When Wang Tengfei heard this, he could barely contain his excitement.
His car was a 540, and Ye Chen's was a 520. Even if Ye Chen drove himself to death, he couldn't possibly win.
Yet he actually dared to make such a huge bet with him!
If a 30,000-firecracker string were lit inside the car, the car would be ruined. The interior, seats, and dashboard would all be blown to pieces.
Since Ye Chen was courting death, he had handed Wang Tengfei a perfect opportunity to humiliate him!
So Wang Tengfei nodded almost without hesitation and shouted, "Everyone, be our witnesses! Ye Chen and I are going to see whose car is faster. Whoever loses has to light this string of firecrackers inside his car!"
Then he added, "Whoever backs out and welshes on the bet, may his whole family drop dead!"
A few male classmates nearby immediately began cheering them on. When the classmates upstairs heard what was happening, they poured out too. Twenty or thirty people gathered at the entrance, waiting for a good show.
Everyone thought Ye Chen was a fool. He dared challenge a 540 with a 520? The road was straight the whole way. Which car was faster had little to do with skill; it depended entirely on the cars' performance.
Even if Schumacher drove a 520, he couldn't possibly overtake a 540!
It looked like Ye Chen's brand-new BMW 520 was about to be declared a write-off!
Xiao Churan kept trying to persuade him. "Ye Chen, don't let him goad you into this. He's doing it on purpose. Let's not race him."
Ye Chen smiled faintly. "Don't worry, honey. Your husband never loses."
Wang Tengfei laughed loudly. "Well, Ye Chen, whatever else I might say, I admire your guts! Hahaha, in that case, enough talk. Let's get in our cars and race!"
"Sure." Ye Chen nodded and asked, "How do you want to do it?"
Wang Tengfei pointed to the intersection at the end of the road. "We start at the same time and see who reaches that intersection first, then turn around and come back. There and back, whoever returns first wins. What do you say?"
Ye Chen smiled. "No problem!"
"Good!" Wang Tengfei said excitedly. "Everyone, be our witnesses. We'll start the race right now!"
With that, he climbed into his BMW 540 and drove onto the main road.
Ignoring Xiao Churan's attempts to stop him, Ye Chen pulled up beside Wang Tengfei, lining up the front ends of their cars.
Just then, a boy eager to join the fun said with a grin, "I'll count you down!"
"Good!" Wang Tengfei said with a laugh. "Start when you're ready!"
Ye Chen nodded and switched his BMW 760 into sport mode.
The BMW 760 had a 6.6-liter engine producing 585 horsepower.
The BMW 540 beside it had a 3.0-liter engine producing 340 horsepower.
Its engine displacement was less than half the 760's, and it had 245 fewer horsepower. They were as different as heaven and earth!
But how could Wang Tengfei have known that Ye Chen's 520 was actually a top-of-the-line 760? He still thought victory was already in his grasp.
The classmate in charge of the countdown shouted excitedly, "Ready! Three, two, one!"
The moment the words left his mouth, Wang Tengfei floored the accelerator!
He knew Ye Chen was bound to lose, but he wanted to make his defeat even uglier!
So he had to go as fast as he could!
But he hadn't expected a black shadow to shoot forward on his right, leaving him far behind in an instant!
It was Ye Chen's BMW 520!
Wang Tengfei could hardly believe his eyes!
Fuck!
How is this possible?!
This is impossible!
His BMW 520 had only 184 horsepower, while Wang Tengfei's car had 340, almost twice as much! How could he have overtaken him so easily?!?
The classmates watching the spectacle were dumbfounded too!
No one had expected Ye Chen, whom everyone thought was bound to lose, to shoot past Wang Tengfei like an arrow from a bow, leaving him far behind in an instant!
Before Wang Tengfei had even reached the halfway point, Ye Chen had already turned around at the intersection at the end!
By the time Wang Tengfei was about to turn around, Ye Chen had already driven back to the starting point!
Ye Chen had won!
And he had won by a crushing margin!
Wang Tengfei had just turned around when he saw that Ye Chen had already reached the finish line. He nearly collapsed!
What happened?!
What the fuck happened?!
Since when could a BMW 520 go twice as fast as a BMW 540?!
No! That bastard must have modified his car!
Fuck! He used a modified car to scam me? Damn it!
Gritting his teeth, he drove back to the crowd. Ye Chen was already high-fiving Xiao Churan to celebrate his victory.
The classmates around them were all dumbfounded. Even now, they still couldn't figure out why Ye Chen's 520 was so fast!
Wang Tengfei stopped his car, stormed out, and roared, "Fuck, Ye Chen! You drove a modified car to scam me, didn't you? This race doesn't count! Your modified car has so much more power than mine. How was I supposed to compete?"
Ye Chen sneered. "Hey, Wang Tengfei, you're the one who said power didn't matter and that skill and guts were more important. Now that you've lost, you're going to welsh?"
"I didn't!" A flicker of panic crossed Wang Tengfei's face as he argued stubbornly, "You scammed me. I'm not welshing!"
Dong Ruolin said contemptuously, "Wang Tengfei, you don't keep your word. You're disgusting! Don't forget the oath you just swore. Whoever refuses to accept the loss, may his whole family drop dead!"
"Exactly!" Many of the classmates who had originally been waiting to laugh at Ye Chen were now displeased with Wang Tengfei too. They could see that he really couldn't afford to lose. He was a grown man, yet he didn't dare follow through on something he had started himself.
Someone spoke up. "Wang Tengfei, this isn't right. We all witnessed it. You were the one who wanted to race Ye Chen, and you said power didn't matter. You said whoever lost and welshed on the bet, may his whole family drop dead. Now you're going to welsh? Doesn't that make it obvious you'd rather your whole family drop dead than honor the bet?"
"Yeah!" a girl said. "Wang Tengfei, we all used to think you were especially manly and always kept your word. Who would've thought you were the kind of petty man who goes back on his word!"
Someone else said, "Now I finally see what Wang Tengfei is! He's a double-standard dog! If Ye Chen had lost, he definitely wouldn't have let him off easily! But now that he's lost, he's started welshing. What trash!"
Wang Tengfei's face turned ashen, then pale.
To tell the truth, he had bought the car less than a month ago and had spent over 700,000 yuan on it in total.
If he really threw a 30,000-firecracker string inside and lit it, the car would be ruined!
This was his beloved car! He normally wouldn't allow so much as a tiny scratch or a speck of dust on it. How could he bear to throw firecrackers inside and light them?
But with so many classmates watching him, he had clearly already lost their support. If he kept insisting on welshing, his classmates would surely have nothing more to do with him in the future.
They would even go around telling everyone how he had lost a bet and welshed, preferring to live with the oath that his whole family would drop dead rather than honor the bet.
At that thought, his resolve began to waver.
If he didn't light the string of firecrackers, the reputation he had built all his life would be ruined!
Just then, Ye Chen suddenly spoke. "Wang Tengfei, we're all classmates. It was just a joke; there's no need to take it seriously. Your car is pretty expensive. If you can't bear to light them, then don't."
Wang Tengfei immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
But the classmates around them immediately began talking among themselves. "Wow! Ye Chen really is the bigger man. Look at Wang Tengfei-what a disgrace!"
"Exactly! Ye Chen saw that he couldn't afford to lose and gave him a way out!"
Wang Tengfei's pride suddenly exploded, and he cursed, "Who the fuck says I can't afford to lose? Where are the firecrackers? Give them to me! If I can afford to make the bet, of course I can afford to lose!"
At that moment, a smile appeared at the corner of Ye Chen's mouth, his scheme having succeeded...