Forty-seven Rose Society girls, dressed in beautiful gowns and evening dresses, arrived at Zhang Tie's luxurious residence for the banquet.
Following the list Zhang Tie had provided, the Black Gold Hotel spared no effort, dispatching forty-seven luxury cars and reception staff. With the most extravagant reception standards in the hotel's history, they went door to door and escorted all forty-seven Rose Society girls to the Black Gold Hotel.
To welcome these girls, the hotel had even opened a special VIP passage exclusively for them.
A vivid crimson carpet stretched directly from where the girls got out of their cars all the way to Zhang Tie's luxurious residence.
On both sides of the bright blood-red carpet stood flower arches made of vivid roses that the hotel had shipped by airship from ten thousand miles away. Waiters and maids in white gloves and black tailcoats stood neatly along the carpet, welcoming the Rose Society girls with utmost respect...
A specially hired team of photographers began taking pictures the moment the girls stepped out of their cars. Whenever a car stopped and its door was opened by the attendants, bursts of camera-flash haze rose around them the instant a girl emerged.
The scene was like welcoming princesses. To the Rose Society girls, it was so perfect that it felt utterly dreamlike.
Zhang Tie wore a formal and magnificent black evening suit. Smiling, with his hands behind his back, he stood at the entrance and personally welcomed the girls.
In the banquet hall behind him, crystal chandeliers shimmered in a riot of colors. Beside the pool in the hall, an elegantly dressed orchestra played lilting, cheerful music.
Each girl was personally led here by a hotel attendant. If the girls felt like princesses at that moment, then in their eyes, Zhang Tie was like