"It's okay if you're short on food; come to my place. We have plenty." Old Man Wang had made a lot of money in business before, so he didn't care about such things at all.

"Then I'll sign up too," Nao Nao raised his hand.

Everyone laughed again.

"You little rascal, what nonsense are you talking about?" Hao Jiening laughed and stuffed a grape into Nao Nao's mouth.

"I'm not talking nonsense. Dad's always away, and your cooking is so bad. It's always vermicelli stewed with pork. You can't make anything I want to eat." Nao Nao swallowed the grape in his mouth, looking aggrieved.

Hao Jiening said unhappily, "You're lucky to have anything to eat at all, always picking and choosing. If you're so capable, tell your dad to come back and cook for you."

Hu Sixiang drained the wine in his glass, his face covered with a layer of drunkenness. "Nao Nao, Dad has to apologize to you for this. Dad's job always requires him to be stationed abroad, so he doesn't have time to be with you. But you have to understand Dad. Dad has it hard, and Dad wants to be with you too, but Dad has to work to support you. The boss of Dad's company is a *shabi* (idiot), I've never seen him come to the company, but he's created a damn company culture. Things like not being allowed to take leave to go home on business trips, deducting one hundred yuan for being a minute late... getting stuck at a red light means a day of working for nothing."

"What kind of company has such strict management regulations?" Sun Jiaojiao gossiped while eating fish.

"It's that damn An'an Carpet Trading Company," Hu Sixiang blurted out after taking a gulp of beer.

Anna, who was sitting at the head of the table, was stunned. Wasn't that one of her companies?

This carpet company used to specialize in high-end export cashmere carpets. The market was good before, so she had her subordinates open branches in several major cities and sent people to be stationed abroad for a long time. She didn't expect that Hu Sixiang was an employee of her company.

In this situation, it was impossible for Anna to reveal that she was the boss.

She had too many things to do, so she basically left the company to professional managers. Now, listening to Hu Sixiang's various complaints, she could get a glimpse of the company employees' thoughts.

"Hey, Lao Hu, let's not talk about those烦心事 (fánxīnshì, vexing matters), drink!" Lü Maowang put one arm around Hu Sixiang and used the other to pour a glass of baijiu (white liquor) down his throat, directly suppressing Hu Sixiang's subsequent complaints.

"Lü Maowang, stop forcing him to drink, he can't handle it," Hao Jiening tried to stop him, but couldn't.

"Men drinking, women shouldn't interfere." Lü Maowang, his mouth full of alcohol, pulled Lao Hu and drank another cup.

Sun Jiaojiao was used to it and said to Hao Jiening, "Didn't you hear about your man's frustrations at the company? You should let Lao Hu drink his fill since he finally has a chance to get out."

Even if Hao Jiening didn't want to, there was nothing she could do. She was too lazy to care, so she picked up her glass and started drinking wine with Sun Jiaojiao. It was all expensive stuff that Anna had brought, so she might as well drink it.

Sun Jiaojiao, who had drunk more than half a bottle of red wine, leaned against Gong Dalong's side, her face flushed, and became uncharacteristically sentimental: "The happiest thing in life is to be in your favorite place, doing what you love, and eating what you love. That's all, right?"

Looking at the tipsy woman, Gong Dalong, not knowing where she had seen those words, nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes, whatever you say is right. Okay, drink less."

"No, I have to get completely drunk tonight. You have to drink too." Sun Jiaojiao said, pouring him another glass of baijiu.

Gong Dalong couldn't hold his liquor very well and was already drunk, but he couldn't resist Sun Jiaojiao's forceful drinking, so he drank another glass.

Seeing Zhao Di, who was constantly live-streaming, Anna, who was a little tipsy, turned to Bai Ma Shan beside her and complained, "People these days can't live without electronic products. Coming out here is no different from being at home."

Bai Ma Shan, who was also flushed, agreed, "Electronic devices have indeed taken up a large part of our lives. My son can't leave his phone for a moment now, as if he's controlled by it. No matter what I say, it's useless. So this time, I'm trying not to look at my phone as much as possible. We can't let these machines control us; only then can we have a wonderful and relaxing vacation."

His words made Anna raise her glass of red wine. "Well said. Since we're here to relax, let's relax completely. Drink enough and get a good night's sleep. Tomorrow will be a new day."

Bai Ma Shan raised his glass of red wine and clinked it with Anna's, drinking half a glass of red wine in one gulp.

This action made Anna laugh out loud. "I didn't expect Dean Bai to have such a good alcohol tolerance. Have another one."

Both of them were tipsy, and Lü Maowang, who was playing guessing games with Lili and drinking baijiu next to them, had eyes that were bloodshot from drinking.

Teacher Lin and Old Man Wang were chatting about family matters. The two people, who were not far apart in age, also had a lot of complaints to make and drank even more fiercely than the young people.

The Hu couple had brought their child and hadn't drunk that much at first, but they couldn't resist the good wine on the boat. They all felt that since they had come all this way, they might as well drink as much as they could, so they kept drinking one cup after another.

At this moment, everyone on the boat except Nao Nao and Jia Wenjun was still relatively sober; the others were already drunk.

At this moment, Jia Wenjun, who was watching over the grill, didn't need to socialize with anyone. She sat relaxedly in her chair, feeling the most comfortable moment since she had boarded the boat.

The yacht was in the vast sea, the coastline stretching to the horizon, and the waves lapped against the hull. She closed her eyes, feeling the mysterious vastness between the sea and the sky, and the serene immensity.

Since she was out, she might as well try to make herself happy, even in a terrible environment.

After a while, Jia Wenjun opened her eyes and saw that the sea was pitch black under the night sky. She knew that this was the best time for night squid fishing. Squid like light, and they would come close when they saw the lights on the boat. They could be caught and grilled immediately, each one lively and vigorous.

If she were on a different fishing boat instead of this one, she would have already grabbed a rod. But right now, she didn't want to fish at all. Being in a place where she couldn't escape and having to interact with these people all the time left her physically and mentally exhausted.

Right now, she just wanted to temporarily put aside her troubles and worries and give herself a moment of peace.

But even this became wishful thinking. Zhao Di, who had been egged on by fans in the live broadcast room, had also drunk quite a bit. After going offline, she staggered towards Jia Wenjun with a bottle of wine in her hand.

She had always remembered that Jia Wenjun hadn't apologized to her today, so even if she was drunk, she couldn't let her have it easy.

"What? You want to turn around and leave as soon as you see me? Feeling guilty?"

Jia Wenjun looked indifferent. "I'm afraid your computer will fall into the sea again. It won't be fresh if you play the same trick again."

Whether she was drunk or just didn't take Jia Wenjun seriously, Zhao Di smiled contemptuously, walked up to her, lowered her voice, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "I know you hate me for stealing Lin Yang, so you deliberately made my phone fall. It's okay, I don't blame you, and I don't need you to pay for it. I got a good man from you, so it's only reasonable to give you an old phone back."