The venue needs to be cleaned up, and ingredients need to be replenished.

Therefore, they won’t be able to enter until 15 minutes later.

Someone with a curious nature asked the people who just finished the competition, "What was the theme for your round? Was it difficult? How were the judges?"

To ensure fairness, the themes for each round in the preliminary selection are different.

"The theme for our round was duck recipes," someone said. "It’s hard to say about the difficulty. If it’s conventional without any flair, then it’s not difficult. But if you want to innovate, then it’s hard. The judges are all very skilled and fair, that’s beyond doubt."

Of course, the person asking didn’t expect the other to speak poorly of the judges. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

They didn’t glean any useful information from the counterpart.

At this moment, someone came to inform that the participants of this round could go in to prepare.

"Xiao Fei, you got this!" Ye Xiaomo shook his little fist to cheer for Ye Fei.

"Xiao Fei, you’re definitely going to succeed!" Li Xiaoyun was also full of confidence in Ye Fei.

After all, facing strong opponents in the official qualifying matches might be a bit challenging for Ye Fei.

But during the preliminary selections, Li Xiaoyun never doubted that Ye Fei would pass.

However, to avoid creating enmity, Li Xiaoyun still didn’t dare to speak too loudly.

Can’t start by making enemies for Ye Fei.

Ye Fei nodded at them with a smile and subconsciously glanced at Zhao Gushen.

Zhao Gushen smiled slightly, suddenly raised his hand and gently patted Ye Fei’s head twice, "You can do it."

Ye Fei’s face flushed red, "Thank you..."

After speaking, Ye Fei turned around and ran.

Due to nervousness, she almost tripped herself by tangling her own feet.

She staggered and held onto the wall to steady herself.

However, it was really embarrassing, Ye Fei didn’t dare to look back and quickly went into the venue.

Li Xiaoyun shook her head, thinking Zhao Gushen was really mischievous.

Playing such a trick on Ye Fei before her competition, what if her mind gets disturbed and she performs poorly?

The participants of Ye Fei’s round entered, and the venue had been reset.

Everyone had their own cooking station.

There was also a nameplate for everyone on the counter.

Ye Fei’s nameplate was written as "Fei Xiaomo," just as she requested earlier.

Ye Fei found her cooking station and stood in place.

When other competitors saw Ye Fei’s nameplate on her station, they were surprised and looked at her.

"So she’s Fei Xiaomo," someone said.

But not everyone knew.

Many professional chefs don’t pay attention to food bloggers.

In their view, food bloggers are amateurs.

"Who is Fei Xiaomo?" someone asked.

"She’s a very popular food blogger. She had quite a fuss with another food blogger, Shi Jiumei, earlier. Both signed up for the competition," the person explained, "Just search for it online, and you’ll know."

"So she’s a food blogger," someone said instinctively after hearing.

The tone clearly carried disdain, looking down on food bloggers.

"Didn’t expect amateurs to compete this year, isn’t it ridiculous?"

"This really belittles the Changping Culinary Competition."

"Also, belittles us professional chefs."

"However, isn’t this better? At least among known competitors, there are already two less. Fei Xiaomo and Shi Jiumei might be successful as food bloggers, but as professional chefs, they’re not up to par. We can just eliminate the two of them. Our chance of advancing becomes greater."