At the Imperial Academy.
Song Lin had stayed up nearly all night talking with the Song family, and he was exhausted. However, he was currently short on funds and could not afford the pay deduction that came with taking leave.
The Fourth Prince truly valued him, but squeezing money out of the prince was a pipe dream. Furthermore, the Fourth Prince did not allow his retainers to use his name to amass wealth, as he considered every cent of that money his own. Thus, even though the Fourth Prince’s influence had helped Song Lin rise to a sixth-rank position, he remained remarkably poor.
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