"Mountains may stand still, but rivers turn. We meet again. I wonder if you still remember me, Young Master Tang?" Su Wei wore a faint smile.
"Of course I do. Didn't you just lose to me a few days ago?" Tang Yan looked utterly innocent.
Su Wei felt a tightness in his chest, almost as though he might cough up blood from anger. He had never expected Tang Yan to have so little emotional intelligence, or to speak so loudly.
A measure of viciousness rose in his heart, and he secretly resolved to thoroughly humiliate Tang Yan as soon as the match began.
"Tang Yan, how many moves do you think you can last against me?" Su Wei asked disdainfully, holding back his anger.
"Oh? How many do you think I can last, Young Master Su?" Tang Yan asked in return.
Su Wei smiled at that. "Would you dare make a wager with me, Young Master Tang?"
"What would you like to wager, Young Master Su?"
"Whether you can last twenty moves against me." Su Wei stood with his hands behind his back and declared arrogantly, "If you can last twenty moves, I'll pay you a thousand taels of silver for every additional move you withstand. If you lose within twenty moves, you must shout 'Cloud City is inferior to Yu City' three times in front of everyone. How about it?"
Su Wei's voice was neither loud nor soft, but enough people heard him. In the blink of an eye, his words spread rapidly, and soon everyone from the Eastern Domain who had come to watch knew the terms of his wager.
So this fellow wants to thoroughly humiliate me and recover some more of his lost face along the way.
The wager was quite good indeed. Tang Yan hesitated,