Wu Wei felt like a genius. He was a heavy drinker, yet he claimed to be allergic to alcohol and that one drink would knock him out.
Listening to Li Long, Wu Wei was shocked, but quickly pieced together what had happened.
Li Long had probably been reborn.
Obviously, in his previous life, Wu Wei had left Li Long with some serious psychological scars.
A video of him streaming while sharing a room with his goddess? Wu Wei thought about it and decided that was impossible.
He wasn't that shameless.
But that wasn't important. What mattered was that he was in a dangerous situation now.
He had to turn things around.
Just as Wu Wei was thinking this, Li Long turned away and began installing a pinhole camera.
He had been preparing for this day for a long time. He had to admit, Li Long was actually a patient man.
Even though things were already "all settled" now, Li Long didn't let himself go completely. After saying just a couple of things, he got down to business.
Seeing what Li Long was doing, Wu Wei gave up on him completely.
I treated you like a brother, and you actually wanted to hurt me.
Then there was nothing more to say.
While Li Long had his back turned, Wu Wei quietly got up and struck him on the neck with a knife-hand chop.
When he was little, Wu Wei had learned some unusual fighting techniques from his mother. His training had been pretty rough, and by now he'd forgotten most of it, but taking down a shut-in fatso like Li Long, who spent all day writing novels, was a piece of cake.
Li Long hadn't even reacted before Wu Wei knocked him unconscious.
When Li Long woke up again, he saw Wu Wei sitting in front of him, fiddling with his phone and looking thoughtful.
As for him, he was bound to a chair with heavy-duty tape and couldn't move at all.
"Wu Wei, what are you doing?"
Li Long was actually scared out of his mind, but he still managed to act like a clueless young man.
Wu Wei smiled at Li Long and cut straight to the point. "Did Lan Meng and I end up together in the future?"
Li Long's heart stopped.
The last shred of hope he'd had vanished.
"How could you know? Weren't you knocked out after one drink?" Li Long's voice was full of resentment.
At that, Wu Wei raised an eyebrow.
"Sounds like in your memories, I did get knocked out after one drink at some point. That's why you got the wrong idea."
Li Long's reaction told Wu Wei he'd guessed right.
Wu Wei laughed in disbelief.
"My past self actually managed to fool you after you were reborn with such a flimsy lie. What can I say, Li Long? Could you at least show me some intelligence I can respect?"
Li Long's face flushed red.
"So the whole thing about you not being able to drink was a lie?"
"Mm. I could drink a kilogram of baijiu by the time I was six. I just don't like drinking, so I never drink, no matter the occasion. If I really can't get out of it, I pretend to be drunk after one cup. Looks like I did the same thing in my previous life."
Who would've thought that good habit would save him?
All he could say was that not drinking really was a great thing.
Li Long looked at Wu Wei with an indescribably complicated expression.
"Liar, bastard, scumbag! You toyed with my feelings and deceived me in both lives."
Wu Wei: "..."
"Heaven wanted me dead. It wasn't my fault I lost. If you hadn't tricked me, I'd have made you pay in this life."
Wu Wei scoffed.
"If you get beaten, stand there and take it. If you're stupid, you're stupid. What's that got to do with Heaven? Besides, even if I really did get knocked out after one drink, what could you have accomplished? How naive."
"Bastard! If my plan had gone smoothly, I could've ruined your reputation," Li Long said, stubbornly defending his intelligence.
But just a few simple words from Wu Wei completely shattered his confidence.
"AIDS? Li Long, you're so naive. How much do you actually know about AIDS? And how much do you know about how it's transmitted? Read a few more books, and you won't be fooled by misconceptions. As a top student, let me explain a few things about AIDS:
AIDS is transmitted through blood, not bodily fluids.
A lot of people panic at the mention of AIDS and assume bodily fluids can spread it. It's true that some people have contracted AIDS after having sex with someone who has it. But in those cases, it was because capillaries ruptured during sex. Essentially, it was still blood transmission. The bodily fluids of someone with AIDS do contain trace amounts of the virus, but the odds of transmission that way are about the same as winning the grand prize in the lottery. You can basically ignore them.
Some bored experts have conducted surveys. Without a condom, the chance of transmission from a man to a woman in a single sexual encounter is 0.1%–0.2%; from a woman to a man, it's 0.033%–0.1%; and between two men, it's 0.5%–3.0%.
There's also something called post-exposure prophylaxis. If you take it properly within 72 hours of a high-risk encounter, the chance of it failing to prevent HIV is only 0.05%.
Now do you see how naive you were? Go on, Li the Great Scholar. Give us your acceptance speech."
Wu Wei struck a pose as if he were all ears.
Li Long felt like his heart had been riddled with holes.
So the plan he'd prepared so carefully had such a huge flaw?
As expected, whether in his previous life or this one, he was no match for Wu Wei.
"Judging by your face, you believed what I just said again." Wu Wei spoke up once more, delivering another blow to Li Long. "Actually, I just made all that up. I pulled those numbers out of thin air."
Li Long: "..."
KO!
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