Chapter 46: Meeting an Old Classmate Again
After quickly checking that there were no guests in the hotel lobby, I rushed in, slammed my savings card on the counter, and declared, “A room!” I didn’t have to pay tuition, and the Immortal Realm didn’t use RMB, so my card was overflowing with cash.
The lady at the front desk smiled at me. “I’m sorry, only adults can book a room.”
I froze. Right, I was wearing a high school uniform. This hotel had strict rules. Weren’t high school students supposed to be getting rooms all the time?
I thought for a moment and unzipped my jacket. “I’m with New Oriental.”
As I opened my jacket, another school uniform appeared underneath…New Oriental’s…
Oh my god, was I brain-dead? Couldn’t I think of anything other than school uniforms? Even if it had to be a university uniform, I should have chosen Tsinghua or Peking University. Why did New Oriental pop into my head first?!
Orz… I was truly cursed by New Oriental and Lanxiang…
The receptionist smiled and said, “Please show me your ID card.”
“Okay.” I presented my ID.
She looked at it and smiled at me. “Would you like a standard room, a king-size bed room, a deluxe king-size bed room, a single room, a suite, or a hot spring villa?”
“Huh? There are so many options?” I was stunned. I was a model student, never going on trips with friends and booking rooms. Not to mention with boys, I had never even done it with girls.
Because my clingy Otousan would worry!
I blurted out, “Whatever, just give me a room, I’m in a hurry!”
“Are you in a hurry, miss?”
“Of course!”
“I can see that this young lady is in a hurry.” Before I could finish, I heard a man’s voice. I immediately looked at him. Holy crap! I was stunned. I had encountered a handsome older guy!
The man standing next to me was around thirty years old, as handsome as Wallace Huo, even more handsome! He had deep-set eyes, long lashes, a straight nose, and sexy lips. Although he wasn’t as otherworldly as the men in the Immortal Realm, those men didn’t look human! They were Gods.
So, this guy’s handsomeness exceeded my standards. Everyone knew that I, Xia Xiaolan, had the least resistance to handsome, mature men. The aura they exuded was completely different from those arrogant, pretentious Gods!
He brushed his hand against my arm and smiled charmingly. “Did you fall into a cake?”
“Yeah, how did you know? Birthday party.” I shamelessly started fawning over the handsome guy. Actually…we were only ten years apart. Dong Ge and Milk Tea Girl had a twenty-year age gap, so I thought I was compatible with an adult man.
The handsome guy laughed and turned to the receptionist. “Please get this young lady a room…” He paused and looked at me. “Anyone else?”
“Yes! Five more.” I couldn’t forget my good friends.
He nodded. “Then three standard rooms, at the member price.” He took out something that looked like a membership card and placed it on the counter. The receptionist’s attitude immediately became respectful. “A Black Card member! We’ll take care of it right away.”
I quickly thanked the handsome guy. “Thank you, mister.”
He smiled. “You make me sound old. Call me ‘ge’ next time.”
“Oppa.”
He smiled even wider.
With the handsome guy’s help, I got three room keys. He even kindly led me to my room. The moment I opened the door, like a country bumpkin entering a five-star hotel for the first time, I exclaimed, “Wow—”
The room was huge!
Clean and tidy, with exquisite and luxurious decorations. The bathroom was super big, with a vanity mirror, a shower stall, and delicate rose-shaped soaps. What should I do? I really wanted to take the soaps. But would people laugh at me? I hesitated for a second, then decisively pocketed them.
A separate walk-in closet, and a hot tub on the balcony!
Haha! I might as well skip the task and enjoy myself! If I didn’t do the task, I’d just lose to Fu Su and get no credits.
But…the task said the wolf demon killed people! It wouldn’t be right not to catch him…
Sigh! Forget it, I should just honestly go catch the wolf demon.
And, I was scouting, so I could soak in the hot springs while searching, right?~~
Oh ho ho ho~~~
These three rooms cost me a fortune. No wonder mortals wanted to be rich. The ultimate goal of wanting to be rich was to live the high life and enjoy better service. The service here was top-notch.
I initiated another conference call. “Look, I got you guys rooms. Come and enjoy the hot springs later.”
“Whew~~~” Jiang Yan whistled and laid down on the spot. “I wish I could be by your side right now.”
Mo Ming immediately glared at him. Jiang Yan continued leisurely, “Enjoy the hot springs.”
“Awesome!” Mao Mao clapped her hands. “Captain, why don’t you skip the scouting and let’s just go now.”
“Good idea…”
The guys from the Trash House were truly masters of laziness.
“That won’t do.” I put my hands on my hips and looked at them. Si Yi Nuo lowered his head. “So…we still have to fight…”
“Not really.” I smiled shamelessly. “But the opponent is a wolf demon. He’ll definitely sense you guys as soon as you arrive. So I’ll check the situation first.”
“Yes, that makes sense…” Jiang Yan had completely reverted to his languid state, taking out a blood bag and starting to suck on it. “The Yaos who rebelled back then have at least a thousand years of cultivation…”
“A thousand years!” I tensed up.
He waved his hand at me. “Don’t be nervous, don’t be nervous…Yaos are born with a hundred years of cultivation. A thousand years is only about ten years. But it’s very difficult to break through the second millennium after the first thousand. Every thousand years is a bottleneck.”
So complicated. It was best for someone with failing math grades like me to avoid these details.
I took out my bathrobe, and the clothes on my body began to transform into a hot spring swimsuit. “I’m going in!”
However, Mo Ming stared at me blankly, Jiang Yan froze with the blood bag in his mouth, and Si Yi Nuo, from behind Xiao Bai, had gleaming silver eyes and a widening grin.
“I want to change into a swimsuit too~~~” Mao Mao was already impatient. Qing Ming glanced at her shyly, turned away, and secretly smiled.
What are you smiling about, Qing Ming? Such a big guy with such a猥琐 smile!
“Xiaolan, hurry up and go! So we can come quickly.”
“Okay!” I quickly put on my bathrobe, looked at everyone, and Jiang Yan suddenly turned his face away to avoid my gaze, returning to his 45-degree angle and resuming his “glug glug” blood-sucking.
“Wait for my update! Huh?!” I suddenly saw Mo Ming’s nose bleeding again. “Mo Ming, why are you having a nosebleed again?! When will your period end?!”
He looked at me calmly. Jiang Yan glared at him fiercely, his expression unusually gloomy. Even Si Yi Nuo smiled at him sinisterly. Mo Ming raised his hand and calmly wiped the blood from his nose. “The hot spring is hot.”
“You haven’t even gotten to the hot spring yet!”
“The air conditioning here is hot.” He said calmly. “Huh?!” He suddenly looked to the side with a guarded expression. “Danger!”
“Whoosh!” He cut off the connection. I looked at Jiang Yan calmly. “Jiang Yan, where’s my person?”
Jiang Yan facepalmed. “What an idiot. He went to get a cola.”
I facepalmed. Didn’t Mo Ming know he was supposed to stay with Jiang Yan?! And he even vanished.
I ended the call, put my phone back in my bag, took a deep breath, tied my bathrobe sash, and headed for the hot springs.
I opened the door, and there was room service right across the hall. A waiter was coming out of the room opposite mine. He looked up and instinctively bowed to me, then froze.
Not just him, I froze too.
“Xia Xiaolan!”
“Li Chao?!”
We spoke simultaneously. He looked at me in surprise, and I looked at him in surprise.
“What are you doing here?!” We asked in unison again.
Then we paused and laughed.
“I’m working here as a waiter.” He said a little sheepishly. “I didn’t do well on the college entrance exam, and my family said not to retake it, just start working. A relative introduced me to this place. What about you?”
“Me? Heh…” I also laughed awkwardly. “At New Oriental…you know…”
“New Oriental is good too. Now with the delayed retirement age, only skilled people can work continuously. I heard the administrative staff talking; you wouldn’t believe how worried they are about losing their jobs. Oh, where are you going? I’ll take you.”
“Won’t it interfere with your…work?” I pointed to the tray in his hand.
He grinned mischievously. “Guiding guests is also part of my job.”
“Oh~~~ That’s great.” I hopped over to him. “Then let’s catch up.”
“Sure.” He smiled happily. Because we were both academic underachievers.
I was the number one underachiever, and he was number two. He always said, “Thank goodness you’re here to be last.”
As I mentioned before, top students had their circle, and underachievers had theirs. So, during those years when the top students were busy studying, we underachievers were sleeping and playing. We often hung out together, playing games and karaoke. Sometimes, the top students would sarcastically say, “We’re not as free as you, wasting our seventeen-year-old youth.”
Tch.
Weren’t they all successful now?
Li Chao had chased after quite a few girls back then. He was different from us eat-and-sleep underachievers. He devoted his life to chasing girls, and he was handsome too. Heh, there were always a lot of handsome guys among the underachievers. Many girls fell for him, but…he quickly dumped them.
Although I despised his fickle nature, he was very loyal to his buddies. He always showed up for fights.
“Why are you here today?” he asked me. Dressed as a waiter, he was noticeably more serious, no longer the school bully he used to be.
I looked at him. “Working really changes a person, huh?~~ Oh~~~ I get it. You work here so you can see pretty girls, right?”
“No way~~” He playfully nudged me with his tray, and we laughed.
We were surrounded by hot springs, big and small. Huh?! Holy crap! It was really a mixed-gender bath! How was a first-timer like me supposed to handle this?
And not only was it mixed-gender, but it was full of fat, flabby uncles! Sigh…rich people in real life were indeed different from those in novels. Girls who fantasized about domineering CEOs would probably have their dreams shattered here.
