Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into a parallel world, Shen Chuan used his God of Cooking System’s demand for swagger to launch his chive-pocket stall in a conspicuously extravagant way. He earned his first Show-off Points at Jiangwan Food Street as the night market’s first visitors began arriving.

• Shen Chuan hired a delivery rider for two hundred yuan to transport his new food cart and help set up his stall, explaining that a god of cooking should not ride his own cart.
• Shen Chuan recalled that his system awarded Show-off Points for displaying swagger, and that he had spent a year mastering the chive-pocket recipe in system space.
• Shen Chuan gained 20 Show-off Points after telling the delivery rider about his god-of-cooking persona and instructing him to arrange the stall.
• Shen Chuan had the delivery rider prepare the stall while he sat back in a suit, drawing curious looks from the other vendors, then paid the rider and sent him off.
• Shen Chuan gained 100 Show-off Points for maintaining his composure and mysterious aura as the night market’s first visitors arrived.

Shen Chuan set up a night-market stall selling his self-proclaimed signature chive pockets and impressed Lu Xiaotao with his precise cooking and shameless boasts. Lu Xiaotao paid ten yuan for one, and Shen Chuan gained Show-off Points, though the chapter ended before the customer tasted the food.

• Lu Xiaotao spotted Shen Chuan’s neatly arranged stall and ordered a chive pocket.
• Shen Chuan prepared the dough with practiced precision while Lu Xiaotao passed him ingredients and questioned his suit and manner.
• Shen Chuan called himself the God of Cooking and earned 50 Show-off Points when Lu Xiaotao jokingly claimed to be the God of Food.
• Shen Chuan priced each chive pocket at ten yuan, and Lu Xiaotao paid after deciding to try one.
• Shen Chuan gained another 30 Show-off Points as Lu Xiaotao waited to taste the chive pocket.

Shen Chuan prepared and fried a chive pocket, impressing Lu Xiaotao and Jiang Wenyan with his expert cooking and knife skills. The chapter ended as Lu Xiaotao eagerly bit into the finished pocket.

• Shen Chuan scrambled eggs and chopped Chinese chives with such precision that Jiang Wenyan recorded him and shared the video with his roommates.
• Jiang Wenyan's roommates watched Shen Chuan's knife skills and marveled that a roadside stall had a chef of such caliber.
• Shen Chuan folded a chive pocket, fried it until golden, and handed it to Lu Xiaotao.
• Lu Xiaotao admired the chive pocket and took a bite before he could finish questioning whether it was worth the price.

Lu Xiaotao tried Shen Chuan’s ten-yuan chive pockets, loved them, and bought two more, leaving Jiang Wenyan tempted to try one himself. Jiang Wenyan finally ordered a pocket from Shen Chuan.

• Lu Xiaotao bit into Shen Chuan’s freshly fried chive pocket and was impressed by its crisp shell and savory filling.
• Lu Xiaotao praised the chive pocket, bought two more, and earned Shen Chuan 50 Show-off Points when Shen Chuan called himself the God of Cooking.
• Jiang Wenyan doubted Lu Xiaotao’s enthusiastic praise, but Lu Xiaotao showed him the golden pocket and urged him to smell it.
• After Lu Xiaotao left, Jiang Wenyan gave in to temptation and asked Shen Chuan for a chive pocket.

Shen Chuan fried a chive pocket for Jiang Wenyan, who bought it for ten yuan and ate it during a video call with his roommates. Jiang Wenyan was amazed by its flavor and praised it, but his roommates dismissed his reaction as a scheme to make them buy one.

• Shen Chuan fried a chive pocket while Jiang Wenyan paid ten yuan for it.
• Jiang Wenyan showed the pocket to his roommates on a video call, and they mocked him for paying more than the nearby stall charged.
• Jiang Wenyan bit into the pocket, was stunned by its savory chive and egg filling, and devoured it.
• Jiang Wenyan praised the pocket and described its flavor to his roommates.
• Jiang Wenyan's roommates accused him of trying to scam them into spending their money.

Jiang Wenyan’s roommates came to the food street expecting to catch him exaggerating about Shen Chuan’s chive pockets, but they were won over after tasting them. Their praise earned Shen Chuan a burst of Show-off Points, and they immediately ordered more.

• Jiang Wenyan bought a second chive pocket from Shen Chuan and dared his roommates to visit and taste it for themselves.
• Jiang Wenyan’s three roommates rode to the food street, where they found him happily eating and ordered chive pockets from Shen Chuan.
• Shen Chuan made the chive pockets while Jiang Wenyan lent him a fan to help with the heat.
• Jiang Wenyan’s roommates tasted the crisp, savory chive pockets and admitted they were worth ten yuan.
• Shen Chuan earned 100 Show-off Points as the roommates crowded around his stall and ordered more chive pockets.

Shen Chuan’s chive pockets drew a crowd after his college-student customers fought over each freshly fried one. Though passersby balked at the ten-yuan price, the irresistible aroma brought them into line, and Jiang Wenyan worried the food would drain his spending money.

• Jiang Wenyan squeezed in with his roommates and demanded a chive pocket after introducing them to Shen Chuan’s food.
• Zhang Jiale grabbed the first fried chive pocket, while the roommates jostled and snatched bites from one another’s portions.
• The chubby roommate borrowed disposable chopsticks from the wonton stall and stole a pocket before the others rushed in to take bites.
• An elderly passerby objected to Shen Chuan’s ten-yuan price, but the aroma persuaded him and other pedestrians to buy chive pockets.
• Shen Chuan told the growing crowd to line up, and Jiang Wenyan joined his roommates in worrying that the pockets would use up his spending money.

Shen Chuan sold out all his chive pockets on his first day running a stall, earning praise from customers and Show-off Points. He offered Jiang Wenyan two hundred yuan to help pack up and drive him home, and Jiang won the job after competing with his roommates.

• Shen Chuan sold his entire stock of chive pockets, impressing customers with their flavor.
• Jiang Wenyan asked Shen Chuan how he made the food so delicious, and Shen Chuan credited his skills as the God of Cooking.
• Jiang Wenyan's roommates asked whether Shen Chuan would return the next day, then worried they had spent too much on food.
• Shen Chuan offered two hundred yuan for help packing up his stall and a ride home, prompting Jiang Wenyan and his roommates to volunteer.
• Jiang Wenyan secured the job, while his roommates joined in to help pack up the stall.

Shen Chuan closed his first day of business early, checked his Show-off Points, and decided he needed another day of selling chive pockets to unlock a recipe. Jiang Wenyan realized helping Shen Chuan paid better than running his lemonade stall and hoped to work with him again, while Shen Chuan bought fresh ingredients and prepared to open later that day.

• Jiang Wenyan cleaned and packed Shen Chuan's stall, drove him home, and received two hundred yuan.
• Shen Chuan changed out of his suit, rested, and found he was still short of the Show-off Points needed to redeem a simple recipe.
• Jiang Wenyan compared his lemonade earnings with the two hundred yuan from helping Shen Chuan and decided he wanted the job and more chive pockets.
• The next morning, Shen Chuan bought free-range eggs and tender chives from villagers, earning ten Show-off Points when he praised the eggs.
• Shen Chuan returned home to rest and began preparing for his stall at three in the afternoon.

Shen Chuan prepared to sell chive pockets again and learned that new customers rewarded his showmanship with more Show-off Points than regulars. He opened his stall to a crowd of returning customers and newcomers, ending as the orderly line earned him a burst of points.

• Shen Chuan dressed formally, loaded his ingredients and equipment, and met Jiang Wenyan waiting to help him reach Jiangwan Food District.
• Jiang Wenyan agreed to set up Shen Chuan’s stall for two hundred yuan after Shen refused to pay him in chive pockets, and he messaged his roommates to come buy some.
• Returning customers and their friends gathered eagerly at the food district, while Jiang Wenyan’s roommates greeted Shen Chuan and helped draw attention to his unusual stall style.
• Shen Chuan realized that new customers generated more Show-off Points than people accustomed to his behavior as Jiang Wenyan neatly arranged the stall.
• Shen Chuan invited the customers to line up, then praised them for knowing his rules as they formed an orderly queue, triggering a rush of Show-off Points.

Shen Chuan prepared and fried chive pockets while a growing line of customers waited in the summer heat, and Jiang Wenyan helped serve them. After Fatty and his roommates shared the pockets with their classmates, the students praised the food and the aroma made the waiting customers even hungrier.

• Shen Chuan refused a customer's request to reserve ten chive pockets, saying he could not guarantee any would remain and would not set them aside.
• Shen Chuan rolled out identical wrappers and fried freshly assembled chive pockets as the customers watched.
• Jiang Wenyan left his lemonade stall to help serve the customers, including his roommates at the front of the line.
• Fatty and his roommates ate their chive pockets and shared one each with their hungry classmates.
• The classmates tasted the pockets, praised their crisp crust and savory filling, and the smell whetted the appetites of customers still waiting.

Shen Chuan’s chive pockets drew a growing crowd as Jiang Wenyan helped serve customers. Old Master Zhao and the other diners praised the food so enthusiastically that a passerby decided to buy one.

• Jiang Wenyan stopped Old Master Zhao from serving himself and handled the customers while Shen Chuan cooked another batch.
• Old Master Zhao paid for chive pockets for himself and the old men he had invited.
• The old men tasted the chive pockets and praised their flaky wrappers, fresh filling, and balanced flavor.
• Old Master Zhao entertained college students with an exaggerated story about discovering the chive pockets, and the students joined the old men beneath the tree.
• Passersby saw the diners enjoying their food, and one asked whether the chive pockets were good.
• The diners urged the passerby to try one, and he called out to Shen Chuan to place an order.

Shen Chuan’s chive pockets drew a long line, while Jiang Wenyan helped serve customers and keep them from leaving. After customers accused Jiang Wenyan of cutting in line to eat, he explained that he was Shen Chuan’s first customer and paid errand runner, and the revelation earned Shen Chuan more Show-off Points.

• Shen Chuan’s chive pockets attracted a growing crowd, and Jiang Wenyan managed the line, promoted the food, and helped customers while Shen cooked.
• Jiang Wenyan set aside two chive pockets for himself and ate one after the stall ran out of wrappers.
• Customers accused Jiang Wenyan of cutting in line, so he explained that he had bought first and had been too busy helping to eat earlier.
• Jiang Wenyan’s roommates teased him about earning two hundred yuan per trip, and Fatty explained to the customers that Shen Chuan hired someone to bring him and set up his stall.
• The customers learned about Shen Chuan’s unusual arrangement, and Shen Chuan gained 45 Show-off Points.

As Shen Chuan’s chive pockets drew a crowd, customers competed for the chance to help him, and Jiang Wenyan fought to keep his job. A customer who insisted on adding chili tried the original pocket and admitted Shen Chuan’s recipe was delicious without spice.

• Customers praised Shen Chuan’s chive pockets, and several offered to help him set up and sell them in exchange for the first spot in line.
• Jiang Wenyan pretended to be a pitiful student to defend his job, then quickly joined Shen Chuan at the stall to serve customers.
• A customer asked Shen Chuan to make his chive pocket spicy, but Shen Chuan refused and declared that he would not alter his signature recipe.
• The customer bought an original-flavor chive pocket and was astonished by its crisp crust and fragrant, sweet filling.
• The customer praised Shen Chuan’s recipe and headed to the back of the line to queue again.

Shen Chuan sold out of chive pockets and refused to make more, insisting that strict ingredient standards and his status as a God of Cooking meant he would not work overtime. As Jiang Wenyan packed up the stall, disappointed diners and a neighboring vendor grumbled, while one diner hurried away rather than risk offending Shen Chuan.

• Shen Chuan announced that he had run out of ingredients, and a diner offered twenty yuan for a chive pocket but nobody gave one up.
• Shen Chuan rejected the diners’ requests to buy more ingredients or keep cooking, citing his standards and the late hour.
• Shen Chuan asked Jiang Wenyan to pack up the stall and take him home for two hundred yuan, and Jiang Wenyan promptly agreed.
• The disappointed diners left or complained about Shen Chuan closing before dark, and the neighboring vendor joined in.
• A diner stopped complaining and left after remembering Shen Chuan might refuse to sell to him in the future.

Shen Chuan took a day off from his chive-pocket stall, spent his Show-off Points on a crispy scallion pancake recipe, and sourced scallions for his next dish. While he prepared to reopen with a new snack, customers and Jiang Wenyan struggled through the day without his food.

• Shen Chuan refused diners' requests to open the next day, then redeemed a crispy scallion pancake recipe and mastered it in the System Space.
• Shen Chuan visited a village and arranged to buy tender scallions from a farmer's brother, along with eggs, for the new recipe.
• Jiang Wenyan ran his lemonade stall while customers arrived hoping to buy chive pockets and learned Shen Chuan was taking the day off.
• A young customer mourned the empty stall with Jiang Wenyan, and the two prayed that Shen Chuan would want to open every day.
• Fatty, Zhang Jiale, and their roommate found their cafeteria dinner unappetizing without chive pockets, while their classmates failed to understand their cravings.

Song Lihui went looking for Boss Shen’s chive pockets but found the stall closed, so he bought a substitute from Auntie Liao. He and other customers still craved Boss Shen’s version, while Auntie Liao learned why her own stall had suddenly grown busy.

• Jiang Wenyan told Song Lihui that Boss Shen had taken the day off and might return the next day.
• Song Lihui bought two chive pockets from Auntie Liao, but found their texture and peppery filling unlike Boss Shen’s.
• Song Lihui heard other customers explain that they had also come seeking Boss Shen’s chive pockets and settled for a substitute.
• Auntie Liao learned that customers had come because Boss Shen’s popular food-street stall was closed.

Shen Chuan opened his stall with crispy scallion pancakes instead of chive pockets, disappointing customers who had come back for his popular specialty. He began preparing the new dish and confidently challenged their doubts about his cooking.

• Auntie Liao considered buying Shen Chuan's chive pockets the next day so she could learn from how he made them.
• Shen Chuan mastered crispy scallion pancakes in the System Space, collected fresh scallions, and prepared to open his stall.
• Jiang Wenyan eagerly arrived to pedal Shen Chuan's tricycle to the food street, drawing attention from customers waiting for the stall.
• Jiang Wenyan arranged the stall's ingredients and noticed there were no chives, so Shen Chuan announced he would sell scallion pancakes instead of chive pockets.
• The customers protested the menu change and asked whether the scallion pancakes would be as good as the chive pockets, and Shen Chuan asked whether they doubted the God of Cooking's skills.

Shen Chuan changed his menu from chive pockets to scallion pancakes, then prepared the dough and scallion oil while impressing the waiting customers with his knife skills. He tossed a pancake into the air, where it stretched and spun before returning to his hands, leaving the crowd eager to try it.

• Jiang Wenyan reassured the customers that Shen Chuan’s scallion pancakes would be delicious, while Zhang Jiale and his classmates adjusted to the menu change.
• Shen Chuan rapidly chopped fresh scallions as Auntie Liao and the other customers watched in amazement.
• Shen Chuan fried half the scallions in lard and rapeseed oil with Sichuan peppercorns to make scallion oil.
• Shen Chuan stretched the rested dough, covered it with fresh scallions, brushed it with scallion oil, and folded it into a thick pancake.
• Shen Chuan tossed the pancake into the air, where it stretched and spun before returning to his hands, then placed it in the frying pan.
• The customers praised Shen Chuan’s cooking as he called the airborne pancake basic cooking god stuff and earned Show-off Points.

Shen Chuan sold his crispy flying scallion pancakes at fifteen yuan each, defending the price with his claim that he was the God of Cooking. After the first diner tasted one and devoured it enthusiastically, the waiting customers began ordering several at a time and worried the pancakes would sell out.

• Shen Chuan fried scallion pancakes while the waiting diners admired their golden color and enticing aroma.
• Jiang Wenyan asked Shen Chuan the price, and Shen Chuan announced that each pancake cost fifteen yuan.
• When new diners tried to bargain, Shen Chuan refused and declared that he was the God of Cooking, earning Show-off Points.
• The first diner paid for a pancake, tasted it, and became so absorbed in eating that he squeaked instead of answering how it tasted.
• Seeing the first diner's enthusiastic reaction, nearby diners ordered two or three pancakes each, and those farther back worried the food would run out.