The so-called class reunion is nothing more than a few things.
Eating, singing, and chatting about how everyone has developed after graduation.
As the top five-star hotel in Hu City, the Yunzhong Hotel has everything perfectly set up.
The rooms even provide beverages, fruits, and expensive liquors, and so on.
You could say it has everything one could want.
But there was still one very important person who hadn't arrived, so after entering the pre-booked room, most people were just chatting.
Because of the earlier incident, some classmates couldn't help but gravitate towards Lu Yuan.
They wanted to know how he managed to drive such a luxury car within just one year.
Some people subtly probed to see if he could give them a hand.
The female classmates, led by Li Sisi, directly asked if he had a girlfriend.
Lu Yuan responded politely to each, but didn't want to say much about his own matters.
After all, he had his own reasons for attending the reunion—building relationships with former classmates wasn't part of it.
"Squad Leader Li, look at the female classmates all gravitating towards Lu Yuan."
In the hotel.
Wang Zibo looked at Lu Yuan, who was surrounded, and said with a bit of helplessness in his eyes.
During college, thanks to his lively and bold personality, he was quite popular among the female classmates, but now it's different; everyone is focused on money.
"So what?" Li Hansheng opened a bottle of wine and sneered, "It's just a rented car worth a few million. Once Li Sisi and the others find out, let's see how Lu Yuan explains that."
He was, of course, very dissatisfied with having the limelight stolen, but now he couldn't say much, so he just drank in silence.
"How do you know that Lu Yuan's car is rented? It doesn't look like it to me," Wang Zibo questioned curiously.
"Let me tell you..."
Li Hansheng was about to explain but was suddenly excited by a message on his phone.
He stood up and gestured for everyone to quiet down, announcing loudly, "Everyone, please calm down for a moment. Yunqiong is on her way. Let's order the dishes first; she'll be arriving soon."
Upon hearing this, the classmates all stopped talking and quickly moved to the nearby dining area to prepare.
Zhou Yunqiong, not only the class beauty but also the school beauty of the entire university.
More importantly, her family's Wu Zhou Group is a prominent name in all of Hu City, a typical wealthy and beautiful lady, the goddess in every male student's heart during college.
So her arrival would naturally draw everyone's attention, and no one dared to neglect her.
Seeing the situation, Li Hansheng's previously gloomy mood improved considerably.
After all, now he was the only one in contact with Zhou Yunqiong.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Lu Yuan with a bit of arrogance in his eyes.
But Lu Yuan seemed to not notice, choosing to ignore it and heading to the dining area with everyone else.
While choosing a seat, he didn't sit with those from affluent backgrounds but instead sat next to Chen Song, with a smile, saying, "Chen Song, long time no see."
"Ah... classmate Lu, long time no see."
Chen Song was momentarily stunned, then quickly nodded in response.
Due to his family background, no one really talked to him at the reunion; he had been quietly sitting on the side.
But with Lu Yuan actively sitting beside him, he was a bit surprised, especially thinking about the luxury car Lu Yuan drove, which made him a bit nervous.
His mind started racing; after all, his relationship with Lu Yuan during college was just average.
"Yes, it's been over a year."
Lu Yuan understood Chen Song's thoughts, and indeed, Chen Song was the reason he attended the reunion.
Soon, the food was ordered, and the group started chatting again.
"Have you heard, the two tourist groups in the Taihang Mountain Range have been found," Wang Zibo, being the lively character, took the lead in speaking.
"I saw it on the news too. Someone online reported that those people seem to have gone mad, claiming they saw talking tigers."
"Yes, yes, and someone even claimed to have discovered an ocean in the mountains. Really funny, how can there be an ocean in the mountains?"
The classmates were all interested and began talking about some recent strange events.
"Do you know the news about the sacred Bodhi Tree being stolen in India? Laughable, someone actually stealing a tree in this day and age, so bizarre!"
"What's that? I heard the Pope in the Vatican knelt before a teenage boy, claiming him to be an Angel, here to save humanity. I even have a video on my phone."
"And then there was all that racket about the ancient book supposedly related to the Tao Te Ching a while back."
"Of course, wasn't it said that Christie's was going to auction that book soon? What happened with that?"
"Some fool bought it, reportedly for over thirty million?"
"What? Over thirty million?"
"Isn't that stupid? Our domestic experts already declared it a fake, yet he got fooled."
"You don't understand; without that price, how do you launder money?"
Li Hansheng chimed in, asserting that so-called auctions were mostly for money laundering, especially since something so obviously worthless managed to fetch an astronomical price. It surely had a catch.
"Yes, exactly, money laundering," a classmate agreed.
Not far away.
Hearing these discussions, Lu Yuan smiled slightly.
Sure enough, when there's information asymmetry, some people simply can't grasp your methods.
But it's understandable; no one could imagine that in just two months, global changes would occur, and those things everyone mocked would reveal their truly miraculous nature by then.
Of course, Lu Yuan wouldn't explain a word about it, continuing to hold his wine glass, watching quietly.
As for the complete Tao Te Ching from Christie's, it was indeed he who had someone bid for it.
It had been settled by the day before yesterday, and was probably already on its way back home.
But it was because of these chatters.
That Lu Yuan became more certain that perhaps global changes had already begun, it's just that ordinary people didn't know.
Like those two tourist groups in the Taihang Mountain, the Pope's unusual actions, like the Loch Ness Monster phenomenon reported in the news.
To most, these seemed like just a few interesting news stories.
But in his experienced eyes, they tasted of something different.
Squeak~
And just when the group was absorbed in interest.
The door of the room opened, and a faint fragrance wafted in.
Everyone turned their heads, showing different expressions; some were surprised, some astonished, some stunned, and some had inferiority in their eyes.
The newcomer was a young woman in her early twenties, with a tall, slender figure, fair and delicate skin, and her hair tied up in a high ponytail. She exuded a cold aura that made people hesitant to approach her disrespectfully, like a celestial maiden descending from the Moon Palace.
Particularly, her stunning appearance was leagues above the likes of Li Sisi and others.
The moment she appeared, it seemed to dull everything else around her.
She captured the attention of everyone in the room.
"Sorry, I'm late."
The woman spoke, her voice like a mountain spring, refreshing and pleasing to the ear.
"Zhou classmate."
"Zhou Yunqiong is here."
"Yunqiong."
Different terms of address reflected their past varied relationships.
The last one was naturally shouted by Li Hansheng. He looked rather excited, and like a gentleman, he immediately stood up and approached her.
But just as he was about to get closer, he felt a tremor in his heart, and involuntarily took two steps back.
Because.
There was another person behind Zhou Yunqiong.