The night fell.
The streets of Songhai City were bustling with traffic.
Rows of luxury cars were heading towards Tianhua Supreme Hotel.
In the passenger seat of a Koenigsegg, Zhou Chengcheng delicately held up her sapphire blue dress, afraid of it getting wrinkled.
This was bought for her by Su Yang on a whim that evening.
It was because Zhou Chengcheng’s internship salary was low, and her usual clothes were a bit unfashionable.
“Boss, this dress is too expensive, thirty thousand yuan. It’s more than my income for several months.”
“It’s fine, it will be deducted from your salary.”
“Ah?”
Su Yang turned the steering wheel and slowly passed through the checkpoint into the Tianhua Supreme Hotel parking lot.
As soon as he got out of the car, Yang Mange, wearing a wine-red evening gown, was waiting at the entrance.
Today, she had even put on light makeup.
“Su Yang, this way.”
Yang Mange waved her hand, and two signs were erected beside the entrance.
One was for the "Su Family Birthday Banquet," and the other was for the "Bai Family Birthday Banquet."
“Bai Family… so that’s it.”
No wonder Bai Xin Hui had been so arrogant that morning, telling Su Yang to find her at Tianhua Supreme Hotel tonight.
—Did she want to use the large number of Bai family members to intimidate him?
—This crazy girl is really not afraid of death. I’ll let her know that the more people there are, the more embarrassing she’ll be.
“Let me introduce you, this is my assistant Zhou Chengcheng.”
“This is my rumored girlfriend Yang Mange.”
Su Yang introduced them with ease.
Zhou Chengcheng had long heard of Yang Mange’s fame. “Miss Yang, I grew up watching your works. I’ve heard so much about you, so much about you!”
Zhou Chengcheng was extremely excited.
Su Yang chuckled at her words.
Only Yang Mange glared at him unhappily.
Zhou Chengcheng realized she had said the wrong thing. “I’m sorry, I was too excited and spoke incoherently.”
“It’s alright, maybe you’ve become dumber from being around your boss for too long.”
Yang Mange said proudly.
However, it was normal for a successful man like Su Yang to have a few women around him.
Moreover, Yang Mange was not an unreasonable woman to be brought out by Su Yang so openly to meet her.
The two walked side by side.
Zhou Chengcheng sensibly followed behind, looking at the couple like an immortal pair with envy.
“Su Yang, besides Miss Zhou, how many other women are there around you?”
“Is my rumored girlfriend jealous?”
“Who’s jealous of you? I’m just curious.”
“About…”
Su Yang didn’t answer for a long time.
Yang Mange hesitated, “Does it take this long to count?”
“Yes, after all, I’ve lost count.”
“You!”
Su Yang entered the first-floor lobby with two beautiful women, attracting the attention of countless guests.
“Isn’t that Su Yang? Why has he changed girlfriends again?”
“It shouldn’t be, look, Yang Mange is also here.”
“Those two are flirting, they really don’t care about the paparazzi!”
“What do they care about? They’ve already live-streamed a blind date kiss, and that was Yang Mange’s first on-screen kiss.”
Most of these people were attending the Bai family’s birthday banquet, and they were all well-known entrepreneurs or managers in Songhai City.
Su Yang scanned the crowd, but Bai Xin Hui was nowhere to be seen.
However, he was not in a hurry; he would go see his grandfather first.
The three took the elevator to the Sky Hall on the eighth floor.
The Tianhua Supreme Hotel was not tall, only eight stories high, but it was very spacious.
Each floor was divided into four halls: Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow, to facilitate banquets for the nobles of Songhai City.
Su Yang walked through the corridor and saw his grandfather, Su Lie, wearing a Zhongshan suit, not far away.
Su Anguo and Zhang Ning were enthusiastically receiving guests beside him.
“Grandpa, I’m here.”
Hearing Su Yang’s call, Su Lie turned around, leaning on his cane.
“Yang’er, come, come, Grandpa will introduce you.”
“This is your distant aunt, this is your cousin, and…”
Su Yang was speechless. Relatives he had never met before were popping up like mushrooms after rain.
Su Anguo whispered in his ear, “Son, these people are uninvited guests, be careful.”
At this moment, a plump woman circled Su Yang, scrutinizing him.
“Su Yang, I heard you bought a car and a house, and you’re spending a lot of money to hold a birthday banquet for your grandfather. Isn’t it borrowed money?”
“Or is it that the big celebrity beside you is supporting you?”
“Oh, third uncle, why do you care where Su Yang gets his money? Even if a big celebrity gives him money, it’s still because Su Yang is capable.”
“Su Yang, my cousin is about to graduate. Can you ask your girlfriend to arrange a job for him? We don’t have high demands, around thirty thousand a month is fine, after all, he only graduated from a second-tier university.”
“Oh, I’ll talk about it when I have time.” Su Yang couldn’t be bothered to reply. These people had looked down on his parents before and had almost no contact with them.
Now that they heard Su Anguo’s family had become rich, they were shamelessly probing to see if it was true.
“Miss Yang, you are so beautiful! You look even better in person than on TV!”
“Miss Yang, you are so good to Su Yang.”
Yang Mange couldn’t stand these social climbers, but she still wanted to say a few words for Su Yang.
“Su Yang relies on himself; I still have to rely on him for a living.”
This statement stunned everyone.
A big celebrity has to rely on Su Yang for a living?
Su Yang smiled; this woman was quite good at giving him face.
Hearing this, Su Lie gave Su Yang a thumbs-up and asked, “Yang’er, is this our Su family’s granddaughter-in-law?”
“Grandpa, do you like her?”
“Of course, you’re much better than your father. Of course, you’re still a tiny bit worse than Grandpa, you know, your grandma back then…”
Su Lie smiled proudly, and Su Anguo’s face turned black.
With this praise and criticism, he was hit even though he was lying down.
“Grandpa Su, I wish you boundless fortune and longevity as boundless as the East Sea and as enduring as the Southern Mountains.”
Yang Mange bowed slightly to Su Lie, her face smiling and composed.
Attending banquets was something she, a big celebrity and president of Wuyou Media Company, had seen a lot of.
“Grandpa Su, my name is Zhou Chengcheng.”
Zhou Chengcheng was shy, and Su Lie looked at the two beautiful women with different personalities with a smile.
“Two girlfriends? Good, good, good! Our Su family is going to flourish. Please take your seats!”
Su Lie gestured for Yang Mange and Zhou Chengcheng to sit at the head table, causing the surrounding relatives to cast envious glances.
The plump woman from before was Su Yang’s aunt. She nudged her daughter.
“Tingting, your cousin is rich now, what are you waiting for? Hurry up and add his WeChat.”
“Yulan, you’re also studying in Songhai City, so you have the advantage of being close. Don’t let any vixen snatch Su Yang away. Hurry up and go chat with your cousin.”
“I went down and asked quite a few people. The car Su Yang has is a Koenigsegg, worth over a hundred million, and it’s not something you can buy even with money.”
“I heard Su Yang also bought two villas of over a thousand square meters, costing nearly three hundred million in total, and he even found a celebrity girlfriend.”
These aunts and gossips whispered among themselves, inquiring from various sources and learning that Su Yang was indeed super rich.
They couldn’t sit still.
Before coming to Su Lie’s birthday banquet, they had only been half-believing.
They gave a gift of two hundred yuan. If Su Yang was truly rich, they would take the opportunity to build connections.
If it was fake, they would just consider it a good meal and leave.
No matter how they calculated it, they wouldn’t lose.
Several women in their twenties were pushed forward by their parents and elders.
One of them, named Zhang Tingting, had a blushing face. She was around twenty-five years old, wore heavy makeup, and was covered in perfume.
She picked up her wine glass and walked up to Su Yang.
“Cousin, long time no see, do you remember me?”
“Who are you?”
Zhang Tingting said awkwardly, “Cousin, you used to take me to catch loaches in the river, dig bird eggs in trees, and you even liked to climb into my bed. Have you forgotten all this?”
At the head table, Yang Mange and Zhou Chengcheng pricked up their ears to eavesdrop, and the two women almost spat out their wine from laughter.
Su Yang’s face was full of black lines. “Forgot.”
“You’re mean! You said you’d marry me when we grew up. I’m already twenty-five, and if I wait any longer, I’ll be an old maid.”
Zhang Tingting was unfazed. Regardless of whether he remembered or not, who wouldn’t want a handsome, rich, and young cousin?
“Zhang Tingting, you shameless vixen, Cousin doesn’t like you.”
Li Yulan put her hands on her hips, swung her two braids, and glared, pushing Zhang Tingting away.
She turned around, smiled, and took Su Yang’s arm. Everything felt so natural.
“Cousin, I’m in Songhai High School, in the third year. I’ll be going to your university soon.”
Su Yang’s head was about to explode. Those aunts and gossips kept pushing their daughters forward, surrounding him and wanting to add his WeChat.
They said they wanted to be Su Yang’s girlfriend, and some even talked about marriage and having children.
Some of them were even close relatives, which was outrageous!
…
Just then, a group of people walked in from the door.
The leader was white-haired, but his body was still upright.
“Hahaha, Old Su, I didn’t expect you to have the money to hold a banquet at Tianhua Supreme Hotel.”
Upon seeing the person, Su Lie’s brows furrowed, and he said faintly, “Bai Zhan Chen, what are you doing here?”
Bai Zhan Chen?
Su Yang remembered that this old man was the current head of the Bai family, one of the four great families of Songhai.
Looking at their expressions, they were clearly old friends.
Bai Zhan Chen scanned the room and saw that the guests were dressed rather shabbily, and there were no important figures from Songhai City.
“Old Su, we have ten years of classmate friendship. Don’t I deserve to congratulate you?”
“I, Su Lie, cannot accept it. You should leave quickly.”
Su Lie’s face showed anger, as if he was barely holding himself back from losing his temper.
Su Yang didn’t understand, so he asked Su Anguo, “Dad, what does this old man mean?”
“When your great-grandfather was alive, the Su family was still a prominent family. Later, the family declined, and naturally, some people kicked us when we were down.”
“Back then, Bai Zhan Chen and your grandfather were classmates for ten years, from junior high to high school to university. Their grades were neck and neck, and they were always competing.”
“Son, your grandfather’s leg injury was caused by Bai Zhan Chen’s trickery. Be careful when you encounter anyone from the Bai family in the future.”
As they talked, the atmosphere became oppressive.
Su Lie, recalling the past, said in a deep voice, “Patriarch Bai, you’ve had your drink, shouldn’t you be leaving?”
“No hurry.”
Bai Zhan Chen beckoned, and a woman walked out from behind him.
“Old Su, this is my granddaughter Bai Xin Hui. I heard your grandson Su Yang gambled on stones and won one hundred million from my granddaughter, and you still have the IOU, right? It just so happens, call him out, tear up the IOU, and this matter will be settled.”
Hearing this, Su Yang could no longer sit still.
In this day and age, debtors are acting like they are the masters?
“Ahem!” Su Yang cleared his throat. “Why would a demon come looking for me?”
Bai Xin Hui’s voice was laced with a hint of coquettishness, “Grandpa, it’s him! He forced me to write the IOU, and this morning he even wanted to film a video and post it online to smear our Bai family’s reputation!”