What if My Roommate Finds Out I Write Danmei? - Chapter 16
Chapter 16: 16L – An Event Everyone Favors
The hotel Pang Zaiyuan brought Ning Wenru to was located in the city center’s prime commercial district overlooking the river, with a splendid night view, surrounded by skyscrapers standing in forest-like abundance. Looking around, on the facades of each towering building, large advertisements were playing. Ning Wenru recognized it as an excellent spot for fireworks, which would be live broadcast by the television station every New Year’s Day!
Now they had already gotten out of the car. A handsome man in uniform had driven away with the Lamborghini. Pang Zaiyuan, only a few steps away from the hotel’s main entrance stairs, was about to step up when Ning Wenru promptly grabbed Pang Zaiyuan’s hand.
Pulled to a stop, Pang Zaiyuan turned and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“Let’s just find any affordable hotel chain instead,” Ning Wenru said softly. “Coming here really exceeds my budget.”
The location of this hotel was so high-end. His monthly living expenses were roughly enough to stay just one night, or perhaps not even half a night!
Ning Wenru didn’t want to stay bankrupt outside because he returned to the dormitory too late. If even the affordable hotel chains were full, it would be better to spend a night in an internet café, cheap and good environment, even without sleeping coding away was possible.
However, in the next second, Pang Zaiyuan’s hand turned and grabbed Ning Wenru’s hand, his strong and warm large palm wrapping around and tightly holding his hand, feeling even more comfortable than holding a Warm Baby.
In the touching and rubbing, the palm was scratched by fingers, bringing a subtle itchiness. Ning Wenru, who had only ever held hands with his elders before, experienced his first feeling of heart fluttering. The fingers are connected to the heart, and the two hands holding each other seemed to transmit heartbeats. Pang Zaiyuan’s hands were very warm, with some roughness and thin layers of sweat, seemingly revealing two parts of tension. And Pang Zaiyuan’s tall body was right next to him, walking shoulder to shoulder while holding hands like this, looking exactly like a pair of intimate lovers.
Under the gaze of two rows of hotel staff in the lobby, Ning Wenru lowered his head, staring at the floor, and tried to pull back his hand, but was held by Pang Zaiyuan. Then he heard Pang Zaiyuan’s deep and magnetic voice say from above: “How can you carelessly about the place where you sleep?”
Ning Wenru felt something strange, but couldn’t say what was strange about it, unable to pull back his hand. He could only say: “But I can’t afford it, I’m also very embarrassed to ask you to provide me with such an expensive place.”
Pang Zaiyuan tightly gripped Ning Wenru’s hand in a vice-like hold and said: “I ordered it, clean, hygienic, you don’t need to pay. Come.”
“Hay, wait,” Ning Wenru still refused. “Even if you ordered it, we’re roommates, how could I let you bear the cost?”
“You’re talking too much,” Pang Zaiyuan’s tone was cold. As he spoke, he strode forward into the lobby, almost dragging Ning Wenru along. While walking, he said: “I’m staying overnight anyway, so why don’t we just stay in the same room tonight? That way you won’t feel like you’re bearing the cost.”
It sounded pretty reasonable, but also like something wasn’t quite right?
Ning Wenru was dragged inside by the highly energetic Pang Zaiyuan, walking into the lobby. He saw that the decor was sumptuous and magnificent, the crystal chandeliers impressive and luxurious. The waiters on both sides were all tall and beautiful, their appearances proper. And the amicable manager had been waiting at the entrance for quite some time already. He cast a glance at Pang Zaiyuan pulling Ning Wenru’s hand, smiled, and called out to Mr. Pang as a welcome, then cast another glance at Pang Zaiyuan pulling Ning Wenru’s hand.
Ning Wenru quickly realized exactly what wasn’t right.
Under the manager’s meaningful gaze, Pang Zaiyuan requested a room with a large bed!
Good roommate Pang Zaiyuan knew I was gay and still booked a room with a large bed!
Ning Wenru decided that tonight he absolutely must not look sideways or move his limbs carelessly. When sleeping, he must definitely hug his quilt tightly and sleep in the corner, far away from Pang Zaiyuan, be an impeccably upright gay person, and absolutely cannot betray his good roommate’s trust!
On the way to the room led by the manager, Pang Zaiyuan held Ning Wenru’s hand the whole way, feeling as if he was worried that Ning Wenru might slip away because he was too embarrassed to take advantage of him. Security guards, waiters, and guests passing by all looked at them with meaningful gazes. Ning Wenru grabbed his hair with his other hand and softly asked, “Since we’ve come this far, I won’t run away, you can stop pulling me along.”
Pang Zaiyuan turned a deaf ear to him.
Ning Wenru thought he spoke too softly, Pang Zaiyuan didn’t hear, so he raised his voice and said, “It’s my first time coming to such a luxurious hotel, can I take photos with my phone? It can also be used as collecting writing materials and whatnot.”
Pang Zaiyuan abruptly stopped walking. Ning Wenru was startled, and then saw Pang Zaiyuan take out his phone, handed it to the manager who was leading the way up ahead, and said, “Auntie Xiao, please trouble you to take a photo of us.”
The manager took the phone and asked with a smile: “Since Mr. Pang’s friend is visiting for the first time, would you like to take a tour around? There are many nice scenic spots here.”
Before Ning Wenru could answer, Pang Zaiyuan took his hand and stuffed it into his pocket, then heard Pang Zaiyuan say: “Good, let’s do that.”
Then Ning Wenru began his hotel night tour, and in places such as the hotel’s lobby, conference room, Chinese-Western restaurant, aerial garden, swimming pool, etc., he took many photos with Pang Zaiyuan. In addition to taking pictures, the manager also explained the various designs in the hotel along the way, including services, floor tiles, uniforms, renovations, decorations, soundproofing design, light pairing, etc.
Only after listening to the explanations did Ning Wenru discover that the arrangement of lights alone had many subtleties. For example, in the entrance lobby, a lavish and intricate crystal chandelier was used to highlight the hotel’s nobility; restaurants needed bright lights to show off the sheen of the food; conference rooms used clean and tidy floor lamps, and the walls above the swimming pool had tubular lights in a matching sky blue; while guest rooms used warm and comfortable warm light to give people a sense of being right at home…
The arrangement of the lighting is so intricate, let alone the other details. In short, this hotel, aside from being luxurious and high-end, also has very thoughtful designs in its details!
On the way to visit the parking garage, Ning Wenru asked curiously again: “Is this hotel really opened by you? But wasn’t your family only running a farm stay?”
Pang Zaiyuan slightly lifted his chin and said mildly: “The farm stay is opened by my dad, the hotel is opened by me.”
“Impressive.” Ning Wenru suddenly felt a bit envious of Pang Zaiyuan’s almost-to-be girlfriend, who could open such a large, luxurious, and considerate hotel in the golden commercial district. They must have money!
The last stop of the hotel tour was the hotel’s underground parking garage.
Ning Wenru originally thought there wasn’t much to see in the underground garage, but this hotel completely overturned Ning Wenru’s impression of five-star hotels!
The underground garage had a total of three levels, with the top two levels provided for guests’ use, and the bottommost level, all the cars inside belonged to the hotel!
Apart from the Lamborghini that Pang Zaiyuan drove today, the garage also had many cars of various colors from BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Audi… even more diverse than a car exhibition!
Ning Wenru scratched his head awkwardly, gave Pang Zaiyuan a thumbs-up, and said: “You seem quite modest normally. I couldn’t have imagined you were so rich.”
Pang Zaiyuan laughed, and said: “They’re just some small toys. How could they be worth saying to everyone? I bought too many in a moment of interest, keeping them unused would be a waste, so I put them in the hotel.”
Because there were too many cars he opened a hotel, impressive!
The manager introduced at the right time, “We are a business-oriented hotel, providing luxury car pickup services. If needed, drivers can be provided as well.”
Pang Zaiyuan added, “If you want to drive, you can freely choose one.”
Manager Xiao added with a kind smile, “Yes, you can switch every day without repeating the same one for a year.”
Why does it seem like they are advertising for him?
At first, knowing Pang Zaiyuan opened a hotel made him seem quite rich, but now it turns out he is not just normally rich! He is also generous! Extravagant! Willing to lend luxury cars to his roommate!
Ning Wenru once again envied the girlfriend Pang Zaiyuan was about to pursue. If he had a boyfriend like Pang Zaiyuan, not only would he save many years of struggle, he would essentially save the struggle of several generations!
However, Ning Wenru quickly dismissed the idea of driving a luxury car, because if he were to accidentally crash and damage the luxury car, he couldn’t afford to pay for it at all. Pang Zaiyuan probably said it out of politeness too, so there was no need to take it seriously.
Now that they had visited the last stop, Ning Wenru thought they were going to return to their rooms to sleep, but Pang Zaiyuan still vividly remembered what he said in the car.
Manager Xiao had already returned Pang Zaiyuan’s phone and left by this time, and Pang Zaiyuan still held Ning Wenru’s hand in his pocket, leading him into a transparent observation elevator and saying, “I haven’t yet shown you what a dazzling confession looks like.”
Below the observation elevator, a riverbank like a strip of light shone brilliantly at night. And across from it stood a massive, top-tier billboard composed of the curtain walls of skyscrapers.
Ning Wenru guessed, “Sending 999 roses is too common, is he going to set off fireworks?”
Pang Zaiyuan commented: “Too conventional.”
Ning Wenru continued guessing: “Is it displaying ‘I love you’ on an advertising screen like the tall building opposite?”
Pang Zaiyuan’s expression was cold: “It needs to be reserved. You can’t see it now.”
Ning Wenru asked curiously: “What is that?”
“It’s here.” Pang Zaiyuan didn’t explain further. Just after exiting the elevator, he lifted the door curtain and brought Ning Wenru into a small dark room.