The sunshine today is just right, but Boss Cai’s forehead is already sweating from anxiety. The day’s events have diverged too much from his expectations.

He imagined two scenarios.

The first scenario is that the young guy doesn’t know how to make saltwater duck and gets defeated by me instantly, allowing me to gain popularity and profit.

The second scenario is that the young guy knows how to make saltwater duck, but the taste of his duck is significantly inferior to mine. I still end up gaining popularity and profit.

As for making a tastier duck than mine, that is absolutely impossible.

To ensure success, he even hired over ten shills from a group performance agency.

But what he never expected was that the first to defect were the shills he hired!

This is simply unbelievable, incomprehensible, unfounded!

Could it be that the young guy hired the same batch of shills too, and offered them a thousand?

As for the young guy making a better-tasting duck than mine, that was never in the realm of possibility!

Lately, those internet celebrities have been collapsing one after another, with endless exposure of their fake credentials. It can’t be that the one I casually picked up is actually genuinely talented, right?

This is even less likely than winning a football match with 10 players against 11!

"Go get a portion of duck from across the street."

Boss Cai instructed an assistant who was always wearing a mask. The saying goes, "Know yourself and your enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger." To devise the next stage of response, he needed to assess his opponent’s skills.

The assistant nodded and ran over to Wang Fan’s stall.

After a long wait in line, he finally managed to purchase a portion, then dashed back to his own stall.

Boss Cai turned and got into his car, and the assistant quickly followed, handing the saltwater duck through the car window after Boss Cai was inside.

Boss Cai looked at the duck meat in the lunch box, his expression indescribably heavy.

It’s impossible!

The saltwater duck in front of him, considering the cooking time, color, and pure duck flavor, was undoubtedly top-tier. If he hadn’t seen the young guy preparing it, he would have suspected it was bought from Han Fuxing!

He picked up a piece and put it into his mouth. The crispy duck skin, the firm yet tender duck meat, and the pure aroma of five spices and duck made his heart sink into an ice pit.

The first blow hits a steel plate!

Netizens do enjoy watching frauds being exposed, but failing to expose fraud and being exposed instead, this would make him a laughingstock for netizens indefinitely!

Boss Cai gasped for air, forcing himself to calm down.

At this moment, he had to come up with a plan to minimize the impact of this event, or else Drunken Duck Inn wouldn’t be able to survive!

The best plan among thirty-six stratagems is to run away.

Boss Cai quickly instructed, "Xiao Liu, pack up and leave immediately."

After speaking, he directly instructed the driver to drive off, leaving behind a confused Xiao Liu and several busy chefs.

While running, Boss Cai hurriedly opened his Weibo and posted a message: "Did everyone come to taste Boss Wang’s culinary delights today? Actually, what I said was just to boost Boss Wang’s popularity a bit, and to promote our Jinling cuisine as well. It’s just that the way I did it might have been a bit inappropriate, so I apologize to everyone.

Moreover, Boss Wang’s saltwater duck has truly captured its essence, showing great style. Friends can come by and taste it; it surely won’t be a waste of your trip."

After hitting send, Boss Cai took a long breath.

Although this is somewhat shameless and slaps his own face, it’s better than stubbornly holding on and tarnishing the reputation of his own restaurant.

Looking back at the long line at Wang Fan’s stall, a question resurfaced in his mind—why is this kid so skilled? Even if he started learning to cook from his mother’s womb, his progress shouldn’t be this rapid!

...

"Oh gosh, Boss Cai really knows how to adapt." Shen Teng said as he walked towards the zoo, scrolling boringly on his phone. Seeing the message posted by Boss Cai, he was instantly shocked by his unscrupulousness.

Although he distributed few pieces of that saltwater duck, there were enough leftovers for him to be seventy percent full. He planned to stroll around the zoo to digest his food and then find Boss Wang for a free meal.

He was genuinely curious about the zoo that Boss Wang highly recommended.

Considering Wang’s current popularity, any advertisement would start from at least a five-figure sum. If it’s something he’s promoted repeatedly, it would definitely be more than six figures.

On more than one occasion, he saw advertisers waving money trying to get Wang to endorse them, but Wang didn’t even glance at it.

He really wanted to see what magic this zoo held to warrant such persistent recommendations from Wang.

Many people shared his curiosity, for this was Boss Wang’s first advertisement, so they had to show their support. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Originally downcast Director Liu and his employees couldn’t help but widen their eyes at the sudden influx of visitors, completely unable to understand this plot twist.

With a face full of disbelief, Zhang Chunming said to Director Liu, "Director, what’s going on? Didn’t you have a falling out with Boss Wang? Why are there still so many people coming?"

Director Liu was angry, "I reiterate once again, we did not fall out, we are good friends!"

Zhang Chunming curled his lip disdainfully, "Good friends and you chased him to that small park?"

A tic jumped on Director Liu’s forehead, and he seriously considered firing the moron whose mouth had no filter.

Today’s ticket sales should be enough to cover the compensation for firing him, right?

What? Compensation?

Director Liu was shocked, when did he start effortlessly speaking about compensation with a straight face?

Isn’t compensation money?

How much delicious mealworms could the compensatory money buy for the animals?

Forget it, let him off the hook this time!

Suddenly Zhang Chunming shouted, "Wow, Director, look! I told you why so suddenly there’s a crowd, it’s because Boss Wang, with no hard feelings, promoted you again! Look at his magnanimity!"

Director Liu automatically filtered out everything Zhang Chunming said except "Look", and he looked towards the phone.

It was Wang Fan’s Weibo homepage, and he read the words carefully.

On the surface, it seemed to criticize for being sent to another small park, but anyone with half a brain would know he was recommending this zoo in disguise.

Especially the phrase "here the animals are the real owners," was precisely the core principle of this zoo.

These words wouldn’t bring anyone’s condemnation, but would make everyone curious about how this zoo allows the animals to be masters.

Director Liu only felt that today’s dust seemed bigger, and he couldn’t rub out the sand from his eyes.