Chapter 365 — He Knows Everyone

"If there's something on your mind, just say it." Uncle Tian sounded a little put out. "You are the leader's heir. Your word is the leader's word!"

"It is like this. Some classmates and I went to attend his second grandfather's birthday banquet, but there are no rooms left. Do you still have a place to stay on your side?" Wei Zhao asked.

"That is all it is?" Uncle Tian was taken aback, for the matter was far too simple. "You mean Kang Laicai's birthday banquet?"

"The surname is Kang, some Divine Doctor Kang. I do not know whether it is this Kang Laicai or not." The name Divine Doctor Kang sent a chill crawling down Wei Zhao's spine. As expected, truly worthy of the name, a past master at raking in money.

"Then it is him." Uncle Tian laughed. "The resort has been booked out by the Kang family, but I keep a private villa of my own that is not open to guests. You can simply come over."

"Good, then. I will head over now and call you again once I reach the resort." Wei Zhao added one reminder: "My identity at present is a student."

"I understand." Uncle Tian replied with a chuckle. He would not pry too deeply into Wei Zhao's identity or what he had come to do.

Wei Zhao hung up and returned to the car. "It is settled. Let's go," he said to Kang Xiaobo.

"Where to?" Kang Xiaobo blinked.

"To the Moon Over the Sea Resort, of course!" Wei Zhao said as he started the engine.

"But the resort is full... Leader, you pulled some strings?" Kang Xiaobo was suddenly excited. "We get to stay at the Moon Over the Sea Hotel too?"

"Mm." Wei Zhao nodded. "The owner of the hotel is an elder of mine."

"My God, Leader, you are incredible!" Kang Xiaobo was so awed he was ready to prostrate himself. A blazing fire lit up his eyes; at long last he would be able to hold his head high!

So his second uncle would not let him stay? Well, he was going to stay anyway! If there was no room, so be it; he did not need his uncle to prepare one for him. He had a room of his own!

Seeing Kang Xiaobo so worked up, Tang Yun glanced curiously at Wei Zhao. This fellow seemed able to cut through any trouble that came his way. He knew the owner of the Moon Over the Sea Hotel in Donghai? He certainly knew a great many people!

"Ha... all right, don't be angry anymore. Not only do we have rooms, we are staying in a villa!" Wei Zhao consoled Kang Xiaobo with a smile.

"A villa? You cannot be serious." Kang Xiaobo's eyes went wide. "I heard Moon Over the Sea has only thirty villas in all, and only twenty of them are open to guests; ten are kept for private use... Well, Leader, you know their owner, so of course there would be a private villa for you to stay in!"

Wei Zhao had no idea where the Moon Over the Sea Hotel was, but before setting out he had pried the GPS navigation unit off Shen Yushu's Beetle and installed it in his own car.

It was a very famous hotel. Wei Zhao searched for it on the navigation device and a clear route map appeared at once.

Kang Xiaobo's second uncle, that is, Kang Zhaoming's father, was at that moment standing at the entrance of the Donghai Moon Over the Sea Resort, greeting the guests who came and went.

As for Kang Xiaobo's eldest uncle, now the president of the Divine Doctor Kang Pharmaceutical Group and far more important than Kang Xiaobo's second uncle, he was inside the hotel keeping a few distinguished guests company.

"Leader, that is my second uncle, and the one beside him is Kang Zhaoming..." Kang Xiaobo pointed at the people not far off and introduced them to Wei Zhao.

"That man..." Xiaofen caught a faint glimpse of his silhouette and shut her eyes in fear... This was the man she had once pined for day and night, yet at this moment Xiaofen could not say clearly what she felt toward him.

Attachment? Hatred? Or fear?

Kang Xiaobo gripped Xiaofen's hand and comforted her: "It's all right... it's all right. Leader and I are here. Nobody is going to bully you."

"I'm still a little scared..." Xiaofen's whole body was tense; she clutched Kang Xiaobo's hand and dared not let go.

"It's all right... if you're not ready yet, just lie down and close your eyes. It will be fine..." Kang Xiaobo said.

"Mm..." Xiaofen nodded, and following Kang Xiaobo's advice, closed her eyes and lay down.

"Beep, beep..."

Wei Zhao pressed the horn twice before the barrier on the resort's driveway.

Kang Zhaoming glanced at Wei Zhao's car, then walked over with a look of impatience, complaining to a security guard beside him: "Can't the hotel's delivery vans come in through the back door? How many times have I told you? Coming through the front gate ruins the guests' mood."

"Yes, Second Young Master Kang." The guard apologized cautiously, but when his eyes fell on the license plate of Wei Zhao's van he looked puzzled. He did not recognize this vehicle. Was it a delivery van for the hotel?

"Delivery! Use the back door!" Kang Zhaoming ran over in irritation, waved at Wei Zhao and snapped.

"I am not a delivery man. I am here to stay." Wei Zhao was speechless. This was the second time he had been mistaken for a delivery man.

"Stay? My family has booked the whole place. There are no rooms left. Go find somewhere else!" With that, Kang Zhaoming paid Wei Zhao no further attention and turned back the way he had come.

Why waste words on a stranger? Kang Zhaoming had no time for that sort of thing.

Kang Xiaobo frowned, then opened the car door and got out: "Zhaoming, it's me. My classmates and I have come to wish Second Grandpa a happy birthday!"

"Oh?" Kang Zhaoming visibly started when Kang Xiaobo got out of the car. Had he not told his father to tell Kang Xiaobo and the others not to come, that they would be staying somewhere outside?

Kang Zhaoming's impression of Kang Xiaobo was very poor. At Grandpa's birthday banquet last time, Kang Xiaobo had given him no face at all, treating him, his elder cousin, with cold indifference, which made Kang Zhaoming feel utterly humiliated.

Which of his relatives did not flatter him and treat him with the greatest deference? Who the hell did Kang Xiaobo think he was, putting on such airs? You may be a Kang too, but you are not of this branch of the family, so what right have you to act so high and mighty?

Fine. Since you want to be so cocky, just you wait! This time, when Kang Zhaoming heard that Kang Xiaobo had invited classmates to Grandpa's birthday banquet, he assumed at once that Kang Xiaobo wanted to show his classmates the strength of his family, that his second grandfather was the famous Divine Doctor Kang!

But since Kang Zhaoming already bore a grudge against Kang Xiaobo, why would he let him have his way? If you want to show off, I will make sure you lose face! So he deliberately had his father tell Kang Xiaobo's father that the resort had no vacancy, and that Kang Xiaobo should find a hotel for a few dozen yuan to stay in with his classmates, and he would reimburse him!

He was certain that after this, Kang Xiaobo would lose face utterly before his classmates, and would never again be able to use this to show off!

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