"Not only had you not lost the hundred million, you'd even won another fifty million?"
Fies Erde - Imperial Manor.
Under the dazzling sunlight, a tea table sat beneath the clear shadows of luxuriant trees. Beyond the lawn, the enormous manor, over ten meters tall, stretched far into the distance like a magnificent city wall.
Amid the fantastical summer scenery,
Veronica held her teacup and looked at the young man seated across from her. At the end of her flippant, oddly astonished remark, she could not help laughing out loud, her silver-gray hair framing her flawless figure.
Could you possibly look any happier?
And a third of the "credit" for those fifty million belonged to the person behind her.
Seeing Veronica's radiant smile, as though she had heard something amusing, Fang Ran silently lifted the black tea before him from his seat across from Adeline, who had her eyes closed as she waited.
Although the first thing that had happened after arriving in North America was being forced into an utterly absurd demand, the matter in Las Vegas had finally ended last night.
This morning, Fang Ran had returned to the Imperial Manor aboard that private jet.
"So, how did last night's hundred-million Gambling Game feel? Was it fun?"
Setting down her teacup with her pinky lightly raised, Veronica smiled at Fang Ran as she asked. Dappled tree shadows draped across her as she sat in the ornate chair.
Fun? It had gone a little too far beyond "fun."
Thinking of the chain of thoughts brought about by those "two reasons," Fang Ran had wanted to say exactly that. Instead, he stared wordlessly at this "mastermind."
"I'm saying, the matter at the pharmaceutical factory was so urgent, yet you still insisted on coercing me into going to the casino. You