Era: You're asked to cook a home-style dish, but you cook Wellington.

Inside the kitchen, Gao Yang and Su Wanqing sat facing each other on chairs, their brows furrowed with deep sorrow.

Two police officers stood before them, their faces serious.

"The test results are in. The victim had toxic residue in her body, but your dishes did not. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this."

The police officers were also puzzled; out of the hundred or so people at the scene, only Mr. Cai was infected.

Gao Yang and Su Wanqing exchanged a glance and immediately understood what the other was thinking.

Sure enough, someone was planning to sabotage it.

Gao Yang had instructed from the beginning that all dishes must be served in order, one dish at a time, cleared away and served.

The reason is simple: he tampered with the dishes.

Consuming them in the correct order will improve your health, but if you make a mistake in the process, they will clash and counteract each other.

Gao Yang suddenly stood up, strode to the food delivery record, pointed his finger at the record, and said in a deep voice with a hint of anger.

"I repeatedly emphasized that each dish must be completely finished before the next one is served, especially chilled seafood and warming mushrooms. They must never be served in quick succession, as their properties clash and eating them together will definitely cause gastrointestinal poisoning. This is the strict order I set!"

"Look, Old Cai is eating in a completely different order than I planned!"

Su Wanqing leaned closer and saw the altered handwriting on the ledger. Her face instantly turned cold, and her eyes were filled with icy intent.

"The food delivery supervisors I assigned are all trustworthy people. They would never change the order without authorization. Someone must have tampered with it."

The officer frowned as he reviewed the surveillance footage handed to him by his subordinate.

"You mean, someone deliberately disrupted the order of serving the dishes, exploiting the incompatibility of the ingredients to create this food poisoning incident?"

Gao Yang nodded.

"I've already arranged for someone to monitor the food delivery chute. Every dish has to be checked in order before it's served. Unless someone bribed someone in my kitchen to deliberately change the order of the dishes!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his sharp gaze swept towards the door, and everyone in the kitchen fell silent instantly, their faces showing tension.

The officer immediately understood and quietly instructed his subordinates.

"Summon all personnel responsible for serving food in the front of house and preparing food in the back of house. Check their statements one by one, retrieve all surveillance footage from the food delivery area and passageways, and focus on investigating anyone who altered the order without authorization!"

Before long, all the waiters who were serving the food were called in, each with their heads down and looking flustered.

The apprentice responsible for checking the menu trembled all over and knelt down with a thud, his face full of guilt.

"Chef Gao, President Su, I was wrong. I was confused for a moment. Someone secretly gave me some money and asked me to arrange for the mushroom stir-fry and seafood to be served one after the other. I was bewitched and agreed. I really didn't know that such a big thing would happen."

The apprentice's voice trembled as he repeatedly kowtowed and admitted his mistakes. He took out the cash he hadn't yet spent from his pocket and placed it all on the table.

"Who is it? Who ordered you to do this!"

Su Wanqing pressed on sharply, her tone icy.

"I didn't see his face clearly. He was a stranger wearing a waiter's uniform. He wasn't one of our restaurant staff. He stuffed money into my hand and urged me to hurry up and serve the food. I was greedy and did as he said."

The waiter turned pale with fright and confessed everything he knew.

There was no other way; the chefs and key positions were all their own people, so the other party had no way to get to them. They could only take advantage of the loopholes in these temporary helpers, using a little money to bribe the apprentices who lacked self-control. They precisely followed the rules for the dishes set by Gao Yang, and in one move, they threw the situation into chaos.

The officer carefully kept the cash as evidence, meticulously recorded the apprentice's statement, and then spoke in a deep voice.

"We will immediately check the island's personnel registration records. This unfamiliar waiter has an unknown background and must have sneaked in beforehand. We will definitely be able to find some clues."

Gao Yang also stepped forward to add to the discussion.

"Thank you for your help, officer. We will keep you updated as soon as we have any news. This matter has had a very negative impact on our entire project."

He knew perfectly well that ordinary competitors would never know the secret of the dish counters, much less target a highly respected figure like Elder Cai.

Who would that be?

Only someone determined to bring down Su Wanqing would set up such a scheme, ruining the project's reputation while using Cai Lao's influence to put pressure on the Su family—killing two birds with one stone.

He always felt that the person who took action this time was the same person behind the Green Dragon Gang.

The police officer nodded in agreement and quickly left the kitchen with his men to launch a full-scale investigation.

Just as the police officers left, Gao Yang and Su Wanqing sat down in their chairs, catching their breath.

Just then.

"Bang!"

The kitchen door was kicked open, and Su Zhaoyang rushed in with a group of reporters.

Su Zhaoyang led a group of reporters in.

Reporters, carrying cameras and holding recorders, flashed their lights incessantly, instantly illuminating the already oppressive room.

"Everyone, come and see!"

Su Zhaoyang stood at the door, striking a pose of righteous indignation, and shouted loudly at the camera.

"The Su family's new project is in its trial operation phase, and someone has suffered food poisoning. The person is still in the hospital receiving emergency treatment, and those two are secretly colluding and covering up their actions in the kitchen! Is there no law left?!"

Reporters immediately swarmed around them, their microphones practically poking the two men in the face.

"Mr. Su, is Mr. Cai's food poisoning due to substandard food safety?"

"Chef Gao, are the rumors circulating that you misuse unknown ingredients true?"

"Some people say you'll stop at nothing to grab business. How do you respond to that?"

A barrage of sharp questions came at him, delivered in an aggressive tone.

Su Wanqing's face darkened, and she was about to speak when Gao Yang gently pressed her wrist, signaling her to calm down.

He stood up, facing the cameras, his tone calm and composed, without the slightest hint of panic.

"Dear friends from the media, we are more concerned than anyone else about Mr. Cai's accident, but things are not as Mr. Su Zhaoyang said."

Gao Yang stepped forward, his gaze sweeping over the crowd, and held up an examination report in his hand.

"According to the police station's inspection, there were no toxic residues in any of the dishes or ingredients, and the tableware used by Mr. Cai was also free of toxic residues. Further details will have to wait for the police station's investigation."

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire audience gasped.

The reporters immediately erupted in a frenzy. The cameras that were originally aimed at Su Wanqing and Gao Yang instantly turned to Su Zhaoyang, whose expression had changed drastically, and murmurs of discussion arose one after another.

"The food and tableware weren't poisonous? Then how could Mr. Cai have been poisoned?"

"So, it's really true that someone deliberately sabotaged this?"

"Mr. Su, you just said they colluded to give false testimony. Is there some misunderstanding?"

Su Zhaoyang felt a pang of panic, but he still forced a smile and pointed at Gao Yang, shouting sternly:

"Stop trying to fool people with a report! Who knows if you tampered with it beforehand, bribed people to falsify it? Otherwise, why would only Mr. Cai have an accident? It's clearly a problem in your kitchen!"

"Fake?"

Gao Yang chuckled lightly, his eyes suddenly sharpening as he looked directly at Su Zhaoyang.

"This report was issued by a testing agency directly under the police, and it bears an official seal. The entire process was supervised by police officers. How can it be considered falsified? On the contrary, Mr. Su, you are being far too hasty."

He ignored Su Zhaoyang, stood up straight in front of the media, and placed his left hand on the table.

"However, since this happened on our side, we will definitely fulfill our responsibilities, investigate this matter thoroughly, and show absolutely no leniency!"

Gao Yang glanced at Su Zhaoyang and muttered something to himself.

"But you, Su Zhaoyang, as a fellow member of the Su family, seem to really want to see us get into trouble."