35 The Show Has Begun (2)

After being in a stunned state for more than a few seconds, he finally regained his consciousness and took out his phone, intending to search up for the Seafood Restaurant's livestream that the customers who he had ignored were fervently discussing about.

And as he opened up the live stream, his eyes turned blank for a moment, and his face turned ghastly white.

It was only at this time did he start to panic, as he hurriedly stood up and declared, "All customers! The new dishes here would now be sold at a discount of 40%!"

However, his attempt to weaken the impact of Seafood's Restaurant's attack did not work in the slightest, as the customers within his restaurant continued to leave in entire lines.

"50% discount!" Kong Liang desperately shouted once again, but it seemed like no one else was listening to him at all.

At this moment, the entire restaurant was almost empty, except for Kong Liang's friends who put on uncomfortable expressions, as well as Si Chen and the woman sitting beside him.

The woman mouth was still wide opened in shock, and she forgotten how to speak for a moment. This change was far too abrupt and great that she was unable to adapt to it for a while.

Si Chen was coincidentally done with his food at this point, and he wiped the napkin on his mouth, commenting, "Delicious".

"I'll take my leave first." Si Chen stood up from his seat, and without waiting for the woman to respond, he walked away.

Sweeping his glance towards the lavishly decorated interior and the plates of dishes on the table, coupled with the empty seats, Si Chen smiled in satisfaction.

He unhurriedly gave his credit card to the waiter, and after the transaction was done, he left without turning his head back.

The woman journalist sat on her spot for quite a while, before she placed her attention onto the slim black thumb drive on the table.

She inserted the thumb drive into her computer with expectations shimmering within her eyes, and when she glimpsed of the contents within it, her eyes went wide and her breath became a bit hurried.

This, could become her door to success.

She quickly kept all her items, and prepared to write a nice intriguing article to get the best out of this.

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Meanwhile, in the Seafood Restaurant.

As compared to the now desolate and bleak Blue Wave Restaurant, the Seafood Restaurant was brimming with vitality and liveliness.

There were long queues stretching out to the road, most of them attracted after seeing the live stream on the internet.

The sign at the entrance of the restaurant that read "30% discount" was glaring to everyone's eyes, and unlike the discounts given the by the Blue Wave Restaurant, this created its intended effect.

The interior of the restaurant seemed to undergo a complete makeover, with tasteful artworks painting the side of the walls, elegant fishes that casually swam within crystal clear tanks, and linen tablecloths covering every inch of the tables.

This was every bit fancy, and coupled with the soft and slow classical music playing at the background, it further illustrated the air of classiness that radiated throughout the place.

Yun Ran, the food live streamer, was brimming with a beautiful smile on her face while she exchanged pleasantries with the group of people sitting in the same table as her.

She was courteously invited to the restaurant by Fang Bin. Because of the food poisoning incident, she did not harbor much hope towards the Seafood Restaurant, but she felt it was rather bad and impolite to reject them.

What she did not expect was for the banquet of the Seafood Restaurant to be such an amazing success. She was originally a small time live streamer, with less than 5000 fans, especially since her conflict with the Si Yin, who had quite a reputation within the live streamer community.

But during this banquet alone, her fans were now rising at an unimaginable rate, reaching up to 40000 fans, and even higher.

She was absolutely dumbstruck by this, but quickly regained her composure and thoroughly displayed her talent as a live streamer, engaging the audience with her entertaining communications, and garnering more fans to come.

Fang Bin, on the other hand, had a huge silly grin on his face that was hard to wipe off. He knew that the banquet would be a success, but it was not within his range of expectations for it to be such a phenomenal success.

He glanced towards Yun Ran with his eyes shining with countless stars, like she was a rare treasure. If not for her participation and advertisement through her live streaming, the restaurant would not have been able to reach its current level of success.

He had forgotten how many times he had praised Si Chen internally. To actually include her into their banquet plan, was such a great decision that required much foresight.

It was until late to the night, when the restaurant's closing time was approaching, that the crowd within the restaurant began to diminish.

"Yun Ran! Thank you for being here with us today!" Fang Bin heartily chuckled as he glanced at Yun Ran with appreciation.

Yun Ran hurriedly waved her hands, as she gently said, "It should be me thanking you instead. If not for your restaurant's delicious dishes, my current fans will not rise by that much."

"How could you say that? Our restaurant's popularity today is also due to your amazing live streaming skills! I'm sure that the boss will be very happy with the restaurant, and your success!" Fang Bin did not cut down on his praise at all.

'This Yun Ran is really a hidden gem. Her talent to engage and keep people interested is really astounding.' Fang Bin thought inwardly as he was saying.

"Your boss? Aren't you the boss of this restaurant?" Yun Ran blinked her eyes as she curiously asked.

Throughout the entire banquet, the waiter and waitress were all so servile towards him and called him "Boss", and he was the one who was singlehandedly hosting this banquet, so she had thought that Fang Bin was the boss.

"The boss? No no. I was the boss the last time, when the food poisoning incident came about. But after my boss came in, the restaurant was seeing nothing but glory and success." Fang Bin sighed while exclaiming in awe.

"Wow. Your boss sounds like a very capable person." Yun Ran remarked with a faint hint of interest.

"That's true. He is far beyond his peers of his own age. I can't even wonder how successful he will become when in the future" Fang Bin murmured.

"Mr. Fang, why do you say that? Is he not older than you?" Yun Ran tilted her head in bafflement.

For someone who could cause the Seafood Restaurant to make a total turn-around, was in her mind, definitely an old fogey of sorts who had years of experience under his belt.

"Older than me? Haha!" Fang Bin laughed as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, before he lowered his voice into a secretive tone, "Don't tell anyone I said this. My boss is actually still a youth, and from the looks of it, he has not graduated yet."

Yun Ran abruptly cried out in shock, "What?!" She hurriedly covered her mouth when she realized she seemed to lose her composure, but the news was far still startling for her not to have any response.

Fang Bin seemed rather smug when he saw Yun Ran's stunned expression. At least he was not the only one who had been thoroughly dumbfounded after finding out of Si Chen's capabilities.

"Miss Yun, this is the money that is allocated to you for this event. I hope that we can work together again in the future." Fang Bin shoved an envelope of cash within Yun Ran's hands, and without waiting for her to respond, he smiled and left to facilitate the packing up and closing down of the restaurant.

Yun Ran was still in a daze after leaving the restaurant with the envelope of cash in her hands, her mind still thinking about that youth who was behind the entire Seafood Restaurant's success.

How talented must he be to achieve such breath taking capabilities at his age?

Of course, this was just nothing but pure interest.

It is akin to the fascination one has when you find out someone has out of the world skills and abilities.

And when Yun Ran decided to open up the envelope within her hands, she stood rooted to the ground for a few seconds, before she quickly turned back towards the Seafood Restaurant, but saw that it was already closed.

She then looked towards the envelope of money in her hands, as she softly mumbled, "This is too much…Looks like I have to find a day to return this."