While privately messaging the two lucky winners, Gan Lan suddenly realized her barbecue stall still didn’t have a name! How could this do?
She rubbed her head. What should she call it? Gan Lan stared blankly at her Light Brain!
"That’s it!" Gan Lan cried out in pleasant surprise. She stood up and slapped the table. "I can call it ’Huaxia’! I’ll just call it Huaxia Barbecue Stall. After all, everything I make here comes from Huaxia!" Thinking about it this way, it was absolutely perfect!
Meanwhile, Wen Ningyue sat in her dorm revising her manuscript. Today, she had been scolded by her professor again, who claimed the draft she submitted was absolute garbage and simply unreadable! As a result, Wen Ningyue was miserably rewriting it from scratch. She had been racking her brain for an hour without squeezing out a single word. Sighing, she figured she just wasn’t going to get any writing done today.
"The user you follow has updated their status!"
It was a Light Brain notification, but Wen Ningyue didn’t react much upon hearing it. She probably wouldn’t have time to go eat barbecue today, so it was better not to look. She was afraid that if she looked, her feet would drag her out the door against her will.
"You have received a system notification email."
"You have received a private message from the user you follow. Please check."
The two consecutive notification chimes completely diverted Wen Ningyue’s attention, pulling her away from the secret heartache of missing out on her barbecue.
Confused, Wen Ningyue opened her private messages. The first was a system prompt: [Congratulations! You are the lucky user drawn from hundreds of thousands by "Come and have some barbecue!".]
The second message was from Come and have some barbecue! itself: ["Lucky winner, I have already prepared a feast waiting for you in Culinary Department Dormitory 6066. May I have the honor of having a casual meal with you? I’ll only wait ten minutes. If you’re late, I won’t wait~"]
Seeing these two messages, Wen Ningyue wondered if her junior Gan Lan’s account had been hacked. Her second reaction was to open Gan Lan’s feed and browse through it.
She instantly bounded out of her chair. Not even caring that she was still in her pajamas, she bolted out of the dorm. Three minutes of the ten-minute limit had already passed!! If she missed this, she would regret it for the rest of her life!!
Standing in front of Room 6066, Wen Ningyue smoothed out her somewhat messy long hair. Brimming with excitement and thrill, she raised her hand to knock, only to hear footsteps coming from behind her.
She turned around in confusion and wondered why the genius conductor from the neighboring school was here. Could he be the other lucky winner?
"Are you Sky Blue?"
"No, I am here in his place," Yan Yifei replied calmly. Of course he wasn’t that idiot Sky Blue. However, he had snatched this spot using somewhat improper methods. As for what methods, there was no need to explicitly explain. He guessed that idiot was currently hiding in some corner crying his eyes out.
Hearing the doorbell, Gan Lan glanced at the time. She clicked her tongue; they were pretty punctual, arriving in just eight minutes.
"Moonlit Grace? Sky Blue?" Gan Lan smiled as she looked at the man and woman standing outside the door. She recognized both of them. Without waiting for them to answer, she stepped aside and said, "I’ve been waiting for you for a while. Please come in!"
"My name is Gan Lan, a freshman in the Culinary Department. The lottery was a sudden whim, but I’m very honored that you could both come to the appointment."
Just as Gan Lan said, raffling off a meal was indeed a spur-of-the-moment idea. Everyone she knew here were guests from her barbecue stall. Eating alone was still a bit lonely, so she had come up with this idea. She thought to herself that she really was a clever genius!
"Wen Ningyue, junior in the Journalism Department. I am very honored to be able to break out of the encirclement of thousands of enemy troops, haha! I’m still a bit dazed even now. When I saw the private message, I rushed out without even changing out of my pajamas, deeply afraid of missing the window! Please excuse my lack of manners!" Wen Ningyue was a bit embarrassed. She was indeed looking far too sloppy, but for the sake of good food, everything else could be thrown out the window!
"Yan Yifei, First Military Academy, sophomore in the Conducting Department. I am here in place of Sky Blue. He is still in the lab, so he asked me to come." Yan Yifei pursed his lips.
Gan Lan didn’t think much of it. She pulled out the chairs and asked the robot to take the dishes out of the temperature-controlled box, introducing them one by one.
"Then, shall we start eating? Please make yourselves at home." Gan Lan stood up, ladled out three bowls of fish tofu soup, and handed them to Wen Ningyue and Yan Yifei.
"Wait, wait, wait! Junior Gan Lan, can you start a live broadcast of us eating? If you turn on sensory sharing in the live broadcast, everyone else can taste the flavors too, letting those who didn’t win the raffle eat along with us. I have a Live Streamer in my spatial ring, hehe!"
Wen Ningyue made this suggestion because she had seen Wang Bin’s sour, jealous messages, hoping to comfort the unlucky classmate.
Gan Lan thought this was a great suggestion. As expected of a technologically advanced place, they even had such magical Live Streamers! The future era was truly amazing!
However, she still looked at Yan Yifei with some hesitation. If it was inconvenient for him, then she wouldn’t start it. After all, her original intention was just to have some company for a meal.
"I don’t mind, as long as you don’t film my face." Yan Yifei sat by the dining table and raised an eyebrow, speaking nonchalantly.
Getting his approval, Wen Ningyue took out the Live Streamer. "Then I’ll turn it on? Junior, connect your account to the Live Streamer, and those who follow you will receive a notification immediately."
Gan Lan followed Wen Ningyue’s instructions and set it up in just a minute. The live broadcast room was titled [Let’s Have a Meal Together!].
"Alright, let’s not worry about them anymore. Let’s dig in!!" Wen Ningyue had endured for far too long. If it weren’t for Wang Bin, she would have started eating the delicious food two minutes ago.
Yan Yifei let out a sigh of relief when he heard this. Finally... Facing such a table of delicious food, just looking at it but not being able to eat it immediately was truly too cruel!
Gan Lan picked up her chopsticks and grabbed a piece of ribs. She was about to faint from hunger. She could finally eat. She was so moved!
Meanwhile, Gao Haiyang glared with deep resentment at the man wearing the First Military Academy uniform in the live broadcast room. He was about to explode from anger!
He wished he could drag the guy out and beat him up! Even without showing his head, Gao Haiyang could recognize that this bastard was his captain! The one who was supposed to be sitting there eating was him! It was supposed to be him, the lucky Gao Haiyang!
To think Yan Yifei had actually used such underhanded tricks just to go eat! He had snitched to Gao Haiyang’s mother, telling her that Gao Haiyang had been skipping classes lately just to get food, even daring to skip Professor Zheng’s class. And that he had skipped it twice! Was Yan Yifei childish or what?!
His mother had arrived at the battlefield in just two minutes, furiously grabbing his ear and lecturing him to death, telling him to learn from Yan Yifei—who was both smart and well-behaved.
Bah! That sinister, petty hypocrite! And then he had smugly gone to the appointment in his place!!! The more Gao Haiyang thought about it, the angrier he got. He was going to explode!
He couldn’t beat him up in reality, so he would beat him up in the live broadcast room! Beat him to death, beat him to death! With a savage expression, Gao Haiyang threw a left punch and a right kick at Yan Yifei’s virtual data, cursing nonstop.
This still wasn’t enough to vent his anger, so Gao Haiyang decided to spam the chat with passive-aggressive comments cursing that bastard Yan Yifei!
Forget it. What if that bastard found out he was using the Sky Blue account to curse him out, came back to settle scores, and found random reasons to tattle on him again? His beloved mother trusted this bastard Yan Yifei more than her own biological son. This was truly a sad state of affairs!