The Handsome Boss Took His Front Desk Girls Out to a Feast

July 11, morning. The weather was beautiful.

Cheng Yun went up to the rooftop to check on the flowers and plants, as well as the little goldfish he had just bought for the fishpond. He sprinkled some fish food into the pond and watered the flowers and plants before going downstairs to open the front desk for business.

He had just turned on the computer and logged into QQ when he received a document from Yu Dian. The timestamp showed that it had been sent at three in the morning.

"You were still awake that late!" Cheng Yun shook his head.

It wasn't good for an employee to be too diligent. It always made him feel like a heartless boss who exploited his workers.

He accepted the document and opened it.

Yu Dian had already finished the piece he had asked her to write, and she had written it beautifully—the length was just right, the content was substantial, the prose elegant and compelling, and the title was "There Will Always Be a Place to Shelter You from the Wind and Rain." If Cheng Yun remembered correctly, Old Mage had said those words on the day he left. He hadn't expected Yu Dian to remember them too, and even use them as the title.

Cheng Yun copied the document into WeChat and the official WeChat account, then began formatting and editing the text and images. In the end, he specifically sent it to Yu Dian for a look before posting it.

Soon, the official WeChat account's Moments feed began receiving likes one after another. Some guests even replied out of boredom, and Cheng Yun naturally responded to each one politely.

The official account was quieter mainly because it didn't have many followers yet. For now, it still had to rely on the official WeChat account to draw people in.

Once he had some free time, Cheng Yun felt a little guilty toward Yu Dian again.

The girl was truly steady, diligent, and willing to do any amount of work. Yet he had promised to treat her to a big meal last time and still hadn't found the opportunity. This really wasn't just an excuse Cheng Yun had come up with—the hotel was genuinely busy, and they were short-handed. He couldn't take Yu Dian and Heroine Yin out for a feast while leaving Cheng Yan behind to watch the front desk, could he? If he did that, Cheng Yan would give him the cold shoulder for a whole week!

Today happened to be the day he changed shifts with Yu Dian. It was clearly only Tuesday, yet for some reason business was exceptionally good.

Cheng Yun had already answered several calls that morning, all asking whether they could check in early.

Normally, as long as the previous day's guests checked out early, Cheng Yun would agree to let new guests check in ahead of time. If time was tight, he would simply have the cleaners work faster. But today, it really wasn't possible—

Quite a few of yesterday's guests looked like college students, and they were probably still sleeping in.

It wasn't until after lunch that he truly became busy.

Guests checking out and guests checking in came one after another. He was constantly handling check-ins and returning deposits, while Heroine Yin and Aunt Tang were even more exhausted, having to clean rooms nonstop.

By the afternoon, apart from the two deluxe suites where he and Cheng Yan lived, almost every room in the hotel was more or less booked.

Cheng Yun hurriedly opened the system backend to take a look, and sure enough, large patches of gray filled the interface.

Some guests had started staying yesterday, most had checked in today, and a few had made reservations but had not yet arrived. Only a few themed rooms remained vacant, while the women's side of the youth hostel still had several beds available...

"What is going on?" Cheng Yun had only just begun promoting the newly launched dorm beds, yet the men's side was already nearly full. He was completely bewildered.

"And most of them seem to be young people..."

By a little after five in the afternoon, the few themed rooms had all been booked as well, leaving Cheng Yun even more baffled.

With July's arrival, the number of examinees coming to visit the campus had gradually decreased, and the hotel's business had slowly returned to normal. Besides, today wasn't even a weekend. So why was business suddenly this good?

Still... this was a good opportunity!

Cheng Yun refreshed the page and saw that several guests in standard single rooms had yet to arrive. He went down the list, adding each phone number on WeChat.

Soon, every friend request was accepted.

Cheng Yun first copied and sent over two messages: "Dear guest, hello. This is Anju Hotel. Before and during your stay, you can contact me through this WeChat account. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Everyone at Anju Hotel will do our best to solve them for you."

"By the way, following the WeChat account 'Anju Hotel' will get you a ten-yuan coupon. If you booked your room online, you can show the coupon at the front desk to receive a cash refund in the form of a red packet."

The profile picture of the first guest seemed to belong to a girl. She looked youthful and pretty, and she got straight to the point: "Hello. How do I get from Erlieu Airport to your hotel?"

Cheng Yun twitched the corner of his mouth and replied.

He then began asking the guests one by one roughly when they would arrive. The result made him very happy—

Almost all of them were taking high-speed trains or flights that arrived in the evening.

Just as Cheng Yun was grinning, a somewhat familiar voice suddenly came from in front of him: "Handsome boss! What are you looking at? Why are you grinning like an idiot?"

Cheng Yun looked up and saw Hao Nianwen leaning against the front desk and looking at him. Her roommates stood behind her.

"Hm?"

"'Hm' what?" Hao Nianwen rolled her eyes. "Shouldn't you be happy when guests show up?"

"Aren't you all college students? Why do you keep forming groups to rent rooms whenever you have nothing else to do?" Cheng Yun stared at them blankly. Could these girls have some kind of unusual hobby?

"What kind of look is that?" the somewhat chubby He Qing said. "Aren't we about to leave campus now that the exams are over? We heard you had youth hostel beds now, and that the rooms looked really nice, so we came to take a look. We might as well experience what sleeping in one of those influencer-level hostels is like."

"Yeah, we heard they were cheap, came with coupons, and even let us play Werewolf, so we deliberately came to spend the night!" Hao Nianwen exposed her.

"Oh, welcome, welcome." As he spoke, Cheng Yun silently muttered, What a strange hobby.

When he had traveled in the past, he had genuinely seen people who were especially fond of those influencer hostels and guesthouses with beautiful, stylish decor. Some of them even traveled a great distance just to sleep there for one night... To this day, he still couldn't understand what those people were thinking!

"Are you staying in the eight-person room? Let me check. The women's eight-person room has... only five beds left."

"Tsk, tsk. The boss is so young, yet already blind. How pitiful." Hao Nianwen said, "You must have looked at too many things you shouldn't have."

"What does that mean?... Why are there only five of you?"

"Someone else went back early!"

"Oh! I see!"

"Then we won't book online. Just charge us the group-buying price!" Hao Nianwen said, glancing at the price list behind the front desk. The prices listed there were somewhat higher than the group-buying rates.

"Sure!" Cheng Yun readily agreed, then tapped the QR code on the front desk. "Following the official WeChat account will save you another ten yuan."

If they booked online, the website would take a cut, so charging them the listed website price directly wouldn't cost him anything. At most, he would lose a few good reviews during the hotel's early days, and naturally, he had to respect the customers' wishes on that front. So it was obvious that Hao Nianwen was a seasoned veteran at renting rooms outside.

"By the way, boss, what were you grinning like an idiot about just now?" Hao Nianwen asked while he processed their check-in.

"Business is good!" Cheng Yun said. "I don't know why, but business is especially good today."

"Really? It should be because of the anime convention, right?"

"Anime convention?" Cheng Yun was stunned. "When is that?"

"It starts tomorrow and lasts three days. It's a pretty big convention." Hao Nianwen said, "It's at the science and technology museum next door. I have time tomorrow, so I'll go join in the fun and take a look at some handsome guys and pretty girls."

"Oh, no wonder!" Cheng Yun nodded to himself, then said, "Not interested!"

"Tch! How boring!" Hao Nianwen waved her hand.

At this point, He Qing, who was standing beside her, said, "Actually, Nianwen is going to attend the anime convention. She's just afraid that if she changes into her costume and walks out of the dorm tomorrow, too many people will turn around to look at her. So she insisted on dragging us out to stay at a hotel, and even made us do her makeup!"

"Hey, Old He, don't lie! Who was it that said the room looked so beautiful in the pictures? Who was it that said she wanted to come out and see the handsome boss? Now you're dumping all the blame on me!"

"Didn't they also say they wanted to see the handsome boss?" He Qing wasn't embarrassed in the slightest. Instead, the other girls grew somewhat bashful.

Only Wu Wenshan said indifferently, "I didn't say that."

Cheng Yun felt a little awkward.

After completing their check-in, he looked at the hotel system again, then sent WeChat messages to Yu Dian and Cheng Yan: "Let's go out for a big meal tonight. We leave at six sharp. What do you say? If you agree, remember to call Yin Dan too."

"Huh? Then who will watch the hotel?" Yu Dian asked.

"Are we just abandoning the hotel?" Cheng Yan asked as well.

"Most of the rooms are already booked today, and a few guests won't arrive until after nine. No one should steal anything from the front desk, right?" Cheng Yun replied to them one by one. Then he sent another message: "In any case, I haven't gone out for a proper meal in ages. I also have to exercise every night. If I don't go out now, I'll waste away from hunger!"

"Why don't you go without me? I-I can watch the front desk," Yu Dian replied.

"No!"

It didn't take long for Cheng Yun to make them realize how precious this opportunity was and how unshakable his resolve was. By five forty, they had come down one after another and were sitting at the front desk.

Cheng Yan even came over to inspect the check-in system. She frowned in confusion. "Strange. It's Tuesday today. Is business really this good?"

"Yeah, because of the anime convention," Cheng Yun said. "If you're free tomorrow, you can go take a look."

"Not interested." Cheng Yan hesitated before saying, "Since business is this good, why don't I put the room I'm staying in up for booking too? If no one books it, so be it. If it gets booked, that's several hundred yuan for free!"

"Then where will you sleep?" Cheng Yun asked.

"I..." Cheng Yan hesitated briefly. That's several hundred yuan. There was no reason not to earn it. "I can sleep on the sofa in your room!"

"How could that work?"

"I like sleeping on sofas." Cheng Yan said, "It's settled!"

"Let's talk about it after we get back." Cheng Yun didn't want trouble to arise halfway through dinner, so he waved his hand.

He then immediately locked the remaining two beds in the women's four-person room and left a note at the front desk that read, "The handsome boss has taken his front desk girls out for a feast. Guests with any problems, please call or contact us on WeChat directly!" He placed it somewhere highly visible, then clapped his hands. "All right! Let's go!"