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Ke Zhao waited in the lobby on the first floor until all his classmates arrived, and then took two elevators to the top floor together.
Ke Yi had already paid the deposit for Ke Zhao. He told Ke Zhao to take his classmates to eat first, and he would pay when the time was almost up. After reaching the top floor, Ke Zhao gave Ke Yi's name, and the waiter took them into the private room.
Every detail of the private room's decor exudes sophistication. The exterior wall is a single pane of glass. A few students, fearless of heights, quickly approached the glass wall and peered out, offering not only a panoramic view of the city but also a glimpse of distant mountains. This feeling of gazing down from a height is not only pleasurable for adults, but even more mature children will find it captivating.
"I ordered the dishes some time ago, because some dishes can only be eaten if ordered in advance. You can order as much as you want, including drinks and fruit plates." Ke Zhao was only a little over twelve years old, but he deliberately put on a mature and generous look.
"You can have the drinks and fruit plate anytime, but we need to save room for the Tianyang Tower dishes," said a classmate who was usually on good terms with Ke Zhao. "My dad told me that Tianyang Tower's food is incredibly famous both at home and abroad. Some foreign VIPs never want to leave after dining at Tianyang Tower once. I've always wanted to try it, but my dad is having dinner with clients, so it's inconvenient for him to bring me along. I can never get a table in the main hall when I want to come. Thankfully, your dad was so capable and managed to book a private room. Thanks to you, I'm finally able to try the legendary Tianyang Tower dishes today."
"My dad has connections, so of course I can get one." Ke Zhao's smug expression was obvious, but he himself wasn't entirely sure if Ke Yi had any connections. He only knew that Ke Yi had called someone and managed to secure a private room. Ke Yi was simply making a phone call to see if he could secure one. If not, he'd have Ke Zhao take the students somewhere else to dine. But right before he made the call, someone else had to cancel their reservation due to an urgent matter, and he was the first person to call after that person's cancellation. As long as he went over and paid the deposit right away, he could have secured the private room.
Ke Zhao was the protagonist today. He sat in the main seat in the private room, waiting to hear his classmates' praise and envy of him. However, there were more classmates sitting next to the twins and talking to them than those sitting around him, which made him feel very uncomfortable.
"Cheng Jing, Xiao Yu, have you two ever eaten here before?" Ke Zhao asked deliberately while looking at them. Among all his classmates, only their family backgrounds were unknown to him. He felt that it must be because their family backgrounds were very ordinary that they kept it secret so tightly. Therefore, it was impossible for them to have eaten in a place like Tianyang Tower.
"I come here occasionally." Cheng Jing replied.
"You come here occasionally?" Ke Zhao said with a look of disbelief. "I haven't been here more than two or three times. How could you two come here occasionally? That's not how you brag, is it?"
Xiao Yu and Cheng Jing looked at each other, smiled and said, "Only those who want to brag in their hearts will come here as a way to brag."
Ke Zhao was still young, and when he heard Xiao Yu openly mocking him, his face immediately turned bad. "...Come to think of it, we're all about to graduate, and no one knows what your parents do for a living? You're keeping this a secret too tightly. We're all classmates, so what's there to hide?"
"You're a businessman, what else do you think you can do?" Xiao Yu asked calmly.
Cheng Jing and Xiao Yu had long noticed Ke Zhao's jealousy and dissatisfaction with them. They knew about Ke Zhao's relationship with the Zhao family, but Ke Zhao didn't know about their relationship with the Zhao family. After Old Lady Zhao moved out of the Zhao family, their family never went to the Zhao family again. Since Ke Zhao was old enough to understand, he knew that the Zhao family was not his home, so he still lived in the Ke family most of the time, and only went to the Zhao family when he missed Ke Yi. Even when he lived in the Zhao family, he hardly communicated with the Zhao family members. Ke Yi never told him about the Zhao family, so he didn't know that Cheng Jing and Xiao Yu were the great-grandchildren of Old Master Zhao.
"What business are you in?" Ke Yi continued to ask.
"What's the point of asking this?" Xiao Yu looked at him and asked.
"Now that we know what business your family is in, we can all take care of your business in the future. If we can't, our parents can." Ke Zhao wanted to force them to tell him what their parents did. As long as they told him what business their parents were in, he would then ask where the company or store was.
"Thank you for your kindness, but our business is so good that we don't need anyone to take care of our business." Xiao Yu was telling the truth, but it sounded like he was bragging.
Ke Zhao sneered, clearly not believing it.
"The food should be served soon. I think it's almost time. I'll go sit over there." A female classmate who liked Xiao Yu saw that Ke Zhao was deliberately making things difficult for Xiao Yu, so she quickly changed the subject.
"Oh, the food is really starting to be served. Let's go over there." Another classmate echoed.
Seeing that those classmates were helping Xiao Yu and Cheng Jing, Ke Zhao felt even more uncomfortable, but he didn't want to appear like a bad guy in front of his classmates, so he stopped asking questions and sat down at the big round table with his classmates.
After the dishes were served, everyone ate and chatted, and the most common thing they talked about was how delicious the dishes were.
Seeing that the other students were enjoying their meals, Ke Zhao felt proud again and said with a smile, "You can't order these dishes that require reservations, but you can order these dishes that don't require reservations. Just order whatever you want. Don't be polite to me."
"Then we won't be polite to you."
So several students started discussing what dishes they wanted to order.
Ke Zhao looked at the expressions of each of his classmates. When his gaze turned to Cheng Jing and Xiao Yu, he saw that they were the only ones who still had indifferent expressions. He thought that they were pretending to be like that on purpose, so he suppressed his unhappiness and asked, "Cheng Jing, Xiao Yu, do you think it tastes bad?"
The other students who were excitedly discussing what dishes to add fell silent and looked at them.
"It's delicious. How could Tianyang's food not be delicious?" Xiao Yu said.
"But you don't seem to be very happy eating."
"How do you think we should act to show that we are enjoying the meal? Dancing with joy?" Xiao Yu was almost unable to contain his impatience.
Xiao Yu had always been a little dissatisfied with some of Ke Zhao's usual behavior in class. If Ke Zhao hadn't emphasized in class several times that everyone had to go, or that they were being unsociable and deliberately affecting class unity, and hadn't specifically told the two brothers that they must come, they wouldn't have wanted to come at all.
Cheng Jing nudged Xiao Yu with his elbow, signaling him to speak less, but Xiao Yu had a bad temper to begin with. If it weren't for his good upbringing, he would not have been willing to endure it and would have simply slammed the table and left.
"I just think that since you don't usually get to eat such delicious food, if you think it's delicious, you can show it. There's no need to pretend it tastes ordinary. If everyone thinks it's delicious, no one will laugh at you. If you pretend, it will look fake."
"Because we have been eating this kind of food since we were young, we are used to it, so we won't be very excited, is that okay?" Xiao Yu's handsome face, still with its youthful appearance, was full of displeasure, which made the girls next to him wonder why he looked so good even when he was angry.
"Are you used to it?" Ke Zhao said sarcastically, "You're only ten years old, and you're already full of lies. Not a single word of truth. Didn't your parents teach you that lying is a bad habit?"
Xiao Yu put the cup down with all his strength. Just as he was about to stand up, Cheng Jing held his hand down, then pressed a button on the table with his other hand. The waiter standing outside the door immediately pushed it open and walked in, asking, "Is there anything I can help you with?"
"Call your manager." Cheng Jing said to the waiter.
"Yes, please wait." The waiter bent down, turned around and walked out quickly.
The other students looked at each other, unsure of what to do. Although these students had received an elite education and were therefore relatively mature, they were still children after all, and faced with such a tense atmosphere, they still felt overwhelmed.
"Do you want to complain to the manager here and say that I bullied you?" Ke Zhao had a mocking expression like a child.
Cheng Jing and Xiao Yu had almost identical faces. They looked at Ke Zhao expressionlessly, with the same disdain in their eyes.
The manager walked in quickly, stopped, looked at Cheng Jing and Xiao Yu, and asked, "Master, is there anything I can do for you?"
"Manager Zhang, tell him that Xiao Yu and I have come here to eat several times." Cheng Jing said to Manager Zhang.
"This... I've never done a calculation before, and I've only been a manager for three years." Manager Zhang said in an embarrassed manner.
"Just tell me the number of times you can remember, you don't need to count the others," said Cheng Jing.
"If I remember correctly..." Manager Zhang thought for a moment and said, "Probably more than fifty times."
"Did you hear that?" Cheng Jing looked at Ke Zhao and said, "Should we call the chef over and have him tell you what we had for dinner?"
Ke Zhao was stunned for a long time, not knowing how to react. He looked at the name tag on Manager Zhang's suit, which clearly stated the position of manager, and he was so surprised that he was speechless.
The others were also stunned because they were too surprised.
"Ask the kitchen to make a bowl of walnut curd and send it over." Xiao Yu said to Manager Zhang, "Put it on my dad's bill, not on this table's bill."
"Yes, Master, do you have any other instructions?" Manager Zhang asked.
"Go and get busy." Cheng Jing said.
"Yes." Manager Zhang bowed slightly, then turned and left.
"Cheng Jing, why does this manager call you Young Master?" a female classmate asked.
Everyone's eyes were focused on Cheng Jing's face, waiting for his answer.
"You get used to it after coming here so often. I'm used to him calling me that." After Cheng Jing finished answering, he turned his gaze to Ke Zhao and said, "We don't have a mother, we only have a father and a dad. Our dad taught us not to take the initiative to cause trouble, but not to be afraid of it when it comes. He also taught us to be low-key and not to show off if we didn't get it by our own ability. It seems that your father didn't teach you these things."
Cheng Jing's personality is similar to Cheng Sheng's, usually quiet and calm. Xiao Yu is very similar to Tao Yuan, with a bad temper but able to control it, and a sharp tongue when angry. Although their personalities are different, neither of them would allow anyone to insult Cheng Sheng and Tao Yuan in front of them. The most taboo thing about scolding people is mentioning their parents, so their feud with Ke Zhao is completely settled and will not be let go.
For the following time, Ke Zhao hardly said a word. He no longer wanted to know what business Cheng Jing and Xiao Yu's father and father were in. However, other classmates became particularly curious, but the two were still unwilling to reveal.
It can be said that Ke Zhao spent a lot of money on his birthday to make himself miserable.
Cheng Jing and Xiao Yu ate their food while admiring Ke Zhao's ugly face. Their mood immediately improved and they didn't want to leave.
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