"..."
She ate breakfast at home because she lived in a duplex. Aside from the housekeeping auntie handling the chores, a cook came every day to prepare her breakfast, lunch, and dinner on time. As long as she did not want to, she had absolutely no need to go outside and eat all that chemically engineered food.
Before, she might have felt that the cook's food was too bland and unsuitable for a young person's tastes, so she would occasionally be a little dissatisfied and even picky about what she ate.
But ever since she started playing the game, she had never been a picky eater again!
Because compared to eating dirt, grass, tree bark, and all sorts of unknown food in the game, she suddenly felt that the simple, light home-cooked dishes she ate every day were practically delicacies from land and sea. Gradually, she even began to feel that they suited a young person's palate quite well.
After all, after fighting all kinds of Chaos monsters in the Wasteland every day and seeing so many brains, intestines, and mangled bits of flesh, anyone would naturally prefer lighter food.
But that was not important.
Wasn't that so?
"..."
Having finished washing up, Chen Ya sat in the dining room, eating while playing on her phone.
She first checked the messages from the second batch of readers in her book club group who were showing off their beta-testing slots. After casually browsing through them and finding nothing noteworthy, she thought for a moment, closed the group chat, and opened the news to check the trending topics.
She visited several news portals in succession and browsed headlines and trending stories on society, international affairs, finance, entertainment, and technology. Yet in the end, she still could not find a single piece of