DANMEI Reading List (RAW) Pt. 2

314. After I Quit the Sports Circle, I became a God of Cooking

Translator: N/A

Title: 退出体育圈后我成了厨神

Chapters: 296 + 9 Extras

Tags: sports, System, coach MC, athlete ML

Synopsis:

Su Bai decided to apply for retirement because of lack of hope for performance improvement, but when Su Bai officially submitted his retirement application, he suddenly had a "Super Idol System" appear in his mind?! 

The problem is, this system seems to be a bit unsatisfactory... The first task given to him is to practice basic knife skills for 1 hour?? After the task is over, his reward is the chef position of their provincial sports team??? Wait, are you an idol system or a chef development system?!

  ———————— Later, Su Bai's disciple became the best talented player in the team: Xiao Bai's cooking tastes the best in the world! 

The famous thorn in the team: Boss Su, I will do whatever you want me to do! 

Players in the team who did not perform well and wanted to retire: Thanks to Xiao Bai's suggestion that I switch projects, I think I can fight to the 2024 Olympics again!

  ......What? 

As Su Bai gained more and more skills, he finally understood deeply that this is not a chef development system, but a celebrity coach development system! 

A few years later, when a reporter interviewed Su Bai, a national meritorious coach, the reporter enthusiastically asked: How do you train players who are not much different from your own age? 

Su Bai was silent for a moment, and said with a sigh: Probably...If you are not obedient, don't eat the food I cooked.

Reporter: ??????

Impressions: From the same author as I Became A Big Star After I Quit The Entertainment Industry. I've already read this before but forgot to review. Rereading it now~

So our MC is a 100 meter athlete in the provincial team. He retired because he felt that he didn't have much talent. And then, got an inexplicable Idol System which are giving him cooking tasks XD Just right, his old coach got him a job in the provincial team's back kitchen. After doing those tasks, he discovers that he can see the 'status' of the athletes who ate his food. He can see their skills/potential values etc. And can even give them a buff such as increase training efficiency or increase competitive state.

Laters, his friend/roommate was almost taken off the lists of key athletes in his event (Also, 100 meters) and our MC knows from the System that this roommate has potential/talent in 400 meters dash, so he suggested it to the Coach, if his roommate can change projects. Laters, the coach agreed and his roommate tried it, and it really worked! So our MC becomes a junior coach in charge of the 400 meter project. Using the data he can see from the System plus the Coach training he gets from the System space, he formulates training plans for the athletes and improve their result. Laters, he gets recruited to the national team along with his athletes in 400 meters project and other events.

Our ML happens to be in this 'other events'. He is a 110m hurdles athlete, he has a high taste sensitivity so he became friendly to MC after he discovers that MC cooks good food. Our MC also discovers this from the System and feels sorry for ML cos for people with high taste sensitivity, its really torture to eat unpalatable food everyday (and he's been doing it since he was a kid. His family only thought he was a picky eater :() Laters, he also discovers ML's high rhythm sensitivity and his training plan from his coach is causing it to backfire, making ML unable to perform well in competitions. So our MC also helped him fix it and also became his coach. After ML achieve good results, he becomes famous as well as MC.

MC became famous for improving the records of the athletes under his hand, breaking the national record and rejuvenating(?) the 400 meter project. Anyway, there are many events, international competitions, Olympics. The drama! The passion! Sports! Woooo!!! Really reminds me of I Became A Big Star After I Quit The Entertainment Industry, but our MC here is more of a 'support' unlike the Big Star MC where he is the competitor himself. Another familiar element(?) is the variety show mentioned in Big Star which have helped the MC there several times. However, here in the God of Cooking, this variety show is BAD and even caused some young athletes to get injured and ruin their career just for hype :( Anyways, its pretty interesting to see similar elements but different effects~

Overall, this is really a sports novel. The romance is really few and mostly just the ML struggling with his feelings that he didn't even know was 'love'. (Anyways, he wants MC to pay attention to him!) It's all very dramatic, the feelings, the passion etc. for the competition. Actually, the whole time I was reading this, I was just thinking "How nice... the Olympics is happening in the novel. Sigh for IRL." XD

Read this for sports and slow romance~~