Chapter 117 - Scheming Sister

Li Chunhua and Dai Zhiqiang were too surprised that they couldn't blink at the sight in front of them. They bickered against each other up to a few minutes ago, but now they tacitly agreed on one thing.

Never tried to do a drinking contest with Li Caiyi as the opponent.

Meanwhile, the said person was gurgling down the wine straight from the bottle like a drunkard. She didn't stop until she finished the last drop. When there was nothing left from the bottle, she peeked into the bottle with squinted eyes before putting the bottle onto the table hard.

"Haa…" she sighed with a slightly flushed expression. "Do you still want to continue?"

The bossman, who had sprawled on top of the table, didn't give any response except a few incoherent mumbles.

Li Caiyi didn't expect the bossman to be such a good drinker. He could make her continue until she got tipsy; that was a considerable achievement. Sure enough, the boss was in a different league with his pathetic subordinates, who passed out not long after the contest started.

"Hic.." Li Caiyi hiccuped while wiping the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand. It had been a while since she drank alcohol, and she was extremely thrilled right now. She felt like she was floating on a soft, fluffy cloud.

"Since you didn't answer, I would take it as you admitting defeat… Hic…" Li Caiyi stood up, but her vision shook as her body swayed right and left. She felt dizzy and light-headed.

"Xiaoyi!" Li Chunhua yelped, seeing her sister's unstable stance. 

Li Caiyi staggered forward, and she was half-expecting herself to fall flat on the table just like the bossman. But before it could happen, an arm snaked its way around her waist, keeping her steady from behind.

"Are you okay?" Dai Zhiqiang asked worriedly. 

Li Caiyi looked up, and seeing Dai Zhiqiang's face up close somehow reminded her of that face she longed to see. That person….she wanted to meet so badly.

Wait, what kind of face did he have again? His face….she couldn't remember.

Li Caiyi unconsciously raised her hand and put it on his cheek as he gazed at him intensely. She wanted to look at his face closer.

Dai Zhiqiang's whole body stiffened at her warm touch. He still had his hand around her waist, so their body was stuck together in close proximity. He could feel her soft and warm body pressed against him, and as though it wasn't enough to make his heart beat furiously, she just had to scoot closer to him, with that flushed face and moist eyes. 

Dai Zhiqiang gulped as his mind wandered wildly. Even if he knew Li Caiyi wasn't in her sober state as a man, he couldn't help but have a weird thought! 

"I want… to meet you…." Li Caiyi whispered softly. Her warm breath tickled his jaw, and the way she looked at him with that loving gaze was simply enchanting. She looked like she was begging him to not let her go. 

Dai Zhiqiang was already this close to losing his mind when a shrill voice ruined this wonderful and ambiguous atmosphere.

"Hands off! Until when are you going to hold her?!" Li Chunhua walked over angrily and pulled Li Caiyi to her to separate her from Dai Zhiqiang. Li Chunhua hissed at him like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. "Taking advantage of a girl's weak state of mind is a low move, Dai Zhiqiang. I misjudged you!"

Her rude remark offended the accused person. Still, he couldn't deny that he did think about something improper about Li Caiyi back then. Even now, he could still feel her lingering warmth in his arms.

Li Chunhua didn't bother with her classmate anymore and shook her sister's body by her shoulder. "Xiaoyi, wake up! We have to get out of here, remember?!"

"Let her sleep. I can carry her," Dai Zhiqiang offered, which was responded by a disgusted look of Li Chunhua.

"Your help is unnecessary. We can manage ourselves just fine." 

Dai Zhiqiang watched how she silently judged and cursed at him through her eyes and got annoyed. "Before that, don't you have something to say to me?"

"I have nothing to say to a molester like you!"

"Wha–? A molester?!" Her far-fetched accusation blew his mind. Dai Zhiqiang was injured and tattered in all places to help her, and that was all she had to say?

"U-ugh…" Li Caiyi's head was dizzy, and being shaken by Li Chunhua made sense of nausea climbing up her stomach. It seemed she had drunk too much. 

In her previous life, Li Caiyi didn't know at first that she was a strong drinker. She rarely touched alcohol unless at a formal occasion such as a banquet or party. It wasn't until her depression got worse that she drank more. 

She heard that drinking alcohol would help you forget unpleasant things, which she needed the most. 

Unbeknownst to her, her body was pretty resistant to alcohol, so she couldn't get drunk no matter how much she drank. Drinking alcohol only made her stomach uncomfortable the next day, while there wasn't a second passed where she could forget about her problems. 

It was ironic how she couldn't get drunk no matter how much she wanted to, as though heaven was preventing her from attaining even a brief respite. The thought made her more depressed instead.

She never expected this shortcoming would come in handy.

"Stop fighting, you guys." 

"Xiaoyi! Are you okay? Should I carry you?" Li Chunhua asked worriedly.

Li Caiyi was dizzy, but she wasn't fully intoxicated. It seemed the alcohol influenced her system a bit this time; it might have something to do about her body's current age. She forced her brain to work and said, "I had called Brother Renshu before I entered, and those men were truly wasted. We can slowly go down this way."

"Why did you do such reckless things? And how come you are so good at drinking? You are still a minor! If the school found out about this, it won't end with just a mere suspension; you might get expelled!"

Li Caiyi had given a thought to it, and honestly, she didn't mind. After all, she had been through that series of education once in her previous life. Although she hadn't mastered it, she was already knowledgeable about it to some extent. But there was no way she could tell her sister that. 

"It's okay. The only one who would know about this was you two. I can testify that those loan sharks forced me to drink. No one would believe a minor could beat three adults in a drinking contest."

She looked at Li Chunhua and Dai Zhiqiang alternately before adding, "You two, too. If anyone asked, just say, these people were the ones looking for trouble first. Xiaohua got kidnapped, and Zhiqiang, who came to save her, got beaten. No one should know what really transpired here."

"Is this a part of your plan, too?" Li Chunhua asked skeptically.

"My original plan was to settle this with money, but when I saw the fridge with alcoholic beverages, another idea came to me." Li Caiyi took a deep breath. "This time, none of them would escape. If we reported them under accusation of kidnapping, bullying, and forcing a minor to drink, even them wouldn't get away easily this time."

"Even so, you don't have to do this. We can stall for some time, and Brother Renshu and his underlings will take care of them." 

"The only way to stall time in that situation was to sign the agreement. However, if we signed that, our future would be sealed. They would use the agreement to harass you or me again in the future. Listen well, never sign a suspicious agreement with a businessman, or you'll regret it someday. If you can avoid it, by all means, do so."

"And if you signed it, his business here would be done, and they would flee from this place before our help came," Dai Zhiqiang added, with her gaze nailed on Li Caiyi, "That's your purpose, right? You want to ensure those loan sharks won't dare to bother you and your sister anymore."

Li Caiyi smiled. "Well, if Brother Renshu takes charge, there's no way people like them could show their face around our school anymore. I was just laying the groundwork for him to make the process easier."

Li Chunhua was surprised. She didn't know Li Caiyi could scheme like that. To make a reckless plan like that meant her sister had predicted it would end like this from the beginning. The more time passed, the more Li Chunhua didn't understand her twin anymore. Her sister completely looked like an adult giving instructions to children.

Li Chunhua had mixed feelings about this. "But how come you are so good at drinking?"

"I learned it."

"Huh? Did you secretly try alcohol without us knowing?"

"Not quite… but sort of. I learned it in my dream.." Li Caiyi said with a mysterious smile.