A man with long hair, handso and dressed in a Armani suit, sat in the central seat between the n and won, with the chair closest to him on the left remaining empty; it was specially reserved for Li Wenxuan.
This long-haired young man was Jack, the main character of today’s banquet. He had co back from abroad to pursue Li Wenxuan and conveniently used the excuse of his birthday to gather so old classmates, all to show Li Wenxuan how different and superior he was.
At this mont, although the n and won in the private room were talking and laughing, they all acted very reserved in front of Jack. They each had their jobs and positions in Songlan City, but when compared to a returned elite like Jack, they felt sohow lesser.
Watching his old classmates feign calm and chatter, Jack might have been smiling, but he was filled with contempt. If it wasn’t for the sake of asking out Li Wenxuan, he couldn’t be bothered with these bumpkins.
Right then, Li Wenxuan entered the room.
Jack stood up to greet her imdiately, but his expression fell when he saw that Li Wenxuan wasn’t alone; instead, she was arm in arm with another man.
"Jack, happy birthday. Let introduce, this is my boyfriend, Tang Ming." Li Wenxuan introduced Tang Ming straight away, then gazed at him affectionately and said,
"This is my old classmate, Yang Wei, now called Jack."
"Wenxuan, you actually have a boyfriend now? You wouldn’t be lying to , right?" Jack ignored Tang Ming completely, staring intently at Li Wenxuan:
"Just picking so country bumpkin to fool ? I’m not so easily deceived!"
"Cough cough, Xuan’er ah." Seeing Jack ignoring him, Tang Ming felt discontented, clearing his throat with a strange tone as he asked,
"Your classmate has such a strange na, called ’Impotent’ and even taking clients, is he a homosexual?"
"Pfft!"
Upon hearing this, soone in the private room couldn’t hold back and laughed out loud.
Li Wenxuan’s eyelids twitched. She hadn’t expected Tang Ming to be so ruthless, giving no face to the other party, yet she felt a wave of satisfaction in her heart.
"What’s so funny?"
Jack’s face grew cold. He glared at his classmates behind him, then looked displeasedly at Li Wenxuan:
"Your boyfriend seems very impolite. How can you like soone like that?"
"I..." Li Wenxuan began to speak, wanting to explain.
Tang Ming wrapped his arm around Li Wenxuan’s waist and spoke indifferently,
"I always respect those who respect , you first ignored my presence and then doubted my relationship with Xuan’er, so are you really one to talk about manners?"
"You think you’re worthy to compare with ?"
Jack looked down on Tang Ming with contempt. Tang Ming had indeed succeeded in making him feel repulsed.
"We’re all n, what’s there we can’t compare? Or do you have four balls?"
Tang Ming curiously glanced toward Jack’s crotch.
"You... uncouth."
Jack was fuming but still tried to maintain a gentlemanly façade. "Now that Xuan’er is here, let’s take our seats, shall we?"
"Sorry to keep everyone waiting, my apologies."
Li Wenxuan nodded, warmly greeting her other classmates.
"Xuan’er, long ti no see, you’ve beco more beautiful."
The other classmates also responded warmly. The man sitting at Jack’s right hand side even voluntarily gave up his seat for Tang Ming so that Li Wenxuan and Tang Ming could sit facing each other.
"You little brat, I’ll let you know soon enough that so people just can’t be compared," Jack thought resentfully as he took his seat, then forced a smile and said,
"It’s an honor that everyone ca to celebrate my birthday today. The al’s on ; consider it a reunion for our high school classmates. Order whatever you like."
"Thanks to Jack for the treat. I’ve never been to a restaurant this fancy. Today, under your light, let wish you a happy birthday."
"Jack should be the most successful one among our classmates by now, congratulations indeed."
...
A group of classmates began offering their congratulations, each one trying to flatter Jack as much as possible.
Jack was quite pleased with this state of affairs, wasn’t this the exact effect he wanted when showing off?
Wait a minute, sothing didn’t feel quite right.
Just as Jack was floating on cloud nine, he suddenly saw Tang Ming and Li Wenxuan not speaking a word, the two were gazing into each other’s eyes across the table, completely ignoring everyone else around them.
Seeing this, Jack’s good mood vanished instantly, and he regretted thinking:
"Had I known it would be like this, I wouldn’t have booked a long table. Now it’s facilitating their flirtatious glances."
"Cough cough, now that everyone is here, why don’t we hurry up and order?"
Jack knocked on the table, interrupting Tang Ming and Li Wenxuan’s tender exchange of looks.
Li Wenxuan reluctantly turned away her gaze, but inside she was thinking:
"No wonder Tang Ming said he’s a professional shield. Being stared at so intently by him, I almost took it seriously."
Soon the nus were brought over, one for each person, but when they opened them, many were stunned—the damn thing was all in French, who could understand it?
Apart from Li Wenxuan, who ordered with ease, the others were just pretending to scrutinize the nu, at a loss and not wanting to be the first to lose face.
"One dium-rare French style beefsteak with xican mustard sauce."
Li Wenxuan said calmly to the waiter.
"Okay." The waiter quickly took the order.
"I’ll have the sa as her."
The woman sitting next to Li Wenxuan put down her nu and said with a smile.
Seeing this, the other won quickly found their solution and followed suit, with all nine of them ordering the sa dish.
Jack sneered to himself:
"Only Li Xuan’er is up to my standards. All the other won are just vulgar and unrefined."
After the won finished ordering, Jack looked at Tang Ming with a smirk and said:
"Mr. Tang, it’s your turn to order now. You can’t possibly not understand the nu, can you?"
Li Wenxuan smiled lightly, given that Tang Ming knew so French, there shouldn’t be a problem with ordering.
"The prices on this nu seem pretty expensive, forget it, just give ten at sandwiches."
Tang Ming put down the nu and declared boisterously.
"Pfft." At that, Jack couldn’t help bursting into laughter; the others were baffled, especially Li Wenxuan who felt an urge to murder Tang Ming.
A pure French restaurant, where would they get you a at sandwich? If you don’t know French, at least randomly pointing to a couple of dishes would have been better, but this was too much face to lose.
"Mr. Tang, you really do have a sense of humor; such upscale restaurants don’t sell those kinds of street food."
Jack gave Tang Ming a playful look and turned to Li Wenxuan, "Wenxuan, your boyfriend really has exquisite taste, doesn’t he?"
"I—I’ll order for him." Li Wenxuan’s face turned red as she picked up the nu, trembling, trying to hide her embarrassnt.
"No need, I’m just trying to save so money,"
Tang Ming stopped Li Wenxuan’s motion, saying affectionately, "This place isn’t cheap; if we really wanted to fill up, it would cost a pretty penny!"
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