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Invincible Shan Bao Mei [無敵珊寶妹]
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First Course: Innocent Barbecue Love…
She, is not graceful, which makes guys back away! She, has biceps, which makes guys withdraw even more! She, smells like barbecue from head to toe, which makes guys rather have a stuffy nose! This Shan Bao Mei who has no charming value whatsoever, causes him, who has a very picky sense of smell, to suddenly discover… that the most beautiful smell, comes from the most simple ~~ most heartfelt girl ~~
When the inferior-feeling Shan Bao Mei meets the conceited and self-centered Sun Wu Di, these two people, used the most unusual manner in the world to meet and get to know one another, yet, it transforms into the most natural, most emotional simple love?
From dish after dish of delicate Hong Kong-style cuisines, please let us bring forth for you, portion after portion of an innocent barbecue love…
Someone says: “A chef, is the artist within a kitchen!” But within the chef’s world, whether it is Asian or Western, no matter what the country, it has always been a man’s world. In this culinary world where women are inferior to men, “Shan Bao” – a girl who has grown up in a barbecue shop and who has lived on Three Treasures Rice, how will she take revenge on the prince of the culinary world who dumped her? Depending on the feelings that she has for food, she will become the “Goddess of Cookery” in the Chinese Gourmet exhibition! A Cinderella love story of toppling the Prince, using gourmet food to tease your taste buds and to motivate you into pursuing your dreams.
At the beginning of the story: The Unforgettable Palpitations Start from a Heartbroken Box of Three Treasures Rice ~~
“Come, I beg you! Please just take one bite…” He is the scoundrel.
“No! The smell that is coming from this roast pork is not from using the most top-notch wood to roast. Rather it is the smell of using a second-rated wood. How terrible is that. I refuse to eat!” Don’t be mistaken, this is coming from the victim. The 6 year old Wu Di who has been kidnapped. That’s right, kidnapped! Moreover, the one who kidnaps Wu Di and his father is one of their own employees from Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant!
After carefully getting away, small Wu Di is placed into a wooden barrel by his father and sent down the river to escape. However, from then on, small Wu Di’s father disappears from the face of the earth. Henceforth, small Wu Di doesn’t show any consideration towards the staff and doesn’t trust anyone anymore… The wooden barrel drifts and drifts down the river and reaches downstream… downstream, is actually where small Shan Bao is happily taking a box of Three Treasures Rice to go and confess to the boy that she likes! However, she is ruthlessly cut off and rejected – “Shan Bao, go away! You smell of barbecue all over! You have biceps and is very scary! Weirdo!” At this time, a heartbroken small Shan Bao saves the small Wu Di in the wooden barrel. She even gives the box of Three Treasures Rice to small Wu Di. This box of rice becomes the taste that Wu Di is not able to forget for the rest of his life…
As for Shan Bao, she is the gentle angel that he will never forget…
Twenty years or more later, this gentle angel turns into a scary ghost…??
Cosplay’s “The Barbecue Shop of Terror!”
Thunder and lightning crashes over the skies! The night is dark and vast! Hu hu~~! The sound of the cold wind is whistling though the air which makes one shiver in fear. Two customers arrive to check out the reputation of “The Barbecue Shop of Terror” which they saw over the internet. “This is it. The “The Barbecue Shop of Terror” which the internet mentioned!” They walk into the dark and gloomy shop. In the dim light, they are greeted by an old man with a long tongue hanging out at the counter! “Shui! Hurry, hurry, hurry! Quickly capture this picture! I have not seen such an old fashion thing for so long!” These two customers not only were not scared, but they even bring out a DV to capture this moment with this long tongue old man. Not only were these two customers not scared, but they even happily and excitedly pick up the fake headgear and place it on their own head. “Muah ha ha ha~~” All this makes the two brave customers even more excited!! Finally, a bloody female ghost grandly appears on the scene. Unexpectedly, these two customers, who just looked as if they weren’t afraid of anything, almost tripped over each other to get out of the shop when this bloody female ghost appeared.
Didn’t they just say it wasn’t scary at all!? How can it be that such an ordinary appearance of a female ghost could make them flee in fright!? All the “ghosts” doesn’t understand it at all and look at each other blankly in dismay. Only afterward, did they find out the answer from the alarming screams of the two panic-stricken customers – “Oh my God! So frightening! Ordinary female ghosts can be without a head, eyes or face, but this female ghost does ~ not ~ have ~ a chest ~~~”
“Hey! You two! Come back and explain this to me! Who doesn’t have a chest? Don’t start any rumors, okay?!” What successfully scared the customers away turns out to be one’s own “flat chest!!” “Flat-chest ghost,” Hu Shan Bao is so angry that she forgets about her own ghostly disguise. Picking up the shop’s treasure “dragon slaying saber,” she prepares to chase after the two customers! Fortunately, she is promptly stopped by her brother, Hu Da Dao, who is dressed up as Frankenstein, before she kills someone…
Actually, this is really not some sort of terrifying barbecue shop. All this is a plan someone thought up of to deliberately scare customers away. Why is that? It’ll have to be explained from the beginning of this shop…
This is an old shop that specializes in barbecue delicacy dishes “Guang Ji Barbecue Shop”! It is a simple and down-to-earth corner shop. The owner of the shop is Ah Guang Shi, who people called the invincible iron wok silver spatula God of Cookery! With his “dragon slaying saber,” he is able to conquer the kitchen! This ordinary shop was opened by Ah Guang Shi and his deceased wife when they were young. They established it through hard work and with their two hands! Being able to keep the shop running and pass it on to his son, Da Dao to manage is the lifelong dream and goal of Ah Guang Shi!
However, Ah Guang Shi’s dream is a burden for his son and daughter ~~ Victim one: Hu Da Dao looks weak on the outside but is strong inside – a designer who is interested in fashion. As a result, being a fashion designer is his lifelong aspiration and career. When he picks up a knife to chop off a chicken’s head, he would tremble all over. He doesn’t have any interest towards cooking at all! Victim two: Hu Shan Bao looks strong on the outside but is weak within – given that she has been helping out in the shop since she was young, she has lived the life of plucking chicken feathers, carrying baby pigs over her shoulder and chopping roast pork. All this work helped her to build up astonishing strength and scary biceps! On top of that, she accidentally falls into the secret recipe barbecue sauce barrel when she was young. Henceforth, she was never able to complete wash away the barbecue smell from her body!
All of this causes Shan Bao to be denied the sweet fragrance that usually comes from a normal girl’s body. Further still, it scares away all the guys that she has interests in. This makes it very difficult for Shan Bao, who only wants to quickly marry off, to have any steady boyfriends! Such a pity for Shan Bao! All of this makes Shan Bao really repulsive towards her father’s barbecue shop and she only hopes that it can quickly close down soon.
After all the trouble of waiting for the chance when her father is off visiting her mother’s grave, Shan Bao conspires with her brother, Da Dao and the old employees of the shop, Xiao Sai Ge, Chi Xin Jie, to turn Guang Ji into a gloomy “Barbecue Shop of Terror.” She hopes to scare all the customers away so that no customers would come to “Guang Ji.”
Who would have ever thought that this practical joke, not only did not cause Guang Ji to fall into the crisis of going out of business, but it actually attracts even more customers!! At the same time, it draws a whole succession of problems for Shan Bao in the future…
Aiya! The Worries of Being Flat-Chest~~
The two customers, who ran away that night, uploaded the video that they captured of “The Legend of The Barbecue Shop of Terror’s Flat-chest Female Ghost” onto the internet. In the video, they even specially captured a frame and put in captions “a female ghost with no chest whatsoever…” Unexpectedly, this practical joke turns into “an advertising campaign!!” The video immediately attracts the debate of many internet users. Early morning the next day, a long line of customers arrive at the barbecue shop!
Ah Guang Shi, who doesn’t know the whole truth of the situation, is extremely happy. The employees are also extremely busy working. Only Shan Bao is in a depressed mood. She is worried what if her “boyfriend” of one month, Wei Qing, sees this video and believes it to be true and dumps her?! In order to clear up to Wei Qing of the internet rumor that she has no chest “whatsoever,” Shan Bao is determined to go and find Zhang Wei Qing to explain everything!…
It is said that Shan Bao’s “boyfriend” is the famous Teppanyaki chef at the Pub – Wei Qing. He unfolds his superb culinary skills on stage every day as well as his bartending skills. He has infatuated many young girls – the beloved of many young girls and the dream lover of many housewives!! What about Hu Shan Bao who smells like barbecue from head to toe? He doesn’t admit this “girlfriend” at all. Wei Qing couldn’t wait to draw the line on their relationship!
Just when Shan Bao is trying to think of every means possible to slip out of the shop to go and find Wei Qing at the Pub, everyone at Guang Ji with Chi Xin Jie as the leader, is surrounding the TV to watch the program which Sun Wu Di hosts “Wu Di’s Gourmet Date with You.” This show seems to teach one culinary skills but in actuality, it is just advertising the product that they are selling. With the young, handsome and talkative Sun Wu Di constantly spreading his charm in front of the screen, this program becomes the most popular amongst the female audiences. What the people doesn’t know is that Sun Wu Di, who is charming, humorous, witty and also the young master of “Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant,” is privately a temperamental, conceited, bad mannered, hard to get along with and amorous type of guy. When a staff member makes a small mistake during the live broadcast of the program, he would throw a huge temper on the set and he would let off his anger at the poor guy who is in charge of preparing the stage props! At this time, the Executive Chef of “Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant,” Wang Ye intercedes. This provokes Wu Di even more and he threatens to fire Wang Ye on the spot. Even if “Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant’s” General Manager, Ji Da Wei, whom even Wu Di calls Uncle, come out to settle this matter, it would be useless! After the program ends, Sun Wu Di keeps “Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant’s” Public Relations Manager, who is also his girlfriend, Zu An, waiting on the side while he talks with the hot female assistant ~~
Shan Bao arrives at the Pub to explain things to Wei Qing while he tries to hide from her out of fear and sends her off to wait in the restroom. At the same time, Zu An has a date with Sun Wu Di at the same Pub and is preparing to break up with him. She wants to end this 5 year long relationship that she has been protecting all along and yet nothing has come out of it. Sun Wu Di pulls out his last trick in charming a girl but he only gets Zu An’s cold words in addition to a glass of red wine splashed at him. Wu Di can only act gracefully as he goes into the bathroom to clean up. When Shan Bao hears someone coming into the bathroom, she mistakes the person to be Zhang Wei Qing. She immediately starts to explain that she is not “without a chest whatsoever” as rumored on the internet. However, everything that Shan Bao is saying seems to cause Sun Wu Di to sympathize with Zhang Wei Qing. This is almost like being harassed by a female pervert!
Just when Shan Bao figures out that she is confessing to the wrong person, police officers barge into the bathroom. It turns out that Wei Qing is unable to withstand Shan Bao’s harassing and so he tricks her into going into the bathroom and then calls the police on her? This girl is the pervert? Because of his celebrity status, Wu Di refuses to help Shan Bao testify that she has no intention of harassment. In her anger, Shan Bao retaliates by accusing Sun Wu Di of harassing her in the bathroom! What bad luck! Sun Wu Di, who forgot to zip his zipper after going to the bathroom, has no way to explain himself. He is also regarded as a pervert by the police officers and the two of them are taken back to the police station together!
At the police station, even when the two of them are handcuffed together, they still continue to argue. Sun Wu Di calls Shan Bao a pervert and insists on not changing his statement. Finally, under Shan Bao’s constant annoyance, he had no choice but to surrender. They both leave the police station together and are confronted with the cold faced Zu An. In order to show off, Wu Di expresses that he can find a “substitute” any time. In front of Zu An and Da Dao, he kisses Shan Bao, who did not leave quick enough. First it was innocently being taken into the police station and then it was her first kiss being bewilderedly snatched away. Shan Bao extremely detests this Wu Di, who is in front of her! With regards to his own recklessness, Wu Di feels a bit guilty. He can only watch as Hu Da Dao drives away with his sister in the car labeled “Guang Ji Barbecue Shop.” Just like that, these two people who had a special meeting when they were young, under this predestined meeting of not recognizing each other, once again meet under destiny’s arrangement…
The Powerful Invasion of the Western Culinary Corp’s, “Eight Allied Forces!”
Sun Wu Di turns to “Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant” from the police station. After the death of Sun Wu Di’s father, “Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant” was given over to Ji Da Wei to manage. After his many years of management and accumulation of public reputation, he is able to lead Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant into the top position of Eastern Cuisines. The Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant that is in front of him now is under a big crisis due to its status in the top position. This crisis is stemming from the legendary - “Eight Allied Forces Culinary Corp!!” This “Eight Allied Forces Culinary Corp” is known for going around the world and conquering Eastern cuisines. Holding onto the arrogant belief that “Western cuisines are the best,” they decide to head off to various parts of Asia to conquer the “Second best Eastern cuisines” that they look down upon!! This is just using the ways of cuisines in a mighty disguise to invade the Eastern culture!!
After successfully conquering the other countries of Asia, “Eight Allied Forces Culinary Corp” turns their attention to “Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant” as their first and utmost invasion target! Just when this threatening opponent is about to arrive, Wu Di and Uncle Da Wei get into an argument due to the differences in their principles. Their argument gets more and more intense which infuriates Ji Da Wei. Ji Da Wei simply decides to turn his back on “Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant” and the crisis with the “Eight Allied Forces.” He leaves on vacation without telling anyone. Wu Di thinks otherwise, he does not need Da Wei at all and will take care of everything himself!
On the other hand, Shan Bao feels very guilty. Because of the police incident going to the Pub, Wei Qing loses his job. Wei Qing knows that Shan Bao is coming to look for him and he quickly hides. She helps him, who she “admits” as being her boyfriend, to clean up his room. On the bulletin board in the room, it can be vaguely seen that Wei Qing has an intense hatred towards “Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant” and “Sun Wu Di.” This hatred seems to stem from a huge fire many years ago… At Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant, Wu Di explains to the reporters that the incident of being brought to the police station was all a misunderstanding. In addition, he urges them to remember to write more good news on his program. At the same time, Zu An packs her bags and is about to leave him forever! The arrogant Wu Di obviously doesn’t want her to go, but he didn’t say anything to make her stay. Seeing how he is still so self-centered, Zu An leaves without turning back.
After Shan Bao returns to Guang Ji from Wei Qing’s home, Ah Guang Shi sees that there seems to be something on his daughter’s mind. He presumes that it must have to do with a man and reminds her to watch what kind of guys that she is dating so that she doesn’t meet up with a pervert. According to the reports in the newspapers, 95% of men look for women with good bodies and among this, 90% value a women’s “chest” highly. Hearing her father say this, Shan Bao, who is suffering deeply from her own “flat-chest” problem, becomes even more startled. Because, wouldn’t this indicate that she is doomed to be unwanted by anyone?!
Frightened to Death! Flat-chest Ghost!
The next day, Wu Di thought that his incident with the police station would occupy the front page headlines but he never unexpected that it would only be pushed to a corner of the page with about the size of only a stamp! He glimpses over at the special layout of the headline news:
“Explosive! The hottest IN topic on the web, The Barbecue Shop of Terror creates uproar!”
It turns out that the video of the “flat-chest ghost” which the two customers uploaded on the web, reaches the number 2 spot on viewership rate. This causes “Guang Ji Barbecue Shop” to become extremely popular and even pushes “Wu Di’s Gourmet Date with You” down to the number nine spot! When he thinks that his fame is being threatened and humiliated, Wu Di immediately calls his crew together. He is determined to go and expose this Guang Ji Barbecue Shop who is depending on its popularity to gain fame!
At Guang Ji, Xiao Sha Ge is in the process of helping Ah Guang Shi “ba guan.” When Shan Bao sees the “ba guan” device, she wonders if it would work like the “breast enhancing devices” that she has seen from the home shopping channel! A light bulb flashes up and it’s as if she has found the answer to her problem! Taking the chance when no one is around, Shan Bao sneaks the ba guan device away. She is going to use it to treat her own flat-chest problem… In order to find a secret place to use the ba guan device, Shan Bao chooses the “most dangerous place” within the whole shop and that is the “secret recipe barbecue sauce storage room” which Ah Guang Shi forbids anyone in the shop from entering.
This place is located in the basement of Guang Ji and everyone is forbidden from entering, even Hu Da Dao and Hu Shan Bao are no exception. As noted “the most dangerous place, is the safest place.” There is no place throughout this whole shop which would be most suitable for Shan Bao to secretly carry out her breast enhancing “surgery!”
Sun Wu Di leads his crew and majestically comes to interview Guang Ji. He accidentally discovers that this shop really does have its skills! At this time, Shan Bao finally finds the key to the secret room and takes the ba guan devices that she stole from Xiao Sha Ge into the room in hopes of ridding herself from this flat-chest nightmare. At the same time, Ah Guang Shi is so proud of himself that he brings the crew to visit his secret room where he stores his barbecue sauce.
With Ah Guang Shi leading the way, this party of people arrives at the basement where the barbecue sauce is stored in the secret room. Who would have thought that once the door opens, they would find Shan Bao naked from the waist up inside the room with a pair of ba guan device on her breasts!!!
As everyone is stunned in their place, Wu Di is the first one to regain his composure. He quickly drives the photographer and the crew out of the door while he hastily takes off his coat and covers Shan Bao with it. “Wow! You have large biceps!” Sun Wu Di is astounded. Normal girls should not have biceps as large as this. For many years, these biceps have caused Shan Bao to be unable to meet a steady boyfriend and it has always been the most “inferior” flaw that Shan Bao feels about herself. Sun Wu Di, this reckless fellow, could so haughtily point out her flaw, he is just simply asking to be beaten up ~~~
The Distance of Beating Hearts
Naturally, Sun Wu Di and his crew were thrown out of Guang Ji! However, in order to get her “breast enhancing” tape back, Shan Bao decides to sneak into Wu Di’s house to steal the tape back! At the same time, Wu Di is kidnapped by a group of employees from Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant who felt that injustice was done to Wang Ye. Shan Bao, who is coming to get her humiliating tape back, also gets pulled into this incident and they both got kidnapped!
Stuck in this misfortune together, in the end, it is Shan Bao’s supernatural strength from her biceps that got them smoothly out of their predicament. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. It is also because of this crisis that Wu Di and Shan Bao is able to get to know each other a bit more. They become good friends; friends that make the heart beat quickly… Wu Di swears to Shan Bao that he “will absolutely not let the tape be broadcast to the public!!”
After overcoming the kidnapping crisis, Wu Di discovers that there is not one person who cares about him at Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant. It is to the point where there is no difference whether he is around or not. This makes Wu Di even more certain that a person’s heart is hard to understand! Fortunately, there is still one person – Ji Da Wei who would care about him.
However, Ji Da Wei is actually planning an even bigger scheme. He is going to use the “Eight Allied Force’s” “East West Cuisine War’s” invasion of “Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant” to make Sun Wu Di disappear. Da Wei is going to take this opportunity to take over Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant! Wu Di’s safe return from the kidnapping incident merely causes him to face an even bigger crisis ahead…
What about Shan Bao? Unexpectedly she also has an even bigger crisis!? The “breast enhancing” tape that Sun Wu Di swore will not be broadcasted accidentally gets put on air!! Using a ba guan device as a breast enhancing device is such a humiliating thing! It is actually broadcasted to the public on TV! How will Sun Wu Di save Shan Bao from such a huge crisis?
The arrogant and self-centered Sun Wu Di will have to resign from his position at Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant due to his contempt of Ji Da Wei and his contempt of the Eight Allied Force’s cultural invasion. It is to the point where he will have to go to “Guang Ji” to sell roast pork rice!!
How will the innocent Zu An face everything being stuck in the middle of the one that she loves, Wu Di and her father, Da Wei?
How will the arrogant Sun Wu Di start over from the small shop of “Guang Ji” and climb back to the top of the culinary world? What sort of enlightenment will he receive from Shan Bao and this bunch of common city people? Yet, the truly surprising thing is that the whole crisis between Heaven’s Fragrant Restaurant and the “Eight Allied Forces” comes from a mysterious person behind the scenes and that person is Shan Bao’s boyfriend – Wei Qing!?
How will a simple bowl of Three Treasures Rice going to be able to touch the complexity of one’s heart? How will it make an innocent street corner love successful? Please wait and witness the most earth-shattering, the most invincible love partner in the whole universe – Invincible Shan Bao Mei!!
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