"Urgh..."
After throwing up every last bit of the food and alcohol mixed together in his belly, Cheng Tian felt as though his stomach no longer belonged to him.
At first, he brought up the contents of his stomach. Once those were gone, he could only throw up stomach acid. Eventually, even that was gone, and snot and tears streamed down his face.
He vomited until heaven and earth seemed to reel. Utterly bedraggled, Cheng Tian raised his head and looked at himself in the mirror.
The spirited young man he had been when he graduated from university was gone. He had dark circles and heavy bags beneath his eyes, scruffy stubble, snot and tears on his face, reddened eyes, and vomit still clinging to the corners of his mouth.
Is this you, Cheng Tian?
What a sorry sight.
"What a bullshit mixer... It's just another business dinner..." Cheng Tian could not hold his liquor particularly well. He had no idea how many bottles he had been pressured into drinking in succession, and his head was swimming.
"Are you all right?"
Cheng Tian walked out of the restroom and saw his pretty senior colleague standing at the entrance, looking at him with concern.
"I'm okay..." Cheng Tian managed a smile. "The drinking's almost over. It's nothing serious."
"If you can't manage, take tomorrow off," she said. "You'll fall apart if you keep this up."
"But I can't afford to lose this job..." Cheng Tian smiled. "Thank you for caring so much about me."
"Oh, it's only what I should do." She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "You probably don't remember, but we actually graduated from the same university. I was two years ahead of you."
"Huh?! Really?"
"Yes." She made an encouraging gesture. "It doesn't matter if