"What are you..." Liu Jiangqing sat down in the chair with confusion on her face and looked at Xiao Yuan.
"It's a holiday today, let's drink some wine to warm ourselves up." Xiao Yuan picked up a bottle of white wine and skillfully opened the outer box and lid. Without asking, he filled a cup for all three of them and placed it on the table.
"I'm a team member, so I won't drink any more." Liu Jiangqing didn't touch the glass of wine. She stood up, found a cup and poured hot water into it. As soon as she brought it, she saw Xiao Yuan pushing the wine over.
"There are no team members or bosses today, just us three buddies. Come on, drink it, you can just accompany me." Xiao Yuan sincerely knocked on the table next to the cup, signaling for him to accept.
"Can you change it to red wine?" Ino said awkwardly, "The alcohol content of your wine is too high, I can't drink it."
"No red wine." Xiao Yuan replied gently, but his expression was firm.
"Then... let me eat my fill first!" Ino's eyes flashed with a look of death, and he quickly picked up a fork, forked a piece of dumpling wrapper, blew it into his mouth, and immediately took a breath of cold air from the burning sensation.
"Tsk, let's eat the cold dishes first and keep the wine. He said that he is not the boss now, so there is no need to listen to him in everything."
Liu Jiangqing frowned at Yi Nuo's embarrassing look, and started eating with her vegetables, completely ignoring the wine glass that Xiao Yuan pushed over. Xiao Yuan smiled bitterly, stopped trying to persuade him, and raised his head and drank half of it himself.
A glass of wine.
"Happy New Year!"
"Are you in such a hurry?" Liu Jiangqing put down her chopsticks and noticed that Xiao Yuan was a little strange today.
"It's nothing, I'm used to it. I used to have either cigarettes, wine, or tea, and I would take turns every day. Since the establishment of Team Zero One, more and more rules have been established. No smoking, no alcohol, no herring. As a result, I have trapped myself in it. I smoke less.
Now, I can’t drink alcohol when I’m eating with you. I’m going to enter the health mode in advance. It’s rare to be able to drink openly today, it’s so comfortable!” Xiao Yuan said with a smile while eating the food, his words were full of boldness, and he was indeed very different from his usual calm demeanor.
Same, more comfortable and more real.
"Hahahahahaha..."
Liu Jiangqing couldn't help laughing, but Yi Nuo next to her opened her eyes wide after hearing this.
"Forbidden herring? Xiao, since when did this one exist?!"
"The second time you brought herring in." Xiao Yuan said and took another sip of wine. The glass bottomed out in the blink of an eye, faster than drinking water.
"Oh~no!" Ino recalled that the canned food she brought was sent out overnight by Xiao Yuan, and she wailed with heartache. She took two mouthfuls of the sour soup dumpling wrappers to calm her heart.
"Okay, don't just eat the dumpling wrappers. Don't you want to eat dumplings?" Liu Jiangqing pushed the cooked dumplings to Ino, "Eat it."
"Thank you Liu!" Ino quickly picked up the fork and stabbed a dumpling hard. With a pop, three holes were broken in the dumpling on the plate, and the filling fell out, leaving only the skin.
The three of them laughed at the same time and began to share the New Year's dinner that they had made together.
Time passed by little by little, and it was already ten o'clock in the evening. The sky outside the window was dark and cold, and the lights were still on in the restaurant of Team Zero One Club. On the long table, half of the dishes were left, the dumplings were already on the disc, and Ino was lying on the table without finishing.
He was sleeping soundly next to the dumpling wrapper with sour soup, and there was still less than half a glass of white wine beside him.
Xiao Yuan lit a cigarette and smoked it slowly. There was no ashtray at hand, so he flicked the ash into the empty bottle of liquor. On the table, the cap of the second bottle of liquor was opened, with four-fifths left.
"I just found out today that Boss Xiao has an amazing drinking capacity." Liu Jiangqing blushed slightly and was already a bit drunk.
"Oh, they are all bad habits. Now that I don't have alcoholic liver disease, it is God's blessing." Xiao Yuan said.
"The amount of alcohol you drink is unexpected, and you are different from what I thought. I originally thought you were that kind of person, but now it seems... you are not." Liu Jiangqing said.
"What kind of person?" Xiao Yuan asked curiously, twitching his eyebrows.
"A ruthless businessman who uses all means to achieve his goals without telling the truth." Liu Jiangqing said bluntly.
"Hahahahahaha, almost the same. This is indeed something engraved in my genes. What you said is absolutely right." Xiao Yuan was not angry, but laughed heartily, "My family has been doing business for generations, and it is ancestral heritage in our bones and blood."
A businessman's mentality. Although sometimes I hate this trait in myself, which makes me always look a bit gloomy, but without these things, I would probably have starved to death on the street when I was twenty-three years old."
"Your family has been doing business for generations?" Liu Jiangqing turned her eyes and looked at Xiao Yuan.
"Yes, my family has a big business, so there are a lot of troubles. In addition to me, there is a brother and a sister in the family. I am the second oldest. Since we were young, it has been difficult for us to see our father. Even if someone celebrates his birthday, he may not
Come. Later, my father made rules for us. Whoever performs the best will be given the best training resources and can receive personal education from him. For this reason, the three of us, brother and sister, always fight to the death, but no matter
No matter how I fought, I always won. Later, I got tired of fighting with them and started to get involved in e-sports. From then on, I saw a new and interesting world, so I stopped fighting with them and focused on playing games.
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When I was fifteen years old, I decided to participate in a national competition with my team, but my father wanted to take the whole family to immigrate to Melbourne. I begged him to let me finish the competition, but my father said that there was no discussion. If I went with them, I would have to go.
Give up everything in the country. If I don't go with them, I will give up everything in the family." Xiao Yuan said, picking up the wine glass and taking a deep sip of wine. He was about to smoke, but found that the cigarette had been burned out. He flexed the cigarette butt.
After throwing the empty wine bottle into the ground, he took out another cigarette from the cigarette case and held it to his lips. He picked up the lighter and lit it with a click.
"You chose to give up your family?" Liu Jiangqing asked in disbelief.
"Yes, I gave up. My nationality is still Chinese. I did what I wanted to do, won the national championship, and built my Yuanjiang Pavilion. I have no regrets." Xiao Yuan exhaled a mouthful of thick smoke and looked at
Said with the bright lights outside the window.
"I haven't seen my parents for fifteen years. You are indeed a cruel person." Liu Jiangqing also picked up the wine glass and took a sip. She couldn't believe that someone would do such a thing and abandon their family just to play the game.
"Huh... Maybe it is unkind in the eyes of ordinary people, but in my opinion this is the best choice. This is the only way for independent people, and once independent, I will be my only family, they are just overseas
It’s just blood.” Xiao Yuan said.
"The best choice. If it was really the best choice, you wouldn't be drinking here today." Liu Jiangqing seemed to see through him at a glance and said with disdain.
"Aren't you bored? Isn't this...do you still want to accompany me?" Xiao Yuan looked at Ino. Ino was sleeping so much that her saliva was drooling all over the table. Her mouth moved occasionally, as if she was eating dumplings in her dreams.
"Tch, you are tough. Just spend more time with your family while they are still there. If one day they are gone, you won't even have a choice." Liu Jiangqing said.