Forcing Me to Be Reborn?!-Chapter 35 - 34 Let Me Do It

Chapter 35: Chapter 34 Let Me Do It

As Cheng Zhu’s words fell, the atmosphere in the private room began to change, a hint of gunpowder entering the air.

But this is how men of this age drink, they just love to trash talk each other.

Even men in their forties and fifties do the same.

Shen Minglang, being both the captain and the cousin, obviously had to step up at this time.

“What the hell are you talking about! Drink the alcohol first, you agreed to the bet, now drink double!”

“Eight people lost, and you still have the face to whine, you can’t shirk the alcohol for sure. Even if you want a one-on-one challenge, you have to finish the penalty drinks first!”

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With that, the birthday boy ran over happily, lined up eight cups on the table, and poured the alcohol evenly into them.

As he poured, he continued to curse, “Damn it, it’s only a bottle split between eight people, yet you’re saying there’s something wrong with our dice. I don’t even trust your roll of triple sixes. Do you want me to pull up the surveillance from the private room?”

No sooner had he finished speaking than a fair and slender hand reached over before Shen Minglang even noticed and took away a glass and drank the contents.

“Huh? Ningning, why did you drink it just like that?” Shen Minglang finally realized that Shen Qingning had drank so decisively on her own.

He had planned to drink for his sister.

Moreover, there were five men in Shen Qingning’s group, and Shen Minglang felt that these rookies should be the ones to help drink.

Shen Qingning shook her head, glanced at Cheng Zhu and Lin Lu, and said, “It’s fine.”

Hearing this, Shen Minglang didn’t say much more.

He knew about Shen Qingning’s alcohol tolerance.

Their father, who seemed to be surfing the net all day, had learned something online one day and called the two siblings over for a drink.

They ended up drinking for several days straight.

First beer, then wine, followed by spirits, and liquor…

And his tolerance was good; he was always the one to get the siblings drunk.

One day, he finally said to Shen Qingning with all seriousness, “Ningning, Daddy asked you to drink with me for so many days because I wanted you to know your own limit, to know if you’re drunk. That way, if you really need to drink in the future, you’ll have an idea, and Daddy can rest a little easier.”

After saying that, he didn’t even spare his son a glance, continuing the father-daughter bonding.

Shen Minglang: “???”

So I’m just here for show, am I?

Of course, it was also for this reason that Shen Minglang understood Shen Qingning’s alcohol tolerance.

“Better than the average girl, but definitely not up to those who run wild in the world of alcohol,” he thought to himself.

Shen Minglang even thought, “It’s normal for her to want to drink a bit on her beloved brother’s birthday, she’s happy after all.”

With me here, what could possibly go wrong?

Seeing Shen Qingning drink voluntarily, if the guys like Liu Hongjing kept cursing and refusing to drink, it would indeed be embarrassing for them.

So they all had to pick up their glasses and pour the alcohol into their mouths.

Jiang Wanzhou had been force-fed into vomiting by a pack of rascals before. Today, thankfully, Cheng Zhu was there to take revenge for him, so he scurried over to supervise.

“Liu Hongjing! Why is there so much alcohol left in your cup, raising fish?”

“Tsk tsk, Wang Wei, you didn’t drink as cleanly as the girl. Yo, you’re adding ice cubes to your cup before finishing, planning to deceive everyone later that it’s not alcohol in the cup but melted ice cubes?” Jiang Wanzhou was firing on all cylinders.

Cheng Zhu was just looking on with a smile. Despite not taking Jiang Wanzhou too seriously, he still bore a grudge, remembering that Jiang Wanzhou told him about getting knocked out by these guys last time.

Only after the opposing team had finished a whole bottle of Hennessy XO did Shen Minglang pick up the previous conversation, “Liu Hongjing, Wang Wei, what do you say? Do you want to have a one-on-one with my cousin Cheng Zhu?”

Neither dared.

If they lost and had to drink half a bottle in one go, they would turn into human fountains and lose all dignity.

Wang Wei, the one with glasses, was quick-thinking and immediately said with a cheesy tone, “One-on-one for what? Let’s continue with [World War], we still have four rounds to go. I think you’re just trying to shift the battlefield because you have fewer people on your team!”

Liu Hongjing immediately chimed in, “Exactly, win another four rounds if you can!”

“Bring it on! Come on!” Shen Minglang was a poor player himself, but at that moment, he was full of bravado.

—I’ve got my cousin; what’s there to fear?

As the captain, he stepped forward again to play rock-paper-scissors with Liu Hongjing, the winner setting the quantity for the next round of penalty drinks.

“This time, a whole bottle!” Shen Minglang, having won the rock-paper-scissors game, was full of pride as if his team had eight members.

Logically, a captain with fewer people on their team would lower the number of penalty drinks when winning rock-paper-scissors.

Lin Lu stared blankly for a moment: “Ah? Are we going to play that big this round?”

She turned her head towards Cheng Zhu, put on a stern face, and said, “I’m counting on you, counting on you!”

“I can’t keep winning either,” Cheng Zhu said deliberately.

Lin Lu thought about it and felt it made sense, so she replied, “Then teach me a couple of tricks!”

“What, want to learn from a master?” Cheng Zhu said with a smile, “Call me ‘master’ and let’s hear it.”

To his surprise, Lin Lu slapped her hands together and called out, “Master!”

Crisp and rather pleasant to the ear.

Cheng Zhu nodded in satisfaction, gestured to her with a crooked finger, signaling her to extend her little ear towards him.

Lin Lu couldn’t help but remember the ticklish feeling from earlier whispers, just the memory of it made her feel as if electricity was coursing through her body, and she immediately waved her hands to refuse.

“No thanks, Master, just speak softly, I’m listening!”

Cheng Zhu didn’t mind and had already realized that she had sensitive ears.

Exchange whispers in public isn’t much fun anyhow.

Hey? Whispering? Damn, that word’s kind of risqué!

He secretly told Lin Lu that the reason many old hands could bully newcomers was that the newcomers were timid and afraid to start.

What a newcomer needs is to be bold!

As a result, in her turn, Lin Lu did listen to Cheng Zhu’s advice. Whether it was luck or not, she actually won.

The voice actress girl was so excited, she felt like her ‘Ren Du meridians’ were cleared by her master.

Time flew by in the rotation of cups and dice games, and such moments of showing off always passed in the blink of an eye. It was almost midnight.

Although Cheng Zhu had high skills and could cheat, it didn’t mean he could win every time in this game. There was still the possibility of losing.

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After five rounds of [World War], their team had lost one round, and the other team had lost four. It was quite an impressive outcome.

Shen Minglang was so boisterous towards the end that he started to say, “Oh, I’m so thirsty!”

He felt that this birthday party was awesome!

Jiang Wanzhou, at the end of the last round of games, remembered something, “Shen Minglang, we still haven’t eaten the birthday cake!”

“Oh, right, right, it’s almost midnight, I almost forgot!” said Shen Minglang.

He had arranged for the cake shop to deliver the birthday cake directly to the front desk here, then had the service staff put it on ice.

They had been so caught up in the drinking games that they had completely forgotten about cutting the cake.

Of course, it didn’t really matter whether they ate the cake or not. What was important was to make a birthday wish!

So Shen Minglang said to Jiang Wanzhou, “You supervise their team’s drinking. Sun Yue, come here and help me unwrap the cake.”

“And you, Ningning, don’t drink anymore. I’ll drink for you later!” He also reminded his sister.

Shen Qingning was already blushing, feeling a little dizzy.

Her alcohol tolerance was quite good among women, but she was already feeling the effects of the alcohol.

Not to mention, after drinking, the coldness she usually carried with her instantly dissipated by a large margin.

Plus, she had that sort of frosty white complexion that glows, and now with the flush from the alcohol, her skin looked even more delicate.

And it seems that Shen Qingning belonged to those who are slightly allergic to alcohol, the type whose body lacks the enzyme to break it down. They don’t necessarily feel uncomfortable all over as soon as they drink, but their skin turns red.

Her long, white, and seamless legs were now tinged with a faint redness as if carved from red jade, absolutely captivating.

At that moment, she flicked back her long hair, ignoring Shen Minglang’s words, and reached for her wine glass.

However, a large hand extended at that moment, covering her glass.

Shen Qingning looked up, puzzled, to see the distinct face of Cheng Zhu.

The two locked eyes for a second, and Cheng Zhu felt her slightly drunken gaze to be particularly alluring.

There was a strong sense of contrast about Shen Qingning at this moment.

Cheng Zhu didn’t drink from her personal cup directly, but silently poured her penalty drink into his own, then downed it all.

Since the rule here was to drink double for someone else, he silently added the same amount of alcohol to his glass and tilted his head back to gulp it down.

The adam’s apple moved, downing the drink in one go.

“Drink less.” After he finished everything, he said these three simple words to Shen Qingning.

Then he turned and left the place without having any further interaction with her, immediately returning to his seat.

Anything more would have been superfluous.