1. Newcomers

Putting on a white shirt, Louis’s left hand gently pressed the perfume bottle. A fresh and attractive scent covered him, and in the mirror was a charming smile. After adjusting his hair and walking out of the bathroom, Louis looked at Terry with a gentle smile: "Good night!"

Terry meekly replied: "Have a nice day at work!"

Louis nodded and walked out the door. Outside, everyone was already there, and each of them was also wearing a pure white shirt. A dilapidated old car with lots of rust was already in front of the gate waiting for them. In just a moment, this car would roll, taking Louis and others to a very bustling place - Happy Hill.

Finally, Louis was with Kyle and many others on the bus, crammed between the old rows of seats. The street was quite deserted now, and orange light from a roadside lamp came through the window, falling on Louis' cold face.

Sitting next to Louis and catching his wistful face, Kyle curiously asked: "You are thinking about Terry, aren't you?"

Louis did not change his face, just quietly asked: "Honestly, have you ever thought about quitting your job at Happy Hill?"

Kyle nodded and said: "Yes, I have thought about it! Actually, even if we don't want to leave, when we reach the age of twenty-five, it will be difficult for us to stay at Happy Hill!"

Louis nodded and said: "So after you quit here, what do you plan to do?"

Kyle frowned and said: "I don't know! Right now, I'm just saving money. Until then, maybe I'll open an orange juice stall. By the way, do you think the orange juice I made is the best?”

Louis nodded and smiled: "It's delicious!"

Kyle chuckled, then asked with concern: “And you? What do you plan to do?”

Louis blinked: "I'm not as lucky as you. I will have to work at Happy Hill for the rest of my life!”

Kyle frowned and asked: "What? Why?"

Louis was about to explain, but he saw the bus stopped in front of a well-lit pub, so he softly said: "I'll tell you another time!"

After saying that, he and the boys on the bus stepped down one after another. This flashy pub is named Happy Hill. Its outside is a bar with romantic music, but at the end of the road there is a hidden door behind pots of rosehip, leading to many separate rooms - that is Happy Hill indeed.

Mr. Joe, who is the Happy Hill owner, was already waiting at the bar outside. He took a basket of keys and distributed them to Louis and the others. Each one received a keychain with a picture of them. When Kyle went to pick up his keys, he suddenly saw two pink keys there, so he couldn't help but curl his lips and say: "Hey Mr. Joe! There are two "new rosehips" today, aren't there?"

Mr. Joe smiled slightly: "You’re right! The quality of these two newcomers is super extraordinary, so you should take care of yourself!"

Kyle smiled slightly: "Being praised by Mr. Joe's like that, they aren’t ordinary. Between them and the two "rosehip kings" in our pub at present, who is the better?"

Louis understood what they were talking about. “Rosehip” is a word that is used to name a waiter working at Happy Hill, and “rosehip king” implies a person who is the most prominent of them all.

Mr. Joe sneered: "Our Happy Hill will probably have more than two "rosehip kings" if these newcomers are trained slightly!"

Kyle clapped his hands and laughed: "That's great! It's going to be fun to watch what they can do!"

After saying that, he immediately took the key to go to his working room, which is also a place serving wine and other drinks, and the next room was Louis's.

"You should keep your mouth careful!" – Louis kindly reminded Kyle, but he just heard Kyle laughing: "Isn't what I said true? Even when Happy Hill has two rosehip kings, this place sees many complicated problems. If our pub has two new special people, do you think Happy Hill will be razed someday?”

Louis quietly swept and cleaned his room before whispering: "I don't know if Happy Hill is razed or not, but whether the hair on your head is razed or not depends on whether you know how to keep your mouth!"

After listening to this, Kyle also shivered and nodded: "Although I didn't go to work yesterday, I felt shivers through everyone's stories. Eric - our first rosehip king is super scary. Alex offended him, but Alex is the second rosehip king anyway. Using the paint poured on Alex's hair is an unexpected and horror thing! I heard that until today, Alex has not been able to go back to work!"

Louis quietly said: "Alex only recently became the second rosehip king, he should respect the first rosehip king - Eric! This should not be discussed anymore!"

Kyle smiled slightly: "I think if you are willing to please the guests, you can also become the rosehip king in Happy Hill!"

Louis said: "You still don't know my personality?"

Kyle clicked his tongue and said: "I'm just kidding! Anyway, being a rosehip king will make a lot of money, both from guests and from Mr. Joe too!"

Ignoring those words, Louis focused on cleaning his guest's room with a broom, but he suddenly heard a loud conversation in the next room.

Curiosity reached its peak, Kyle followed the sound and hurried towards the room next door, curiously opening his mouth: "What's going on?"

One of the two people standing there said in a low voice: "Your words are not wrong, Kyle. There will probably be a stormy set that is about to cover our Happy Hill!"

Kyle was even more curious after listening to these sentences, then he clicked his tongue and said: "I still don't understand, you should get to the point!"

The guy there immediately lowered the volume, and carefully said: "Two newcomers who moved to our Happy Hill are siblings. The brother's name is Mark, the younger's name is Ryan, and both of them are no ordinary people. They were originally from Gorgeous Cave!"

Kyle's eyes widened and he said, "Gorgeous Cave? Isn't that the pub that competed with our Happy Hill?"

The guy there nodded: "The two of them are paid a high price to hire by Mr. Joe. I heard that Mr. Joe promised he would give them half of the wine bill. Why did Mr. Joe do that? I'm sure that you know the reason!"

Kyle immediately blinked his eyelids and said softly: "Mr. Joe wants to attract their patrons from Gorgeous Cave to our Happy Hill!"

The guy there kept nodding: "Absolutely correct! It is said that these two brothers were among the ten most sexy at Gorgeous Cave. It was only a matter of time before they became the two rosehip kings at Happy Hill."

Kyle smiled and showed no interest: "It's okay! Our guests at Happy Hill are mostly middle-class people, and only the very rich can dream of setting foot in the wine room of the rosehip kings. In any case, we will not be affected by this infighting of these flowers!"

The guy there immediately waved his hand dismissively: "If things were as simple as that, why would we waste our time worrying about Happy Hill's going to be in trouble? The point is that these two guys are extremely bravado! When they came into our pub, they loudly bullied a short waiter standing next to them. When "big brother" Christian came to intervene, he almost got a slap from one of these bravado people!"

Kyle frowned curiously and asked: "Are they so fierce? Tell me, who is the scarier one between them and our first rosehip king - Eric?"

Two guys standing there looked at each other and said softly: "It is true that these two brothers have extremely high quality. But compared to our first rosehip king, they still lose a bit."

"What are you guys talking about here?” – a loud and rude voice comes out. This voice belongs to Christian. All employees at Happy Hill have to call him "big brother" with respect because Christian is the head of the security team at Happy Hill.

Christian's face is unremarkable, if not mediocre. However, there was the bravery that he relied on to be able to sit at the top position of the security team, which was not originally his face, but his muscular body.

Since he was a young man in his mid-twenties, Christian has been working out hard, so his body is not only strong but also full of energy. His skin color is as dark as coffee, and every step of him is very heroic. This man has a special charm. His looks attract a lot of people, especially boys who have just entered Happy Hill because they still have fragile hearts that are easily moved.

Unfortunately, today, Christian failed to attract the attention of the two brothers, Mark and Ryan, so his face now compared to the cake which has not been sold for many months seems not to be much different.

Originally, Christian himself was an unfaithful man who specialized in seducing the pure souls of young boys. Most of the waiters at Happy Hill passed through his hand. Not only were two guys standing there, but Kyle was also among them. Only Louis was one of the few people who were not attracted to this unfaithful man.

Initially, Kyle devoted a lot of love to Christian, giving everything he had, from heart, soul, body, and money. It wasn't until later when he saw Christian acting overly intimate with other people with his own eyes, that Kyle knew the true face of the person he loved. Unfortunately, Kyle was too infatuated to accept this fact, so he chose to give up on life.

At that time, he looked down at his wrist, and the scar was still deeply imprinted there. Kyle remembered the day he decided to end his life. Louis discovered it in time, so Kyle was able to be saved at the hospital.

After all, in this Happy Hill, perhaps Kyle was the last person to recognize Christian's real face, also the one who loved him the most, the one who hated him the most.

But Kyle, like many other employees, couldn't do anything except hatred for Christian. On the contrary, Kyle even must fear and obey him, because Christian was the leader of the security team at Happy Hill.

Thanks to this bravery, every day Christian arbitrarily chose a person to follow him to the "wildest room" to have fun. If someone wanted to disobey this request, just give Christian a hundred dollars. Christian called it a "joy fee", instead of his patronage cost.

Seeing Christian now, the two guys standing there, and Kyle were both terrified. They quickly dispersed and walked back to their room, and immediately Kyle's small wrist was caught by Christian. He yanked Kyle toward himself and made Kyle's frail body fall into his muscular body. At that time, Kyle's neck and hips were covered by Christian's large and rough hands.

"Long time no see, your body is still as fragrant as ever, baby!" - Christian opened his mouth to blow a puff of smoke into Kyle's face, causing Kyle to cough many times.

Seeing this scene, Christian was even more interested. He raised his dark and cigarette-scented lips slightly, then used the hand that was holding Kyle's waist to slide down a bit, touching Kyle's back pocket, just like that to squeeze freely.

Kyle was humiliated like that by Christian, so he pushed Christian's hand away while his face could not hide his anger: "Get your dirty hand off me!"

Christian was roughly pushed away by Kyle, not only not angry, but smiling mischievously at the corner of his mouth: “Isn't your body crumpled under my hands many times? Now that you say my hands are dirty, does it mean that your body is also extremely dirty?"

Kyle frowned and raised his eyes filled with anger toward Christian: “What's the point of talking so much? If you ask me to follow you to that dark room, I'd rather throw money in your face!"

Christian heard that and lowered his face before going over to strangle Kyle and corner him against the wall. Then the angry expression slowly changed to conciliatory: "Your money is not enough to make me happy. I just want to be able to hear your quick breathing again, in our sweaty old bed in that fun room!”

Kyle was strangled by Christian until his face turned red. His veins were deeply scarred, even if he wanted to continue breathing, he couldn't breathe. In the meantime, Louis ran up to him and pushed Christian’s hand away, so Kyle was able to fall to the ground, coughing non-stop.

Christian had his arm pushed off by Louis and decided to change his target. He took a step forward to press Louis against the wall, but immediately stopped because of Louis' words: "You forgot that I am the one who was bought by Mr. Joe?"

When Christian heard that, he came to his senses, unconsciously just nodded and smiled, then he quietly raised two fingers to lift Louis' chin and said: "This is my mistake! But, Louis, your face is extremely cute! I wonder what it will look like when you fall on my toned shoulders because of excitement? Do you want to try it? All of the boys in this Happy Hill, most of them have bowed at my feet. However, what I want is not “almost”, but “all” instead. If you also want to try a wild feeling that the other waiters went through, you can find me, the "wildest room" downstairs is always welcoming you!"

When Christian said that, his finger was removed by Louis, and Christian smiled slightly before blowing a white smoke in front of him. Louis held his breath, not letting the smoke make him cough, just coldly looked up at Christian, who finally left because of Louis' stonyhearted attitude.

On the way, Christian also casually kicked a can of soft drink on the floor, and finally rushed into a room before arbitrarily hugging a waiter down the stairs. On this poor boy's face, except for the expression of resignation, there were no other emotions.

Louis bent down to help Kyle up, then asked softly with concern: "Are you okay?"

Kyle slowly replied: “I'm okay… but you have just told Christian that you already belonged to Mr. Joe?"

Louis pondered for a long time, and finally nodded silently: "Yes!"

Kyle was amazed, then hastily asked: "But why is that?"

Louis sat down next to Kyle and softly told him the reason and related stories: why he sold his body forever to Happy Hill, what all the money received was used for, and how warm his family used to be. Louis told Kyle all of that.