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"We now interrupt this program with breaking news, our nation's esteemed bartender and wine master, Mr. Li Jiedong, due to his dedication to fine wines, unexpectedly fell into a coma after recklessly sampling an unearthed Han Dynasty wine. Unfortunately, treatments over a period of seventy-two hours were unsuccessful, leading to his demise. He was thirty-two years old."

"Mr. Li Jiedong, was not just our nation's but the world's most outstanding bartender and wine master, a consecutive five-time champion of the Fidelity International Bartending Competition, and the Honorary Chairman of the International Union of Bartenders. He was the founder of Li's Mixing Method. He was also an Honorary Director of the International Wine Tasting Association, the only recipient of the International Six Star Imperial Diamond Medal, as well as the founder of the Sixth Sense Wine Tasting Method. He was recognized as the world's leading Liquor God."

"Mr. Li Jiedong's short life of thirty-two years was almost entirely devoted to wine, and his accomplishments were unprecedented. According to friends, Mr. Li Jiedong took the risk to taste all the fine wines of the world, which led him to sample an undiluted, now jellied Han Dynasty wine. This induced an untreatable coma. Mr. Li Jiedong's death is a tremendous loss to the global bartending and wine tasting industry. So far, condolences have been received from wine associations in thirty-seven countries..."