CHAPTER 353: CHAPTER 307

"Little Lan, you finally spoke some sense," Zhang Shenjing had tears in his eyes, "I know there’s a good restaurant nearby, let’s go eat there, hold tight!" The car turned into a nearby lane, taking lefts and rights for about twenty minutes, and stopped in front of a building.

Many cars were parked in front of the building, and the three of them got out and went inside with Zhang Shenjing leading the way. They did not go upstairs but instead went through the lobby, around the staircase. Behind the stairs, there was a big door which Zhang Shenjing entered confidently. Through the door, one could see a courtyard ahead, and another building within the courtyard was surrounded by tall walls, blocking the view from outsiders.

In the lobby on the first floor, there was a reception area. Seeing a phone by the reception as she followed the onward Zhang Shenjing, she asked him, "Can we use this phone here?"

"Of course."

After getting the affirmation, Lan Tian walked over, and politely asked the receptionist to use the phone. The receptionist hesitated to refuse seeing that Lan Tian was a stranger, but then seeing the two imposing figures behind, quickly smiled and agreed. Lan Tian dialed her home number.

"Young lady, is school keeping you busy? Why haven’t you come home yet? Grandpa has arranged for someone to pick you up," said Mr. Mo as the phone connected and he continued for quite a while.

"Sorry for troubling you, grandpa. I got a bit held up with some work and I forgot to call you. No need to send anyone to pick me up, I’m not sure when I will be done; I might return late, so don’t wait for me, please have your dinner. I’ll eat something out here."

After a few more instructions, Mr. Mo hung up the phone. Post the call, the trio headed towards a private room on the second floor.

"Little Lan, let me tell you secretly, the taste here is really good. After trying it once with friends, I fell in love with it. You’ll know when you try it, Peacock would you agree?"

"Girl, the flavor of the food here is indeed very good," Hua Kongque nodded too.

As they talked and walked, no one noticed that a private room door opened, and a person walked out unsteadily, bumping into Zhang Shenjing. Instinctively, he pushed the person away but upon recognizing them, hurried to support them.

"Tian Yuying..."

"Peacock, Madman, what a coincidence, you guys are here for dinner too, right? Come on, join us!" Before Zhang Shenjing finished speaking, more people came out from the room, greeting those outside as they recognized each other.

The speaker was a young man; upon hearing his words, Hua Kongque looked at the woman Zhang Shenjing was supporting—it was indeed Tian Family’s Miss Tian Er, Tian Yuying, who seemed quite drunk and wobbly, clinging onto Zhang Shenjing like a lump of mud, hardly holding herself steady.

"Fox, that’s too much, getting her this drunk. We all grew up together in the compound, and it’s hard to explain this to people from the Tian Family!" commented Hua Kongque, referring to the young man, then walked over to help support Tian Yuying along with Zhang Shenjing, as Lan Tian followed quietly with Hua Kongque.

"Ah, Peacock, you can’t wrongly accuse me. It’s not us who forced her to drink; she drank herself into this state. I have no idea why she went crazy, but she refused to listen to anyone trying to stop her. Whoever tried, ended up badly. Look, she even clawed at you; look at my arm, if it weren’t for being raised in the big courtyard, nobody would care." The man known as Fox showed his arm to Hua Kongque, and Lan Tian glanced over, noticing several marks, some deep enough to draw blood.

"Fox, weren’t you chasing after Tian Er? Eh, Madman Peacock, are you also here to eat? Looks like we bumped into each other. Let’s eat together! Fox, you go call the Tian Family to pick up Tian Er." Without further ado, he dragged the two inside, Tian Er included, into a private room. Lan Tian paused for a moment then followed. As Fox was walking downstairs, he took several more glances at the person behind Peacock.

"It’s okay, someone I know," Hua Kongque said to Lan Tian over his shoulder.

Lan Tian smiled without saying anything.

The private room was crowded with the younger generation, both men and women, and it was filled with a smoky and noisy atmosphere that Lan Tian disliked, inconspicuously frowning slightly. The people in the room, seeing Hua Kongque and Zhang Shenjing with Tian Yuying, started heckling, with someone coming over, joking with them, "Haven’t seen you two for a long time. Where have you been hanging out? Oh, and you’ve brought a pretty girl too; girl, you look really charming." Noticing Lan Tian behind Hua Kongque, he reached out his hand.

Seeing their friend’s frivolous actions, Hua Kongque and Zhang Shenjing, supporting Tian Yuying, for some reason, felt their hearts unpredictably skip a beat. Hua Kongque let go of the person he was supporting and reached out to stop the frivolous gesture.

Lan Tian’s eyes grew cold, about to break the man’s hand, but a hand reached out from the side and blocked it. Seeing that the person blocking him was not to be trifled with, the man gave a flattering smile and quickly walked away, but his glance at Lan Tian was somewhat odd. Lan Tian had not yet understood the meaning of that look when a voice by his ear, uncertainly calling out her name, said, "Lan Tian?"

Lan Tian turned her head to look, and seeing the newcomer was also startled, "Ye Junying."

"It really is you, what are you doing here?" Truth be told, seeing Lan Tian here, Ye Junying was more surprised than Lan Tian seeing him. In his mind, this girl was so ethereally beautiful that she should be worshipped, and he wondered if the Crown Prince knew she was here.

He glanced again at the private room, suddenly noticing that the room was too messy and annoying to look at, annoyingly he shouted, "Just eat properly! What’s with this suffocating mess!"

The room instantly fell silent.

Lan Tian swept her gaze over the men and women in the room, then looked at Ye Junying with a smile, making Ye Junying’s face sheepishly contorted, "Actually, I am not usually like this, you..."

"Came here to have a meal with friends..." Lan Tian didn’t need to finish the sentence for him to guess. The circle was just that small, both Peacock and Madman were part of it; anyone going out and seeing them would naturally have pulled them in, how could they have expected her to be there too.

Zhang Shenjing and Hua Kongque were scared half to death, their hearts trembling, and they quickly stuffed Tian Yuying into someone else’s arms and rushed towards Lan Tian. If that man truly managed to touch Lan Tian’s face, there would be another terrible incident in Beijing tomorrow. Death might not occur, but both hands would definitely not be spared, knowing the temperament of the Crown Prince, and worse than death it would be.

"Are you alright?" Zhang Shenjing came over, pulling Lan Tian around to check her, and after a long while when he saw she was alright, he breathed a sigh of relief. Lan Tian rolled her eyes at Shen Jingbing; his brain wasn’t good, and now his eyesight too, that man clearly reached out towards her face, why check her body?