Recaps

Lu Qin, Shen Muyan, and Lu Xiyao prepared food for the night market, where a huge crowd eagerly bought from Lu's Snack Stall. Shen Muyan enjoyed helping run the stall and watching the money come in as the food quickly sold out.

• Lu Qin treated Shen Muyan's cut finger while Lu Xiyao tried to comfort her, and Shen Muyan tricked Lu Xiyao out of getting an ice cream bar.
• Shen Muyan shared part of her ice cream with Lu Xiyao after the girl massaged her legs.
• Lu Qin prepared large quantities of snacks, drinks, and rice noodles, then loaded them onto the three-wheeler with Shen Muyan and Lu Xiyao.
• The family arrived at University Town Night Market Street to find more than eight hundred customers already waiting, and the customers helped set up the stall.
• Lu Qin cooked Fried Rice Noodles while Shen Muyan and Lu Xiyao sold the other foods, and customers bought everything at a frantic pace.
• Shen Muyan enjoyed being the big boss lady and found the stall's constant income more satisfying than her job, though she struggled to pack as quickly as Lu Xiyao.

Lu Qin, Shen Muyan, and Lu Xiyao sold out their food stall and counted nearly 25,000 yuan in revenue before returning home. After the family settled in for the night, Lu Qin used his system points to draw a series of rewards.

• Shen Muyan and Lu Xiyao shared milk tea with Lu Qin while the food stall’s customers continued buying their orders.
• Lu Qin saved food for the family, and Shen Muyan calculated that the stall had earned 24,796 yuan that night.
• Lu Qin cleaned the stall equipment while Shen Muyan and Lu Xiyao washed up, then he checked on them before bed.
• Lu Qin opened the system and spent points on repeated draws, receiving mint candies, fruit-preparation skills, a thermostatic box, and cooking skills.

Lu Qin expanded his cooking plans after drawing new recipes and equipment, while Shen Muyan accidentally kissed him and called him “hubby” after waking from a dream. The chapter left Lu Qin arranging to have an outdoor stove delivered and asking where to buy kimchi jars.

• Lu Qin unpacked a second Fresh-Locking Thermostatic Box and planned to buy ingredients, a gas stove, shelving, and kimchi jars.
• Shen Muyan sleepily kissed Lu Qin on the cheek, called him “hubby,” and went into the bathroom before realizing what she had done.
• Shen Muyan blushed with embarrassment and hid in her room after Lu Qin left, while Lu Xiyao noticed her red face but believed her explanation.
• Lu Qin brought Fried Rice Noodles to Boss Zhao, who showed him a movable stove and offered to deliver and assemble it at noon.
• Lu Qin asked Boss Zhao where to buy kimchi jars, and Boss Zhao pointed him to a shop on the next street.

Lu Qin bought ingredients and prepared new dishes for his stall, including accelerated-fermentation pickled vegetables and Mapo Tofu. As Lu Xiyao and Shen Muyan joined him for breakfast, the chapter left them tasting the new tofu before Lu Xiyao headed to kindergarten.

• Lu Qin bought supplies in Jingyuan Farmer's Market, and the stall owners gave him lychees and grapes.
• Lu Qin found the system's fermentation powder and used it to make five jars of pickled vegetables that would be ready the next day.
• Lu Qin prepared Ice Crystal Cake, Crystal Shrimp Dumplings, Mung Bean Paste, and Mapo Tofu for his stall.
• Lu Xiyao woke up, hugged Lu Qin, and ate breakfast with Shen Muyan, who remained embarrassed after the dawn encounter.
• Lu Qin packed Lu Xiyao's lunch and let her taste the mild Mapo Tofu, then fed a spoonful to Shen Muyan.

Lu Qin prepared breakfast for Shen Muyan and Lu Xiyao before Shen Muyan drove their daughter to kindergarten and headed to Ouri Hotel. Customers followed her car, mistaking it for Lu Qin's, and gathered outside the hotel.

• Lu Qin fed Lu Xiyao Mapo Tofu and gave Shen Muyan a boxed lunch, while Lu Xiyao teased her mother into admitting she liked Lu Qin.
• Shen Muyan drove Lu Xiyao to kindergarten in Lu Qin's car, then headed toward Ouri Hotel.
• Lu Qin announced in the Penguin Group that his morning stall would be at Sunshine Elementary School, prompting customers to rush there.
• Customers spotted Shen Muyan's car and followed it, believing Lu Qin was driving toward his breakfast stall.
• Shen Muyan arrived at Ouri Hotel, where the doorman recognized her as President Shen, and a crowd of confused customers arrived behind her.

Lu Qin served breakfast at Sunshine Elementary School after customers mistakenly followed Shen Muyan to a hotel, then set up new cooking equipment and shared lunch with Boss Zhao. After hearing from Lu Xiyao and Shen Muyan, he learned Fang Ya wanted him to taste dishes and offer feedback for her food videos.

• Customers followed Shen Muyan to Ouri Hotel, realized Lu Qin was not in her car, and hurried to Sunshine Elementary School.
• Lu Qin sold breakfast to his regular customers and earned 16,455 yuan before packing up at 9:45.
• Boss Zhao delivered containers, a gas stove, coal, and other supplies, then ate lunch with Lu Qin.
• Lu Xiyao told Lu Qin that her classmates envied her Mapo Tofu and that she would be the Little Boss Lady that evening.
• Shen Muyan told Lu Qin that Fang Ya wanted his professional feedback on her dishes and would pay him a consultation fee.

Lu Qin went to Jingtai Grand Hotel to help Fang Ya taste fusion cuisine, but arrived to find himself among thirteen other participants in a formal culinary assessment. After tasting the first dish, he quickly wrote down his evaluation while the others continued sampling it.

• Shen Muyan arranged for Song Xuanxuan to return Lu Qin's car, and Song Xuanxuan bought his Ice Crystal Cake, Mung Bean Paste, and milk tea.
• Lu Qin drove to Jingtai Grand Hotel after Fang Ya said she would be late and directed him to private room 3092.
• Lu Qin entered the room and discovered thirteen other people waiting with opinion forms, unaware that they were taking part in a chef assessment.
• Chairman Chen Jingrong instructed Zhu Li to serve the first assessment dish and collect the participants' evaluations.
• Lu Qin tasted the beef-stuffed button mushrooms and sauce, identified the basil flavor as too strong, and wrote his comments before the other participants finished tasting.

Lu Qin took part in Rong Xuan Ji Restaurant’s chef evaluation, finishing the tasting and knife-skills tests ahead of the other candidates. His precisely cut Tongji Meat yielded exactly three taels and seven qian of shredded meat, leaving Zhu Li astonished by his skill.

• Lu Qin finished tasting the fusion dish early, while the other candidates spent several minutes writing their evaluations.
• Zhu Li led the candidates into the kitchen and announced a knife-skills test using four taels of Tongji Meat.
• Lu Qin quickly shredded his meat with exceptional uniformity as the other candidates struggled with their cuts.
• Zhu Li inspected the candidates’ results and found that many had produced thick, uneven, or wasteful cuts.
• Lu Qin said his batch contained three taels and seven qian of shredded meat after removing connective tissue.
• The electronic scale confirmed Lu Qin’s exact weight, and Zhu Li recognized him as an exceptional talent.

Lu Qin excelled in the final two cooking assessments, impressing Jingtai Grand Hotel chairman Chen Jingrong with his skill and his Mapo Tofu. Chen Jingrong decided Lu Qin was qualified to become Rong Xuan Ji Restaurant’s head chef and sent Zhu Li to invite him, while the other chefs waited for the results.

• Lu Qin quickly made Mapo Tofu and explained that the Pixian Doubanjiang he had been given was not quite good enough.
• Chen Jingrong read Lu Peng’s detailed evaluation of the mushroom dish and declared that he had identified every key ingredient and flaw.
• Zhu Li reported Lu Peng’s near-perfect meat-cutting results and showed Chen Jingrong the recording.
• Chen Jingrong and Zhu Li tasted Lu Qin’s Mapo Tofu and praised its flavor and technique.
• Chen Jingrong told Zhu Li to invite Master Lu Peng to become Rong Xuan Ji Restaurant’s head chef.
• The fourteen chefs returned to Private Room 3092, where several applicants asked Lu Qin which master had taught him.

Lu Qin accidentally took part in a chef recruitment interview after mistaking a regular room for the VIP room Fang Ya had booked, then slipped away before anyone realized the mix-up. Chen Jingrong discovered that the résumé belonged to someone else and was left wondering who Lu Qin was as Deng Jianping, Sun Zhi, and Fan Qingfang arrived.

• Lu Qin told the interviewers he had taught himself cooking and run a food stall, then realized Fang Ya had meant the VIP private room and that he had entered the wrong room.
• Lu Qin left under the pretense of going to the restroom and met Deng Jianping, Sun Zhi, and Fan Qingfang in the corridor, where he learned they had invested in a Rong Xuan Ji branch in Hai City.
• Chen Jingrong learned that Lu Qin had disappeared from the interview room and ordered Zhu Li to check his résumé.
• Zhu Li and Chen Jingrong found that the résumé photo and age did not match Lu Qin, and a call confirmed that Lu Peng had abandoned the interview without sending anyone in his place.
• Deng Jianping, Sun Zhi, and Fan Qingfang entered Chen Jingrong's office, and Zhu Li explained the identity mix-up.

After discovering that Lu Qin had accidentally taken part in Rong Xuan Ji Restaurant’s head chef interview, Chen Jingrong offered him an annual salary of eight hundred thousand. Fang Ya told Shen Muyan, who countered with an offer of one million to bring Lu Qin to Zijing Restaurant.

• Deng Jianping, Sun Zhi, and Fan Qingfang recognized Lu Qin in the interview footage and told Chen Jingrong about his culinary skill and popular food stall.
• Chen Jingrong decided Lu Qin was ideal for Rong Xuan Ji Restaurant’s head chef position and went to meet him in VIP private room 3092.
• Fang Ya answered Shen Muyan’s call, and Shen Muyan asked how Lu Qin’s food evaluation was going.
• Chen Jingrong offered Lu Qin an annual salary of eight hundred thousand and had Zhu Li bring over a contract, while Lu Qin tried to explain that the interview had been a misunderstanding.
• Fang Ya messaged Shen Muyan about Chen Jingrong’s offer, and Shen Muyan countered with an annual salary of one million for Lu Qin to become Zijing Restaurant’s head chef.

Chen Jingrong and Shen Muyan competed to hire Lu Qin, but he refused their offers and Fang Ya revealed that his street stall earned more than 1.3 million a month. After the restaurant bosses left, Fang Ya began a professional review of Rong Xuan Ji Restaurant with Lu Qin’s help.

• Chen Jingrong raised his offer for Lu Qin to 1.23 million, but Shen Muyan offered 1.3 million over the phone.
• Chen Jingrong conceded that Lu Qin would be Ouri Hotel’s head chef, but Lu Qin said he had no intention of joining a restaurant.
• Fang Ya told the gathered restaurant owners that Lu Qin earned more than 1.3 million a month from his street stall, and they realized his business could bring in tens of thousands a day.
• Deng Jianping, Sun Zhi, Fan Qingfang, and Chen Jingrong withdrew after discussing Lu Qin’s earnings, and Chen Jingrong gave Lu Qin his business card.
• Fang Ya began reviewing Rong Xuan Ji Restaurant professionally and asked Lu Qin to taste its first dish, Exquisite Beef Granules.

Lu Qin prepared a new Mapo Tofu dish and loaded his overflowing food cart for an evening at Night Market Street. After picking up Lu Xiyao from kindergarten, he told eager parents he was heading straight to his stall, and they followed, asking for Mapo Tofu.

• Fang Ya treated Lu Qin to a meal at his stall after he evaluated several dishes.
• Lu Qin announced that he would set up at Night Market Street at six and add Mapo Tofu to the menu.
• Lu Qin prepared Liquid-Brined Tofu and other ingredients, then packed hundreds of servings and drinks onto his food cart.
• Parents at Starlight Kindergarten praised Lu Qin and Lu Xiyao and showered them with snacks while waiting for pickup.
• Lu Qin picked up Lu Xiyao and told the parents he was going straight to his stall, so several families followed and asked whether he had Mapo Tofu.

Lu Qin opened his night-market stall to a long line of customers, while Lu Xiyao confidently worked as the Little Boss Lady and impressed the children and parents around her. The chapter ended with Lu Qin watching as a customer tried to trade candy for one of Lu Xiyao’s Ice Crystal Cakes, leaving her to decide how to respond.

• Lu Qin arrived at Night Market Street, where dozens of customers had already queued before his stall was set up.
• Lu Xiyao took orders and sold food while customers praised her business skills.
• Parents sent their children to buy from Lu Xiyao, but Xiao Nuo struggled to order, pay, and remember to collect her food.
• Lu Xiyao helped Xiao Nuo scan the payment code and sent her back to her mother to pay.
• A customer offered Lu Xiyao lollipops and White Rabbit Candies in exchange for an Ice Crystal Cake, while Lu Qin watched to see how she handled the offer.

Lu Qin and Lu Xiyao ran their night-market stall, where the Little Boss Lady charmed customers and Lu Qin’s dishes and milk tea drew praise. After taking a dinner break together, they resumed serving customers.

• Lu Xiyao impressed a customer by refusing to trade Ice Crystal Cake for candy and politely accepted only two White Rabbit Candies.
• Lu Qin cooked Mapo Tofu, and a customer eagerly ate it before ordering more dishes.
• Lu Qin made fried rice noodles for dinner while Lu Xiyao promoted their milk tea to a customer, who and her friend praised its flavor.
• Lu Xiyao helped Lu Qin prepare their seats and drinks, and they ate fried noodles and Mung Bean Paste together as customers watched.
• After dinner, Lu Qin wiped Lu Xiyao’s mouth and returned to serving at the stall.

Lu Qin sold out at the night market and turned down offers to work as a hotel chef, while Old Liu hired two cooks to imitate his fried noodles. Shen Muyan and Fang Ya ate hotpot after work, but missed Lu Qin’s cooking and decided to ask him for dipping-sauce advice.

• Lu Qin and Lu Xiyao finished selling their food, accepted snacks from grateful customers, and left the night market.
• Old Liu brought Lu Qin’s fried noodles to two young cooks and told them to reproduce the flavor before opening their shop the next day.
• Shen Muyan called Fang Ya to have a late-night meal, and Fang Ya suggested eating at Lu Qin’s stall.
• Shen Muyan and Fang Ya went to Ding Shuan Tianxia Hotpot Restaurant and discussed Fang Ya’s video and Shen Muyan’s efforts to reconnect with Lu Qin.
• After finding the hotpot less appealing than Lu Qin’s food, they decided to ask him how to make dipping sauce.

Lu Qin shared his dipping-sauce recipes with Shen Muyan and Fang Ya, then spent system points on lottery draws and unlocked the Advanced Lottery. The next morning, he gave his neighbors his freshly made pickles, which they loved and asked to buy regularly.

• Shen Muyan asked Lu Qin how to make dipping sauces, and Fang Ya used his recipe to improve their hotpot meal.
• Lu Qin spent 1,700 points on seventeen regular draws and unlocked the Advanced Lottery after completing 300 draws.
• Lu Qin's first Advanced Lottery prize was a large gift pack containing 500 mint candies.
• Lu Qin prepared portions of his new pickles and gave them to his neighbors on his way to the market.
• Uncle Ge, Chen Dahai, Wang Guifen, and the other neighbors praised the pickles and asked to buy more from Lu Qin.

Lu Qin bought supplies, arranged to trade in his food cart for a customized four-wheeled snack truck, and prepared for his morning stall. At breakfast, he teased Lu Xiyao with promises of ice cream and tried to persuade her to eat pickled ginger.

• Chen Dahai urged Chen Yue to pay more attention to Lu Qin, but she complained that she was tired and hung up.
• Lu Qin visited Boss Zhao's shop, delivered fried rice noodles and pickles, and ordered meal boxes and pickle jars.
• Lu Qin bought ingredients at Jingyuan Farmer's Market, then arranged to trade in his three-wheeler and ordered a customized purple snack truck for 5,000 yuan.
• Lu Qin returned home and prepared food while Lu Xiyao slept.
• Lu Qin woke Lu Xiyao, who eagerly expected ice cream, and served her congee, tea eggs, and pickles for breakfast.
• Lu Qin encouraged Lu Xiyao to try pickled ginger and hinted that eating it might earn her ice cream.

Lu Qin’s homemade pickled vegetables delighted Yao Yao’s teachers and sold out quickly at his breakfast stall. After sharing lunch with Shen Muyan, Fang Ya, and Song Xuanxuan, Lu Qin was left amid teasing about Shen Muyan and him building a life together.

• Lu Xiyao brought Lu Qin’s pickled vegetables to Teacher Li, who shared them with Teacher Wang and Teacher Chen, and all three praised them.
• Lu Qin sold all fifty boxes of pickled vegetables at his breakfast stall, while customers asked him to bring more next time.
• Lu Qin checked his lottery points at home and decided to save them rather than draw again.
• Shen Muyan, Fang Ya, and Song Xuanxuan visited Lu Qin for lunch, and he cooked them three dishes.
• Fang Ya and Song Xuanxuan took milk tea from Lu Qin, and Fang Ya teased Shen Muyan after she told Fang Ya to pay.

After Shen Muyan washed dishes at Lu Qin’s home and left with food, Lu Qin set up his stall at Huaguoshan Park, where a sudden rush of customers made his business boom. The nearby stall owners watched in envy as Lu Qin’s long line grew.

• Fang Ya shoved Shen Muyan into Lu Qin’s arms, then fled with Song Xuanxuan and left the two alone.
• Shen Muyan washed the dishes, shared fruit with Lu Qin, looked at photos of Lu Xiyao, and left with Ice Crystal Cake and Osmanthus Oolong Milk Tea.
• Lu Qin cooked and packed food, then used the Stall Map APP to choose a spot at Huaguoshan Park.
• Lu Qin sent the Penguin Group photos of his location, prompting more than twenty customers to hurry to his stall.
• Customers bought food and drinks in large quantities, drawing an increasingly long line and leaving nearby stall owners envious.

A customer hired a delivery rider to buy food from Lu's Snack Stall, but the rider ate some of the order and arrived with an empty bag. The furious customer accused him of stealing the food and hit him, then offered his other cheek when the rider protested.

• Customers flooded the Penguin Group with photos of Boss Lu's food, making an office worker crave it during a meeting.
• The office worker ordered a cheap Wallace's combo and offered the delivery rider extra money to buy snacks from Lu's Snack Stall.
• The rider found a long line, agreed to wait for more money, and was captivated by the aroma of Lu's Twice Cooked Pork.
• The rider bought food for the customer and one serving of Fried Rice Noodles for himself, then ate it while falsely claiming the stall had run out of a portion.
• The rider arrived at Xusheng Electronics Co., Ltd. with an empty bag and claimed the delivery had leaked.
• The bespectacled customer spotted food crumbs on the rider and accused him of eating the order, then swung his face into the rider's hand and offered his other cheek.

A tour group visiting Huaguoshan Park discovered a wildly popular snack stall after initially dismissing Jiangcheng’s food. As the stall’s dishes sold out, the tourists joined the long queue and were delighted by what they managed to buy.

• Glasses slapped the delivery guy for stealing his delivery, photographed his handprints as evidence, and made him buy a replacement.
• Nearly three hundred Frog Travel Group tourists arrived at Huaguoshan Park and headed toward the mountain, expecting little from the local food.
• The tourists found a long queue at the snack stall, and a local woman explained that regular customers claimed the food was bad to discourage newcomers from taking their places.
• The tourists abandoned their plans to climb right away and joined the queue, which stretched across the plaza as passersby photographed it.
• Several items sold out before the tour group reached the stall, but the tourists who bought Fried Rice Noodles and Ice Crystal Cake praised them enthusiastically.

Lu Qin’s food drew crowds of tourists at Huaguoshan Park, and he later prepared for a busy night at Night Market Street with Lu Xiyao. As local customers hurried to secure places in line, Lu’s Snack Stall continued to drive the other vendors out of the alley.

• Tourists at Huaguoshan Park praised Lu Qin’s food and decided to visit his late-night stall on Night Market Street instead of climbing the mountain.
• Lu Qin packed up after selling out, leaving some tourists disappointed, while a delivery rider found the stall gone and faced an angry customer’s threats.
• Lu Qin worked with Lu Xiyao, who practiced sealing cups of mung bean paste, before they loaded the food onto the three-wheeler and set off.
• Members of Boss Lu’s Foodie Group planned to arrive early at Night Market Street to beat the tourists and claim a place in line.
• Other vendors in the alley behind Hot Girl Hotpot struggled to attract customers because everyone focused on Lu’s Snack Stall.

Master Liu opened a snack shop selling high-quality imitations of Lu Qin’s dishes, and Zhou Weiwei discovered that the new business was targeting Lu’s customers. After tasting the food, Zhou Weiwei recognized its close but inferior resemblance to Lu Qin’s cooking.

• Master Liu opened Liu's Snack Stall on Night Market Street with a twenty-percent opening discount and served dishes modeled on Lu Qin’s menu.
• Zhou Weiwei stopped at the shop on his way to Hot Girl Hotpot after noticing its menu and prices resembled Lu’s.
• Zhou Weiwei saw Master Liu wipe a table with a greasy rag and noticed the shop’s poor cleanliness, but stayed to investigate.
• Zhou Weiwei tasted the Fried Rice Noodles and Ice Crystal Cake and found their flavors similar to Lu Qin’s, though their texture and quality were noticeably worse.
• Zhou Weiwei concluded Liu's Snack Stall was a deliberate imitation intended to draw customers away from Lu’s.

Master Liu’s Liu’s Snack Stall drew customers away from Lu Qin’s stall with cheaper food that closely copied its flavors. When Lu Qin arrived, he heard about the rival stall but calmly accepted the competition and focused on his own business.

• Customers discovered that Liu’s Snack Stall served food similar to Lu Qin’s and spread the news in their group chats.
• Master Liu attracted many of Lu Qin’s customers with his shorter queues and prices that were one yuan lower, though some diners noticed differences in taste and texture.
• At 8:10 p.m., Lu Qin arrived at the night market with Lu Xiyao and greeted the waiting customers.
• Customers told Lu Qin that Liu’s had opened nearby and worried that someone had stolen his recipes.
• Lu Qin said competition was normal and that he would focus on doing his own work well.