CHAPTER 29: ONCE A ROYALTY

And thus, Ru Feifei’s father ended up on the street with his entire family, dying of not being able to afford food for his family, and Ru Feifei was exploited thoroughly until she was disposed of and killed off in a dungeon, silently.

But this time, Ling Yu bowed to protect the people she cared about, and she would never let Ru Feifei’s family end up like her last life; she would personally make sure of it.

"If it’s like that, I can also take up some part-time jobs to take care of myself. Why should I leave for abroad when everything I have or need is here?" Ling Yu changed the subject of conversation deliberately as she shrugged her shoulders, but her words only made Ru Feifei even more terrified than before.

"W-what? Part-time jobs? Like serving at hotels or working as a florist in a flower shop?"

"What else? Come to think of it, I can also work at amusement parks, or in companies, rent houses, and many other places too... wait, what happened to you all of a sudden?" Ling Yu stopped eating as she started counting the places she planned to work with her fingers, but she stopped when she looked up at Ru Feifei, who was pressing her neck in one hand like a high blood pressure patient, as she looked devastated.

"No, are you serious?! You want me to believe that the former princess of the Empire is working as a hotel boy?! You..." Ru Feifei couldn’t express her thoughts straight up in front of her friend, who was considering those odd jobs as work.

She really wanted to curse!

However, Ling Yu’s thoughts and plans were different from Ru Feifei’s, who thought that doing odd jobs might tarnish her reputation entirely.

Ling Yu was already sick and fed up with her identity as a princess in her last life, being exploited because of a former identity she had left behind. She didn’t want to be haunted by that same nightmare once again.

What’s more, her ideology was far futuristic and part of her plan; she didn’t feel that low-class workers and low-class society were so unworthy of attention and respect.

Because later in the future, many of the Empire’s heroes, the strongest awakeners who were hailed for their might and became the pride of the nation, came from simple origins, commoner backgrounds, not from aristocratic-born noble brats.

Besides, she can use her part-time job as an excuse to enter places she can’t normally enter freely. Using her skills and past experiences, she can spot and hire those guys and bring them back to nurture them, while gathering much information she couldn’t previously, killing two birds with one stone.

Just like right now, in the cafeteria, where a horde of glowing screens was looming above the heads of all the students present.

Especially that blindingly dazzling golden light that followed them into the cafeteria was too eye-catching!

Heck, like what was even He Xun doing in a place like the cafeteria?

Didn’t he always dislike unhygienic food and avoid eating in places like roadside stores or the cafeteria?

Forget it, she didn’t want to guess the way of a rich person’s thoughts, but she couldn’t entirely ignore the three silver screens surrounding him either.

Obviously, the whole group was the guys she saw earlier in the seminar room. But all of them were scattered around the room and attended to help the students over, that’s why it was not that noticeable.

However, now that all of them sat together at the same table, she couldn’t help but feel intrigued by them, especially because she could see their stat.

Three silver and one gold means three A ranks and one S rank at once, sitting at the same table?

Since when was our University so good at having such hidden daggers and crouching tigers?

Since it was hard to resist staring at those fellas, Ling Yu had no choice but to turn off the Appraisal skill for now as she turned her attention back to Ru Feifei. Skills like these also seemed to decrease a lot of stamina when she turned them on for too long.

Let’s put everything aside and rest for a bit, enjoy the food and nature, food and nature.

She changed her perspective on the commoners and the lower class society after going through a lot of grueling experiences in her past life, but this girl didn’t need to know everything, as it was exactly as it is.

She understood her friend’s reaction completely, because being someone of her status, she enjoyed all the wealth and shelter of her family, growing up in a lovely environment, pampered and spoiled by everyone.

It was only right that she looked down on people who weren’t from aristocratic society, but she was still humane.

At least she was not a menace and a cruel person like Jiang Meng, who toyed with the lives of low-class people. Compared to Jiang Meng, Ru Feifei was someone worth teaching, and Ling Yu was patient enough to help her understand the way and life of low-status people, to be kind and passionate towards them.

Perhaps she can take her to walk around among common people, to learn their lifestyle, and to learn to be more compassionate.

Ling Yu took Ru Feifei’s hands and pressed them together in her own hands, saying with a calm smile, yet with a serious and gentle expression. "Feifei, I was a Royalty, but now I’m deemed a lord of a barren territory, just a noblewoman. Do you hate me for that, or do you feel disgusted towards me?"

Ru Feifei was startled by this sudden serious question, but she panicked as she said quickly, "No way! I can even swear on my life, no matter what happens, I’ll never betray my only best friend or turn around from her!"

"Fine, fine, fine, tone it down a bit, will you? Look, so many people are looking at us now."