Forcing Me to Be Reborn?!-Chapter 30 - 29: My Rebellious Nature
Chapter 30: Chapter 29: My Rebellious Nature
“You can get lost~” Jiang Wanzhou rolled her eyes to the sky again.
What a piece of work, he’s got the nerve to say he wants to hit on Sister Lu, and you even want to hit on my cousin! Go to hell~
“Alright then.” Cheng Zhu, sitting in the passenger seat of the Mercedes G-Wagon, quickly unfastened his seatbelt at the speed of light and got out of the car without looking back, making his way over to the Land Rover where Shen Qingning was.
He knocked on the window, and Lin Lu, sitting in the passenger seat, rolled it down. Shen Qingning, with her hands already on the steering wheel, looked at him in surprise.
“Jiang Wanzhou is in a fiery mood today, kicked me out of the car. I’m hitching a ride.”
Yay, yay, riding in a beauty’s car~
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And so, under Jiang Wanzhou’s stunned gaze, Cheng Zhu got into Shen Qingning’s Land Rover Range Rover and even rolled down the window to wave goodbye to him.
“I’m so mad! I’m so mad!” Little President Jiang was so angry that his face turned red, he hurriedly fanned himself to cool down.
Because others had already had some drinks during dinner, they needed a designated driver to help drive.
In the end, it was Cheng Zhu and the others who arrived at the private room first.
It was probably only about a dozen people today, but Shen Minglang had booked a super-large room.
On the two tables, there were sets of alcohol packages.
Cheng Zhu went over to take a look and thought, “Wow, they started off with two sets of Hennessy XO?”
A set came with two bottles, so just these four bottles were quite pricey.
“Shen Minglang himself owns a bar, I wonder if he can tell the difference between real and fake liquor,” Cheng Zhu mused.
“But then again, it doesn’t really matter if it’s real or fake. For this group of people, it’s all about drinking something expensive.”
“You’re supposed to play drinking games at the table, even good liquor is just for binge drinking,” Cheng Zhu thought.
Before long, everyone had arrived.
Following Shen Minglang’s routine, once everyone was in the private room, they’d all clink glasses once, and then the drinking games would begin.
As for singing karaoke, that was for when they were too drunk to continue—that’s when they’d take a halftime break to sing.
Since Shen Qingning was also there, Shen Minglang didn’t dare go to the sort of place where one can freely choose company; they hadn’t booked a business club private room and didn’t go to the so-called “touchy-singy” venues.
So Cheng Zhu was doomed not to witness the classic scene he loved so: Big brother, stop the touching and sing a song, please.
Cheng Zhu sat next to Jiang Wanzhou and watched Little President Jiang stare at his glass, his face a picture of agony.
The reason was simple: for a high school graduate, drinking beer and the like might be routine.
Mixing spirits with beverages, or even that might be acceptable.
But drinking neat liquor would definitely be a bit hard to swallow.
Everyone stood up first to wish Shen Minglang, the birthday boy, a happy birthday.
After a shot of neat liquor, Cheng Zhu finally realized, “This isn’t my past life, I’m reborn, this body is healthier but surely can’t hold liquor like before, haven’t conditioned it yet.”
“Looks like I need to take it easy tonight,” he thought to himself.
Cheng Zhu, although a veteran of the drinking table, seldom got wasted or blacked out; he didn’t like the feeling of being out of control.
He, the scoundrel, preferred to have everything under his thumb.
Then, Shen Minglang suggested, “Let’s play ‘World War’ directly.”
This was a commonly seen drinking game, actually just choosing two representatives to play rock-paper-scissors, with the winner getting to pick team members, and then the teams would PK.
Typically, the PKs would be games like dice rolling.
Since it’s rock-paper-scissors, the person who wins gets to pick teammates, so the two teams wouldn’t have an even number of players—very likely one team would have more and the other less.
As the birthday boy, Shen Minglang was definitely going to be a captain; he stood up and challenged brazenly: “Who else has the guts to be a captain and play rock-paper-scissors to pick people with me!”
Cheng Zhu had played dice with Shen Minglang on the day of the World Cup and knew his skill was just so-so.
“In such a case, for him to still be so cocky, means his friends are just that,” Cheng Zhu let go of his worry, knowing who the daddy was tonight.
Sitting at a distance, Liu Hongjing volunteered, “I’ll do it!”
In the first round of rock-paper-scissors, the winner’s privilege was to decide on the drinks: how much the losing team would be punished with, was up to him.
In the end, Shen Minglang won: “Heh, old rules, the losing team has to down half a bottle of neat liquor first!”
They preferred to play big in the first few rounds to get everyone slightly drunk; that way, the atmosphere would be better as the night went on.
Jiang Wanzhou was speechless: “Dammit, I knew it would be such a large game right from the start!”
Lin Lu, however, was quite excited, chattering away, “Ningning, your brother is definitely going to pick you first, I don’t really want to be on the same team as you!”
“Huh?” Shen Qingning was confused: “Why?”
She leaned close to Lin Lu’s ear and whispered, “If we’re all on my brother’s team and we lose, we can just make him drink for us.”
“Not at all, if we’re not in his team, and we lose, we still make him drink, isn’t that good enough? He won’t refuse us!” Lin Lu thought she was so clever.
Hehe, I’m such a little smarty-pants!
Shen Qingning clenched her teeth and said, “That’s because you’ve never drunk with these booze-hounds. They have a rule: if you drink on behalf of someone from another group, you have to drink double.”
“Ah?” Lin Lu was stunned.
Even if Shen Minglang could hold his liquor, he couldn’t handle drinking like that.
Cheng Zhu, listening to the conversation, could already predict Boss Shen’s fate for the evening—he might get carried out by the servers.
“I’ve got to take more embarrassing photos of him later.” Cheng Zhu thought to himself.
If you don’t take pictures at a time like this, when the hell do you take them?
Shen Minglang and Liu Hongjing began playing rock-paper-scissors to choose their teammates.
There were twelve people present in total.
Liu Hongjing won the first round.
Someone egged him on, “Pick Shen Qingning first, let the siblings destroy each other!”
But after receiving a glance from Shen Qingning, that person’s speaking volume instantly dropped.
Then, this cool and imposing young miss fixed her gaze on Liu Hongjing from a distance, making the plump guy so nervous he didn’t dare to do any harm.
But by a stroke of bad luck, Shen Minglang, this idiot on the side, started cussing out loud, “You son of a bitch, dare to split me and my sister!”
Hearing this, Liu Hongjing clenched his teeth and said, “I choose Shen Qingning!”
The little fatty said this without even daring to glance sideways at her.
Shen Qingning looked at her brother as if she was staring at an idiot.
Shen Minglang, infuriated, said, “You’re damn awesome! Ningning, it’s okay, their team will definitely lose. I’ll drink for you later! Even if I have to drink double, I want these bastards to go down with me!”
The show was actually going pretty well.
Cheng Zhu stood aside with his arms crossed, watching.
Then, in the second round of rock-paper-scissors, Shen Minglang won.
Knowing that Jiang Wanzhou was easy prey at the drinking table, Liu Hongjing immediately said, “As a cousin, shouldn’t you pick your cousin first?”
Shen Minglang’s eyes lit up, and he said right away, “Right, right, right!”
He turned his head toward us and shouted, “Cheng Zhu! I choose my cousin Cheng Zhu!”
He still had fresh memories of the bloodbath he suffered while playing dice with Cheng Zhu during the World Cup finals.
Jiang Wanzhou, hearing this, rolled his eyes extravagantly from across the room.
Liu Hongjing was indifferent, thinking, “What waves can this high school graduate cause? He’s just easy game.”
Liu Hongjing glanced around and thought, “This young guy who plays like a noob and has no tolerance for alcohol… today, I’m gonna make both Cheng Zhu and Jiang Wanzhou crawl out of this private room!”
Everyone’s eyes converged on Cheng Zhu, but they saw him suddenly stand up gracefully, walk over to Shen Minglang, and whisper something as if a Think Tank plotting strategies.
Liu Hongjing didn’t care at all, “What can a stupid high school kid stir up? He has no experience at the drinking table.”
Little did he know, Cheng Zhu was threatening Shen Minglang.
“Cousin, when you win later, first pick Lin Lu for the team,” Cheng Zhu whispered.
“Why? She’s really bad at the game! Clumsy and terrible!” Shen Minglang thought it best to pick strong players first.
He even whispered his wisdom to Cheng Zhu, “Cousin, even if you want to be nice to a girl at the drinking table, it’s best to wait until after she’s lost and is having a hard time refusing to drink. Then you swoop in and take her drink for her.”
“You become a hero saving a beauty, and using the same cup instantly elevates the flirtation!” he winked at Cheng Zhu.
Cheng Zhu: “…..”
Do I need teaching from you?
This is all because your sister, Shen Qingning, went to the other group! I need to use this tactic on her!
If both she and Lin Lu are in the other group, even if I take the drinks for both of them, it won’t be effective.
What girls can’t stand is getting blatant favoritism in front of everyone, directed at just one girl.
That’ll get them daydreaming.
If you drink for her and then for her best friend, what’s the use? People will either think you’re a central air conditioner-style ladies’ man or just a damn thirsty fool who’s begging for booze.
Cheng Zhu bluntly whispered, “Anyway, it doesn’t matter to me. You pick Lin Lu for your team first, or else I’ll just throw the game and go over to the enemy’s side. I’m planning to throw the dice game later, cousin. It’s up to you.”
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