Chapter 20 Pain and Pleasure

At a small restaurant outside the school, Lin Huai ordered peanuts and a dish of meat fried with pepper. Both of them requested for more than ten bottles of beer and they began to drink.

After they had downed several bottles of beer, Wang Hongwei burst into tears. His eyes were red as he cried and said, "Brother Huai, don't you think that I'm a coward? But all I want is to attend school and study well."

Lin Huai didn't drink too much, but he felt dizzy. He pounded the table lightly, looked around, and said, "We are men, there is no need to cry. If there is something that needs to be said, just tell me."

"Just let me cry. Usually I wouldn’t dare to cry even if I wanted to."

Lin Huai was silent. He wasn’t sure what kind of environment would cause someone to be such a coward.

"We were just an average family and didn’t have a lot of money. It was not easy for my mum to support me and sponsor my studies at university. You