Zhang Wenyu laughed out loud as he watched Li Yilin struggling to prove that she was not the boss here, and spoke directly and bluntly.

"No need for a gift. After all, I didn't actually plan to treat you. As for your concern about Manager Yuan and President Bai being scammed, that's completely unnecessary. After all, we've signed the contract, completed the formalities, and even transferred the money to President Bai's account. If you still don't believe it, go and find out for yourself. I don't need to explain to you."

Li Yilin's face turned pale, but now she had to believe that Zhang Wenyu had indeed bought Wanghailou.

After knowing the truth, I could no longer stay here. When I thought about what they had said about Zhang Wenyu before, my face felt hot.

Seeing Zhang Wenyu's eyes that seemed to be mocking them, Li Yilin snorted coldly.

"Zhang Wenyu, don't be so complacent. Even if you sweet-talked and bought Wanghailou from Mr. Bai, you can't use it to enter high society. A chicken is always a chicken, and it will never become a phoenix. Although you got lucky and made some money, at best you're just a nouveau riche! With someone like you, Wanghailou is ruined in your hands!"

After glaring fiercely at Xi Mo, who had chosen this place as the gathering place, Li Yilin pulled Teng Jie away, intending to stop Zhang Wenyu from laughing at her.

The harsh words Li Yilin said before leaving did not cause any harm to Zhang Wenyu.

What's wrong with being a nouveau riche? God knows her biggest dream used to be to be one. Who hasn't dreamed of suddenly winning the jackpot?

Speaking of which, she could be considered a nouveau riche now that she had become rich with the help of the system. As someone who had actually experienced it, she wanted to say, this feeling was too good!

Zhang Wenyu looked at Li Yilin who was about to leave and asked.

"Are you guys leaving? No way, you haven't paid yet! Even though we're classmates, you can't eat and dine like a freeloader! Is Li Yilin, the eldest daughter of the Li family, trying to run away without paying?"

Zhang Wenyu had originally planned to treat everyone herself, after all, it was a rare occasion for her classmates to get together, and they happened to choose her own restaurant. But now she had changed her mind. She wasn't a sucker. If she still went ahead and treated these people to a meal after they'd already scolded her, wouldn't she be a fool? She had no interest in being a fool.

Li Yilin never expected that Zhang Wenyu would stop her and ask for money. When she thought about how she and others were delivering performance to Zhang Wenyu today, Li Yilin felt so angry that she wanted to go back to the morning and pull herself back from this place.

Li Yilin originally wanted to push Zhang Wenyu away and ignore her, but when she saw the hotel security personnel standing behind Zhang Wenyu, she gave up the idea. After all, they had eaten here, and as the owner of the hotel, it was not wrong for Zhang Wenyu to ask them for money.

Li Yilin frowned and didn't move. It wasn't that she couldn't afford it, but she didn't want to take the money because she thought Zhang Wenyu was the owner of Wanghailou.

Zhang Wenyu refused to let Li Yilin leave unless she paid. She is the boss now, and if she lets Li Yilin get away with it, she will be the one who suffers the loss.

Seeing that Zhang Wenyu refused to leave, Li Yilin turned around and shouted at Xi Mo.

"Xi Mo! Give her the money quickly!"

Xi Mo frowned and didn't move.

Why should she pay? She flaunts her status as a rich girl every day, but she refuses to even pay for food. The richer she is, the more stingy she becomes!

Zhang Wenyu was a little surprised when she saw this. She didn't expect that these people really didn't intend to pay.

The reason why she asked for money in front of them was just to vent her anger and give these people who looked down on her and threatened her with her parents a hard time. She didn't expect that these people were so arrogant but didn't even give her money for food!

Zhang Wenyu took a half step back, raised an eyebrow and said tentatively.

"You don't really want to pay, do you? I didn't ask you to pay for everything, but you should at least give your share, right?!"

No one knew what Li Yilin and Xi Mo were thinking, but Hong Minjun had never thought that she would have to pay for the party herself. When she saw Zhang Wenyu asking them for money, she didn't care about crying anymore. She wiped her tears and stood up to speak.

"How can you be so stingy! We are all classmates, and you're charging them for eating at your restaurant? Did you drop money into the pile?! You're even making money from your classmates!"

Zhang Wenyu was happy.

"Hey! What you said is totally unreasonable. Don't you look down on me? And you keep saying I'm poor and needy? You, who think you're superior to us, are you really going to take advantage of a poor person like me?!"

Hong Minjun said confidently.

"Who told you not to tell us you were the boss here? If you had told us who you were, wouldn't we have allowed you to dine with us at the front table? You didn't tell us and insisted on joining the poor people, so of course we misunderstood! It was you who misled us in the first place, and that's why we're in this situation. You should have waived the bill and made amends!"

Hong Minjun's words opened Zhang Wenyu's eyes.

Many of the students around were shocked by Hong Minjun's complacent attitude. Afraid of being lumped in with Hong Minjun, they quickly pulled out their phones to pay Zhang Wenyu.

"We were planning to split the cost, so we'll transfer the money to you now!"

"Yeah, yeah! How can we let one person pay for a group activity? We should split the bill!"

Even the teacher who was pushed to the chair next to him by Zhang Wenyu when Yuan Lili came over wanted to turn around for Zhang Wenyu, but was stopped by Zhang Wenyu and the classmates next to him. They all said that the teacher could not pay and they would share the cost equally among the students.

Zhang Wenyu stopped the classmate who was anxious to express his position and spoke loudly.

"Don't worry, classmates. I believe you and them are not that kind of people. I'm very happy to see you all today, so I'll cover the fees for the next few tables and the teacher's fees! Don't be polite to me, this was my original plan."

After saying that, Zhang Wenyu looked at Li Yilin, Teng Jie and others in front of him and said with a smile.

"But I don't think the people sitting at the front table need the money, right? You so-called upper-class people wouldn't want a poor person like me to pay for your meal, would you?"

Teng Jie was ridiculed and could no longer stay. He took out his bank card from his wallet and was about to throw it at Zhang Wenyu, but Zhang Wenyu stopped him in time.

Zhang Wenyu smiled and said to Teng Jie, who was looking at her with angry eyes.

"This is a formal place, and payments must be made through the official account. Manager Yuan, take these guests to pay!"

Teng Jie pulled Li Yilin and turned around and left. When Xi Mo heard that she only had to pay for her part, she hurriedly followed.

Only Hong Minjun was left standing there looking around. Seeing that no one was helping her, she stamped her feet and walked out unwillingly with her cell phone in her hand, accompanied by security personnel.

Several classmates who had previously helped Li Yilin, Teng Jie and others to scold Zhang Wenyu also walked out in shame.