Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“What? This is unbelievable. Don’t tell us that Bai Wenping’s also lost his wallet?” All the classmates starting talking amongst themselves.

“No. that’s not it… I’ll call my family to transfer the funds right now,” Hua Shasha immediately replied.

However, since she’d already asked her family for a lot of money in the past few days, and since the food and drinks that they’d had tonight were all the most expensive kind, Hua Shasha wasn’t that confident that she’d be able to get the money from her family.

Many of the people at the party didn’t look pleased.

Truth be told, they hadn’t accepted Hua Shasha’s invitation just for some good food and wine. As they belonged to a school where every student was either wealthy, connected, academic geniuses, or of prestigious and noble background, they had joined this social event to foster better relationships with one another.

Now, it seemed that their host, Hua Shasha, was unable to settle their dinner bill, which caused them to lose face.

Had they known that this would happen, they would’ve been better off eating out with their own friends, and they also would’ve had more fun.

A few classmates asked, “How much is the bill, exactly? Maybe we can pay our share and be done with it.”

“That’s a great idea. If all else fails, let’s pay our own share and not disgrace ourselves any more than we already have here.”

Hua Shasha, who was extremely embarrassed by this point, asked, “What’s the total?”

“Miss, it’s five hundred and seventy thousand, ” the waiter replied.

“So expensive?” she exclaimed in shock.

Looking a tad impatient now, the waiter responded, “In fact, the food wasn’t expensive, but you did order more than ten bottles of our top-quality red wine. Furthermore, this is our top of the range private dining room, so, naturally, the additional fees are slightly higher.”

Earlier, when placing her order, Hua Shasha hadn’t held back at all, assuming that Yun Wei would be the sucker who would foot the bill.

Encouraged by her, the other people in the party had also placed their orders without even looking at the prices.

Now that they’d all heard how expensive everything was, everyone gasped, mouths agape.

Although all of them hailed from wealthy and powerful families, but the super expensive food bill was really beyond what everyone had expected it to be.

A few of the classmates, well-dressed and second-generation scions said, “Let’s put a stop to this. If we split the bill, it’d cost each of us the higher end of twenty thousand, maybe thirty thousand tops. Let’s just split it, then.”

However, some of the others immediately disagreed. “It was Hua Shasha who invited us for dinner, so why should we have to pay for ourselves now? If we’d known that we’d have to split the bill, we wouldn’t have come.”

The ones who were protesting belonged to families of moderate wealth. Learning that they’d each have to fork out twenty to thirty thousand definitely wasn’t something they’d agree to.

Regardless of how heated their arguments were, it was Hua Shasha who bore the brunt of it all.

In an instant, Hua Shasha had become the target of all their grievances and was literally drowning in the spit generated by their heated discussion.

Right now, she wasn’t able to borrow from anyone since she’d taken loans from everyone she knew could help her out.

In fact, the dinner tonight was supposed to be a thank-you dinner to those who’d previously lent money to her.

She quickly suggested, “How about this? You guys head over to the KTV first, and I’ll resolve this matter here. You guys go ahead.”

“Forget it! What a party pooper! We haven’t even settled the food bill. It wouldn’t be fun if we went to the KTV now and ended up being barred from entry.” Many in the party intended to back out of more partying.

“Come on, everyone. It’s not that I don’t have the money to pay up. I was sincere in inviting you out to a night of food and fun. It’s just that I’ve misplaced my purse and can’t settle the bill now. I appreciate your understanding and trust.” Hua Shasha was almost pleading with them subserviently.

“Everyone, please come over here and wait so that you don’t disrupt the customers in the other rooms,” the waiter said.

From their private room, Lu Zhanting and Yun Wei clearly heard every word of their discussions.

Lu Zhanting looked at Yun Wei and asked, “What a great show. And to think that you planned to leave without enjoying it.”

“Surely I’ve seen enough before?” Yun Wei smiled.

“Now, these classmates, are they all from your class?” Lu Zhanting asked.