A 1.83-Million-Yuan Meal Leaves the Relatives Dumbfounded

With a clatter, Li Xianhe dropped his phone, startled by the shouting. He was completely dumbfounded.

Lu Yuan swirled his wineglass and looked at Li Xianhe mockingly. "Still going to show off in front of me?"

"Lu Yuan, you, you... were you the one who did this to me?" Li Xianhe was utterly baffled. How had Lu Yuan gotten his immediate superior to fire him?

Hadn't their aunts and younger cousins all said Lu Yuan was doing badly? He'd gotten Li Xianhe fired with one phone call. How the hell was that doing badly?

Lu Yuan admitted it freely. "That's right. I'm the one who did it!"

Seeing Lu Yuan admit it, Li Xianhe was instantly overcome with regret. He apologized through his tears again and again. "Cousin, I shouldn't have bullied you. I'm begging you, please make another call. I can't live without this job! Boo-hoo, cousin, I was wrong!"

"I haven't finished paying off my car loan! How am I supposed to find a new job on such short notice..."

"Cousin, I deserve to die, I deserve to die! Spare me, cousin... I won't ever dare do it again!" Li Xianhe slapped himself across the face, and before long, his face was covered in blood.

Lu Yuan remained cold. "Now you remember I'm your cousin? Now you know you were wrong? Heh, too late!"

The atmosphere at the college celebration banquet had changed. Many of the relatives who had humiliated Lu Yuan watched in shock and exclaimed, "He got Xianhe fired with one phone call? When did Lu Yuan become so capable?"

How could Eldest Aunt not feel for her son when she saw him like this? She hurried over to Lu Yuan. "Lu Yuan, what are you doing? We're relatives, after all. You can't drive your cousin to the wall. Give him a way out!"

"That's right, Lu Yuan, don't go too far. We're all family. Don't make things so awkward between us. Are you really planning to cut ties with us from now on?"

"Exactly. Even if you're doing well now, can you keep doing well forever? Can you guarantee you'll never need us relatives someday?"

"Lu Yuan! Leave yourself room to retreat, and you'll be able to face each other another day. Don't take things too far!"

"Nephew, do your second aunt a favor and let it go!"

"Sixth Sister, brother-in-law, hurry up and talk to your son! Xianhe is your nephew. Can you really bear to watch him lose his job?"

Lu Yuan's parents' lips twitched. Remembering the bullying and scorn they had endured over the years, how could they not feel resentment? In the end, they chose to remain silent.

Lu Yuan found these people laughable. Now that he had dealt with Li Xianhe, they had come to play peacemaker and say every nice thing they could think of. But when Li Xianhe and Zhang Jiaojiao had viciously targeted him, where had their kindness been?

"Heh, relatives? My family treated you as relatives, but all these years, have you treated my parents and me as family? You keep calling yourselves relatives, but where's your shame?" Lu Yuan retorted.

Lu Yuan crushed the wineglass in his hand and swept a cold gaze over every relative present. Every relative his eyes met was so ashamed they wanted to crawl into a hole.

Li Xianhe's head throbbed at the thought of his car loan. He looked to his older cousin Lin Wanting for help. "Cousin, you're the only one who still has a good relationship with Lu Yuan. Please put in a good word for me..."

Lin Wanting's expression was icy. "You brought this on yourself. I can't save you. You deserve it!"

Li Xianhe broke down completely. He only had two or three payments left on that fully loaded BMW. Wherever he drove it, people praised him as a promising young man and a success.

Countless girls were even willing to climb into his passenger seat of their own accord.

If he missed his payments, the bank would forcibly repossess his car. He would lose all of it and become a laughingstock among his relatives and friends...

And it was all because he had offended Lu Yuan. His guts were nearly green with regret. Why had he been so foolish as to show off in front of Lu Yuan? If he hadn't offended him, how could he have ended up like this?

Lu Yuan glanced at his younger cousin Zhang Jiaojiao and called outside, "Server!"

Before long, a young server came in. "Hello, sir. What can I do for you?"

"The food and wine at this college celebration banquet are too low-grade. Take it all away. I'll order again," Lu Yuan said mildly.

Zhang Jiaojiao swallowed, her mouth slightly open. "Cousin Lu Yuan, thank you!"

Heh, thank him? Was his cousin dreaming of eating shit?

Lu Yuan looked at Zhang Jiaojiao coldly and squeezed just two words out of his mouth. "Heh, heh!"

The server asked, "What dishes would you like, sir?"

"One Australian lobster, one plate of French foie gras, one serving of wild black truffles, three bottles of Royal Salute... fill thirty tables with food and drink of that grade," Lu Yuan said calmly.

The server's expression changed drastically. She hadn't expected Lu Yuan to be so lavish. After calculating the price, she said, "Sir, that comes to 1,830,720 yuan. We'll waive the 720 and charge you 1.83 million. Will you be paying by card?"

Lu Yuan remained calm and unconcerned. "I'll pay by card."

The server inserted the card into the POS machine.

"Beep. Payment successful!"

A receipt was printed out. When they saw it, every relative in the private room swallowed hard, stunned.

The meal cost nearly two million yuan, yet Lu Yuan had paid for it without batting an eye.

Just how much money did Lu Yuan have in his account? All the relatives gulped and swallowed hard.

Zhang Jiaojiao came over to Lu Yuan with a sincere expression. "Cousin, thank you for putting our past differences aside!"

The relatives changed their tune about Lu Yuan, too:

"Lu Yuan really has made something of himself. One meal costs two million—that's enough to buy half of Xianhe's BMW."

"I could tell when he was little that Lu Yuan had what it took. I knew he'd make a name for himself and do great things!"

"One point eight million! How much must each dish cost? They can't be cheap, can they?"

"I've only ever seen internet celebrities eating Australian lobster in short videos. I heard one costs 8,800 yuan... and that French foie gras costs more than ten thousand yuan a piece..."

"Tsk, tsk, stop talking about it. You're making my mouth water. Thanks to my nephew Lu Yuan, I can feast to my heart's content today!"

The relatives rubbed their hands together, eagerly waiting for the dishes to arrive.

His cousin Zhang Jiaojiao also swallowed, unable to help herself. In all her life, she had never eaten such delicacies.

His younger sister, Lu Shishi, looked at Lu Yuan in confusion. "Brother, why are you spending so much money treating them to food? They humiliated you like that. Do you have so much money you don't know where to spend it?"

"You'll find out soon enough!" A playful smile appeared on Lu Yuan's face.

Before long, the dishes began arriving one after another.

An enormous red Australian lobster came first, followed by the black truffles, French foie gras, and other dishes. The steaming aromas made everyone's stomachs growl against their will.

Lu Yuan appeared calm, but he was delighted too. Just looking at the food laid out there was a pleasure. He would have to make sure his parents and Shishi ate plenty.

The relatives, who had little experience of such things, began offering their opinions:

"Just looking at a lobster that big fills me up!"

"Look at this foie gras. At ten thousand yuan a piece, it really is exquisite..."

Everyone picked up their chopsticks and took pieces of lobster, ready to feast. But just as they were about to put the food in their mouths, Lu Yuan's voice interrupted them:

"You were mocking and ridiculing me, Lu Yuan, just now. And you have the nerve to eat food I paid for? Your faces are so thick you don't even know shame!"

"So quick to pick up your chopsticks. Were you all starved to death in your last lives? How many lifetimes has it been since you ate anything good?" As soon as the words left Lu Yuan's mouth, his gaze fell on Zhang Jiaojiao.