Ye Lin's face turned dark in an instant. He ran out of the toilet as if he were fleeing, and his urge to urinate vanished.
"Boss, what's wrong?" Ji Lingyu asked, puzzled.
"Nothing. I think it's necessary to attend this gala!" Ye Lin suddenly changed his mind. He suspected that if he stayed at the Ji family any longer, he would be driven to death by the urge to urinate.
"Boss, it's great that you've changed your mind. There will be many good things at tonight's auction gala, including equipment and skills," Ji Lingyu said.
"Huh? There are such good things?" Ye Lin was stunned for a moment.
"Yeah! Qingcheng holds an auction gala before the college entrance examination every year. It's just that ordinary people don't know about it," Ji Lingyu explained.
Ye Lin fell silent for a moment. He wasn't even considered an ordinary person; he was just a poor one.
Although he decided to attend the gala, Ye Lin ultimately didn't wear the evening dress Ji Lingyu had prepared for him. Wearing such a thing made him feel extremely uncomfortable. He still felt more at ease in his own clothes.
Time passed quickly, and it soon became evening. Ji's father led Ji Lingyu and Ye Lin to the most luxurious Yunsheng Hotel in Qingcheng.
There were already many luxury cars parked in front of Yunsheng Hotel. As soon as the security guards saw Ji's father, they immediately bowed and welcomed him in.
After all, Ji Group was a large enterprise in the entire Qingcheng.
The three of them took the elevator to the top floor of Yunsheng Hotel. It was a different world up there. Two long tables were filled with various expensive ingredients for guests to help themselves. People dressed in luxurious custom-made evening gowns were gathered in groups of three or two, chatting and laughing.
Some were business tycoons, some were highly skilled job changers, and some were political bigwigs. Almost all the influential people in Qingcheng were gathered there.
As soon as Ji's father arrived, he went to chat with his old friends. Ji Lingyu was already used to this.
"They have their own circle, and we have ours. Come on, let's go over there," Ji Lingyu pointed to the table opposite, where all the young people were.
"It's fine. You go ahead and do your thing. Don't worry about me," Ye Lin said.
Ye Lin was already hungry. At noon, surrounded by those maids, he hadn't eaten much.
Ye Lin ignored Ji Lingyu and walked to the table, starting to eat heartily.
Everyone else at the scene was eating very elegantly, and they were all wearing expensive custom-made evening gowns. Ye Lin's ravenous eating style immediately attracted the attention of many people around him. Ji Lingyu's toes started to dig into the ground.
"Boss, why don't we eat later? I'll introduce you to my friends first?" Ji Lingyu suggested.
"Not yet. Wait until I'm full," Ye Lin replied.
"Boss, when we get home, do you want me to have something made for you? Please stop eating for now," Ji Lingyu said anxiously. He could already feel that more and more people were looking at them. But Ye Lin didn't pay him any attention and happily showed off his dinner.
In a fit of anxiety, Ji Lingyu even tried to snatch the lobster from Ye Lin's hand. Ye Lin's eyes narrowed instantly.
"Banishing Spell..."
Ji Lingyu froze in place, a sheepish smile on his face.
"It's okay, Boss. You eat, you eat," Ji Lingyu said.
Ji Lingyu, with tears in his eyes, covered his face and left Ye Lin's side. He had brought Ye Lin to the gala to introduce him to his friends and boost his confidence. But Ye Lin's ravenous appearance made Ji Lingyu dare not introduce him to anyone. If he told others that Ye Lin was his boss, he would probably become a laughingstock in the second-generation circle of Qingcheng.
After getting rid of Ji Lingyu, Ye Lin happily enjoyed his dinner.
He didn't care what the people around him thought. Eating his fill was the most important thing.
But just as he was enjoying his meal, a cold female voice suddenly rang out behind him.
"Ye Lin?" Ye Lin, still chewing on the unfinished lobster in his mouth, turned his head and saw Zhuge Ni's astonished face.
Beside Zhuge Ni was a girl in a white dress. This girl was petite, almost half a head shorter than Zhuge Ni, but her face was no less beautiful than Zhuge Ni's.
"Really you! How did you end up here?" After recognizing Ye Lin, a clear look of disgust appeared on Zhuge Ni's face. "You didn't sneak in here to eat and drink for free, did you?"
Ye Lin didn't want to deal with Zhuge Ni. He thought to himself, what bad luck, why did he run into this woman with a missing nerve every time he went somewhere? But then he thought, considering Mr. Zhuge's status, it wasn't strange that Zhuge Ni would be at this banquet.
"Nini, who is he?" The girl in the white dress asked curiously. It was the first time she had seen such a clear expression of disgust on Zhuge Ni's face.
Even when those suitors were pestering Zhuge Ni, she had never shown such an expression.
"Who is he? Hmph! Just a cowardly fellow. Do you remember the Ling Ye I told you about who saved me?" Zhuge Ni asked the girl in the white dress.
"Remember, you said he controlled the infernal fire and was incredibly powerful. He killed an eighth-level monster with one strike on the first night he entered the novice secret realm." The girl in the white dress nodded.
"Before I met Ling Ye, I met this guy first! His strength wasn't weak. If he had been willing to fight that eighth-level dragon-blooded giant beast with me at that time, I wouldn't have been forced into a dead end! But this guy was so cowardly that he just left me and ran away!"
As she spoke of this, Zhuge Ni glared at Ye Lin with bared teeth, but Ye Lin was focused on eating and didn't even look at her.
"Huh?" The girl in the white dress tilted her head. "But... avoiding danger and seeking safety is human nature. Although he was indeed cowardly, it's not like he did something to make you so angry, right?"
"Yuan Wei!" Zhuge Ni shouted the girl in the white dress's name angrily. "Which side are you on?"
"Your side, your side." Yuan Wei stuck out her tongue.
"If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have been forced into a dead end by the dragon-blooded giant beast and wouldn't have met Ling Ye in such a pitiful state! Ling Ye treated me like a burden, which directly led to me not finding any news of Ling Ye yet. Do you think I shouldn't be angry?" Zhuge Ni asked in return.
"That's indeed something to be angry about. I would be angry too if I were you."
Yuan Wei nodded. She knew very well how crazily this Miss Zhuge had been looking for Ling Ye these past two days, almost turning the entire Qingcheng upside down.
"Alright, alright. Since you're angry, let's not look at him. Out of sight, out of mind. Come on, let's go over there."
Yuan Wei pushed Zhuge Ni to another place to avoid her from continuing to have a conflict with Ye Lin. But as Zhuge Ni left, she still glared at Ye Lin viciously.
Ye Lin, who was eating, suddenly had a mischievous thought. So the Ling Ye he was impersonating had left such a deep impression on Zhuge Ni?
He suddenly wanted to know what expression Zhuge Ni would have when she found out that Ling Ye was him in disguise.