As It Happens, I'm a Cook

Zhuo Zheng woke up in a futuristic world, stranded on a garbage planet from the start. A mecha prodigy who had drawn everyone's attention, she entered a military academy, only to end up assigned to the mess hall by a twist of fate.

Zhuo Zheng: The mess hall is fine, I guess. At least I'll get enough to eat. I learned my lesson starving on the garbage planet. *tears*

Zhuo Zheng spent three months cooking up a storm in the mess hall. Then the busy colonel who had discovered her on the garbage planet happened to pass by the academy. At last, he spotted the promising mecha engineer, the future leader of a new era. So why was she working as a cook?

The colonel: Transfer her to another department. Now!

The new students: Nooo!

Is the tomato-braised beef not tasty enough? Is the fragrant soy-braised chicken not good enough? Is the spicy stir-fry not to your liking?

What? Her precious talent is going to waste?

Then who was it piloting a giant chef mecha and chasing the strongest mecha in the infantry department around and around?

Zhuo Zheng: Never provoke a cook.

A year later, Zhuo Zheng and her beloved mecha burst onto the scene at the university students' military skills tournament.

When she piloted her cooking machine, the Zhuo Zheng-brand chef mecha, wearing a giant apron and brandishing a spatula as she took the field...

The military academy students: How can she be shameless enough to enter that rickety mecha? Is she trying to laugh her opponents to death? It's a tactic, that's what it is! Hahahahahaha!

Wait, how did she win the championship?

Zhuo Zheng: If you're cooking for a crowd, of course you need a giant mecha!

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My upcoming novel next door: The Infinite Store Management Guide

Synopsis

A year after graduating, Ming Qi joined the ranks of the unemployed. She hated office work so much that she simply took over a convenience store.

To her surprise, the convenience store, which had no customers in the real world, was connected to another infinite world.

Word spread among the players: a convenience store where they could restock had appeared in the beginner's dungeon. The dungeon players took Ming Qi for a convenience store NPC, and some even tried to squeeze information out of her!

Ming Qi: I don't know either... Sigh, I'll sell you this chocolate for five times the price...

Did I just hear something I shouldn't have? What a pain. Might as well pretend to be an NPC...

The Store Management System activated. Outside the convenience store lay a perilous dungeon world. Anyone who left the store would lose its protection and face the same dangers as the players.

One day, Ming Qi stepped out of the convenience store, and the infinite system automatically registered her as a player. Ming Qi was amazed. You can bind me to two systems?

One day, the beginner's dungeon players were horrified to discover that the ridiculously well-stocked convenience store had vanished.

In a remote corner of a dungeon short on supplies, a convenience store quietly appeared on the ground.

Ming Qi: Time to switch from a fixed shop to a mobile stall. I'll put on a player's secret identity and move out!

A mysterious convenience store circulated through the infinite dungeons, appearing at random in any one of them. It was well stocked, and its NPC shopkeeper had a serious case of workplace fatigue.

Players who had run out of food and ammunition cried and prayed: Convenience Store God, please have mercy on me!

Ming Qi: Just diligently clearing dungeons.

My upcoming novel next door: The Military Academy Janitor

Synopsis

When Zhao Xin turned eighteen, she finally found a decent job.

An orphan raised in the slums of the Capital Planet, Zhao Xin had somehow managed to grow up without any proof of identity. Then she unexpectedly landed a temporary cleaning job at the Alliance's First Military Academy.

Zhao Xin: Three meals a day and a place to stay, plus 4,000 star coins a month. Am I going to get rich overnight?

Beneath the peaceful surface of the Capital Planet, a sinister force was stirring. Monstrous alien creatures dragged their broken bodies through the shadows, about to devour unsuspecting students...

Zhao Xin was furious. I have a job with meals and lodging! If you eat people and get me fired before I can become a permanent employee, what am I supposed to do?

Zhao Xin, who had been ready to fight to the death over a bite to eat since childhood, battled the alien creatures until she was on the verge of death. She was practically gasping her last breath. Being paid this easily was too much. This kind of work made the money feel much more honest!

Huh... Why are there so many alien creatures?

A determined light blazed in Zhao Xin's eyes. Every day, she fought the creatures until her health was down to its last sliver, then dragged herself through the job of cleaning the campus.

Hard work paid off. Zhao Xin got better and better at killing them, and at last she adapted to her wonderful new job!

When the alien creatures invaded, the people of the Capital Planet fled in panic and discovered that the Alliance's First Military Academy was strangely safe. The First Military Academy? It was practically the First Shelter!

As the Alliance faced an enormous crisis, the media excitedly discovered that hope lay with the Alliance's First Military Academy!

The students and staff of the Alliance's First Military Academy, who went about their classes in peace every day, stared in confusion. What's going on? We've been having classes as usual. What crisis?

Zhao Xin: What? The alien creatures evolved? No wonder work has been harder lately. Good thing I've adapted again. *smirks*

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