Chapter 1 — Raising a Phoenix as a Chicken

After being unemployed, I really couldn't raise a fire-breathing chicken at home anymore. So I called Luc Tu Than: "Do you know how to raise chickens?"

“If I don't know, I'll just have to send it to the livestock farm.”

The other end of the line roared: "Send it here, I'll take it to the ship depot!" [Screen comment]: *【So pathetic! The female lead is engaged, the male supporting character is in despair and is about to jump into the sea to commit suicide, but then receives a scam call.】* *【Wait, it doesn't look like it's a scam... Isn't this the character who crossed Giap's path 5 years ago and accidentally slept with the male supporting character? The little chick is already this big?!】* *【Let it go, the male supporting character died, the passerby was also hit by a car, so this chick was sent to a farm, eventually becoming a famous dish: Eight Treasure Gourd Chicken!】* Eight Treasure Gourd Chicken? It sounds delicious! I quickly squeezed Khuong Nac Nuoc's beak that was about to spit fire.

"If you spit any more, you'll become a gourd chicken now!"

01 I squeezed Khuong Nac Nac's beak that was about to breathe fire, and I choked back the fire in his mouth. It blinked sadly and flapped its wings a few times.

“Umm… Mom, what is a gourami chicken?”

I let go and opened my phone to look up.

“Get a young chicken.”

I bent down and glanced at the small, round, colorful ball of cotton in my lap. Um, Khuong Nac Nac, very accurate.

“Debone the whole animal, stuff it with eight treasure sticky rice filling, blanch quickly in boiling water to shape, use cotton thread to tie it into a gourd shape, and put it in the pot to steam for one hour.”

A photo of a shiny golden gourd chicken, delicately shaped, appeared on the screen. My stomach was so confused that it made a "rumbling" sound. Khuong Nac Nac trembled, her wings retracted tightly, her buttocks were clamped tightly, and she burst into tears.

"I don't want to be a gourd chicken! I don't eat well! I'm skinny!"

I rubbed its furry head and sighed: "It's okay, mommy will take me to find dad, he has money." I flipped through the photo I downloaded from the internet. Luc Tu Than wears a vest, leather shoes, cold eyes, with the look of "living people should not come close". Khuong Nac Nac turned around, tilted his head to look for half a day, then bent down to look at his five-colored fur, curiously asking: "Why doesn't Dad look like a child?" [Screen comment]: *【Stupid child, your father is a phoenix! Up until now, your mother still thinks that your father is a wild chicken goblin. This difference in perception makes me laugh to death.】* *【The important thing is that this passerby mother actually considered this little boy a wild chicken and raised it for 4 years. He raised it next to a cart selling pancakes and yet raised it to be fat and round like a ball, which is truly a miracle.】* *【Four years already! This kid doesn't even know how to fly, last time he climbed up on a chair but his legs were weak. I'm a descendant of the phoenix but I'm afraid of heights! Who can believe it? Hahaha!】* Phoenix? The legendary creature? I was stunned for a moment. Actually, a few comments just now told me that Luc Tu Than is a phoenix, and the world I live in is a novel. He is a supporting male, the type of male supporting character who is willing to burn himself for the female lead without expecting anything in return. And the female lead is the biological daughter of my adoptive parents. I am the fake who was mistakenly carried at the hospital. The day the truth was revealed, I was kicked out of my house. My biological parents passed away a long time ago, and overnight, I was nothing. At the last party attended with me before leaving, I accidentally drank a glass of drugged wine. When I woke up, lying next to me was the young master of the Luc family - the person who, with just one stamp of his foot, shook the entire business world of City A. I was so scared that I didn't even have my shoes on properly before I ran away. After being kicked out of home, I wandered to another place. Setting up stalls, pouring pancakes, cooking fish, I do all the dirty and tiring work. The days are hard enough, but I'm pregnant. When it was born, it was an egg. I panicked, thinking I had a mutation, stayed up all night online looking up egg incubation instructions, bought my own equipment, adjusted the temperature, turned the eggs, sprayed water, and stubbornly incubated this egg until it hatched. The day the shell broke, a small five-colored cotton ball came out. Looking up all kinds of species, I concluded: Probably, roughly, probably a wild chicken. Because I am human, the problem lies eight or nine times with Luc Tu Than, he is definitely a wild chicken goblin. But if she was born, why would she leave her alone? In addition to being unable to transform into human form, Khuong Nac Nac's greatest talent is breathing fire. Gas money at home is considered to be saved, cooking depends entirely on its gas. But his eating habits are too cruel, even if he wants to eat 5 meals a day he still complains of hunger, the salary I earn is not enough to stuff his teeth. Looking at this situation, I'm about to starve to death. 02 I had no choice but to go online and look up the phone number of Luc Thi Group. Called several times, the other side scolded me for being a scammer, telling me to report any more harassment to the police. In the end, I had to ask Tan Tri Du - my former nemesis, to help me get Luc Tu Than's personal phone number. On the other end of the phone, she laughed coldly: "Khuong Lenh Vi, why do you need Mr. Luc's phone call? If you want to die, find some mountain and jump off, why do you have to look for Mr. Luc? Don't you know his tricks?" I gritted my teeth and endured it. I humbly begged for half a day before she reluctantly gave me a series of numbers. Before calling, I actually didn't hold any hope. When he connected the phone, he even choked me up when he used the word "train warehouse". Stop it. Out of respect for his cold heart at this moment, preparing to jump into the ocean and commit suicide, I forgave him for talking nonsense. I called that number again. This time, the ringing took a long time, and the voice that came was filled with impatience.

"Who are you? Don't let me catch you, otherwise..."

[Comment]: *【Save lives! The male supporting character's suicidal atmosphere has been hatched 800 times, but he was repeatedly interrupted by a passerby calling.】* *【If you're about to commit suicide, can't you turn off the phone? Or throw away the phone.】* *【Upstairs is so naive, he's clearly waiting for the female lead to hold on.】* I didn't wait for him to finish threatening, and decisively interrupted: "Then come and arrest me, I'm at 821 Thien Dong Street." The other end of the line was silent. I added another sentence: "If you don't come, I will take this fire-breathing chicken and send it to the farm."

“What chicken?”

“Chickens can spit fire.”

There was suddenly a deep echo on the other side, followed by a "plop" sound, and then the gurgling sound of water bubbles. [Comment]: *【Fuck! The man was so shocked by this news that he slipped and fell headfirst into the sea!】* *【Good guy! But I still managed to struggle and drag myself to shore, what a big life!】* *【Miracles! Phoenix actually knows how to swim! Except his phone is completely broken, now he's stomping angrily on the shore, his shoes are full of water! Hahaha!】* I quietly hung up and started waiting for him. The room was very small, with a bed, a table, a rickety cabinet and a few potted green plants that I had difficulty raising in the corner of the wall. Khuong Nac Nac was so hungry that he started nibbling on my potted betel plant. The beak opens and closes continuously, chewing like a goat.

“Nac Nac, that can't be eaten.”