The message from Samantha was three hearts. Not only had spring arrived for him, his life was about to get lucky! Unable to hold back a silly smile, Christopher began to hum a little ditty as he staggered all the way back home. When he reached home, he took a comfortable bath before lying in bed and pulling out his cell phone. Right now, he was a rich man with 2,000 thumbs-up points. If one thumbs-up point equaled 100 bucks, that meant he had 200,000 bucks in savings! 200,000 was an astronomical amount of money to any ordinary person. Therefore, he felt like he had to carefully plan on how to use these thumbs-up points. “First, a wave of prizes!” Naturally, lucky draws were a necessary course of action, but he was not prepared to spend all of his thumbs-up points on lucky draws. Now was the time to accumulate thumbs-up points so that when he had enough points, he could look into the Parallel Universe Kitchen Appliance and Storage Pack and decide if he wanted it. While 100,000 thumbs-up points weren’t something he could afford right now, a penny saved was a penny earned. Besides, if the system awarded me 2,000 thumbs-up points today, it could award me 20,000 thumbs-up points tomorrow. After that, 100,000 thumbs-up points wouldn’t be very far away, would it? In the end, he decided he would spend 1,000 points on drawing prizes and put aside the remaining 1,000 points. After he tapped the ‘start’ button, the Golden Wheel began to spin. Not long later, something popped up. Ding! “Congratulations to the Host for receiving a Scroll of Tasting Skills Experience. Your current Tasting Skills Experience is at 881 points. To level up, you need 9119 more experience points,” the machine in his brain told him. Once again, he spun the wheel. Ding! “Congratulations to the Host for receiving a Scroll of Choosing Skills Experience. Your current Choosing Skills Experience is at 754 points. To level up, you need 9246 more experience points.” Third draw. Ding! “Congratulations to the Host for receiving a Scroll of Tasting Skills Experience…” Fourth draw! Fifth draw! Sixth draw! Ding! Ding! Ding! For six consecutive turns, he drew only ordinary Scrolls of Experience. It wasn’t until the seventh try that the white pointer finally landed on the ‘other’ category. Ding! “Congratulations to the Host for receiving a packet of Wish Seasoning.” After the notification from the system, a packet of something that looked like seasoning materialized in his hands. ‘Wish Seasoning—touch your soul and awaken your most unforgettable memories.’ After reading the introduction on the package, Christopher couldn’t help but purse his lips. Surely this reward was too ordinary—it was neither as cool as Truth Juice nor as powerful as the Great Scrolls of Skills Experience. ‘Awaken your most unforgettable memories’? F*ck; is the Thumbs-Up System in the business of selling aphrodisiacs? Shaking his head and deciding that Wish Seasoning wasn’t very useful, he dropped the packet into his pocket off-handedly. Following that, he drew three more prizes, but Lady Luck was not on his side today and all of them were, without exception, Scrolls of Experience. “Aargh!” After exchanging 1,000 thumbs-up points, or 10,000 Dollars, for a mere packet of Wish Seasoning, he sighed. His gains were too small! However, even though he was very dissatisfied with the results of the lucky draw, he still resisted the impulse to continue drawing prizes and turned off the lights to go to sleep. The next day, his break was over. Thus, he woke up early and went to The Serenade for work. Clearly out to get him, the cartoonishly cute Scarlett stormed into the changing room while he was still changing to confront him. “Tell me—why weren’t you at work yesterday?” she questioned ferociously as she pointed a finger at him. “You better have a good reason or I’ll ask Luna to fire you!”Stunned, Christopher covered his crotch in a desperate attempt not to flash her and answered in exasperation, “I was off yesterday, Chef Sparks. It’s not too much for me not to show up on my day off, is it? If you don’t believe me, you can go check with human resources! Also, can you knock before entering, huh? I’m changing here!” “Really?” She wrinkled her nose, looking a little silly as she did so. Clearly, she thought she had something on him and thus had rushed to interrogate him first thing in the morning, not remembering the change in their timetable. For the rest of the morning, he was full of resentment after being described by her as ‘small’. As he cut up the vegetables, his knives glinted dangerously, preventing others from getting close to him for fear of accidental injury. However, after a morning of work, his experience points in Knife Skills, Choosing Skills, Fire Skills, and Tasting Skills increased tremendously, soothing him a lot. At his current rate of improvement, he would be able to go from Practice Level to Beginner Level after a month as long as he worked a little harder, even if he didn’t consume any Scrolls of Experience. What remained to be seen was whether the system would reward him accordingly when he did.The system reward notification that came with Kitchen God’s Descent and Infinite Karmic Flame was ‘First time leveling up; system reward triggered.’ He didn’t know whether the ‘first time’ in this notification referred to the first leveling up of his Fire Skills or all of his skills. However, if the system dispensed thumbs-up points when the time came, he would be rich.