Chapter 109: A Warped Worldview

Not seeing Lin Fan there, she immediately sent him a message asking where he was.

Soon Lin Fan replied that he was downstairs in the restaurant discussing matters with a friend, and told her to come down and eat there as well.

At that moment, Zhong Xingnan also brought Tang Guo and the others to the Atlantis Hotel.

At daybreak, when Tang Guo noticed that Zhang Yi was not around, she called her, but Zhang Yi did not answer. Instead, she replied on WeChat that she was staying at Atlantis with Lin Fan.

Zhang Yi had originally not wanted to answer Tang Guo at all, but in the end she could not bear to be so heartless. After all, they had been close friends for many years, and it was Tang Guo’s birthday today; she did not want to spoil her mood.

Who would have thought that Zhong Xingnan still could not forget her?

He had already decided that after going out to sea in the afternoon, he would force Zhang Yi into his hands.

After arriving at the hotel, the two hanger-ons at Zhong Xingnan’s side quickly found Lin Fan.

By then, Lin Fan had just come down from upstairs and was preparing to go to the restaurant to continue discussing important matters with Wang Silai and Su Huanmo.

The previous night, they had not finished talking on the plane, and it was already past midnight. The three of them had rushed to Yazhou in a hurry, chatted for a while on the flight, and then gone to sleep.

After landing, Wang Silai and Su Huanmo returned to the hotel to rest first, while Lin Fan went to find Zhang Yi.

The Atlantis restaurant occupied the third, fourth, and fifth floors. The third and fourth floors served buffet meals for ordinary guests, while the fifth floor was reserved exclusively for VIP rooms and presidential suites. A few minutes earlier, Lin Fan had gone to the lobby to meet with the hotel manager and arranged to rent a yacht. After lunch, he would go out to sea with Zhang Yi, Su Huanmo, and the others.

He had not expected that on his way back, he would run into Zhong Xingnan and his group.

As soon as Tang Guo saw Lin Fan, she was rather surprised.

"Lin Fan, I never thought you’d really come. Not bad at all..."

But Lin Fan treated her like thin air and did not even glance at her, turning around and heading upstairs.

Seeing how cold he was, Tang Guo’s temper flared at once.

"Lin Fan! I’m talking to you. What kind of attitude is that? Are you deaf?"

"Do you think staying here makes you so impressive, so above everyone else? Where is Zhang Yi? Which room is she in?"

Lin Fan stopped, turned back, and replied with utter indifference, "Why should I tell you? To be honest, Zhang Yi doesn’t like being friends with someone as twisted in her values as you. Don’t call her out to play anymore. She’s in a completely different world from you now, and you’re nowhere near her level."

At that, Tang Guo’s anger surged.

She had never expected to be mocked in public by Lin Fan. Lin Fan was nothing more than a rich nobody with no money or power, not even qualified to serve as her servant.

"You’ve got a lot of nerve. What right do you have to speak for Zhang Yi? Look at you, you pathetic loser. You’re not even a thousandth of what Young Master Zhong is!"

Today was supposed to be her birthday, a day for joy, yet Lin Fan’s few words had stripped her naked of dignity and left her humiliated.

She did not explode on the spot only out of consideration for their former classmate ties.

The few friends around her also spoke up one after another, angrily firing back at Lin Fan.

"What are you supposed to be? Who gave you the right to act all superior in front of Young Master Zhong? It was supposed to be a wonderful day, and you, you hick, had to ruin it. What a damn nuisance!"

"No wonder he’s called a country dog. He bites anyone he sees. Last night he said Young Master Zhong was a womanizer, and now he’s bad-mouthing Tang Guo to her face. That’s just too much!"

"Young Master Zhong, why not teach him a lesson? I’ve long had it in for him..."

Zhong Xingnan nodded silently, intending to teach Lin Fan a lesson on the spot.

But when he turned around, he saw that Lin Fan had once again ignored them and was walking straight toward the fifth floor as if nothing had happened.

"Damn, this guy really doesn’t take us seriously at all!"

"He actually went to the fifth floor. Could he be sneaking in to eat and freeload? The guest rooms here cost twenty thousand a night. Is this guy putting on airs again?"

The two flashy punks cursed under their breath and decided to see just what Lin Fan was up to.

The decor on the fifth floor was completely different from the lower two levels. It was splendid and magnificent, like a palace.

Even Zhong Xingnan and the others were visiting the fifth-floor restaurant for the first time. It was like a five-star dining room, with dedicated waiters serving every table.

Seeing Lin Fan stride in so confidently without showing a room key card left the group utterly baffled.

Yet when they tried to slip in behind him, they were stopped by the doorman at the entrance.

"Everyone, this floor is reserved for VIP guests and presidential-suite guests. Please show your room key cards."

The silver-haired rich second-generation heir grumbled in displeasure. "That country bumpkin up front didn’t show any key card either. Why was he allowed in?"

"That gentleman is a guest in the presidential suite, so of course he doesn’t need to show a key card. If you wish to go in, each of you must pay a dining fee of twenty thousand yuan, and then you may enjoy the delicacies of a five-star restaurant..."

The doorman replied with a smile that did not reach his eyes.

"Impossible! How could he possibly be a presidential-suite guest? Did you see wrong, or did you miss it entirely?"

Tang Guo grew anxious.

Seeing Lin Fan showing off made her very uncomfortable.

She wanted Lin Fan to apologize to her in front of everyone, but instead he turned around and entered the VIP restaurant. Wasn’t that a slap in her face?

The presidential suite cost one hundred thousand a day, a price even Zhong Xingnan found excessive.

Had Lin Fan deliberately spent one hundred thousand yuan on a presidential suite just to show off in front of them?

She felt she had to expose Lin Fan’s true face on the spot and let everyone see what a hypocritical, vain, and nauseating man he really was.

So, after Zhong Xingnan reluctantly paid a dining fee of one hundred and twenty thousand yuan, the six of them successfully entered the restaurant.

They immediately searched for Lin Fan and soon found him sitting by the window.

What none of them could have anticipated, however, was this.

When they reached the spot behind Lin Fan, they actually saw two super-rich second-generation heirs who were extremely famous in elite circles!

Wang Silai and Su Huanmo!

"What, are you not finished yet?"

Feeling the unusual gaze behind him, Lin Fan turned around to look at the six of Zhong Xingnan’s group, his expression icy.

Zhong Xingnan and the others did not hear what he said, because all six of them were shaken by the aura of Wang Silai and Su Huanmo, and their hearts had begun to race.

Especially when they remembered that Lin Fan had told them last night that he knew Young Master Wang and Miss Su. At first, they had all assumed he was bragging.

But now that they saw Lin Fan really sitting with those two, it felt like a bolt of lightning had struck them. They were stunned to the core.

At that moment, Wang Silai frowned at Zhong Xingnan and the others and asked, "Mr. Lin, is it these people who offended you?"

Su Huanmo on the side also said with clear disdain, "I know this guy. He seems to be the only son of the chairman of Zhongyi Group. His reputation isn’t very good. Was it he who lured your girlfriend here?"

Lin Fan looked at Zhong Xingnan with undisguised disgust, then turned back and said, "Zhang Yi was careless in choosing friends. She’s thin-skinned and doesn’t know how to refuse, so she got tricked into coming here. If I hadn’t flown to Yazhou overnight, that scum would have gotten away with it again."

At that, Wang Silai looked up and glared at Zhong Xingnan, asking in a cold voice, "Zhong Xingnan, you’ve got quite a lot of nerve, trying to set your sights on Mr. Lin’s girlfriend?"