Have you ever seen glowing food? That's why you draw a food-themed anime.

She showed him the address and the name of the teacher who would be giving the class tomorrow.

Xu Zhou glanced at it casually and didn't take it to heart.

...

After watching TV for a while, Xu Zhou went back to work on the Food Wars! manga.

The second half of the third chapter of the manga is about the protagonist, Soma Yukihira, a red-haired transfer student, attending his first class at Totsuki Academy.

However, the teachers at Totsuki Academy were exceptionally strict. In the very first class, they declared that if you didn't get an A by following the recipe, you were out.

The rules at Totsuki Academy are very strict.

Anyone who fails to achieve a passing grade in class will be expelled.

Meanwhile, Tadokoro Megumi, the blue-haired ponytail female student who is in the same group as the male protagonist, is facing expulsion.

When Xu Zhou got to this part of the drawing, he was heartbroken: "Isn't this just a typical wish-fulfillment novel trope? Tadokoro Megumi truly deserves to be one of the most popular female characters in manga..."

"It may seem weak, but its true strength is sealed by the tension buff!"

"Neither of them has a powerful family background. If they team up, won't they be targeted? And if they're targeted, they'll face a crisis! This is all a setup! A setup!"

After making his rant, Xu Zhou continued drawing.

With the help of the plagiarist, inspiration flowed like wildfire.

In the comic, the male protagonist indeed encountered his first crisis!

This time, the teacher giving them cooking lessons was none other than Roland Chappell, a chef at Totsuki Culinary Academy known for his strictness and for never smiling.

Last year, they not only eliminated an entire class, but even went so far as to make a bold statement.

"Today's menu is beef stew in Burgundy red wine!"

"In my course, anyone who doesn't get an A is considered to have an E!"

...

The second crisis was that their food was sabotaged by classmates who disliked them!

When Tadokoro Megumi saw that a large chunk of salt had been sprinkled into their stewed beef, she looked utterly despairing.

"It has to be redone!"

"But to tenderize the meat, it needs to be stewed for at least an hour!"

"It needs to absorb the flavors better. We need to add the sauce and simmer for another thirty minutes! We only have thirty minutes left!"

Xu Zhou's eyes lit up as he drew this part.

"So, the next dish I'm going to introduce to my restaurant, although it's a big dish, can only be made in thirty minutes?"

"That saves a lot of time!"

"And it's a stew, so you basically don't have to do anything about it. It's so convenient!"

The third episode, after Xu Zhou worked like crazy drawing for over a dozen pages, finally came to an end.

The protagonist, Soma Yukihira, felt challenged and became fired up!

The goal is to reduce the cooking time of the Burgundy beef stew, which originally takes an hour and a half, by three times in just thirty minutes.

At last.

In everyone's eyes.

The male protagonist, Soma Yukihira, served up a modified version of beef stew in Burgundy.

...

"Done!"

"A qualified content creator should learn to cut chapters short and leave the process of how the male protagonist solves the problem in the next chapter!"

Xu Zhou stopped drawing at this point and uploaded the second half of the third chapter.

After uploading, a new wish value collection prompt appears.

[Burger Beef in Red Wine (Modified Version): 0/100]

...

After uploading, Xu Zhou went to the refrigerator, grabbed a drink, and came back to drink it.

I'm ready to sit back and enjoy an iced drink while waiting for comic book fans to praise my hard work.

To know.

I update my own comics daily!

Although I occasionally miss updates!

However, its update speed is second to none in the entire comic!

But as soon as Xu Zhou opened his author backend, he was shocked to see a bunch of comments on the second half of the newly released third chapter.

"..."

Instead of praising himself, he received an unusually large number of negative comments today.

A large portion of them came from the same reader.

Just by reading her comments, you can feel her condescending and instructive attitude.

[Mingzhu: Can the author not cook? How can you make edible beef stew in Burgundy wine in half an hour? Don't change it like that!]

[Mingzhu: If you're going to copy this recipe for beef stew in Burgundy red wine, can you at least learn some basic cooking knowledge first?]

[Mingzhu: I could tolerate the original recipes before, but your random scribbling of famous French dishes is laughable.]

There were quite a few comic fans who had followed the story from the previous chapters, but Xu Zhou couldn't tell whether they were comic fans or haters.

[This is exactly the kind of story I love! I come to read your comics just to see the arguments, and it's no wonder I jumped in as soon as I saw the update notification today. It was definitely worth it.]

[That's nice. I wasn't used to you updating these past couple of days; I was having trouble finding anything interesting to read.]

"You guys are really dogs!"

Xu Zhou felt a pang of heartache upon seeing these two comments: "You guys aren't diligent in following comics, but you're number one at watching for fun?"

With so many comic book readers, surely they're all just looking for fun?

impossible! Absolutely impossible!

...

However, there were clearly comic book fans in the comments section who disapproved of what the expert said.

They couldn't help but reply.

[What right does this guy named Mingzhu have to act like an expert?]

[Exactly, while the author's recipe is outrageous, I think the point you're criticizing is alright, right?]

Mingzhu replied very quickly.

She not only showed off her French cuisine qualification certificate, but also her culinary association membership certificate.

[Mingzhu: Photo/Photo/Bronze member of the Culinary Association, French cuisine qualification certificate, and culinary school graduation certificate.]

[Mingzhu: Am I qualified now? You laymen obviously don't understand what it means to make red wine braised beef in half an hour. How can it possibly taste good?]

Xu Zhou opened the certificates from the Food Association and the culinary school graduation certificate. Although her face was covered by a mosaic, it was clear that the names were the same.

Jiang Mingzhu.

Xu Zhou couldn't help but exclaim, "Have we really met an expert today?"

But why does this name seem so familiar...?

Staring at the name for a long time, I couldn't recall where I had seen it before.

Chapter 21 Prayer Value Reaches 100

When Xu Zhou saw this person named Mingzhu, an idea seemed to flash through his mind.

But they failed to catch it.

Forget it.

forget about it.

After I posted the second half of the latest episode 3, my wish points started to increase like crazy.

[Burger Beef in Red Wine (Improved Version) Wish Points +1 +1 +1 +1...]

It had only been posted a short while when it successfully rose to 50/100.

The rate of increase was much faster than the previous dishes, so fast that Xu Zhou found it somewhat unbelievable.

But he soon found out the reason.

All I saw was a message from Xu Kai and Cai Cai.

[Xu Kai: Boss Xu! You're my god!]

[Xu Kai: One of my favorite dishes! I can't imagine how happy I'll be when I eat this dish tomorrow!]

[Cai Cai: Boss! Even if I have to eat dirt tomorrow, I'm going to spend money to come eat here!]

[Glasses: Brother Xu! New dishes again? Hurry up and bring them out! Actually, I have a personal suggestion.]

Upon seeing the message from the bespectacled guy, Xu Zhou replied with a puzzled look: 【What suggestion?】

After I sent it, they replied very quickly.

[Glasses: How about you price this dish a bit higher? I think with your skills, 8888 per serving would be reasonable.]

As long as it's expensive, others can't afford it, but I can afford it!

The more Chen Yan thought about this idea, the more convinced he became that it was absolutely correct.

Unable to resist the overwhelming attraction, I began to persuade them.

[Glasses: What do you think of what I said? I think I'd eat your beef for 88,000, let alone 8,800!]

[Glasses: If you sell them for 8,800 yuan a pair, you can make several thousand yuan more per pair!]

"..."

That's a good suggestion; please don't make the same suggestion again next time.

Do you think I don't want to sell my dishes for 8888 per serving?

If I could raise the price, with my skills, even the cheapest version of porridge from the Su Family Imperial Kitchen could sell for several thousand yuan. My oyster porridge would be more expensive than that cheap version!

"Ugh……"

"It's a pity. If a customer pays far more than the value of the dish and receives the excess money, their wish value will decrease. If the wish value becomes negative, the recipe will be gone, and you won't be able to buy the fantasy ingredients on the recipe..."

Fantasy ingredients, huh?

Once the recipe is fully upgraded, you can directly exchange it using the daily increase in prayer points, without needing to buy ingredients with money.

Wouldn't it be a huge loss if we lost this?

Seeing these messages, Xu Zhou finally understood where the fifty wish points that appeared after the second half of the third episode came from.

Seeing that he could gain fifty points even without doing anything in the comments section, he became too lazy to post in the comments section.

...

I woke up in the morning.

Thinking about going to a lecture by the food association with her mother after lunch, Xu Zhou moved today's sales to noon.

I only told Xu Kai and Glasses, two members, about the advance notice.

After leisurely brushing his teeth, washing his face, and eating breakfast, he arrived at the store and saw that Xu Kai and Glasses were already there.

Their hair was a mess, their socks were the wrong color, and their clothes were wrinkled.

It's obvious that they rushed over after receiving the message this morning.

"Boss, why are you opening at noon today? Aren't you always open in the afternoon?"