Falling in Love with Ye Lingling

Heaven Dou Royal Academy Cafeteria

Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan went up to the second floor of the academy cafeteria and entered one of the Private Rooms.

Nearly all the top nobles of the Heaven Dou Empire gathered at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, so its chefs were among the finest in the empire.

The academy also used the finest ingredients. Soul Beast meat, rarely seen elsewhere, was everywhere here.

As the face of the Heaven Dou Empire and its talent pool, Heaven Dou Royal Academy received substantial funding from the imperial treasury every year.

Part of that funding subsidized the academy's meals.

So the food at Heaven Dou Royal Academy was not expensive.

As soon as Ye Lingling and Dugu Yan entered the Private Room, a server came in with a bow and handed each of them a menu and a pen.

With a polite smile, she said, "Just mark the dishes you'd like beneath their names."

Before long, Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling had finished marking their menus.

A while later, two servers brought their chosen dishes into the Private Room.

Dugu Yan was delighted by the bowl of white rice and two bowls of Soul Beast meat before her. Enjoying delicious food every day was always a pleasure!

But when Dugu Yan saw Ye Lingling's meal, she froze. "Lingling, what's wrong?

You only got a glass of milk, two glasses of orange juice, and two red-bean pastries? How is that a meal?"

Because Ye Lingling was withdrawn, she always insisted on paying for her own food.

Over time, her teammates had grown used to it.

But this time, Ye Lingling had taken so little that Dugu Yan was puzzled.

It never occurred to Dugu Yan that Ye Lingling might be short of money.

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