Zach called the waiter over and had the best wine served. Zach mixed quite a few kinds of wine in one
glass, which made the strongest drink. He then said, "Drinking is all for stimulation, would you like to
drink like this with me?"
There is no reason for Tassach to look deterred while facing his competitor.
Tassach took a glass. He then raised his head and quaffed all of it. Then he set the glass bottom-up.
Zach laughed, "Here's another one to your blandness! "
"You should drink a glass first." Tassach said.
Zach held the glass and raised his head. Then he quaffed it and set the glass bottom-up like Tassach.
"Looks like we have one thing in common."
They drank as if it was a competition. They kept quaffing and had finished quite a few bottles in less
than ten minutes. Even so, both of them were still sane, and their face hadn't blushed.
Zach praised with a faint smile, "You drink like a fish."
"You are as much of a drinker as me." Tassach also praised without hesitation.
Zach poured some more into the glass and said, "I seldom met people that's as straightforward as you.
Let's get hammered tonight! What do you say?"
Tassach nodded.
They toasted and clinked glasses. Just by then, Zach's phone interrupted the two. He picked it up in
the noisy bar.
Before he spoke, Cora's voice came from the other side of the phone. "Honey, I miss you so much.
Why don't you drop by and see me?"
The bar was too noisy for him to hear her precisely. He asked, "What did you say? Just one more
time."
Cora asked in confusion, "Where are you? It sounds so crowded."
Zach didn't want to lie. He answered, "I'm in the bar."
Cora said very gently, "OK, I miss you. Can you drop by and see me?"
Zach hesitated and said, "Cora, sweetie, I'm with a client now. It's late. Why don't you go to sleep? I'll
go and check you and our baby in the morning.'"
Cora was unhappy when she heard this. She asked aggrieve, "You don't love me anymore! You
promised you'll be nice to me when I wasn't pregnant. You said you'll show up whenever I need you!
Now you're just using your work to prevaricate me. Are you going to marry me or not?"
Zach felt annoyed, maybe because he was drunk. He said with a slightly cold tone, "Could you stop
being like this and go to sleep now? I said I'll go and check you in the morning."
Cora fell in silence for a while and then wailed, "You don't love me anymore."
Zach had to be patient. He said, "Cora, sweetie, I'm socializing with clients now. We've got quite a lot of
people here. You don't want to affect my career, do you?"
"Are you saying that you still love me?"
Zach pulled his tie and he started to look impatient, but his tone is becoming softer, "sweetie, I love
you. You should go to sleep. Wait for me at home in the morning."
This was exhausting. When he hung up the phone, a glass of wine poured right on his face.
This happened to him all of a sudden. He wiped his face with a hand and stared coldly at Tassach who
did it.
"Give me a reason for this glass of wine on my face, or this isn't going to be over, not for you, not for
your family."
"You have a foot in two camps. You deserved it." Tassach took a graceful sip from the glass in his hand
and said calmly.
Zach nodded, "Yes, I deserved it, but for whom you're judging me and doing this for?"
"For Ophelia. I love her, and I don't want to see her get hurt." Tassach admitted frankly.
That answer seemed to have hit Zach's bottom line. He jumped over to Tassach like a prepared
hunting beast. Then he waved a punch on Tassach's face. Tassach was stunned for a second, and as
soon as he realized what had happened, he fought back. They were so eager to take it out on each
other that the bartenders failed several times to separate them. Before they were thrown out, they both
left a punch bruise on each other's faces.
Finally, the two ended up in the police station together.
The police treated them nicely because they were all public figures in this town. They called their
lawyers over, and Ophelia was called here by a female police officer. She and Ophelia had a personal
connection that was built several years ago. When she saw the bruises and blood on Zach's face, she
called Ophelia immediately.
Ophelia went directly to the hospital where the two received treatment for their injuries. She was so
surprised and wondered how the two had run into each other and how they ended up in the hospital.
"Did you two fight?" Ophelia put her arms around her chest and asked. She looked down at the two
and seemed not concerned about their injuries at all.
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