"Then shouldn’t you make it up to me?"
Garten Chen pressed immediately.
But I didn’t understand what he meant by "make it up."
"Young Master Chen, just tell me what to do. I’ll do it!"
Garten Chen’s lips curled into a contemptuous smirk.
"Waiter, bring any bottle of wine!"
Garten Chen shouted.
Moments later, a server brought up an aged bottle.
The cap was popped, and the entire bottle glugged into a large bowl.
Pointing at the roughly one-jin (500ml) of liquor, Garten Chen drawled:
"Drink it in one go, and I’ll forgive you."
My alcohol tolerance was never great.
Worse, I’d skipped dinner—my stomach was empty.
I had no idea what a full jin of wine would do to me.
When I hesitated, a rail-thin red-haired youth beside him snapped:
"You deaf? Can’t you hear Young Master Chen?"
In an instant, every person in the private room turned hostile eyes on me.
Bashore Ning stepped in quickly, smiling: