Chapter 125: Confrontation
When the crate went over, everyone in the room held their breath, waiting for the sound from below. For the first time, a crate of beer falling from the fifth floor made time seem agonizingly slow. Then came a tremendous crash, followed by shattering bottles and the shrill blare of a car alarm. The commotion even brought people to the windows of Rongcheng University's nearby evening study building to see what had happened at the hotel. At the open-air café on the second floor, the observation terrace on the third, and the night-view restaurant on the fourth, people leaning against railings and couples enjoying a little candlelit atmosphere by the windows looked up toward the dark shape that had just fallen, then down toward the screeching car, but all they could see was a wreck. The hotel's entire management was alerted. Uniformed staff hurried along corridors upstairs and downstairs, all wearing expressions as though facing a formidable enemy. Everyone knew this was a test of the hotel's crisis management.
Up on the fifth floor, Tao Chuhong's heart sank at the noise from below. Everyone in the hall was stunned, their eyes flashing toward him. He was now the sole focus of attention. From the sound of it, the crate of beer Tao Chuhong had thrown had hit someone's car.
Seeing everyone staring at him, Tao Chuhong pointed at Su Can in a fury. "It was your idea! Otherwise, would I have thrown those beer bottles down?"
His words rang out louder than anything else in the deathly quiet hall, carrying an unmistakable attempt to share the blame.
He stalked back to the sofa with a thunderous expression and dropped into his seat. No one dared try to calm him down, but his mind slowly caught up with