Chapter 70: Prime Years, The Advantage is Mine

"Liu Yanmin, why did you quit? Wasn’t your job pretty easy?" Li Lin asked, confused.

"My new supervisor couldn’t stand me and was always making my life difficult, so I quit." As Liu Yanmin thought of that disgusting supervisor, a look of revulsion crossed her pretty face.

Everyone saw her expression and immediately understood. Liu Yanmin was very pretty; back in school, she was considered the class beauty.

A lot of guys pursued her in college, but none of them ever succeeded.

Now that she had graduated and entered the workforce, it was inevitable that a girl as beautiful as her would encounter some of these disgusting situations.

"Good for you for quitting. When you run into a supervisor like that, you don’t have to take his crap. We’re in the prime of our lives, there are plenty of other jobs out there."

As a woman herself, even though Li Lin wasn’t as beautiful as Liu Yanmin and hadn’t experienced such a frustrating situation, she put herself in her friend’s shoes and couldn’t help but feel a little angry.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK...

Just as the group was chatting happily, a knock came at the private room’s door.

CLICK.

A waitress entered the room and asked, "Sir, Miss, may I serve the food now?"

"Yes, bring it in! And bring us a case of beer while you’re at it," Zhang Dawei said to the waitress.

"Of course. Please wait just a moment." The waitress nodded and left the room.

A short while later, several waiters arrived, bringing the dishes Zhang Dawei had ordered and a large case of beer into the private room.

"Lin Li, come on, you’re not getting out of these three penalty drinks..." As soon as the food was served, Zhang Dawei immediately opened a beer and filled Lin Li’s glass to the brim.

Lin Li, who rarely drank alcohol and usually stuck to soft drinks, saw Zhang Dawei fill his glass to the brim with beer and quickly said, "That’s enough, that’s enough! Don’t pour so much."

"Drink up, drink up..." Zhang Dawei and the others egged him on.

GULP... Amid his classmates’ jeering, the cornered Lin Li picked up his glass and downed the beer in one go.

"Nice tolerance! Come on, on to the second." Zhang Dawei praised him, then refilled Lin Li’s empty glass.

GULP...

GULP...

He downed two more in a row, finally finishing his three penalty drinks.

After chugging three beers in a row, Lin Li, who wasn’t a good drinker to begin with, let out a long breath.

’I can’t get drunk... Oh, right, I drove here. I’ll have to find a designated driver to get home later.’

Only after finishing the three drinks did Lin Li remember he had driven. He scratched his head, deciding he’d find a designated driver online later.

"Come on, everyone, raise your glasses for today’s man of the hour, Zhang Dawei! To his health and a successful career!" Wang Kai said to the group, smiling as he lifted his glass.

"..." Lin Li, who had just finished his three drinks, froze. Seeing everyone else raise their glasses, he had no choice but to lift his own, clink it against the others, and down his fourth drink.

"Eat, eat! Let’s chat while we eat. After this, we’ll all go to a bar to have some fun," Zhang Dawei said with a smile, putting down his glass.

’Huh? Aren’t we just going home after we finish eating? Why are we going to a bar?’

’I have to get up early tomorrow morning for the Mutant Beast cleanup operation organized by the Exotic Beast Hunter Guild. If I stay out too late, it’ll be bad if I can’t get up.’

"Zhang Dawei, tomorrow’s Monday. We have to get up early for work! Let’s not go to the bar after dinner. If you want to go, let’s find another time," Li Lin suggested.

’Li Lin, you’re the best. I’m with you on this...’ Lin Li thought, then reached out with his chopsticks to put some food in his bowl.

"Zhang Dawei, Li Lin is right! Let’s postpone the bar trip until next time," Wang Kai and Zeng Zhixian chimed in.

After all, they were all new hires at their companies. Tomorrow was Monday, and if they stayed out too late tonight, they were afraid their bosses wouldn’t be too happy to see them show up for work the next morning looking exhausted.

Lin Li and Liu Yanmin ate their food in silence. In the eyes of the others, they were both currently unemployed vagrants, so whether they went to the bar or not had no bearing on their lives the next day. Naturally, they had no say in the matter.

"Fine, we’ll do as you say and skip the bar. But let’s be clear, this bar trip is only being postponed.

I’ll find a good time to ask you all out again, and when I do, you can’t back out!" Zhang Dawei nodded and said to his classmates with a smile.

"Sure. Just give us a heads-up, and we definitely won’t back out..." everyone said with a laugh.

Around the dinner table, everyone was drinking and chatting happily. There had been dozens of people in their class back in college, but after graduation, they were the only ones who had stayed in Rongcheng and kept in touch.

"Lin Li, don’t just focus on eating! Tell us what you’ve been up to lately," Li Lin said, taking a sip of her drink as she looked at Lin Li, who was currently wrestling with a crab.

’I’ve been out in the wilderness hunting Mutant Beasts...’ Lin Li grumbled internally. Then he put down the large crab in his hands and said to Li Lin with a smile, "I haven’t been up to much, just staying home and playing video games."

"Wow! You’ve got it made! You get to stay home all day playing games and don’t even have to work.

It’s not like us. After graduation, we’re stuck at a company where, as rookies, we have to fight for all the grunt work." Zeng Zhixian said, looking at Lin Li with great envy after downing half a glass of his drink.

Lin Li just smiled and said nothing. He didn’t know what he was supposed to say.

He couldn’t very well tell his classmates that his current job was not only more exhausting than theirs, but his work environment was also incredibly dangerous.

"Liu Yanmin, now that you’ve quit, have you thought about what kind of job you’ll look for next?" Wang Kai asked with a smile, picking up a bottle to refill his empty glass.

"I have. In a few days, I’m going to the Exotic Beast Hunter Guild for an interview." Liu Yanmin’s answer once again left everyone at the table stunned.

"Liu Yanmin, you... you’re going to interview at the Exotic Beast Hunter Guild?

From what I’ve seen online, the minimum requirement to even get an interview at the Exotic Beast Hunter Guild is a cultivation of at least the First Rank Initial Stage. Don’t tell me, you...?" Zhang Dawei asked, his face a mask of astonishment as he seemed to realize something.

"That’s right! Not long ago, I successfully broke through to the First Rank Initial Stage. I’m a Cultivator now, which just meets the minimum requirement for the Exotic Beast Hunter Guild," Liu Yanmin said with a smile.

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