"Uncle and Auntie, could you please show your ID cards to the front desk for registration and facial recognition?"
In the lobby of a five-star hotel, a young man led Li Han's adoptive parents through the check-in process.
"Wow, this is a proper hotel, isn't it?" Li Dayu and Xiao Zilu saw that other customers had also registered, so they handed over their ID cards with peace of mind.
Xiao Zilu held her son's hand, her gaze falling on the reliefs on the hotel pillars, the murals on the ceiling, and the various golden chandeliers; she couldn't take it all in.
"This...this was built according to the style of a Western royal palace!"
Li Dayu took out his phone, then regretted it when he realized it was out of battery: "Damn it, I should have known better than to let my phone die."
Xiao Zilu tugged at Li Dayu's ear: "I told you to buy a power bank on the train, but you wouldn't even spend a hundred yuan!"
"Uncle and Aunt, here are your room keys. The hostess will take you there."
When the young man heard Li Dayu say that his phone was out of battery, he was very enthusiastic: "Uncle, is your phone out of battery? I'll leave it at the front desk to charge for you for a while."
"I have a spare phone here, would you like to use it for now?" The young man took out a brand new iPhone 15pm from his backpack.
"I'm already connected to the hotel's Wi-Fi."
When Mr. and Mrs. Li Dayu saw the phone's design and the fruit logo, their eyes widened in amazement.
Li Dayu quickly took the heavy phone and gave the young man the phone he had received as a free gift with his phone top-up.
"My phone is dead too!" Xiao Zilu rubbed her hands together and pulled a phone with a shattered screen from her pocket.
"Huh?" The young man was taken aback for a moment, then smiled knowingly: "Please wait a moment."
The young man spoke with the receptionist for a while, then took Xiao Zilu's phone and gave her a Mate 60 Pro.
The two were overjoyed to receive their new phones, and at that moment they both wished their old phones would explode from overcharging.
Xiao Zilu stroked the phone with obvious affection, but a sliver of reason made her tentatively ask, "Young man, why are you so nice to us?"
"To be honest, that's exactly the question I've been waiting for you to ask!"
The young man lowered his voice: "I hope that after you reunite with reporter Li, you will still remember me as the person who introduced you."
"I need to ask Reporter Li and her mother, Ms. Si, to do something."
"Oh~~"
A knowing look flashed across the eyes of Mr. and Mrs. Li Dayu.
They exchanged a glance. It seemed that Li Zhaodi was doing quite well in Haicheng; she was willing to spend so much money when someone asked her for a favor.
The couple were ecstatic. Before, they were the ones who had to shamelessly beg others for favors; now they were being fawned over. What a feeling!
Li Dayu said in a measured tone, "Don't worry, we will definitely remember."
"Old Li, let's hurry upstairs! We haven't slept a wink all night!"
Xiao Zilu pulled her silly son over, yawned, and poked Li Dayu.
The young man was sensible and escorted the three of them to their room without mentioning the phone at all.
After settling the three people in, the young man returned to his Audi A6.
"These adoptive parents are really something, another pair of scoundrels." This young man was not "Ah Hai," but Xiao Liu, the driver who was "fired" by Si Jiuyin.
When the private investigator hired by Si Jiuyin found clues about Li Han's adoptive parents, Li Han's adoptive parents had already boarded a train to Haicheng.
So Si Jiuyin sent people to Haicheng West Station to ambush and intercept him.
Shi Yao, who also came to pick up Li Han's adoptive parents, was picked up by actors arranged by Si Jiuyin.
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Barbecue stalls near Haicheng West Railway Station.
A middle-aged couple who bear a striking resemblance to Li Dayu and his wife are arguing with Shi Yao.
The middle-aged woman playing Xiao Zilu was holding her seemingly simple-minded son's hand. She glared fiercely at Shi Yao and said, "You bought us 28 hours of hard-seat train tickets, and then you arranged for us to eat at roadside stalls as soon as you picked us up?"
Beside the middle-aged woman, the middle-aged man playing Li Dayu spat out a mouthful of saliva: "Are you kidding us?"
"No, no," Shi Yao quickly waved his hand.
He grabbed Shi Yao by the collar. "Don't think we don't know you want to use us to threaten Li Zhaodi."
His breath, a mixture of smoke and alcohol, sprayed onto Shi Yao's face, giving him a mask of pain.
"When you ask someone for a favor, you should at least be more polite, right?"
"Not only did they buy us delayed tickets, but they also treated us like this kind of sham."
Shi Yao was lifted up by him just like a little chick, and he thought to himself that this guy who does farm work is really strong.
I paid for the couple's train tickets out of my own pocket, and they still took their anger out on me, blaming me for the train being delayed?!
This couple is just too unreasonable, but Shi Yao calmed down a bit when he thought about pushing this couple onto Li Han.
The more difficult and demanding the adoptive parents are, the better.
Shi Yao patiently said, "Uncle and Aunt, we young people usually eat at these roadside stalls because we think they taste good."
"I'm sorry, I didn't consider your feelings. What would you like to eat?"
The middle-aged woman glanced around and pointed to the Yuexiang Restaurant in the bustling area across from the station, "That Yuexiang Restaurant, I think, looks like a nice place."
Shi Yao looked in the direction the middle-aged woman was pointing.
Enjoy Restaurant is a signature Chinese restaurant under the Si Group, with branches in Chinatowns overseas, and it's incredibly popular.
Shi Yao looked troubled: "This, this is a bit expensive, I can't afford it."
The middle-aged woman rolled her eyes at him. "Weren't you bragging to your brother on the way here about how much money you made in stocks? Didn't you also invest and become your own boss?"
"We haven't eaten or drunk well, how can we have the energy to cause trouble for Li Zhaodi!"
"Stop trying to fool us, let's go!" The middle-aged man grabbed Shi Yao and abducted him.
Shi Yao struggled, but the middle-aged man slapped him twice across the face, leaving Shi Yao stunned.
"You, you hit me?" Shi Yao's jaw was trembling with pain. He hadn't expected this middle-aged man to be so rude.
"So what if I hit you? I'm telling you, what's wrong with you? You want us to do you a favor, but you're dragging your feet."
Shi Yao didn't understand. Weren't they going to each other's destinations and helping each other?
"I helped you find your daughter, shouldn't you be thanking me?"
"Pah." The middle-aged man spat again: "No one is kind for no reason. My wife and I asked around, and your girlfriend has been kicked out of the Si family. You want to use us to drag Li Zhaodi down with you so your girlfriend can go back, right?"
Shi Yao was taken aback. This couple was both rude and shrewd, truly the best of the best. He had met his match.
“Don’t think we’re stupid just because we’re not well-educated. We could try to squeeze some money out of Li Zhaodi, but she’s backed by the Si Group. It would be too risky for us to try and take advantage of her.”
The middle-aged woman's cloudy eyes darted around: "If you want us to take risks to do this, you'd better show some sincerity, you know? Young man."
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