Chapter 360: The Gynophobe Crown Prince 10

After paying, Tang Wan immediately returned to her normal expression and said quietly to Zhou Zitong, “Tongtong, can I ask you something?”

“Do you know of any way to find a part-time job?” Tang Wan looked embarrassed, lightly pressing her index fingers together.

Hearing this, Zhou Zitong was stunned.

Thinking of her shocked, pained expression just now, as well as what she had said earlier about coming from the countryside, he suddenly understood what was going on.

Could she… be short of money?

For a moment, Zhou Zitong pursed his lips before saying, “The academy prohibits students from working part-time while they’re attending school.”

Everyone who could enter the Imperial Military Academy was an elite—the future pillars of the Empire. The academy would never allow them to do something like part-time work that would interfere with their studies during the period when they should be learning.

……

Tang Wan naturally knew about the school’s regulations. And she wasn’t short of money at all. Pretending to be poor was merely an excuse to make her approach to Zhou Zitong seem more natural.

So after hearing his answer, she immediately put on a dejected expression.

“Okay.”

Seeing this, Zhou Zitong unexpectedly took the initiative to ask, “Are you running out of money?”

Tang Wan scratched her head somewhat sheepishly. “Yeah. I didn’t expect the cost of living in the Imperial Capital to be so high. I only have nine star coins left now. Luckily, the school provides nutritional supplements every week.”

Hearing this, Zhou Zitong stared at her sullen expression.

Even the cheapest tube of nutritional supplement cost ten star coins. In other words, she couldn’t even afford a nutritional supplement now.

She spent all her living expenses just to treat me to a meal. Is she an idiot?

“The meal was only just paid for. It should still be possible to cancel the order and get a refund,” Zhou Zitong immediately said.

“How could I do that? I already said I was treating you to a meal!” Tang Wan hurriedly said.

Then she suddenly raised her eyes and looked at Zhou Zitong with her large, sparkling eyes.

“Tongtong, we’re friends now, right?”

Hearing this, Zhou Zitong looked at her with his usual cold expression and didn’t answer.

Tang Wan hadn’t expected him to answer anyway. She rubbed her hands together and looked at him sheepishly.

“Since we’re friends now, you wouldn’t just watch me starve to death, right? In the future… can I come eat with you? I can just eat whatever you don’t finish! Once I have money later, I’ll treat you to meals every single day!”

Hearing this, the corner of Zhou Zitong’s mouth twitched.

So, you treated me to one meal, and now I have to treat you to meals every day?

Hmph!

Do you think I’m stupid?

What a scheming little sissy!

However, surprisingly, he wasn’t annoyed by it. And having someone accompany him while eating wasn’t bad either.

Thus, Zhou Zitong nodded indifferently.

“Mm.”

……

Tang Wan had already prepared herself to be rejected. After all, his current favorability was only twenty.

She never expected Zhou Zitong to actually agree.

For a moment, she couldn’t help giving Zhou Zitong a huge smile.

“Tongtong, you’re seriously the best!”

Soon, the food was served.

Tang Wan cheerfully picked up dishes and placed them into Zhou Zitong’s bowl.

“Here, here, Tongtong, eat more!”

When the people around them saw Tang Wan actually daring to put food into Zhou Zitong’s bowl, they all stared in utter shock.

Who is this short boy? He’s got some serious nerve.

He actually put food into the Crown Prince’s bowl!

There’s no way the Crown Prince will eat it, right?!

Yet in the next moment, they saw Zhou Zitong pick up his chopsticks and leisurely pick up the food from his bowl and eat it.

Everyone: “!!!”

The Crown Prince actually ate it!

We’re not seeing things, are we?

……

What they didn’t know was that, compared to their astonishment, Tang Wan’s natural and easygoing attitude toward him only made it seem even more precious.

After all, humans were social creatures by nature. No one could truly avoid yearning for the warmth that others could bring.

Zhou Zitong was no different.