Shen Tang stepped into the gambling stall with the mindset of "building wealth and achieving moderate prosperity," her pretty face glowing with delighted smiles.
If this world's background could be made tangible...
Her background would probably be drifting with pink flowers right now.
Anyone could tell how happy she was inside without even looking.
Kang Shi, who knew the truth: "..."
How should he put it tactfully to his lord that this trip would not make them rich overnight, but instead worsen their situation? That her already impoverished private treasury was about to suffer a devastating blow?
Kang Shi tried several times to speak.
But each time, some expectation made him swallow the words back down.
ε=(ο｀*))) Sigh.
Then he thought that if this trip could make his lord quit gambling for good and truly understand the principle that "gambling is no virtuous deed," it would still be a beautiful thing. Kang Shi lowered his eyelids and watched the tips of his lord's ponytail swaying behind her head as he thought this.
Calling it a gambling stall would be more accurate if one called it a small gambling den.
The stall was tucked inside a shabby residence in a deep alley.
Kang Shi gave his lord a meaningful look.
Tsk, tsk.
This gambling stall was hidden in an awfully secretive location.
He had no idea how his lord had even found it.
"My lord, wait."
Kang Shi raised a hand to stop Shen Tang from going inside.
"Let me scout ahead."
With that, he lifted the filthy, grimy coarse-cloth curtain, whose original color could no longer be seen, and pushed open the Wooden Door. The residence was shabby, but its area was not small. Hot air mixed with all kinds of smells rushed at them, while the room buzzed with