Tang Wenxiu quickly apologized, and the matter was put to rest for the time being.
Shen Lu sipped her juice through a straw and, out of boredom, took a look at her system panel.
She was pleasantly surprised to find her reputation value skyrocketing.
In a matter of seconds, it had jumped by thousands of points, breaking past the fifty-thousand mark and racing toward sixty thousand.
[Host, just you wait. Your reputation value will double again by the next round!]
The system declared unequivocally.
Shen Lu: "Why?"
[Have you forgotten, Host? Starting next round, the public judges and lucky judges will join in. Everyone will get a much more tangible sense of your culinary skills then.]
Shen Lu had a moment of realization. "That's right. I almost forgot about that."
The competition ended late that day, so Shen Lu left the television station and headed straight back to her restaurant.
