Chapter 124

Jin Chuwan ignored him. She was already exhausted from her first day at work. She had already been arguing with Ran Xian in different places, and now she was being harassed by Yin Zhihua.

He's like a shadow now. When she goes inside to change her clothes, he waits at the door. When she goes to the bathroom to wash up, he's still waiting at the door.

Even Jiang Chen couldn't stand it anymore, so he tapped on the table.

"If you're free, you can come over and help me organize the budget. You even follow others to the restroom?"

Yin Zhihua glanced at Jiang Chen, but showed no intention of moving: "Me? Organize your budget? You should go ahead and do your own thing. Jin Chuwan and I have agreed to have a drinking contest, so no one is allowed to bother us tonight."

Cheng Ya had just finished listening to the phone call. When she heard Yin Zhihua say that, she looked curiously at Ran Xian beside her and asked, "So you're here to drink too?"

But after asking the question, she didn't wait for Ran Xian's answer and sighed to herself.

She looked sadly at Kim Cho-wan, who had just come out of the bathroom.

"When exactly did you become an alcoholic?"

Jin Chuwan was wiping her face when Cheng Ya asked her a question that left her completely bewildered. "What?"

"It's nothing, she just needs to use the restroom. Go to the kitchen and see if there's anything to go with her drinks."

Yin Zhihua pushed Jin Chuwan towards the kitchen. He didn't want Jin Chuwan to know that she was doing this because Cheng Ya disliked her.

Cheng Xiucheng glanced at Yin Zhihua with disdain and couldn't help but ask, "I'm telling you, you're a big star, don't you have any friends? Why are you always staring at her, an office worker?"

"Please... stop calling me a big star. I've already retired from the entertainment industry, okay?"

The young man was wearing a baggy short-sleeved T-shirt and trousers covered in holes and chains. He was holding two bottles of whiskey in his arms as if they were precious treasures.

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the room looked at him.

Although they weren't particularly knowledgeable about the entertainment industry, they still knew how famous Yin Zhihua was.

"Are you crazy?" Cheng Ya concluded at the opportune moment.

"You're the one who's crazy—"

Yin Zhihua couldn't help but glare at Cheng Ya. He had always thought this girl was a bit silly, and he didn't know how she became the successor of the Cheng family. All she did was chatter around Jin Chuwan all day long. She was so old and didn't even have a boyfriend, yet she was affecting others.

There is absolutely no sense of boundaries.

At this moment, Jin Chuwan came out of the kitchen, carrying a fruit plate, and looked at Yin Zhihua in surprise.

She placed the fruit plate on the table, then took out her phone to check the trending topics on the platform.

Sure enough, the internet is buzzing with all sorts of news.

They only found out after being informed by the person in question...

Jin Chuwan couldn't help but glance at the young man following behind her again.

"You're crazy."

She had barely finished speaking when Ya scoffed. She reached out and pulled Jin Chuwan to sit down on the sofa, then raised an eyebrow at Yin Zhihua.

"Go on, what did you just say about me?"

Yin Zhihua awkwardly pulled up a chair and sat down.

"It's just retiring from the entertainment industry, are you all making such a fuss?"

This isn't a question of whether it's necessary or not. Jin Chuwan touched her chin, suddenly feeling a little envious.

"So you won't have a job anymore?"

Upon hearing this, Yin Zhihua immediately moved closer to Jin Chuwan: "No, I'm currently unemployed. I'll work for you from now on. I'm very cheap; I'll just provide food and lodging so you won't starve..."

Ran Xian, who had been pushed aside by Yin Zhihua, couldn't help but glance at the man who was still promoting himself.

"Have you no shame?"

Yin Zhihua smiled and moved closer to Jin Chuwan, speaking in a voice loud enough for several people to hear: "Looks like someone's asking for trouble again."

Jin Chuwan raised her hand and pushed him away. She had only agreed to let him in to appease Yin Zhihua, but now she really wanted to drink alone.

The room started to get noisy.

Jiang Chen closed his laptop, his gaze sweeping over Ran Xian and Yin Zhihua, finally settling on Yin Zhihua.

"So this is the dog you were talking about?"

Ran Xian did not answer, but Jiang Chen did not intend to let him off the hook.

"Speaking of which, I have no idea what you did to get bitten by a dog?"

Jiang Chen looked at Yin Zhihua and smiled as he spoke.

"What do you think, my pet dog?"

The air at the dinner table suddenly froze. Cheng Ya wanted to say something to change the subject, but her phone rang again. She had a lot of work to do at the company recently, and she would have to go abroad in a couple of days. Thinking about this, she stretched her neck wearily, answered the phone, and went to the balcony.

Cheng Xiucheng took Cheng Ya's place. He glanced at Jin Chuwan, who was already slumped over the table, drinking one glass after another, and picked up the bottle to look at it.

"With this alcohol content... you should probably drink less."

Kim Cho-wan glanced at Sung Soo-seung and sighed.

"You can't drink too much outside, and you can't drink at home either?"

Cheng Xiucheng's resolve wavered as he was stared at by Jin Chuwan with resentment.

"I'm doing this for your own good... If you sleep in the middle of the night drunk, you'll be the one who suffers."

Kim Cho-wan covered her ears and refused to listen.

"Getting drunk will give you a headache."

Kim continued drinking that evening.

Cheng Xiucheng sighed and swirled his wine glass: "Is it really that good?"

Kim Chu-wan nodded.

She raised her glass and clinked it against Sung Soo-seung's.

With a clink, the ice cubes in the glass began to slosh around. Jin Chuwan looked at the sloshing liquid and couldn't help but sigh.

"How about we get married?"

After she finished speaking, the room suddenly fell silent.

The three men, who had just been tense, turned to look at her, but Jin Chuwan, holding a bottle of wine, looked quite dazed.

Ran Xian frowned. He didn't want to care about her, but he couldn't help it.

"You're drunk."

He stood up and tried to take the wine glass from Jin Chuwan's hand, but Jin Chuwan held the wine bottle and avoided it. She met Ran Xian's gaze and raised her chin.

"I'm not drunk."

Ran Xian's face darkened: "That's what drunkards always say."

Jin Chuwan chuckled as she saw Ran Xian extend his hand. She remembered this person; he had given her quite a hard time today.

"It's none of your business."

Her refusal made Ran Xian a little angry. He wanted to slam the door and leave, but when he thought of Jiang Chen and Yin Zhihua sitting next to him, he frowned and held back. He stared at Jin Chuwan, his gaze complicated and restrained: "Do you know what you're saying?"

Jin Chuwan ignored him and sat down to continue drinking.

She knew exactly what she was talking about; dating was too troublesome, and getting married directly was much more convenient.

But marriage seems so heavy, Jin Chuwan sighed and muttered to herself.

"Never mind..."

Jiang Chen glanced at Ran Xian, a hint of displeasure in his dark eyes. He looked at Jin Chuwan, who seemed to be deep in thought, and sighed.

"If you really want to drink, I'll drink with you."

Upon hearing this, Jin Chuwan glanced at Jiang Chen, but remained silent for a long time. Suddenly, she turned to look at Yin Zhihua.

"He wants a drink, should we give it to him?"

Yin Zhihua lowered his head and laughed after hearing this. It seemed that Jin Chuwan was aware that this was his wine, which was why she came to ask him.

"It's not that we can't give him a share, but our wine is very expensive, so let him pay first."

Jin Chuwan thought it made a lot of sense. She poured Jiang Chen a glass, but before she did, she placed one hand on the glass.

"Give me the money."

Jiang Chen looked at Jin Chuwan's foolish act with a mixture of helplessness and amusement, "Can you pay me back for now?"

Jin Chuwan looked at Yin Zhihua again, and seeing that he shook his head, she came to deliver a message.

"no."

At this moment, Yin Zhihua leaned close to her ear and whispered, "Make him write an IOU, preferably a blank one."

Jin Chuwan frowned after hearing this. She felt that Yin Zhihua was being a bit outrageous. "Even if you don't have a job right now, you can't do this..."

"A blank IOU? Why don't you just rob someone?"

After saying that, she looked at Jiang Chen and said, "Just write 100,000 words."

Cheng Xiucheng kept chuckling as he rested his chin on his hand, watching the drunken Jin Chuwan, and poured himself a drink as well.

"The price has dropped to 100,000. Hurry up and write it, or you can forget about drinking it."

Jiang Chen, who had been ripped off, glanced at Jin Chuwan. Judging from her serious expression, she was determined to pay up today. He nodded, stood up, and then pressed down on Cheng Xiucheng's hand, which was holding a wine glass.

He smiled, his dark eyes narrowing slightly: "You write one for me too."

Cheng Xiucheng's smile disappeared and shifted to Ran Xian's face.

He rummaged through the coffee table next to him, picked out a calendar that was stuck in December of last year, and then took out a fountain pen hanging in his breast pocket.

"Don't run away, come one at a time."

As a lawyer, Kim Cho-wan took the initiative to check their IOU format and, from who knows where, produced inkpads and asked them to press them on one by one.

Holding an IOU worth 300,000 yuan, she generously gave one to Yin Zhihua.

Yin Zhihua glanced at the IOU in his hand and feigned grievance, exclaiming, "You're so greedy! I only have one!"

Jin Chuwan ignored him, standing in front of the refrigerator with a worried expression. Jiang Chen watched as she hid the IOU under an egg, but then, seemingly worried, pulled out another one and hid it under a watermelon.

He wanted to laugh but held it in.

"Give it to me, I'll keep it for you."

Kim Cho-wan turned to look at him.

"for you?"

Jiang Chen nodded.

Jin Chuwan smiled and poked Jiang Chen's chest.

"Thoughts, beauty."

Jin Chu closed the refrigerator that evening and went back to drinking.

Jiang Chen touched the spot that had been poked, then looked back at Jin Chuwan, who was pouring herself a drink.

This drunkard...

I will never let her drink so much again.

Jiang Chen opened the refrigerator and found his IOU under the eggs. When the others weren't looking, he quietly added a few words to it.

After the minor incident, the atmosphere in the living room remained harmonious.

The group drank and chatted. After all, they had grown up together, and once they started talking, they could chat for a long time. However, Yin Zhihua, who had initially boasted that he would drink all night, was already dizzy after just two drinks and was lying on Jin Chuwan's shoulder. Jin Chuwan saw that his neck was completely red and shook her head with a hint of disgust.

"Wake up, I already told you my family doesn't have a place for you to stay."

Even though Jin Chuwan hurt him while he was drunk, Yin Zhihua didn't resist and just obediently leaned against her and fell asleep.

Ran Xian, drinking his wine, glanced over here. He stood up and kicked Yin Zhihua twice.

"You're quite good at finding places?"

Jiang Chen also felt that Yin Zhihua was a bit of an eyesore, but he didn't move because he had drunk too much and felt dizzy.

Ran Xian is the only one in the room who can stand up right now.

Cheng Ya was carried to her room to rest early by Cheng Xiucheng, while Cheng Xiucheng, worried about the others, propped his head up and tried hard not to fall asleep.

The clock ticked away, and before we knew it, it was twelve o'clock.

Li Xing'en, who had just returned from the company, entered the password very quietly because he didn't want to disturb the rest of his family.

But the moment he opened the door, he suddenly froze.

The room reeked of alcohol. There were four or five empty bottles standing upright on the dining table, while several drunkards lay sprawled on the sofa next to it.

The room was quiet, and he wasn't sure if they were all asleep.

He slowly unbuttoned his coat and hung it on the wall, then walked slowly to the sofa. He looked at Jin Chuwan, who was propping her head up, unsure whether she was awake or asleep, and then squatted down.

Are you asleep?