Pei Youguang returned to the little group looking utterly lost.
Seeing him like this, Pei Tiancheng frowned.
"Youguang, where's that senior of yours? Why didn't he come with you?"
The others also turned puzzled looks toward him.
Pei Youguang hesitated, then hesitated again. After thinking for a moment, he scratched his head.
"Haha, I was having such a great chat with Senior just now that I forgot to mention it to him." An awkward, foolish smile appeared on his plump face.
The moment he said that, everyone's expressions turned dissatisfied and astonished.
"Second Young Master Pei, how could you forget something like that?" one of the girls said unhappily.
Pei Youguang gave an embarrassed laugh. "Sorry, sorry..."
Pei Tiancheng seemed thoughtful. After pondering for a while, he nodded and said calmly, "I see... Then forget it. He has duties to attend to, so it wouldn't be good to disturb him."
He apparently held quite a high position in their circle. Once he spoke, though the others still had plenty of complaints, none of them said anything more.
Still, their rejection of Pei Youguang, who had never truly fit into the group to begin with, grew even stronger.
Seeing that the atmosphere had fallen silent, Ye Chenglin clapped his hands to draw everyone's attention and said with a smile, "All right, there's another activity tonight. Once it gets a little later, let's go explore that suite where someone died. Maybe we'll run into something exciting!"
Elsewhere.
Zhao Dequan, the driver who had brought Xue Jing to Rui Zhu Hotel, was pushing a cart toward the elevator with both hands. On the cart sat a massive cream cake stacked seven or eight layers high.
As the hotel manager, he normally had no need to do this himself. However, the guests in