Reborn in Japan as a Chef God

December 23, 11 a.m.

"In an hour, the product will launch," Ichise Hui paced around the office, occasionally raising his hand to check his wristwatch.

Sigh!

Standing by the window, Ichise Hui gazed at the glasshouse in the center of the farm. There Xia Yu was, changed into his work attire, bustling in and out, moving pots and transporting fertilizer, likely fiddling with some new crop. Watching him leisurely hum a tune, Ichise Hui admired him from the bottom of his heart, "Instructor really seems to have it all figured out!"

Upon reflection, the young instructor truly had confidence in his backing.

Looking past the vague aspects, beneath his stern advertisements on Twitter and Weibo, there was a swarm of fans chanting 'buy, buy, buy.'. Even with a teasing tone in some comments, if even one-tenth—no, just one percent—of these numerous fans were willing to spend real money to support him, then the 20,000 bottles of "Seven-Colored Snow Woman" special product would surely sell out within a day.

Facing such consuming appeal, Ichise Hui couldn't help but aspire and envy—it made the influence of the Ten Masters of Far Moon seem utterly lackluster in comparison.

"Has everyone opened the webpage on their computers?"

Bringing his thoughts back, Ichise Hui sat at the computer desk, logged in as an administrator, and monitored the product listing situation on the online mall's backend. Soon, he clicked the mouse, and the empty Xia's Mall was ready to post its first product.

Of course, it wasn't just "Seven-Colored Snow Woman"; over this period, Ichise Hui had well prepared, and presumably, other vegetable and dried fruit specialties would also be highly praised.

Approaching noon, 12 p.m.

Polar Star Dormitory.

"The rush purchase is about to start!" Yoshino Yuuki stared intently at her laptop screen, and the others, with their laptops, gathered around the dining table in the hall. Morioka Makoto joined in the excitement, glimpsing everyone's eager determination to succeed and wore a slight smile at the corner of her mouth. From a corner of the Polar Star Dormitory, she had a faint notion that the "Seven-Colored Snow Woman" might create a social effect.

Aoki Daigo grasped his mouse, exclaiming, "Why hasn't it started yet? Hurry up, I miss my Xue-chan, and want to see her again!"

"Your Xue-chan?"

Golden-haired Sato Shoko, right beside him, retorted discontentedly, "Xue-chan should be mine!"

"Huh?!"

Consequently, the pair of muscular brothers began their usual physical tangle.

Seeing this, Morioka Makoto pursed her lips and secretly chuckled.

Xue-chan?

Yesterday, when Ichise Hui brought back two bottles of "Seven-Colored Snow Woman" to treat everyone, the name was heard for the first time at the dining table. Morioka Makoto froze for a while, then found the nickname quite fitting, perfectly mirroring the ethereal yet real Snow Maiden in the drink. Even as a woman herself, after tasting the drink, there was an indulging, almost persuasion-like sensation.

In any case, a gentle call from Xue-chan was enough to signify the favorable reception of "Seven-Colored Snow Woman."

Tiqie Mansion.

Today was a rare Sunday, the entire family in the living room.

Seeing Eriina and Leonora seated across from each other at the table, focused on their computers, the recently returned Sennosuke looked perplexedly at his granddaughters, "Are you playing games?"

Tiqie Zongwei and his wife Leonora were also there, responding with laughter, "They're preparing to snap up Instructor Xia's latest masterpiece."

The two women indeed showed their support through actions.

The selling price of 9,998 yen was trivial for daughters from wealthy families, but the thought behind it was what mattered.

"And you two?" Sennosuke asked.

Looking at each other, Tiqie Zongwei said, "Ahem, no need to rush. Let them try to snap it up. If it runs out, we can just go directly and ask Instructor Xia for two bottles."

Just then, Leonora's voice resonated through the living room.

"It's 12 o'clock!"

"Wowowow, got it, placing the order—hey! Why did the webpage become unresponsive?!" came the baffled voice.

Eriina also looked up, a flash of anger crossing her pretty face, unable to resist murmuring lowly, "What's wrong with this website, the server crashed already? It's even worse than the campus network, no, I need to ask Ichise about it, he oversaw the website construction!"

Beep-beep-beep, beep-beep-beep.

At the same time, in the farm office, Ichise Hui gazed blankly at his constantly ringing phone on the desk, then at his computer screen where a browser had frozen, sweat starting to bead on his forehead.

"What's happening?!"

The sudden emergency caused Ichise Hui's heart to race, and his mind overflowed with thoughts.

A website system issue?

That shouldn't be, Ichise Hui had outsourced a complete set of website programs, even using his connections to find a well-established company in the industry. The total payment for the service was 5 million yen, along with expenses for space and servers, the construction investment for Xia's Farm Mall was definitely above average for e-commerce websites. It shouldn't crash just as products were launched, it was fine earlier...

Ichise Hui couldn't figure it out, when at that moment, the office landline rang.

"Director, the traffic is too high, the website has crashed!" reported the newly hired technician on the other end, "We're trying to resolve it..."

Hearing the panicked background noise on the phone, it wasn't hard for Ichise Hui to imagine that this recently formed technical team was probably panicking like ants on a hot pot.

"Let's hope it doesn't become a joke!"

Murmuring as he hung up the phone, Ichise Hui glanced towards the glasshouse where the instructor was leisurely weeding and wondered whether he should inform him of the news.

On the other side of the ocean, in Shanghai, Tang's Mansion.

Tang Yuqiong, who had returned from Japan, faced the crashing page but remained calm and composed, seemingly accustomed to the shopping website being unresponsive. She repeatedly opened and closed the page until finally, she succeeded in placing an order and moved to the payment page.

"Yay!"

Tang Yuqiong paid with a credit card, happily commenting, "Good thing, good thing. I expected it might crash. To grab one out of 20,000 bottles is really lucky!"

Then she crinkled her nose, looking at the order and logistics information, "Which international logistics company are they partnering with? Are overseas orders handled by DHL or international post?"

"And also, paying by credit card is quite troublesome. Why haven't they opened channels for WeChat and Alipay?"

Glancing at the bottom left corner of the screen, it was just past 12:15.

The webpage suddenly stopped lagging, and Tang Yuqiong tried to return to the homepage of the mall. Beep—there was no delay as it redirected directly. However, when she looked at the only product "Seven-Colored Snow Woman" listed above, she exclaimed in surprise, "How come there are only a few bottles left?!"

She rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't seeing the wrong stock number. Tang Yuqiong instinctively refreshed the webpage, and as the page reappeared, the stock number section straightforwardly turned into a big fat zero!

"It's only been 15 minutes!"

She couldn't help but cry out in shock, stunned by the ferocious buying spree of the wealthy, "After all, 9,998 yen, almost six hundred RMB, and it doesn't even include international shipping... These guys paid without even blinking?"

After speaking, she stuck out her tongue.

It seemed she hadn't paid much attention to the order details either.

In just a quarter hour, the website restored smooth access. Ichise Hui, seeing the replenishment system notification pop up in the backend, was dumbfounded, "20,000 bottles sold out?"

Looking at the backend.

A dense mass of orders, the vast majority marked as paid, awaiting shipment.

There wasn't time to process the shock. Ichise Hui's hands trembled as he clicked the mouse to list over ten more follow-up specialty products in the backend. These included pickled "Banana Cucumbers" with a shelf life of a year, and dried "Bacon Leaves," each piece amounting to a large pack that looked like vegetables but tasted just like bacon, surely to be well received.

"These dehydrated fruit and vegetable snacks from Xia's Fantasy Farm are the most natural ingredients, green and tender, crafted through vacuum low-temperature oil bathing dehydration process, really awesome, minimally processed to retain the true nature of the ingredients (the original flavor)..."

The text description, accompanied by close-up images of the dried fruits and vegetables, one could only imagine how much effort Ichise Hui's team had put in. Ichise Hui believed that once visitors clicked into the product page, they would be attracted and couldn't help but place an order to try some, especially since the prices were quite affordable.

Not to mention the "Seven-Colored Snow Woman."

These original ingredient snacks could also uphold Xia's Farm Mall.

Of course, the variety of snacks still seemed too few.

"The farm is under construction, and with the instructor's planning, we will soon be able to breed fantasy livestock, and later we can launch fantasy-flavored jerkies, like beef jerky and pork jerky. Besides meat, fantasy dairy products are also a major potential area..." Flames of ambition ignited in Ichise Hui's eyes.