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

[Soma Yukihira Fast Food Mackerel Burger Steak: 0/100 (1)]

The imitation barbecue dish, being the first dish I learned to make at my own restaurant, has consistently attracted a steady stream of regular customers who each contribute 30 wish points daily.

There are also small amounts of wish points provided by comic book fans.

You can basically earn around 200 a day.

The daily increase is very stable.

There was a sudden surge in growth today. Could it be due to group buying?

Xu Zhou opened the group-buying page with a blank expression, and was shocked by the number of people who had saved the page.

[Ichizuru Izakaya Group Buying Event]

[Number of people who have collected this item: 280]

Group purchase successful!

"??"

"Two hundred and eighty?"

Xu Zhou was shocked by the surge in price increases.

so many people?

This is only my first day uploading a group-buying activity. Is the traffic from group buying really that big?

I was just about to have a laugh.

But when she glanced down at the group-buying comments section, her smile froze.

Good news: Traffic has returned.

Bad news: It's black and red!

...

A row of very eye-catching posts appeared in the group-buying comments section.

[Sightseeing Check-in]

"..."

Upon seeing these four words, Xu Zhou understood immediately.

I got banned.

The ruthless phrase "tourist check-in" clearly indicates that this wave of traffic obviously came from elsewhere.

I glanced down.

A row of tour groups below.

[Tourist group gathering! Is this really happening? Wow.]

[From Little Green Book, has anyone checked the prices of the dishes on this shop owner's homepage? Go check it out, there's a surprise.]

[Who among you actually bought it? Just watching the show is enough; who would actually spend money on it?]

【Seriously, didn't you guys look into the history of this restaurant before you bought from them? [Image/This restaurant used to serve cheap, simple meals, and they weren't even that good. You don't think they'll suddenly become better just because they've moved upmarket?]】

[A few scattered restaurants serving up high-end cuisine? Are you only going to start serving high-end food if you're already making simple work meals?]

Xu Zhou was heartbroken when he saw these comments.

If you don't love someone, don't hurt them!

I kindly recommended some food-themed manga to you guys, and you all turned around and smeared me on Little Green Book?

The key is.

I even saw some of my old customers in the comments section of the page, who were asking for the link.

Xu Zhou clicked on the link casually.

It prompts you to download the Little Green Book.

After downloading and registering, he clicked on the link and immediately saw a very typical title.

Sometimes I really don't understand why some people are so ordinary yet so confident, and they're so confident about the prices they set for their shops.

I looked at the menu from this restaurant's previous days. What makes the owner think that someone who can't even make cheap, simple meals well can possibly cook high-end food?

Xu Zhou: "..."

So this is what it feels like to be publicly shamed.

...

Below that was a long short essay.

Xu Zhou patiently glanced at it.

[Linglong: Here's what happened. Today I was planning to buy a group deal with my colleagues and go out to eat together after get off work tomorrow. Then I came across this weird group deal.]

I was so angry I laughed. Other people's group buying deals offer discounts on every meal, but his group buying deal is like ten people sharing one meal!

One serving is 500 grams, and each person gets 50 grams of beef!

What makes this restaurant owner think that people would be willing to share one dish with nine other strangers?

A picture was also attached above.

She even screenshotted all the messages she left on the group-buying page.

The comments below are all overwhelmingly negative.

Sometimes I feel really helpless when I'm online alone, seriously? Ten people sharing one meal? What am I supposed to do?

[The crucial point is that the shop owner actually copied a recipe from a food manga called "Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma." Has anyone tried to contact the manga's author, artist XiaoXU?]

[What if the shop owner is the author of this food-themed anime?]

"That's impossible. This food-themed anime is updated daily. He's running a shop while updating daily. A single chapter of the manga requires ten or twenty panels. Who can run a shop and draw manga daily? Is he an octopus?"

Xu Zhou glanced at his comic artist profile page.

Sure enough, I saw a private message from a familiar ID.

[Linglong: Image/Author, the recipe in your comic has been plagiarized! Should we call the reporting hotline for you?]

[Xiao Ke: The picture shows a restaurant in Songnan City. The menu is exactly the same as the one in your comic. I've already reported it for you!]

Not only private messages, but the popularity of the comic also surged.

[Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma Views: 800]

Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma collection count: 650

Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma Comments: 599

The number of favorites increased by a full 150.

The page views increased by 300.

Seeing the increased data in these places, Xu Zhou couldn't help but sigh, "Sure enough, watching the excitement is truly human nature."

"The popularity of this post has even brought the comic book over a hundred favorites."

Keep in mind that my comic has only just been signed and I haven't even started testing the waters with recommendations yet, so my daily organic traffic is very limited.

Perhaps it's because Food Wars! is a new manga that Aoyama is focusing on.

Although it was only a fluctuation of a little over a hundred data points, it still alarmed Qingshan.

Xu Zhou suddenly received a message from his editor, Qingshan, on QQ.

[Aoyama: Are you busy?]

Xu Zhou quickly replied: 【No, what happened to Shandong University?】

Aoyama looked conflicted. After hesitating for a long time, he finally replied with a message, staring at the abnormal data displayed in the backend.

Forget it.

Let me explain.

This comic book has great potential.

[Aoyama: You...don't listen to those people who say you should spend money to boost your stats. It's useless, it doesn't help your manga's data, it's just a waste of money.]

[Qingshan: As long as you keep updating at your own pace, you'll achieve results.]

After sending the message, Aoyama was still thinking about how to properly persuade his manga author to be down-to-earth.

But an explanation was received very quickly.

After listening to Xu Zhou's explanation, Qingshan's gaze fell on the screenshot of the post that Xu Zhou had sent.

[Xu Zhou: It was this post that brought the buzz; they mentioned my comic.]

"Post?"

Aoyama glanced at the post.

After taking a sip of tea, I lingered for a while on the words "[Ichishu Izakaya]" in the post.

It feels familiar.

This store seems familiar.

...

After explaining a few things to the comic editor, Aoyama, Xu Zhou discovered that the post had already received a very high number of likes.

[Likes: 3,500]

[Comment: Nine Hundred]

With 3,500 likes, it's no wonder that it brought several hundred more visitors to my group-buying page.

"never mind."

"It's so late, if I don't win the argument, I might not be able to sleep."

"Go to sleep."

I turned off my phone and lay down, but suddenly I saw…

[Prayer Points +1 +1 +1...]

[The level of the Imitation Barbecue dish wish has been raised to level three]

[Currently available ingredients: 50]

[Discount on Fantasy Ingredients for Replica Barbecue Recipe: 9% Off]

[Imitation barbecue dishes: 1000/10000 (3)]

Upon seeing this series of prompts, Xu Zhou instantly perked up.

"Upgraded?"

"Does this post get that much traffic?"

After thinking about it, seeing the popularity of the group purchase, he simply took out his phone and added four more orders of "imitation barbecue dishes" to the group purchase.

Then I opened that post and started arguing with my Little Green Book account until late at night.

The next day, as expected, I couldn't get up.

Xu Zhou slept until late morning, when he was woken up by a phone call from Xu Kai.

On the phone, Xu Kai's voice was urgent and shocked: "Boss Xu, come quick! At the store entrance!"

small theater:

Food critic: A good chef is one who can only cook high-end dishes but not simple meals.

Xu Zhou: Launching the fast-food mackerel burger steak combo.

Food critic: A good chef is one who can only cook foreign food but not Chinese food.

Xu Zhou: Create a new comic book series called "Cooking Master Boy".

Food critic: The highest level of gourmet food is to integrate medicinal cuisine into a normal diet, which can make people healthier without them even realizing it.