The Universally Hated One Conquers the Fluffy Folk with Food

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1. Yu Wanjiao has two great passions in life: cooking and fluffy animals.

After arriving in the interstellar era, she finds herself frail and weak, without mental powers, and a useless nobody at the very bottom of a frontier planet.

The good news: She gets into the Imperial Military Academy.

The bad news: She’s in the utterly overlooked culinary arts program.

After the school year begins, Yu Wanjiao, a freshman in the logistics department, is scorned by the military cadets.

“What the heck? She doesn’t even have the weakest F-rank mental powers, and she dares come to military school?”

“She thinks that pretty face will get her onto the battlefield? What a joke. Though my family could use a pretty ornament, so I might consider it.”

“Food that’s inefficient, a major that’s pointless. Nutrient solutions are all we need. Cooking is worthless.”

Yu Wanjiao has no choice but to let her skills speak for themselves, setting up a food stall on campus.

Spicy, savory malatang hot pot; crispy, sizzling fried chicken; sweet-and-sour pork ribs; numbing, tender mapo tofu; rich braised pork knuckle, so soft the meat falls off the bone without being greasy...

That very night

The dying sit bolt upright in bed, and even the King of Hell praises my sense of smell!

In the dorms, the military cadets’ spirit forms turn into ravenous food fiends, wandering over to the snack stall in the middle of the night. To get a bite from the pot, they put on bare-knuckle boxing matches, act cute and beg, dance, sing...

The videos are posted online, and everyone laughs that the combat students are all crazy.

But after tasting the food, the combat students are dumbfounded.

One bowl of soup, and you can say goodbye to the medical pod!

One piece of meat, and the nightmare of mental rampages is over!

One bowl of rice, and you’re strong and full of energy!

Before long, the whole academy is in an uproar, and Yu Wanjiao tops the “Most Wanted Teammate” rankings.

And that’s not all

The strongest cadet offers her his spoils of war: “I’ll be your personal hunter, ready to provide you with premium ingredients anytime, anywhere.”

The stern-faced principal stays up all night revising school policy: “The battlefield is too dangerous. Stay here and run your food stall in peace. I’ll change the practical-credit requirements right away.”

The richest research tycoon waves a fistful of money: “I’ll provide the money and the cookware. Our institute can’t do without you!”

2. From the male lead’s perspective

Wen Zhan has an SSS-rank spirit form and a rare dual-type spirit form.

No one knows he has a problem: one of his special spirit forms is volatile and uncontrollable, and loves running away from home for half a year at a time. Because they share sensations, after it repeatedly gets up to unmentionable antics in various places, he flies into a rage and goes after it

“Meow~” His spirit form, round as a ball, is perfectly docile as it cuddles up to someone.

The person it’s cuddling is none other than his country-bumpkin roommate from the notorious F Star. He remembers their first meeting: the other boy’s socks had holes, his clothes were patched, and he was as delicate as a little rabbit.

Wen Zhan moves back into the dorm and secretly watches how he takes care of his spirit form.

When it’s hungry, he cooks and feeds it. When it’s too full, he rubs its belly to help it digest. When it’s dirty, he smooths its fur and gives it a fragrant bath. When it’s bored, he takes it for a walk and plays with it. At bedtime, he sings it to sleep...

A month later, Wen Zhan sits beside his spirit form, clutching a bowl and thoroughly enjoying the food.

He starts to savor this one-of-a-kind life of freeloading meals.

He thinks Yu Wanjiao must like him. Otherwise, why would he stroke his spirit form’s round head, its heavy little egg, and its warm, soft paw pads? It can’t fall asleep without cuddling every day.

Until one day, Wen Zhan catches the scent of other fluffy animals on Yu Wanjiao.

Wen Zhan: On high alert.jpg

The next day, the warned fluffy animals show up at the door with their bowls. They freeze for a second, then flee at full speed, wailing with bumps all over their heads.

Waaah, they only wanted to mooch a meal, not cuddle!

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Please add my upcoming novel, “Farming, Starting with Catching Fluffballs!”, to your favorites!

After sleeping for ten thousand years, the mountain god Shen Ting awakens to find that Blue Star has become a “prison planet,” a polluted wasteland unfit for human habitation.

To regain his divine powers and survive, Shen Ting decides to farm. Unfortunately, his body is too weak. How could he possibly have the strength to work the land?

Shen Ting decides to catch some small animals to help him farm.

He catches felines to fish, and they catch fish that are huge and plump.

He catches wolves to till the soil, and they turn over broad, loose fields.

He catches foxes to grow vegetables, and they grow an abundance of sweet produce.

He catches fat birds to hunt insects, and they keep the woods dense and thriving.

Before long, this barren mountain is full of new life. The only problem is that these fluffy creatures are powerful, fierce, and disobedient. He has to keep them in line with a combination of force and delicious food.

As the days go by, the barren mountain turns green, Shen Ting grows stronger, and the fluffy animals he raises become sleek and glossy, with plump little bellies and plenty of nerve.

At last, he gets the pastoral life he’s always dreamed of!

But just a few days after he starts to lie flat, a group of people armed with weapons comes knocking.

The officer in charge pulls out a wanted poster for a kidnapper, points at the fluffy animals filling the house, and puts Shen Ting in handcuffs on the spot.

Shen Ting: Me? A kidnapper?

Help!!

I’m just an honest-to-goodness farmer!

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In Star Era 222, plants on Blue Star mutated and pollution grew severe. Humans could easily go berserk, and the worst cases were sent to the prison planet, where they were held apart from their spirit forms.

Those who weren’t as badly affected went to military school to train in harmony and stability between their physical bodies and spirit forms. People and their spirit forms were inseparable.

But one day, everyone discovered that their spirit forms kept disappearing without a trace every day. When they came back, they looked dazed and glassy-eyed, then collapsed straight into bed.

They refused to cooperate with training at all, and their human partners finally couldn’t take it anymore.

Following their tracks, they discovered that their spirit forms had been kidnapped and forced into farm labor!

Every day, the fluffy animals toiled away farming, scrubbing pots, washing dishes, tilling the soil, pulling weeds, hauling manure... They were exhausted and cried out, “This is so tiring!”

Their human partners swore they would make the farm owner pay dearly!

But the culprit was a master chef. Spicy grilled fish, crisp and tender Chinese cabbage, rich but not greasy braised pork, plump soup dumplings with thin skins and generous fillings... Their spirit forms drooled at the thought. They got antsy if they missed even one meal. It all smelled so good!

Then they discovered that the fish Shen Ting raised glowed and made them sleep well, the vegetables he grew made them feel light as a feather, the pigs he raised made them incredibly strong, and even the mountain spring water soothed their minds and refreshed their whole bodies...

Their human partners were won over too!

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Later, Shen Ting’s fields grew larger and larger, and his agricultural products were sold all over the world. The entire planet went wild for them!

At heart, this is a farming and fluffy-animal-raising story!

Theme: Sharing Chinese food culture. Anything can be eaten!