Chapter 25: Drink This Whole Bottle

【Ding! Important character detected on site.】

【Advanced Task initiated: Please have the Host rescue the villain and the protagonist shou from their predicament (0/1).】

【Advanced Task reward: 1000 points.】

Ling Wu looked around at the people in the private room; all four male leads were present, the villain and the protagonist shou were there at the same time, and this even included the two vicious male supporting characters Shen Zhaojue and Wei Ranxu, as well as himself, the Cannon Fodder.

Good grief.

This is gathering all the key characters from a comic book; it would be hard for the plot not to explode...

Yin Huaiyu gave Shen Zhaojue a suggestive look. The latter understood, immediately clapped his hands to call over two waiters, and signaled for them to pour Glenfiddich into the glasses.

"Drink these three glasses first, then you'll have the qualifications to talk to me."

Ming Tan grabbed the corner of Qi Yu's shirt and shook his head: "Don't drink."

Qi Yu lifted his eyelids and picked up the glass on the marble tabletop. The spicy, stinging liquor flowed down his throat into his stomach; some of the alcohol slid down the corner of his mouth to his jaw, wetting his collar.

He drank one glass after another, only stopping at the third.

"Is this enough?"

"Tsk, commoners really haven't seen the world." Someone looked at the spilled alcohol in the glass with dissatisfaction: "Do you know how much these three glasses of wine Yin Shao asked you to drink cost?"

Yin Huaiyu turned his head: "Ling Wu, I heard you have a pretty good relationship with Qi Yu, and you even sit at the same desk as him, right?"

Only then did Ming Tan notice that Ling Wu was also in the private room.

And that cup of oolong peach ice he had was meant for him. Now, Ling Wu was sitting in this vanity fair with ease, while he was covered in alcohol stains; he couldn't describe the feeling in his heart.

Ming Tan curled his lips, a flash of cunning in his eyes: "Ling Wu, isn't your relationship with Qi Yu very good?"

"Thanks to you saving Qi Yu in the equipment room last time, can you save us this time?"

【What kind of green tea speech is the protagonist shou making?】

【The male supporting character is getting caught in the crossfire for no reason.】

【So miserable.】

【No... can someone like this be a protagonist? Has Ming Tan been possessed?】

Ming Tan was determined to drag Ling Wu into the water.

Worried about dragging him down, Qi Yu hurriedly distanced himself: "What's the use of begging him?"

"Have you forgotten the cigarette burn he gave me?"

Shen Zhaojue had previously sent Jiang Shun to lock Qi Yu in the equipment room, but he hadn't expected Ling Wu to let him out in the end. His eyes darkened: "Ling Wu, your relationship with the Special Student is really good."

"One after another, they all come to you to plead for mercy."

Ling Wu saw through Ming Tan's little schemes. Yin Huaiyu being able to know that his relationship with Qi Yu was good must have been because Shen Zhaojue, his classmate, was leaking information.

He had a task to complete anyway.

To take, one must first give.

One must always pay the corresponding price to get these 1000 points.

Might as well take the opportunity to jump in.

Yin Huaiyu clearly didn't believe Qi Yu's attempt to exonerate Ling Wu, his expression lazy: "Ling Wu, since they are your friends, then you tell me, since they offended me, what price should they pay?"

Shen Zhaojue stood by as a spectator, ready to watch a good show.

He knew Yin Huaiyu too well—honey-mouthed but sword-hearted, ruthless and vicious. Nothing was above this mountain of a man, let alone Ming Tan coming to touch his bad luck at Yin Huaiyu's birthday banquet.

Yu Shixue had long known Yin Huaiyu's intentions.

His approach to Ling Wu was nothing more than for the sake of amusement.

For the sake of this amusement, he brought out the patience of a true hunter, laying out a great net, expecting the prey to walk into the net step by step, willing to belong to him.

Yu Shixue looked at the slightly pale face of the youth beside him and reminded him: "Don't go too far."

Yin Huaiyu: "Of course."

"Shao Yu, I'm moving against your brother, you don't have any objections, right?"

Jin Shaoyu said coldly: "Whatever, his bones are hard enough."

Jing Du lacked patience: "Hurry up, don't make this place a mess."

Yin Huaiyu stood up and hooked his finger at Ling Wu: "You see, there are no helpers now. If you want to save your friends, come and please me."

Ling Wu rose accordingly. His refined and handsome face seemed plated with a soft light, without a single flaw.

"I am very sorry to have disturbed Yin Shao's birthday banquet." Ling Wu picked up the glass of Glenfiddich on the table, his fair wrist extending: "This glass of wine, I will take the punishment on behalf of my friend."

【Ahhhhh! I'm so mad!】

【Baby, if you can't drink, don't drink!】

【This room is full of trash; I don't see a single normal person except for the male supporting character.】

【What is this? Bullying the male supporting character just because he's honest?】

Ling Wu's hair was pitch black and his skin was very white. He only had black and white on him, the color palette overall plain and harmonious. At a glance, a sense of refined elegance rushed toward one; he was an intellectual person who had grown up immersed in the scent of books.

It was hard to imagine what such a bright and upright person would look like when drinking.

Just like a high-mountain flower falling, or a heaven's pride falling into the abyss; people have always liked the beauty of distortion and perversion.

Someone urged impatiently.

"Drink!"

"Drink, drink quickly."

Ling Wu pressed his lips to the glass and tilted his head to drink it down.

"Cough, cough... cough, cough, cough..."

The spicy alcohol entered his throat, and he was choked into an almost unstoppable cough. He supported himself with one hand on the black tabletop—a strong collision of white and black. Because of the bending motion of coughing, his body tensed into a beautiful arc, vaguely revealing the porcelain-white skin of his lower back.

"Hiss—"

Someone gasped.

How could a man be born looking like this?

Staring at that patch of snow-white skin revealed unintentionally, their eyes went straight.

Seeing the way he coughed as if he were about to cough up his lungs, the crowd finally believed that Ling Wu truly could not drink.

"Cough, cough..."

Qi Yu's heart felt as if it had been ruthlessly gouged open; he never expected that Ling Wu, a pampered young master, would actually lower his pride for his sake and drink this glass of wine.

He could have clearly just sat by and ignored it.

Besides, he did not look like the type who could drink.

Ling Wu raised his eyes; his originally cold, pale complexion was stained with a flush of red, shedding some of his aloofness, no longer so high and unreachable, appearing much more compliant. The calmness in those eyes was completely shattered, damp and glistening, easily stirring one's sense of pity, as he casually loosened his collar with his hand.

"Is there anywhere else Young Master Yin is dissatisfied?"

Yin Huaiyu stared at him, only feeling that he was pure to the point of death...

Beautiful, too beautiful.

More perfect and exquisite than all the figurines he had collected in the past.

Jing Du's gaze also fell upon that slender figure.

It was as if he had only just discovered it: this person Ling Wu was simply too fair, as if carved from fine jade, to the point that it made the flush on his face appear exceptionally prominent, contrasting with his clear, limpid eyes.

Yin Huaiyu stared at his face, placed that brand-new bottle of Glenfiddich in front of him, and raised an eyebrow: "Drink this whole bottle, and I will let you go."

He exhaled a ring of smoke onto Ling Wu's beautiful face, his gaze passing through the swirling smoke to land on those crimson lips, a strange sense of excitement welling up in the depths of his heart.