――Cooking brings happiness to people.

No matter what other worlds are, no matter other countries and regions, just China, this sentence can be regarded as the truth.

In China, chefs can be described as messengers of love, who use kitchen knives and spatulas in their hands to spread happiness and sow happiness.

The supreme delicacy that melts on the tip of the tongue is the prologue to happiness and the lullaby of joy.

But......

If one day, the chef makes a dish that brings tears to the eyes of the tasters and makes them cry loudly, then he, as a chef, is he not qualified?

This is a question that has never been considered by chefs before, they just want to make delicious dishes, because the enjoyment of taste is a happy thing.

However, today, in the Douwei Arena of the Special Chef Finals, the boy with the strongest cooking skills present raised this question!

His food is so delicious that the first bite of it makes you feel like you're surrounded by the illusion of the ingredients, the blue sky, the verdant meadows, the vast sea, and ...... The next moment it's all a world that loses color.

Some people are born bastards of fate, while others are abandoned by fate, but many more people, caught between the good and the bad, have not enjoyed any top-notch happiness, but have also tasted the pain of not losing a single qiē.

Such a group of people has a name, and that is -- 'ordinary people'.

Ordinary life, ordinary life, ordinary death, and then ordinary forgotten......

Even if it's a prime minister who ranks among the people, even if it's a special chef who can be compared. But in the end. Thousands of years later. Who will really remember them?

The fear of the forgotten is born from this.

This was not originally a question that Abbey, Nanajia, Lei Hua and others should think about, but after tasting Merlin's dish, everyone, including Xing, Kong Xuan and others as judges, couldn't help but have tears in the corners of their eyes at this time.

The wailing of the forsaken...... than the pain of the forgotten......

The helplessness of the forsaken...... The heart of the forsaken......

Memory and forgetting. Possession and loss.

In the simple opposite, there is a horror that no one can look at directly!

"Merlin ......"

Abbey opened her mouth tremblingly, she didn't dare to look into Merlin's eyes, afraid to see dead eyes, eyes she had never known.

"Merlin ......"

Nana Jia was silent, she finally understood why she couldn't see through the heart of the young man in front of her, because the other party had no heart for a long time......

"Ah ......"

Star called softly, she wanted to call out Merlin's true name. Just looking at the face that was always smiling, her words after that could not be shouted out.

Thunder flowers. You Shihua, Kong Xuan, Youxiang, Tong Yuan, Lian ......

There was hesitation on everyone's face. Should they ask? Or should there be silence? Or pretend not to know?

No one knows the answer, from the moment they taste Merlin's cooking. Their hearts were pinched severely.

Long......

"How's my cooking?"

It's still that smile, it's still a gentle tone, but unlike before, no one in the girls present dares to look at Merlin at this moment, including Abbe, including Xing, including Nanajia.

Sympathize? Wretched? Sadness?

Maybe it's both, who would have thought that the strongest boy in the sky and the earth in the past would now become what he is now.

No, more than that, he is even weaker than ordinary people!

Ordinary people still have their own pasts, but he, no!

Even if he tells all his past later, even if he exhausts the source of a qiē, for Merlin, in the end, it is just the experience of 'others'.

What should I do? What the hell should I do...... Can it help you?

Xing looked at Merlin, the original plan in her heart had long since collapsed, she resented her powerlessness, even if she had reached the golden position in a thousand years, but she, who specialized in the law of guns, had no way to help the other party.

Not only her, Tong Yuan, Lian, Kong Xuan, and even Youxiang have no way to help Merlin, the only thing they can do may be to watch him from the sidelines, looking forward to it, waiting for the arrival of the one in ten million miracle!

Xing, who was thinking like this, wiped the corners of his eyes indiscriminately, "It's very good, so good that I want to directly judge you to victory." ”

"That's a ridiculous compliment." Merlin smiled slightly.

He picked up his own food with a relaxed face, and didn't pay attention to the eyes of everyone around him, but just smiled happily after tasting it as if it was a top-notch delicacy.

"Well, I'm a little proud to say that, but I think I should be able to win."

Merlin's tone was quite confident, if it was normal and his words fell, the rebuttal of Lei Hua, You Shihua and others would sound.

It's just that...... This time, their voices were gone......

Merlin was right. Cooking can bring happiness to people, but the so-called happiness is actually just a kind of feeling. Delicious food may be labeled as 'excellent', but truly top-notch cuisine is sure to resonate with others, even if it is ...... That resonance doesn't bring happiness......

Defeated......

Lei Hua, who has already presented the cuisine, and You Shihua, who has not yet shown the cuisine, they all understand that even if they can get the badge of a special chef, it is impossible to win the conference.

The situation after that was indeed as the two of them thought.

Yujuka's Western-style 'candlelight dinner' tastes, looks, and smells great, but in the end, she just won the badge of a Grand Chef.

"Some...... It's a pity ......."

Love has a good impression of You Shihua's cuisine, but unfortunately, You Shihua, who appeared next after Merlin's appearance, was robbed of all the limelight by Merlin......

"So, I'll go first."

Originally, You Shihua, who won the Special Chef badge, could continue to participate in the election, but in the end, she and Lei Hua both stood up together.

They have already received the Grand Chef badge, so there is no point in staying any longer, as for who the final winner of the conference is, does it have anything to do with them?

"Four years, four years at most, and I'll catch up with you, Merlin."

"I'm going to go to Europe for some training, and I hope you won't refuse to fight me when the time comes."

After leaving their own words, Lei Hua and You Shihua left, they understood that today's protagonist was not themselves, but next time, next time it must be ......

As the exit gate slowly closed, the moon in the sky was suddenly obscured by black clouds. The sight that was once bright became dark, as if it were ...... At this moment, the inner world of the girls is average. (To be continued......)