Qian Min's expression was peculiar. "What, you don't believe me?"
Ye Tian replied, "This is our first meeting. She didn't even know who I was before."
Qian Min gave him a deep look. "That's what they call love at first sight. Some people are just born to attract others, didn't you know that?"
Ye Tian rubbed his nose and continued stirring the soup pot. "The past is like smoke, no need to mention it again."
Qian Min said, "Yan Ruxue is having dinner with me and a few other close friends tonight. Why don't you come along?"
Ye Tian immediately said, "It would be too presumptuous to come uninvited. I'd better not go."
Qian Min didn't say anything more. After the soup was ready, everyone lined up to get a bowl. The taste was extremely delicious, and the classmates almost swallowed their tongues.
After drinking a bowl, Ye Tian went to practice his punches in the distance. Cultivators had to practice their skills every day. In the combat section, there was a set of finger techniques called Xuan Gang Zhi, which could strike an enemy's acupoints from a hundred meters away, possessing astonishing power.
After practicing for a while, he suddenly received a call from an unknown number. When he answered, a pleasant female voice came from the other end.
"Ye Tian, this is Yan Ruxue."
Upon hearing it was Yan Ruxue, he glanced in Qian Min's direction, knowing that she must have revealed his whereabouts.
"President Yan, do you need something from this humble servant?"
Yan Ruxue responded, "In front of you, how dare I call myself President Yan? I don't have a profitable company like Baozhi under my name."
It was clear that Yan Ruxue had done her homework and knew something about Ye Tian's current situation.
Ye Tian said, "It's a friend's company. I'm just holding it on their behalf."
Yan Ruxue continued, "We haven't seen each other for many years. We're having a small gathering tonight, and there will be two people you know. Come along then."
Just as Ye Tian was about to refuse, Yan Ruxue added, "One is Guo Zhen, and the other is Hong Bo. They are both elites in the business world now."
Mentioning these two names, Ye Tian immediately remembered. During the five-school joint event, both of them had confessed their feelings to Yan Ruxue but were rejected. After Ye Tian's "confession" was successful, these two felt quite resentful and set a trap to humiliate Ye Tian.
Later, Ye Tian wanted to get even, but these two seemed to have vanished, and he couldn't find out where they went. He never expected them to become business elites now.
Thinking about what happened back then, even as a celestial being, he still felt a sense of grievance. Knowing this was an opportunity to clear his mind, he immediately said, "Alright, tell me the time, and I will definitely attend."
Yan Ruxue replied, "Okay, then it's a deal."
After hanging up the phone, Ye Tian asked Ren Ping to investigate Guo Zhen and Hong Bo. Soon, information was gathered. Guo Zhen had a more eventful journey. He started his business before graduating from college but failed, losing over two million. Fortunately, his family background was strong, so it didn't cripple him.
Later, he failed twice more. Finally, he was arranged by his family to become a civil servant in the local area. However, he was not resigned to this. After working for a year, he took a leave of absence and started selling health products, which were essentially pyramid schemes.
Currently, through these means, he had amassed hundreds of millions in wealth and was preparing to expand his business projects to earn more money.
Hong Bo's resume was simpler. After graduating from college, he directly joined Guo Zhen's company and became the second largest shareholder, now also a wealthy individual with tens of millions in assets.
Looking at the photos on their profiles, the events of that year flashed before his eyes.
On that day, Guo Zhen and Hong Bo first acted friendly, saying they would take him to sing and introduce him to some friends. That day, over forty people went to the largest private room in the nightclub, with a minimum consumption of eighteen thousand.
The group drank and sang, ordering bottles of wine that cost thousands each, fruit platters that cost over a thousand, and even hired five or six female companions to sing along.
Ye Tian was plied with drinks by them and soon became unconscious. When he was woken up by cold water being splashed on him, he found he was the only one left in the room. The nightclub manager, along with a few others, was smiling at him.
He took out the bill and said with a forced smile, "Brothers, your total consumption is one hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred and thirty-six. Rounding it down, you can just pay one hundred and eighty-seven thousand."
Ye Tian was stunned and immediately realized he had been set up by Guo and Hong. He had no money on him and had to call his family.
His father and mother rushed over overnight. With fifteen thousand yuan, scraped together, they took him away. To save the remaining thirty-seven thousand, his mother knelt before the nightclub owner on the spot.