Top Of Glory[Esports] Chapter 42

front table

Although Lin An said that he would pay for the meal, He Chen couldn’t really let others spend money on his birthday.

While others were having fun, he searched online for the club’s per capita consumption, but only found the club’s official website, which was antique and beautifully designed. Apart from the perfectly packaged dishes and recommendations, no one mentioned consumption issues.

Hechen thought for a moment and was unsure about paying attention, so he transferred 50,000 from the bank card where he saved money to his daily account.

In front of him, Qiao Zhi was singing, and Fade wanted to join in. Venus pushed him off the singing platform from behind, and Coco, who had always been quiet for a long time, actually stepped forward to help Venus suppress Fade’s soul of the singer who was about to move.

Lay saw it freshly, “Why are you so energetic today?”

“I’m not in a mental state,” Venus pressed Fade’s arm, and Coco hugged his waist and pulled him back. She didn’t let go even after being hit by an elbow, and took the time to reply to Lay with a deformed face: “…Ha, if I don’t hold Fade down for a while, everyone will become crazy.”

When Qiao Zhi sang the high notes, he made a shocking turn. Coco could even clearly see that the light in Lay’s eyes suddenly went out, leaving an endless blank space.

“…What happened to me just now? Was it a hallucination? My ears seemed to be dead.” Lay recovered after a while, but saw that the others were not surprised. Lao Tao was even able to refill himself with another glass of cold beer.

“Can Fade be more lethal than Manager Qiao?” Lay looked at the people who had no reaction at all and couldn’t imagine the scene of Fade singing.

“How should I put it…” Venus exhausted her imagination and wanted to describe it to him, “It’s the kind of peerless beauties in Chinese history, who are like fishes and geese, and the moon is shy of flowers…”

“Fade’s singing voice is similar to this…”

Lay: “…”

It’s a lot different, okay?

Lay asked him sincerely: “Did your physical education teacher teach you Chinese?”

Venus wanted to argue with him, but when she was slightly distracted, Fade broke free from the shackles, rushed to the singing table like a moth, cut out the love song Qiao Zhi was singing, and arranged a song “Above the Moon” for himself.

Seeing that everyone was having a good time, He Chen quietly got up and went out alone.

When he came in, he followed Lin An all the way. When it was his turn to find the way, he was surprised to realize what a “winding path leads to a secluded place” was. He couldn’t find it at the front desk, and there were fewer and fewer people around him.

Perhaps to ensure the privacy of customers, the waiters in the private room area ring the bell and rarely wander in the corridor.

Hechen could only walk along the wooden plank road based on his feelings. There was water in the pond below, and from time to time, koi carps with round heads and round brains and different patterns poked their heads out cutely.

He walked towards the direction of the sound, and after passing through the corridor, he suddenly became enlightened.

Exiting the private room area, there is actually a card area outside. The other side of the entire second floor is designed with an ancient Chinese style pavilion.

A sunken suspended area was dug in the middle, and a Chinese classical band composed of guqin, guzheng, pipa, etc. was playing music.

The scent of sandalwood is light, which can well neutralize the mixed smell of food and wine that is easy to appear in the card table, without being too strong to offend people.

Hechen finally found the front desk and breathed a sigh of relief.

The cashier at the front desk was wearing the same white cheongsam with auspicious clouds and dark patterns as in their store, and he was used to seeing customers who came to pay in advance.

“If you are sure you want to pay the bill, then we will not use the account reserved by the customer and swipe the card from you.”

He Chen nodded.

While he was waiting to sign the order, the habit he had developed in the past resurfaced, and he couldn’t take any time off. For a while, he opened the reading software and read books on game design mechanisms.

Things have been busy recently, and his reading progress has been a bit slow. He glanced at the footer. He started reading this book last week and has only reached 13.4%.

This month, you can adjust your rhythm at night and leave an extra half hour to read before going to bed.

“You are… Hechen?!”

When He Chen’s name was called, he froze reflexively.

His first reaction was that he had met a fan of the team?

A man with fair facial features and a fine-quality suit, but with an air of slickness about him, raised his hand and waved it in front of his eyes, with a look of surprise in his shrewd eyes.

“It’s really you, don’t you recognize me?”

He Chen avoided his hand without leaving a trace, preventing him from touching his arm. He raised his black eyes slightly, looking at the familiar and unfamiliar facial features in front of him. A name came to his lips but he couldn’t pronounce it, “You are…”

“That’s right, it’s me, Li Song. I was your desk clerk when I was in junior high school.”

Oh, Hechen pinched his fingers and remembered.

In middle school, he used his family connections to prevent his class representatives from collecting his homework. He was not allowed to use the court in physical education class. He stopped people from pairing up with him during the badminton exam. He deliberately bumped into the table while he was writing the test paper. He often “accidentally” spilled soy milk on his desk.

Li Song didn’t seem to notice He Chen’s gaze, and the two brothers introduced to the people next to them: “This is my good friend in middle school, and he is also a member here now. Isn’t it very simple for us to find a place here to talk about something, right? Good brothers?”

Li Song greeted He Chen with a smile on his face.

He Chen took the receipt handed over by the cashier, without looking at Li Song, and lightly curved his lips and smiled.

Li Song has not been having a good time recently. The company’s performance is not good, and the commission conditions for them are getting higher and higher. Today, he finally made an appointment with a big customer. He heard that the boss is arty and likes the environment of this club. He was busy and brought a few colleagues to book a seat. However, he was told that the ordinary card table was full for the time he wanted to book, and only VIP private rooms had reserved seats.

If you can book a private room and negotiate a contract, the probability of success will be higher.Li Song knew very well that he could not trap his children if he wanted to, so he immediately wanted to apply for a membership, but was told that the membership application required capital verification.

“What? I’ve never heard that a restaurant membership requires capital verification. Do you think it’s your own bank?” Li Song brought several employees from his department over to confirm the time and have dinner to try the dishes. Naturally, he didn’t want to lose face in front of others.

The waiter, who was wearing a white cheongsam and had a good figure, didn’t change his face at all. He said in a gentle tone: “This is the club’s rule. Or if your friend is our member, you can also ask him to book a seat for you.”

The colleague who came with him was a little hesitant, “Manager, how about we forget it first and explain it to Party A…”

Li Song was stuck here and couldn’t get in or out. He blamed himself for not researching this guild hall in advance, and also blamed the clutter in the guild hall for blocking the way of people and money.

But he didn’t expect that there was always a way out. He looked around and actually saw someone he knew nearby.

He Chen is so easy to recognize.

He is still the same as before, even if he is standing in the crowd, he seems to have carved out a separate layer.

When I got closer, I saw that He Chen’s face was more refined than when he was a student, and he also had a temperament that seemed to have never been rubbed by life, and I felt an unspeakable jealousy.

“You are still in college now. Unlike people like us, who failed to pass the college entrance examination, we have to go out to work early.” Li Song said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

“No, I’m on leave.” He Chen wasn’t very patient with him. He only replied one sentence after Li Song said ten sentences. Now he was checking the bill with the front desk and responded to Li Song half-truthfully.

“Really or not?” Li Song’s facial muscles trembled, and he suppressed the corners of his mouth, “How did you do it? Then why do you still have a membership here? Is it a family member?”

His evil face was so deeply rooted in people’s hearts that He Chen didn’t even need to look closely. He could guess what he was thinking just from the way he looked at himself and the interest in his tone.

Seeing the disdain hidden in the gossip cast by the young man who came with him, He Chen suddenly left in no hurry.

The bank card rotated between his thumb and index finger. He Chen’s white fingertips tapped lightly and pushed the card across the POS machine.

Just such a smile almost dazzled people.

When had Li Song ever seen He Chen smile?

When he was at his worst in pranks when he was young, he and a group of boys forced He Chen into the corner of the cubicle at the end of the bathroom and refused to let him go until he smiled. He Chen never gave them a good look.

“It’s not my card, it’s my sponsor’s.” He Chen shrugged.

In the box, Fade, who had grabbed the microphone, was like a fish with a bicycle. He began to forget his feelings and what species he was.

Lay was half lying on the sofa, and his eardrums seemed to have been hit hard. The effect was similar to that of ten cymbals being struck in the ears while shouting to collect the rags. In comparison, Qiao Zhi’s broken gongs and transformed sounds were simply the sound of nature.

“Work-related injury—Old Tao—report a work-related injury to me—” Venus wailed weakly.

Lao Tao, who had a slightly dead look on his face at first, immediately woke up when he heard these words, “This team doesn’t care, whose birthday party you are going to have.”

“Speaking of which,” Venus was confused, “The cake hasn’t arrived yet. Why does it feel like our birthday girl has disappeared for a long time?”

These words touched Lin An’s heart.

After browsing the content sent by the lawyer, he replied to the message a few times, then puffed out his cigarette and stood up.

“No, where are you going? Why are you leaving us here to be tortured while you go out to hide and relax?” Qiao Zhi covered his ears and stopped.

“You guys hold on for a while, if you can’t do it, just take it.” Lin An took a sip of high-strength alcohol from Germany to get rid of the smell of cigarette smoke in his mouth, “I’ll go out to pick up the birthday girl.”

To a certain extent, what He Chen said was true.

But Li Song obviously did not have the good virtue of ignoring other people’s business. He was heartbroken for He Chen’s self-will and his fall.

“Hey, classmate, I really didn’t expect that you would be taken care of by someone now and you wouldn’t even go to school… Your grades were very good back then. It’s okay to study hard at S Normal University…”

Lin An walked all the way and heard these words as soon as he saw He Chen’s figure.

He Chen originally nodded vaguely, but then he looked up and saw Lin An.

Their eyes met, each of them speechless.