Manager Zhang moved quickly and immediately checked the accounts.
Zhong Suian took the bill and glanced over it.
“The total is 16.3729 yuan. I’ll round it up to 16.4. Pay up.”
At the mention of money, the young men immediately wilted.
“This… this…”
Sweat appeared on Zhang Ming’s forehead. He nudged Lin Zixuan beside him with his elbow.
“Brother Xuan, didn’t you say you were treating us?”
Lin Zixuan tightly gripped his phone, his expression extremely ugly. He had probably just contacted his family.
However, for the sake of his pride, he still forced out a smile.
“An’an, this is between the two of us. Why do you have to…”
Zhong Suian did not listen to him at all. She slapped the bill onto the table.
“Cut the nonsense. Either settle the bill now, or I’ll call each of your families personally!”
Hearing that, the spoiled rich kids immediately panicked.
Zhang Ming slammed the table anxiously.
“Zhong Suian, are you being reasonable? How can you round the amount up instead of down? Believe it or not, I’ll report you!”
Zhong Suian crossed her arms and sneered.
“You’ve owed this bill for several months. Am I not allowed to charge a little interest?”
“Do you think I run a charity?”
She took out her phone and slid her finger across the screen.
“Whose family should I call first?”
“How about yours?”
Zhang Ming instantly panicked.
He tugged on Lin Zixuan’s sleeve.
“Brother Xuan, why don’t you just pay the bill first?”
“You know my family’s situation. If this call really reaches my parents, they’ll break my legs!”
“That’s right, Brother Xuan.”
Another young man leaned closer with an ingratiating smile.
“My family just gave me a serious scolding yesterday. Please don’t make things difficult for me…”
Make things difficult?
Who exactly was making things difficult for whom?
Lin Zixuan clenched his fists.
Staring at Zhong Suian’s faintly mocking expression, he suddenly tore the watch from his wrist and slammed it onto the table.
“This should be enough to cover the debt, right?”
Zhong Suian lazily glanced at it.
“This watch only costs two or three yuan brand-new. A secondhand one is worth even less.”
“You’re trying to fool me with this piece of junk?”
Xiaoyu and Manager Zhang struggled to suppress their laughter.
Lin Zixuan’s face instantly turned dark purple with humiliation.
“I didn’t bring anything valuable today.”
“Keep the watch for now. I’ll pay the rest in a few days.”
“The rest?”
Zhong Suian did not accept his proposal.
“Do I need to remind you of your family’s current financial situation?”
“What exactly are you planning to use to repay me?”
“I’ll make myself clear. Unless the entire bill is paid today, none of you are leaving!”
The private room immediately fell silent.
The young men exchanged glances, hesitation flickering in their eyes.
“B-Brother Xuan…”
One of his followers swallowed nervously and spoke tentatively.
“Don’t you have anything else valuable on you?”
“Why don’t you look again?”
“That’s right, Brother Xuan. If there’s really no other way, just call your father.”
“A little over ten yuan should be nothing to the Lin family!”
Lin Zixuan’s expression grew uglier by the second.
It was bad enough that Zhong Suian was mocking him. Now even these followers were pressuring him.
He finally lost his patience.
He suddenly grabbed the speaker by the collar.
“Who the hell do you think you are?”
“You think you’re qualified to tell me what to do?”
“B-Brother Xuan…”
The follower’s face turned pale from being strangled.
“I didn’t…”
“What do you mean you didn’t?”
Lin Zixuan shoved him away forcefully.
“You usually eat my food and drink my wine, but now you’re trying to walk all over me?”
Zhang Ming hurried forward to stop the fight.
“Brother Xuan, calm down. Xiao Liu didn’t mean it that way.”
“Shut up!”
Lin Zixuan turned and slapped him across the face.
“You all ate the food, but now you want to push the entire bill onto me?”
“You’re nothing but a pack of ungrateful wolves!”
“Lin Zixuan, have you lost your mind?”
Zhang Ming covered his face and roared angrily.
“If you hadn’t pretended to be rich and kept treating us, do you think we would’ve flattered you every day?”
“You can’t even come up with a little over ten yuan, yet you’re still acting like some wealthy young master.”
“Bah!”
…
The private room instantly descended into chaos.
The young men shoved and cursed one another endlessly.
Watching them turn against each other, Zhong Suian calmly took out her phone.
She recorded several high-definition videos and directly posted them in the university’s main group chat.
Only then did she turn around.
“Manager Zhang, call the police.”
“Oh, right.”
Her gaze swept across the wrecked private room.
“Make sure they also compensate us for all the damage they caused today.”
“Not a single cent less.”
The Lin family was definitely going bankrupt.
The families of these followers had also relied on the Lin family’s protection, so none of them would meet a good end.
There was no need for her to worry about them.
Without looking back, Zhong Suian walked out.
Manager Zhang and Xiaoyu followed closely behind, leaving several security guards to control the scene.
After walking a few steps, she suddenly stopped.
“Oh, right.”
“Fire Sister Ying’s two followers as well.”
Keeping people like that in the hotel would only allow them to become parasites.
“Hire a few new employees.”
“As for the vacant management position…”
She turned toward the nervous Xiaoyu beside her.
“Let her fill in for now.”
Xiaoyu had good character and worked diligently.
Zhong Suian felt comfortable leaving the hotel’s affairs in her hands.
Hearing this, Xiaoyu’s eyes widened in disbelief.
Manager Zhang immediately left to carry out her orders.
Only the two women remained in the hallway.
Xiaoyu unconsciously twisted her fingers together.
“An’an…”
“No, President Zhong…”
She nervously swallowed.
“Did you really just buy the entire Yunlan Hotel?”
Seeing her expression, Zhong Suian chuckled.
“Alright. I still have classes this afternoon, so I’ll leave things here to you for now.”
Xiaoyu froze for a moment before nodding vigorously.
“Yes, Boss!”
“I promise to complete the task!”
She had always thought Zhong Suian was a poor college student.
It turned out she was actually a wealthy owner conducting an undercover inspection!
Something this shocking absolutely had to be shared with her best friends after work.
Under Xiaoyu’s worshipful gaze, Zhong Suian changed her clothes and left.
She had just gotten into the car when her phone vibrated twice.
A message appeared.
“Mom and Dad insisted that I bring you something. What a hassle. Come and get it yourself if you want it.”
[Transfer] The other party has transferred ¥0.20 to you.
“Our family may not be as wealthy as the Ye family, but we won’t let you go hungry.”
“Spend this money first. Tell your brother if it isn’t enough.”
Less than three seconds after the message was sent, it was withdrawn.
A new message immediately appeared.
“Mom and Dad gave me too much, so they told me to share some with you.”
The sender was Zhong Yaoran, Zhong Suian’s biological older brother.
The Zhong family had three sons and one daughter.
Although they were not wealthy, both the parents and the three brothers had doted greatly on Ye Qiaoqiao when they believed she was their only daughter.
However, Ye Qiaoqiao had never appreciated them.
In contrast, the wealthy Ye family had one older daughter and three younger sons.
As the eldest sister, Zhong Suian had been completely drained by them.
Only someone like Ye Qiaoqiao would eagerly return to such a family.
After Zhong Suian was brought back to the Zhong family, everyone had desperately wanted to compensate her.
However, the original owner had already been exploited by the Ye family until all her expectations toward familial affection had been exhausted.
Faced with this sudden warmth, she only felt unfamiliar and helpless.
Her instinct had been to run away.
Because of that, she rarely interacted with the Zhong family and rejected all of their kindness.
The current Zhong Suian, however, was delighted.
Ye Qiaoqiao might not want such a wonderful family, but she did.
Zhong Suian accepted the money and was just about to type a reply when her phone screen suddenly went black.
Phones worth only a few cents really did have plenty of problems.
Zhong Suian sighed.
“Driver, please pull over.”
Fortunately, she had booked the ride through an app and already paid.
Otherwise, with her phone broken, she would not even be able to pay the fare.
After getting out of the car, she noticed a large shopping mall across the street.
She glanced at the directory and headed directly toward a certain fruit brand’s official store on the third floor.
Just as she reached the entrance, cheerful conversation drifted out from inside.
“That trendy café was so photogenic! Every dessert looked so delicate!”
“Exactly. It was just a little expensive.”
“Good thing we didn’t bring that poor loser Zhong Suian.”
“She probably couldn’t even afford her share of the bill!”