The middle-aged man scrutinizing Huang Tao is the father of Lin Jiadong, a student from Class (6).

His name is Lin Weiliang.

He just turned 38 this year.

A native of Wenling City, he’s also a chef.

He once served as the head chef at a Michelin-certified three-star Chinese restaurant and specializes in Zhejiang Cuisine.

Now, he works as the executive chef at a hotel named Lan Mansion in Lin City.

In big hotel kitchens, there are usually two types of operations.

One model involves the hotel hiring staff.

Then, based on the hotel’s monthly revenue, the head chef receives a certain bonus.

The other model is a contracting system.

The kitchen is directly contracted out.

The kitchen at Lan Mansion belongs to the second model.

Ordinary chefs naturally aren’t qualified to take on such kitchen contracts, and they can’t handle the operations either.

To take on such a kitchen contract, first, one’s cooking skills must be excellent.

Secondly, you need to have your own team,

from the chefs to the assistants and the cold dish staff...

There needs to be a complete kitchen staff to support the normal operations of a hotel.

As for Lin Weiliang, he’s been in this chef industry for nearly twenty years, has extensive connections, deep experience, and possesses excellent culinary skills.

Originally, due to work reasons, he mostly stayed in Lin City, maintaining a long-distance relationship with his wife, Xu Yan Ni.

He specially rushed back to Wenling City last night because he had previously promised his second child that he would watch his New Year’s performance at the kindergarten on New Year’s Day. He would also participate in the traditional food activity organized by the kindergarten as the parent of a Class (6) student.

In past years, he had also participated in the two traditional food events held by the kindergarten.

The traditional dishes he made were not only loved by all the children and parents at the school but also earned the highest honor for his son’s class.

They won first place.

He even won first place for two consecutive years!

He became his son’s pride!

And a figure admired and loved by the kids in his class!

After returning home last night, he lay in bed chatting with his wife, Xu Yan Ni.

As they chatted, the topic turned to the traditional food event held by their son’s kindergarten for New Year’s.

At the time, he confidently laughed and said that this year he would undoubtedly continue to shine, achieving a hat-trick of victories.

Who would have thought...

His wife, however, was unconvinced, and with a long sigh, she said, "This year might not be certain."

Hey~

What does that mean?

How could it not be certain?

Looking across the whole kindergarten, is there another parent with better culinary skills than mine?

Upon hearing this, his temper flared up, and he stubbornly argued with his wife.

In the end.

He learned from his wife that a parent of a child named Xuanxuan in Class (4) is also a chef, with excellent culinary skills!

This parent owns a restaurant on West City Old Street, serving particularly delicious dishes, known for its Zhejiang Cuisine, and the restaurant’s business is booming.

It all started when his son heard from classmates that the pan-fried buns at Delicious Restaurant were great, and he insisted on going there for a taste.

Unable to resist their son’s requests, his wife took him after school.

Upon trying it, the taste was indeed wonderful.

Extremely delicious!

From then on, his son would often clamor to go eat there.

And his wife, with a penchant for good food, appreciating the restaurant’s nice environment and fresh ingredients, would frequently take their son there to eat.

Every time, the food was delicious, never a disappointment!

Listening to all this made him a bit unconvinced, so he unwillingly asked his wife, "Yanni, whose culinary skills are better, mine or Boss Huang’s from Delicious Restaurant?"

His wife laughed it off, saying, "Both are great, both are great."

When he pressed her on who was truly better?

She wouldn’t give a definite answer, still just brushing it off with "both are great."

But after over ten years of marriage, he prided himself on understanding his wife.

His wife’s attitude was enough to show...

In her mind, his culinary skills were slightly inferior to Boss Huang’s.

Otherwise, she would certainly have said his cooking was better, without hesitation, rather than dodging the question and claiming it was late, urging him to sleep to avoid answering!

Therefore, this issue left him restless, unable to sleep well.

He was determined to find out why Boss Huang seemed to outshine him in his wife’s eyes.

In the morning.

After getting up and getting ready, he told his wife not to make breakfast; he planned to take her and their son to Delicious Restaurant for pan-fried buns.

He intended to first try the breakfast at Delicious Restaurant, then find some faults with the dishes.

His wife advised against going at this time.

Even if they went, they wouldn’t get to eat anything!

He wouldn’t listen, insisting on going to eat.

At the time, he was quite arrogant; if anything Huang Tao made wasn’t good enough, he would certainly find fault with it.

However, as soon as they approached the restaurant, he was flabbergasted.

This line... the hell, it was way too long...

In that moment, he immediately understood why his wife said they wouldn’t get to eat even if they went now.

Indeed, it was hard to even get a spot in line!

After some time in line, he hadn’t even seen a bun.

Even the pastry was out of sight!

It was just impossible to get in line!

It seemed the moment the place opened, everything was snatched up instantly!

With so many people lining up, can’t you just make more pan-fried buns already?!

As a fellow professional trying to find faults, you’d leave them stumped!

This left him feeling helpless!

With his son needing to get to kindergarten early, he had no choice but to abandon the idea of buying other breakfast items there, thinking he would return that evening to try the Zhejiang Cuisine.

What a pity, such a pity...

His final plan was thwarted once again.

He learned from the queuing customers that Delicious Restaurant doesn’t operate at noon or in the evening...

This made him start to doubt whether he was cursed with Delicious Restaurant, always ending up in unfavorable situations!

Forget it, forget it!

If he couldn’t taste the breakfast at Boss Huang’s place, he could feast on his own traditional culinary masterpieces at the kindergarten, couldn’t he?!

So then...

He casually bought some milk, bread, and cake from Jiang Guowei’s convenience store for breakfast for his wife and son, then hurriedly drove to Golden Sun Kindergarten.

As soon as they arrived at the kindergarten entrance, he hadn’t even parked yet!

Their son, who was leaning against the window, looked out and, with a face full of joy, pointed outside and shouted, "Mama, look, look, it’s Xuanxuan and her daddy~"

Xu Yan Ni looked, smiled, and said, "It really is! I didn’t expect Boss Huang to arrive at the kindergarten before us."

Upon hearing this, Lin Weiliang leaned forward to look outside and saw a handsome, tall young man holding the hand of a delicately pretty little girl, greeting some parents as he walked into the kindergarten.

He had to admit that Huang Tao’s image was far from what he had imagined.

"Is that really him?"

"He doesn’t look like a skilled chef at all! How old is he, not even thirty, right?"