The Wealthy Tycoon's Game of Life

Chapter 1673: Chapter 678: ”Brother Dog” Has Left the Group Chat_2

And if nothing unexpected happens, the name ”Zhang Family Grand Plan” will continue to be used, possibly extending to Young Master Zhang’s descendants, until the entire family declines.

Usually, there’s not much idle chatter in the family group chat. The elders share either major public issues or international news, with a serious and restrained vibe prevailing overall.

But naturally, Young Master Zhang has the ambition to inherit the entire Zhang Group, so he must always keep an eye on this group to grasp the subtle relationships among all family members and to glean some implicit directions through their comments.

As for the second pinned group chat, it’s one called ”Drunk Food Gang”... oh, this group has another name on Zhou Wang’s phone, called ”Good Uncle and His Nephews.”

Of course, no matter how Zhou Wang names it, everyone in the group would never admit to this name, except perhaps Guo Bing and Shao Xiaoqi.

For Young Master Zhang, due to his special upbringing, he values this group chat and cherishes everyone in it.

For people like them, finding a genuine friend is incredibly difficult... there are very few ”good people” in the second-generation circles, and it’s even rarer to see eye to eye with each other.

As for ordinary people, there’s nothing to discuss there. It’s not that Young Master Zhang can’t lower himself, but there’s simply no common ground; their worldviews are so different that it’s naturally impossible to become close friends.

Zhou Wang is like an outlier in this circle; he possesses both the earthy charm of ordinary people and the detached understanding and free spirit that transcend these second-gens.

Perhaps it’s this strange and contradictory charm that made Young Master Zhang willingly step aside, acknowledging Zhou Wang as he gradually became the core figure of their circle, never considering competing for that position.

Now, in his leisure time, blowing smoke and cracking jokes with a group of brothers in the group chat, engaging in battles over various risqué pictures (a bad habit started by Zhou Wang), has become one of Young Master Zhang’s rare forms of relaxation.

But when Young Master Zhang subconsciously opened the group chat at this moment, he was suddenly stunned by two gray messages that popped up.

[”Brother Dog” has left the group chat]

[You have been made the new group owner]

”?”

Young Master Zhang blinked, initially thinking his eyes were playing tricks on him, or that these two messages were a ”gif” sent as a prank by Zhou Wang.

But Young Master Zhang clicked a few more times, only to find that the messages remained unchanged. He opened the member list and confirmed that Zhou Wang’s avatar was gone.

Young Master Zhang immediately rose from the sofa and walked directly towards the room, dialing Zhou Wang’s number as he went.

Ring-ring!

After two rings, Zhou Wang directly hung up.

With a look of urgency, Young Master Zhang exited the bedroom and went straight to an opposite room. Without knocking, he turned the door handle and walked in.

The same strange smell filled this room, but Young Master Zhang couldn’t be bothered. He went straight to the furthest bedroom and was about to call out to wake the person in bed but tripped over something. He looked down to find a lace undergarment scattered on the carpet.

Young Master Zhang twitched his mouth and turned his head, saying aloud, ”Damn it, Tang Yiming, can you be a bit more careful and not leave stuff lying around... and get up quick, something’s happened!”

Having already opened his eyes in a daze when Young Master Zhang walked in, Tang Yiming, suddenly scolded for no reason, poked his head out from under the blanket, utterly confused.

At the same time, a woman’s surprised voice was heard next to him, as she hurriedly covered her bare body with the blanket.

”Damn, Brother Yuan, at least knock before you come in... what’s happened?”

”Get rid of the people, then come to the living room!”

Young Master Zhang didn’t explain, leaving a word behind before turning to leave, heading to knock on other room doors.

Soon after, amidst a flurry of chaotic noises, everyone in the large flat was awakened by Young Master Zhang, including Shao Xiaoqi, who was sleeping in the living room with a woman.

About twenty minutes later, after driving out all the girls who might have been models or actresses, the somewhat groggy group finally gathered in the living room.

Young Master Zhang, Tang Yiming, Cheng Qing, Old Ruan, Zhou Yiquan, Shao Xiaoqi, Guo Bing...

Apart from Zhou Wang and the newly joined Young Master Qiu, the other seven members of the group chat were here. Since the opening of Jingwang Club in Beidou, this was the first time everyone was gathered together.

As for Qiu Zeyu Young Master Qiu, being older than the others, he seldom chimed in the group chat and wasn’t very familiar with them, but they all were willing to befriend him because of Zhou Wang’s presence.

”Brother Yuan, what’s the matter? Suddenly waking everyone up and sending the girls away... I spent a whole thirty thousand, hoping to wake up and collect some interest.”

Still groggy, Guo Bing couldn’t help but whine.

The others were no different. Though they might not have similar thoughts to Guo Bing, the hangover made them want to continue sleeping a bit.

”I thought it was already afternoon. It’s only noon now, there’s still time even if we want to celebrate Uncle Zhou’s birthday, right?”

Shao Xiaoqi was startled when he was first awakened, thinking he overslept. Now, equally listless, he asked.

”Birthday celebration?”

Young Master Zhang said expressionlessly, ”I’m afraid there might not be such an event... check your phones first.”

As everyone looked over in bewilderment, Young Master Zhang reminded them.

With that, everyone quickly took out their phones, those without their phones nearby ran back to their rooms to fetch them. In no time, Tang Yiming was the first to notice the anomaly.

”Brother Dog left the group?”

”What!”

”WTF...”

Even if they didn’t pin the group chat, they found the group quickly since they bantered there every day, and all of them saw the same two gray messages.

Everyone was utterly bewildered and shocked.

The group was initiated by Zhou Wang...

Critically, there was no warning at all.

As Young Master Zhang took in everyone’s expressions, he confirmed that no one knew beforehand, meaning Zhou Wang didn’t inform anyone of this in advance. So why is he doing this?

”Why?”

After the initial shock, everyone started asking each other, but clearly, no one could provide an explanation immediately.

With Young Master Zhang’s reminder, they each tried to contact Zhou Wang, but unsurprisingly, all the messages went unanswered, and no one picked up the calls.

Then Guo Bing scratched his head, suddenly recalling something, and hurriedly called his father, Guo Wangshan.

This time it went through, but the call lasted only a few words before ending. Then, under everyone’s watchful eyes, Guo Bing shrugged, puzzled, and said:

”Got through... My father is having a meal at Uncle Zhou’s house, and Brother Yuan’s mother is there too. So, Uncle Zhou is actually fine, nothing’s wrong, but why did he leave the group, and why isn’t he picking up our calls?”

These two questions were clearly unanswered by anyone.

Young Master Zhang got up and paced a few steps before frowning and speaking up, ”It’s hard to say what’s going on, but I can confirm one thing.”

”What?”

”Something must have happened to Brother Dog that we don’t know about, and it must be significant...”

...

In the grand dining room of Tangchen Yipin C4701, Zhou Wang was raising a glass, chatting and laughing with everyone while glancing at his phone from under the table.

He was somewhat surprised that Young Master Zhang and the others woke up so early... after all, he knew these dogs partied wildly again last night.

If it weren’t for enhancing some details of his persona, he might not have been able to resist joining them last night.

Bah, even if it wasn’t for the birthday angle, he’s such a straight-laced man, he definitely wouldn’t have gone.

But this was good, the earlier Young Master Zhang and the others knew, the more time there was for things to ferment.

”The first bait has been cast, now it’s time for the second one.”

Zhou Wang nonchalantly hung up on Old Ruan’s call once again, then found Qi Jiayi’s WhatsApp in his contacts, copied a pre-written message from his notes, and sent it over.