"This is great!" Guan Yu's eyes lit up, "This is simply not a problem for me; I can eat three bowls of rice!"
Sister Shu Ran maintained her graceful smile, adding a touch of the woes of a beauty, "But my agent has set a limit on how much I can eat in one sitting, and there's a magazine shoot in a couple of days."
"... Haha, I see."
Guan Yu probably wasn't used to dealing with this type of female celebrity, so she laughed it off and then went to ask Mu Qiu.
Mu Qiu looked again at her task card, "I'm a gourmet live-streamer with a big appetite, sharing after each dish. Yet every dish can only be tasted twice, eat a third bite, and my cutlery will be whisked away."
Cheng Zhirang listened to her and voluntarily joined in, "I'm a compulsive wealthy tycoon, one bite of food paired with a sip of… '82 Sprite, with each bite of meat, there must follow a bite of veggies, and then only rice, if not done, there's no tissue after the meal."
"... How cruel, this is downright cruel." Guan Yu opened her mouth wide, gazing at Cheng Zhirang's face, giving a pitiful review.
Cheng Zhirang found himself speechless looking at his task card.
The last, Shi Yuhuai, frowned as he read out his persona setting, "I'm a, haha family?… Every three minutes, I have to laugh out loud, if not, I must pose by the table watching everyone finish their meal."
Everyone was at a loss for words.
Mu Qiu's expression carried the same speechlessness, she was the first to speak, "Note this, I didn't have any descriptions like this in my original work."
Wanting to sigh and close her eyes to ignore the chaos amused the netizens in the comments.
[Hahahahahahaha these directors are so darn creative!]
[I've already envisioned our brother laughing dull while eating]
[Cheng Zhirang this one!!! Hahahahaha killing me with laughter! Divine face paired with '82 Sprite!]
[Poor Brother Cheng, the health-conscious type, never drinks soda... but suddenly I want to see how he wrecks this health harmony how to?]
[The production team treats Sister Shu Ran well, she's the only one getting extra food, sister is too skinny, needs to eat more]
[Your sister herself said she's dieting, seemed a bit resentful of the program team]
[Some speak without thinking, where did you see the resentment?]
[No tissue... so not even for the restroom?]
[The one who thought of the restroom, no more thinking!]
[Sorry Yangyang, can't help in this situation, right now my mind's a complete blank]
[Hahaha how come Guan Yu is so clever?! yes and no take over the world hahahaha!]
[The heavy burden of scriptwriting is handed to the post-90s? Such players]
[My meal's set, just waiting for Mu Qiu to start speaking]
[Suddenly have expectations for the original work]
On this side, having heard everyone's task content, Li Yang laughed, "I suddenly feel my task is pretty good too, at least not awkward."
Mu Qiu glanced over, sympathy in her eyes, she didn't think his task was not awkward.
Having finished serving the dishes, after courteous exchanges, they began picking up chopsticks. Though the chopsticks were raised, no one started taking food first.
Glances exchanged in silent urging.
"Eat up, Teeter, that garlic butter crayfish in front of you is aromatically wafting quite far." Guan Yu encouraged Li Yang, urging him on.
Li Yang looked around, not taking the bait, then turned to ask Sister Shu Ran, "Sister Shu Ran, why aren't you eating? Your task isn't hard either."
Sister Shu Ran glanced around too, answered with a smile, "I think I might wait a bit longer."
Sister Shu Ran finished speaking, then turned to ask Cheng Zhirang, "Brother Cheng, you're not eating?"
Cheng Zhirang raised a brow, almost telecotically passed along the action, turned to ask Mu Qiu, "Gourmet broadcaster, why not start with a review?"
"... Alright."
Mu Qiu being watched by so many felt that having to take just two bites wasn't too hard, especially since choosing small portions that can be finished in two bites was doable.
Under everyone's gaze, she calmly reached out, took a bite of Kung Pao chicken, slowly brought it to her lips, then exaggeratedly savored it with closed eyes.
"Tender texture, neither dry nor juicy, mingling with the appealing scent of fried peanuts and cucumber freshness, and a touch of sweet spice... Remarkable!"
Behind her, Guan Yu swallowed hard, quickly making a move at her dish, "I can't take it any longer, haven't eaten much breakfast, wait longer and my intestines will turn green from regret."
After savoring a bite of garlic butter crayfish, she savored it a bit, opened her mouth for her task, "Delicious!"
The abrupt English left Li Yang staring in surprise.
His eyes lit up as he slyly asked, "Sister Guan Yu, is this crayfish tasty?"
"Don't try to trick me." Guan Yu, peeling crayfish shells, gave a cursory orchid fingers gesture, squeezed a few indistinct sounds from her throat.
"You..." Li Yang wanted to laugh and ask her what she meant, suddenly remembered his task, "Ah, can I stop reciting poems now? It's after eating, right?"
The director nodded from afar.
Li Yang, "Then I just don't eat, right?"
Shi Yuhuai earnestly asked him, "Can you hold back?"
"..." Li Yang resignedly imitated Guan Yu, grabbed a crayfish, peeled with one hand, recited a poem, "The bright moonlight before my bed."
Finished, he pushed the crayfish meat into his mouth, reached for another dish, and recited another line, "Seems like frost on the ground."
"... Shi Yuhuai was shocked, "It can be done like this?!"
"After this poem, it'll get progressively harder," Sister Shu Ran also moved her chopsticks, took a tomato slice, finished eating, put on an acting show, solemn-faced nodding in praise, "Good dish, give the chef a raise!"
Cheng Zhirang and Shi Yuhuai also started eating, one enduring awkwardness, laughing aloud, "Hahaha," then taking more food, another "Hahaha"; the other paired meat, veggies, and rice with seamless flow, finally held his wine glass sipping Sprite, eyebrows knit, suppressing hard to endure.
In this comparison, Mu Qiu had it best, each dish just picking a bite, finishing a round before restarting.
Suddenly, the table filled with poetry and English flights, boss lady strongwoman proclamations, and gourmet peer reviews, interspersed with a few stiffly emitted laughter.
"This fish, tender flavor, such cooking simplicity extraordinarily unfolds its inherent freshness..."
"Xiao Li, add this dish to company party's fixed menu."
"Hahaha."
"The setting sun with solitary birds fly together."
"Nonononono!"
"This celestial tofu, soft and silky, a taste delight..."
"Xiao Wang, this, understood?"
"When will moon be bright?"
"Hahaha."
"You see see you! yes! yes! yes!"
After a couple of rounds, someone couldn't take it anymore.
"Mu Qiu, can you slow down the reviews?" Guan Yu painfully called for a pause, "My English library can't keep up with the chopstick movement frequency!"