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I could only manage eight cups before I couldn't take it anymore. The liquor was just too strong, and I was drinking it so fast that I had pushed myself to my limit.
Chen Jin noticed something amiss on my end. He walked over from another table, carrying his drink, and with a forced smile, said to everyone, "Brothers and seniors, I may not have the right to speak here, but as Michael's brother, I really feel it's my responsibility to say this: his heart hasn't been doing well for the past year or so, and he had already given up drinking. But I can't refuse you all, and he's really drunk too much. Let me drink the rest for him..."
Everyone looked at me with suspicion. I didn't want Chen Jin to take the blame for me, nor did I want us both to get completely drunk, so I blocked Chen Jin's way and said to everyone, "Brothers, I'm really not in the best of health, but I can't let anyone else do this round of drinking... Everyone has their limits, but there's also potential... Tonight, I'm truly happy because I have the opportunity to meet so many brothers who I can look up to, so I'm willing to explore my potential... If in the future, you brothers will talk about me and say that I, Michael, am a straightforward and principled young man, then no matter how much I drink tonight, I'll feel it's all worth it... really worth it!"
As I spoke, I poured myself another full glass of baijiu and then raised my glass to the next person.
Throughout the entire ordeal, Ye Zhi didn't move an inch or say a single word; I wasn't even sure if she was paying any attention to me.
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