Wen Ningyue received a message from Wang Bin saying that a junior girl was selling Immortal Barbecue at Food Street. He claimed he was stuck there, having eaten seventy or eighty skewers in a row, unable to stop. He even guaranteed that it wasn’t a scam this time and told her to hurry over!
Wen Ningyue and Wang Bin were neighbors and good friends. They both loved food and had a bit of an adventurous spirit. They often teamed up to explore Food Street, frequently tricking each other into eating terrible food.
They shared a deep camaraderie forged by visiting the clinic and shedding tears together, which was exactly why Wen Ningyue feared this was another trap!
Even with a racing heart, Wen Ningyue still came, clinging to a glimmer of hope.
Although there was only a one-in-a-ten-thousand chance of finding delicious food at Food Street, what if this was that one exception? If she missed it, she would definitely regret it!
Before she even reached the spot Wang Bin mentioned, Wen Ningyue was hit by an overpowering aroma. Panic set in. This scent felt somewhat familiar. Just like the deceptive dishes made by that one senior student, the fragrance could be smelled miles away. However, the scent itself was different; this one was far more domineering!
She gritted her teeth, thinking that this devil from the Culinary Department was trying to scam her out of her Credit Points again, yet she couldn’t help but quicken her pace.
Pushing past the crowd of onlookers who were drawn by the smell but still cautiously holding back from buying, she saw Wang Bin and several other students squatting to the side. They were pulling off the stunt of devouring entire meat skewers in a single bite, chewing with expressions of pure intoxication!
Wen Ningyue stepped forward, snatched the large handful of barbecue skewers from Wang Bin’s grasp, and took a bite without a second thought.
It was so delicious! This was the one-in-a-ten-thousand chance she had been searching for!
Wang Bin stared at his empty hands, about to explode on the spot. Then, he saw Wen Ningyue holding his barbecue, munching away as she squeezed into the row of squatting people. Whatever, he wouldn’t bicker with someone so ignorant!
He turned his head with imposing grandeur and shouted, "Junior! Grill me another fifty skewers! Make them spicy!"
Gan Lan looked at the row of people squatting beside her grill, eating lamb skewers. Amidst her joy, she also felt a bit speechless.
She was happy that her barbecue had won their approval, but she was speechless at the sight of a whole line of people squatting there in neat order, gnawing on lamb skewers. It truly made for a beautiful scene.
As more and more people joined the squatting row, Gan Lan could almost see the Credit Points flying toward her! Once she sold all of this, she would have enough money to pay back Counselor Ye. At that thought, her mood soared.
"Alright! Just wait a moment, they’ll be ready soon!" she replied, swiftly getting back to grilling.
Gan Lan stopped shouting to attract customers. The sight of the squatting row and the aroma of the roasted lamb skewers were already the best advertisements.
Wu Mingyu was a sophomore in the Acting Department at the Comprehensive University. He was also a minor streamer with fifty to sixty million fans. The fans who followed him liked his good looks and his tendency to court disaster. Today was just another day of Wu Mingyu seeking out trouble.
While browsing the school forum today, Wu Mingyu saw a post exposing a senior from the Culinary Department who had been setting up a stall at Food Street over the past few days, selling incredibly deceptive food.
The smell was incredibly fragrant, wafting for miles, but the moment it entered the mouth, it tasted foul, bitter, and bizarre—a flavor beyond words that made people throw up.
The second time passing by, the scent was even more enticing. After trying to resist, they couldn’t help but buy it again, thinking that maybe this time it would taste better. Yet, they ended up vomiting once more!
It smelled better every single time, and even though they regretted it after every purchase, they still couldn’t resist buying it!
How naive! To actually trust someone from the Culinary Department—they were a bunch of devils! Even though Wu Mingyu thought this, he still mentally prepared himself to try out this formidable dish.
Arriving at Food Street, Wu Mingyu followed the route given on the forum, strolling leisurely while broadcasting a live stream.
[Love Watching Ming Cry]: "Ming, do you have a Healing Device ready?"
[Smart and Clever Little Ming]: "Brother, isn’t it good to be alive? The Culinary Department is full of devils! Even though watching your rich expressions while eating dark cuisine is secretly satisfying, I still can’t help but quietly remind you: don’t cry later!"
Wu Mingyu looked at the chat filled with comments like "don’t cry later," "isn’t it good to be alive," "are you feeling suicidal again," or just endless strings of laughter.
He curled his lips. These fans definitely wouldn’t expect that he had already bought a Recovery Potion. Even if he was crippled by the dark cuisine later, a single bottle of the Recovery Potion would fix everything! Although it might still leave him with psychological trauma, when had Young Master Wu ever been afraid?
He had barely walked halfway down the street when he faintly smelled a mouth-watering aroma. The stream chat also buzzed with questions asking if this was the senior’s scam dish.
"Is the senior’s cooking really that overpowering? We haven’t even walked five hundred meters and the scent has already reached here? Looking at the route, the senior’s stall is still at least five thousand meters away!" Wu Mingyu told his fans in confusion.
Nevertheless, he took out a hoverboard Flying Car from his spatial ring and slowly rode it toward the scent. The deeper he went, the stronger the fragrance became.
[Student Xiaoming]: "Ahhh! What kind of heavenly smell is this? I’d be willing to eat it even if I throw up!"
[Crystal Clear]: "I am so down for this smell!"
[My Life is Hard]: "If it smells this good, I can eat and throw up, eat and throw up forever! It’s worth it!"
[Leaving After School]: "Hurry up, Ming! I’m already prepared!"
Following the aroma, Wu Mingyu finally arrived at its source, only to see a rather long queue.
Squeezing into the crowd, he was shocked to find a large group of people squatting in the empty space next to the stall. They were eating skewers in a single bite, occasionally shouting for another ten or twenty skewers!
"It doesn’t look like it. Is this really the senior’s scam dish? There are so many people, and why has the senior become a junior girl? And look at that spectacular sight of people squatting in rows, burying their heads in their food and looking like they’re in heaven. What dedicated actors! The Culinary Department is really going all out to make money; they even hired people from the Acting Department!" Wu Mingyu muttered to his fans.
[Just Like That]: "Smells so good! I want to eat, eat, eat, eat, eat!"
[Blue Sky]: "I’ve carefully observed the people squatting in rows. If they really are from the Acting Department, they are all Oscar-worthy!"
[My Life is Hard]: "Look at their expressions while eating the barbecue, it’s like they’re eating something incredibly delicious! A lot of them are actually crying! This isn’t acting, right? It’s true emotion!"
Wu Mingyu tugged at the corner of the shirt of the senior girl in line in front of him and asked, "Senior, is this that scam dish?"
The senior girl turned her head, her eyes red, and replied, "Is there anything from the Culinary Department that isn’t a scam? This one isn’t just a scam, it’s a dish that steals your tears. Junior, you need to be careful!" With that, she turned back around and continued to gaze affectionately at the lamb skewers ahead.
Usually, people would buy something once and take a detour the next time they saw it. Or, they would get tricked a second time, or fall prey to the next Culinary Department student, never tiring of the cycle.
This senior girl probably fell into the latter category! Wu Mingyu felt a wave of panic, but seeing the growing crowd around him—and the fact that no one had collapsed yet—he immediately steadied his resolve.
With so many people burying themselves in their food, it definitely wouldn’t be another scam that left people crying and crippled. Just look at everyone’s mouths glistening with oil. And this aroma... Wu Mingyu closed his eyes in intoxication and took a deep breath. He really wanted to eat it...!