Perhaps it's because they realized that they had safely overcome the most difficult challenge of cooking.

At this moment, the consciousness within Mia's body had clearly switched back to Mia.

So, at this point, she saw Eiffel's actions and her "response" to Chris.

She even went so far as to peel off the shell of a shrimp and feed it to Gu Xinghe.

"Hehe, I wasn't 'bribing' the judges, I was just doing my job."

Seeing Gu Xinghe obediently being fed the food they had made, everyone present's eyes lit up.

Then, when Gu Xinghe looked up again, he was not surprised to see several girls staring at him menacingly.

So, for the rest of the time, Gu Xinghe didn't pick up the cutlery again.

Even when he tried to make this move, several people pressed his hand back onto the armrest.

Because he was surrounded by girls, he didn't even see who was stopping him.

In short, Gu Xinghe, who was being eagerly fed, had no way to "retaliate" during this dinner.

What's even worse is that the girls, who had already fed Gu Xinghe and started stroking his hair, clearly had no intention of "letting him go" at this point.

"Xinghe, who do you think cooked the best food at dinner tonight?"

Under the "interrogation" of the crowd in front of him, Gu Xinghe, who was almost unable to move while lying in his chair, tried to look for help at Carol and Rekaya, who were also judges.

But at this moment, Carol and Rekaya were also looking intently at Gu Xinghe, waiting for his answer.

Having failed to get help from others, Gu Xinghe had no choice but to start saving himself.

"The question of who came in first place should, of course, be left until the very end to create suspense."

Before we go any further, how about we enjoy some entertainment?

As he said this, the tentacles that had appeared many times before when he was in danger came to his rescue again.

Compared to his previous unconscious and passive acceptance, Gu Xinghe was now actively controlling his tentacles to retrieve what he needed.

At this moment, the table was already set with the wines and other utensils that he had previously retrieved from the wine cellar.

Upon seeing these items, the expressions of the people present clearly changed.

So, while they were still in shock, Gu Xinghe took the opportunity to mix up [Xinghe] for the first time in a long time.

When he was being taught at the Tavern of Doom.

【Galaxy】is actually the cocktail he learned best and the one he mixed that is closest to "normal".

So, with Gu Xinghe's seemingly quite skilled movements, he had already prepared five cups of "Xinghe".

Even taking into account the presence of Carol and Regaya, Gu Xinghe specially prepared two non-alcoholic versions of [Xinghe] –

A little mint lemonade was added to the butterfly pea flower tea.

Because of the stimulation of citric acid, butterfly pea flower tea gradually turns purple.

It creates a gradient between blue and purple, almost identical to the original alcohol version.

At this moment, after mixing these drinks, Gu Xinghe felt that his bartending skills had improved.

In fact, what's even more shocking is that this wasn't his imagination.

Because the evidence is—his bartending skills have improved!

Looking at his player profile showing a LV.2 bartending skill, Gu Xinghe felt a strange sense of emotion.

After the [Tavern of Misfortune] instance, Gu Xinghe realized that although he hadn't practiced systematically, he had certainly mixed drinks quite a few times.

For example, when I was at Dawn Boarding School, I mixed drinks for Blake, the security guard there.

He often mixes drinks for himself during his rest time, although he finds them difficult to swallow most of the time.

Not only that, this time he also created a non-alcoholic version of the "Galaxy" beverage.

Therefore, Gu Xinghe considers himself to have sound theoretical knowledge and perfect practical skills, and now he has even broken through his own limitations and innovated the recipe.

So at this moment, he looked at the bartending skill on the panel with some emotion, which had finally been improved.

Even so, Gu Xinghe saw the constantly flashing numbers on the player panel.

The fluctuating LV.2 number, which symbolizes the bartending skill level, now seems somewhat unstable.

It seems to be "teetering on the brink of collapse," about to fall back to LV.1.

Seeing this, Gu Xinghe immediately closed the player template in front of him, deciding to avoid seeing it altogether.

As long as he never checks his bartending skill level, it will remain at LV.2, never dropping.

At this moment, seeing the several glasses of wine that Gu Xinghe had already mixed, the girls could only "force" themselves to drink them with somewhat emotional expressions.

As mentioned before, the taste of [Galaxy] is definitely not as strange as the other drinks Gu Xinghe mixes.

Therefore, the girls had somewhat complicated expressions after drinking the wine.

They were actually reminiscing about the things that happened between them and Gu Xinghe in their past and present lives because of alcohol.

Some of these things might happen again tonight, who knows?

But at that moment, Gu Xinghe wasn't really thinking too much about it.

While he was desperately trying to avoid the "battlefield," what he was really thinking about was "using magic to defeat magic"—

He used his concoction to defeat the dishes made by the girls.

This simple and direct approach is surprisingly effective on young girls.

In fact, the alcohol content of the liquor mixed by Gu Xinghe is not high.

But perhaps it was the rare atmosphere of everyone gathering together, and the fact that we ended up mixing several different kinds of alcohol together.

In short, by the latter half of the night, everyone present was clearly somewhat drunk.

Therefore, no one mentioned the result of that cooking competition again.

Night had fallen.

Several girls were drunk, some lying on chairs, others slumped over the table.

At this point, only Gu Xinghe, who was still relatively sober, could begin to handle the aftermath.

Carol and Rekaya, who hadn't been drinking, obediently returned to their assigned rooms.

Chris and Eiffel, who were using the doll's body to "cheat" by drinking, helped the obviously drunk Mia and Sylph back to their room.

Gu Xinghe then helped up Teresa, who was still in the hall.

After drinking so much, he was clearly a bit drunk.

So, after helping Theresa to her bed in her room and covering her with a blanket.

Just as Gu Xinghe was about to get up and leave to go back to his room to rest—

"Don't go, can you stay and keep me company?"

At that moment, he felt Teresa tugging at the hem of her clothes, as if she didn't want him to leave.