"Who is causing trouble?" On the way to the Human-Class Private Room, Manager Qin asked the waiter.
"Reporting to Manager Qin, it is Miss Wang Bingyan of the Wang Family, who is hosting Young Master Ye Xuan. She also invited some young masters and young ladies from other lineages to accompany them. The cause seems to be that some nobody at the table failed to know his place and angered them."
The moment he heard that the troublemaker was a nobody, Manager Qin knew what to do. 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.
Before long, Manager Qin entered the Human-Class Private Room.
Glancing at the chaotic scene inside, Manager Qin could not help frowning inwardly before quickly returning to normal.
Zhou Rong, who stood beside Ye Xuan, saw Manager Qin enter and pointed at Su Chen. "Manager, you came at just the right time. This man injured Wang Teng in the private room. Surely Drunken Immortal Residence will not stand by and do nothing?"
Manager Qin looked at Ye Xuan, then turned to glance at Su Chen's utterly ordinary clothes. He gave a genial chuckle, clasped his hands inside his sleeves, and said with a beaming smile, "Easy now, easy now. Everyone, please calm down."
To be honest, given Manager Qin's connection to the Anyang Commandery Prince's Residence, he did not need to lower himself to curry favor with Ye Xuan.
But he was a businessman, after all, and naturally would not easily offend the Ye Family.
What was more, someone had injured another person at Drunken Immortal Residence. This was something Drunken Immortal Residence could not ignore in the first place, much less when the assailant was merely a seemingly ordinary fellow with no background whatsoever.
With that, Manager Qin gave several burly martial guards behind him a meaningful look.
The guards immediately radiated an oppressive aura as they walked toward Su Chen.
Jiang Tingyi sprang to her feet and stood in front of Su Chen. "Wang Teng was clearly the one who started this. Is this how Drunken Immortal Residence handles matters, without distinguishing black from white?"
Zhou Rong snapped viciously, "Enough nonsense! Su Chen broke one of Wang Teng's legs. We all saw it with our own eyes, and he must pay this debt!"
"Su Chen?"
With his sharp ears, Manager Qin instantly caught the name in the youth's words, and his heart stirred.
Hadn't the benefactor Princess Xiling mentioned in the Heaven-Class Private Room been a young man named Su Chen?
Seeing that the guards were about to reach Su Chen, Manager Qin hastily spoke up to stop them. "Wait!"
His gaze settled on Su Chen, hesitation rising in his heart. Could there really be such a coincidence? Or was it merely someone with the same name?
"Young man, is your name Su Chen?" Manager Qin asked tentatively.
Su Chen nodded.
"This morning at Five Treasures Hall, did you treat an elderly man?" Manager Qin asked. Even as he said it, he felt it was unlikely. How could the benefactor Princess Xiling had mentioned happen to be dining at Drunken Immortal Residence as well? It had to be nothing more than a coincidence of identical names.
Yet what astonished Manager Qin was Su Chen's calm reply. "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 injuries had been caused by a Coldheart Python.
"Manager, why are you making small talk with this fellow? Beat him mercilessly for me!" Seeing that Manager Qin had yet to act and had instead begun chatting idly with Su Chen, Zhou Rong grew impatient.
But to Zhou Rong's surprise, Manager Qin, who had always been gentle and approachable, suddenly changed completely. He shot Zhou Rong a cold look and said in a deep voice, "I am speaking with an honored guest. Please shut your mouth!"
An honored guest?
Who?
Zhou Rong froze where he stood.
He had no idea what was going on.
Manager Qin took a deep breath and immediately strode quickly toward Su Chen.
Under everyone's astonished gazes, Manager Qin first cupped his hands and bowed to Su Chen in public. Only then did he say respectfully, "I had eyes but failed to recognize Mount Tai just now. I did not realize 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 set aside Princess Xiling'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 a dead silence.
Ye Xuan, Zhou Rong, Wang Teng, Wang Bingyan, Jiang Tingyi...
Everyone thought they had heard wrong!
The guests in the Heaven-Class Private Room had specially prepared a banquet for Su Chen?
How was that possible?
One had to know that Drunken Immortal Residence's Heaven-Class Private Rooms placed extremely high demands on their guests. They did not merely consider wealth, but status as well!
Only figures at the level of the heads of Clear River City's three great lineages or above were qualified to reserve a Heaven-Class Private Room at Drunken Immortal Residence!
And as far as they knew, none of the three lineage heads had plans to host guests today. Therefore, the guests in the Heaven-Class Private Room could only be major figures whose status surpassed even the heads of the three great lineages.
Such a major figure had actually invited Su Chen to a banquet personally?
Wang Bingyan found it hardest to accept. Wasn't Su Chen merely Jiang Tingyi's cousin? At most, he had the identity of a discarded disciple of the Orthodox Unity Sect, and his cultivation was only at the Eighth Layer of Qi-Attraction Realm. How could he possibly receive a personal invitation from such a great figure?
What left Wang Bingyan most ashamed was that when Su Chen had said he was going upstairs, she had mocked him for bragging without even drafting a script, saying he actually dreamed of going to the Earth-Class and Heaven-Class Private Rooms.
Yet the truth before her eyes was like a scorching slap across her face.
Zhou Rong and Wang Teng also avoided Su Chen's gaze. The fierceness in their eyes from before had vanished, replaced by deep wariness.
Jiang Tingyi's feelings were the most complicated of all. She had originally regretted allowing Su Chen to join the banquet. The others' humiliation of Su Chen during the meal had made her feel miserable, while also making her bitterly resent his failure to live up to expectations.
But the way things unfolded had exceeded her expectations.
The cousin she had looked down on at every turn had actually been invited by a distinguished guest from 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 to his feet, and left together with Manager Qin.
After the two departed, the Human-Class Private Room was so quiet that a pin drop could be heard.
"Hmph!" Ye Xuan, who had not uttered a 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 and supported by the moon?
Yet this time, Manager Qin had not even asked for his opinion before publicly humiliating him and taking Su Chen away!
But Ye Xuan could not argue with Manager Qin, because he knew perfectly well that Manager Qin had backing. Otherwise, Drunken Immortal Residence could not have flourished for so many years without decline!
"Su Chen!"
Ye Xuan spat out those two words coldly. He laid all the frustration and resentment of the day at Su Chen's feet.
"Consider yourself lucky today. I'll spare you this time, but it won't be so simple next time!"
What Ye Xuan did not know was that Su Chen was even more vexed than he was at that moment!
If Manager Qin had not appeared to defuse the situation, Su Chen had already prepared his means 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.
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