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"If you don't even have the nerve to sit down at the table, then forget about putting your chips on the line."
After receiving Adeline's advice, as he hesitated over betting nearly twenty million in chips all at once, Fang Ran recalled the words of that perfect, dignified figure.
He thought of how, to show her sincerity, she had chosen to speak directly with him despite him being a participant.
Fang Ran knew that beyond his own perspective, behind that seemingly friendly meeting lay the enormous risk Veronica had taken with her wealth and life.
But she had done it anyway. She had done it back at Night Pearl.
In order to recruit him and maximize the chance of persuading him, Veronica had even dared to meet a participant who could threaten her life at any moment.
The nerve to sit down at the table...
Fang Ran asked himself whether he possessed that kind of nerve. He questioned his heart and came to an answer. Clearly, he did not.
Rather, he had always resisted it.
He was unaccustomed to situations beyond his control. He did not want to lose the things he had in reality.
The personality shaped by every day of his life since birth made it impossible for Fang Ran to be like Veronica, who had lived her life as the master of Fies Erde.
He did not have the nerve to sit down at the table.
Why would anyone be willing to take such enormous risks?
For that instant, he could not help wondering what those who could do what he could not were thinking. But Fang Ran could also guess the reason.
Nothing more than the huge rewards such risks could bring.
Beneath the brilliant lights, Fang Ran looked at the nearly twenty million US