The story went back to when Gu Sheng was still traveling in America.
Knife and his friends took the amnesiac Ko Chun around the gambling dens. Although people often teased them about whether they had brought Ko Chun along, they never won much each time, and sometimes even lost a little, so nobody paid them much attention.
Instead, Knife and his friends began to feel something was off. Knife loved gambling, and Ko Chun was his idol, so they went to the cinema to watch God of Gamblers, which had recently taken Hong Kong Island by storm.
When they saw the characters dig a trap in the film, causing Gao Jin-that was his name in the film-to accidentally slide down a hillside, Knife's girlfriend Ah Zhen couldn't help muttering, "No way. Why does this look so familiar? Could Chocolate really be Ko Chun?"
"What are you talking about? It's just a movie! Didn't you see what it said when you watched it? 'Any resemblance is purely coincidental.' This is a coincidence!" Knife looked utterly dismissive.
"Those people in the movie have the same names as us!" Ah Zhen whispered.
"They filmed this months ago. What, can they tell the future? They knew months ago what was going to happen?" Knife thought Ah Zhen was being a little ridiculous.
How could reality be the same as a movie? That was absurd.
Then, when Knife and the others in the film discovered Chocolate was an expert gambler and took him around the gambling dens, Knife pointed at the big screen. "Look, it's completely different! So it's just a coincidence!"
Although the overall course was similar, the details differed greatly.
"Will you shut up? This is a cinema. If you want to talk, go home!" someone in the back row snapped.
"You haven't