For Shi Yijian, the name Mo Chou carried enormous weight in his heart.
The reason was simple: her status as his first love said it all.
Although Shi Yijian had later married someone else, the emotions entwining him and Mo Chou were incredibly complicated.
They were ties that could neither be severed nor untangled. No description could have been more fitting.
Shi Yijian and Mo Chou had come close to marrying on two occasions.
The first was when Shi Yijian had just earned the title of Invincible Under Heaven.
The second was after Shi Yijian's wife had passed away, when he was serving as director of the Gambling Alliance in Las Vegas, America.
If the first time had ended in their separation because of Shi Yijian's stubborn personality,
then the second near-marriage had fallen through because Shi Yijian had discovered some of the secrets Mo Chou was hiding.
His first love was by no means as simple or uncomplicated as she appeared.
By then, both of them could be said to have achieved a certain degree of success.
It was then that Shi Yijian discovered Mo Chou secretly had close ties with many international power players.
Only people with a certain amount of international influence, or even immense influence, qualified for that description.
There was black and white in this world, as well as the gray that skirted the edges of the law.
The international power players whom Shi Yijian shunned like the plague were clearly not prominent figures on the legitimate side.
They were not even in the gray area, but outright criminal forces.
Although the gambling industry in which Shi Yijian worked constituted criminal activity in many countries,
in special cities such as Macau and Las Vegas, he could make his living entirely in the open.
Leaning slightly