After losing her job, Nan Tu dejectedly returned to her hometown and opened a small, deserted restaurant that no one visited.

Before long, she discovered that every once in a while, this seemingly ordinary little restaurant would receive magical customers from various realms.

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The middle-aged man sitting in front of her was full of murderous energy, tall and rugged. He claimed to be from a post-apocalyptic world. “I don’t care what kind of trick this is. As long as you can get me a machine gun and a thousand rounds of ammunition, all this gold is yours.”

Nan Tu stared longingly at the pile of gold and regretfully said, “Sorry, I can only offer food. I can’t give you anything else.”

A few days later, the middle-aged man returned in a sorry state. “As long as you give me food, this machine gun is yours.”

Nan Tu said, “Wait, where’s your gold, big brother?”

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A witch living in a dark forest knocked on the restaurant door. “Oh my, my teleportation spell actually worked. Do you sell food here? That’s great. Now I don’t have to go to town to shop anymore.”

“Trying to get the town’s baker to make tasty bread is worse than begging the donkey at the mill.”

Nan Tu silently handed her a cupcake. “Would you like to try it?”

The witch licked the cream off her fingertips with relish and pulled out a few colorful potion bottles. “I should pay you. Would you like this gender-swap potion or this bad-luck potion?”

Nan Tu said, “Hmm… do you have a potion that turns things into gold?”

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Elder Wuji of Lingxiao Sect had been fasting for many years. One day he accidentally entered Nanlai Restaurant and ate a serving of ‘Hellfire Devil-Spicy Explosive Chicken Wings’. He beat his chest, cried bitterly, and came to a great realization. The intense stimulation broke his bottleneck, and his cultivation, which had not improved for years, suddenly advanced.

Hearing the news, cultivators swarmed in, crowding Nanlai Restaurant to the brim.

Nan Tu had to hang a wooden sign at the entrance: “The food in this restaurant has no benefit to cultivation. Damaging any tables or chairs inside will require tenfold compensation.”

The next day, Nan Tu received compensation of five hundred spirit stones.

Unknowingly, the restaurant had connected to the post-apocalyptic realm, the cultivation realm, the interstellar realm, the Western fantasy realm…

Nanlai Restaurant became famous far and wide. Nan Tu accidentally achieved financial freedom.