Chapter 365 — Everyone Knows Everyone

"Whatever you need to say, say it plainly." Uncle Tian sounded a little annoyed. "You are the leader's heir, and your word carries the same weight as the leader's!"

"It is like this — some classmates and I went to 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?" Uncle Tian was taken aback, for the matter was really too simple. "Are you attending Kang Laicai's birthday banquet?"

"The surname is Kang — they call him Divine Doctor Kang, though I do not know whether it is this Kang Laicai." Hearing the name Divine Doctor Kang, Wei Zhao felt a chill of disgust. As expected, the man deserved his reputation as a master at making money.

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

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

"I understand." Uncle Tian replied with a chuckle. As for Wei Zhao's identity and what he meant to do, he would not pry too much.

Wei Zhao hung up and returned to the car. "It is settled, let us go," he said to Kang **.

"Go where?" Kang ** was startled.

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

"But the resort has no rooms left... Leader, you found a connection?" Kang ** grew excited at once. "We can 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 ** was filled with admiration, flames of triumph blazing in his eyes. At last he could hold his head high!

His second uncle had refused to let him stay, had he not? Well, he would stay anyway! It did not matter that there were no rooms — he did not need his second uncle to arrange one. He had a room of his own to stay in!

Seeing Kang ** so worked up, Tang Zhi glanced at Wei Zhao with some curiosity. It seemed that whatever trouble came his way, it melted away before him. He knew the owner of the Donghai Moon Over the Sea Hotel? He certainly knew a great many people!

"Ha... come now, do not be angry. Not only do we have rooms, we are staying in a villa!" Wei Zhao consoled Kang ** with a smile.

"A villa? You cannot be serious?" Kang **'s eyes went wide. "I have heard that Moon Over the Sea has only thirty luxury villas in all, of which just twenty are open to outsiders and ten are kept for private use... Well, since you know the owner, Leader, naturally we can stay in one of the private villas!"

Though Wei Zhao did not know where the Moon Over the Sea Hotel was, before leaving he had removed the navigation GPS from Shen Yushu's Beetle and installed it in his own car.

It was a very famous hotel; a single search on the navigation system gave him a clear route map.

Kang **'s second uncle — that is, Kang Jingming's father — was at that moment standing at the entrance of the Donghai Moon Over the Sea Resort with Kang Jingming, welcoming the arriving guests.

As for Kang **'s eldest uncle, now president of the Divine Doctor Kang Pharmaceutical Group and far more important than Kang **'s second uncle, he was inside the hotel at that moment keeping company with several distinguished guests.

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

"**..." Xiaofen caught a faint glimpse of that figure and closed her eyes in something like fear... This was the man she had once yearned for day and night, though at this moment Xiaofen could not say clearly what she felt toward him.

Attachment? Hatred? Or fear?

Kang ** gripped Xiaofen's hand tightly and comforted her: "It is all right... it is all right. With me and the Leader here, no one will bully you..."

"I am still a little scared..." Xiaofen was tense all over, clutching Kang's hand tightly and not daring to let go.

"It is all right... if you are not ready yet, just lie on your stomach and close your eyes. It will be fine..." Kang comforted her.

"Mm..." Xiaofen nodded, then did as Kang said, closing her eyes and lying down on her stomach.

"Beep, beep..."

Wei Zhao honked twice before the barrier gate on the resort's driveway.

Kang Jingming glanced at Wei Zhao's car and came over at once, rather impatiently, complaining to a security guard beside him as he walked: "Can't the hotel's delivery vans use the back gate? How many times have I told you? Coming through the front affects the guests' mood!"

"Yes, Second Young Master Kang," the guard apologized cautiously. But when he looked at the license plate of Wei Zhao's van, he was somewhat puzzled - he did not recognize this vehicle. Was it really making deliveries for the hotel?

"Delivery, use the back gate!" Kang Jingming ran over impatiently, waved at Wei Zhao and snapped.

"I am not making a delivery. I am here to stay at the hotel," Wei Zhao said, somewhat speechless. This was the second time he had been mistaken for a delivery driver.

"Stay here? This place has been booked out by my family. There are no rooms. Go somewhere else!" With that, Kang Jingming paid Wei Zhao no further attention and turned back.

Why waste words on a stranger? Kang Jingming did not have that kind of patience.

Kang frowned, then opened the car door and got out: "Zhaoming, it is me, and my classmates. We have come to wish Second Grandfather a happy birthday!"

"Oh?" Seeing Kang get out of the car, Kang Jingming was visibly taken aback. Had he not told his father to tell Kang and the others not to come, that they should stay somewhere outside?

Kang Jingming's impression of Kang was very poor. At Grandfather's birthday banquet last time, Kang had given him no face at all, treating him, his elder brother, coldly and distantly, which made Kang Jingming feel thoroughly humiliated.

Which of his relatives did not flatter him and treat him with the utmost respect? Who did Kang think he was, putting on such airs? Yes, he was a Kang too, but not of his branch of the family - what right did he have to act so high and mighty?

Fine, if you are so arrogant, then just you wait! This time, when Kang Jingming heard that Kang had invited classmates to Grandfather's birthday banquet, he assumed instinctively that Kang wanted to show off his family's standing to his classmates - his Second Grandfather was the famous Divine Doctor Kang!

But since Kang Jingming already harbored a grudge against Kang, how could 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's father that the resort had no vacancies and that Kang should find a cheap hotel for a few dozen yuan to stay in with his classmates, and the cost would be reimbursed afterward.

He was sure that after this, Kang would be thoroughly disgraced before his classmates and could never use this to show off again!