Forced Me to Regress, Huh?

“Get out of here~” Jiang Wanzhou rolled his eyes all the way to the sky. What the hell? How can you say you want to hook up with Sister Lu? And you’re going after my cousin too?! Go to hell~

“Okay.” Cheng Zhu unbuckled his seatbelt and got out of the front passenger seat of the Mercedes-Benz G-Class at the speed of light. Without looking back, he walked over to Shen Qingning’s Range Rover.

He knocked on the window, and Lin Lu, sitting in the front passenger seat, rolled it down. Shen Qingning, hands on the steering wheel, looked at him in surprise.

“Jiang Wanzhou is in a bad mood today and kicked me out of his car. I came to hitch a ride.”

How nice, riding in a beautiful woman’s car~

Just like that, under Jiang Wanzhou’s stupefied look, Cheng Zhu got into Shen Qingning’s Range Rover and even rolled down the window to wave goodbye to him.

I’m so angry! So damn angry! CEO Little Jiang’s face turned bright red with fury, and he quickly waved his hand to fan himself, trying to cool off.

Since everyone had a bit to drink during dinner, they needed a designated driver to drive them there.

In the end, Cheng Zhu’s group arrived at the karaoke room first.

There were only about ten people expected, but Shen Minglang had booked a huge room.

Two tables, each with a set of drinks.

Cheng Zhu walked over and took a look, “Wow, he went straight for two sets of Hennessy XO?”

Each set contained two bottles, and just these four bottles of liquor alone were quite expensive.

Shen Minglang owns a bar, but I wonder if he can tell the difference between real and fake alcohol? Cheng Zhu thought.

But then again, whether it’s real or fake doesn’t matter. For these people, it’s about the price tag.

They’re just going to play drinking games in the private room. No matter how good the alcohol is, they’re just going to guzzle it down.

Soon, everyone arrived.

According to Shen Minglang and his friends’ usual routine, once they got to the private room, they would first toast each other and then start playing drinking games.

As for karaoke, it would come later after they had enough to drink and needed a break.

Since Shen Qingning was here, Shen Minglang didn’t dare to go to a place with special services. He hadn’t booked a private room at a business club or gone to a place known for ‘touching and singing’.

So, tonight, Cheng Zhu was destined not to see the classic scene he always enjoyed: “Big brother, stop touching and sing a song.”

Cheng Zhu sat beside CEO Little Jiang and looked at him staring at his glass with a pained expression.

The reason was simple. High school graduates might be used to drinking beer or something light.

Drinking hard liquor mixed with soda might be okay too.

But drinking it straight was definitely a challenge.

Everyone stood up and wished the birthday boy a happy birthday.

After downing a shot of straight liquor, Cheng Zhu suddenly realized something. This isn’t my past life. I’ve regressed. Although this body is healthier, my alcohol tolerance definitely doesn’t compare to my past life’s. I haven’t built it up yet.

Looks like I’ll have to take it easy tonight.

Although Cheng Zhu was an old hand at drinking, he rarely got drunk or lost control. He didn’t like the feeling of being unconscious or unaware.

A scoundrel like him preferred to have everything under his control.

Next, Shen Minglang suggested, “Let’s play World War!”

This was a common drinking game. It essentially involved choosing two representatives to play rock, paper, scissors. The winner would pick their teammates from the group, and the two teams would face off in a PK.

The PK challenges were typically games such as shaking dice.

Since it was rock, paper, scissors, and the winner could pick teammates, the number of people on each team wouldn’t necessarily be even. It was very likely that one team would have more people than the other.

As the birthday boy, Shen Minglang naturally got to be a team captain. He stood up and shouted, “Who else has the guts to be a captain? Come up and play rock, paper, scissors with me!”

Cheng Zhu had played dice with Shen Minglang on the day of the World Cup, so he knew his skill level was just average.

In this situation, since he still dares to act bold, it means his friends’ skills are only so-so. Cheng Zhu felt relieved and knew who would be calling the shots tonight.

Liu Hongjing, sitting in the distance, volunteered. “I’ll do it!”

In the first round of rock, paper, scissors, the winner’s right was to decide the drink. The winner would also determine how much the losing team had to drink as punishment.

Shen Minglang won and declared, “Hmph! The usual rule: the losing team chugs half a bottle of straight liquor first!”

They liked to play big in the first few rounds to quickly get everyone tipsy so that the atmosphere would loosen up.

Jiang Wanzhou was speechless. “Damn it, I knew they’d play big from the start!”

Lin Lu was quite excited and chirped, “Ningning, your brother will definitely pick you first as his teammate. I don’t want to be on the same team as you though!”

“Huh?” Shen Qingning was puzzled. “Why?”

She leaned close to Lin Lu’s ear and whispered, “If we’re on my brother’s team and lose, we can have him drink for us.”

“No, we don’t have to be on his team. If we lose, we can still get him to drink, right? He won’t refuse us!” Lin Lu felt that she was brilliant. Hehe, I’m really clever!

Shen Qingning gritted her teeth and said, “That’s because you’ve never drunk with these boozehounds. They have a rule. If someone drinks in place of someone on the other team, they have to drink double.”

“Huh?” Lin Lu was stunned.

No matter how much Shen Minglang could drink, he wouldn’t be able to handle drinking like that.

Cheng Zhu listened in from the side and could already predict Boss Shen’s fate tonight. He might end up being carried out by the staff. I should take a few more embarrassing photos of him later.

If you didn’t take photos at a time like this, when the hell would you?

Shen Minglang and Liu Hongjing began playing rock, paper, scissors to pick their teams.

There were twelve people present in total.

Liu Hongjing won the first round.

Someone shouted, “Pick Shen Qingning first! Let the siblings fight it out!”

Shen Qingning glanced at the speaker, and he instantly fell silent.

Then this cold, aloof, imposing young lady fixed her gaze on Liu Hongjing from a distance. The little fatty felt his hair stand on end and lost the nerve to cause trouble.

But as luck would have it, this fool Shen Minglang started cursing from the side, “You bastard, how dare you try to separate me and my sister!”

Hearing this, Liu Hongjing gritted his teeth and said, “I choose Shen Qingning!”

When he said this, he didn’t even dare to glance at her from the corner of his eye.

Shen Qingning looked at her brother as if he were an imbecile.

Shen Minglang shouted angrily, “You’re fucking awesome! Ningning, don’t worry. Your team is going to lose for sure. I’ll drink your share later! Even if I have to drink double, I’m dragging these bastards down with me!”

Honestly, it made for quite an entertaining show.

Cheng Zhu crossed his arms and watched from the side.

In the second round of rock, paper, scissors, Shen Minglang won.

Knowing that Jiang Wanzhou was a lightweight, Liu Hongjing quickly said, “Hey, as the older cousin, shouldn’t you pick your younger cousin first?”

Shen Minglang’s eyes lit up. “Yeah, that’s right!”

He turned and called out loudly, “Cheng Zhu! I pick my cousin Cheng Zhu!”

He still vividly remembered how Cheng Zhu had thrashed him in a dice game during the World Cup finals, leaving a lasting impression.

Jiang Wanzhou, his actual cousin, responded with a dramatic eye roll.

Liu Hongjing didn’t mind. Won’t it be easy to take down this kid who just graduated from high school?

He looked over. Young people are bad at games and have low alcohol tolerance! Today, I’ll make sure Cheng Zhu and Jiang Wanzhou crawl out of the room!

Everyone’s eyes turned to Cheng Zhu as he leisurely stood up, walked over to Shen Minglang, and whispered something, looking like a strategist advising a general.

Liu Hongjing didn’t care at all. What can a clueless high school student do? He has no experience at the drinking table.

Little did he know, Cheng Zhu was threatening Shen Minglang.

“Cousin, when you win, pick Lin Lu for the team first,” Cheng Zhu whispered.

“Why? She’s terrible at this! Clumsy and bad!” Shen Minglang felt it was better to choose a stronger player first.

He even imparted his experience to Cheng Zhu in a low voice. “Cousin, if you want to impress a girl at the table, wait until she loses and can’t drink anymore. Then grab her glass and drink for her.

“Not only will you play the hero saving the beauty, but you’re sharing a glass too, instantly cranking up the ambiguity!” He winked at Cheng Zhu.

Cheng Zhu: “…”

Do I need you to fucking teach me?

Isn’t it because your sister is on the other team? I need to use this trick on her!

If she and Lin Lu are on the same team, no matter how much I drink for them, it won’t have the same effect.

What really works on girls is, when everyone’s watching, you show blatant favoritism towards just one of them.

It’ll make her imagination run wild.

What’s the point of drinking for her and her friend? People will either think you’re a creep who’s too friendly to all girls or that you’re really fucking thirsty, a dumb drunk begging for drinks.

Cheng Zhu leaned closer and said quietly, “Anyway, I don’t care what you do, but you need to pick Lin Lu for your team first. Otherwise, I’ll surrender and join the enemy. When we play dice later, I won’t go easy on you. Cousin, you decide.”