A Drastic Change in Attitude

"Who was causing trouble?" On the way to the Human-Class Private Room, Manager Qin asked the waiter.

"Reporting to you, Manager, it was Miss Wang Bingyan of the Wang Family hosting a banquet for Young Master Ye Xuan, with several young masters and ladies from other Lineages accompanying them. The cause seemed to be that some nobody at the table did not know his place and angered them."

The moment he heard that the troublemaker was a nobody, Manager Qin had a clear idea of the situation.

Ye Xuan was a direct descendant highly valued by the Ye Family, while the one opposing him was merely an unknown nobody. Even a fool knew whose side to take.

Very soon, Manager Qin entered the Human-Class Private Room.

Taking in the disorderly scene within the private room, Manager Qin could not help secretly furrowing his brow.

He quickly returned to normal.

Zhou Rong beside Ye Xuan saw Manager Qin enter and pointed at Su Chen in the room. "Manager, you came at just the right time. This man injured Wang Teng in the private room. Surely your Drunken Immortal Residence will not stand by and do nothing?"

Manager Qin glanced at Ye Xuan, then turned to look at Su Chen's utterly ordinary clothes. He chuckled, folded his hands into his sleeves, and said with a beaming smile, "Easy now, easy now. Everyone, please calm down."

To be honest, given Manager Qin's connection with the Anyang Commandery Prince's Residence, he did not actually need to lower himself to curry favor with Ye Xuan.

But he was, after all, a businessman, so he would not lightly tarnish the Ye Family's face.

Moreover, someone had been injured at the Drunken Immortal Residence. This was something the Drunken Immortal Residence could not ignore in the first place, much less when the one who had injured him was merely a fellow who looked entirely ordinary and without any background.

At once, Manager Qin gave several burly martial guards behind him a meaningful look.

An oppressive aura immediately emanated from those martial guards as they strode toward Su Chen.

Jiang Tingyi suddenly rose to her feet and stood in front of Su Chen. "Wang Teng clearly started this. Is this how your Drunken Immortal Residence handles matters, without distinguishing black from white?"

Zhou Rong said fiercely, "Cut the nonsense! Su Chen broke Wang Teng's leg. We all saw it with our own eyes, and he must settle this debt!"

"Su Chen?"

Manager Qin, whose ears were sharp, immediately caught the name in the young man's words, and his heart stirred.

Wasn't the benefactor Princess Xiling had mentioned in the Heaven-Class Private Room a young man named Su Chen?

Seeing the martial guards about to reach Su Chen, Manager Qin hurriedly spoke to stop them. "Wait!"

His gaze rested on Su Chen, and hesitation filled his heart. Could there really be such a coincidence? Or did they merely share the same name?

"Young man, is your name Su Chen?" Manager Qin asked probingly.

Su Chen nodded.

"This morning at Five Treasures Hall, did you treat an elderly man?" Manager Qin asked. Even he felt it was unlikely as the words left his mouth. How could the benefactor mentioned by the Princess happen to be dining at the Drunken Immortal Residence as well? It was probably just someone with the same name.

But to Manager Qin's astonishment, Su Chen replied as calmly as drifting clouds and a gentle breeze, "You mean the old man bitten by a Coldheart Python? I treated him."

It was him!

It really was him!

Manager Qin did not suspect Su Chen of impersonation, because an impostor could not possibly know that the old man's injury had been caused by a Coldheart Python bite.

"Manager, why are you making small talk with this fellow? Beat him senseless already!" Seeing that Manager Qin had yet to act and had instead begun chatting about this and that with Su Chen, Zhou Rong grew impatient.

But what Zhou Rong had not expected was that Manager Qin, usually gentle and approachable, would suddenly change completely. He shot Zhou Rong a cold look and said in a deep voice, "I am speaking with an honored guest. Shut your mouth!"

An honored guest?

Who?

Zhou Rong froze where he stood.

He had no idea what was going on.

Manager Qin drew a deep breath and immediately strode quickly toward Su Chen!

Under everyone's astonished gazes, Manager Qin first clasped his hands and bowed to Su Chen in full view of all before saying respectfully, "I had eyes but failed to see Mount Tai just now. I did not recognize that it was Young Master Su!"

"How did you end up in the Human-Class Private Room, Young Master? Did you enter the wrong room? The guests in the Heaven-Class Private Room have specially prepared a banquet and are waiting for you. Please come with me."

Manager Qin truly had not expected Su Chen to pass up the Princess's invitation in the Heaven-Class Private Room and come to the Human-Class Private Room instead. The only explanation was that Su Chen had entered the wrong room.

The instant Manager Qin said this, the entire Human-Class Private Room fell into deathly silence.

Ye Xuan, Zhou Rong, Wang Teng, Wang Bingyan, Jiang Tingyi...

Everyone thought they had misheard!

The guests in the Heaven-Class Private Room had specially prepared a banquet for Su Chen?

How could that be possible?

One had to know that the Heaven-Class Private Rooms of the Drunken Immortal Residence had extremely high requirements for guests. It was not merely a matter of wealth, but also status!

Only figures at the level of the heads of Clear River City's three great Lineages or higher were qualified to reserve a Heaven-Class Private Room at the Drunken Immortal Residence!

As far as they knew, none of the three great Lineages' heads had plans to host guests today. Thus, the guests in the Heaven-Class Private Room could only be great figures whose status surpassed even the heads of the three great Lineages.

Such great figures had actually specially invited Su Chen?

Wang Bingyan found this hardest to accept. Wasn't Su Chen merely Jiang Tingyi's cousin? At most, he bore the identity of an expelled disciple of the Orthodox Unity Sect, and his cultivation was only at the eighth level of the Qi-Attraction Realm. How could he possibly receive a special invitation from such a great figure?

What left Wang Bingyan most ashamed was that when Su Chen had said he wanted to go upstairs earlier, she had mocked him for boasting without even drafting a script, saying he actually dreamed of going to the Earth-Class and Heaven-Class Private Rooms.

Yet the reality before her was like a scorching slap.

A searing slap struck Wang Bingyan across the face.

Zhou Rong and Wang Teng also avoided Su Chen's gaze. The fierceness in their eyes from before had vanished, replaced by deep apprehension.

The one with the most complicated feelings was undoubtedly Jiang Tingyi. She had originally regretted letting Su Chen join the banquet. The others' insults toward Su Chen during the meal had upset her, while also making her deeply resent his failure to live up to expectations.

But the way things unfolded had exceeded her expectations.

The cousin she looked down on at every turn had actually been invited by a distinguished guest in the Heaven-Class Private Room.

"Young Master Su, shall we proceed to the Heaven-Class Private Room?" Manager Qin asked.

Su Chen nodded calmly, rose, and left together with Manager Qin.

After the two departed, the Human-Class Private Room was so quiet that a needle dropping could be heard.

"Hmph!" Ye Xuan, who had not spoken a single word from beginning to end, finally flung the wine cup in his hand away with force, his face turning incomparably livid.

As one of the foremost geniuses among Clear River City's younger generation, when had Ye Xuan ever appeared without being surrounded by stars like the moon?

Yet this time, Manager Qin had not even sought his opinion before publicly humiliating him and taking Su Chen away!

But Ye Xuan could not pick a quarrel with Manager Qin, because he knew very well that Manager Qin had powerful backing. Otherwise, the Drunken Immortal Residence could not have flourished for so many years without decline!

"Su Chen!"

Ye Xuan spat out those two words coldly. He pinned all the frustration and resentment from today upon Su Chen.

"Consider yourself lucky today. I'll let you off this time, but it will not be so simple next time!"

What Ye Xuan did not know was that Su Chen felt even more frustrated than he did at that moment!

Originally, if Manager Qin had not appeared to mediate, Su Chen had already prepared methods to deal with Ye Xuan. Even if he could not kill Ye Xuan, he could still have made him shed a layer of skin on the spot!

But Manager Qin's appearance forced Su Chen to interrupt his plan and spare Ye Xuan for the time being.