Chapter 1 Da Huang Manor

Even though it was daytime, Da Huang Manor was unusually lively.

Ya Sen was seeing for the first time all the people in the Da Huang Manor, from top to bottom, busy with work.

He had been in the game for over two months.

As a fitness coach, Ya Sen initially kept playing out of curiosity.

By chance, he learned some cooking skills in the game, and discovered that he could do the same in reality, which greatly stimulated his interest.

Because during his leisure time, Ya Sen's hobby was making and tasting delicious food.

Only food made by oneself could perfectly meet the body's daily nutritional needs.

It was quite difficult to achieve deliciousness and health on this basis.

In order to find this balance, Ya Sen searched a lot of information online, but it ended without success.

Later, in the game "Blue Sea," he found new fun, as well as some special cooking techniques and dishes.

However, some dishes could only be made in the game due to ingredient restrictions.

Ya Sen had tried to restore them in reality based on analyzing the tissue composition of the ingredients, but the result was only about 70-80% similar.

Even so, a new dish that was both nutritious and healthy still made Ya Sen very happy.

After playing the game for about a month, Ya Sen gradually discovered that by recreating the recipes from the game in reality and sticking to eating these dishes, his physical fitness suddenly improved a lot while maintaining his original fitness intensity.

His colleagues all thought that Ya Sen had achieved new results in fitness, but only he himself knew that it was the recipes, the newly researched dishes, that brought the effect!

It was just that he had been making delicacies from the game in reality for a long time, and this had never happened before, but recently it suddenly had an effect.

At that time, Ya Sen didn't know why, but he was very excited and greedily went to learn more cooking knowledge in the game.

It wasn't until later, when he saw Chen Xiaomiao's death video, that he truly understood the reason.

It turned out that when the game first started, the impact of the game was not so obvious, but later, as the influence of the game and reality gradually expanded, those recipes in the game began to show their effects.

The more he understood, the more excited Ya Sen became.

He felt like he was a cultivator who was just preparing to cultivate immortality, using food supplements to undergo the initial transformation, eliminate impurities, and eventually become an immortal!

While other colleagues gave up playing the game, he outwardly agreed not to play this game anymore, but secretly he persisted.

From a cook in a large inn in a village around Jing City, he became a cook in a small inn in Jing City, and then climbed up step by step. Relying on the system's assistance and his own efforts, he was finally favored by the people under the First Prince in a chance encounter, and was recruited to the First Prince's mansion as one of the thirteen deputies to the head chef.

He thought that becoming a deputy chef in the First Prince's mansion would be very busy, but the days in the First Prince's mansion were so easy that he thought he was on vacation.

Every day, in addition to learning cooking skills from the head chef, he had no chance to cook at all, and he was very idle.

This kind of day lasted until today.

For some inexplicable reason, he suddenly received a message that the First Prince's mansion was going to arrange a banquet.

A banquet meant a lot of dishes!

The entire kitchen was busier than ever.

As a deputy chef, Ya Sen was naturally no exception.

He heard from the maids who came in to serve dishes that there were only three guests to be entertained.

One of them was the master of the First Prince's mansion, the current First Prince!

The maids did not recognize the other two; they seemed to have never seen them before.

However, to be entertained by the First Prince, their identities must be prominent. If the dishes were well-made and appreciated, there might be extra rewards!

Ya Sen originally had no expectations, and just wholeheartedly devoted himself to cooking.

But after a plate of stir-fried *Bi Gua Gui Tui* last night, he was suddenly pulled out by a maid who rushed in anxiously.

"Xiao Bi, what's the rush? The kitchen still has to stir-fry at least fifteen dishes today!"

"Quiet! It's a good thing, a great thing! The First Prince praised your *Qing Ye Bai Hua Liu Ye Rou* for being well-made, and wants to meet you and give you a reward!"

Such a good thing?!

Ya Sen was immediately excited. He had often heard the chefs in the back kitchen chatting, saying that the First Prince liked to eat delicacies from all over the world, and would often reward his servants for eating delicious food.

He thought it was just talk, but it was true!

As for Xiao Bi, she was one of the maids who usually got along well with him.

Ya Sen vaguely felt that Xiao Bi was interested in him, but he had a girlfriend in reality, and even though he knew this was just a game, he had no intention of getting involved, so he had always avoided Xiao Bi's feelings.

When he followed Xiao Bi to the hall, the first thing he saw was the chief steward waiting at the door, ready to serve at any time.

The chief steward first gave him a look to stop, and then cleared his throat.

"Reporting! First Prince, cook number thirteen from the back kitchen, Chef Ya Sen, is waiting outside."

"Let him in." A calm and gentle voice quickly came from inside.

"Yes!"

The chief steward then beckoned to Ya Sen.

This pomp and circumstance made Ya Sen feel a little excited.

Following the chief steward's instructions, he quickly entered through the gate and saw the scene inside.

Two men were sitting on the large main seat.

The one wearing a dragon pattern should be the First Prince, who was excitedly talking to the man next to him.

Even just looking at his expression, one could see that the First Prince cared extremely about this person.

And on the auxiliary seat, which should have been able to seat two people, there was only a young girl, pouting her mouth, staring straight at the First Prince.

She was a very heroic-looking girl at first glance, but Ya Sen had little experience and didn't recognize who she was.

As for the man who was being pestered by the First Prince, he looked a bit ordinary.

"Brother Ye, try a bite, just one bite. This is really just the meat of a rabbit-like monster, not snake meat!"

"First Prince, I can't eat anymore, I really can't eat anymore! Increasing attributes... no, even if it increases cultivation, I can't eat anymore."

Attributes?!

With a swoosh, Ya Sen, who had been looking down and observing, suddenly looked up at Fang Yue.

Could this guy be...

No, I must be overthinking it. The natives also know about the existence of attributes.

But regardless, Ya Sen took another look at Fang Yue.

"Oh, you are the chef of this dish? Not bad, not bad! This dish is very much to my and Brother Ye's liking. Deputy Chef Number 13, right? From now on, you will be Deputy Chef Number 2, and the other chefs will be downgraded in order. Your salary will be doubled, you will be rewarded with one year of lifespan, and ten bottles of *Gu Yuan Dan*."

Salary doubled! One year of lifespan! Ten bottles of *Gu Yuan Dan*!

Each reward made Ya Sen's heart flutter. He immediately knelt down and bowed.

"Thank you for your grace, First Prince!"