Before long, Xu Man had heated up the food and immediately put it on the table. There were eight dishes, including cold dishes, hot dishes, soup, stew, and stir-fries.

Eight dishes were laid out on the table.

Xu Man then invited Chu Zhiye to eat.

The two sat at the dining table, and Xu Man piled food on his plate, making a small mountain of rice bowls: "Today is your birthday, come on, eat more."

Although Chu Zhi had already eaten dinner, he continued to eat the food in his bowl.

"Is the braised pork ribs delicious?"

"It's delicious."

Xu Man rested her chin on her hand and said slowly, "I only know how to cook one dish in my life, which is braised pork ribs. The ribs should be pork spare ribs, which have a lot of fat and tender meat, making them suitable for braising."

"The proportions of soy sauce, rock sugar, and cooking wine are important. Appropriate amounts of sugar can enhance the flavor, while soy sauce determines the color and basic flavor of the dish."

"These are the secrets to making braised pork ribs. My mother taught me them, and I have always kept them in mind. This is the only dish I have ever made."

At this point, Xu Man took a deep breath and continued, "My mother once said that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. She said it and she did it. She was a virtuous wife and loving mother at home."

"She thought she was the happiest woman in the world, with a husband and a daughter, but she never imagined that she would be the most miserable woman."

"After her husband became wealthy, he had an affair, and the couple divorced. For the sake of her daughter's happiness, that foolish woman handed her daughter over to her husband, hoping that her daughter would have a comfortable material life."

"Heh, what a foolish woman."

Xu Man picked up a beer and gulped it down her throat.

Chu Zhi also put down his chopsticks and said, "I'm sorry..."

"Shut up!" Xu Man's voice was hysterical, her delicate face shrouded in a thin mist of anger. "You don't need to apologize, so why should you apologize?!"

"What kind of relationship do we have? Nothing at all. You have no right to apologize to me!"

"No! You're not qualified!"

Xu Man left home carrying the wine bottle, and Chu Zhi stood up and followed her, walking slowly behind.

Xu Man drank as she walked along the street.

On one occasion, he ran a red light and collided with a car. The driver yelled, "You're running a red light! Do you want to die?"

"Want to? So what?"

Seeing Xu Man and the car owner arguing, Chu Zhi quickly stepped forward to ease the tension between them.

In the blink of an eye, Xu Man had already walked far away. He gave the car owner two hundred yuan as compensation, and then hurriedly chased after him.

After walking for a while, we arrived at a bar.

Xu Man went straight in and entered the bar, and Chu Zhi followed her in.

He saw that the other person had ordered a row of drinks and was sitting in a booth drinking them.

Chu Zhi didn't go forward, but instead found a seat and sat down, watching Xu Man's every move.

Xu Man drank the wine in large gulps, as if it were water.

Suddenly, several men approached them and started chatting.

“Okay.” Xu Man nodded. “If you want to sleep with me, then get me drunk.”

Xu Man then had a drinking contest with the men. They went back and forth, drinking a whole table full of alcohol. In the end, the men were convinced by the drinks and left.

Xu Man scoffed disdainfully: "Flying!"

After what had just happened, Xu Man drank alone.

One person drinks a lot.

Xu Man stood up and staggered towards the toilet. When she came out of the toilet, she saw Chu Zhi leaning against the outside of the toilet.

“You’re drunk,” Chu Zhiye said.

"I'm not drunk."

"It's getting late, time to go home."

"I don't want to go back."

"Then what do you want?" Chu Zhiye helped Xu Man to the booth. "I agree to your conditions."

He could sense that Xu Man had some ulterior motive in letting him move into that house for free, but he never agreed.

But he made a mistake today; he stood the other party up.

He hoped to agree to Xu Man's conditions in order to make amends to her.

“Conditions? What conditions? I don’t need any!” Xu Man chuckled. “I can find ten or eight men like you outside anytime, so don’t try to impress me.”

"Chu Zhiye, if you want me to forgive you, fine, drink the wine on the table."

At this moment, there are still three unopened bottles of wine on the table.

Chu Zhiye stared at the three bottles of wine, remained silent for five seconds, then opened a bottle and poured the wine straight into his mouth, coughing as he did so.

After finishing one bottle, he then drank the other two in quick succession.

Xu Man gave a thumbs up: "Great drinking capacity."

Chu Zhiye's eyes were glazed over, and he stammered, "I, I, can't, drink, drink alcohol."

After saying that, Chu Zhi also collapsed.

Xu Man opened her mouth, stunned on the spot: "???"

... ...

"Ugh, it hurts so much." Chu Zhiye slowly regained consciousness and immediately felt a headache, as if his head was about to explode.

He slowly opened his eyes, and was greeted by the blinding sunlight.

He raised his head to shield his eyes from the sunlight.

"Where am I?" he asked softly.

“At home,” Xu Man replied. “You were drunk last night, so I brought you home.”

Chu Zhi opened his eyes, slowly regained his senses, and recalled the scene from last night.

A moment later, Xu Man came out of the kitchen with a bowl of white porridge and a plate of pickled vegetables. She sat down next to him and said with a smile, "Luckily, those three bottles of wine had low alcohol content, otherwise you would have had to have your stomach pumped."

"I really didn't expect that you actually can't drink alcohol."

Chu Zhiye's voice was hoarse: "I don't lie."

From the age of ten, he always answered other people's questions truthfully and never lied.

He then discovered that the truth was far more reasonable than lies.

"Then why are you still drinking?"

"I'm sorry." Chu Zhi also raised his head, looking at the handsome face before him. "What did I do after I got drunk?"

Xu Man smiled and said, "You raped me."

Chu Zhiye: "... ..."

Xu Man then took a spoon and fed the white porridge to Chu Zhiye. He wanted to do it himself, but Xu Man wouldn't allow it, so he had no choice but to accept it.

Click!

Just then, the door opened and a middle-aged man walked in.

Xu Man's face showed visible tension: "Dad."