Chef at the University Canteen-Chapter 472 - 272: Jiang Yu Is Single, Do I Have a Chance? (Part 3)

There weren’t many graduates from the Philosophy Department of Jiang University in the class of 2015, only about thirty in total. Although they were seated in three separate rooms, the dishes on each table were the same. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Therefore, in reality, Jiang Yu only needed to prepare each dish in three portions, which was naturally much easier.

After calling Boss Zhao, Jiang Yu didn’t rush to start preparing. As usual, he made himself a cup of hot tea and leisurely strolled to the private room on the first floor to relax.

It had been a while since he played chess properly. Now that the thesis defense was over, Jiang Yu felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted, and he felt much lighter all over.

If he played chess in this state, the robot wouldn’t stand a chance against him!

While Jiang Yu was relaxing, Hu Zhihai started feeling nervous.

Hu Zhihai still had to attend his graduation thesis defense in the afternoon, so he couldn’t be as relaxed. After eating, he sat down and carefully went through his thesis from start to finish.

Jiang Yu had already told him that this year’s thesis defense wouldn’t be easy. That old professor with the thick eyebrows seemed like someone who was very strict with students. If you weren’t familiar with your own thesis, the defense could be tough.

If failing the thesis defense resulted in a delayed graduation, that would be like "calling out to heaven with no response and calling to earth without an answer."

Because of this, Hu Zhihai, who usually didn’t care about anything and always had a carefree attitude, finally started feeling a bit nervous. After lunch, he didn’t even take a break and started reviewing his thesis diligently, even taking out paper and pen to rearrange the structure of his thesis.

He really didn’t want to delay graduation!

Delaying a year might be a small issue, but the embarrassment would be huge!

As the son of Jiangzhou’s richest man, did he not care about his reputation?!

Before 1:30 in the afternoon, Hu Zhihai had packed up his things and hurried to the School of Humanities to prepare for his thesis defense.

Not long after Hu Zhihai left, Boss Zhao from the fresh food delivery center brought over a three-wheeler full of ingredients. Du Guangning and the two apprentices moved all the ingredients to the fridge in the kitchen on the second floor and then started processing them at a leisurely pace.

After all, there was still plenty of time before dinner, so there was no need to rush.

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At the Jiang University College of Humanities, there was still some time before the afternoon thesis defense officially started. Graduates who hadn’t yet defended had already arrived early, gathering in small groups in the first-floor hall, chatting and cooling off.

Hu Zhihai was considered late. As soon as he walked into the first-floor hall, he realized everyone else was already there.

In the morning, both Hu Zhihai and Jiang Yu had arrived quite late, and by then the thesis defense was about to start, so other classmates hadn’t gone over to chat with Hu Zhihai.

But Wang Jia, the female classmate, was not shy. She went over to chat with Jiang Yu for a bit and even managed to get a meal for the whole class from him.

In fact, Wang Jia wasn’t the only one curious about Jiang Yu. Many of the female classmates were curious.

They all wanted to know how Jiang Yu, who had been quiet and like an "invisible person" in the class for the past three years, suddenly changed.

It really gave everyone quite a shock!

They naturally knew that Hu Zhihai and Jiang Yu were good friends.

So when Hu Zhihai showed up, the girls in the first-floor hall had their eyes light up and quickly surrounded him, bombarding him with questions:

"Hu Zhihai, tell us, I saw many people on Douyin saying that once you taste the food at the Seventh Dining Hall, you can’t forget it. Is Jiang Yu’s cooking really that good?"

"Oh, that’s not even a question. I went to the Seventh Dining Hall for lunch, and it was indeed delicious. I’m still savoring it now! Hu Zhihai, what I want to know is, how did Jiang Yu get so good? Where did he learn to cook?"

"Hu Zhihai, every day so many people eat at Jiang Yu’s Seventh Dining Hall, and he has a No. 7 Dining Room restaurant too. He must have made a lot of money by now, right? Ugh, so envious, we don’t even know where we’ll work yet!"

"Hu Zhihai, is Jiang Yu still single? Do you think I’d have a chance..."

"..."

Hu Zhihai never expected these girls to be so interested in Jiang Yu and was completely overwhelmed by the barrage of questions.

It took him a while to react. As he tried to maneuver his way out of the crowd, he kept saying:

"How would I know the answers to these questions? I’m just there for the food and don’t know anything else. If you want to know, why not just ask Jiang Yu directly?"

Just as he was about to break free from the circle of girls, a small white hand grabbed him, and a lively voice spoke up:

"Hu Zhihai, why are you running? We’re not going to eat you! We’re asking you a serious question. Jiang Yu said he’d treat our whole class to dinner tonight, he wasn’t joking about that, was he?"

"Of course, it’s true. Lao Jiang always means what he says. Besides, even if he were joking, he wouldn’t joke about this."

Hu Zhihai realized this was indeed a serious question. He couldn’t believe one of the girls wanted to climb to greater heights, that was way out of line!