Chapter Summaries

Shen Chuan brushed off the customers’ praise while secretly earning show-off points as university students ate his scallion pancakes and praised them. Jiang Wenyan eagerly looked after Shen Chuan and guarded his place as a backer, until Shen Chuan said they could close after using up the remaining ingredients.

• Shen Chuan dismissed the newcomers’ compliments, and Wen Yang hurried to smooth over the awkward silence.
• University students crowded around the stall to eat their pancakes, then discussed how delicious—and costly—they were.
• A student who had doubted his classmate apologized after tasting the pancakes and understood why they were so popular.
• The students praised Jiang Wenyan for helping them discover Boss Shen, and Jiang proudly fussed over Shen Chuan.
• Shen Chuan checked the dwindling ingredients and told Jiang Wenyan they could close once the current batch was finished.

Shen Chuan sold out his final batch of scallion pancakes and refused to make more, despite the students’ pleas and offers of how much money he could earn. The disappointed customers left hungry, while students who had bought pancakes fought over them and the remaining queue mourned the shortage.

• Students urged Shen Chuan to keep selling pancakes, but he said he had run out of ingredients and claimed he was not running the stall for money.
• Shen Chuan earned Show-off Points for his boastful reply and finished cooking the last ten scallion pancakes.
• Shen Chuan announced that the pancakes were sold out, and Jiang Wenyan handed him a drink and helped him clean up.
• Students who had missed out complained at classmates who had bought several pancakes, while the buyers kept eating without responding.
• One student bit a large chunk out of his friend's pancake, and the students' quarrel turned into chaos as the waiting customers despaired over the sold-out food.

Customers argued and pleaded for more of Shen Chuan’s sold-out pancakes, while He Wencai fled with the two scallion pancakes he had bought for his wife. Shen Chuan defended his limited production by claiming quality came first, and customers left grumbling about his comfortable working conditions.

• Customers who had missed out on pancakes argued over purchase limits and asked He Wencai whether he could bring more chives and eggs, but he said he had none left.
• A customer tried to persuade He Wencai to give him one of his two scallion pancakes, so He Wencai ran off with them for his wife.
• New customers learned that Shen Chuan had sold out before dark, while regulars complained about waiting in line without getting any pancakes.
• Shen Chuan told a customer that making more would compromise quality, earning Show-off Points as the customer thanked him through gritted teeth.
• Customers complained that Shen Chuan was lazy, and an older man criticized his easy working conditions before asking someone beside him to agree.

After customers complained to Shen Chuan, he pretended to be hurt and announced he would close his stall the next day, earning Show-off Points while securing a break. The customers failed to change his mind as Jiang Wenyan drove him away.

• A customer complained about Shen Chuan, and another customer quickly claimed he did not know him.
• Shen Chuan used the complaint as an excuse to announce he would close the stall the next day, earning Show-off Points.
• Jiang Wenyan reminded the customers that Shen Chuan had once said he opened only when he was in the mood.
• The old man and the customers apologized and praised Shen Chuan, while Zhang Jiale and other students massaged his shoulders.
• Shen Chuan left with Jiang Wenyan, confirming he would reopen the day after, and the customers glared at the old man and the young fellow.

Shen Chuan redeemed a roujiamo recipe after deciding not to risk the hard-to-find ingredients for donkey meat huoshao, while He Wencai went home craving chive pockets and asked his mother to find more village-grown ingredients. Shen Chuan planned to search the countryside for heritage pork the next day, and his stall remained closed for a day.

• After Shen Chuan left the food street, the customers blamed the old man and young man whose complaints had prompted him to take the next day off.
• Jiang Wenyan tried to persuade Shen Chuan to open briefly tomorrow, but Shen Chuan said his cooking required the right state of mind and earned 35 Show-off Points.
• At home, Shen Chuan spent 1,000 Show-off Points to redeem the roujiamo recipe after rejecting donkey meat huoshao because suitable donkey meat would be difficult to find.
• Shen Chuan decided to look in the countryside for home-raised heritage pigs and entered the System Space to learn the recipe.
• He Wencai brought scallion pancakes home to his wife, then called his mother and asked her to find free-range eggs and chives for making chive pockets.

He Wencai persuaded his parents to grow more vegetables and find free-range eggs, hoping to bring fresh ingredients to Shen Chuan. Meanwhile, Shen Chuan searched Stonewater Village for heritage pork and agreed to buy half a pig, but the furious animal charged at him as the villagers tried to catch it.

• He Wencai told Mama He he wanted more homegrown vegetables, and his wife persuaded her to help find free-range eggs and chives.
• Shen Chuan left for Stonewater Village to look for freshly slaughtered, farm-raised heritage pork.
• Auntie Zhang asked around the village but initially found no one willing to slaughter a suitable pig.
• Auntie Zhang found a family willing to slaughter its pig on the condition that Shen Chuan bought half the carcass, and he agreed.
• The villagers struggled to catch the fierce pig, which broke through the group and charged at Shen Chuan.

Shen Chuan spent his day off buying pork and seasonings to prepare braised pork while his absence hurt business across the food street. Meanwhile, Wen Yang discovered that fans had flooded his video’s comments to vent about craving Shen Chuan’s scallion pancakes, leaving him alarmed by their resentment.

• Shen Chuan escaped a charging pig, brought home pork, and spent the day buying ingredients for braised pork.
• Without Shen Chuan’s stall, business declined across the food street, while Old Huang’s scallion pancake stall drew customers as a substitute.
• Customers who missed Shen Chuan’s scallion pancakes complained beneath Wen Yang’s video after finding his stall closed.
• Wen Yang read the fans’ increasingly resentful comments and worried that this was how a villain arc started.

Shen Chuan spent the day braising pork for his evening stall and set out with Jiang Wenyan, whose homemade lemonade proved awful. The chapter ends as Jiang Wenyan catches the rich aroma of Shen Chuan’s braised pork in the food truck.

• Wen Yang replied to a follower who could not buy pancakes, saying he could not get any either.
• Shen Chuan simmered stock, prepared spices, and slowly braised local pork for six hours.
• Shen Chuan ate braised pork rice, dressed in his suit, and prepared to take his stall out for the evening.
• Jiang Wenyan offered Shen Chuan homemade lemonade, then discovered it tasted sour, bitter, and overly sweet when Shen Chuan urged him to try it.
• Jiang Wenyan sprayed sunscreen on himself and Shen Chuan before they drove off in the food truck.
• Jiang Wenyan noticed the aroma of braised pork filling the cab and asked Shen Chuan if he smelled it.

Shen Chuan arrived at Food Street to sell his new signature roujiamo, delighting customers who had gathered in a huge line. As the braised meat’s aroma won over the crowd, Shen Chuan prepared the bread and earned Show-off Points with his boasts, while Wen Yang filmed the cooking and asked about the missing scallion pancakes.

• Jiang Wenyan brought Shen Chuan to Food Street, where customers greeted him with lavish compliments and agreed to flatter him so he would keep running his stall.
• Shen Chuan announced that he had replaced scallion pancakes with his signature roujiamo, and Jiang Wenyan opened the pot of fragrant braised meat.
• He Wencai celebrated the menu change because he was allergic to scallions, while Wen Yang prepared to film the new dish for his followers.
• Shen Chuan began making layered flatbreads and stirred the braised meat as Wen Yang filmed the food and cooking process.
• Wen Yang asked when scallion pancakes would return, and Shen Chuan explained that he had run out of scallions before warning customers to eat carefully so they would not bite their tongues.

Shen Chuan served freshly baked flatbreads and roujiamo while diners praised his cooking and a newcomer joined the queue. Jiang Wenyan bought the first roujiamo and took a bite, savoring its crisp, flaky crust.

• The diners praised Shen Chuan after his show of cooking skill, while a passerby wondered if they were hired food shills.
• Shen Chuan took the golden, crisp flatbreads out of the oven, and the diner at the front ordered four roujiamo despite the price.
• Jiang Wenyan decided to buy a roujiamo before the diner at the front, explaining that the aroma had made it impossible to wait.
• Shen Chuan chopped the tender braised meat, filled a sliced flatbread, and added broth before handing the roujiamo to Jiang Wenyan.
• Jiang Wenyan bit into the roujiamo and savored its crisp crust and fragrant, flaky layers.