Su Bai held the shatterproof practice bottle Lao K handed him, casually weighing it in his hand.
The flimsy, lightweight feel of the plastic material made him extremely uncomfortable.
"The feel of this thing is wrong. It's too light, there's no weight feedback," Su Bai said in a flat tone, casually tossing the set of practice bottles back onto the bar counter.
Immediately after, under Lao K's astonished gaze, Su Bai reached out and took down four real glass bottles filled with expensive imported liquor from the top-tier liquor cabinet behind him.
Seeing this scene, a wave of low gasps immediately rippled around the bar.
Lao K's eyelids twitched violently, and he quickly spoke up to stop him: "Young Master Su! These real bottles are extremely heavy, and if you drop them, the glass shards could hurt someone! This is your first time, please don't..."
However, before Lao K could finish his sentence, his voice caught dead in his throat.
Because Su Bai had already made his move.
For the first half-second, Su Bai's movements indeed carried a trace of visible clumsiness; after all, this was the first time in both of his lifetimes combined that he had touched flair bartending.
But after merely two rounds of tossing and catching, things took a bizarre turn.
His terrifying physique, reaching an astonishing 160 points and breaking through the physiological limits of humanity, granted Su Bai an abnormal level of muscle control. Moreover, his superhuman dynamic vision and neural reaction speed allowed him to completely master all the power-generation techniques Lao K had just demonstrated in an instant.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The four heavy glass bottles instantly transformed into an impenetrable blur of afterimages in Su Bai's hands!
The hint of professional arrogance that had previously lingered in Lao K's eyes froze instantly. He stared fixedly at Su Bai's wrists, his pupils trembling violently, as if he were looking at some inconceivable monster.
Fast! Too fast!
Su Bai's movements not only perfectly replicated the techniques he had just shown, but in terms of speed, power, and fluidity, they reached a realm that was simply impossible for a human to achieve!
Su Bai suddenly spread his hands outward, and the four bottles were simultaneously tossed three meters into the air!
"Holy shit!" A terrified scream erupted from the crowd.
Wang Jie, the bar owner standing to the side, was so frightened his heart nearly stopped. If those four bottles smashed onto Su Bai's head, his bar, which cost tens of millions to build, would have to close its doors for good tomorrow!
But in the next second, a scene that made everyone's scalp tingle unfolded.
Su Bai didn't even look up at the ceiling. He unhurriedly picked up a silver cocktail shaker. As the four bottles tumbled and fell with pinpoint accuracy, Su Bai's wrists wove through the air like gliding dragons.
Clink! Clink! Clink! Clink!
Four incredibly crisp clinking sounds rang out in succession. The mouths of the four bottles struck the edge of the cocktail shaker one after another with absolute precision.
Liquors of different colors intertwined in the air to form a brilliant rainbow, falling into the shaker without spilling a single drop. Following that, with a flick of his wrists, Su Bai sent the four bottles landing securely back onto the bar's liquor rack without making even the slightest sound of collision.
Immediately after, Su Bai held the cocktail shaker with one hand, tracing a perfect large loop in the air, while his other hand grabbed a lighter and gently flicked it at the mouth of the shaker.
Whoosh!
A pillar of ghostly blue fire, several times more spectacular than the one Lao K had produced earlier, shot up into the sky. The scorching heat even distorted the surrounding air, and the blue flames illuminated the entire domed ceiling of the bar.
The entire venue fell dead silent.
The deafening electronic music seemed to lose its sound at this moment. Everyone stood as if struck by a paralyzing spell, staring blankly at the unhurried young man behind the bar.
A full five seconds passed.
Plop.
The bar towel in Lao K's hand dropped to the floor. He drew in a sharp breath of cold air, feeling his scalp tingle as goosebumps erupted all over his body.
"This... this is fucking impossible! This kind of hang time and the precision of those blind catches completely defy ergonomics!" Lao K muttered to himself, thoroughly doubting his entire existence.
He had trained bitterly for ten whole years, smashing countless bottles every day, just to place in the top three at the Asian Flair Bartending Championship. Yet the young master before him had only watched him demonstrate it once, and directly pulled off god-tier moves that he wouldn't be able to achieve in his entire lifetime!
It was a near-perfect bartending performance, so perfect that it made this veteran bartender feel a profound sense of despair and worship.
"Bravo!!!"
"Badass!!!"
After the brief dead silence, the entire bar erupted into screams and cheers that threatened to tear off the roof. Countless second-generation heirs and socialites applauded madly, with whistles ringing out one after another.
Wang Jie was so excited his face turned bright red, and he clapped until his hands were raw.
Su Bai's expression remained calm, his breathing not even faltering for a second. He elegantly poured the mixed ghostly blue liquor into a goblet, pushed open the bar counter flap, and walked out.
"Try it," Su Bai said, handing the glass to Liu Chenyang, who had long since been left dumbfounded.
Liu Chenyang took the glass with both hands. It was as if stars were twinkling in the eyes she fixed on Su Bai; she was utterly overwhelmed with adoration.
The two of them held their glasses and returned to the supreme booth, which had the best view in the entire venue.
Sitting in the booth were several fashionably dressed young women with extraordinary auras. These were Liu Chenyang's best friends in this circle, every one of them a wealthy, beautiful heiress whose family assets exceeded a hundred million.
Normally, these heiresses had incredibly high standards, and ordinary men couldn't even catch their eye. But right now, the way these girls looked at Su Bai had completely changed.
"Yangyang, your man is... way too exaggerated, isn't he?" A friend wearing haute couture Chanel leaned in, lowering her voice, which was filled with unconcealed amazement. "I just saw that head bartender Lao K, his jaw almost dropped to the floor. The way he looked at Young Master Su was like he was looking at God!"
Another long-haired girl holding a glass stared intently at Su Bai's devastatingly handsome side profile and whispered in agreement, "He's seriously so handsome! And it's not that greasy, pretty-boy kind of handsome. Did you see how calm he was while bartending just now? It was absolutely incredible, so manly!"
"Tell me about it!" A girl nearby wearing a Bvlgari necklace looked full of admiration and excitedly slapped her thigh. "Those rich guys we usually see in our circle, which one of them doesn't have a beer belly, only knowing how to throw money around opening Ace of Spades to show off? Or else they're just a bunch of useless bums who only know how to street race. Look at Young Master Su! Not only is his wealth sky-high, but these skills, this aura... it's simply a dimensional strike of absolute perfection! He's not even the same species as those ordinary rich guys!"
Hearing her best friends' unsparing praise, Liu Chenyang felt sweeter than if she had eaten honey, proudly straightening her back.
Her man, no matter where he went, would always be the most dazzling, invincible existence.
At this moment, the girl wearing Chanel rolled her eyes playfully, carrying a bit of teasing laughter as she reached out and poked Liu Chenyang in the waist.
"Hey, I'm telling you, Yangyang, the two of you standing together are such a perfect match, truly a heaven-made pairing of a talented man and a beautiful woman."
The long-haired girl joined in the teasing, leaning in to whisper in Liu Chenyang's ear, "Exactly! With such a top-tier man, who knows how many little vixens out there have their eyes on him. Shouldn't you step up your game and lock him down for good?"
"Lock him down? Our Yangyang is already Young Master Su's absolute favorite." The girl wearing the necklace covered her mouth and giggled, dropping a bombshell. "If you ask me, when dealing with a god-tier man like him, you need to hurry up and have his baby! Don't you know that a mother's status rises with her child? Hurry up and give him a big, chubby baby boy to permanently cement your position as the main wife!"
At this bold teasing, Liu Chenyang's exquisitely beautiful face instantly flushed red all the way to her ears.
"What... what nonsense are you guys spouting!" Liu Chenyang stomped her feet in embarrassment, wishing she could find a hole in the ground to swallow her up.
However, her heart was pounding wildly in her chest.
Have a baby?
Recalling her father Liu Chenhu's urgent words at the dinner table tonight pressing her to have a child, and then looking at Su Bai sitting beside her, as dazzling and perfect as a god.
Liu Chenyang blushed furiously, but deep down, she actually yearned for it.
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
