The Bitter World: Bento Shop of the Gods

Cai Gen's twilight years should be simple: run his struggling bento shop, survive another day. Then a wild rumor ignites—eat his food and ascend to godhood. Overnight, deities, demons, and desperate mortals descend on his humble counter, each seeking divine transformation through a lunch box. But in a world soaked in suffering, can a worn-out cook really hold the secret to transcendence? Dark humor meets urban fantasy in this tale where every delivery might be your last, and happiness is the cruelest joke of all.