Chapter 21: Unexpected chance encounter

  The decor of the Azure Pavilion is ancient, with mahogany, gray walls, screens, grills and open rafter ceilings, as if Chen Yan had walked into an ancient attic.

  There were not many customers in the restaurant, only a few. After looking around, Chen Yan chose a table near the screen and sat down, then started to order.

  He ordered a Shanghai-style small dumpling, a fresh shrimp wonton soup, a pan-fried yellow fish pot sticker with snow cabbage, and a cold melon with pangolin in black bean sauce.

  Since he had just gotten off the plane and the heat, his appetite wasn't very good, so he simply ordered some steamed pasta.

  A simple lunch cost a total of 160 yuan, Chen Yan for this aspect of eating is still relatively casual, whether it is a meal of thousands of thousands of seafood steak, or ten or eight dollars of street noodle soup snacks, he can eat with great pleasure.

  After lunch, Chen Yan left the hotel, he did not ask the hotel concierge to arrange any limousine service, but casually stopped a cab on the roadside.

  "Young man, where are you going to go?" The driver uncle asked.

  "Master, please drop me off at the Patek Philippe source residence."

  "Okay."

  The driver's uncle was a little surprised, wondering if the young man was just going there to have a long look or to get his hands on a Patek Philippe watch.

  The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the market.

  The Patek Philippe source residence is not far from the hotel where Chen Yan is staying, the distance is only two kilometers, five minutes to reach the destination.

  The cab stopped at the roadside, Chen Yan paid the fare and got out, passing through a large black iron gate and arriving at the garden where the Patek Philippe Residence is located.

  The building where the Patek Philippe Source Residence is located was formerly the official residence of the Consulate General of England in Shanghai, with a total area of 1,227 square meters.

  The villa has two floors, and after entering the villa, Chen Yan felt not like he was coming to a shopping place, but like he was visiting the home of a certain big shot.

  On the first floor of the villa, the central parlor, the VIP room on the left, and the timepiece showroom on the right, and a sales showroom on the left and right of the timepiece showroom, respectively.

  As soon as Chen Yan stepped into the central parlor, a receptionist greeted him, "Hello, sir, how may I help you?"

  "I ordered a watch from your store earlier, and I'm here to pick it up." Chen Yan returned.

  "Okay, I understand, sir, please come this way, we will go to the VIP room on the second floor first."

  Chen Yan followed the receptionist and went up the teak stairs to the VIP room on the right side of the second floor.

  There were two VIP rooms at the Patek Philippe Residence, one on the first floor and the other where Chen Yan was now.

  "You can rest here for a moment while I go get our manager."

  "Thank you." Chen Yan said a thank you.

  "Sir, you're too kind, I'll be right back."

  A few moments later, the receptionist led a middle-aged man around forty years old, dressed in formal wear, over.

  "Hello, this gentleman, I am the manager of the Patek Philippe Source Residence, you can call me Charles, may I ask what your name is?"

  "My name is Chen Yan."

  After Charles heard Chen Yan's name, he thought of a blue star that had been ordered out earlier, and did not expect the owner of the watch to be so young.

  "Mr. Chen, I have to say that you are really lucky, many people have waited for a year or two without having the chance to get their hands on a Blue Star."

  "My luck hasn't been bad." Chen Yan returned indifferently.

  A watch is hard to find? Perhaps so, Patek Philippe's Black Star is not rare and can be bought at any time as long as one has the money, whether it is in Magic City or Yanjing. The Blue Star, on the other hand, is much rarer than the Black Star, which after all does not even exist on the official website.

  Although in the second-hand market, as long as the money is in place, you can also buy, but it is after all second-hand, Chen Yan is still a bit disgusted, he does not like to use other people's used things.

  He was able to get his hands on a Blue Star so quickly, thanks to the system's magical powers, if he had bought it himself, he wouldn't know how long he would have had to wait.

  "Mr. Chen, before you get the watch, would you be interested in learning more about Patek Philippe?" Charles suggested.

  "Of course, I'm all ears." Chen Yan politely replied.

  Chen Yan was not in a hurry, and he was interested in the history of Patek Philippe, so he might as well listen to it.

  Following Charles out of the VIP room, he came to the Timepieces Gallery on the middle of the second floor, which is filled with Patek Philippe's precious collections, including a variety of clocks and watches, high-fashion jewelry and accessories, and other art treasures.

  As Charles kept explaining, Chen Yan gained a deeper understanding of this watch brand with a history of 177 years.

  "Mr. Chen, let's stop here for now, a hundred years of history can't be finished in a moment, I'll go and fetch the watches for you first, you may need to wait for a little while."

  "That's fine, I happen to want to take a look around."

  After Charles left, Chen Yan wandered through the timepiece exhibition hall alone, looking at the various watches inside the glass display cases.

  "It smells so good here, what's that smell? It smells so good!"

  "Of course, it's an essential oil specially made by a famous perfumer.

It's not surprising that it doesn't smell good."

  While talking, a group of four people went up the teak stairs to the second floor, crossed the parlor area, and walked into the timepiece showroom.

  "Chen Yan? Is that you?"

  Chen Yan, who was wandering around, heard someone call his name and subconsciously turned around.

  "Bai Wei?"

  The person who called Chen Yan's name was no other than Bai Wei, whom he had met before at McKellar Mall. uu read the book www.uukanshu.com

  Bai Wei was wearing a white floral dress and a pair of small white shoes on her feet. A head of long hair permed into slight curls, face painted with a light makeup.

  White jade-like face with a pair of pure almond eyes, nose small and straight show, cherry-like mouth with a slightly pointed chin, adding a few points of innocence.

  "It's really you, what a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you here." Bai Wei said with some surprise.

  "It is indeed a good coincidence." Chen Yan returned indifferently.

  "Chen Yan, let me introduce to you, this is my cousin Huang Yan."

  Bai Wei was accompanied by two men and one woman, she just introduced her cousin, the two men had no intention of introducing them at all.

  "Hello, I'm Chen Yan."

  Looking at the tall, short-haired, sweet-looking Huang Yan, Chen Yan gave a greeting out of politeness.

  He was a little confused as to why Bai Wei was introducing herself to her cousin and why she looked surprised, he didn't seem to know Bai Wei well!

  "Are you here for a trip to Magic City?" Bai Wei asked.

  "Hmm."

  "You came by yourself?" Bai Wei asked again.

  "Mm."

  "Is this your first time in Magic City?" Bai Wei continued to ask.

  "Hmm."

  "I usually come to Magic City a lot during my holidays, so I'm quite familiar with this place, why don't we make a date and I'll show you around?"

  "Well, no need."

  Chen Yan subconsciously said 'hmm' after realizing that it was not right, and quickly changed his mouth.

  "I thought you would just say 'hmm', this is not also can say something else." Bai Wei covered her mouth and laughed lightly.

  Chen Yan is very confused, is it because he went out today to take the wrong medicine, hallucinations, or Bai Wei went out and forgot to take the medicine, and recognized the wrong person?