Hank Hotel's 24-hour service restaurant would only turn on two of the six ceiling lights at night. This was a decision made to cater to the popular low-carbon lifestyle. The symbolic meaning was greater than the actual meaning.
However, due to the dim light, the diners would be provided with a lit candle on the table, creating a candlelit dinner atmosphere that made people feel more comfortable.
Zhang Lisheng walked into the restaurant and casually sat down. The waiter served him a candlestick and a menu.
He flipped through the menu and looked at it with the candlelight. As long as he felt that the name of the dish was slightly interesting to him, he would order it without hesitation. He ordered more than ten main dishes in one go.
"Sir, the dishes in our restaurant are very large. I'm afraid it'll be a waste if you order so much." The waiter kindly reminded.
"Thank you for your reminder, but it doesn't matter. I've just finished a very important job. Today means something different to me. I hope this supper before the strenuous exercise can be as sumptuous as possible."
"I understand, sir. I'll prepare it for you right away." The waiter no longer said anything and nodded with a smile. He ran into the kitchen and woke up the chef on duty who was dozing off on the wooden chair. "Mr. Hanter, we have a guest."
"Ask Melody to do it. I'm too sleepy." The chef, who looked like a peeled oval white potato with a height of no more than 170 centimeters but weighed at least 250 pounds, patted his assistant who was also dozing next to him in a daze. "Wake up, Melody. Go make supper for the guest before you sleep …"
"Mr. Hanter, the guest has ordered more than ten dishes. I'm afraid your assistant can't cope with it."
"More than ten dishes? What time is it now? Why are there so many people coming at once?" Hanter could only stand up in dissatisfaction and wash his face with cold water to wake himself up. "Let me see the menu. Oh, they're all main dishes!"
"There's only one guest, and he looks very thin."
"A guest ordering so many dishes? That's really … But being thin doesn't mean that he can't eat.
However, being skinny doesn't mean that you can't eat. I watched the 'Big Eater' competition last night, and that skinny guy from Japan won again. Damn it! 67 hot dogs! I really wonder what kind of stomach he has … "The chef muttered as he began to cook. Not long after, dishes were sent to Zhang Lisheng's table.
Honeydew melon ham roll, creamy crab mushroom scrambled eggs, Provence chicken with baked shells … In less than a minute or two, Zhang Lisheng had already swallowed each of the dishes.
Under the waiter's dumbfounded gaze, twenty minutes later, the young man had eaten enough food to feed four normal adult men. However, he did not feel full at all.
Rubbing his tummy, Zhang Lisheng looked at the waiter. Just when he was about to call him over to order a few more dishes, a soft voice came into his ears all of a sudden. "Sh * t, he really ate everything.
I think he can also participate in the 'Big Eater' competition and swallow sixty to seventy hot dogs in one go. "
After being stunned for a moment, he realized that the voice came from the waiter who was muttering under the dim light far away. Zhang Lisheng's heart jolted and changed his mind. He waved his hand and said, "What a wonderful meal! Waiter, please pay the bill." Then, he took out his credit card.
After paying the bill, he quickly walked out of the hotel. When he started the car, he muttered to himself regretfully, "Devouring everything! Looks like I might not be able to fill my stomach for the rest of my life …" Then, he stepped on the accelerator and turned into the street, heading towards Queens.
When the car had just passed through two blocks, the young man suddenly received a call from Tina.
Ever since he was admitted to the hospital, Tina would fly back to New York to visit him almost every two weeks. However, it was her first time calling him so late.
"Tina, what's the matter?"
"Baby, you've been discharged from the hospital, haven't you?" The girl shouted in the midst of the noisy music.
"Yes, how did you know?"
"Professor Madden is sick so I returned to New York in advance. I originally planned to look for you tomorrow, but who would've thought that I'd bump into Annie at the Cupid Bar? She's Lawyer Edward's daughter. She said that she heard from her dad that you've been discharged from the hospital and you're even staying at the factory."
"Yes, but I'm not at the factory now. I've just finished my supper and am driving around the streets of New York."
"Oh, that's great! Come to the Cupid Bar in Manhattan! I miss you! Trish and Sheila are here too! By the way, Sheila has a new boyfriend and he's with us as well …"
"What does it have to do with me that Sheila has a boyfriend?" Zhang Lisheng fiddled with the car navigation awkwardly. "I'll go to the Cupid Bar in Manhattan right away. See you later!"
The young man hung up the phone and walked for more than 40 minutes on the square streets of New York according to the directions of the navigator. Finally, he parked the car outside a nightclub with flashing lights and noisy music when the door was opened.
Even though this kind of nightclub with a long queue outside was more suitable for young people, its location was, of course, far away from the Upper West Side.
Zhang Lisheng walked past the people in the queue and walked to the entrance of the nightclub with a huge 'Cupid Bar' sign on the outer wall before calling Tina. "I'm here."
Not long after, Tina, who was wearing a sexy white short skirt and was already a little tipsy, ran out of the nightclub. After a long kiss, the girl took Zhang Lisheng's hand and ran back to the nightclub without even looking at the security guard in front of the Cupid Bar.
When they walked into the Cupid Bar, even though it was dimly lit and filled with smoke like an ordinary nightclub, its style was much more noble than the clubs that ordinary young people in New York would go to.
This could be proved by the warm and unconventional expensive decorations in the shop, the fact that there was not a single drink in the wine cabinet that cost less than 100 dollars and the unbelievably sumptuous food on some of the guests' tables.
It was apparent that even though this nightclub was located in the 'blue-collar area' of Manhattan in a broad sense, its main customers were young people from wealthy families in New York City.
Tina brought the young man all the way inside and walked to a semi-open private room against the wall before shouting, "Look! Who's here?"
"Oh, Lisheng! Lisheng! Are you done, baby?" Sheila, whose eyes were a little blurry from drinking, saw Zhang Lisheng walking into the private room. She exclaimed and jumped up from the sofa, hugging the young man and kissing his cheek.
"Hi Lisheng, congratulations on being discharged," Trish, who was by the side, stood up too and said with a sincere smile while kissing Zhang Lisheng's cheek too.
"Thank you," Zhang Lisheng, on the other hand, smiled back at the two girls.
"Baby, let me introduce you to a few new friends. This is Annie, the daughter of your chief legal officer, Lawyer Edward. This is her boyfriend, Joey.
This is Sonia, Sheila's new boyfriend in college.
This is Christina, Sonia's sister and our college classmate.
Dukley, Trish's most ardent pursuer. He decided not to return to Los Angeles this year because of her and is spending Christmas in New York instead … "
"Tina Douglin …" Trish said loudly in annoyance when she heard Tina's last sentence in a weird tone.
"Trish's pursuer? How about that Mr. Drooling Henrick? Did he break up with Trish?" Zhang Lisheng asked casually as he thought about it.
Trish's expression turned even more horrified right away. The girl's tall and strong pursuer glared at the young man right away. It seemed like if it was not for the fact that they were in front of the girls, he would have long given this skinny young man whose expression was constantly changing under the lights a little lesson.
The atmosphere in the private room became a little awkward. Tina glared at Zhang Lisheng and quickly said, "Henrick has long stopped contacting Trish. Perhaps he feels that it's not suitable for him to be with Trish anymore."
"He doesn't seem to have such a wise character …" When Zhang Lisheng recalled Henrick's stubborn behavior when the Elizabeth Holiday was stranded on the supernatural realm's island, he curled his lips and sat on the sofa in the private room noncommittally.
After that, he extended his hand to the beautiful Annie and said, "Miss Annie, your father is one of my important partners. I've long heard about you from him. It's nice to meet you."
Annie was stunned for a moment when she encountered a young man of the opposite sex greeting her formally in the nightclub. Not only that, this person was the legendary boss that her father mentioned. She held the young man's hand. "Hello, Mr. Lisheng. I've often heard my father mention you.
I've often heard my father mention you too, but I can't believe that the legendary person who will soon integrate the slaughtering industry in the entire New York metropolitan area is like you. As an industrialist with an annual income of over 100 million dollars, you're just too young. What a promising young man! "
Upon hearing Annie mentioning Zhang Lisheng's net worth, the few young people who did not know him were slightly taken aback.
However, to the first-year students of Harvard, they had heard too many examples of their former seniors who had become billionaires, great scientists, or well-known political figures because of their success in their businesses.
To them, these elites who were at the top of the social class were not mysterious at all.
On top of that, the age of being young and arrogant in their teens and twenties made them not understand that even if they received the same education and had similar IQs, it did not mean that they could do the things that others could do as well. For this reason, while these young people were surprised, their attitude toward Zhang Lisheng did not change much.
"Thank you.
Don't forget to say hello to Mr. Edward for me when you go home tonight. "
"Go home? No, no, no! Lisheng, we're not going home tonight. We're going to watch the American Professional Wrestling Alliance's New Year's special match later."
"Sheila, I believe you don't have to go home, but Tina, Trish, and Miss Annie …"
"Oh, my dear Lisheng, our parents don't know that we're back in New York today. As for Annie, her father has to work all night in the office and work hard for your factory. Her mother is in Paris now and will only be back the day before Christmas.
We're free tonight! Cheers to freedom! "Sheila shouted as she raised her glass.
"To a night of freedom!" The boys and girls in the private room clinked their glasses with Sheila one after another and shouted while chuckling. Then, they drank half a glass of strong whiskey with ice and water in one gulp.
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