"If anyone ever calls you a lady again, I'm done with them."
Chen Yang mumbled, finally collapsing onto the table. The two of them had downed three bottles of Baijiu.
Over a jin each!
Chen Yang didn't really have that capacity. He never imagined that Zhang Yingying, such a young girl, could drink so much.
Looking at Chen Yang, who had passed out, Zhang Yingying felt a bit dizzy herself.
"Hmph, little brat."
"Did you really think you were good at everything? There's always something you're not."
But Zhang Yingying was in a similar state. After drinking over a jin, she was groggy and fell asleep on the table.
As dusk approached, a waiter came in to wake the two drunkards. After a long time, only Zhang Yingying woke up. Chen Yang was still sleeping like a pig. Teacher Zhang, who had been quite pleased with herself, was now dumbfounded.
"Hey, wake up! Wake up!"
Zhang Yingying patted Chen Yang's face, but he didn't move at all.
Chen Yang was 1.8 meters tall and weighed nearly 150 jin. Zhang Yingying used all her strength, but he didn't budge.
This was a disaster. If this guy got drunk, she'd have to pay the bill.
After waiting for half an hour and seeing no sign of Chen Yang waking up, Zhang Yingying became even more annoyed. He said he was treating her to dinner, but she ended up paying.
The crucial part was that his alcohol tolerance was really not good. If he passed out, what would she do?
"Excuse me, we're about to close. Your friend?"
The boss looked at the young lady staring at the passed-out Chen Yang with a look of despair, feeling a headache coming on.
He had only been in business for a few days and was already nervous. He hadn't been fined by the government, but these customers were causing him trouble. The people hadn't left, so he couldn't close.
If someone drunk started causing trouble in the shop, no one could control them.
"Do you have a landline here? I'll pay for the call. Give me a call, and within half an hour, I'll have someone come pick him up."
Zhang Yingying was out of options. She had tried dragging and pulling him, but he wouldn't move.
With her physique, even two people might not be able to move Chen Yang.
"The phone is over there on the table. Go ahead and make the call. I won't charge you. I'll go clean the back kitchen. Please call someone to take your friend away as soon as possible."
The boss couldn't say much. After all, the two of them had eaten dozens of yuan worth of food here, which was not a small amount. A phone call would cost at most one or two yuan, and the boss was eager to get the drunkard out.
"Thank you, boss."
Zhang Yingying was so embarrassed she wanted to bury her head in her neck. In all her years, she had never felt so humiliated.
It was all his fault!
Zhang Yingying took the phone and was about to make the call when she suddenly remembered that she didn't know where Chen Yang lived or any contact information for his family.
Send him to school?
Who would send him? She couldn't move Chen Yang by herself, and it was so late, the school dormitories were already closed.
Even if she got someone to help her carry Chen Yang back to school, there were the school gate, the iron gate of the dormitory building, and the dorm room door. All of that would involve so many people seeing them.
The gossip between her and Chen Yang had finally died down. If this happened, all her efforts would be in vain.
Looking at Chen Yang sleeping and snoring, Zhang Yingying became even more annoyed.
The worst part was that she had no choice!
Finally, Zhang Yingying gritted her teeth and called home.
"Hello, Dad, can you ask Xiao Liu to drive over and pick up a friend for me? He's drunk, too big for me to move."
"And ask Xiao Liu to prepare a room for him in the guesthouse next to our house. Just put him in there."
"We're at Wang Ji Restaurant, No. 198 Xihu Lane."
Zhang Yingying dared not imagine her father's expression upon hearing her words. Her family had strict rules, and her parents had always had high expectations of her.
It was the first time in her life that she had done something so outrageous, drinking until she was completely drunk with a man so late at night.
However, she wasn't scared; instead, she felt a bit excited by the alcohol. She was looking forward to her father's reaction.
"Okay."
To Zhang Yingying's surprise, her father's emotions seemed completely unfazed. He simply replied with an "Okay" and hung up the phone.
What she didn't know was that on the other end of the line, in a two-story Western-style house, Zhang Qun, who had just hung up the phone, had his brows furrowed into a deep line.
"See? This is the good daughter you've spoiled. She's drinking with someone and almost staying out all night."
Zhang Qun's expression was very serious, while the woman in the qipao beside him remained expressionless.
"How do you know it's a man she's drinking with? Besides, your daughter is at an age where she should be thinking about marriage. How long do you plan to keep her by your side?"
"A bird in a cage is not happy. When she called you, she sounded very free."
The woman spoke calmly, seemingly not angry at all that Zhang Yingying was out drinking with someone so late.
"Besides men, who else would be so heavy that she couldn't move him?"
"I'm doing this for her own good, for the family's good. What does she know about love? Love isn't just looking at each other and feeling attracted."
"Love requires matching backgrounds. If she finds some nobody with no connections, would you be happy with that?"
"The family is at a critical juncture. Your father is already old, and I don't have much ambition. I probably won't advance any further in this life. As for your two brothers, it's best not to mention them."
"If our daughter can't marry into a good family, how can her lifelong happiness be guaranteed? When we all step down, this family will completely collapse."
Zhang Qun spoke meaningfully, but the woman opposite him seemed completely unconcerned.
"You're talking about matching backgrounds now. When you married me, if my father had insisted on this, would you have been able to marry me?"
"Besides, what's wrong with being a nobody? My father was a nobody back then. Anyone who dared to challenge him was mowed down by his machine gun."
"If it's really as you say, then it's because the younger generation in the family is incompetent. No one to blame."
"I only have one daughter. I don't want her to become a tool for your ambitions. Think about that when Wei Guo and Wei Min grow up. You can deal with them yourself. My father will live long enough to preside over their weddings."
"Her affairs are my decision."
Hearing the woman's decisive words, Zhang Qun's brows furrowed even deeper.
His daughter had always been proud and arrogant; she wouldn't even look at ordinary people. He was curious to know what kind of man could make her drink until she was completely drunk.
"Xiao Liu, go to No. 198 Xihu Lane to pick up Yingying. Then, tidy up a bed in your dormitory and help her bring her friend home."
"Remember, make sure to bring her home first, show her to me, and then have her rest in your dormitory."
Zhang Qun made a phone call, and a security guard in a Liberation Army uniform soon drove a jeep out of the compound.