Bai Miaomiao stared blankly at Su Yi. Had she just been rejected?
As for Yu Huiyin and Bai Qingyan, their reactions went without saying.
Neither of them had expected Bai Miaomiao to be so direct upon meeting him.
Skipping every step and going straight to marriage-wasn't that a little too outrageous?
Bai Miaomiao had taken the initiative to propose marriage. If word got out, it would send a massive earthquake through their entire circle.
Most importantly...
She had even been rejected!
"Do you know what you're saying?" With a cold expression, Bai Miaomiao looked at Su Yi seriously and said, "I'll give you one last chance. You can think it through before you answer me."
Without a moment's thought, Su Yi said, "Then I can only turn you down again."
"..." Bai Miaomiao clenched her pearly teeth. Her grandfather, Bai Zhixue, had personally sought her out yesterday and told her to get close to Su Yi. Although he had not revealed Su Yi's identity, his words made it clear that he thought very highly of Su Yi. He had also told her to do her best to become friends with Su Yi, and even if she could not, she must not offend him.
Over the past two years, her family had started pressuring her to marry, but Bai Miaomiao did not want to marry some rich second-generation heir and become an idle woman. The best solution was to find a man of modest means to marry into her family.
She thought her grandfather was scouting out a future husband for her.
Yesterday, she had gone to Wutong Street. Judging by where Su Yi lived, he was not wealthy. Meeting him today, she found him fairly handsome, or at least pleasing to the eye, so she had decided to "compromise."
Never in her wildest dreams had she expected to be rejected.
And twice in a row, at that.
Seeing Su Yi talking to Bai Miaomiao, whose expression did not look particularly pleasant, Zhang Ting had someone carry the wine over and approached them.
"Hello, ladies. Here's the wine you ordered." Behind Zhang Ting was a server specifically assigned to open the wine.
After all, red wine costing over twenty thousand was not cheap even at their establishment, and not many people usually ordered it.
Bai Miaomiao eased her awkwardness a little and said, "Open it."
The server then opened the red wine and began letting it breathe.
"Ladies, if you don't have any other friends joining you, would you like Little Su to stay and have a few drinks with you? He only started today, so he might not be very good with words. Please don't be upset with him." Zhang Ting was skilled at reading expressions, but she could not simply send Su Yi away now, unless Bai Miaomiao and the others said themselves that they did not want his company.
Bai Miaomiao suddenly laughed. Giving Su Yi a meaningful look, she asked, "So your job is to keep people company while they drink?"
Su Yi was not angry. Instead, he nodded and said, "If Miss Bai wants me to drink with her, of course I won't refuse."
"All right, then!" Bai Miaomiao pointed at the bottle of red wine and said, "Finish this bottle first. I'll give you ten thousand once you're done!"
Zhang Ting sensed that Bai Miaomiao seemed a little angry, but she was not in a position to say anything. She glanced at Su Yi and asked, "Little Su, can you handle it?"
Su Yi smiled. "Getting paid to drink? Of course I can! But is it ten thousand per bottle, or only for this one?"
Bai Miaomiao laughed in anger. "From the sound of it, you can drink several bottles?"
Su Yi pursed his lips. "Seven or eight should be no problem."
"Bring me ten bottles!" Bai Miaomiao said. "Charge my card now!"
Ten bottles?
Zhang Ting hurriedly said, "Miss Bai, we only have three bottles of the '96 Lafite in stock, including this one."
"Other foreign liquor will do too. The price doesn't matter. Just bring out your most expensive bottles and make it ten. Today, I want to see how much he can drink!" Bai Miaomiao had not intended to offend Su Yi at first, but his words had gone to her head a little.
Ever since she was little, she had only ever rejected others. When had anyone ever rejected her?
Zhang Ting acknowledged her request and hurriedly told the server behind her to fetch the wine.
After giving those instructions, she followed him over as well.
Although Su Yi said he could hold his liquor, drinking ten bottles of red wine and foreign liquor in a row would definitely wreck him.
Zhang Ting followed the server over and selected another nine bottles of red wine. At the very least, she could not mix in other foreign liquor, or Su Yi's problem would probably go beyond simply getting drunk.
In addition, Zhang Ting brought over a small card terminal and an itemized bill. "Miss Bai, these ten bottles come to 153,088. Just pay 150,000."
She had also thought it through. If Su Yi really could not drink any more, he could just collapse onto the floor. Surely Bai Miaomiao could not pry his mouth open and pour it down his throat?
She would sell the wine first and worry about the rest later.
Bai Miaomiao took a bank card out of her purse and said, "No need for a discount. Make it 160,000 for the drinks. Also, stand right here and watch. For every bottle he drinks, charge me another ten thousand!"
Bai Miaomiao was determined to lock horns with Su Yi today.
Su Yi suddenly realized that he had truly chosen a wonderful profession!
Picking up the open bottle of red wine on the table, he tipped his head back and guzzled it.
In less than a minute, the bottle was empty, and Su Yi's expression had not changed.
He had not deliberately suppressed the effects of the alcohol. But the reason alcohol made people drunk was that it caused the central nervous system to shift from excitation to inhibition, producing a series of symptoms of abnormal central nervous system activity.
But could the central nervous system of someone like Su Yi be numbed?
That was simply a joke.
How could he not wish to get drunk? But his constitution meant that getting drunk was bound to be difficult.
When he drank, it was only for the taste.
"This wine is pretty good!" Su Yi smacked his lips and said to the server opening the wine, "Keep opening them!"
He Liao was keeping customers company at another table just then. Watching Su Yi from a distance, he could not help sucking in sharp breaths.
From now on, the title of God of Wine would probably have a new owner.
Such a commotion around Su Yi naturally drew the attention of the bar's other customers and servers.
Bottle after bottle was opened, and Su Yi simply tipped his head back and drained them.
"That's the fifth bottle!"
Yu Huiyin was also frightened. She had never seen anyone who could drink this much.
Never mind her-even Zhang Ting, who owned a bar, had never seen anyone drink like Su Yi.
Five bottles of red wine in a row, without his expression changing or his pace slowing. Wasn't that downright miraculous?
Now she completely believed what Su Yi had said.
What did it mean to drink a thousand cups without getting drunk?
She absolutely could not let anyone poach such a talent.
By the time Su Yi reached his ninth bottle, Bai Miaomiao's expression had turned strange. She had originally wanted to embarrass him, but she had never expected him to actually drink it all.
It was already the ninth bottle, yet Su Yi still showed not the slightest hint of drunkenness.
"Wait! There's nothing wrong with this wine, is there?" Bai Miaomiao prided herself on her exceptional wit. The way Su Yi was drinking defied all common sense. The only explanation was that there was something wrong with the wine!
What if the bottles contained grape juice?
After all, she had not drunk any herself. She had just paid the bill and said those things. It was not impossible that the owner had swapped out the wine for soft drinks, grape juice, or something of that sort.