Chapter 418: The clown was himself

He called out to stop the manager, his gaze darting back and forth between Shen Xing and the restaurant manager with deep scrutiny. Finally, he asked with a hesitant tone: "What does this mean?"

Waived? How was it waived?

"What do you mean 'what does it mean'?" Shen Xing asked back.

"What does 'waived' mean?"

Shen Xing looked at him, a trace of playful mockery appearing in his eyes: "Literal meaning."

Too lazy to waste words with the other party, Shen Xing called for Shi Jingming and Jiang Ran, who were still in a daze, and prepared to leave.

But how could the other party let it go so easily?

It was clearly him who was using these few people for amusement, so how did it end up like this? Waived?

"Speak clearly!" The man blocked Shen Xing and the others, turned his head, and questioned the restaurant manager: "This bottle of wine sells for twelve yuan, and I only paid six. You're not going to make him pay the rest?"

The restaurant manager glanced at Shen Xing's expression. Since the boy in front of him was also a high-level member here, he could only smile apologetically and say: "Sir, please rest assured. We will record this compensation of yours truthfully. You don't need to worry about the rest; we won't ask you to pay any extra money."

Hearing the manager's words, the boy felt that something was increasingly wrong.

This wasn't a matter of paying extra money at all; it was that the other party hadn't paid any money at all!

"Why is he allowed not to pay?" The boy was relentless, a feeling of having been played finally dawning on him.

The restaurant manager looked at Shen Xing again. Seeing Shen Xing nod slightly, he then truthfully said: "Because Mr. Shen is a Supreme Black Gold cardholder at our Shui Yun Jian."

"Wh-what card?"

"Supreme Black Gold card!" The restaurant manager repeated it again.

The boy suddenly flew into a rage and roared: "Do you think I'm stupid? Do you think this is my first time here? The highest membership you have here is a Diamond card. Where did this Supreme Black Gold card come from?"

"Sir, please don't be angry. It truly does exist, but the quantity is extremely small. Moreover, the Supreme Black Gold card is not open for upgrades to ordinary members. What you know is also correct; the highest level for ordinary members is indeed the Diamond card."

With the manager's explanation, the boy was instantly dumbfounded.

He looked at Shen Xing—a boy basically the same age as him—and he was a "Supreme Black Gold cardholder" here?

But...

Regardless of the card, shouldn't you pay after consuming something?

"Can a Black Gold card waive that six yuan just now?" The boy wouldn't give up; his money had already been paid!

This time, before the manager could speak, Shen Xing preempted him softly: "Not only can the six yuan just now be waived, but all my consumption here doesn't require spending money."

"What?" The boy looked incredulous.

Seeing his expression, Shi Jingming felt it was deeply satisfying and sneered: "Because this place belongs to his family!"

The boy was struck as if by lightning, frozen in place.

So, for this bottle of wine, even if he hadn't voluntarily taken responsibility for the six yuan and had pinned all the blame on that girl, the other side wouldn't have had to spend a single cent and would have had it waived directly?

So he had been immersed in his own game, and in the end, he was the only one who paid six yuan?

The wine was broken, and he was the one who paid for it!

In the end, he was the clown!

The playfulness in Shen Xing's eyes deepened by three points. He had seen through the other party's malicious behavior long ago. If this had been anywhere else, he might have succeeded.

But this was Shui Yun Jian, his sister's territory. He wouldn't suffer a loss here.

"Let's go." Shen Xing looked at Jiang Ran and Shi Jingming and gestured.

"Buddy, are you playing me?"

Shen Xing looked at the person blocking his path, his gaze darkening: "Playing you is out of the question. It's just that your own scheme didn't work out."

The other party's gaze was piercing, staring fixedly at Shen Xing's face, but in the end, he could only swallow his pride.

"Fine, it's just a bottle of wine. I can afford to pay for it."

Hearing this, Shen Xing let out a cold snort through his nose and left without paying any more attention to the other party.

Shi Jingming also glared fiercely at the guy, while only Jiang Ran kept her head slightly lowered as they passed by.

The boy watched their retreating backs, and after a long while, he laughed at himself out of anger.

Since he was a child, relying on his family's status and his parents' pampering, he had pulled many such pranks. Today was the first time he'd ever flipped his car.

Fine, Shen Xing, is it? He would remember him.

When Shen Xing and the others returned to their seats, Jiang Ran raised her head, her eyes slightly red.

"Shen Xing, how much is still left for the wine? I will make it up."

She couldn't just accept Shen Xing's waived bill with peace of mind just because this was Shen Xing's sister's place.

"I know what kind of person you are. You don't need to worry. Let me ask."

Shen Xing said this and raised his hand to call over the manager from before: "How much was the cost price of that bottle of wine just now?"

"Uh, Mr. Shen, please wait a moment. Let me check."

Before long, the manager returned and whispered a number in Shen Xing's ear. Hearing it, a smile appeared on Shen Xing's face: "Many thanks, you go back to your work."

Jiang Ran and Shi Jingming saw Shen Xing suddenly smile and couldn't help but exchange a confused look.

"Xing, what are you smiling at?"

Shen Xing smiled and said: "The manager just told me that the cost price of that bottle of wine is between three and four yuan. Because the vintage and batch are different, the price fluctuates slightly, but it won't exceed four yuan!"

Hearing this, Shi Jingming was delighted: "Th-that means the six yuan that kid paid already exceeded the principal cost of the bottle of wine?"

Shen Xing nodded with a smile in his eyes, then looked at Jiang Ran: "See, I told you not to worry. My sister didn't lose any money."

"The price of a bottle of wine tripled?" Jiang Ran was shocked and also a bit skeptical: "Shen Xing, you didn't deliberately lower the price just so I wouldn't have to pay, did you?"

"Not to that extent. If I really wanted to lie to you, wouldn't it be better to say five yuan? Wouldn't that make you feel it's more credible?" Shen Xing explained: "But the fact is just that. A bottle of wine costing less than four yuan, because it entered Shui Yun Jian, its price has to be multiplied several times. For example, the cola here is fourteen times the price of a supermarket outside."

Jiang Ran: "..."

Shi Jingming breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Alright Jiang Ran, don't overthink it. Anyway, that big sucker just paid the money. Xing clearly had a handle on it just now and was deliberately infuriating that kid. Seeing how smug he was just now, I wanted to give him a punch."

"Yes, that person didn't care about those few yuan at all, and cared even less about a bottle of wine. He was just being a jerk, deliberately provoking you." Shen Xing hit the nail on the head.

Jiang Ran had originally felt that the wine breaking was suspicious. Now that she had calmed down and recalled it, it really seemed like the other party had bumped into her.

Seeing Jiang Ran still thinking, Shen Xing immediately changed the subject and suggested: "Shall we stop eating here? Shall we save some room to go to the revolving terrace on the top floor to have some coffee and desserts?"

Shi Jingming nodded in agreement: "Good idea. Eating sweets puts you in a good mood and can wash away the bad luck we just picked up. Jiang Ran, you should eat more!"

Jiang Ran could see that the two were deliberately creating an atmosphere. While moved, she didn't spoil the mood and directly threw the previous matter to the back of her mind: "Let's go!"

?? It's the end of the month, please give us monthly tickets, babies! ===== CHAPTER 419 =====