Dating in the Kitchen Episode 4 Recap
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Gu Shengnan sent out many resumes but received no replies. As if misfortunes weren't enough, she received a call from Meng Xinjie urging her to pay. Had the dark days of a bleak future just arrived? She was still young, she was still so excellent, there were still plenty of opportunities, Gu Shengnan said this to a photo of her and her grandfather. With family around, there was always a reliance, and the courage to continue.
Xu Zhaodi was walking along the road, sending voice messages back and forth to comfort Gu Shengnan, hoping she would cheer up, preferably to the point where she wouldn't blame her. Just as she was talking, Meng Xinjie drove up and stopped in front of her. After hearing just a couple of sentences, he realized they were all old acquaintances; Xu Zhaodi and Gu Shengnan were best friends, and both had offended his boss. This world was really pitifully small.
Lu Jin went to several restaurants and came to one conclusion: either eat or go hungry. Whose fault was it that Gu Shengnan's skills were too exquisite, causing Lu Jin to temporarily be unable to find anything else edible to fill his stomach? He had gone hungry all day, and now late at night he was out looking for food he could eat, disdaining this and finding that unappetizing.
He circled around and ended up at Gu Shengnan's grandfather's food stall again, stopping for a portion of clam noodles Gu Shengnan had just finished making. The appearance, smell, and taste were extremely familiar. He had just said he would never eat anything Gu Shengnan made again, and now Lu Jin was contradicting himself unexpectedly, at the speed of light. Gu Shengnan looked down on his behavior and mocked him a few times.
Unexpectedly, Auntie Wang and a drunk man got into a dispute behind her. She quickly ran over to mediate, and seeing things going wrong, she turned around and swung the bottle without hesitation. The bottle dodged Auntie Wang, dodged the drunk man, and dodged Meng Xinjie, but it didn't dodge Lu Jin's head. His clam noodles hung suspended on his chopsticks, and in the end, they didn't make it into his mouth. It was another hungry night. Lu Jin fainted.
Meng Xinjie stood at Gu Shengnan's doorstep, stopped her, and took her all the way to the hospital. Gu Shengnan crept in along the wall, meekly, it was another time she had to apologize and pay compensation to President Lu Jin. At this point, it didn't matter who was unlucky and who wasn't.
Lu Jin asked Meng Xinjie to thoroughly calculate the sum for Gu Shengnan, from the car to the bottle, adding up incident by incident, including emotional damages, a total of 130,000. Gu Shengnan asked him to find another rich person, such as her grandfather or Auntie Wang and other elderly people with savings, but Lu Jin retorted with one sentence: 'Contact a lawyer,' pushing her back. She had no choice but to repay it herself, slowly.
Meng Xinjie then handed her a cooking repayment agreement, clearly prepared in advance. The previous calculation and the mention of a lawyer were just a pretense, a trick to scare her. Are all bosses so cunning and calculating? So, she provided her home address and contact number, and Gu Shennan began preparing for the long road of repayment. For the first meal, Lu Jin wanted a seafood feast.
Gu Shengnan packed a box of lobster and abalone from her grandfather's shop and took off running, returning to her small place in "Cheng Deli" to quietly work on the big task, using a variety of cooking methods: pan-frying, deep-frying, boiling, braising, simmering, slipping, and roasting. Lu Jin, dressed in a sharp suit and wool coat, stood at the noisy intersection, observing this alleyway filled with a strong sense of life.
Electric bikes skillfully weaved around pedestrians, aunts lifted poles to dry clothes, and grandmothers squatted at doorways, eating rice mixed with the sounds of the bustling world. The small lives flowed slowly and unhurriedly. Lu Jin was wide-eyed, carefully savoring the atmosphere here, when someone rushing down the stairs at the corner knocked him into a box of cabbage in the corner. His president's coat was stuck with the cabbage, making him look battered and comical.
At a table in the Finnish restaurant, Xu Zhaodi sat down, and Meng Xinjie opposite her began revealing each other's secrets. Gu Shengnan's address was sold out by Xu Zhaodi. To avoid Lu Jin's questioning, Gu Shengnan promised her that she would take the initiative to have Xu Zhaodi treat Meng Xinjie to a meal. The mutual scheming and exploitation between good sisters were openly discussed.
Xu Zhaodi said Gu Shengnan was immoral, while Meng Xinjie praised himself for actually resisting the temptation. The door to "Cheng Deli" was knocked. It really wasn't easy to come for a meal. What was even more difficult was yet to come. Gu Shengnan wore a standard waiter's vest and tie, standing with a graceful posture and professional gestures. Her attitude was clearly business-like. The utensils were meticulously covered with lids.
She served a plate of crab roe, sea urchin, and caviar. A thin mist settled over the dish, and hot steam rose. Smelling it up close, the aroma was refreshing. Lu Jin let out a deep sigh of satisfaction and began to eat. At the Finnish restaurant, Meng Xinjie and Xu Zhaodi called the waiter for the check. Xu Zhaodi directly requested to split the bill, and from then on, they would go their separate ways and not meet again.
As night fell, in Cheng Deli, the dim yellow light shone peacefully on the table. Gu Shengnan broke the atmosphere by handing him a bill for 2,600. The details were clearly itemized, logical and justified. Lu Jin looked at it and thought it wouldn't be that expensive at all, at most five or six hundred.
Gu Shengnan, however, played a sly game, fabricating that the red wine Lu Jin brought himself was expensive, and the service fee was a percentage, so the price naturally rose, forcefully extorting the 2,600. Lu Jin just considered it an unavoidable loss, like capsizing in a ditch or being taken advantage of. He took his coat and left, receiving a warm send-off from Gu Shengnan as he went.
In the blink of an eye, the hotel owner came again to negotiate the acquisition. The price Lu Jin offered was too low, and he wanted to ask for a higher one. Lu Jin remained unfazed, confident and unwilling to negotiate the price, and sent the hotel owner away. When he came to "Cheng Deli" for dinner again, Lu Jin still brought his own red wine.
Gu Shengnan was happy, thinking she could extort another sum, but Meng Xinjie explained that this wine was not circulated on the market, meaning it had no price, and she didn't need to open or decant it. She didn't earn a single penny today. Gu Shengnan was frustrated and found her uncle, a fashion designer, to ask if he had any mischievous ideas.
