Chapter 1430 - Inviting the Devil in is easier than sending him away!
Chapter 1430: Inviting the Devil in is easier than sending him away!
Translator: Legge Editor: Legge
The people downstairs were furiously cursing and scolding.
It was chaos inside and outside of the hotel.
The police hastily arrived at this moment.
“Zhang Ye, scram back to China!”
“The hotel has associated themselves with this scourge!”
“Get back, all of you! We’re the police!”
“Who’s causing trouble here? Arrest them!”
“Who is the hotel manager? What is going on here?”
“Me, I’m the manager!”
“Get back, all of you! No loitering around here!”
With the three groups of people caught in the mix, it couldn’t get messier than this!
Meanwhile, Zhang Ye was standing absolutely still at the window. He had a smile on his face as he concentrated on his cell phone. It was as though he wasn’t the target of scolding by the people downstairs and that the matter did not involve him at all. Further, he even began singing happily. “You are the most beautiful cloud in my sky. / Let me do what it takes to have you stay! Have! You! Stay!”
Below, when a Japanese police officer who understood Chinese heard that, his legs gave way and he nearly fell face first onto the floor!
Have you stay?
Have you stay, your sister!
The police officer shouted to the rioting crowd, “Disperse immediately!”
Three groups of people!
Three squads of officers!
Everyone was gnashing their teeth in hatred!
But Zhang Ye was happily humming a song upstairs?
What kind of a scene was this?
When Ha Qiqi, Little Sun, and the others saw this heroic air of Director Zhang’s through their window, they were greatly touched for a moment.
Ha Qiqi sighed.
Little Wang gave a wry smile.
Little Zhou’s eyes lit up in awe.
Little Sun was stunned and suddenly overcome by a sense of fascination.
This was Zhang Ye!
This was their boss!
In all of Heaven and Earth, there wasn’t another like him!
…
An hour later.
The farce came to an end. The situation was barely brought under control after three squads of police officers got deployed to the scene.
The complaints at the hotel blew up instantly as the front desk and lobby got swarmed by the hotel guests!
“I want to cancel my booking! Refund me my money!”
“But you only just checked in?”
“How can I still stay here?”
“Sir, we are sorry.”
“I was discussing a contract with my friends just now, but the shouting downstairs totally drowned out our voices. So tell me, how can I continue staying here? Cancel the booking!”
“Uh, I have to consult with my manager first.”
“You can consult with whoever you want. I’m still going to cancel the booking!”
“I want to cancel my booking too!”
“Me too!”
“What kind of a hotel is this!”
“Is there a war going on?”
“I was woken up by all that noise after managing to fall asleep.”
“There’s no way I can stay here anymore. I had a booking for three nights, but just cancel the remaining days of my stay!”
“Right, refund our money!”
“We don’t care what kind of unexpected situation your hotel has encountered, but it cannot affect us. A fight nearly broke out today. When I was downstairs observing things earlier, I nearly tumbled over from the pushing. It’s too dangerous, so it doesn’t matter what you all try to say now! I just want a full refund!”
The hotel guests started kicking up a fuss. Many of the guests who were supposed to check-in today also left when they saw the commotion outside the hotel’s entrance. Meanwhile, more than half of the guests who were already staying at the hotel were now haggling for a refund. Before this, many of these people were shouting their support for the Asakusa Hotel’s president, claiming he was a national hero and asking him to stand firm in his views. But when trouble started to affect them directly, none of them cared about what had been said!
We just want a place to stay at!
Surely you don’t expect us to put our lives in danger, do you?
The crowd of over a thousand people that had surrounded the hotel earlier had frightened them terribly!
For a moment, a wave of unrest stirred again. The hotel was struggling to deal with all the requests as the hotel president and executives came forward personally to deal with the situation. They reassured the guests one by one and offered them their apologies. They brought along the service staff and went from room to room to apologize and promise that the room rates would be halved for the day. They even presented the guests with some small gifts and fruits, and in doing so, managed to convince some of them to continue staying with them. But even so, a third of the checked-in guests still insisted on getting a full refund as they dared not stay here any longer.
At around 2 PM.
Peace finally returned to the hotel again.
The hotel staff looked at one another with a sense of lingering fear, then at the mess of a place within the hotel. An exterior wall had been vandalized by the rioting crowd with some unknown substances on it that could not be washed off no matter what.
The hotel had suffered a heavy loss!
Looking at this sight, the hotel president’s heart was dripping with blood. This was too painful even for him. All of this had fucking cost him so much money, yet even now, he was unsure of what had actually happened!
Why had so many people come to the hotel?
How did everyone know that Zhang Ye was staying with them?
Why was everyone who came to make a scene so full of rage?
They were all busy dealing with the mess earlier, so there wasn’t any time to check the news.
A female employee said, “What the heck is this?”
The president said angrily, “Who can tell me what just happened?”
Someone said, “It’s Zhang Ye! He launched a tirade at more than 20 of our top Japanese celebrities on the social network! What’s more, he didn’t hide his location, and it was shown on those posts that he was scolding them from our hotel!”
The president said startled, “What?”
An executive was stunned. “He scolded more than 20 celebrities?”
Another executive: “Fuck! Is he not afraid of dying!”
An executive said, “I knew it must have been him! That son of a bitch!”
A manager said, “We got screwed over this time!”
An executive said, “President, we cannot allow a person like him to continue staying here! He might not be afraid to die, but we cannot stand it any longer!”
Another executive yelled, “He’s a fucking madman!”
The hotel president said with a dark look, “The charity association booked his room for 10 days? Cancel it! Cancel it immediately!”
A service employee responded, “Yes, I’ll get it done right away!”
With the chaos that happened today, the president also became a little fearful.
You’re great!
You’re impressive!
I will not let you stay here anymore, alright?
Hurry up and get out of here immediately!
However, the development of the situation was entirely different from what they had in mind.
When the Asakusa Hotel went to cancel the charity association’s room booking, they alarmed an important person at the Asian Charity Association.
It was Director Chen!
The call was somehow routed to him!
The hotel employee said dumbfoundedly: “Ah, Director Chen.”
Director Chen said: “Who’s canceling our booking?”
The employee hurriedly said: “It’s just that something has suddenly come up on our side, so—”
“The money has already been paid, right?”
“Uh, it has been paid.”
“And you all have accepted the booking, right?”
“We did accept the booking, but—”
“Since the money was paid, the booking was accepted, and the guest is already checked in as well, then a contract has been established. How can you chase away the guest as you wish? Can you simply not accept the booking? You can just handle it any way you want? You can just back your way out of the contract? Do you all want to die?!”
Do we want to die?
That employee was dumbfounded!
She could never have expected that such an important person from the Asian Charity Association would speak like that!
What the hell! Is this how you people from charities act and speak?!
Director Chen said in anger: “If Teacher Zhang says that he doesn’t want to stay at the hotel, then you all can process his checkout for him. But if he wishes to continue staying, then I’d like to see which one of you dare make him check out! It’s a ten-day booking! Any day less, and I’ll bring my people down personally to find you! Hear that?” After he said that, the call ended with a loud click!
The employee turned around to look at the president!
The president blanched!
The Asakusa Hotel’s staff were also stunned!
It was only now that they remembered that Zhang Ye was the one and only philanthropic ambassador of Asia!
It was only now that they remembered that all the charities in Asia were backing Zhang Ye!
In Asia, one could offend the common folk, the businesspeople, or the celebrities, but no one would dare to offend anyone from the charities!
There was really no one who’d dare to do that!
This wasn’t just some ordinary organization they were talking about. Such organizations usually had great influence and credibility among the people, and were not comparable to any other organization in the world. They were basically an organization that no one would dare offend, nor want to offend. This organization and its people had always been committed to philanthropy and rarely took part in any other matters, but that did not mean that they had no temper. Just some days ago, when Japan and Korea joined hands to get Zhang Ye banned and restricted him from entering their countries, several major figures of the association collectively protested against the action. They made calls to the highest levels of authority and wrote letters of protest that were placed onto the desks of the highest executives! And for the outcome that was now known by everyone, the Japanese and Korean governments modified their “restriction order” to allow Zhang Ye to freely enter their countries when there were charity events taking place. Also avoiding the ban were Zhang Ye’s PSAs and his participation in those charity events.
Even the Japanese and Korean governments had to give in!
Much less any other organization?
Much less the Asakusa Hotel?
A small private hotel?
Who had now attracted the personal denouncement of a major figure from the Asian Charity Association? They wouldn’t dare unless they were crazy!
“President!”
“This, this—”
“That Zhang Ye, he—”
The booking could not be canceled.
They could not chase him away either.
The hotel president’s face sank as he grit his teeth and said, “Alright! Isn’t it only for ten days? No, there are only nine days left. I’ll just have to accept it this time. Surely he can’t keep staying here all his life, can he? If he wishes to stay here, then let him stay! The police have already come and handled the matter anyway. And we only lost a few guests, didn’t we? We can stand these few losses! There will still be another wave of tour groups arriving tomorrow and the day after. Everyone, pay attention and service the tour groups well. We’ll make up what we lost, so don’t get affected by what happened today! From tomorrow onwards, business will resume as usual. This bit of setback is no big deal.”
“Yes.”
“Understood.”
“Got it, President.”
Everyone responded to his speech and then went back to their work.
However, each time they passed by the room that Zhang Ye was staying in, everyone could not help but steer clear of it!