It's been two months since his twenty third birthday and four months since he settled in his new workplace. He has received too much eye rolls and silent bullying like knocking him over or getting extra tasks that aren't approved by Wu Yue. Knowing his relationship with Wu Yue, he never tried to fight back knowing it was pointless so he bit the bullet and continued in with his life.
He starts his morning by washing all kinds of dirty clothes for his roommates and cleaning up the house. After his morning routine is done, he goes to the cafeteria near the pen and gets extra rice from the cook. The cook had always been friendly to him for his troubled situation and tries to comfort him with food. They have met a lot of time after work and discussed about their miserable lives. As it turns out, the chef was born in the manor but his parents passed away on a hunting accident. His parents were low quality fighters and therefore didn't leave him with much when they passed away and as a teen. The only thing he could think of was bribe the Ji Tiandi with a huge chunk of his inheritance just to earn a place in the chef community. He was disappointed to find out that the job he expected to be the easiest in the manor turned out more difficult than he imagined.
He has to prepare the ingredients for more than
six hours with other incompetent and lazy coworkers and do almost the entire cooking by himself. He didn't dare to report or even talk harshly with them because each one of them had a huge background that he couldn't offend. It was during those times that he realized he wasn't the only stupid teen who thought working in the kitchen was the only easiest job but some where lucky enough to rely on their backgrounds to move out of the kitchen while others were like him. He had stayed in the kitchen for almost ten years that the supervisor had no choice but to make him the head chef.
It never felt grandiose or like a great accomplishment since where he worked was within a cafeteria of someone's manor instead of a famous restaurant. His life was still bleak until he one day met with Jerry on his way home but the youth was still shearing the sheep when everyone had gone to rest. It was dark and creepy that he almost ran away in the other direction but the chef disguised those feelings and walked towards the pen. As he reached the youth, his curiosity broke out and he began asking him lots of questions until a long conversation broke out between the two that span for hours. That's how they became friends.
The main reason the chef was curious about the youth was because even though Jerry is going through a lot while being younger than him by two years, he never lost the vigor and passion in his eyes. It's like he treated his harsh environment like having fun or training. That calm unmatched momentum attracted his attention and led to their first conversation where he was taught how to make his life better.
At first, he wasn't willing to try out those tricks since he feared they would fail and he might lose his reputation and the job. He didn't know if it was the confidence exuded from the young man or something but he finally decided to do it. He learned from Jerry that those privileged coworkers aren't able to hide their emotions when they minger with low level workers like him so they are more likely to show their emotions when agitated.
The plan was to observe their bodies and find out about their moods, like if they press their hands on top of tables and flat surfaces and hide their heads down before starting work or after a little work. That means they are in a bad mood. He was taught many other cues for detecting mental fluctuations and how to take advantage of that. Usually there's an inspector who comes at specific times to monitor how the cooking is going. This was discovered after Jerry made an average of the times the inspector came to check on them. The inspector's high rank made it so no one would slack off when they saw her therefore everyone usually pretended to be quiet and busy working regardless of their background.
After knowing that they inspector carries a strange handmade clock. That assured Jerry even more that the inspector is usually on time. The head chef was told to take advantage of that by first accomplishing lucky streaks for two weeks, just long enough to associated with being the "lucky guy". No one in their right mind would think these lucky streaks were fake and manufactured by himself as it would be too ridiculous. And after that, always always try to agitate the coworkers into shouting and trying to beat him up while they are in a bad mood and notice how long it takes.
Later on, time they moment from when they are agitated to when they start getting loud or violent and then use that on days the inspector comes. All that was left is too make sure the coworkers were agitated and screaming loudly at the exact moment that the inspector is about to turn the corner and catch them in the act.
The head chef felt a little guilty and overwhelmingly amazed at such a plan that it took almost two months to execute. There were some failures at first and he gained bruises over nothing but everything started to fall into place in the third week after the plan was initiated. Therefore, the coworkers who always looked down on him started to think he was truly a lucky star dared not provoke him anymore. That was because every time they tried, somehow the inspector always caught them red-handed and many of their members were fired from the kitchen because of it.
Xi Baobao now lived the rest of his life in peace and he had one person to thank all that for.