Chapter Summaries

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.

Liu's Snack Stall drew customers away from Lu Qin's stall, but Master Liu's poor hygiene put diners off. When customers compared the food, Lu Qin warned that Liu's snacks seemed to contain additives, alarming those who had bought them.

• Customers at Liu's Snack Stall saw Master Liu handle food and wipe tables carelessly, and several left because of the poor hygiene.
• A tour group arrived at the alley, and some tourists chose Liu's shorter queue after hearing its food tasted similar to Lu Qin's.
• Tourists compared Liu's Fried Rice Noodles and Ice Crystal Cake with Lu Qin's food, and some brought Liu's snacks to Lu Qin's stall.
• Lu Qin examined the snacks and said they seemed to contain additives, causing customers to panic.
• Zhou Weiwei said she had suspected something was wrong with Liu's food and blamed its similar taste on additives.

Lu Qin identified chemical additives in the food from Liu's Snack Stall, prompting customers to organize a complaint and gather evidence. They confronted Master Liu at his stall, where he denied wrongdoing as the crowd accused him of selling adulterated food.

• Lu Qin explained that Liu's fried rice noodles appeared to contain Rongalite, concentrated umami powder, and Chili Extract, and customers grew angry and worried.
• Customers who had eaten at Liu's Snack Stall rushed to confront the owner, then returned to Lu Qin asking how to obtain solid evidence.
• More customers visited Liu's Snack Stall, compared its food unfavorably with Lu Qin's, and criticized its hygiene.
• A group of customers planned to record Liu's food preparation and call the complaint hotline, then sent several people inside to order food and uncooked rice noodles.
• After recording Master Liu bringing out the uncooked rice noodles, the group entered the stall together and accused him of selling adulterated food.
• Master Liu turned off the heat, came out to confront the crowd, and claimed that a jealous rival shop had sent them to disrupt his business.

Lu Qin's warning led customers to expose Master Liu's use of dangerous additives, prompting officials to arrest him and inspect Night Market Street. The inspection found Lu Qin's stall clean and its ingredients fresh, and officials urged other vendors to learn from him.

• Customers tested rice noodles from Master Liu and Lu Qin's stall, finding a dangerously high Rongalite reading in Master Liu's noodles and none in Lu Qin's.
• Officials searched Master Liu's kitchen, found illegal additives including poppy powder, and took him into custody.
• Officials launched an emergency inspection of Night Market Street, fining vendors whose additives violated regulations.
• Customers lost trust in stalls using additives, and some vendors advertised that their food contained none.
• Officials inspected Lu Qin's stall, praised its fresh ingredients and cleanliness, and urged other vendors to follow his example.

Food safety inspectors praised Lu Qin’s stall, ate his food, and helped make it even more popular after Master Liu was taken away for food safety violations. The stall sold out amid a crush of customers, many of whom vowed to return the next day.

• Inspectors found Lu Qin’s stall exceptionally clean, gave it 120 points, and urged other vendors to learn from him.
• Lu Xiyao offered the inspectors mung bean paste, and they bought and enjoyed Lu Qin’s fried rice noodles and other foods.
• The inspectors left as customers praised Lu Qin, while nearby vendors improved their hygiene and food safety practices ahead of a return visit.
• Master Liu’s stall shut down, and officers took him away after evidence of his violations spread online.
• Lu Qin sold out as tourists crowded the alley, and several customers said they would return the next day.

After a profitable day running his stall, Lu Qin used his system points to gain Master-Level Sichuan Cuisine Skills, a Strength increase, and a new assistant named Xiaomi. He arranged for Xiaomi to stay nearby and help him starting the next morning.

• Lu Qin returned home with Yao Yao, checked his bank balance of over 610,000 yuan, and counted 4,128 system points.
• Lu Qin spent points on lottery draws and gained Master-Level Sichuan Cuisine Skills and one Strength attribute point.
• Lu Qin used the Assistant Xiaomi reward, and Xiaomi appeared in his room with registered identity information and a phone.
• Lu Qin transferred Xiaomi ten thousand yuan and told her to meet him at five the next morning.
• Lu Qin drove Xiaomi to a budget hotel, and she said the passenger seat was reserved for the Boss Lady.