"Stol...stolen? How can that be? I personally went home to get it. How could it be stolen?" said Zhang Zheng-Fu as his face twitched, and he became instantly confused.
He didn't think that things would turn out this way.
Zhang Zheng-Fu asked his father to help get the tickets. Then Han Dong-Min called to invite them all to the Entrepreneurs' Dinner.
It was clear that they had the opportunity to come for the dinner because Zhang Zheng-Fu's father used his connections, so Zhang Zheng-Fu went home to retrieve the tickets without giving it a second thought.
Zhang Xiao-Song wasn't home when Zhang Zheng-Fu arrived. Since the invitation was sitting on his father's desk, Zhang Zheng-Fu thought those were the tickets that Zhang Xiao-Song had prepared for him, so he took them right away without even pausing to think.
But now the organizers were saying that it wasn't their invitation.
"How can that be? Did you check properly? Are you sure its recipient isn't Zhang Zheng-Fu? Maybe its Qiu Mu-Cheng or Su Qian?" asked Zhang Zheng-Fu persistently as he refused to give up.
After all, it was a question of dignity.
He had patted his chest and confidently guaranteed Qiu Mu-Cheng that she could count on him for the ticket earlier on.
How could Mr Xu accuse him of theft?
What would Qiu Mu-Cheng and Su Qian think of him?
Wouldn't they think that Zhang Zheng-Fu was a thief?
"You must have made a mistake. Mayor Han called to invite us over the phone, so it can't be a fake invitation," Zhang Zheng-Fu couldn't help saying as he shook his head. He even demanded Mr Xu to recheck the invite.
"Damn you!" shouted Mr Xu furiously. In his anger, he slapped Zhang Zheng-Fu's face and continued, "How dare you continue denying and even get Mayor Han involved? What gives scum like you the right to do that? Hurry up and get lost!"
Mr Xu didn't immediately chase them away previously because he was worried that they might really have an invitation.
After all, according to the rules, they could enter the Expo and attend the dinner if they had an invitation.
But now that they discovered it was a stolen invitation, they naturally had no qualms about chasing them out, so the manager ordered security to drive them out after slapping Zhang Zheng-Fu.
The crowd felt deeply gratified when they saw Qiu Mu-Cheng and the others get chased out like stray animals, so everyone censured them one after another.
"They asked for it." "How dare these nobodies swagger around and trick us?”
"They're really tired of living!"
"These days, desperate people are getting bolder and bolder. How dare they stir trouble at an event like this?"
"How can immoral scum like them have the cheek to start a company?"
"Everyone, Mufan Real Estate doesn't even have basic integrity."
"We should boycott such companies and bankrupt them."
Everyone continued scolding them.
They even stepped on the invitation to Mufan Real Estate's opening ceremony to smithereens contemptuously.
Then Qiu Mu-Ying took the opportunity to specially invite everyone to Qiushui Logistics' ribbon-cutting ceremony, just like Su Qian did.
"This celebration was jointly organized by
Qiushui Logistics and Hongqi Group. The GM of Hongqi Group will personally attend it, and the mayor's eldest son, Wu Yong, has also been invited. I, Qiu Mu-Ying, hope you can grace us with your presence!"
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