Since he didn't actually come here because he liked the food at the club, Zhou Pengfei only ordered two or three dishes as a token gesture.
When it came to drinks, Yang Yajing said she had never tried any of them and was having trouble choosing. Zhou Pengfei asked Jiang Xuanxuan for her opinion: "Does that mean we can order a few more?"
When Zhou Pengfei spoke up, Jiang Xuanxuan readily agreed. After all, it was their own place, and they didn't have to spend any money themselves.
The drinks arrived quickly. Yang Yajing took a straw and tasted them one by one. Finally, she chose one that tasted acceptable and placed it in front of her, while pushing the others to Zhou Pengfei.
Before the food even arrived, Yang Yajing grabbed the drink and finished it in just a few gulps.
"Drinking so fast? Be careful you don't need to pee!" Zhou Pengfei smoothed Yang Yajing's slightly curly long hair and said with a smile.
"Uh..." Yang Yajing looked embarrassed. "I think I need to go to the bathroom... Jiang Xuanxuan, where is the restroom?"
Jiang Xuanxuan seemed to have deliberately chosen a small private room without its own restroom. As soon as she heard that Yang Yajing needed to use the restroom, she immediately greeted her with a smile: "Go out past the front desk, it's at the end of the corridor."
"Go past the front desk? We've been going through so many twists and turns, what if we get lost and can't find our way back?" Yang Yajing deliberately feigned difficulty. "Or maybe I should just hold it in?"
"Ya Jing, don't act like a child. It's not good to hold it in." Zhou Pengfei continued to cooperate.
Jiang Xuanxuan was thinking to herself, "Go! Go! I hope you get lost and come back late!"
Yang Yajing pouted and picked up her phone, saying coquettishly, "I brought my phone with me. If you get lost, remember to come find me, okay?"
"Yes, yes! I won't let you get lost, I'm here!" Zhou Pengfei smiled sweetly.
As soon as Yang Yajing left, she sent a message to Xia Changlong in the corridor: "Have you packed the actors and the spare SIM card? Call Jiang Xuanxuan's number in a minute, hang up after three rings, and call again in a minute."
Xia Changlong sent an "OK" and Yang Yajing continued walking towards the front desk.
She deliberately bypassed the front desk, went to the restroom for a few seconds, and then returned to the vicinity of the front desk from that direction.
Upon hearing the first ring, she approached the front desk: "Miss, Jiang Xuanxuan said she didn't know where she put her phone. Could it be in her coat pocket?"
The receptionist looked up; she seemed to have heard the phone ring, but she didn't dare to rummage through the guests' belongings.
"Jiang Xuanxuan said she's waiting for a call, it seems quite important. Could you help me find it? I'll bring it to her." As soon as Yang Yajing finished speaking, Jiang Xuanxuan's phone rang again.
Upon hearing that it might be something important, and knowing that Jiang Xuanxuan was someone they couldn't afford to offend, the receptionist, fearing she might be implicated, hurriedly went to the cloakroom.
As soon as the receptionist left, Yang Yajing immediately opened the sign-in book and used the digital camera she always kept in her pocket to take pictures of the pages she remembered.
Seeing that the receptionist hadn't returned yet, she continued taking pictures of the other pages, thinking: Maybe I'll need them in the future?
She could be so brazen because she knew that the club didn't have cameras installed to protect members' privacy. This was also one of the reasons why it attracted all sorts of shady characters.
Soon, she heard the sound of high heels from the front desk, quickly closed the sign-in book, and put on a smile.
"Did you find it? Did Xuanxuan forget it here?" Yang Yajing asked.
"Found it! The phone keeps ringing, hurry up and take it to her! Don't delay! I can't take that responsibility!" The receptionist wasn't very enthusiastic towards the unassuming Yang Yajing.
Yang Yajing, holding her phone, sent a message to Xia Changlong in the hallway: "All done, get the actors in place!"
Inside the private room, Jiang Xuanxuan started causing trouble as soon as Yang Yajing left.
"Brother Pengfei, Xuanxuan has never tried these drinks before. Are they good?"
Zhou Pengfei shook his head: "I don't know."
"Xuanxuan, can you try some? Xuanxuan and brother are so close, he won't mind, will he?"
Before Zhou Pengfei could answer, Jiang Xuanxuan picked up the straw, switched ends, took a sip, and devoured all the drinks in front of Zhou Pengfei.
While devouring the food, they commented: "Which one is so sweet? Which one is so bland? They're all creamy. Will I gain weight from drinking this?"
When Yang Yajing returned, the waiter had just served the dishes.
"It was so hard to find! If I hadn't been smart enough to follow the waiter as they pushed our private room's dishes around, I would have been really afraid of getting lost!" Yang Yajing said this on purpose as soon as she got back.
"No rush, the food just arrived, we'll make it in time!" Zhou Pengfei smiled slightly.
At that moment, Yang Yajing handed Jiang Xuanxuan's phone to her: "The receptionist said your phone had been ringing a lot, and she was worried it might be something important, so I had her find it and brought it over for you. You won't mind if I meddle, will you?"
"Oh no! When did I leave my phone at the front desk?" Jiang Xuanxuan hadn't even noticed where her phone was.
"I guess I was too curious just now, and you put it directly in your coat pocket, right?" Yang Yajing was just following the script, finding a reason to go to the front desk so that people wouldn't suspect that she was the one who anonymously reported it.
Looking at the caller ID, which showed an unfamiliar number, Jiang Xuanxuan dialed back: "Who is this?"
"Hello! Are you still booking the couple's suite at XX Hotel on a fixed schedule? We have a special offer recently: a 40% discount on weekends if you book for a whole month." That's what came from the other end of the line.
Jiang Xuanxuan felt a pang of embarrassment upon hearing this. She was indeed a regular at that hotel, but she never expected someone to call her at this hour.
If it were a different occasion, she would definitely agree immediately, but now she has to pretend to be a pure and innocent lady!
"Hey! What are you saying? Who would go to a place like this! Are you making spam calls or advertising? You've mistaken me for someone else!" Jiang Xuanxuan immediately denied it and then quickly hung up.
After cutting off the call, she explained to Zhou Pengfei, "I don't even know them, yet they asked Xuanxuan to do this kind of embarrassing ad! How disgusting!"
Just as she finished speaking, the phone rang again. Jiang Xuanxuan wanted to ignore it, but the constant ringing was annoying.
"What happened? I told you you've got the wrong person!"
"That's impossible!"
After the other party recited Jiang Xuanxuan's name and phone number, Jiang Xuanxuan immediately roared, "I said you've got the wrong person, and that's it!" and then blocked the number.
Jiang Xuanxuan was about to continue explaining, but Yang Yajing didn't give her the chance.
She glanced at the table and said mischievously, "Zhou Pengfei, you didn't do anything bad while I was away, did you?"
Zhou Pengfei smiled and shook his head.
The one who did the bad thing wasn't Zhou Pengfei, but Jiang Xuanxuan.
Yang Yajing certainly noticed that there were lipstick marks on every straw in the drink in front of Zhou Pengfei.
"Zhou Pengfei, aren't you going to drink anything?" Yang Yajing asked deliberately. "What a waste! I should have known better than to order so much!"
"There's nothing we can do about the waste; it's been contaminated with chemicals, so we don't dare drink it," Zhou Pengfei said, pointing at the straws with a wronged expression.
"Chemical substances?" Yang Yajing then looked closely at the spot Zhou Pengfei was pointing to, and deliberately said, "Oh dear! Why are there lipstick marks everywhere? Is the hygiene here bad?"
Before the other two could say anything, Yang Yajing exclaimed in alarm, "Ah! I tasted every single one of them! I didn't notice! Am I going to die young? I don't want to!"
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