The Onion-Cutting Ninja's Secret Crush

50 A Moment of Carelessness

Xiao Ming, Qian Huang, and the slightly hungover Li Shui arrived at the venue bright and early. In fact, most of the other people like the producer and the host hadn't turned up yet. On the other hand, the staff that was working behind the scenes, as well as quite a few of the chefs that would be taking part in the casting as pre-judges, were already there and mingling together.

Li Shui waved at Xiao Ming and Qian Huang and then ran off to talk with the cameramen, actually giving them a hand to prepare some things, while Xiao Ming and Qian Huang just exchanged a glance.

"Looks like he found new friends."

"It's good if he did. Then in the future, we won't have to worry about him."

Qian Huang nodded and then the two of them went inside, greeting everyone else. Soon enough, Xiao Ming spotted Ai Gui Jin and went over, greeting him happily. "Mister Ai, I'm happy to see you again."

Si Shi Wu nodded and then glanced at Qian Huang who was still standing around. His gaze returned to Xiao Ming and he took in that he was actually looking quite normal.

Xiao Ming raised his brows, not quite sure if there was something strange about him. "Is something the matter?"

Si Shi Wu put on a complicated expression and then motioned for him to come a little closer. When Qian Huang wanted to listen in, he even pulled him a few steps away.

Qian Huang stared at him, feeling that this guy really had to have something against him. But he hadn't been that bad! At the very least, it had more or less look like a bun. He really felt that this Ai Gui Jin guy was a little too much.

Meanwhile, Si Shi Wu couldn't help but lower his voice to answer the question that his Master seemed to have been fretting about the whole evening yesterday. "Mister Xiao, say, is your stomach alright?"

Xiao Ming looked at him, not quite sure what he meant. "Yes ...?"

Si Shi Wu straightened up again and nodded. "That's good. That is really good. It wouldn't have done for you to suddenly have to miss the casting because that friend of yours had given you food poisoning."

Xiao Ming raised his brows and suddenly seemed to understand what was going on. "Mister Ai wouldn't have had some bad reaction to Qian Huang's food yesterday, would he?"

Si Shi Wu looked at him and then realized that he probably needed to give some kind of excuse. "Ah, it's not me. Apparently, that host, Mister Ren, was wondering how accurate our judgment was yesterday, so he tried one of the buns himself. Then this morning, he suddenly woke up in the hospital."

Xiao Ming's brows shot up and he looked back at Qian Huang, feeling that he really had unlocked the secret to dark cuisine. To actually be able to get the host into the hospital, it really was unexpected! "That's terrible. How is Mister Ren doing?"

Si Shi Wu tried to look like he really pitied the guy, even though he inwardly felt like gloating. "Well, his condition isn't that bad but he definitely won't make it to the casting. As such, the producer felt that it might be better to have somebody else take his spot. He has already been replaced as far as I know.

"It's a pity for him but I guess the show also didn't want to make public that it was the food that caused this. They made up some other reason and pretended that it might make things difficult in the future so that they didn't have any other option."

"Oh." Xiao Ming couldn't help but feel a little guilty. They probably should've disposed of the food themselves, then something like this couldn't have happened.

"Don't worry. In any case, it's a lost opportunity for him but it's not like there won't be others. He isn't a small name in the industry after all."

Xiao Ming nodded. Right, that Mister Ren was really somebody who was quite well-known so it shouldn't be a problem for him to recover from this. "Well, I guess somebody should check the chefs today then. Qian Huang and I were talking yesterday and I think that maybe there will be some people who will just register to have some fun. Who knows how their dishes will be?"