"How can we help you? Do you have an invitation?"
When Ning Wangshu arrived at the entrance to the restaurant on the top floor of the Burton Hotel with Tong Zhan and Tong Rui, two staff members stepped forward to stop them.
"An invitation? No."
Ning Wangshu replied calmly.
"I'm sorry, but you can't enter without an invitation. The restaurant has been booked for a private event tonight!"
One of the staff members explained.
Ning Wangshu frowned and said in a low voice, "What if I insist on going in?"
The two staff members exchanged glances.
"Sir, please don't make things difficult for us. The restaurant has indeed been booked for a private event tonight. If you haven't been invited by the guests who booked it, you really can't go in."
"If you'd like to dine at our restaurant, you can come back another day. We're very sorry..."
The staff were fairly polite.
But Ning Wangshu had come to find Xia Ze and cut off the problem at its root. There was no way he would simply leave.
So he took a deep breath and said slowly, "I don't want to make things difficult for you, but I have to go in and find someone. I need to settle something with him."
"I'll leave as soon as I'm done. If you insist on stopping me, I'll have to use a little force..."
The two staff members frowned. One of them said, "Sir, if you try to force your way in, we'll have to call security and have them 'escort' you out..."
At that, Ning Wangshu lost patience and didn't want to say anything more to them.
But just then, a flippant, languid voice, tinged with arrogance, came from the side. "Where'd this little punk come from? Does he even know