"I added ingredients from two-thousand-year soul beasts to this meal... and finally, a Soul Ascension Pill as a supplementary ingredient."
Giving in, Gu Qingnian slowly explained what had gone into the meal. He had never been particularly poor, and thanks to a certain Young Master Xu's support, he still had some money left over.
Besides, most of it had been delivered by people acting on Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo's behalf-money, ingredients, and everything else. They wanted to make sure he did not fall behind anyone in that regard.
At first, the two had only sent him a few rare ingredients. Later, whether they had started competing with each other or what, they began showering him with high-grade ingredients, pills, money, and the like.
That had filled his coffers to overflowing, so he felt no sting at all when using them. For this meal, he had added a heap of thousand-year soul beast ingredients, and even a small portion of an ingredient from a ten-thousand-year soul beast.
Gu Qingnian had been craving a good meal himself, and he also wanted to nourish Jiang Nannan, who had only just awakened, so he had simply added all of it. At the end, he had even thrown in a Soul Ascension Pill and several other pills as supplementary ingredients.
The value of everything was staggering. He had originally intended to keep quiet, afraid Jiang Nannan would insist on paying in her current circumstances, so he had made the dishes look like ordinary home cooking.
But, unsurprisingly, Jiang Nannan had still insisted on paying. Left with no choice, Gu Qingnian could only tell her what the meal contained, though he revealed only a small portion of it.
What he had not expected was that, although Jiang Nannan had not seen every ingredient before, she