Chapter 55: The Tavern is Like a Battlefield
"This here is my good brother Lin, who’s about to become the deputy mayor of Lotus Town..."
"He’s my close, older friend, and you all should give him your respect..."
"Lin is my best brother, everyone should get close and stay close..."
Banquet after banquet filled Lin Fan’s life.
Each banquet was an intellectual and strategic contest, especially those so-called close friends who had only met a few days ago. But Lin Fan had to go along with it, drinking glass after glass, and switching girls one after another.
In just a few days, Lin Fan had nearly met over half of the City’s leaders, no matter if it was the police, traffic police, education, or medical professions—a constant stream of people talking about everything under the sun, discussing impossible things and leaving contact numbers that might not even be used. Now, he truly found himself on the cusp of a storm.
He had probably also grasped the logic of navigating through this bureaucracy—a spiral of contacts laid out layer by layer. Some people he only met once, while others he could encounter at several events; however, after a few days, not only did the trunks full of cigarettes and alcohol not get given away, they had actually added up, piling up in the backseat, and as for dining, he hadn’t spent a penny of his own money.
"Ah, so tired!"
Sitting in the car, Lin Fan stretched lazily. The last few days of socializing were even more tiring than working, hitting up over a dozen top hotels and the city’s best sauna massages, covering all of them. If the first time was out of novelty, the second was out of attachment, by the third time he began to grow numb. Rushing about, he didn’t even have time to enjoy his villa’s hidden delights.
But tonight, he had turned down several dinner offers because Bai Xue had called. She was coming to the city for a training session, and with such a beauty knocking on his door, how could he pass up the opportunity? Their chats over the past few days had brought them closer, and this chance to be alone was rare. Perhaps he might even have the chance to win her over.