling was alarmed, so the next day she nervously prepared a meal.

She discovered that mealtime wasn't even over, but all the food had already been snatched up.

Fuling: I'm glad you like it.

But wasn't the food she made supposed to be for the guardian spirits? Why were the students coming to grab it too?

Word spread that a new work-study student had started at the Spirit Descent Institute cafeteria. Students from other colleges wanted to see how long this person would last.

Instead, they found the lofty spirit summoners obediently lined up in a long queue at the serving window.

The other colleges: Unbelievable! I've lived to see the day!

Later: It's so good! Please let us join!

The spirit summoners, now used to eating at the cafeteria every day, discovered that the little serving window was temporarily closed!

Fuling: Oh, classes have started. I've gone on a mission with the others. No idea when I'll be back.

The spirit summoners who stayed behind and the students who came to mooch meals: !

Theme: Life is full of hope