Volume 1 Chapter 38: Bravery

  "Ah, yes, I didn't know who you were at first, please forgive me if I was rude." Lin Junyun shook Zhang Xiaoting's hand, feeling a bit embarrassed. At the beginning, she had some prejudice against Pang Guang, and naturally put people looking for him in the category of bad people. When Zhang Xiaoting called her for the first time, she was very impolite to her.

  "Is that so?" Zhang Xiaoting was taken aback for a moment, then laughed again: "You're making me feel embarrassed with this 'sister' business. Actually, I'm the same age as Pang Guang, maybe it's just because I entered society earlier and seem a bit older, you can just call me Xiao Ting."

  Just as they were talking, the second round of dishes came up quickly. Zhang Xiaoting continued: "I know everyone has eaten already, so I've specially ordered some exquisite and low-calorie food and red wine, help yourselves."

  "Alright, since Little Zhang is so enthusiastic, I'll just have to obey. The principal quickly picked up his chopsticks and started eating, earlier he was busy drinking and hadn't eaten much, now that the wine had worn off a bit, he felt hungry."

  The second round took a long time, and the three of them, Pang Da Hu, Principal, and Kong Yue Mei, felt that red wine was not exciting to drink, so they switched back to white wine. Lin Jun Yun and Liu Xiao drank some red wine at Zhang Xiao Ting's suggestion, but only Pang Guang dared not to drink. He still had a lingering fear from the time he drank a bottle of green plum wine at Lin Jun Yun's house and felt unwell. As a result, he was the most boring person among everyone, unable to eat or drink, so he could only play with his phone between his "ex-girlfriend" and "fiancée". After a while, the two girls might have found it inconvenient to have someone in between them, so they asked Pang Guang to change seats to one side to play with his phone, not to disturb their drinking. This made Pang Guang extremely depressed. He wanted to interrupt and say something, but before he could speak, he was interrupted by others. Indeed, those who don't drink have no right to speak!

  "Boring, so boring." Pang Guang looked at his phone for a long time and felt that his eyes were very tired, so he put the phone in his pocket. When he was bored, he took a look around and saw that everyone's face was red and their ears were flushed, as if they wanted to drink themselves to death. Liu Xiao was even more outrageous, shaking his head and brain while holding a bottle of red wine, suggesting that there was a KTV with good sound effects, and then opening the third round. Fortunately, his voice was too small, and the proposal was quickly covered up by Pang Dahu's loud voice.

  "A bunch of lunatics." Pang Guang shook his head to himself, got up and left the private room to get some fresh air outside. As soon as he walked out the door, he saw a row of sofas in the hall, so he went over and sat down. Just as he did, Lin Junyun's voice suddenly came from beside him.

  "Hey...... Pang Guang, why are you running out alone?"

  "I don't drink anyway, it's no fun watching you guys drink." Pang Guang took out a magazine from the shelf beside the sofa and began to flip through it listlessly.

  Lin Junyun put down the magazine in his hand, returned it to the shelf, and sat down next to Pang Guang: "Hey... I'm asking you, did you have a thing with Zhang Xiaoting back then?"

  "What are you talking nonsense?" Pang Guang glanced at her, but didn't deny it: "She was my classmate in middle school, and our relationship is indeed a bit better than others. We often strolled around the streets and parks together."

  "That's just having one leg, right?" Lin Junyun covered her mouth and giggled, "Can't tell at all, you're also so subtle when speaking, after seeing the beautiful female classmate, it's like shedding wolf skin and becoming a small sheep."

  "Don't get any ideas, I haven't even held her hand." Pang Guang glared at Lin Junyun.

  "Regret not being bold enough at first, huh?" Lin Junyun raised an eyebrow: "Just now I was observing you two, based on a woman's intuition, that beautiful classmate of yours has some feelings for you, don't worry, you still have a chance."

  Pang Guang was speechless, and Lin Junyun had indeed hit the nail on the head. All along, he had been stupid like a pig when it came to interactions between men and women. Now that he thought about it, two years ago Zhang Xiaoting had repeatedly given him hints, but at the time he didn't understand, resulting in an unclear situation. They would say that there was nothing going on between them, but they would always appear together as a couple in front of their classmates, making all the other guys grit their teeth. They would say that something was going on between them, but only they themselves were clear about it - and indeed, there was nothing going on. Even when Pang Guang brought up breaking up that one time, he had just been imitating lines from a TV show. Without even holding hands, what was there to break off? Now that he thought about it, he found it all quite laughable.

  Lin Junyun saw Pang Guang's silence and became anxious: "You should speak up! When chasing a girl, you must be bold, meticulous, and have thick skin. It's best to treat her like a class enemy and serve her. Do you understand? Take out some courage, just now I saw your dad looking at him with the same eyes as he looks at his daughter-in-law. As long as you can win her over, both of us can be freed and don't need to get married." Lin Junyun finally spoke out what was in his heart.

  Pang Guang suddenly lifted his head and stared at Lin Junyun with a cold gaze that made Lin's heart tremble.

  "Did I... say something wrong?" Lin Junyun looked into Pang Guang's eyes with a bit of fear: "Didn't you also strongly disagree with the fake marriage?"

  Pang Guang didn't say a word, staring at Lin Junyun for a full minute, suddenly patted his thigh: "Right, courage, I've been thinking about what this word is all along, you... are too damn talented." After finishing speaking, he hummed the tune of Liang Jingru's "Courage" while walking towards the private room.

  "Nerve disease, singing like killing a pig." Lin Junyun was startled by Pang Guang's suddenly sunny face, and cursed in a low voice to find the restroom. When she returned to the private room, she was stunned to see Pang Guang holding a bottle and drinking with a gurgling sound. It was indeed a bottle, and not a red wine bottle, but the Wuliangye that Pang Datou and others drank. Lin Junyun thought to herself, "The star effect is really extraordinary! One song 'Courage' can make people so crazy, is he trying to boost his courage with alcohol?" But, there's no such sentence in the lyrics!

  Not only was Lam Gun-yin stunned, but everyone present was also stunned, staring at Pong Kwong with wide eyes, wondering what he wanted to do. The scene was quiet, and all that could be heard was the sound of Pong Kwong "gulp gulp gulp" drinking.