"F*ck off." Jiang Bei kicked his lackey with a smile and stood up, saying, "Let's go."
Hence, the group noisily descended from the second floor. Jiang Bei stayed at the back of the group for no other reason than he didn't want to wait at the door.
He arrived at the cashier and was about to raise his eyebrows at Zhou Qingyue when she called, "Jiang Bei."
Jiang Bei could not help but smile. 'Ha, women are all the same; she's just playing hard to get.'
Jiang Bei flicked his hair in what he thought was a suave move and said, "What's the matter? Do you want me to stay for a while longer?"
Zhou Qingyue looked at Jiang Bei expressionlessly and said, "No. Jiang Bei, you haven't paid for your table's orders."
Jiang Bei was stunned and didn't know what to say. He took a while to recover and asked, "Didn't Chen Tianming pay the bill just now?"
Zhou Qingyue continued to look at him expressionlessly as she answered, "Mr. Chen paid his bill."
She was implying that since he didn't consume those drinks, why should he be the one to pay for them?
Jiang Bei's face turned red and white, and he was again speechless.
He gritted his teeth. "How much is the bill?"
Zhou Qingyue's slender fingers quickly tapped on the keyboard and reported, "A total of 250 yuan."
'What? Seriously?!'
He scanned the WeChat QR code, and the cashier machine chimed, "250 yuan received on WeChat."
Zhou Qingyue nodded and didn't look at him again, sending him off with a polite, "Hope to see you again."
Jiang Bei gritted his teeth and left with his ragtag friends.
'What's wrong with Chen Tianming? Why is he becoming more and more stingy recently?'
Chen Tianming didn't care what Jiang Bei thought of him. He was busy preparing for his meeting with Liu Xixi tonight.
Zhou Qingyue was tidying the tables when the shop owner suddenly called her.
"Hello, Miss Zhou. The shop will have a new owner soon, but you don't have to worry. The new owner said that everything will be the same as before, and he will let you temporarily take over as the manager. He will discuss a new salary with you, and you can communicate with the new boss later about everything else."
"Ah?" Zhou Qingyue was dumbfounded. It had only been a short while, so why did the shop suddenly change hands?
"By the way, the new owner said he had just gone to the shop to inspect it. He said you did well and even gave you his name card."
Name card?
Zhou Qingyue immediately remembered the name card that Chen Tianming had handed over with the 20 yuan. That's what his strange remark meant.
Zhou Qingyue suddenly had mixed emotions.
What was Chen Tianming's motive? She didn't believe that someone would treat others well for no reason.
She pondered for a while, then removed the name card from the drawer and added Chen Tianming's WeChat.
Chen Tianming didn't reply to her WeChat. 'Perhaps he's busy,' Zhou Qingyue thought, forced herself to stop thinking about it, and sat down to study at the cashier.
Chen Tianming was indeed busy. He had called someone to drive his red BMW over, and as soon as he got into the car, he found several files on the passenger seat.
He opened the first file and pulled out the documents within. A quick read-through revealed that they were Jiang Bei Company's trade secrets. To be precise, the company belonged to the Jiang family, as Jiang Bei hadn't yet been given complete control over it.
The information contained details on a project that would rake in a lot of money in the future!
It seemed like this was the first reward.
Chen Tianming had been so busy dealing with those clowns for the past few days, he had forgotten to ask the system for his rewards.
The first reward was a pleasant surprise. Chen Tianming thought it would be data about some core technology, but this information was much more valuable and useful to him.
The heavens had served this opportunity on a silver platter; now he only needed to put it to good use.
Tianming then opened the second file. If he remembered correctly, it was a record of Jiang Bei's criminal activities.
The comprehensive list of the criminal acts Jiang Bei had committed in his previous life filled dozens of pages, and there was even a USB flash drive included.
Chen Tianming glanced through the list and noticed many familiar names.
Judging by the timeline, Jiang Bei's next crime involved Zhou Qingyue. In his previous life, he drugged and raped the young Zhou Qingyue and took videos and erotic photos of her to threaten her into being his girlfriend. When he got bored of her, he widely spread her private pictures, causing her to lose her reputation, and she was reduced to working as a lowly barmaid.
It was just as he expected.
Chen Tianming frowned. Zhou Qingyue was a well-known figure in school.
She was the top scholar in Province X before she got accepted into A University and still firmly maintained her top scores within the institution and even won various awards. Her beauty was just icing on the cake; she was the aspiring queen of the finance department.
But in the end, she became a KTV barmaid…
Chen Tianming sneered, 'Jiang Bei was a f*cking brute!'
It wasn't that Chen Tianming was a saint, but as a man, he wouldn't ruin someone's life in such a way. He would take revenge owed to him, but he wouldn't destroy someone for his selfish desires.
In a sense, Chen Tianming wasn't a villain. He was reborn with hatred but would repay those who had helped him. This was why the system chose him to be its host.
'This time, Jiang Bei wouldn't succeed!' Chen Tianming sneered as he looked at the other names on the document.
The third folder was thick and heavy. He opened it and saw two thick pink notebooks. 'These must be Liu Xixi's diary,' Tianming thought.
He casually flipped through two pages and found that the earliest record started when Liu Xixi entered university. He didn't know Liu Xixi had a habit of keeping a diary, but wouldn't she suspect something if her diary went missing?
Chen Tianming then noticed a line of small blue words on the folder: "This reward is a clone and will be updated according to the target's actions."
'Good heavens, it even has an up-to-date function; talk about high-tech!'
However, Chen Tianming wasn't interested in reading Liu Xixi's diary now. He moved on to the fourth file.
The fourth file only held a USB flash drive. It was probably Liu Xixi's adult video. Chen Tianming offhandedly stuffed the USB flash drive in his pocket.
Since the system was so gracious, Chen Tianming must also pull his weight!
He immediately called the manager of the Imperial Grand KTV. "Hey Wong, I'm coming over tonight. Remember to get someone to install a few cameras in my private room."
"No, I don't want pinhole cameras; I want high-definition cameras."
"What are you thinking? I just want to help my friend shoot something!"
"What? How many do I want?"
Chen Tianming tilted his head and thought for a while. Then, he smiled and said, "Eight cameras would do for a start!"