A Low Rank Female Goes Viral Across the Galaxy-Chapter 215: Dark Cuisine
Jiang Qingfeng didn’t seem very talkative. With a stoic expression, he stuffed the seal directly into his pocket.
Next were Ni Jia and Apollo, who drew their task cards in turn. Last was the somewhat sluggish Yuan Ling.
Wearing a pair of strange glasses, he looked a bit goofy.
After the males finished drawing, the females began.
Even though the males had finished drawing first, none of them immediately left to start their tasks.
After all, it was common sense that the females should have priority when it came to things like choosing rooms. Even the most socially inept male wouldn’t try to compete with them.
So, they would wait for all the females to complete their tasks before beginning the competition among the males.
The task card in Jiang Qin’s hand read: *Make dinner by hand and receive a compliment from at least one other guest.*
Cooking??
Hmm... She had tried cooking at home before. Although Yun Xie and the others had finished everything she made...
...after that, they always seemed to be, whether intentionally or not, preventing her from setting foot in the kitchen.
So Jiang Qin figured her cooking skills probably fell into the "terrible" category...
And the other guests were all either rich or influential. ’Would they really compliment me?’
She had her doubts.
Jiang Qin found Lucy and had her lead the way to the spaceship’s kitchen.
The task card didn’t specify whether it was for a male or female, so the dinner could be made for any of the other guests.
That is, provided they were willing to eat it.
’As expected of a dating show. This is basically a task designed to get someone to make a move on someone else!’
Yun Xie stood to the side, wanting to help, but Jiang Qin quickly stopped him. "Hey! The director just said no one is allowed to help."
"Besides, no one will see."
Meanwhile, in the livestream’s comment section:
[Damn, is he really going to cheat in front of hundreds of millions of people?]
[Federation people are so annoying. They won’t even follow the rules of a simple game. Just what you’d expect from a mixed-blood Beastman—no class at all.]
[You’ve got to be kidding me. She needs her partner to help her with a simple game task?]
[See, the females of our Empire are better. Proud, confident, and poised.]
[Not like the Federation females, who just look so fragile and can’t even cook a simple meal.]
[??? You mean the females in your Empire can cook? The males in your Empire must be pretty useless, then.]
[The males in our Federation are way better. They’re considerate, they dote on their female masters, and they’re as capable in the drawing room as they are in the kitchen.]
[It’s not that Qin Bao doesn’t want to do it. Is it wrong for her partner to dote on her? If I were there, I’d be fighting to help Qin Bao too.]
...
Jiang Qin, however, had completely forgotten about the livestream. After all, there were no cameras hovering around her.
Nor was there a camera operator following her, so she assumed she wasn’t being broadcast at the moment.
But even with no one watching, she still chose not to cheat.
"It doesn’t matter if no one sees. That would be cheating!"
"Just sit over there and keep me company. It’s only cooking a meal. I can handle it."
Yun Xie was speechless. ’Why do I feel both a pang of jealousy and a little bit of schadenfreude?’
He wondered which lucky person would end up with Qinqin’s meticulously prepared dinner.
Jiang Qin couldn’t recognize the ingredients on the table and could only rely on their appearance to guess at their flavors.
These weren’t natural ingredients, but rather artificially cultivated, edible Exotic Plants.
They were the most common type of foodstuff in the Interstellar age.
She peeled a fruit that looked like a red winter melon, cut it into strips, and set it aside.
Beside her, Yun Xie looked like he wanted to say something but stopped himself. In the end, he just closed his eyes and gave up.
By the time she had finished her prep, there were already several small dishes of colorful ingredients laid out, along with two plates of meat.
Jiang Qin dumped the plate of meat into the wok and began to stir-fry it. She watched as the pink slices turned black, and once she was sure they were cooked, she tossed in the red "winter melon" strips to continue stir-frying.
In her eyes, it was just a simple dish of stir-fried winter melon with meat.
The color wasn’t quite right, but it smelled pretty good.
Yun Xie: ’...Terrifying!’
That particular meat came from a type of bird, and it was notoriously difficult to prepare. It had to be sliced thin and cooked for no more than five seconds, otherwise it would just get tougher and tougher.
Based on how long Jiang Qin had been stir-frying it, he estimated the meat was now as hard as steel.
And as for that red fruit, while it had a light, sweet fragrance, its actual texture was soft and mushy.
A combination of one extremely hard ingredient and one extremely soft one.
Plus, she had added salty seasoning to pair with the fruit’s natural sweetness...
Yun Xie swallowed hard. For a moment, he wasn’t sure if he should be jealous of or pity the person who was about to eat this dish.
Next, he watched with his own eyes as Jiang Qin made a bowl of egg drop soup.
Those eggs smelled normal enough, with just a slight eggy odor.
But to drink? Heh. They were sour, astringent, and a little sweet.
Someone had once described the liquid boiled from it as having the same taste as urine.
He truly couldn’t believe that out of all the ways to prepare an egg, Jiang Qin would choose, of all things, to make egg drop soup with this one...
As if he’d suddenly thought of something, a slight smile lifted the corners of Yun Xie’s mouth.
When Jiang Qin finished cooking, he asked softly, "Qinqin, who are you planning to treat to dinner?"
Jiang Qin looked troubled as well. "I was thinking of asking Lucy who among them is the most easygoing."
’That way, maybe they’ll be more tactful. It’s not impossible they might even lie through their teeth and compliment me.’
A smile played on Yun Xie’s lips as he suggested, "Why not invite that Mr. Ni who was hitting on you? I think he seems pretty easygoing and polite."
Jiang Qin thought back for a moment and felt that was a viable idea.
After all, he was the only person in the group who had proactively shown her any goodwill.
"Alright, I’ll take it over now then."
...
[AHHH, I’m so jealous! I want to eat a meal handmade by Qin Bao too!]
[That looks so appetizing! I had no idea Qin Bao had skills like this. What other surprises does she have that we don’t know about?]
[If she ever stops singing, she could probably open a restaurant and get crazy rich.]
[I agree. Her cooking looks way more appetizing than those ridiculously expensive dishes you get in restaurants.]
Lan Yuyan, who had finally managed to squeeze out some time to watch the livestream: ’...Is it possible they’re all delusional?’
You had to understand, the kitchen in their house was the one place Qinqin never set foot in.
This was because Yun Xie had established a house rule: The female master is not permitted to cook for them.
In his words, Qinqin’s hands were for writing songs and playing the piano, not for menial chores that could damage them.
The truth was... they didn’t want to have to secretly take turns visiting the gastroenterologist anymore.
***
When Ni Jia saw Jiang Qin walk over with a tray of food and say it was for him...
...it must be said, he was pleasantly surprised, and even a little secretly smug.
He knew it. The only reason she’d rejected him before was that they had yet to meet.
’Once they met in person, she would understand just how charming of a male he was.’
’And now, out of the five male guests, she had chosen to make a move on him. What did that mean? It meant she was into him!’
Ni Jia could barely suppress his smile, but he still feigned embarrassment. "What have I done to deserve this, having Miss Jiang personally prepare dinner for me? I’m truly flattered."
"Next time, please let me handle the cooking. I’ll make a meal for you, Miss Jiang."
Jiang Qin offered a polite smile. She couldn’t very well tell him this was just for a mission on her task card.
