"I am Zhou Li’s classmate, and also her boyfriend," Leng Xuan said with a smile, walking up to Zhou Li, taking her small hand into his and cupping it in his own. Looking at her shyly lowering her head, he tenderly smiled and said, "I truly like her and will never allow anyone to take her away from me!"
Zhou Jingpeng’s face turned unsightly, now pale, now flushed with anger, his eyes never leaving Leng Xuan’s face, as if trying to read something from his expression...
Haitian Hotel!
An Audi Q7 came to a stop in the parking lot next to a square in front of the hotel. First, a casually dressed man in his early twenties emerged, his hairstyle highly reminiscent of the one Zhou Runfa sported when playing the "Gambling King", slicked back and shining, his gaze shifty, his figure slim.
This man was none other than Feng Gui. He opened the rear door, and a middle-aged woman dressed in luxury, holding an LV bag, stepped out, followed by a middle-aged man wearing glasses!
Without a doubt, they were Feng Gui’s mother, Li Xiufang, and Zhou Li’s father, Zhou Guohua.
"Guohua, have Little Li and the others arrived yet? Give them a call," Li Xiufang suggested.
"Yeah, if they’re about to arrive, let’s not go in. We can just wait here and enter together," Feng Gui added.
"Ai, alright," Zhou Guohua said as he dialed Zhou Jingpeng’s phone, but no one answered, which made him annoyed, "What is that kid doing, not even answering a call?"
Feng Gui frowned slightly, uttering disdainfully, "They’re probably on the bus now, crowded and noisy; it’s hard to hear anything over the phone. Sigh, Brother Jingpeng really... I told him not to take the bus, didn’t I? How much better would it have been to take a taxi? It’s just a few dozen yuan, and I even said I’d pay!"
Li Xiufang said, "Right, it’s not often they meet, why bother saving such a small amount of money?"
Zhou Guohua’s face showed a slight displeasure, but he said nothing, thinking to himself to scold the brat when he arrived.
"Son, it’s easy to get tanned standing outside in this hot weather," Li Xiufang fanned her face with her hand and suggested, "Shall we go wait in the hotel instead?"
"Dad, what do you think?" Feng Gui asked. By the sound of it, he already considered Zhou Li as his wife, even calling Zhou Guohua ’Dad’.
Zhou Guohua said, "Alright, let’s go in. Why wait for them here?" Saying this, the three of them headed towards the hotel. Just then, an extremely luxurious Ferrari approached.
"Wow, Mom, look, that’s the latest Ferrari model. There really are rich people in Baiyun City that you wouldn’t expect. Where we live, the whole city doesn’t have a car as nice as this one!" Feng Gui said excitedly as he watched the Ferrari.
Li Xiufang chuckled and replied, "Son, don’t be envious. In the future, when you take over your father’s business and work hard, you can buy one for yourself."
"Ah!" Suddenly, Zhou Guohua exclaimed in surprise, pointing to a young girl in the passenger seat of the Ferrari, "Isn’t that..."
"Who is it, Dad?" Feng Gui asked, puzzled.
Zhou Guohua rubbed his eyes, but the car had already passed them by and parked in the spot next to the one Feng Gui had chosen, so he couldn’t see the girl’s face clearly anymore. He couldn’t help but murmur, "Strange, she looked so familiar. But that can’t be possible..."