By 5:30 PM, Matthew had already made it to the Prosperous Hotel.
He was excited because he would be able to meet Ed very soon.
Initially, Matthew planned to ask Sasha to come along with him. However, there was a board meeting in
the company tonight, so Sasha couldn’t make it.
The Prosperous Hotel was considered a pretty decent hotel in Eastcliff.
Matthew found out that this class reunion was organized by his class monitor, Leo Ziegler.
Leo was a native of Eastcliff and he was from a decently well-off family.
Although they took the vocational pathway, Leo still looked down on the other students who went to the
same school.
It was mainly because of his parents’ help that he later got into an undergraduate course and got himself
a certificate.
Coupled with some of the wealth from his family, after graduation, he worked at his relatives’ company
for two years.
When he was promoted to deputy manager, he became even more arrogant.
He only befriended those who did well in life.
As for people like Matthew, the two never contacted one another.
There was even one time when Leo visited the hospital and saw Matthew there. When he noticed that
Matthew was doing the janitor there, he pretended to not see him and simply bypassed him.
And that was why, even though Leo had organized several reunion parties every year, he had never
contacted nor invited Matthew.
Today, when Matthew had arrived earlier, Leo was hanging out with some of the classmates inside the
room.
Seeing Matthew, Leo was bewildered. “W-Why are you here, Matthew?”
“Isn’t it our class reunion dinner tonight?” questioned Matthew.
“So, I came.”
Instantly, Leo looked at the others. “Which one of you contacted Matthew?”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Wouldn’t the room become crowded now?”
At that moment, the others glared at Matthew as if they were blaming him for showing up so suddenly.
This group of people was Leo’s followers back in their schooling days.
After graduating, they were still close with him.
Besides, Matthew was considered an outcast back when he was in school, so these people weren’t
really fond of him.
In their eyes, Matthew was just a freeloader trying to get himself a free meal today.
However, Matthew didn’t care about what they were thinking. He knew they didn’t treat him as a friend,
and so he didn’t take them seriously either.
“I’m sorry for coming without informing you. Perhaps we can change to a larger room?” Matthew grinned
as he said.
A girl from the group glared at Matthew. “Do you know how much it costs for a dinner at Prosperous
Hotel, Matthew? The minimum expenditure for this room alone is three thousand. And it was because of
Leo that the hotel offered us three thousand. If it was someone else, they have to spend at least three
and a half thousand. Move to a larger room? Will you pay for the extra expenditure?”
This woman was Grace Smith. She used to be Leo’s lover when they were in school.
She was once famous for being mean. He didn’t expect that she remained the same even after high
school.
Letting out a chuckle, Matthew said, “So it’s just a money issue? It’s okay. This is a happy event. I’ll pay.”
Immediately, Leo twitched his mouth. “Forget it. It’s not like we don’t know about your situation, Matthew.
The minimum expenditure for the largest room here is five thousand. You’re only the janitor in the
hospital. How many months of salary do you need just to have a meal here?”
The group of people beside him went into an uproar in an instant. “Seriously? Matthew is the janitor in a
hospital?”
“Which hospital is that?”
“I thought this kind of job is reserved for elderly women only.”
“You guys didn’t know about that, right?” sneered Leo. “Our handsome Matthew is just a cleaner! It’s not
just any floors that he cleans. He cleans the toilet floors!
I saw it with my own eyes the last time I went to the hospital. And I was with a client at that time. When I
saw him, I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t even tell anyone that he was my classmate. So, I could
only walk past him.”
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