The Master's Mask Unveiled Again

Chapter 284: Chapter 283: The Completely Ruined Banquet

“…” These people one after another…

Bai Shuren glanced at the Lu couple’s direction, then at Sheng Zijin.

Sheng Zijin scoffed, “Again for Lu Mian?”

“Yes. The elder Su said he’s feeling unwell and won’t be coming over…”@@novelbin@@

The expression on Sheng Zijin’s face visibly stiffened. The elder Su wasn’t coming? That meant today’s banquet was missing a key figure!

Pei Jinlan comforted her, “Elder Su’s health has never been good, and he rarely goes out.”

Until Bai Shuren’s phone rang again.

Sheng Zijin took a deep breath, growing impatient, “Uncle Bai, who is it this time?”

“A strange number…”

Bai Shuren felt anxious, his head about to explode. It was just Lu Mian, but it felt like stirring a hornet’s nest with no end to the trouble!

He answered the phone.

A young male voice came from the other side, “Family Head Bai, I am Ye Youchang’s nephew, Ye Jinwen.”

Bai Shuren covered the phone, signaling to Sheng Zijin, “It’s from the Ye Family.”

Sheng Zijin’s heart trembled with ominous premonitions.

This call from Ye Jinwen followed the same pattern as Han Jin’s and elder Su’s, making it hard not to suspect that these three had conspired together.

Bai Shuren: “…” Truly like stirring up a hornet’s nest.

Lu Xingtang and Pei Jinlan looked at each other in shock and surprise. Lu Mian was in trouble, and yet so many people were willing to help her out?

Only Lu Xi quietly heaved a sigh of relief and felt assured.

Who said no families would stand up for Mianmian? Any one of these three people who had just called could shake the very foundations of Wucheng with their clout!

Sheng Zijin: “…”

The social customs here in Wucheng really weren’t like those in Jinjing.

The things she had said before were now slapping her in the face. She wasn’t exactly in a good mood. What really vexed her was that the people she cared about most were all absent from the banquet!

She could still somewhat keep her composure with the absence of Han Jin and elder Su at the banquet. But now hearing that the Ye Family wouldn’t attend either, she simply couldn’t stay calm any longer.

Bai Shuren was not feeling any better, quite gloomy and all the more resentful.

The words of Han Jin, elder Su, and Ye Jinwen were, after all, only spoken. He didn’t believe these people would truly take action for Lu Mian, nor did he believe they would fall out with the Bai Family and shake its foundations.

Until—

Bai Shuren’s secretary hurried to report that there were problems with the Bai Corporation, the stock had plummeted, the internal systems had glitches, and a plethora of orders had been canceled…

“I’m sorry, Miss Sheng, but something has come up at the company. I have to go,” Bai Shuren said, in such haste he didn’t even have time to explain before leaving.

Sheng Zijin “…”

Looking at the last three people left in the private room—Lu Xi, Lu Xingtang, and Pei Jinlan, her facial expression cracked even more.

This banquet was thoroughly ruined!

——

In the school canteen.

Lu Mian pinched her chopsticks and leisurely picked up a shrimp, popping it into her mouth.

Han Jin pushed the plates, one after another, in front of her, “You’re so thin, eat more. At such a young age, don’t just focus on losing weight. You’re not really fat, you look like you could slip through a crack in the door…”

The principal looked at his own empty table, rubbed his hairline, and retracted his chopsticks with a smile.

Lu Mian didn’t hold back, just kept on eating.

Han Jin rambled on without stopping, not even taking a bite, scolding her from head to toe, “Wear more clothes, it’s getting cold. You’re beautiful enough, no need to be freezing (moving) people!”

Lu Mian turned the nagging into appetite.

Only when her phone in her pocket rang did she slowly set down her chopsticks and, in front of the director of the education bureau and the school principal, with the air of a magnate, she took out her phone.

Seeing the caller ID, she paused for a moment.