Chapter 53: Yaoyao's Help

 

Regardless of whether the "Eleven Seconds" coincides with Ling Yaoyao's username "Eleven" or not, Ling Xuan's high-profile voting method has brought a high degree of attention to Ling Yaoyao's five dishes.

In the beginning, some people felt that this was deliberate hype. Someone invited hackers to come and deliberately stir up their own entries.

But the people who had tried the five dishes didn't feel that way after eating them. They all felt that it must be because of true love...

Because even though they were just eating melons, but after eating those five dishes, they found that the comments made by those who had eaten them were really not exaggerated at all!

The Caterpillar Fungus and Ginseng Chicken Soup is sweet and mellow. The main course, Seafood Hotpot, is hot and spicy. The side dish, Boiled Cabbage, is crisp and fresh. The staple food, Claypot Rice, is filling, and the dessert, Mango and Grapefruit Nectar, is refreshing and sweet!

After trying one after another, everyone's taste buds are repeatedly teased, tossed, and swayed by different delicious experiences, which makes people unable to control themselves at all!

They feel that what they are eating is not supplementary food at all, but delicacies better than those from the chefs of five-star restaurants!

Oh my god. How could there be such delicious and amazing supplementary food in the world? More importantly, the auxiliary therapy effect is actually very good!

The tasters were instantly conquered by their stomachs and by their hearts. They wished that they could raise the contestants who made these delicacies in captivity!

They are very grateful to Mr. Hacker for showing his high-profile love and showing them such an amazing entry!

What is even more shocking is that these five dishes are actually made by the same gourmet assistant therapist! It shows that the contestant can make these delicious supplementary foods, not by luck, but by real strength!

People with such abilities don't need to use hackers to attract attention and votes. They will be discovered sooner or later!

Isn't it just a vote? Here, take it!

They don't have the ability to hack into the "New Students Cup" auxiliary therapy contest official website system to clear all the votes and occupy the first vote or something, but at least they can give their very pious vote.

Many tasters even protested with the official website of the "New Students Cup" Supplementary Therapy Contest. Why can they only give one vote for the works they like? This is not logical! They can't wait to put all their ten votes for those five dishes!

Of course, the official website platform will definitely not change the voting system.

Because of this matter, more people pay attention to the usually unpopular auxiliary food section of this year's "New Students Cup."

What is extremely regrettable is that each person can only try the same entry once. Also, the "New Students Cup" competition is held in the Star Network's virtual space. The auxiliary therapy effect is only simulated, and the effectiveness is only 10-20% of the normal supplementary food.

Everyone started to think deeply. Who is the contestant that made these five complementary foods?

The most popular rumors on Star Network are that the five dishes are the work of the new generation of ancient Chinese food assistant therapist "Eleven." Everyone immediately flocked to the "Ancient Chinese Gourmet House" on the Star Network's shopping platform. Unfortunately, the owner "Eleven" announced that in order to prepare entries for the preliminary contest of the "New Students Cup," the business has been suspended. The shop is not currently selling any virtual supplementary foods at all.

Most of the tasters who have not tasted virtual supplementary food by "Eleven" feel that her level will not be as good as the five dishes in their minds!

But a small group of people who followed "Eleven" found that she was Ling Yaoyao, who is a freshman in the Department of Food Therapy of the Huanuo First Military Academy. They checked her Weibo and saw those food teaching videos posted recently.

'Huh huh? It looks simple and delicious!'

Then they fan her by accident.

There is also a general comment that "Eleven"/Ling Yaoyao has never cooked those five most-voted dishes. "Eleven Seconds" or something, it must be a coincidence.

On the contrary, this time, there are quite a lot of supplementary foods entries that are similar to the one Ling Yaoyao's taught on Weibo and sold in the "Ancient Chinese Gourmet House"!

In other words, the contestants whose five entries have attracted great attention are probably not Ling Yaoyao at all, but someone else!

"Eleven"/Ling Yaoyao is probably deliberately taking advantage of that contestant's popularity. S/he is currently in the top five!

But this argument is not very tenable. Without Ling Yaoyao coming forward to refute, it was sprayed back by many "Eleven"/Ling Yaoyao fans.

Even if those five works were not done by "Eleven"/Ling Yaoyao, she definitely does not need to rely on someone else's popularity. Not only does she have a family background and beauty, but she has also proved her own skill in the past half month!

In any case, due to the rise of Eleven's store "Ancient Chinese Gourmet House" and the series of instructional videos updated by Ling Yaoyao on Weibo, there is indeed a wave of ancient Chinese food supplement therapists in the Huanuo Empire.

This year's "New Student Cup" auxiliary therapy competition preliminary competition has many entries of ancient Chinese food in the food therapy group. Overall deliciousness has improved a lot compared with previous years.

In the past, everyone was not very willing to try the works of the food therapy group, but this year, people uncharacteristically became actively willing to try it. Although many times they still encounter dark dishes, there are many unexpected discoveries.

Zhen Ruo said, "Yaoyao, those who deliberately pour dirty water on you. I think it may be the ghost, Wu Lili, again. She can't fight you face to face, so she goes to the dark to play these unreasonable methods. It is not enough that you slapped her face with your strength. If possible, it is better to give her a little practical warning."

Ling Yaoyao is not someone who could be bullied. She smiled and said, "I didn't care about her before because the actions she did were too trivial. If I wanted to trouble her, it would not be too troublesome. I, the Ling family big lady, am not to be bullied. Therefore, I am just indulging and fostering her ambition... When she feels that she is at the top, I will grab all her feet and kill her ambition with one blow."

To deal with Wu Lili, who is like a bug in the gutter, you must ignore her. If you want to deal with her, it must be to the point that she can't turn over and jump anymore.

For Ling Yaoyao, it is easy to defeat Wu Lili. But she doesn't want the reputation of being arrogant and bullying others.

Probably because of her higher vision, Ling Yaoyao never put Wu Lili in her eyes.

After all, the original body did provoke Wu Lili in the first place. No matter how bad Wu Lili is, she did not harm Ling Yaoyao's interests. Because of this, Ling Yaoyao didn't care about Wu Lili's previous small actions that secretly tripped her.

 

If Wu Lili doesn't like to see her living well, she keeps trying to trip her and thinks she is easily bullied. Ling Yaoyao will let her understand what regret means.

However, in this world, people's hearts are always complicated.

Wu Lili has always boasted that she has both the talent and the appearance, and she does have some skill. But when she arrives at the Huanuo First Military Academy, she can only be regarded as an upper-middle level.

In the original novel, Ling Yaoyao, a fascinated female partner who has a bigger family and is more intelligent, always fights against Su Qinghe. Ling Yaoyao and Su Qinghe always face each other, and Su Qinghe is only from a civilian family. More importantly, Su Qinghe still suspects that Ling Yaoyao has a good relationship with a certain prince...

Wu Lili also knew that her little troubles would not have much effect on Ling Yaoyao. Every time she wanted to slander Ling Yaoyao, she eventually contributed to Ling Yaoyao's reputation!

Wu Lili has eaten defeat in Ling Yaoyao's hand several times, and this time she has learned well. She put rumors about Ling Yaoyao on the Star Network, but it is only a smoke bomb. The real big action is something else.

Wu Lili has climbed onto Yan Yifei, another famous and wealthy imperial star lady. They sought to conspire and cooperate together.

Yan Yifei is also very talented. She can be regarded as the most outstanding existence besides Su Qinghe among the freshmen in the medicine department.

Speaking of which, Yan Yifei was still a good friend of Ling Yaoyao before. But who knows why they turned their face out.

Wu Lili only verbally instigated a little bit, and Yan Yifei felt she should never lose to Ling Yaoyao. Since Ling Yaoyao can enter the food therapy research base, why should Yan Yifei not enter the medicine therapy research base?

She and Ling Yaoyao have already stood on the opposite side, and they can no longer return to be friends. Yan Yifei felt that she might as well stand in the most dazzling place to compare with Ling Yaoyao!

Perhaps only in this way, Xiao Zhen will see her existence and find that she is no worse than Ling Yaoyao.

Although Yan Yiman, Yan Yifei's sister, who is the Scarlet Rose Corps commander, had warned her not to provoke the men of the Xiao family, there is no other way. She likes that person. Even if she knows that the wall is in front of her, she can't help but hit it straight on.

Su Qinghe is nothing more than a nameless pawn. Since she has blocked her way, just kick it away.

No matter how powerful a genius is, if she has a bad reputation and is stained with a rumor of cheating, she will lose the qualification to enter the top places!

In short, Wu Lili and Yan Yifei joined forces to find someone to slander Su Qinghe.

Even though the organizers would prevent people from deliberately paying to get votes, but even if they find out, they will just clear the number of cheating votes. However, there is one exception: if there is conclusive evidence that someone is swiping votes.

In order to create this "evidence," Wu Lili and Yan Yifei did not hesitate to give Su Qinghe an inducer that could only be used with special permissions. They induced Su Qinghe to say some remarks.

The inducer is a five-level potion that can only be made by a master pharmacist. It is fragranceless and colorless and will evaporate without a trace after being used. Su Qinghe was really caught in this scheme.

After the incident, even Su Qinghe herself had no memory of this incident. She only shook her head, thinking that she had accidentally fallen asleep.

 

In addition, Yan Yifei and Wu Lili also bought a hacker who took everything for money and forged transaction records between Su Qinghe and the "fake votes agency."

All this just waits for the most critical moment to burst out.

Perhaps, with Su Qinghe's original skill, she can be the first. But with the reputation of swiping votes, even if she wins at the end, she will be questioned.

Su Qinghe followed her prospective master to the food therapy base several times. She already knows Ling Yaoyao's supplementary food style. Naturally, she has always known that the top five dishes in the food therapy group, which are famous for the "true love fan hacker," was made by Ling Yaoyao.

On Tuesday afternoon, Ling Yaoyao had an experimental class in the food therapy research base. As soon as she arrived at the gate of the base, she saw Su Qinghe.

Su Qinghe seemed to be waiting for her especially. She stepped forward and said with a smile, "Yaoyao, congratulations! You are the best!"

Ling Yaoyao also paid some attention to the voting progress of Su Qinghe's work in the Pharmaceutical Group. Su Qinghe's entry is the most unpopular "dream potion" among low- and middle-level medicinal materials. However, the votes had burst out all of a sudden!

Ling Yaoyao faintly felt something was wrong because, in the original novel, Su Qinghe's entries were not very eye-catching at the beginning.

Su Qinghe was a perfectionist and wanted her submitted works to be perfect.

In the early stage, the voting situation of Su Qinghe's entry has been weak.

If it is a low-quality "dream medicine," it can only make people sleep well and have a good dream. Most of the people who try the medicines value the auxiliary treatment effect on the spiritual realm. Who will be idle enough to sleep on Star Network?

Sleeping in a real big bed is more comfortable than a virtual cabin!

However, Su Qinghe's "Dream Potion" is of perfect quality comparable to a master's work. Anyone who takes it will fall into the most wonderful dream state and see that the things they most look forward to becoming true... When they wake up, they will still remember it!

Many designers have also received important inspiration in their dreams because of this work!

Many people who have regrets have also seen what they are missing from this dream potion, and they have a happy ending!

Even some mentally disabled combatants, because of this dream potion, once again experienced the comfort and invigoration that they used to have when their spiritual domain was intact. There was no such thing as a headache during the period of the drug's effect.

Those who have used Su Qinghe's dream medicine accidentally spontaneously promoted Su Qinghe's dream medicine.

After the fifth and sixth days, Su Qinghe's Dream Potion entered the top 1,000 because more and more trial users spontaneously advertised more and more to others. Only then did Su Qinghe's ranking began to surpass everyone quickly!

In the end, Su Qinghe became an unexpected dark horse with this dream potion and won first place in the medication group!

However, it was only the second day of voting today. In major mainstream forums, there were obviously not many advertisements about Su Qinghe's Dream Potion. However, the vote for "Dream Potion" had already ranked among the top five!

As if those people didn't try it at all, but they chose Su Qinghe. The number of evaluations was very small, and it didn't match the falsely high number of votes.

 

Some trial users will always vote as they please. They will not try to experience each work with their heart, so there will be cases where the vote is high but the evaluation is low. This has a certain element of luck.

But if it happens so early, it seems illogical.

Although Ling Yaoyao only regarded Su Qinghe as a not-so-close friend or an acquaintance, she would also care when things did not happen as in the original novel. No matter how indifferent she was to her, Su Qinghe was already her friend.

Ling Yaoyao then asked, "How is the voting status of your works?"

Su Qinghe never told her, so Ling Yaoyao could only pretend that she didn't know her work.

Ling Yaoyao's attitude has always been indifferent. Su Qinghe was a little surprised that she asked about her today, but she couldn't be more pleased. She smiled and said, "The voting situation is good. At the moment, I ranked fifth. Although it is definitely not like Yaoyao, because you are so good, but I'm very satisfied. The potion I chose this time is a bit adventurous. I didn't expect it to have a good effect..."

Because Su Qinghe was born as a commoner, there was always a slight inferiority complex in her heart. In the beginning, she never thought that she could be the first. Her goal was not to be the first. She just wanted to try her best.

For some of the unspoken rules of the auxiliary therapy competition, she doesn't know much about it, and she doesn't want to know much about it.

In the original novel, Su Qinghe was troubled by Ling Yaoyao's various bullying and provocations and had to walk around her cautiously. Faced with the predicament, Su Qinghe had to rely on Xiao Ming's help.

Ling Yaoyao frowned. She felt that she did not trouble Su Qinghe at all, but Su Qinghe still encountered other difficulties. This is probably a necessary stepping stone on the path of the heroine's growth?

After she became Ling Yaoyao, she had already learned how to behave. Who knows who was the one rushing to die this time. 

[T/N: "Rush to die" is referring to the usual fact that whoever get in the way of the heroine in the story will get killed miserably from whatever reason.]

Because of the lack of her actions to help catalyze the feelings, the relationship between Su Qinghe and Xiao Ming in this life has not been very close. However, Su Qinghe occasionally provides Xiao Ming with high-quality medicines, just like any ordinary combatants and auxiliary therapists' supply and demand transactions.

Ling Yaoyao has a headache for Su Qinghe's difficulties... Should she help?

Forget it. Now it's only the second day. Let's think about it if Su Qinghe is really troubled later. Maybe it's just her arrival had caused some butterfly effect.

In the evening, Ling Yaoyao was chatting with Ling Xuan before going to bed. When she was about to hang up, she couldn't help but say, "Brother Xuan, can you ask Lu Lin to check something for me? Is the voting data of Su Qinghe from the medication group normal? She is considered my friend. I think there may be some problems with her data."

Over there, Ling Xuan was a little unhappy because the little girl had finally said a few more words to him, but it was actually for an irrelevant person's business.

However, this is the first time the little girl takes the initiative to ask him to do something! She usually talks with him but calls him vaguely. She tries to avoid calling him. In front of their relatives, in order not to appear that she treated him differently from Wei Yuan, he would call him "Brother Ling Xuan." His first name and last name... Tonight, this much more intimate way of calling "Brother Xuan" is really rare.

The little girl's voice was delicate and soft, with a reliance that she did not notice. Ling Xuan felt that his ears were so crisp that he couldn't help teasing her, "If you call me like this a few more times, I will agree."

Ling Yaoyao calmly said, "I remember that Lu Lin will monitor all your external communications. Why don't I ask him directly... Lu Lin, are you there?"

Lu Lin subconsciously replied, "Yes, here!"

The answer was very neat and straightforward. He checked it without Ling Yaoyao having to say it again.

Ling Xuan's voice was cold and sad. "...Lu Lin, I remember that your boss is me?"

Lu Lin wailed in his heart, '... My Gosh! It seems that tomorrow's physical training will be doubled again!'

Ling Yaoyao sneered, "Don't avenge your personal revenge and bully Brother Lu Lin!"

Ling Xuan resented. "Obviously, it was your arm that was turned outwards. You were bullying me with outsiders."

Lu Lin was wronged. "...Don't make it sound like I want to be mixed between you two "insiders"! I eat eight or ten pounds of golden dog food every day. This single dog does not feel good!"

Ling Yaoyao and Ling Xuan, who was ridiculed as "insiders", were silent.

The shy Ling Yaoyao broke the silence and said, "Ahem, what? I'm sleepy. Good night!"

Then she quickly hung up the voice communication.

On the other side, on planet X-312, Lu Lin looked at Ling Xuan's fist approaching him and hurriedly hid his head, "Boss, I didn't mean it. I was just too straightforward for a while!"

Ling Xuan's fist just hit Lu Lin's arm lightly. "No, I just wanted to praise you. For what you said just now!"