Chapter 1 Entering the Bar

After waiting in line for a while, Zhou Yi and Mark finally entered the bar called "Bierbar" after paying a total of twenty euros for tickets.

As soon as he entered, Zhou Yi found it quite noisy. Intense electronic music reverberated throughout the place, and in the center dance floor, under psychedelic lights, men and women were shaking their heads and bodies to their heart's content.

Zhou Yi was a fun-loving person, otherwise, he wouldn't have agreed to come to the bar with Mark so easily. However, as an ordinary student studying in China, the wildest place he had ever been was karaoke. This was his first time in such a lively place similar to a disco.

Looking at the men and women on the dance floor who were almost sticking together, Zhou Yi felt a little uncomfortable. He was curious but didn't dare to let his eyes linger on those people for too long.

He was a little worried that Mark would take him down to dance, but fortunately, Mark didn't seem interested in that either, leading him through the crowded people, looking for empty seats.

There were a lot of people here, so finding an empty seat wasn't easy.

After the two of them circled around, they finally found an empty seat a little further away from the dance floor.

Mark told Zhou Yi to grab the seat while he went to the bar to buy drinks.

Zhou Yi sat in the chair, turning his head around and looking around, examining the bar.

This was completely different from the bar he had imagined. He thought a bar would be like a café in China, except everyone switched from drinking coffee to drinking alcohol. Or like those sports bars he saw on TV in foreign countries, where people ordered a drink, watched the game, and chatted.

In any case, the scene he had imagined had nothing to do with what he was seeing now.

What kind of bar was this?

This was simply a… nightclub!

But in Germany, "bar" is a very general term, which can refer to a very traditional pub, or a club like the one Zhou Yi was seeing now.

In the German nightlife, bars, clubs, nightclubs, and parties are very important.

Here, Zhou Yi not only saw young men and women but also some slightly older middle-aged people. Of course, there were mostly men.

The women here were basically dressed very sexily, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe it as revealing.

When they danced on the dance floor, the two mounds in front of their chests were also swaying, making Zhou Yi dizzy...

Who said Germans were meticulous and rigid and didn't know how to have fun?

Germans can go crazier than anyone else!

They were only suited and booted and proper when they were outside or at work. Once they entered such entertainment venues, they would put down their usual disguises and let themselves go.

The more self-disciplined they were usually, the more indulgent they were now.

This could be seen from the fact that brothels were legal in Germany.

Of the four most famous red-light districts in Europe, two were in Germany, one in Hamburg and one in Frankfurt. The red-light district in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is world-famous, but actually, the largest red-light district in Europe is not in Amsterdam, but in Hamburg, Germany.

It's brightly lit at night and filled with visitors.

And in Berlin, Germany, there are famous gay bars, as well as sex clubs that require people to strip down to their underwear before entering. German bars and nightclubs can do whatever they want behind closed doors, fully releasing their nature.

The place Mark brought Zhou Yi to was just an ordinary club. Everyone just came in to dance and drink. If they wanted to do something more intimate, they would rely on their own abilities to hook up, and then take them out. Whether they went home or had an open relationship, or even had car sex, that was their own business and had nothing to do with the bar.

You can take the opportunity to pick up girls by dancing on the dance floor, or you can just find a corner to sit down and drink and chat.

But of course, Zhou Yi and Mark couldn't drink alcohol.

When Mark came back with two glasses of juice, Zhou Yi was a little surprised: "Juice?"

"If you're under eighteen, they won't sell you alcohol," Mark explained. "Did you think bars only sell alcoholic beverages?"

"Do they even check your ID?" Zhou Yi asked.

"They don't always check, an experienced bartender can tell your approximate age just by looking at your face," Mark said, taking a sip of the juice.

Zhou Yi also took a sip, but he was thinking that if he let Guo Nu buy it, wouldn't he be able to buy alcohol successfully?

The two drank juice and looked around. Mark said proudly, "How is it? Lively, right? Does China have this?"

Zhou Yi rolled his eyes: "That's nothing new! We have bars everywhere in China. I've never seen anyone line up for twenty minutes to get into a bar in China. In China, you only need to line up to use a public toilet!"

Zhou Yi was forcibly bragging. In fact, he had never been to a bar in China. And in China, it's not just going to the toilet that requires lining up. But it didn't matter, since Mark had never been to China, he couldn't call his bluff.

Sure enough, Mark's eyes widened when he heard Zhou Yi's words: "China is so amazing?"

"Don't watch those Chinese movies on your country's TV, they're all showing our remote mountain areas and scenes from decades ago. Those media can't wait to make everyone in Germany think that Chinese people are still living in the Middle Ages. If you want, I'll take you to China next summer! I'll take you to Shanghai and Beijing to see real international metropolises! Let me tell you, Dortmund is like a countryside compared to Shanghai!" Zhou Yi said triumphantly.

He wasn't wrong about that. Not to mention comparing it to Shanghai, he felt that even compared to his hometown, a provincial capital, Dortmund was like a countryside...

"I don't believe it!" Mark shook his head in disbelief at Zhou Yi's disparaging remarks about his hometown.

"There's a saying in China: 'Seeing is believing.' If you don't believe me, I'll take you to see it next summer!"

Mark frowned and said, "But I have heard that Chinese people are very rich. Last year, my family went to Paris, and there were many Chinese people in the Galeries Lafayette. They were all crowding around the LV, Gucci... luxury goods counters buying, buying, buying. I saw a Chinese woman about fifty years old carrying seven or eight LV bags in her hands! It was crazy..."

As the two were talking about topics related to China, three people suddenly squeezed in beside them and placed large glasses filled with beer heavily on their table.

"Sigh, that girl was really pretty just now! But she was too arrogant, wasn't she?"

"Yeah, yeah, I thought Schneider would definitely be able to get her, but I didn't expect... tsk, tsk!"

"Schneider even revealed his identity... but she didn't even glance at him... pretending to be pure, how disgusting!"

"That's right, she's probably more of a slut in bed than anyone else! Looking at her figure, if I could get into bed with her... that would be really... hahaha!"

Two voices were discussing without regard for others.

The person in the middle of them had a gloomy face and drank his beer in large gulps, obviously in a bad mood.

Then he saw a familiar face.

At the same time, Mark saw three familiar faces.

Seeing Mark, Schneider, who had a gloomy face, suddenly burst into a bright smile, as if the things that had upset him just now had been instantly thrown to the back of his mind.

"Oh, Mark? You actually got let in by security? Did you sneak in through the back door?"

Although he said it with surprise, his face was filled with a mocking expression.

Mark, who had been quite happy, immediately lowered his head and became silent as soon as he saw Schneider appear next to him.

He didn't want to pay attention to Schneider. The other party was already the main striker of the U19 team, so he would subconsciously feel inferior whenever he saw him.

"Juice?!" Schneider's face also exaggeratedly burst into laughter after seeing what Mark was drinking. "What's a minor doing in a bar? Staying at home and playing video games is what entertainment should be for kids."

He seemed to want to vent all the anger he had encountered in front of the beauty on Mark, and his words were particularly harsh.

The two companions behind him also laughed presumptuously.

Amidst their laughter, Mark just lowered his head and didn't say a word.

In the midst of the laughter, someone suddenly said, "But Schneider, I remember you're not eighteen yet, are you?"

Only then did Schneider notice that there was an Asian-looking kid next to Mark—before this, he really hadn't seen Zhou Yi at all.

"Who are you?" he asked in an unfriendly tone.

"Zhou Yi, your teammate in the U19 team," Zhou Yi took the initiative to extend his hand to Schneider.

But Schneider just glanced at Zhou Yi's outstretched hand and didn't mean to shake it: "I don't remember having someone like you on our team."

"Oh, a future teammate," Zhou Yi retracted his hand after seeing that the other party was unwilling to shake it, and pointed to the beer next to Schneider and asked Mark, "Didn't you say the bartender wouldn't sell alcohol to minors?"

"My brother bought it, what's it to you?" Before Mark could answer, Schneider pointed to the person next to him.

Zhou Yi looked over and then suddenly realized: "No wonder, with such a mature face, you look like you're forty years old..."

The other party was furious: "I'm only eighteen years old!!"

Zhou Yi covered his mouth, widened his eyes, and put on an unbelievable expression.

So the other party was even more dissatisfied: "What's with that expression on your face!"

"Ah, sorry, sorry, I'm so sorry..." Zhou Yi apologized quickly.

Mark, who had been with Zhou Yi day and night for a month, naturally saw that Zhou Yi was teasing the other party, so he couldn't help but laugh.

His laughter made the expression on Schneider's face look very bad. He began to feel that nothing seemed to be going right tonight.

He finally found a target in the bar, and confidently went up to chat with her, but was rejected with a glare and sarcasm.

After seeing Mark, he originally planned to make himself feel better by mocking him. In his impression, Mark was like a silent punching bag, and no matter how much he stimulated him, he wouldn't say a word.

Unexpectedly, an Asian kid who claimed to be his future teammate suddenly popped up to cause trouble...

Now he and his brother had become the objects of ridicule!

It was simply unbearable!

He was going to make this Chinese kid lose face!

A thought suddenly popped into his head.

"Hey, Chinese kid," so he nodded at Zhou Yi, "How about we play a game?"

"What game?"

"Look," Schneider pointed in a direction.

Zhou Yi followed his gaze: "A competition to see who can pee the farthest?"

Schneider's forehead bulged with veins: "What are you thinking about!"

"Isn't that the toilet?" Zhou Yi pointed in the direction Schneider was pointing, saying aggrievedly. There was indeed a lighted toilet sign in the direction Schneider was pointing, which was very prominent in the dimly lit bar.

"Over there, who the hell told you to look at the toilet sign! Over there, to the left of the toilet! The left! That table! See that woman in the red dress with her back to us!" Schneider couldn't help but roar. When he was facing Mark, he could always ridicule the other party with a smile on his face, fully enjoying that superior feeling.

But when facing this Asian kid, he would always get his temper riled up with just a few words from the other party.

"Ah, a woman. You didn't say it clearly yourself..." Zhou Yi complained. "And then?"

"If you can successfully invite her to have a drink with you..." Schneider glanced at the two glasses of juice on the table with disdain, "I'll buy you two more glasses of juice!"

Zhou Yi shook his head: "How much can two glasses of juice cost? The reward for your game is too low, I'm not interested."

At the same time, he got up and pulled Mark to leave. He didn't want to sit with these three people and spoil his mood.

Seeing that Zhou Yi was actually going to back down, Schneider was a little surprised - he thought Zhou Yi would go at it with him, but he didn't expect the other party to not accept the challenge!

But how could he not accept the challenge?

He had to make this Chinese kid lose face here today!

Perhaps it was the effect of alcohol, Schneider said to Zhou Yi's back: "One hundred! If you can successfully invite that woman to have a drink with you, I'll give you one hundred! One hundred euros! I bet you've never seen that much money in your life!"

Mark, who was originally being dragged away by Zhou Yi, suddenly realized that Zhou Yi next to him had stopped...