"Rest easy, junior sisters. Tonight's wager concerns your dignity, reputations, and fortunes. With so many Heavenly Prodigies bearing witness, it carries tremendous weight."
Lu Ding rose and declared in a ringing voice that reverberated through the entire banquet hall, the authority of the City Lord's Residence spreading with his words.
"As your hosts, we of the City Lord's Residence are willing to serve as witnesses for you two Heavenly Prodigies and oversee the wager from beginning to end. We will ensure absolute fairness, without the slightest discrepancy.
"If either party goes back on her word afterward and refuses to honor her wager, our City Lord's Residence will devote all its resources to pursuing the matter. Even if we must chase her to the ends of the earth, we will obtain justice for the party who kept her word and recover everything she is owed!"
No sooner had he finished than his piercing gaze settled heavily on Zhou Duoduo. Hidden deep in his eyes was a certainty others could scarcely detect-Zhou Duoduo was bound to lose.
By stepping forward as a witness now, he would gain a reputation for fairness and integrity regardless of who ultimately won, while also earning one side's gratitude and favor. Why would he pass up a deal with everything to gain and nothing to lose?
"Hmph, Zhou Bully, stop dragging your feet and putting on airs. Don't waste everyone's precious time!"
Yang Jihua arched her slender brows, her face full of contempt and the mockery at the corners of her mouth practically spilling over.
"Hurry up and show us your 'masterpiece.' I'd like to see what incoherent rubbish an empty-headed fool without a drop of ink in her belly can squeeze out!"
In her heart, victory was already assured. Five or six Heavenly Prodigies on