A Good Cook's First Move Is to Make a Meal

Shi Yuanyuan is an obsessive master chef who pursues the ultimate heights of fine cuisine.

He's tried almost every precious ingredient in the world, but lately, the ingredients have been getting rather bizarre.

"New humans" covered in fish scales, trees that bear ghost infant fruit, pigs that speak, a shopkeeper who drops petals with every blink...

The horrors everyone else avoids are all top-tier ingredients to Shi Yuanyuan.

Shi Yuanyuan says nothing. He just keeps killing monsters, cooking, killing monsters, cooking...

Unfortunately, no one appreciates his art. His dishes are treated like the world's most potent poison. Just getting close to them is enough to make your sanity drain away.

Everyone who tries them cries out, "What kind of quack are you? I feel even worse after eating this!"

Shi Yuanyuan is sad. Shi Yuanyuan eats it himself. Shi Yuanyuan gets poisoned.

Shi Yuanyuan decides to give up on his dream of becoming a chef.

The news lands like a death knell.

For the culinary world, it means losing one eccentric cook.

For all of humanity, it's like the West losing Jerusalem! Like fish out of water!! Like soda with no fizz!!!

A meteor falls, and pollution and mutation begin to spread in secret. Pollutants hungry for flesh are everywhere.

Society struggles to keep running, while dark currents churn beneath the surface, ready to erupt at any moment and swallow everyone whole, ushering in a new chapter called the apocalypse.

Just as humanity's leaders are at their wits' end, a good chef descends like a god made manifest.

To keep this new god, no, this good chef, from losing heart, humanity's representatives begin frantically recruiting anyone who can stomach Shi Yuanyuan's cooking.

Anyone who can eat Shi Yuanyuan's food and praise it will receive untold wealth and power!

A rift tears through space, and a tall figure slowly emerges from the twisted void.

The handsome man lowers his gaze. "I don't need treasure. Can I just take this chef home?"

From the male lead's perspective: So you're saying I can get delicious food for free and take home a wife too? ^_^

# Mm-hmm, my wife's tentacle stew is the best.

# You don't like it? Then I'll pull out your tongue.

# You like it? Who do you think you are, thinking you're worthy of eating my wife's cooking?

Theme: Hold on to your ideals and work tirelessly to achieve your goals