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Chapter 138: Chapter 138: Is That a Dessert House or Heaven?
Customers flocked to Lu Qianrou’s café, some drawn by Yao Xuantong, but the vast majority were there for Lu Ziye.
That’s Lu Ziye, the unrivaled top star in the entertainment industry!
Usual tickets for his events are scalped for thousands, and that’s just to catch a glimpse from afar.
Today, for $300, you could meet him up close and even hear him sing the hit song from his new album live. What a deal!
The school had only been open for half an hour, and Lu Qianrou’s café was already packed, with even more people crowded outside in line.
Their café was not only huge, but the décor was clearly pricy – utterly dreamy and luxurious.
For the sake of prestige, even the imported chandeliers were of an exorbitantly expensive brand, and every table had Doraemon figures encrusted with rhinestones, sparkling and lovely to behold.
So a lot of girls were taking pictures and checking in.
But since they came to consume, they definitely had to order something to drink while waiting.
Then the earliest customers finally got their coffee after a long wait, and upon tasting it, they found the flavor of the coffee in the café to be—
Well, quite perfunctory.
Like it was just made with instant coffee.
One girl took a sip and sensed something was off. She stopped Tang Yiyi, who was delivering the coffee, and asked if their coffee was made from instant coffee.
Tang Yiyi frowned on the spot, arrogantly lifted her chin, said "no," and then turned and walked away.
But that girl was quite knowledgeable about coffee.
For instance, she could tell whether her cappuccino was made from instant coffee or brewed by a machine just by tasting it.
No way, the café was charging $30 a cup for regular coffee; could it be that it wasn’t freshly made by a coffee machine but just instant coffee powder mixed with water?
Wasn’t that just swindling customers?
It was bad enough that the coffee was made with instant coffee, but even worse that they denied it when asked. And to top it off, the service attitude was terrible.
The girl felt like she had been duped.
Then she thought, after all, they didn’t come for the coffee, but to see Lu Ziye. For the sake of meeting her idol, she decided to just bear with it.
Indeed, the coffee Lu Qianrou and her team were making in the kitchen was simply mixed from instant coffee powder.
Lu Qianrou herself didn’t want to be so half-hearted.
But there was no help for it since only Hu Yun was making coffee in the kitchen. Even if she worked like a horse, she couldn’t possibly make so many cups of coffee on her own.
Why was Hu Yun the only one making coffee—
Fu Siya and Yao Xuantong, one came to get back at Lu Sheng.
Only to be humiliated by Lu Sheng’s retort at the school gate; now sitting with a face as dark as iron, busy with her phone, unreachable.
Another came purely for Lu Ziye.
She settled herself comfortably as soon as she entered and busied herself with listening to music, playing with her phone, or reapplying makeup in the mirror.
She was supposed to serve in the café for a day, but in reality, she did nothing of the sort, completely ignoring the fans who came for her.
As for Tang Yiyi and Lin Ya, being precious daughters, how could they do such labor?
Bending over to prepare coffee cup by cup in the kitchen was too exhausting, they felt it beneath them to even deign to deliver orders.
Lu Qianrou herself was even less likely to work.
Wearing a beautiful, expensive custom dress, what if it got stained with coffee in the kitchen?
Plus, she had always been served by others; when had she ever served anyone? It was too demeaning.
Thus, Hu Yun, the lackey of these precious ladies, turned into the biggest victim, slaving away in the kitchen without a moment to straighten her back.
What’s even more ridiculous, there wasn’t even a decent coffee machine in the kitchen.
In her pursuit of status, to ensure her café outshone Lu Sheng’s, Lu Qianrou spent the entire million sponsored by Fu Siya on decorations and furnishings.
The tables, chairs, benches, cabinets, and chandeliers in the shop are all imported luxury brands, tallying up to six or seven hundred thousand dollars.
Even the random trinkets and decorations are flashy yet impractical and ridiculously expensive.
It’s obvious that these things, only used for today, will end up being wasteful no matter how they are dealt with later, not to mention unnecessary.
At that time, Lu Qianrou even posted on social media saying that they would donate any leftover money to children left behind in the mountainous areas. In the end, it was all talk; there wasn’t a penny left to spare.
Anyway, no matter what, people weren’t coming for the coffee today, so the taste didn’t really matter at all.
As time passed, the number of people waiting inside and outside the shop grew, and the shop’s turnover skyrocketed.
However, as it approached noon, everyone began to feel restless and couldn’t sit or stand still.
All those little fans of Lu Ziye, each holding their support lightsticks and banners, were so sore from the sun they felt like they were getting heatstroke.
Wait, it’s already midday, how come Lu Ziye still hasn’t shown up?
When will their big brother be here?
Didn’t they post on social media before, saying he would attend his sister’s school anniversary and even serve as a waiter in the shop?
But it’s getting late, and he hasn’t shown up at all. What’s going on?
Could it be that he forgot about it? Or did his agent not let him come?
Or could it be that something unexpected happened??
Seeing the increasing unrest outside, people kept coming in to ask Lu Qianrou when exactly Lu Ziye would arrive.
Lu Qianrou appeared clueless and innocent, claiming that she didn’t know either, which only aggravated everyone even more.
Hold on, isn’t he your brother?
We don’t have his number, don’t tell me you don’t?!
Just call and ask him when he will arrive!
Of course, Lu Qianrou wouldn’t make that call; she was playing dumb on purpose.
First of all, she knew that even if Lu Ziye did show up, he wouldn’t come to her side, but only to Lu Sheng’s.
Secondly, she was well aware that there was no way Lu Ziye could make it to Shengjing today.
Last night, she had Mrs. Wang put the leftover lychee pollen from the other time into the watermelon juice her third brother drinks every night.
As soon as he woke up in the morning, he would definitely find that he had developed many red spots on his face, and he’d be in such a hurry to rush to the hospital for a check-up that he would have no time to attend the school anniversary.
Besides, the red spots caused by lychee pollen poisoning would definitely be diagnosed by the doctors as symptoms of an allergy; Lu Ziye would never suspect it was her doing.
In any case, as long as she kept quiet, those people would definitely keep waiting outside, all the way until the end of today’s garden party.
Lu Ziye made a post but didn’t show up – everyone would only scold him for not keeping his promise and playing with the fans’ expectations, and it wouldn’t affect her today’s performance and popularity at all.
No matter what, she had secured the number one popularity spot for this school anniversary, finally getting one over on that Lu Sheng.
Thinking of this, Lu Qianrou couldn’t help feeling smug, thinking that after all these days, she finally had her moment of triumph.
However, just as the fans were getting increasingly anxious, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted out with their phone in hand—
"Damn! Stop waiting, Lu Ziye has already arrived at the school!"
What??
Lu Ziye has already come to school??
Everyone was stirred up, and people instinctively looked around, but there was no sign of Lu Ziye at all.
"Lu Ziye didn’t come our way at all, he went to a HelloKitty dessert shop at the very back of the sports field."
"And it’s not just Lu Ziye, there are four super handsome waiters in that shop!"
"Damn, what kind of beauty strike is this! Oh my God, is that a dessert shop or heaven?!"
