"Hello, Old Meng," Su Yang said as he answered the phone.
"Old Su, are you done on your end?"
"I didn't have much to do. I'm just drinking coffee waiting for your call."
"Oh, okay. I'm done on my end too, and I've booked the place."
"Where did you book?"
Meng Wenzhou fell silent for two seconds before laughing, "Yue Shiguang Western Restaurant."
"Oh, Yue... what? Yue Shiguang?" Su Yang was stunned.
"Haha, yeah. I originally wanted to book my friend's clubhouse, but damn it, I don't know what he did, it got shut down for rectification. Then I asked several other places and they were fully booked. Later, I remembered your restaurant is pretty good too, so I called to ask. When they heard I was your friend, they said there was still a private room available, so I booked it."
"Damn it, why even bother booking then? Cancel it. Since you're going to my place, how could I let you pay? I have an exclusive private room. We can just head straight there later."
"Haha, that works too."
Su Yang shook his head and smiled. "Let's leave it at that for now. I'll notify everyone in the group chat, and then we'll head out."
"Alright, what about that girl from the Magic City..."
"Oh, she's definitely going."
"That's good then, haha. Alright, see you later."
"OK."
After hanging up, Su Yang opened his contacts, found Old Gao's number, and dialed it.
After just two rings, Old Gao's voice came through the phone. "Hello! Boss Su!! Oh my, it's been a while since you reached out to me. What are your orders!"
"Old Gao, I'm bringing some friends over for a meal later. Get things ready on your end."
"Will do, will do! No problem. I just heard from the front desk that a guy named Meng, claiming to be your friend, booked a private room."
"Oh, cancel his booking. We'll use my private room."
"Alrighty, how many people are there in total?"
"Eleven. Use your judgment and serve up one of every signature dish we have in the restaurant."
"OK, leave it to me. I'll notify the staff right away. When will you be coming over?"
"We should be there in half an hour at most."
"Okay, okay. I'll go tell the kitchen right now."
"Alright, hanging up now."
Hanging up the phone, Su Yang opened the WeChat group chat [Island Nation Trip] and sent a message: @Everyone, we are going to my place to eat later. Remember to bring your things so we can handle the visas after the meal.
After sending this message, Su Yang sent the address of Yue Shiguang Restaurant to the group.
Liu Bo: Received!! Are we heading over now?
Su Yang: Let's go now, it's about time for lunch anyway.
Liu Bo: OK, I'm heading out now.
Su Qingci: Received! Setting off immediately.
The others also replied with messages one after another.
After finishing his cigarette, Su Yang got up, returned to the living room, and called out to the two who were still lying down, "You two young ladies, stop lounging around. Get ready to head out."
"I saw you sent a restaurant address in the group chat. Is that a restaurant you own?" Zhuang Mengli sat up and asked.
Su Yang nodded. "Yeah, the food there is pretty good. I'm taking you guys to try it out."
"Great! Let me touch up my makeup and we'll go!" Zhuang Mengli said as she dug out her makeup bag and got up to head to the bathroom.
Jiang Xiaotang quickly followed. "Mengmeng, wait for me. I need a touch-up too!"
......
A few minutes later, the three of them arrived in the yard. Su Yang walked over to the Cullinan and opened the car door. "You two big sisters, get in."
"Big sisters?"
"Uh... little... no, that's not right either. Goddesses, yes, please get in the car, you two goddesses."
"That's more like it. I'm warning you, don't just call us whatever." Zhuang Mengli waved her delicate fist and got into the back seat with Jiang Xiaotang.
Su Yang also got into the car, started the engine, and slowly drove out of the villa.
Twenty minutes later, the three arrived at Yue Shiguang Western Restaurant at 103 Kangzhuang Road, Yonghe District.
After parking the car in the parking lot by the entrance, Su Yang opened the door and stepped out.
As soon as he got out, two people came jogging over from a short distance away. One of them was Old Gao, and the other was the restaurant's general manager whom he hadn't seen for a while, Gaygay Chen Guowei.
"Boss Su!! I missed you to death!!" Gaygay Chen Guowei was still as effeminate as ever, and his outfit was just as flashy. He was wearing a blue patterned short-sleeved shirt paired with orange knee-length shorts, Balenciaga shoes on his feet, and various jingling accessories on his hands and neck.
Seeing this, Su Yang immediately dodged backward. He held out his hand and shouted, "Stop!!"
"Boss Su! You're finally willing to visit the restaurant. I... uh, I haven't seen you for so long. Honestly, you don't care about our restaurant at all!"
Gaygay Chen Guowei said with a slightly coquettish tone.
'Hiss, damn it, this is so uncomfortable,' Su Yang complained in his mind.
Standing to the side, Zhuang Mengli and Jiang Xiaotang were both dumbfounded by this scene.
Zhuang Mengli thought to herself, 'Could Su Yang swing both ways? No, no, he doesn't look like someone who likes the same sex.'
After Su Yang and Gaygay Chen Guowei exchanged a few simple words, Old Gao also stepped forward with a smile, "Boss Su, long time no see!"
"Old Gao, how have things been recently?"
"Very good! Our restaurant's business has been booming lately, and everyone's salary has increased."
"Oh? Is that so?"
"Yes, Boss Chen ordered the raise," Old Gao smiled as he looked at Gaygay Chen Guowei.
Su Yang nodded. "Mm, you handled this well. If a raise is due, it should be given. When our restaurant makes money, it shouldn't just be the management profiting; the employees at the bottom need to earn together with us!"
Gaygay Chen Guowei grinned. "That's a given. We aren't the kind of bosses who only know how to draw empty promises."
"Not bad. Try to enrich the benefits as much as possible, too. How much do the lowest-tier employees take home every month now?" Su Yang asked, looking at Gaygay Chen Guowei and Old Gao.
Gaygay Chen Guowei thought for a moment and said, "In the beginning, it seemed to be six thousand, but now it's eight thousand."
Hearing this, Su Yang nodded in satisfaction. "Not bad, keep it up! If anyone performs well or shows outstanding professional ability, reward them as necessary, and raise their salaries as deserved."
"Will do! We will always implement your instructions, Boss Su!" Gaygay Chen Guowei smiled.
"Alright, let's head inside," Su Yang said, looking over at Zhuang Mengli and Jiang Xiaotang.
Gaygay Chen Guowei noticed the two of them at this time. He turned, stepped forward, and greeted them with a beaming smile, "Hello, you two beauties. Please come in~"
"Okay, thank you."
Su Yang took the lead, guiding Zhuang Mengli and Jiang Xiaotang toward the restaurant's main entrance.
Gaygay Chen Guowei and Old Gao followed behind.
After entering the restaurant, Lu Yun also came down from the second floor. She spotted Su Yang at a glance.
She immediately trotted over and called out, "Su Yang!!"
"Little Lu, are you working today?"
"Yes, I am."
"What about Little Yu?"
"Little Yu has the day off today."
"Oh, alright. Let's eat together later."
"Okay."
"Are these the two beauties you newly invited to the group chat?" Lu Yun tilted her head and looked at Zhuang Mengli and Jiang Xiaotang behind Su Yang.
"Yes. Come, let me introduce you."
"This is Zhuang Mengli, you can call her Mengmeng or Mengli. And this is Jiang Xiaotang, just call her Xiaotang."
Lu Yun reached out her hand to the two of them with a sweet smile. "Hello, beauties. I am Lu Yun, you can call me Little Lu."
Hearing this, Su Yang chimed in, "They'll probably have to call you Sister Little Lu. You seem to be a year older than them."
"Is that so?"
"Yes."
Zhuang Mengli and Jiang Xiaotang stepped forward, reached out to shake hands with Lu Yun, and smiled. "Sister Little Lu, you're so pretty!"
"Mengmeng, Xiaotang, you two are even prettier."
"Oh my, Sister Little Lu, you're too modest. I really love your vibe!"
"Me too!" Jiang Xiaotang chimed in.
The two of them taking turns complimenting her made Lu Yun feel a bit shy. Su Yang smiled and said, "Alright, alright, enough with the politeness. You're all beautiful. Let's go take a seat in the private room first."
"Okay." Chatting amongst themselves, everyone headed toward Su Yang's exclusive private room.
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.”
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…
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
orn and Humiliation】【Forced Love】 In his past life, Lin Ran was betrayed and murdered by his girlfriend and family, while the yandere female aristocrat, who had treated him as a mere plaything, avenged him by doing in his enemies. Upon seeing the yandere female aristocrat lying in the same coffin, ready to die with him, Lin Ran realized how profoundly mistaken he had been. Reborn, he abandoned the fickle campus beauty and wholeheartedly embraced the yandere female aristocrat's arms. "Ran! If I dig out your eyes and turn them into a specimen, you'll only be able to look at me!" Lin Ran: "Darling, kiss me!" "Ran! If I break your legs, you won't run away anymore, right?" Lin Ran: "Love, hold me tight!" "Ran! If..." Lin Ran: "Hush now! Love me more!" Luo Yao: ... Seeing his scumbag dad: "Take him out!" Seeing his stepmother: "Get rid of her!" Seeing his brother: "Eliminate him!" Seeing his white moonlight: "Send that to Southeast Asia!"
