The sky shed its blue dress and donned a hazy black veil, dotted with stars that faintly twinkled like gemstone jewelry.
The night in Haizhu City remained bustling. At this time, Ye Shuang parked his car in the corporate garage, then took the elevator up and found Chen Qin sitting in the lounge.
In the lounge, Chen Qin was resting in a massage chair. Her long hair was carefully pinned up, and her fair feet were soaking in a wooden tub that faintly emitted steam.
"This is really comfortable," Ye Shuang said with a smile. Seeing Chen Qin covered with a small blanket and enjoying her foot soak, he stood beside her, leaning against the chair.
"Ah Ye, you're here." Chen Qin took off her steam eye mask and gave a sweet smile upon seeing Ye Shuang.
"Do you want me to give you a massage?" Ye Shuang asked, rolling his wrists.
"Sure." What was originally just a teasing remark from Ye Shuang made Chen Qin immediately sit up straight. She stood up, slipped on her slippers, and walked over to the massage bed nearby.
Friends who often get foot washes and massages know that you can lie flat on your stomach on a massage bed and place your face in the circular cutout. It doesn't restrict breathing and won't press against your nose.
Chen Qin lay there on her stomach, smiling as she asked Ye Shuang to massage her. "Ah Ye, Ah Ye, help me."
"Alright, Technician 999 is at your service." Seeing Chen Qin like this, Ye Shuang smiled. He walked over to her side to help her relax her stiff muscles. After all, sitting all day could take a toll, though she might just be acting.
Although Ye Shuang wasn't a professional, he massaged her limbs with decent form. Since he didn't use too much force, Chen Qin seemed quite satisfied.
"Are you getting tired, Ah Ye?"
"It's nothing, just a little tapping. What's there to be tired about?"
About ten minutes later, Chen Qin seemed to have fallen asleep. She had just been chattering away with Ye Shuang, but now she lay there motionless.
Ye Shuang was still massaging her peach-like curves. When he heard Chen Qin's steady breathing, he slowed down his hand movements and finally covered her gently with a blanket so she wouldn't catch a cold.
He sat beside Chen Qin for a while, his hand gently stroking her back.
It seemed she was fast asleep.
Just as Ye Shuang was about to get up, Chen Qin rolled over. She stretched lazily and opened her beautiful eyes. "Ah Ye, I think I suddenly fell asleep just now."
"You were too tired, after all," Ye Shuang smiled.
At this moment, Chen Qin seemed to have realized something. She adjusted her skirt and pointed to the door nearby. "Ah Ye, go close the door."
"Now?"
"Ah Ye~" Chen Qin hugged Ye Shuang's arm and acted coquettishly, her unconstrained slimes pressing against his elbow.
In the end, Ye Shuang went and closed the door.
An hour later, the two walked out of the lounge, having changed into clean, neat clothes.
"It looks like it's about time. When should we head over?" Ye Shuang asked, looking at Chen Qin beside him, whose face was slightly flushed as she clung to his arm.
"Let's go now."
"Alright."
...
Bayin Hotel.
Several young girls were standing at the hotel entrance. Since they hadn't traveled from the same place, they had finally gathered together here.
"Let's go, it's that hotel. It seems like a whole floor has been booked," Ke Ke said, pointing to the nearby entrance.
"Let's go." Bai Yuyou nodded. She was currently holding Little Yezi's small hand.
The banquet was held on the sixteenth floor. After taking the elevator up, the group noticed people continuously walking into the lobby entrance.
Almost everyone was dressed in formal suits or evening gowns, looking exceptionally grand.
The doorman in charge of reception saw Bai Yuyou and the others and politely asked,
"Hello, please show your invitation cards."
"Invitation cards?" Bai Yuyou, Ke Ke, and the others exchanged glances. Even Zhi Xia and Lin Lin were momentarily stunned.
It seemed they had never heard of this.
"Brother didn't mention this," Tang Ke Ke scratched her head and asked the doorman,
"I know your President Ye and President Chen, and they didn't say anything about invitation cards."
The doorman just smiled politely. "Please still show your invitation cards, ladies. We are just doing things according to the rules."
"Sigh, alright." Tang Ke Ke took out her phone to send a message to Ye Shuang.
However, Ye Shuang hadn't replied yet. Instead, a voice came from behind them.
"Could you not block the way?"
Bai Yuyou and the others glanced back and found a gorgeously dressed woman standing behind them. It looked like she had dressed up meticulously, which seemed a bit out of place compared to Bai Yuyou and the others who had shown up without makeup.
"Whose young ladies are you?" The woman was naturally Luo Meng. She swept her gaze over Bai Yuyou and the others.
"Didn't the adults in your family tell you that you need an invitation card to enter? Or did you go to the wrong floor?"
"It's just that my brother didn't tell us about it," Tang Ke Ke said with her hands on her hips upon seeing Luo Meng's arrogant demeanor. "What's your problem? We didn't provoke you, so why are you speaking so loudly?"
"Hehe, 'brother,' huh? I bet you little girls were tricked by someone." After being retorted by Ke Ke, Luo Meng glanced at their clothes, which all looked like very ordinary brands. Now she was certain that these were just little girls trying to sneak into the banquet.
After all, the Chen family's banquet had many bigshots attending, and it wouldn't be strange for some idle people to try and sneak in.
"Hurry up and chase them away. These people definitely aren't here to attend the banquet," Luo Meng said to the doorman somewhat impatiently.
"If they go in and steal something, you'll be held responsible."
Tang Ke Ke's backpack shook, as if she was very angry. "What did you say?"
Hearing this, the doorman wasn't in a hurry to speak up, but merely politely continued to ask the girls about their invitation cards.
Right at this moment, Ke Ke's phone rang. She took it out and answered.
"Hello, brother."
"Ke Ke, it seems there is indeed a matter with the invitation cards. I'm having the assistants go out to pick you up now. They happen to be nearby," Ye Shuang said.
"Hehe, okay."
After hanging up, Ke Ke glanced at Luo Meng again. "Someone will come and take us in shortly."
"Tsk." Luo Meng just raised her eyebrows. Naturally, she didn't believe them, only thinking that these brats were trying to maintain their pitiful pride.
"Idiot," Ke Ke said.
"You?!" Luo Meng hadn't expected Ke Ke to suddenly call her an idiot, and her eyes widened instantly.
"My brother said that President Chen's assistant will come out to pick us up in a bit," Ke Ke told the doorman, ignoring Luo Meng.
Hearing this sentence, Luo Meng immediately rolled her eyes.
What a poser. I suppose you know Ma Yun too.
Right at this moment, several women walked quickly from the inner venue. It was none other than Kou Kou and the others.
"Hello... good evening, good evening. I am so sorry for making you wait outside," Kou Kou quickly apologized to Bai Yuyou and the others, then instructed the doorman to let them pass.
"Alright now, these are President Chen's friends. Hurry up and let them in."
"Oh, right away. Please come in, young ladies." The doorman suddenly felt relieved that he hadn't run his mouth. After all, as a veteran reader of Dragon King novels, a lowly doorman like him naturally knew better than to casually offend people who appeared ordinary.
After Bai Yuyou and the group were let inside, Keke turned to look at the somewhat dumbfounded Luo Meng and made another face at her.
"Dumbass."
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
