Booking the Entire Venue

While having dinner with Zheng Shiwei and Fu Liang, Liu Shang received some good news: Jiang Ruolin would be coming out from home early the next day at noon. She asked Liu Shang what he wanted to eat and where he wanted to go.

Perhaps influenced by Li Huaiyuan's earlier suggestion, Liu Shang quickly gave his answer: "Let's go see a movie then."

Jiang Ruolin, who was currently lying on her bed at home, saw his text message and instinctively scratched the small decorations on her pink phone. She couldn't help but playfully chide herself:

Liu Shang, you big dummy. I finally got to come out early to spend time with you, and you want to go to the movies?

There will be so many people at the cinema on a weekend, and we won't have any private space. The reward I wanted to give you today won't happen...

The next day, Liu Shang, having only worked half a day, left the company early and arrived at the agreed-upon mall to wait for Jiang Ruolin.

However, to his surprise, Jiang Ruolin had also arrived early, almost at the same time as him.

"Good thing I came early, otherwise you probably would have had to wait a long time."

"Let's go, we'll eat first. What do you want to eat? My treat."

As Jiang Ruolin spoke, she intimately and proactively linked her arm with Liu Shang's. Liu Shang, however, didn't move at all. He just lowered his voice and whispered in her ear, "I want to eat you!"

"Hmph, you!"

Jiang Ruolin shot him a coquettish look before pulling him into a very exquisite and stylish Chinese restaurant.

Just as they had finished ordering, Liu Shang's phone suddenly rang. It was Li Huaiyuan.

Liu Shang then said goodbye to Jiang Ruolin and walked out of the restaurant to meet the hastily arrived Li Huaiyuan.

"How did it go? No problems?"

In response to Liu Shang's question, Li Huaiyuan made an "OK" gesture.

"Don't worry, I promised you I'd get it done smoothly!"

"That VIP private screening room has over 140 seats, and it's been completely booked. Because there's a service agreement with our school, we can book it first and pay later."

Liu Shang nodded and took an envelope from his pocket, handing it to Li Huaiyuan.

"150 seats, 30 yuan per ticket. This is exactly 4500 yuan."

"If there's any leftover, please treat yourself and everyone in the department to some cold drinks."

"It's just a small token of my appreciation."

"Oh, and remember to keep this quiet for me."

Li Huaiyuan took the envelope and then looked at him with mock annoyance. "I know you've got money, kid, but I told you before, we booked it under the school's name, so we got the student price."

"So it didn't even cost half of what it normally would. As for your thanks, that's even less necessary. It's you who helped us complete this event task early."

"If anything, we should be thanking you for your generous help."

Liu Shang smiled. "That's from your perspective. For me, even spending this much money wouldn't allow me to book the entire venue. So, consider the excess as my thank you. If you really don't want to arrange it, then just treat it as a fund for your department's future activities."

Li Huaiyuan shook his head resolutely. "You're underestimating me if you think I'd do that. That's not how I operate, and it would defeat the purpose of my role in the student union. Besides, I'm not really interested in this amount of money. I'll give you the receipt and any remaining money back after I've paid."

"Oh, and booking out this entire movie theater took six or seven people from my department working for a whole morning together. So, keeping this quiet might be difficult."

"And perhaps moved by your grand gesture, some of the girls in our department have prepared a small gift for you. You'll see it when you go in later."

With that, Li Huaiyuan handed Liu Shang two movie tickets with the best viewing positions.

"Here are your tickets to get in. As for the others, they're no longer needed, and I've already destroyed them."

By the time Liu Shang and Li Huaiyuan returned to the restaurant, several exquisite dishes had been served.

"Was there something important? You were gone for so long?"

Liu Shang smiled. "Didn't we agree to go see a movie? I asked a friend to help buy two tickets."

"See, the seats are pretty good, right?"

Liu Shang handed her the tickets, and Jiang Ruolin looked at them and smiled, nodding.

An hour later, as Liu Shang held Jiang Ruolin's hand and they walked into the cinema's ticket check, at a railing far away in the mall, several people from Li Huaiyuan's department were watching them with keen interest.

"Tsk, looks like there's a reason Liu Shang managed to win over Jiang Ruolin, a goddess-level senior."

"Heh, to book out an entire theater just to take his girlfriend to the movies, this kind of boldness and financial capability is not something ordinary students can match."

Hearing the two of them say this, the girls next to them couldn't help but sigh with admiration, "It's so romantic."

"We're also very curious, what will their reaction be when they walk into a theater meant only for them and see the little surprise we prepared?"

"If it were me, I'd be so touched I'd probably want to throw myself at him."

At this moment, the two male classmates chimed in sourly, "And so tonight, another room will be added to a hotel outside the school, and another pure girl from the school will be lost, right?"

"Hey! How come everything that enters your minds turns yellow?!"

"Do you dare not be so vulgar?"

"Besides, even if it's a hotel, so what? Everyone is already at this age, alright?"

"If you had the ability, you could have pursued Jiang Ruolin before Liu Shang did!"

Seeing them like this, Li Huaiyuan smiled and stopped their argument.

"Look at you guys, you're already sophomores, what's there to argue about?"

"But speaking of which, Yuan Yao, you really wronged Chen Han just now. Neither of you are from Fengcheng, so you don't know the courage and difficulty required to pursue Jiang Ruolin."

"Based on these two interactions, I dare to say that this Liu Shang is definitely not comparable to ordinary people."

As he spoke, Li Huaiyuan waved the envelope in front of everyone, "I already told him the approximate amount needed, but he still gave me almost double the money."

"He said that considering only his own perspective, this is the amount he should spend."

"It's true that pursuing a girl requires financial support, but at his age, to have such a calm and open attitude towards money is truly remarkable."

"Of course, as usual, I will truthfully return the extra funds to him."

"Let's go, we're going to have a meal to celebrate the successful completion of our event!"