In the end, Lu Jinghuai was too lazy to argue with the drunkard, and the waiter brought juice and low-alcohol fruit wine.
Lin Yan had never drunk alcohol before, so after the waiter left, she picked up a glass of juice and drank it slowly, occasionally eating some of the fruit plate brought by the waiter.
Ji Mingyuan on the other side drank more and more, and his drunkenness became more and more obvious.
Ji Mingyuan's eyes were blank, but red: "I'm not willing to give up, give me a few more years..."
"Since you've decided to let it go, just do it cleanly. This desperate act is shameful." Lu Jinghuai finally couldn't help but frown: "What if I give you a few more years? You can completely take control of the Ji family, right?"
Unlike the Ji and Lu families, the Ji family's shareholders are complicated and basically all of them are collateral branches of the Ji family, which means that everyone wants to compete.
In addition, Ji Mingyuan is a sentimental person. He has seven or eight sons and daughters, even if we don't count the illegitimate children he didn't bring home.
Ji Mingyuan also knew his situation and didn't say anything else. He just smiled at himself and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.
"Yes, even if I am given another ten years, I still won't be able to completely take over the Ji family. I can't delay him any longer."
Ji Mingyuan didn't say anything else and just drank one glass after another. Lu Jinghuai didn't say anything else that hurt the heart.
Cup after cup, Lin Yan seemed to vaguely see tears in the corners of Ji Mingyuan's eyes.
Looking at Ji Mingyuan like this, Lin Yan thought of Liao Wen that day. Liao Wen had not suffered much over the years, and it was not only Liao Wen who was hurt by their separation.
I don’t know how much time had passed, but the people over there were still drinking. Ji Mingyuan seemed to be completely drunk and started talking nonsense.
He talked about the first time he met Liao Wen, the time when the Liao family went bankrupt, and the time when he and Liao Wen were together.
It's a very clichéd story. When the Liao family was in its heyday, they were not much worse than the Ji family. Liao Wen was the only daughter of the Liao family. Her parents loved each other very much, and Liao Wen was a pampered young lady.
The Ji family was in chaos at the time. Ji's mother's family business was getting worse and worse, and Ji's father began to bring his illegitimate child home without caring about his reputation.
Ji's mother was close to a breakdown. In order to prevent the Ji family from falling into the hands of outsiders, she forced Ji Mingyuan to get close to and please Liao Wen. If Ji Mingyuan and Liao Wen got engaged and married, Ji Mingyuan's position would be secure.
However, Liao Wen seemed to have seen through Ji Mingyuan's little thoughts and had been avoiding Ji Mingyuan. However, after seeing Ji's mother beating and scolding Ji Mingyuan, she couldn't help but feel soft-hearted, and deliberately pretended to have a good relationship with Ji Mingyuan in front of outsiders.
When he said this, Ji Mingyuan suddenly burst into tears: "Silly and soft-hearted."
Ji Mingyuan didn't say anything else and just kept drinking. No one in the private room said anything. Even Lu Jinghuai probably didn't know about the past between Ji Mingyuan and Liao Wen.
Lin Yan suddenly felt depressed. She let out a long breath and planned to drink some juice to calm herself down, but she found that the juice was all gone. At this time, she couldn't ask Lu Jinghuai to ask the waiter to bring some juice.
His eyes fell on the light wine beside him, which was brought to him by Ji Mingyuan just now.
The color is very nice, light pink and light yellow, and looks not much different from juice.
Moreover, Ji Mingyuan seemed to say at the beginning that it was a light wine with not much alcohol content. Lin Yan hesitated for a moment and then became tempted.
Lin Yan glanced at Lu Jinghuai on the side, quickly picked up one of the cups, carefully brought it to her mouth, and took a sip.
It tasted sweet, with almost no taste of alcohol, almost like juice. Lin Yan finished one glass in no time and her eyes fell on the other glasses.
The alcohol content is low, about the same as juice, so it shouldn't be a big problem to drink another glass, right?
Lin Yan took another cup without thinking, it was like a juice with a different flavor.
Ji Mingyuan on the other side drank countless cups and finally passed out drunk. Lu Jinghuai rubbed his eyebrows and felt fortunate that he didn't get drunk and crazy.
He looked at the other two again: "How about you, can you go back by yourselves?"
Liang Huo rubbed his brows and said, "I'll go upstairs and get a room to sleep in for the night before going back."
The other person was Xu Ziyan from the Xu family. He rubbed his brows and said, "My driver is waiting for me downstairs."
Lu Jinghuai roughly understood the situation. He glanced at Ji Mingyuan who was slumped on the sofa and stopped being polite. He directly called Ji Mingyuan's assistant and briefly explained the situation here.
After hanging up the phone, he said to Liang Huo, "Wait here for a moment. Ji Mingyuan's assistant will be here soon. I'm going to take my wife home to sleep first."
Liang Huo hummed, "Take your sister-in-law back first."
Lu Jinghuai glanced at him lightly without saying anything, then turned to look at Lin Yan, who was sitting upright on the sofa.
"Wife, let's go back."
However, Lin Yan did not respond at all. Lu Jinghuai frowned and turned sideways to face Lin Yan, only to find that Lin Yan was indeed sitting upright.
However, her eyes were blank. Lu Jinghuai noticed something was wrong and subconsciously glanced at the table. The light wine glass that the waiter had brought with the juice at the beginning was now empty.
Lu Jinghuai also understood what was going on. Feeling a little helpless, he directly picked up Lin Yan, who was still in a daze on the sofa, and carried her sideways.
"Shall we go home?"
Lin Yan, who had been silent the entire time, seemed to have heard some key words and nodded obediently: "Go home."
Lin Yan seemed to be a good girl. She didn't cry or make a fuss even when she was drunk, and let Lu Jinghuai carry her in his car and take her home.
When I got home, Lu Yingqian was still awake in the living room. She was a little surprised to see Lu Jinghuai coming back with Lin Yan in his arms.
"Brother, what happened to my sister-in-law?"
Lu Jinghuai lowered his eyes and glanced at Lin Yan in his arms: "You are drunk. I will take your sister-in-law upstairs to rest first. You should go to bed early too."
Lu Yingqian naturally nodded obediently.
Lu Jinghuai carried Lin Yan upstairs, thinking that Lin Yan was so well-behaved after getting drunk that she would fall asleep by herself if he put her on the bed.
However, as soon as Lu Jinghuai put Lin Yan down from his arms, Lin Yan became restless, looking at Lu Jinghuai with round eyes and complaining about her grievance.
"Why don't you give me a bath?"
Just as Lu Jinghuai was about to go into the bathroom to take a shower, he paused, a look of hesitation on his face.
Lin Yan, who hadn't waited for Lu Jinghuai's response for a long time, felt aggrieved and tearful, "You bathe yourself instead of me. You don't like me anymore."
For a moment, Lu Jinghuai was silent for a few seconds and didn't know how to respond. Then he thought, it should be okay for his wife to take a bath, right?
Seeing Lin Yan's tears falling, Lu Jinghuai's heart softened instantly. He no longer hesitated and went over to comfort her.
"Okay, okay, let's go take a shower and then go to bed."
Lin Yan seemed to understand, and her tears instantly stopped: "Go take a shower."
As she spoke, she stretched out her arms, as if waiting for Lu Jinghuai to carry her over.
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