《Rebirth of the Entertainment Giant》Money Breeds Wastrels
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Outside the hotel, Cao Feifei and Ling Feng were blindsided.
Their intention was to humiliate Zhang Xiaohua in order to force him to run off. Unexpectedly, he was so calm and wasn't even angered in the slightest. He accepted Ling Feng's "alms" with such grandeur and swaggered into the hotel.
What a divine level of shamelessness!
This shocked them both, especially Cao Feifei. In her view, Zhang Xiaohua's heart was quite fragile and shouldn't be able to stand the slightest blow.
She remembered when Zhang Xiaohua had received a some grievance, he had run home and closed himself in his room for a whole month.
However, even if Cao Feifei and Ling Feng were unwilling, they could not find another reason to humiliate Zhang Xiaohua.
Too shameless!
"Master Ling, you just said that their consumption tonight was on your tab. Do you want me to just give them a few side dishes and kick them out?"
Ling Feng's complexion was white for a while, he was pissed that Xiaohua had disregarded him.
Although he wasn't willing to actually pay, but he also doesn't want to be seen as a cheapskate.
‘If I break my promise, wouldn't I have lowered myself to their level? Plus if this gets out, how could I continue to go out?’
"No, this young master still has some money. Tonight, you should let this group of peasants do as they like. All their accounts will be paid for on my tab!" Ling Feng's heart was stunned and he was gnashing his teeth as he squeezed his words out.
"It can't be that expensive right?" Cao Feifei said as she raised an eyebrow. After he heard this, Ling Feng became even more annoyed at the situation.
Ling Feng's anger was overwhelming as his eyes glared at Cao Feifei, which transferred his frustration on to her. He warned her with great strength: "Today, I looked after your Cao family's reputation and have received nothing in return for helping. If you dare try to use me to deal with a bunch of rubbish next time, I won’t care what happens." As he changed his look to the doorman, he shouted "Hurry up and go get my car!"
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Cao Feifei was frightened from his outburst.
Not only did the doorman not dare to refute, he did not dare to delay either. He quickly rushed off into the parking lot and went to grab Ling Feng’s car. He almost fell down multiple times on the way there.
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In the elevator, as he saw that Yuan Datong was still not moving. Zhang Xiaohua smiled and quickly urged him: "I say big head. What are you doing there? Come on and hurry up, otherwise we will all starve to death."
Yuan Datong quickly recovered, however his face was still full of confusion.
Just now, he felt that he was not facing Zhang Xiaohua but a completely different person.
The Zhang Xiaohua he knew would never be so confident, nor would he be so generous, let alone have such ambitions to speak of.
However, just now, this kid actually dared to say that in the near future he would acquire this five-star hotel.
He was crazy!
Not to mention that his family still owed so much money, even if his father was still alive, Yuan Datong believed even he would not dare say this.
While Yuan Datong was still deep in thought, he heard Zhang Xiaohua shout "I say big head. Could you hurry up!"
Looking around, he watched Zhang Xiaohua's cynical smile and Yuan Datong could not help but smile in return, his heart gradually became as firm as a rock.
In short, whether or not he was crazy, since they were true brothers, it was necessary to work together and move forward together.
Even if he was crazy, then they must be crazy together!
This was what a real sworn brother was.
After thinking this, Yuan Datong felt that his heart was liberated and his mood had become very pleasing. While he strided toward the elevator, he shouted loudly: "My name is Datong, Yuan Datong, not big head. When did my the name change?"
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The next moment, when the elevator door opened, they had arrived at the hotel's 20th floor, which was the top floor for the building.
A casual room at this hotel was at the Supreme VIP level, and it was said that you could dine here while enjoying the night view of the city.
"Welcome to 'The Castle in the Air'. Do you have a reservation?" A young and beautiful waitress respectfully stood in front of the elevator and her sweet voice slowly rang.
"Oh, we are..." Xiaohua Zhang slowly replied as he turned his eyes upward to stare at the ceiling for a moment, before he continued to say "We are the VIPs whom Ling Feng had invited, Master Ling will be covering our fees this evening. Could you please call your Manager Wang to come out."
Upon hearing the name "Ling Feng", the waiters expression become shocked and immediately raised the level of Zhang Xiaohua and the others as guests in her mind. She smiled sweetly and said: "Good sir, I'll take you to Ling's VIP room first. Please follow me.
"What do you want to do here?"
"Eat of course, what else can I do?" Zhang Xiaohua laughed, as he shouted loudly.
Emma, Xiaohai, Haozi, Jack, and Jimmy were also unusually excited at this time. Just like tourist's that had entered a new city, they constantly looked around. In general, for these type of high-class establishments, they did not even reach the minimum threshold to enter. Not to mention expecting to eat here. Now that they were immersed in the environment, they weren't only flattered, but they were overjoyed.
After a while, under the leadership of the waiter, Zhang Xiaohua and the others came to an ultra-luxurious VIP room.
A few looks around and they saw that the private room was 300 square meters in size, brightly lit, and extremely open.Three of the walls were floor-to-ceiling windows made out of toughened glass and there was also a skylight in the ceiling which after looking up you could see the beautiful starry sky from the panoramic view.
In the middle of the room was an oversized mahogany round table, it was enough for 30 people to eat at the same time and looked like a small stage, which could also rotate. Other furnishings that were in the room, included; a few sofas, a couple of jukeboxes, a karaoke machine and other various entertainment facilities were available.
"Please come in and take a seat. I will quickly contact Manager Wang and call him to entertain you."
"Okay, please just send people with drinks and some plates of food or something. As for the tip, Brother Ling Feng had said you should wait for him to pay when he next comes to visit. As long as the person has served us tonight, each person would receive ¥100,000 in tips. When Ling Feng comes, you can directly ask him for it say that Zhang Xiaohua had said you could have it and he will certainly gift it to you." Xiaohua Zhang smiled proudly.
When the waiter had heard that, she quickly rushed out to grab the drinks to serve them "Thank you, Mr. Zhang. I shall arrange it for you now. Please wait for the boss."
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