Kitchen of the Duke Julius’s mansion.
The busy chef was baffled by the sudden question.
Is there a dish that can be used to confirm if someone has a mushroom allergy?
“Well, it would be a mushroom dish, right?”
“Oh, is that so?”
The chef was dumbfounded.
Why hold the chef, who was busy to death, during the banquet time, right now?
The chef’s voice grew sharper with knife in hand.
“Do you even have to cook? Just try feeding mushrooms. Or just ask if they have an allergy in the first place. Wait, who has a mushroom allergy?”
The chef’s shoulders sagged.
“I don’t know. They didn’t tell me. They just asked to prepare such a dish.”
“Who?”
“Lady Hurst.”
Oh, no. An adversary that couldn’t be ignored?
Annoyance was written all over the chef’s sullen face.
The butler and the chef, always competing for the master’s favor and power, were the highestranking employees within the mansion.
Although the chef was no pushover, he couldn’t ignore Olga Hurst, who controlled the mansion behind the scenes, showered with the Duke’s wife’s favor.
Especially when there was a friction with the butler in the past, the judgment made by the Duchess, who always sided with the butler and instructed to follow the butler’s orders as a top priority, remained as a huge scar on the chef’s pride.
The chef became even more sensitive.
“So, what? Should I prepare just one mushroom dish? Or should all the dishes be prepared like that?”
“I don’t know, either. What should we do? We are almost out of time for our banquet, time is… Where should we start?”
The chef’s frustration surged.
The kitchen was a busy place.
But this is ridiculous.
“If someone has a mushroom allergy, they wouldn’t eat mushroom dishes, right? So, what’s the point of presenting such a dish as a test? Are you telling me to sneak mushrooms in? What if something happens? I’ll be fully responsible if anything goes wrong.”
Is this some kind of a trap?
“What should we do then…?”
Give clear instructions.
Anyway, time was running out.
After all, Olga Hurst’s orders had to be ‘prioritized’.
The chef swallowed his curse and quickly gave instructions.
“For now, put mushrooms in all dishes. But make sure they are in clear sight. If someone has an allergy, they can avoid it. Exclude all dishes with ground mushrooms and those made with mushroom broth.”
“Yes, Chef!”
If someone has an allergy, they would obviously leave the mushrooms aside, right.
That would be a test, whatever it is.
[This is the time separator]“Was mushrooms a specialty of Julius?”
“It surprisingly fits. Hahaha. I must tell our chef when I get back home.”
The guests happily wrapped up the unbalance of the dishes with laughter.
Facing the pudding, chocolate cake, and crème brûlée topped with mushrooms, the Duke and Duchess managed a forced smile amidst their bewilderment.
Offering the best dishes to the guests who visited their home was a matter of pride for the aristocrats.
It was a means of showing off the wealth of the mansion, and a process of evaluating the hostess’s sense.
In that aspect, their chef had always been satisfactory.
But a chocolate cake topped with mushrooms and a crème brûlée with mushrooms!
Hiring competent chefs and cooks to showcase the capability of the family was a necessity, and naturally, Julius, the largest conglomerate in the continent, employed the best chef as the head of the kitchen.
The Duchess hadn’t needed to check the dishes for several years after hiring him, like other ordinary hostesses.
She boasted about her wealth in front of the visitors admiring the fantastic dishes, and she merely had to flatter the competent chef, pretending to be humble.
But at such an important time when the best merchants from all over the empire are competing to visit the mansion!
A chocolate cake topped with mushrooms!
They may appear joyful and pleasant now, but they would certainly ridicule that Julius Mansion served chocolate cake topped with mushrooms once they went elsewhere!
The Duchess couldn’t believe that such a mistake had happened.
Mushrooms surprisingly go well with most dishes.
That’s why they didn’t notice until the desserts came out.
But once the desserts started to come out, they knew.
Mushrooms were added to all the dishes!
Was it because of the order to check if someone had a mushroom allergy?
Even so, there has to be a limit!
Wait.
Could these dishes have been served to Arthur as well?
The Duchess felt her head throb.
“How on earth are you handling your work?!”
[This is the time separator]“How the hell are you handling your work!” The Duke threw his hat as soon as the office door closed.
The Duchess shouted.
“You made that order!”
The Duke kept yelling without losing steam.
“Checking the final dishes for the guests is your job! Do I have to intervene in things like this?! How can you not do one thing correctly!”
The Duchess was shaking with anger.
Just as the Duke pointed out, that was the role of a hostess.
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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