Jiang Feng

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Jiang Feng (江枫) 1
Alias(es)	Brother Feng 23
Gender	Male
Age	20 42
Affiliation	Jiang family; Healthy Stir-fry Restaurant; A University Chess Club 13 26 39
Occupation/Role	A University student; restaurant worker and aspiring chef 31 34
Status	Active 49
First Appearance	Chapter 1: “Game Loading” 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Level 0	1	The game interface appears, initially granting Appraisal (Beginner) and no experience points. 1
Level 1	4	Reaches Level 1 with 109/200 experience after cooking for and helping Chen Xiuxiu. 4
Level 3	8	Levels through repeated congee-making for Chen Xiuxiu, though no new level-based feature unlocks. 8
Congee Making (Beginner)	8	Acquired after preparing Shrimp Congee; allows him to grasp some correct ingredient proportions. 8
Level 4	8	Reaches Level 4 with 56 remaining experience points after serving improved Preserved Egg and Lean Pork Congee. 8
Congee Making (Intermediate)	11	Earned by completing a sub-quest; grants correct ingredient proportions and basic heat control. 11 15
Level 5	15	System update reveals experience can be converted into skill proficiency; his interface lists Advanced Knife Skills and several Beginner culinary skills. 15
Physics (Intermediate)	23	Upgraded directly with experience points, enabling him to understand most undergraduate physics knowledge. 23
Mathematics, Physics, and English (Advanced)	36	Uses experience points to raise all three academic skills to Advanced level. 36

Background / History

Jiang Feng was raised in a family with a long culinary lineage. His grandfather, Jiang Weiguo, was formerly a chef at a state-run restaurant, while his father, Jiang Jiankang, operates the family’s Healthy Stir-fry Restaurant. Jiang Feng trained under Jiang Weiguo during school holidays as a child, spending six years on knife skills before beginning wok practice in junior high. He later stopped formal culinary training to focus on school. 1 10

After encountering a counterfeit bill at the family restaurant, Jiang Feng discovers a game-like status interface with quests, skills, experience points, and item rewards. He accepts the quest to help his childhood friend Chen Xiuxiu recover normal eating habits, learning that cooking for others can earn experience. His repeated attempts to make congee become the foundation of his early culinary growth. 1 2 8

Jiang Feng’s family moves to A City so he can attend A University while opening a larger Healthy Stir-fry Restaurant near campus. He balances restaurant work, coursework, the Chess Club, and an expanding set of game-related quests. 13 26 31

When Professor Li asks the Jiang family to prepare Clear Soup with Bird’s Nest Slices for his father, Li Mingyi, Jiang Feng begins investigating the dish through memory items and persistent experimentation. His effort eventually improves his imitation of the dish to D-rank. 20 31 44

After Li Mingyi’s family transfers the historic Beiping restaurant Tai Feng Lou back to the Jiangs, Jiang Feng accepts responsibility for reopening it. The transfer leaves him with a 300-million-yuan IOU and the burden of independently financing the restaurant’s renovation. 47 48

Appearance

Jiang Feng is a tall, thin young man whose build contrasts sharply with the generally stout members of the Jiang family. His father and grandfather both consider him too slight for the physical demands of professional cooking. 1 10 42

• Tall and thin by both contemporary standards and the Jiang family’s standards. 1 2
• Described as having an “iron body” while running between university and restaurant work. 34
• Considered insufficiently strong to comfortably toss a wok by Jiang Weiguo. 42

Personality

Jiang Feng is practical and dryly humorous, often reacting to the game system’s odd quests and unhelpful rewards with internal sarcasm. Despite his initial reluctance to inherit the family culinary legacy, he complies with Jiang Weiguo’s instruction and steadily commits himself to improving. 2 10 15

He is considerate toward others’ health and needs. He supports Chen Xiuxiu during her anorexia-related recovery, takes her to the hospital during a stomachache, and repeatedly cooks congee suited to her condition. He also accepts Professor Li’s difficult request out of respect for Li Mingyi’s final wish. 5 7 20

His determination can become unhealthy fixation. While recreating Clear Soup with Bird’s Nest Slices, he spends days continuously testing mushroom soups, neglecting other concerns and producing enough poor soup for customers to complain. 42 43

Abilities & Skills

Game Interface

Jiang Feng possesses a game-like system visible only to him, which tracks levels, experience, skills, quests, achievements, titles, recipes, and items. 1 15

• Gains experience when others eat and respond positively to his cooking. 3 7 8
• Can convert experience points into skill proficiency at a 1:1 ratio. 15
• Receives optional, hidden, and main quests tied to family wishes, restaurant development, cooking, and personal challenges. 1 2 9 40
• Uses Appraisal, which develops from Beginner to Intermediate and provides information about dishes and objects. 1 15

Congee Making

Congee is Jiang Feng’s first major culinary specialty, developed through cooking daily for Chen Xiuxiu. 7 8

• Beginner — identifies some correct ingredient proportions. 8
• Intermediate — provides correct proportions and basic heat control. 15
• Successfully prepares several varieties, including Preserved Egg and Lean Pork Congee, Black Rice Congee, Shrimp Congee, and barley congee. 8 10 18
• His early dishes frequently suffer from improper ratios or heat control. 7 8

Knife Skills

Jiang Feng’s knife skills are his strongest documented culinary foundation, built through years of childhood practice under Jiang Weiguo. 10

• Advanced Knife Skills — stated to surpass the vast majority of chefs. 15
• Can prepare Shredded Cucumber Salad with a small dormitory fruit knife using fast, precise diagonal and straight cuts. 14
• Gains Knife Skills proficiency while preparing ingredients at Healthy Stir-fry Restaurant. 16

Heat Control and Seasoning

Jiang Feng’s other core cooking fundamentals lag behind his knife work. 15

• Heat Control (Beginner) — permits only basic heat control. 15
• Seasoning (Beginner) — only guarantees that his food will not poison diners. 15
• Improves substantially through obsessive testing of mushroom soups and guidance from Jiang Weiguo. 42 44
• Raises his imitation of Clear Soup with Bird’s Nest Slices to D-rank after perfecting a shiitake mushroom soup base. 44

Academic Skills

Jiang Feng can use experience points to enhance conventional academic knowledge. 23 36

• Upgrades Physics from Beginner to Intermediate during class, allowing him to identify and understand Maxwell’s equations. 23
• Later raises Mathematics, Physics, and English to Advanced level. 36
• Demonstrates sufficient academic ability to receive permission from his instructors to skip classes while handling restaurant work. 34

Memory Viewing

After completing a quest involving Li Mingyi, Jiang Feng receives memory items that let him enter and observe scenes from the past. 31

• Witnesses memories involving Jiang Huiqin and Li Mingyi. 31 33 36
• Uses Jiang Huiqin’s memory in an attempt to learn the process behind Clear Soup with Bird’s Nest Slices. 33
• Can observe historical events but does not directly interact with the people inside the memories. 31

Equipment / Items

• Game status panel — tracks his level, experience, skills, quests, achievements, titles, and items. 1 15
• Memory items — two quest rewards that allow him to enter past memories. 31
• Promotional standee — a game item used outside Healthy Stir-fry Restaurant to attract customers to a featured dish. 30
• Magical cooler box — used to keep daily porridge for Professor Li. 26
• Grandfather-brewed vinegar and homemade chili oil — seasonings Jiang Feng uses for dishes such as Shredded Cucumber Salad. 14

Relationships

• Jiang Jiankang — Father and Healthy Stir-fry Restaurant’s principal chef. Jiang Jiankang initially doubts Jiang Feng’s culinary future but becomes excited when his son’s cooking improves. 2 9
• Wang Xiulian — Mother. Blunt but protective, she worries about the family’s finances and Jiang Feng’s well-being. 1 9 42
• Jiang Weiguo — Grandfather and culinary mentor. He pressures Jiang Feng to inherit Jiang Family Cuisine, critiques him harshly, and later recognizes his potential. 10 11 44
• Chen Xiuxiu — Childhood friend and neighbor. Jiang Feng’s cooking helps her resume normal eating habits after severe dieting and self-induced vomiting. 2 3 8
• Chen Duxiu — Chen Xiuxiu’s father and the Jiang family’s longtime neighbor. He respects the Jiang family’s cooking and appreciates Jiang Feng’s care for Xiuxiu. 7 10
• Wang Hao — Roommate and close friend. He promotes Healthy Stir-fry Restaurant, assists Jiang Feng, and frequently relies on his cooking. 7 13 15
• Ji Yue — Senior student, Chess Club associate, and restaurant helper. She works with Jiang Feng on deliveries, club matters, and restaurant operations. 26 28 34
• Professor Li — Jiang Feng’s professor and newly recognized relative. He commissions the difficult Clear Soup with Bird’s Nest Slices request and helps arrange Tai Feng Lou’s transfer. 20 30 47
• Li Mingyi — Professor Li’s father and a distant Jiang family relative. His dementia and wish to taste familiar food motivate several of Jiang Feng’s quests. 31 45 47
• Wu Minqi — Chess Club member and culinary rival. She challenges Jiang Feng to compete in the Good Taste Culinary Competition. 40
• Liu Qian — Chess Club member whose livestream brings attention to Jiang Feng’s cooking; she can distinguish his cooking from Jiang Jiankang’s by smell. 39 45

Story Role / Major Arcs

Chen Xiuxiu’s Recovery

Jiang Feng accepts the “Neighbor’s Wish” side quest and uses smashed cucumber salad, congee, exercise, and steady companionship to help Chen Xiuxiu return to regular eating. This arc provides his earliest experience gains and unlocks Congee Making. 2 4 8 11

Healthy Stir-fry Restaurant

After relocating to A City, Jiang Feng helps launch the family’s restaurant near A University. He promotes it through classmates, social media incentives, student workers, takeout, and game items while gradually taking on kitchen duties. 13 14 17 18 30 34

Clear Soup with Bird’s Nest Slices

Professor Li’s request leads Jiang Feng to investigate Jiang Huiqin’s memories and reproduce the historic dish. After repeated failures and an obsessive search for the right mushroom soup base, he completes a D-rank imitation under Jiang Weiguo’s guidance. 20 31 33 38 42 44

Good Taste Culinary Competition

Wu Minqi identifies Jiang Feng as the Jiang family’s most promising younger-generation cook and challenges him to defeat her in the Good Taste Culinary Competition. The system warns that there is a major gap between their abilities. 40

Tai Feng Lou Transfer

Jiang Feng accepts ownership of the long-closed Tai Feng Lou in Beiping to fulfill Jiang Weiguo’s lifelong wish of restoring the restaurant. He inherits a 300-million-yuan IOU and must independently fund the building’s costly renovation. 47 48

Notable Quotes

“Okay, Grandpa, no problem, Grandpa. Everything you say is right, Grandpa.” 10

“I was opening my game panel to upgrade my skills.” 23

Trivia

• Jiang Feng’s family considers anyone below 200 jin to be merely “sturdy,” rather than fat. 3
• He has had a weak stomach since childhood and was regularly made stomach-soothing congee by his father. 5
• His system’s Dish Tasting (Beginner) skill describes him as “Chewing on jade like a cow, a waste of precious resources.” 15
• He initially considers becoming a chef less promising than studying, only to later joke that he should have attended a culinary school instead. 10 23