Chapter 21: Truth or Dare

Dongfang Qinlan and Wangquan Zui were enjoying the hot pot while instructing the servants to add more dishes. They were having a great time.

"Sister, look at the dipping sauce I made following your instructions. See if it passes the test." Just then, Dongfang Qinlan came up to Dongfang Huaizhu with a bowl of her own special dipping sauce, showing it off like a treasure.

When Wangquan Baoye saw the dipping sauce in Dongfang Qinlan's hand, he immediately became interested. In the Wangquan family, they usually just added some vinegar or garlic. He had never seen such a sauce bowl.

Dongfang Huaizhu took the sauce bowl from Dongfang Qinlan, examined it for a moment, picked up chopsticks to taste it, then closed her eyes and savored it carefully. Then she said, "A bit less Chinese chive flower, but otherwise it's good."

Dongfang Qinlan nodded with a big smile and happily stretched out her little hand to take back the sauce bowl.

Unexpectedly, a hand had already taken the sauce bowl first. The owner of this hand was Wangquan Baoye.

While everyone was enjoying the delicious food, Li Zhuzhuo and others were still offering Dongfang Huaizhu drinks under various pretexts. Dongfang Huaizhu couldn't refuse, and gradually got drunk. Her head began to feel dizzy.

Dongfang Qinlan had eaten enough and started tugging on Dongfang Huaizhu's arm, thinking about some other fun things to do.

Dongfang Huaizhu also didn't want to be offered drinks anymore, so she quickly said, "How about we play a game!"

Wangquan Zui clapped her hands and laughed, "Great, great! Just eating is so boring! What game shall we play?"

Dongfang Huaizhu squinted her eyes and then said in a mysterious and gentle voice, "The name of this game is Truth or Dare!"

Everyone began to scratch their heads. Wangquan Baoye asked, "Truth or Dare? What's that?"

Dongfang Huaizhu patiently sat on her seat and then said slowly, "Well, we'll use the palm - back method to pick a person. The palm - back method is that all of us stretch out our hands at the same time. If one person stretches out the palm while the rest of us stretch out the back of the hand, then the person who stretched out the palm will be the one to be punished. The same goes for the back of the hand."

"What kind of punishment will the punished person receive?" Wangquan Zui propped her chin with one hand, looking very serious.

"That will be up to the punished person to choose, either Truth or Dare. If they choose Truth, we'll ask a question, and the punished person must give their answer and must tell the truth. If they choose Dare, we can instruct the punished person to do something, and that person can't refuse." Dongfang Huaizhu explained slowly.

Everyone suddenly understood and then rolled up their sleeves, eager to start.

In the first round of the palm - back game, everyone chose the palm, but Wangquan Zui chose the back of the hand.

Wangquan Zui lost the game and said with annoyance, "How did you guys manage to be so in sync? You all chose the same, only I was different!" She muttered to herself.

"No cheating! You lost. Do you choose Truth or Dare?" Li Quzhuo quickly said.

Wangquan Zui had to pout and reluctantly say, "Then I'll choose Dare!"

"What task shall we give?" Li Zizai rubbed his forehead and pursed his lips.

"Little sister, since it's your first time playing, it'll be a simple one. Go and get two more plates of mutton for us." Wangquan Baoye felt a bit sorry seeing his little sister's reluctant look.

"That won't do. Such a simple task can be easily completed by anyone!" Li Zizai mumbled unwillingly.

Dongfang Huaizhu didn't know what to do at this moment, but thought that a game was a game. Breaking the rules would disrupt the balance of the game.

"Mr. Li Zizai is right. If Miss Wangquan does such a simple task this time, the next punished person will be dissatisfied. It's unfair. It's better to change the task."

Wangquan Baoye thought carefully and found that Dongfang Huaizhu's words made sense. So he said, "How about this, little sister? How about you get five plates of mutton?"

Just as Wangquan Zui was about to complain, Wangquan Baoye interrupted and said, "Of course, you can't use your hands. How about it?"

"Can't use hands?" Wangquan Zui looked at her elder brother Wangquan Baoye with a dazed look. After thinking for a while, she thought her brother was really tough.

"This is great. Sister Wangquan, I believe you can definitely do it." Dongfang Qinlan looked up with a big smile and said to Wangquan Zui.

Wangquan Zui had no choice but to brace herself. Before leaving, she glared at Li Zizai, as if to say, "Just wait until you lose. I'll make you pay!"

After a while, Wangquan Zui came back. Three plates of mutton were stacked on her head, and one plate was placed on each of her left and right arms. She walked towards everyone step by step.

Wangquan Zui's eyes seemed to be on fire. No one knew how she managed to get here. Everyone around her was pointing at her, making Wangquan Zui lose face completely.

Wangquan Zui took a few quick steps. Wangquan Baoye quickly took all the mutton off his sister and put it on the table.

Immediately, Wangquan Zui heaved a sigh of relief and sat back in her seat.

"Let's start." Wangquan Baoye then said.

Dongfang Qinlan immediately put all the newly - served mutton into the pot. Then there was another round. This time, everyone showed the same for several rounds in a row. Finally, Li Zizai showed a different one from the others. Everyone asked him to choose the game punishment.

"I'll choose Dare again!" Li Zizai had a black look on his face. He didn't expect that everyone would show the same for three consecutive rounds, so he chose the opposite in the fourth round. Unexpectedly, everyone still didn't change in the fourth round.

Wangquan Zui volunteered to come up with a task and said, "Then you go to the street and strike up a conversation with a random woman. It doesn't matter how the conversation goes. How about it?"

Li Zizai naturally didn't want to, but was opposed by everyone, especially Wangquan Zui.

"That won't do. Do you know how I walked through the crowd with five plates of mutton on my head just now? I haven't suffered such humiliation in more than ten years. The last time was when I was wearing open - crotch pants."

Wangquan Baoye also said, "Indeed, the game rules are the game rules."

"Big brother, why are you saying this too?" Although Li Zizai thought it might damage his image, in order not to spoil everyone's fun, he still braced himself and stepped on his flying sword to the street.

Everyone also flew into the air and followed him, but hid in the distance and quietly observed.

Li Zizai looked at the people hiding not far away secretly observing him and couldn't help gritting his teeth. Was it really necessary to be so serious? Now that things had come to this, he could only brace himself.