But Pei Xing didn't expect this kind of relationship.

He's been at Zhiwei Restaurant for so many years and has only ever heard of others going there to exchange experiences. When did Zhiwei Restaurant start sending apprentices out for exchanges?

Is this reasonable? Is this right?? Should this be???

One An Youyou is already troublesome enough. Although she's not very competitive, she's great at sucking up. If a few more from Zhiwei Restaurant come...

How to compete? What to compete with?!

Back then, Pei Xing left to find a job because he couldn't compete with those kings of competition at Zhiwei Restaurant. Who knew they would still be chasing him!

Pei Xing felt like the sky was falling.

Pei Xing contacted Li Hua immediately to ask what he should do.

As a chef from Zhiwei Restaurant, Pei Xing knew all too well the nature of these former colleagues.

To leave a good impression on the master chef, they would do anything. Basic skills like making tea, serving tea, shoulder massage, and foot massage are just the beginning. The speech patterns are all the same.

It starts with: Master XX, I have a question to seek your guidance on. Shut up, thank you so much, I get it now.

In between, they add some expressions of admiration, words of amazement, humble nods, and eyes filled with a thirst for knowledge. The specific execution depends on personal acting skills, but anyway, most people got through it like this.

On a more advanced level, they're the ones who arrive super early and leave super late. They do the cleaning, are busy with errands, and show care and concern. They find out what kind of tea the master likes, what hobbies the master has, what snacks they enjoy eating, and what type of chairs they prefer to sit in.

They're proactive but have a sense of boundaries.

Competitive, very competitive, extremely uniquely competitive.

The company stipulates starting work at 7 o'clock, but this group of competition kings makes you feel like arriving at 6:30 is already late.

Previously, Pei Xing thought An Youyou was his number one enemy, but now Pei Xing feels An Youyou isn't much.

Indeed, Master Qin values An Youyou and treats her specially, but An Youyou is incapable.

So incapable that she's not threatening. Often, when Pei Xing wanted to have more consultation opportunities with Qin Huai instead of An Youyou, he just had to teach An Youyou himself, and she'd stop consulting as much.

Now it's different. Now so many competitors have come, even Tan Wei'an is here.

Oh, heaven, what's going on at Zhiwei Restaurant now, why are all the inner circle disciples coming out to compete!

Pei Xing almost desperately messaged Li Hua asking what to do tomorrow.

Li Hua replied instantly.

Li Hua: Just do your main work well; Master Qin isn't that kind of person.

Comforting, but not entirely reassuring.

Pei Xing could only set his alarm an hour earlier, quietly going to work ahead of time, aiming to outdo Li Hua before the competition kings from Zhiwei Restaurant arrived.

The next day, 6 a.m.—

Pei Xing walked into Yunzhong Restaurant with the determination to outdo Li Hua today, only to find that Li Hua had already kneaded dough twice in the kitchen.

"You're here, early," Li Hua greeted with a smile, "Just in time, I'm helping Chen An fry some dough sticks. Luoluo wants to eat dough sticks today."

Pei Xing: ???

He thought he was on the second level, but Li Hua was in the stratosphere.

Oh crap, even using the strategy of helping Qin Luo fry dough sticks to indirectly let Qin Huai know he was at the restaurant so early today, even this Li Hua could pull off!

Oh crap, why didn't I think of that?

Pei Xing's intestines turned green with regret, his teeth about to break from clenching.

He's really stupid, really, just thinking yesterday about the competition kings from Zhiwei Restaurant coming, forgetting that Li Hua was once one of Zhiwei Restaurant's competition kings, even more competitive than himself.

At least he could half-count as having connections, while Li Hua legitimately came up as an apprentice, always on the most competitive track.

Pei Xing: QAQ

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