"Boss Ming, are all the judges for your restaurant personally invited by you?" Gongsun Liangce had at least managed to see Ming Lingyi today, and he felt he should take the initiative to ask her directly.
'What if? What if my friend has a chance, too?'
'After all, it gets you into the official gazette. In a way, isn't that basically like publishing your own work?'
"Not all of them are invited by Boss Ming."
Just then, at Shangguan Jun's table, as he and Qiao Ming were telling their teacher the news they had gathered, someone from a nearby table suddenly interjected.
Chen Guochao had been a little dejected upon hearing his students' words. He didn't even know the owner of Ming's Restaurant. And she, he'd heard, was a woman, so she probably had never heard his name either. 'How could the owner of Ming's Restaurant possibly invite me?'
The elderly Imperial Doctor felt a wave of melancholy.
