This is naturally not a big problem for Gu Ran, who has 12 years of experience.

Gu Ran even dared to say that he understood the situation Anne faced during this period better than Anne herself.

Anne Hathaway has been an actress since she was 15 years old. She won the Super Rising Star Award for her starring role in the stage play "The Golden Age" at the White House Theater. At the age of 17, she became famous for the TV series "Get Real" and won the Best Teen TV Actress Award. At the age of 19, she starred in "The Princess Diaries" which became her lifelong masterpiece. Later, she starred in "Brokeback Mountain", "Cinderella", "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement", "The Devil Wears Prada", "Becoming Jane Austen", "Rachel's Wedding" and so on.

Among them, "Rachel Getting Married" made her nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Actress - just nominated.

Anne Hathaway is very dedicated to filming. After she turned 15, her life has been all about acting.

Therefore, she does lack the life experience and some basic social common sense of ordinary people.

Hollywood is a huge world of fame and fortune.

Hollywood is not only Hollywood for actors, nor is it only Hollywood for directors and producers, nor is it only Hollywood for capital, but also Hollywood for film critics.

Hollywood film critics are all big haters who like to find fault with everything. They like actors who have flaws and something to criticize the most.

And Anne just wasn't their type.

Anne has been the perfect princess since her debut, which is also her true nature. She is even more perfect than the character in the script.

Especially Anne is so beautiful and elegant, no matter what role she plays, people will find her cute.

In the words of film critics, this is a typical case of someone stealing the show.

The film's narrative and characters will be disrupted because of Anne's presence.

In the eyes of some film critics, Anne's beauty and perfection are precisely the manifestation of her inability to act.

Some film critics think that everything about Anne is "affected" and that her innocence is all fake.

These film critics are addicted to criticizing Anne. It seems that the harder they criticize, the more high-end they appear, and the more it appears that they don't care about beauty at all and only focus on inner qualities.

In this environment and atmosphere, Anne became more and more miserable and more and more self-doubting.

She couldn't understand why her heartfelt acceptance speech was considered fake, while Jennifer Lawrence fell on the stage and received applause and praise? Later, she even deliberately took on some bad roles that destroyed her image and deliberately vilified herself.

She wanted to prove that she was not just a pretty face, she wanted critics to see her acting skills, she wanted to get the Oscar statuette, the highest honor for an actor...

In Gu Ran's memory of her previous life, it took Annie 20 years from the release of her first movie at the age of 17 until she was 37 years old. In 2019, she left her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In her previous life, this Hollywood princess, who was the dream of millions of movie fans, could never get the recognition of Hollywood authorities. She had a very hard life and took a very long detour.

In this life, since Gu Ran has the chance to meet Annie, he not only wants to jerk off, but also has to find a way to push the goddess from behind.

If one push doesn’t work, then push twice, push three times... keep pushing the goddess to the peak!

Of course, you can’t rush into pushing something to the top; you have to take it slow and treat it as a long-term goal.

The most important thing at the moment is to find a breakthrough point...

Gu Ran prepared lunch today very carefully.

It certainly can’t be as simple as instant noodles with tomato sauce.

Today is my first meal living with Anne Hathaway, and I must shock Anne.

So, Gu Ran plans to make a classic Chinese dish today - sweet and sour pork tenderloin.

When making hand-brewed coffee before, Gu Ran had already determined that Annie liked sweet food, so it was very appropriate to make a sweet and sour dish like sweet and sour pork tenderloin for Annie.

There is almost no female celebrity in the world who doesn't like sweet food, because they usually lack sugar, which is an essential nutrient for the human body and the only nutrient that the brain can absorb.

If the human body lacks sugar for a long time, it is prone to depression. If it encounters unpleasant things, it is easy to develop depression.

Why is Coke called happy water? It’s because Coke has a very high sugar content, and sugar can make people happy.

Of course, it is not easy to make sweet and sour pork in a food desert country like the UK.

First of all, there is the issue of ingredients.

The main ingredient of sweet and sour pork tenderloin is pork tenderloin.

In foreign countries, most people eat beef and rarely use pork as their main dish ingredient.

Why do foreigners hardly eat pork? Because the pork in foreign countries is really unpalatable, and it is completely different from the pork that Chinese people eat.

Pork from abroad has a strong, smelly smell, so foreigners don’t like to eat pork.

There was a saying before that the way foreigners slaughter pigs is different from the Chinese way, and there is also a saying that foreigners do not bleed the pigs when they kill them, which is why the pork tastes bad.

But in fact, both of these statements are wrong.

Foreigners also bleed pigs when they kill them, because only by draining the blood can they ensure the meat is fresh and will not rot and change taste in a short time.

Of course, they may not bleed the meat as cleanly as in China, but even if they do, it will only affect the taste of the meat a little bit, and it will not leave a foul smell that is inedible or even makes people want to vomit.

Why does Chinese pork taste delicious, but foreign pork tastes smelly?

First of all, seasoning and cooking methods may be partly to blame, but the real reason is castration.

Chinese meat pigs are castrated when they are less than two months old, but pigs abroad are not castrated.

The so-called castration is castration, or to put it more clearly, it means turning a pig into a male pig, so this kind of pig is also called a "male" pig.

Food is the primary need of the people, and food culture is the best reflection of a country’s cultural level.

According to historical records, starting from the Eastern Han Dynasty, the pork eaten by Chinese people has been castrated, so the pork eaten by Chinese people since ancient times has been fragrant and delicious.

These European countries only began to rise in the past few hundred years after the Industrial Revolution. Their ancestors were very poor, so how could they have any decent food culture?

They won't eat a hairy crab, and they won't crack a melon seed.

Therefore, you cannot buy castrated pork in British supermarkets.

The tenderloin that Gu Ran bought was certainly not castrated, but fortunately the tenderloin had a lighter smell than other parts of the animal.

Moreover, before doing so, Gu Ran has to carry out further processing to remove the irritation.

Gu Ran put the pork tenderloin into a pot of cold water, poured a whole bottle of cooking wine into the pot, threw in a handful of peppercorns and star anise, and then simmered it over low heat.

Keep cooking until foam appears, and the fishy smell in the tenderloin is basically removed.

This step alone took half an hour.

So, this was not about favoring Maria over the other. Under the circumstances at that time, Gu Ran simply did not have the time to cook such a time-wasting dish for Maria.

The next steps are easy.

Gu Ran pounded the half-cooked pork tenderloin, cut it into small strips and put it into a large bowl. Then he added a spoonful of cooking wine, three spoonfuls of sugar, a spoonful of vinegar, a little pepper and two eggs. After mixing it with his hands, he covered it with plastic wrap and marinated it for half an hour.

After marinating, Gu Ran coated the meat strips with dry powder, patted off the excess powder, and set them ready.

The next step is to heat oil in a pan. When the oil reaches 60% hot, fry over medium-low heat until cooked and remove from the pan.

This is not enough. In order to make it more crispy, it has to be fried again. This time the oil temperature must be 90% hot. Fry until the surface is golden brown and then remove from the oil to drain.

After frying, leave some base oil, add sugar, vinegar and other seasonings and a bowl of water starch to thicken over high heat, then put the fried tenderloin in the pan and stir-fry until it is fully coated with the sauce.

In this way, the Southampton version of sweet and sour pork is ready.

This dish took a full hour and a half from skimming off the odor to serving the finished product on a plate.

This was also the first time that Gu Ran had gone to such great lengths to make a dish since his rebirth.

Gu Ran was still very satisfied with his achievements.

Gu Ran picked up a chopstick and tasted it...

Damn...

Is this for human consumption?

Too sweet! So sweet that it makes your teeth sick and your throat choke!

This kind of sweetness is enough to kill a diabetic with just one piece.

Moreover, the taste of this pork is a world away from the pork at home! This is simply dark cuisine!

If you serve guests such dishes in China, it would be tantamount to swearing!

It turns out that theoretical experience alone is not enough.

At first, it was so impressive that it was skimmed off the foam, coated with starch, fried twice, and fried until both sides were golden brown...all the operations were as fierce as a tiger, but in the end, it turned out to be a dark dish.

We are really unworthy of the racial talent of the Chinese people!

Fortunately, I didn't plan to become a chef after my rebirth, otherwise, even if I picked up 100 perfect bubble talent points, they wouldn't be enough...

Gu Ran complained about himself in his heart.

If he could pick up his own negative emotion bubbles, Gu Ran felt that he would definitely be able to pick up a blue skill bubble in this wave.

depressed!

Gu Ran was just about to throw away this dark dish and make some instant noodles for Annie, when he suddenly had an idea: Wait a minute -

Would Annie have negative emotions if she was given such unpalatable food? If she was given something a little more difficult to eat, maybe she would be overwhelmed with negative emotions and drop the perfect talent-level bubble directly?

yes!

This approach is not too extreme, and she won't just throw in a tantrum and cancel the lease! Okay! Let's do it!

I'm sorry, Annie. I made you eat my dark food just for the sake of lure, but I will definitely repay you in the future.

Gu Ran immediately placed the dark dish, sweet and sour pork tenderloin, on the dining table, then walked to the door of the master bedroom and knocked, "Annie, come for lunch."

"Oh, okay, Gu, I'll be right there." Annie responded from the master bedroom.

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