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Chapter 620 Winter Solstice Event Side Story: It's All the Fermented Rice Balls' Fault (Part 2)
"What's wrong?" Beltias looked up at Ming Jin innocently and asked softly.

Ming Jin slowly walked over, her brows furrowed in confusion. "You... finished eating?" she asked. "So fast?" she wondered. It seemed a little hard to believe, but there didn't seem to be anywhere else to throw it away except after eating.

“Otherwise?” Isaiah retorted.

Ming Jin looked at her bowl of steaming sweet rice balls with suspicion. It was still very hot. How could these people tolerate the heat so well?

"It's so cold, it cools down very quickly," Shui Qi said slowly.

"You mean, if the indoor temperature is 20°C, how do you make freshly made sweet rice balls drop to around 50°C within a few minutes?" Ming Jin asked, frowning with suspicion.

"Because I let it cool for a while before serving it to ensure it was at a palatable temperature, otherwise Daolin wouldn't have eaten it right away," Bertias said without changing his expression.

"Since you've brought it up, I'll try it." Ming Jin sighed softly, sat back in her chair, picked up a spoon, scooped up a spoonful, and said slowly.

Bertias asked casually, "Speaking of which, can Mingjin drink alcohol?"

"What? I'm an adult now, of course I can drink alcohol." Ming Jin said thoughtfully, tasting the sweet fermented rice balls.

It was indeed a pleasant temperature; it seems Bertias wasn't lying.

Bertias asked again, "How much can he drink?"

"It's hard to say. I'm not usually a heavy drinker, but as one of only two in the family who don't need to be in the military, I sometimes have to help those two fend off drinks." It's because my father and older brother can't touch alcohol at all, so I was forced to develop my alcohol tolerance.

"Including Mingxi?" Isaiah asked in surprise.

"Yes, including Mingxi. Although we're both Geminis, we're essentially two separate people. As long as we don't share the same feelings, we're basically separate. We can still drink a few bottles of regular wine."

As he spoke, he remembered the distilled vodka in the kitchen, the water of life... that's no ordinary liquor... how did he suddenly fall for this sweet fermented rice ball?

"What's wrong?" Shui Qi asked in surprise when she saw Ming Jin suddenly stand up.

His narrow blue eyes glanced at the sweet fermented rice balls in the bag on the ground, his expression unchanged, showing no remorse for deceiving the child.

His lake-blue eyes were completely clear, and he seemed not to be drunk at all, but he had already walked to the wine box in the distance, took out several bottles of wine and put them on the table.

"What is this?" Shui Qi asked Ming Jin, her expression unreadable.

"The secret wine that Momo sent us, she said it was brewed by the Gluttonous Administrator of the Gourmet Kingdom. Although it's a bit strong, it tastes very good." Ming Jin touched the bottle, but couldn't find a corkscrew for a moment, so she pressed her thumb against the bottle opening and flicked it, shattering the bottle opening.

The three of them fell silent as they watched Ming Jin's hardcore bottle-opening method.

“Could it be… that Mingjin is already drunk… I remember he’s definitely not a violent person normally…” Isaiah said slowly.

"Same here." Shui Qi pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed softly. She should have known better than to lie to Ming Jin about eating sweet rice balls in fermented rice wine. Suddenly, she had a bad feeling.

Looking at the pale blue liquid in the glass, Shui Qi hesitated and asked, "Is this wine really drinkable?"

Forgive him for never having seen this color of liquor before, even though he's not a good drinker. But he still wants to know what it is and whether Ming Jin is deliberately retaliating against them!
"The scent of bamboo... it really smells wonderful, even its color and aroma are top-notch." Bertias picked up the small wine glass, sniffed it slightly, and said softly.

“Bell really knows his stuff,” Ming Jin said as she walked toward Isaiah.

He was holding a small wine glass, about to pour wine for Isaiah, when Isaiah grabbed his wrist and whispered, "I don't need it, I have things to do later."

"Hmm? Isaiah thinks my wine is not drinkable?" Ming Jin grabbed Isaiah's shoulder and narrowed her lake-blue eyes slightly, asking dangerously.

"No, that's not what I meant. I just need to report to the president later, so I can't get drunk... Ugh... Cough cough cough!" Before Isaiah could finish speaking, Ming Jin grabbed the bottle and poured the wine down his throat. Beltias's hand holding the wine glass stiffened slightly. Was Ming Jin really this domineering, willful, and unreasonable when drunk?
"There's no such thing as me being unable to drink alcohol. Continue," Ming Jin said with a light laugh, her tone firm.

"He's started, and I really want to go back." Shui Qi, who hadn't touched any alcohol from beginning to end, sighed and lamented.

Her narrow blue eyes stared intently at the door, wanting to leave immediately, but that was impossible. Ming Jin was the strongest fighter present, and if she even considered leaving, she would be caught and forced to drink.

After all...Isaiah is a classic example...

When Mingjin gets drunk, she becomes a drinking maniac, even becoming domineering and unreasonable, yet her face shows absolutely no signs of being drunk.

"Shui Qi." Ming Jin suddenly called out Shui Qi's name when she saw that Shui Qi hadn't touched the wine.

"I'll drink it." Shui Qi picked up the glass of wine with a death-defying air and downed it in one gulp.

He coughed, covering his mouth, and then saw Ming Jin fill his cup again.

“This is… the bottle that Isaiah drank from…” Shui Qi said with a troubled expression, her face beginning to flush.

Isaiah asked softly, "Can't I drink something I've touched?"

Bertias asked in surprise, "Huh? You're not drunk?" Ming Jin had clearly made him drink half a bottle, so why was he completely fine?

“No, I’ve already seen two Mingjin,” Isaiah said calmly in denial.

Bertias was drinking when she turned her head and saw Mingxi standing on the stairs in her pajamas, looking at everyone with a cold expression. She spat out her drink. This is Mingxi, not two Mingjins!
“Huh… our amounts are a little different…” Shui Qi said softly, her face flushed as she bent down to compare the amounts in her cup with those in Isaiah’s cup.

Bertias: "..." The fact that Shui Qi is starting to get drunk and act crazy means that Shui Qi is starting to get into a drunken rage.

“They were the same amount.” Mingjin said, filling Shui Qi’s cup to the brim. “Look, they’re the same amount now.”

"Really... Something's definitely not right... It seems like I have more..." Shui Qi said, frowning in confusion.

Bertias looked at the glass that was only a third full and the glass that was full, and expressionlessly drank the wine in his glass in one gulp. The situation was already getting out of control, and he chose death.

"The vice president stole my chocolate today, I'll kill him sooner or later; the president drank three glasses of water with a lemon slice during the meeting, he's so careless; Chloe flirted with three men today, but none of them accepted her, hehe, she's so pitiful..." Isaiah lay on the table, his face buried in the bowl, his mouth constantly uttering devilish whispers.

Mingxi stood on the stairs, coldly watching the group of drunkards. He had been wondering why it was so noisy downstairs, and now he understood…

The bag under the table, filled with sweet fermented rice balls, had spilled all over the floor. The wine bottles on the table were overturned, with more wine flowing down the table and onto the floor. The whole scene could only be described as a mess.

【Finish】

After the five members of the IQ group got drunk:
Daolin: One gulp.

Shui Qi: pretentious, getting caught up in unimportant things.

Ming Jin: Strong-willed and willful, she likes to get others drunk.

Isaiah: vengeful, vengeful, extremely vengeful, speaking his mind.

Berthias: It's impossible for me to get drunk. I'll never get drunk in my life. As someone with mermaid blood, no matter how much I drink, it's just water.

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(End of this chapter)