Shen Zhe narrowed his eyes. What a bunch of rotten friends.
Still... it sounded pretty good.
Shen Zhe nodded. "Of course I have no problem with it. There's no way I'll lose. I just don't know if..."
Ye Nanshen slapped a black card onto the table. "I'll raise the stakes. If I lose, you get a Sea-and-Sky Villa."
Shen Zhe's eyes widened.
Everyone else's jaws dropped, too.
As the name suggested, a Sea-and-Sky Villa was a villa on the coast, worth a fortune. You could admire the ocean from indoors, and plenty of people couldn't buy one even if they wanted to. This little simp actually owned one?
Not to be outdone, Shen Zhe pushed his chips forward, too. "Fine. Then I'm going all in with the villa I'm living in."
"How cosmopolitan," Gu Luosheng mocked. "Throwing English into your sentences now, even if you're using it wrong."
Shen Zhe: ...
"Have some sympathy for someone missing his brain stem. Just managing to get those English words out was hard enough for him," Ye Nanshen said with an understanding expression.
Gu Luosheng nodded. "All right."
Everyone: ...
These two were quite the pair.
The card game officially began.
Gu Luosheng kept her eyes and ears on everything. With a slight tilt of her head, she caught sight of Shen Zhe's cards.
Holy crap, a straight flush?
Ye Nanshen lifted his gaze slightly. Oh? So Shen Zhe had a straight flush?
Trash.
The moment Shen Zhe received his cards, his lips curled into a smile. Victory was his.
"Mr. Ye, there's still time to admit defeat," Shen Zhe gloated.
Ye Nanshen remained composed. He hadn't even... looked at his cards.
Gu Luosheng started getting a little anxious, too.
She pressed her lips together and tugged at his sleeve. "How about... we