The host had interviewed 44 elite chefs, and upon reaching Chef 44, he was surprised, "I didn't expect you to still be here."
Chef 44 replied, "I'm very fortunate, I thank my close friend."
"Your close friend?"
"Yes, I consider her my close friend. Without her understanding of me and giving me a perfect score, I definitely would have been eliminated."
"Your close friend is a judge?"
"It's Little Taotie." He didn't keep it a secret any longer.
The judge joked, "Little Taotie is really lucky to have a friend like you. I would be very happy too if I were her. After all, no one can refuse to be friends with a chef."
Chef 44 blushed, "Privately... I don't know her."
The host was almost speechless, realizing it was his own fantasy to have an extra close friend here.
"I and she share a heartfelt connection; she understands me too well. Everyone in the cooking competition thought fried rice is too trivial to be considered, but only she knew that making fried rice is the hardest."