171: Evildoers will eventually be punished by evildoers

“What do you say? A bet’s a bet?”

Lin Kai looked at Zheng Xingyao, his face full of triumph.

The Regular Customers around them were already half-risen from their seats, ready to prevent Zheng Xingyao from making a run for it.

“Do you really have to be so ruthless?”

Zheng Xingyao snapped back to reality, his expression extremely ugly as he looked around, then asked Hua Hanyao through gritted teeth.

Hearing him say that, Hua Hanyao’s lips curved into a smile, a mix of mockery and disdain.

“If my boyfriend and I had lost, we wouldn’t have reneged. We would have immediately bowed our heads and admitted defeat. So, now that you’ve lost, you expect us to be magnanimous and let it go easily?”

Zheng Xingyao was silent for a moment. He knew that today would not end well.

But to actually follow the bet and humble himself in front of the young boss in public was truly unacceptable.

“How about this, I’ll give you some money, a thousand, no, two thousand, and we’ll just let this matter go, how about that?”

Hearing this, the surrounding Regular Customers all looked at Hua Hanyao, wanting to see what she would say.

Lin Kai was also a bit nervous, but he trusted Hua Hanyao to make the right choice, so he didn’t immediately speak out in anger.

As expected, Hua Hanyao chuckled twice, then raised her hand and gave Zheng Xingyao the middle finger.

Seeing such a seemingly elegant and virtuous girl suddenly make such an unseemly gesture instantly stunned everyone around her.

But before they could react, they heard Hua Hanyao say:

“Mr. Zheng, Chef Zheng, the head chef of ‘kisstoy’ restaurant, which received a Michelin three-star rating, is actually someone like you, who refuses to honor a bet and has such poor character. It’s truly shocking.”

Hearing this, Zheng Xingyao’s eyes widened instantly.

“You, how do you know my identity?”

Hua Hanyao adjusted her rimless glasses, the lenses glinting and adding a unique flavor to the smile on her lips.

“In the internet age, isn’t it simple to uncover information? Besides, the gilded Michelin star badge hanging on your chest saved me a lot of trouble. Of course, none of that is important…”

She deliberately drew out the end of her sentence, causing everyone to focus their attention, wanting to hear what she would say next.

“By the way, do you have some personal grudge with the young boss? Not to mention the previous sarcasm, you even arranged for someone to provoke the young boss during the scoring round, hoping to make the young boss retaliate in public and thus be disqualified as a contestant.”

As she said this, the smile on Hua Hanyao’s face slowly disappeared, and a rare hint of coldness appeared on her delicate and gentle face.

And the others, hearing this, immediately frowned and looked at the already flustered Zheng Xingyao.

“You… you’re slandering me, spouting nonsense! I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

Zheng Xingyao shouted, his voice betraying his inner fear.

His heart was filled with uncertainty and surprise, wondering how Hua Hanyao had gotten this information.

Hua Hanyao frowned, not expecting that even after she had made it so clear, the other party still stubbornly denied it.

Never mind.

She took out her phone, turned on the screen, showed it around to the people, and finally stopped it in front of Zheng Xingyao.

Zheng Xingyao looked closely, and his heart immediately sank.

On the screen was the first Weibo post from the kisstoy restaurant account.

Of course, that was nothing special. What made his pupils tremble was the comment below the Weibo post:

【I, Weasel, hereby report with my real name that kisstoy restaurant has multiple issues including food safety, service attitude, and hygiene. I also report that kisstoy’s head chef, Zheng Xingyao, has engaged in intellectual property infringement, abused his authority to oppress female employees, and falsified his academic qualifications.】

【Evidence as follows…】

【The report has been submitted to Michelin Company and simultaneously sent to public security organs, awaiting further processing.】

The entire text was over a thousand words long, making Zheng Xingyao’s eyes almost burst, and he nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood.

Weasel, that dog!

He regretted it, regretting why he hadn’t discovered Weasel’s little tricks earlier, that the other party had secretly collected so much evidence.

He had originally thought he could use this opportunity to dismiss an old employee whose monthly salary was about to exceed ten thousand, but the other party turned out to be a thorny hedgehog, exploding at the slightest touch!

If there were only text, Zheng Xingyao wouldn’t have been flustered at all, and could even have turned the tables.

But Weasel had found so much corroborating material from who knows where, not only with pictures and truth, but also logically consistent, even describing some unintentional small details.

Even a primary school student’s diary isn’t written this detailed!

Compared to the shocking revelations before, the sordid matter at the very bottom of the report, where Zheng Xingyao used Weasel to provoke Lu Chuan and cause Lu Chuan to lose his eligibility for the competition, seemed insignificant.

After reading the entire report, Zheng Xingyao’s face changed again and again, and finally, his entire spine seemed to have been pulled out, and he collapsed directly onto the ground.

“Hey, don’t play dead!”

“Exactly, get up! We’re still waiting for you to recognize the young boss as your father!”

“You’re a grown man, dare to do something but not take responsibility, bah!”

The Regular Customers only glanced at the report and didn’t see the main text, so when they saw Zheng Xingyao suddenly collapse to the ground, they immediately shouted in dissatisfaction.

Hua Hanyao, however, knew the reason.

She glanced at the pale-faced, unfocused Zheng Xingyao, shook her head, and no longer paid attention to him. Instead, she turned to look at the young boss, who was surrounded by the Association Chairmen, constantly taking photos as souvenirs.

Seeing the young boss’s helpless expression, her mood, which had been soured by Zheng Xingyao, immediately brightened, and a smile appeared in her eyes.

“What are you looking at? Why are you smiling so happily?”

Lin Kai leaned over and asked curiously.

“Nothing.”

Hua Hanyao rested her head on Lin Kai’s shoulder and said softly:

“What do you say we enroll in a cooking class? Then we won’t order takeout after work anymore, and we can cook for ourselves~”

Lin Kai was slightly stunned, then held Hua Hanyao a little tighter and chuckled:

“Good idea. We’ll learn a few hearty dishes then, and when the young boss sets up his stall, we’ll bring them for him to taste and give us a score!”

Hearing this, Hua Hanyao thought of some amusing incident and let out a bell-like laugh.