Chapter 5 Tang Palace Club

When Chen Zan returned to the dormitory, Xu Anan was so bored that she was applying a facial mask. Seeing her come back was like seeing a relative coming to hug her.

"Baby, you are so fragrant, soft and sweet. Did grandma make some new sachets?"

Chen Zhan smiled and took out the sachets made by Guoqing and Ms. Chen Jiaohua from the suitcase. He also took out the fresh walnuts he brought and divided them up, putting some on each table.

Xu Anan sniffed it and couldn't let it go: "Baby, I really love you. I also brought you a gift when I went abroad this time."

She took a box.

When Chen Zan saw the luxury brand logo on it, he decided not to buy it.

In the dormitory, Xu Anan's family is the richest. Her family is a real estate tycoon in Rongcheng and she has always been very generous. Every time they go out to play together in the dormitory, she is the one who pays the bill.

Seeing that she didn't want it, Xu Anan simply stuffed it into her hand and said angrily, "I bought a pair of earrings at the duty-free shop. After the discount, it's less than a thousand yuan. If you don't accept it, I will be angry."

Then he urged Chen Zan: "Open it and take a look. You will definitely like it. It matches the bracelet on your hand very well."

Chen Zan does not have the typical appearance of a classical beauty, perhaps influenced by the elderly in her family, but she has a classical temperament, which Xu Anan especially likes.

Inside the box is a pair of exquisitely packaged Hetian green jade earrings, in the shape of white jade teardrops.

Xu Anan: "The salesgirl said it was real Hetian jade, but I think with this brand and this price, it can't be real. I think it's synthetic. Can you authenticate it?"

Chen Zhan knows something about this.

She shone the light on the earrings, then said with a pursed lip, "An An, you're right. They're fake."

Xu Anan was pleased: "Huh, I'll tell you what I am saying."

Chen Zan turned off the flashlight on his phone and said.

"Real natural Hetian jade has a distinct structure, naturally transitional colors, and a softer luster. This one is synthetic, but the craftsmanship is good. Although the luster produced by waxing it is not as good as the real thing, it is about 80% similar."

But it looks very nice, and Chen Zhan likes it very much.

Xu Anan always thought that Chen Zhan's family came from a family of scholars with a rich background, but Chen Zhan always said that his family was very ordinary, but she didn't believe it.

Chen Zan had just finished packing her things when a video call popped up. She looked and saw it was her mother Xu Jing.

When Xu Anan saw this, she quietly returned to her seat and did not disturb Chen Zan who was making a phone call.

In addition to being at her grandmother's house, Ms. Xu would call Chen Zan every day to check on her, for fear that she was not studying well and was hanging out with others.

Xu Anan felt that the reason why Chen Zan looked so quiet, well-behaved and harmless, like a lady from a noble family, was largely because she had been pretending to be a mask in front of Xu Jing for a long time.

The mask seems real after being worn for a long time.

Chen Zhan answered the video call and obediently called out, "Mom."

Classical music conductor Ms. Xu recently had a tour in Siberia with her group. She was away for several months and there was a five-hour time difference with China. When they connected via video, it was already dark there.

Xu Jing was going to perform on stage soon, and the performance would last for several hours. She was afraid that I would forget, so she called me first.

The mother and daughter chatted for a while, and Xu Jing suddenly asked about what happened yesterday.

"Did anyone from the capital visit your grandmother yesterday?"

Chen Zan was stunned for a moment and said there was a Mr. Zhou Jingyu.

After she said the name, she clearly saw a significant change in Ms. Xu's expression. She couldn't tell whether she was panicked or nervous.

But what is certain is that my mother also knows this person.

Xu Jing's originally gentle tone suddenly turned serious, "Zhanzhan, stay away from this person."

Chen Zan frowned slightly.

Xu Jing realized that her tone had been too harsh, so she softened and asked, "Listen to your mother, okay?"

She couldn't refuse at all and just nodded softly.

Why did her mother and grandmother ask her to stay away from Mr. Zhou? What unspeakable secret was hidden behind this?

She remembered the news she saw in the car. She and Zhou Jingyu were not from the same circle at all. They were like two parallel lines that would never intersect and were very far apart.

So Chen Zan had a bold idea in his mind: Could it be that Mr. Zhou was her biological father?

Zhou Jingyu: ???

Of course, Chen Zan also knew that this guess was nonsense because Mr. Zhou looked very young.

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The only thing left to do was to accompany Xu Anan to print flyers. After National Day, the major clubs and student organizations in the school would hold recruitment campaigns.

Chen Zan and Xu Anan are both in the student union, one in the Arts Department and the other in the Propaganda Department. Xu Anan became the deputy director of the Propaganda Department this year, and many things have to be done by the eldest lady herself.

After we printed the materials needed for recruiting new students, the other two roommates also arrived at school, so we gathered at the school gate and went out for dinner.

The National Day holiday was over and they, as college students, also had to attend classes according to the statutory holidays. Chen Zan had classes for six consecutive days. In addition, he was busy recruiting new students every day and also took extra work from the publishing house, and had to submit a manuscript this week.

So after a few days of busyness, she felt exhausted and had long forgotten about Zhou Jingyu and Zhang Yu.

I rested in the dormitory for most of the day, then went to the library to read some books. I called Ms. Xu in the cafeteria for dinner. Not long after I returned to the dormitory and lay on the bed, I received a text message from Xu Anan asking for help. She had drunk too much with her friends at Tang Palace and asked her to come and pick her up.

Chen Zan knew that Tang Palace Club was a membership-based club and a den of gilded wealth in Rongchuan. Ordinary students could not enter and could not afford to spend money there, but it was different for Xu Anan and the other rich second-generations.

After saying goodbye to the other two roommates in the dormitory, he went out to get a taxi to pick someone up. Chen Tangyue said that it was cold outside at night, and An An must be wearing too little when she went out, so she asked her to bring an extra coat.

The car stopped in front of Tang Palace. Even the driver said that if you want to see luxury cars, it is boring to go to the auto show in Xibo City. You should come to Tang Palace Club, where there are all kinds of luxury cars.

Xu Anan must have called in advance. Chen Zan went over with the clothes and told the name of the box. Then a waiter in uniform led her in.

Chen Zhan quickly glanced at the decoration of the Tang Palace, which was extremely luxurious.

After passing the waterfall wall, she entered a neo-Chinese garden planted with crabapples and boxwood trees. Chen Zhan didn't look around any further. She simply exited the corridor and, before entering the narrow gate, for some reason glanced at the double-leafed gate with hanging flowers across the long arch bridge.

There was another independent courtyard inside. The floor lights in the corridor were dim. Someone was smoking there, with sparks flickering between their fingers. It was dark and the lights were dim. The person could not be seen clearly from a distance, only a rough outline could be seen.

He only took one glance and then looked away.

The garden on this side of the narrow gate is different from the other side. It is a two-story building with floor-to-ceiling glass windows that let in bright lights from inside.

The waiter said, "Miss Xu and the others are upstairs, please go up by yourself."

Chen Zhan nodded and said, "Okay, thank you for leading the way."

The porcelain-white face flashed under the bright light, the face without makeup was clean, beautiful and pure.

The waiter felt a surge of affection and, for some unknown reason, warned, "Young Master Wei and the others are here today, so you'd better be careful."

Young Master Wei, Wei Yunxi.

Rongchuan is a notorious second-generation rich man who bullies men and women. He likes to collect all kinds of beauties. If he were in ancient times, he would definitely be a bully and bandit.

But still no one could control him, just because his surname was Wei, his father was the local emperor of Rongchuan, and he was the little master.

Seeing that Chen Zan is pretty and even more beautiful than those internet celebrities upstairs, I mentioned her a few more times.

Chen Zan was stunned for a moment and said thank you again.

Wei Yunxi.

She felt a headache when she heard the name.

Last year, when she became popular because of her military training video, Wei Yunxi brought people to the school to block her twice and gave her a lot of expensive gifts.

She threatened that if she didn't become his girlfriend, he would harass her every day and even go to her house to make trouble. This matter was a hot topic in the school at that time.

But Chen Zan was very clever. He ate a mango on purpose, causing his face to be covered with red and swollen rashes. He walked around in front of Wei Yunxi, making the young master feel very sick.

Then she delayed treatment for half a month, and found that Wei Yunxi seemed to have forgotten about her, so she went and received intravenous drips for a week before she got better.

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