The Mingzhu Grand Hotel was bustling with luxury cars, and the interior was crowded with people.
Here, a cocktail party was being held.
To call it a cocktail party was actually a bit of a misnomer—it was more like a hunting ground for the wealthy and privileged second generations, where entry required a VIP gold card from the Mingzhu Hotel, which had to be validated.
That is, only if your identity and status were deemed sufficiently high could you qualify to attend this cocktail party.
However, the requirements for women were somewhat more lenient; as long as they were beautiful and could afford the hundred thousand yuan entrance fee, they were granted entry to the hotel.
At that moment, the hall was buzzing with people as the soft music played. Men were looking for their prey while women tried to hook their own golden turtles, each seeking what they needed.
If a match were made, the hotel had direct room service, with all sorts of themed rooms readily available.
Pei Lai was in a very bad mood today. He had learned that Lu Dong had been captured. Although he didn't have much intelligence on his own, being caught by the police was still a troublesome matter.
Pei Lai frowned and was about to explode, but upon seeing the beautiful woman in front of him, the evil qi on his face instantly vanished, replaced by a sinister smile.
"I'm sorry, sir." The girl said somewhat frantically.
"It's alright, miss, you look unfamiliar. How come I haven't seen you before?" Pei Lai asked with a smile.
"I just graduated from college. My uncle said I could meet a Prince Charming here, so he paid for me to attend this party," the girl timidly said.
"Is that so? And what does your uncle do?" Pei Lai probed.
The girl smiled and said, "My uncle runs a small factory, he's in the cable business."
"Oh, I see," Pei Lai replied, his face revealing a sinister grin.
She was beautiful and lacked any significant background—just the type he needed.
Because such girls, once tired of them, he need not take any responsibility and could do with them as he pleased.
"May I ask what you do, sir?" the girl inquired curiously.
Pei Lai smiled, "I am the President of Far East Corporation, my name is Pei Lai."
"Oh my God, you're the Mr. Pei Lai, you're my idol!" the girl exclaimed.
Pei Lai was very pleased with the girl's reaction; he loved this feeling of being admired by others.
"Then, can we become friends, Mr. Pei Lai?" the girl excitedly said.
"Of course, but it's too chaotic here. Let's find a place, I'll treat you to a glass of red wine, and we can chat," Pei Lai replied with a smile.
"Yes, having dinner with Mr. Pei Lai would be an honor," the girl said, a hint of surprise on her face.
Pei Lai and the girl walked through the hall and proceeded up the staircase along a corridor.
In the Mingzhu Hotel, Pei Lai had a private room. As soon as they got off the elevator, two bodyguards approached, respectfully saying, "Good evening, sir."
Pei Lai nodded and led the girl to his room.
As the girl walked, she surveyed the room. Pei Lai was evidently highly vigilant; he had booked the entire floor for himself, placing two bodyguards every ten meters—all of whom looked like they were experts.
Pei Lai reached the end of the corridor and opened the door of the room, and the girl's face showed an almost shocked expression.
This was a Presidential Suite, with a whole window that was a floor-to-ceiling type, and the decor inside the room was also extremely luxurious.
Pei Lai footsteps into the room and heads over to take a bottle of red wine from the wine rack.
Then he poured two glasses and said with a smile, "This red wine is a hundred-year pure brew from a French vineyard, just this glass is worth the entry ticket to a wine tasting."
"My goodness, does just this one glass cost one hundred thousand yuan?" The girl's face showed a look of surprise.
"Of course!" Pei Lai laughed proudly and, while the girl was distracted, he sprinkled white powder into one of the glasses.
Pei Lai had sprinkled an aphrodisiac into the wine, which, after being drunk, would make a woman more seductive.
He liked that feeling. He swirled the red wine in the glass and smiled, "Beautiful lady, since it's our first meeting, let's have a drink first."
"Sure!" The girl came over with a smile, just as she was about to bring the glass to her lips, she suddenly stopped.
"Right, wait a second, can I take a photo to post on Weibo? One hundred thousand per glass of wine."
Pei Lai was at a loss for words, cursing Weibo in his mind, but he nodded like a gentleman and put the glass back down on the table.
"Click, click!" The girl took several photos and then nodded, satisfied.
"We can drink now," the girl said with a smile.
The two of them picked up their glasses and clinked them lightly.
Pei Lai watched the girl drink the wine from her glass, his face revealing a sinister smile, then he too drank the wine from his glass.
Putting the glass down on the table, Pei Lai stared intently at the girl with a beaming smile.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" the girl asked, a bit bashfully.
"Don't you feel a bit hot?" Pei Lai asked with a smile.
"Not at all, this wine tastes great, a hundred-year pure brew really lives up to its reputation," the girl said sweetly with a smile.
"How is that possible?" Pei Lai was stunned for a moment.
Suddenly, he felt a burning sensation, his throat felt dry, and his blood seemed to be boiling.
"Why do I feel ?" Pei Lai's complexion changed abruptly.
The girl looked at him with a beaming smile, "Mr. Pei Lai, what's wrong with you? Why is your face as red as a turkey's butt?"
"What did you just do?" Pei Lai suddenly remembered something and asked.
"Oh, when I was taking photos earlier, I switched the positions of the red wine, anything wrong with that?" the girl asked cheerily.
But after walking a few steps, he felt dizzy.
"Right, I thought the wine wasn't strong enough just now, I added something else in it," the girl said to Pei Lai, tauntingly.
"You, you..." Pei Lai staggered and collapsed onto the floor.
Watching Pei Lai fall to the ground, the girl's lips curled into a faint smile as she walked into the bathroom.
A minute later, the bathroom door opened, and Lin Chen walked out.