Midway through, his gaze inadvertently drifted towards Mingmei's direction. When the barbecue was placed on a plate and Lou Jia was walking back, he subconsciously checked the butler's favorability rating towards Mu Chen—[Mu Chen: 80 points (Similar taste to the master).]
Unaware that his favorability rating had been observed, Mu Chen calmly selected the people he wanted to look at.
[Lu Xiaoyao: 87 points (A little girl who's lucky to eat a lot).]
Julian: 78 points.
[Bai Xiao: 74 points.]
Originally, he and Bai Xiao had agreed that the people they would watch were Julian, himself, and Lou Jia.
However, Mu Chen did not intend to cooperate with someone who had been hiding things from him from the beginning.
Moreover, after learning about Lu Xiaoyao's score, Mu Chen, while drinking his milk, once again turned his gaze to Bai Xiao, only to see Lu Xiaoyao sitting next to her chatting enthusiastically with Zhen Po next door.
Of those three, I guess only Lu Xiaoyao is heartless.
As Mu Chen watched the other two visibly lose their appetite while passing messages between Lu Xiaoyao, a slight smile crept onto his lips...
After the dinner party, Mingmei joined the cooks in cleaning up the kitchen. Everyone was very curious about Mingmei's new hairstyle that afternoon.
Cook A: "Oh my god, Mingming, how did you braid your hair? It's so beautiful!"
Cook B: "Yes, it feels so complicated, like the hairstyles of noble ladies and wives."
"No, I'm not very good at it either..." Mingmei was secretly pleased that even the NPCs praised the hairstyle Mu Chen had done for her.
However, not everyone was so kind. One of the cooks, C, said sarcastically, "You guys are country bumpkins. Your hairstyle looks like it's from some Eastern country. I've heard that ordinary people there have all sorts of hairstyles. It's nothing to be surprised about..."
Even if he manages to climb up to a candidate, so what? He's called a candidate, but isn't he just an illegitimate child? Before he became rich, he was just a country bumpkin!
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