Free Web NovelChapter 362: Chapter 348: I Even Have a Picture of Him on My Phone
Chu He nodded and said to the security guard, "My apologies. You were reprimanded because of my actions."
The security guard nodded, offering a bitter smile without saying anything more.
Just as Chu He was about to walk out of the villa, he was stopped again by the same group of young people.
The young man from before walked up to the security guard. "Look at this guy," he said. "He comes to a graduation party, yet he’s wearing a black baseball cap and a black mask.
Don’t you think that’s strange?
I’m demanding you search him. He might have already pocketed some of the valuables in this villa."
The security guard said hesitantly, "Sir, that wouldn’t be appropriate, would it?
After all, everyone here was invited by the young miss."
After all, Chu He wouldn’t have been able to get in without an invitation.
The security around the entire venue was extremely tight,
and only those with invitations were allowed inside.
Besides, many of the guests at the party today were masters of the Martial Arts.
’Even if someone were a thief, would they really dare to cause trouble in a place like this?
After all, if they did steal something, there’s no way they could escape.’
"If you want to search me, you’ll need to show some evidence first."
Chu He looked at the young man. "This villa is equipped with numerous sophisticated surveillance devices," he said.
"It also has alarms.
Forget stealing, even just touching something would likely be recorded by the surveillance equipment instantly.
Besides, if I’m not mistaken, this place has nothing to do with you. What right do you have to order a security guard to search me on the host’s behalf?"
"The host and I are very close."
The young man’s nerve had been struck. In truth, he was just borrowing someone else’s prestige.
"No matter how close you are, you still don’t have the right to issue orders on their behalf.
People need to have a sense of boundaries. You should also know your own place.
If we were good friends, would that make your girlfriend mine, too?"
Chu He asked sharply.
"What the hell are you talking about?"
The young man immediately flew into a panic, because he did have a girlfriend, and she was standing right behind him.
"Alright, if there’s nothing else, I’m leaving."
Chu He couldn’t be bothered to waste any more breath on him. He patted the security guard’s shoulder and turned to walk away.
"I said you’re not leaving!" The young man grew furious.
He had not only lost face in front of his friends,
but this guy had even dared to use his girlfriend as an example.
’If I don’t teach this guy a harsh lesson, won’t I become a total laughingstock?’
Luckily, another group of people walked over just then.
The young man’s demeanor visibly changed when he saw them, becoming a mix of wariness and a desire to curry favor.
"What’s going on here?"
A young woman was at the forefront of the approaching group.
She wore a sparkling gown and a pair of pale pink high heels that accentuated her figure perfectly.
Her pretty face held a faint, sharp intelligence,
and her perfectly shaped eyebrows knitted together slightly. "Did I hear arguing?" she asked.
"This villa is filled with antiques and is off-limits to outsiders," the young man piped up.
"That guy snuck in while the guard was away
and stayed in there for quite a while.
I suspect he was stealing something the whole time,
and besides, who comes to a party wearing a black cap and mask?
He looks so shady, like he’s here to steal something or cause trouble."
The young man, as if emboldened by her arrival,
immediately raised his voice. "Lai Yu Yao, if we weren’t such good friends, I wouldn’t be going to all this trouble to help security deal with this guy, right?"
Lai Yu Yao naturally understood the implication of the young man’s last sentence.
He wanted to emphasize in front of everyone that the two of them were "good friends."
However, Lai Yu Yao clearly couldn’t be bothered with him and turned her gaze to Chu He instead.
Although he was wearing a baseball cap and a black mask,
Lai Yu Yao could faintly sense an oppressive aura emanating from him, whether he was emitting it intentionally or not.
This sense of pressure wasn’t deliberately created;
it was the natural air of someone in a position of power.
Most people wouldn’t have been able to sense it.
If Lai Yu Yao’s father hadn’t also been a major figure in the Great Xia Empire,
and if she hadn’t witnessed things at her father’s side that even the average rich heir could never dream of seeing,
Lai Yu Yao would have been unable to recognize this pressure now.
In fact, Lai Yu Yao had a faint feeling in her heart.
’This seemingly young man in the baseball cap...
his aura of authority is even stronger than Father’s.’
The moment this thought surfaced in her mind, Lai Yu Yao herself was taken aback.
"Miss, this villa is equipped with sophisticated surveillance cameras," the security guard quickly explained.
"Anyone who enters
has all of their actions detected and recorded by the smart surveillance system.
I just checked with my colleagues in the monitoring room,
and after this gentleman went inside, he merely stood there admiring the decor. He did not engage in any improper or rule-breaking behavior."
"Sir, my apologies for the trouble.
Please enjoy the rest of the party tonight."
Lai Yu Yao nodded to Chu He.
Then she turned and walked off,
leaving the young man standing there, awkward and unsure of what to do.
The young man then turned and stalked off, pulling out his phone as he walked and immediately making a call.
’That bitch Lai Yu Yao,’ he cursed silently.
’She actually humiliated me in front of all those people.’
The young man’s friends hurried after him.
Chu He shook his head and continued to wander elsewhere.
He picked up some food and a drink from one of the tables, enjoying them as he ambled along.
He had to admit, the air here was remarkably fresh.
As the sky grew darker,
the lights that had been set up around the party venue were all switched on, illuminating the area brilliantly.
The large bonfire had also been lit,
occasionally sending sparks into the air to the sound of excited cheers from the young people.
...
"Everyone’s dancing over there. Let’s go have some fun."
In the parking lot on the far side of the party venue, the young man was on the phone, arranging for some backup.
He was a fairly influential heir in Haitong City,
so of course he knew all sorts of shady characters.
The man in the black baseball cap had just thoroughly humiliated him,
so the young man was determined to get his pride back from him.
The phone call was to rally his cronies.
They would lay an ambush after the party tonight and teach the guy a harsh lesson.
After all, there were no cameras in a remote shithole like this.
No matter how badly they beat up the man in the cap, he would just have to chalk it up to bad luck.
"Hold on, can’t you see I’m busy?"
the young man said impatiently in response to his girlfriend’s urging.
A car drove in through the party entrance, its window half-open.
Apparently, the driver had just passed the security check and driven straight in without taking the time to close it.
The car was a Ferrari. After it was parked,
a man with a cigarette dangling from his lips got out. "Zou Baixuan, why are you standing in the dark? What are you all doing over here?"
"Zou Baixuan just got embarrassed in front of everyone,"
"and now he’s arranging for some buddies to ambush the guy on the road to get his pride back.
I thought you got here a long time ago.
Why did you go out again?"
one of the girls said with a giggle.
Zou Baixuan just shot the girl a glare.
After all, she was an heiress, too,
and their families had business dealings, so he couldn’t just get angry with her for teasing him.
"Just had to take care of something else."
The man with the cigarette waved his hand dismissively.
He didn’t elaborate, instead leaning in closer. "So which clueless idiot gave you trouble?
Logically, everyone here today is one of us—the local heirs from Haitong City. They should all know you.
Don’t tell me you got pushed around by one of the regular students, hahaha."
"I even took a picture of him on my phone."
Zou Baixuan’s girlfriend pulled out her phone and opened her photo gallery.
She pulled up a photo.
The picture, of course, was of Chu He in his black baseball cap and mask.
"I think I’ve seen this guy around.
Isn’t that Sun Canxing’s Martial Arts instructor?"
the man with the cigarette said at once after glancing at the phone screen.
"What? For real? Are you serious?"
Zou Baixuan, who was still on the phone arranging for backup, was overjoyed and quickly pressed for confirmation.
