Although Chu Miaomiao's family was also quite wealthy now.
Unlike Jiang Yunlu, she had never truly experienced what it meant to be exceptionally rich.
She couldn't help but reach out a finger, carefully touching the smooth edge of the table before quickly pulling it back.
"So private kitchens are all opened in people's homes? It feels so mysterious."
Lin Mo's divine sense had long since spread out like spilled mercury, seeing through the inside and outside of this three-story building completely.
Perhaps this place used to be the private residence of some big shot, but now, aside from retaining the original layout, the interior had long been converted into independent private dining rooms.
Each room had a different style and excellent privacy.
But this also meant that it wasn't the kind of private kitchen that only served one table a night.
Lin Mo's divine sense even found the reservation list; including them, there were only three tables of guests tonight.
It was just that they had arrived before five o'clock, and as for when the others would arrive, there was no fixed time.
At this time, Chu Miaomiao had already taken out her phone and opened the Three-Person Alliance group chat.
Chu Miaomiao: "Lin Mo and I have arrived, how about you guys?"
She quickly took two photos and sent them to the group.
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Jiang Yunlu: "I'm setting off now."
Xie Yuling: "My mom and I are also on the way, but why did Lin Mo arrive first with you?"
Seeing this message, Chu Miaomiao's cheeks warmed slightly, and her fingers tapped rapidly on the screen.
Chu Miaomiao explained to them about her wanting to make a cake.
The two in the group were quiet for a moment, not knowing whether they should be jealous, considering Chu Miaomiao was being very honest.
A moment later, the auntie came over holding two glasses of iced cola.
"Please enjoy, you two. Would you like to take a look at tonight's menu?"
Lin Mo raised an eyebrow. "Can the menu be changed?"
"Uh... not anymore, but if you have any dietary restrictions, you can mention them first, and we can see how to accommodate you."
Lin Mo nodded; dietary restrictions were indeed important.
However, as far as he knew, out of their group, it seemed he was the only one with dietary restrictions.
Looking at the menu handed to him, Lin Mo glanced over it and indeed didn't see any mushroom-based items, not even black truffles or matsutake.
There were twelve dishes in total, plus a soup.
It looked pretty good, even though there were only six of them dining.
But Lin Mo could finish twelve dishes all by himself.
Glug, glug, glug.
Taking a sip of the iced cola, Lin Mo's divine sense detected someone approaching the house.
They were also walking from the entrance of the alley; it should be a guest with a reservation.
The person grabbed the door knocker and knocked gently.
The auntie, who was wiping a vase, heard the sound, put down her rag, and walked over.
Shortly after, she led the person into the living room.
"Sir, please rest here for a moment."
The person who entered was a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes, his hair combed meticulously. The Jaeger-LeCoultre watch on his wrist reflected an understated yet expensive gleam under the dim lights of the living room.
He just nodded reservedly, his gaze sweeping across the living room. It skipped past Lin Mo without pausing, but lingered on Chu Miaomiao's exquisite little face for two extra seconds.
That look carried a hint of amazement.
Lin Mo's fingers, holding the cola, tapped lightly against the side of the glass.
The man quickly withdrew his gaze, calmly sat down on the single sofa farthest from them, and took out his phone, minding his own business.
The three of them seemed to divide the living room into two parts: one part was Lin Mo and Chu Miaomiao, and the other part was this middle-aged man.
Chu Miaomiao quietly scooted closer to Lin Mo and lowered her voice.
"Who is this guy? He's so scary, like that buzz-cut dean at our school."
Miaomiao, you've learned to be bad too, actually calling Li Yan by his nickname.
"Not quite," Lin Mo put down his glass and replied lazily. "The dean couldn't afford to wear that watch."
Chu Miaomiao blinked, wanting to ask more, but the sound of the door knocker rang out again outside.
This time, the visitor was clearly much more hurried.
A man, equally well-dressed but with a much more easygoing temperament, rushed in. As soon as he saw the middle-aged man on the sofa, he immediately opened his arms.
"Billy! You're finally back, you kept me waiting!"
The man called Billy finally showed a hint of a smile on his face. He stood up and hugged the newcomer.
"Long time no see, Lao Lu."
"Isn't that the truth!" Lao Lu patted his back, then let go and looked him up and down. "Are you getting used to being back in the country? Let me tell you, things are different here now."
"I can feel it," Billy smiled. "All the way here, high-rise buildings, heavy traffic, it's very prosperous."
"Of course, we are all making progress!"
Lao Lu laughed heartily, his gaze finally noticing Lin Mo and Chu Miaomiao on the other side, and the smile on his face paused slightly.
"Uh... and who are these two?"
He looked at the two of them with some curiosity.
A young man with an indescribably calm temperament, and a beautiful girl with an excellent figure, both sitting quietly.
Billy was also stunned for a moment, then shook his head. "I don't know them. They were here before I arrived."
Lao Lu was a shrewd man and immediately caught on.
"Oh, oh, it seems they are other guests. My apologies, sorry about that, you two."
An apologetic smile instantly piled up on his face as he nodded toward Lin Mo and Chu Miaomiao, considering it a greeting.
Then he grabbed Billy's arm.
"Let's go, let's go up to the private room to chat."
However, as they left, Lin Mo raised an eyebrow, watching them leave the living room.
Saying that, Lao Lu familiarly pulled Billy toward the stairs, not even needing the auntie to guide them.
However, just at the moment the two turned and stepped onto the stairs.
Lin Mo's divine sense clearly caught a whisper from Lao Lu, lowered to the extreme.
"Those things, did you bring them back?"
Billy's footsteps paused, his voice equally faint.
"I brought them back, they are very safe."
Lin Mo raised an eyebrow, watching their backs disappear around the corner of the stairs, his fingertips lightly flicking against the cold glass again.
Interesting.
The next guest to appear was today's birthday girl.
Chu Lintian was also here for the first time. She knocked on the door knocker, and the auntie opened the door to welcome her into the living room.
"How did you guys get here so quickly?"
It had been a while since he last saw Chu Lintian. The current Chu Lintian was slightly thinner than Lin Mo remembered. Although her figure hadn't changed, her cheeks were a bit leaner.
It was probably the affairs of the Dajiang Group that had her in a bit of a scramble.
It was just that Jiang Beihe had already been completely sent to turn himself in by now, and Lin Mo had even mentioned the related matters to Liu Zheng.
It could only be said that Lin Mo had lowered the difficulty for Chu Lintian to take control of the Dajiang Group to the absolute minimum.
The rest would have to depend on herself.
However, if something really happened, Lin Mo could still do something about it.
He stepped forward. "Happy birthday, Sister Chu. You seem very busy lately."
Chu Lintian sighed. "Yes, so busy and so tired. I even want to hire a few more people to help out."
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
