"Dinner~"

Tao Wanrong brought the last dish to the table and called the family in to eat.

Qin Zhiwei's seat had been put next to Shen Liang. Seeing that, Shen Xinyi turned and gave her younger brother Shen Wenxuan a look, then passed him her phone under the table. Shen Wenxuan got up quickly and changed places, and Shen Xinyi sat down beside Qin Zhiwei.

Shen Liang sat down and turned to him at once. "Can you drink?"

Qin Zhiwei was caught off guard. If his father-in-law was asking, he thought, that meant the man drank himself, so he nodded. "A little. But I don't hold it well."

That answer was exactly what Shen Liang wanted. He got up, fetched a bottle of baijiu from the sideboard, poured himself a glass and then poured one for Qin Zhiwei.

Qin Zhiwei was overcome, and as the drink was poured he hurried to lift the glass with both hands.

Tao Wanrong seemed to have guessed what Shen Liang was doing, but she didn't stop him. You can know a face without knowing the heart, and using drink to test what a person is really made of is not a bad method.

But Qin Zhiwei was hardly thinking that far.

He thought Shen Xinyi's parents had already accepted him. With Shen Liang egging him on he took one mouthful after another, and although each one was only a tiny sip, this was 52-proof baijiu, and Qin Zhiwei had never held it well to begin with. Inside a quarter of an hour his face had gone red.

By now Shen Xinyi had seen through her father's 'plot' too. She leaned over to Qin Zhiwei on the sly. "Stop drinking."

Qin Zhiwei was already feeling light-headed, and shook his head proudly. "It's fine. I'm not drunk."

Shen Xinyi was exasperated, but it wouldn't do to press him further.

Another quarter of an hour went by like that.

Qin Zhiwei was visibly drunk by that point. His voice had gotten much louder and his movements bigger and bigger. What surprised Tao Wanrong, though, was that even…