At this moment, Wang Yu's hands, which were still resting on the hundred-yuan bills, suddenly trembled uncontrollably.
I knew Wang Yu was scared, he had lost his nerve.
And this was exactly the effect I wanted!
"Come on! Didn't you want to eat a pound of shit? Now, immediately, right away, hurry up and eat it!"
As my shout fell, mimicking Wang Yu's earlier action of slamming down cards, I heavily placed the third winning King of Spades onto the table.
The two cards that had been swapped showed no hint of a flaw during the reveal.
Seamless! Perfect!
In an instant, everyone in the room became silent! They all forgot how to speak.
Except for me, everyone else, including Wang Yu, was stunned and dumbfounded.
It seemed they couldn't believe what was happening before their eyes.
The Ace of Diamonds and Queen of Diamonds, which were revealed first, pure face cards, ultimately didn't form a flush, but instead resulted in a Sky Dragon!
Sky Dragon eating Earth Dragon, a classic nemesis pairing!
Only in movies would they dare to depict such a scene.
But at this moment, this almost illusory scene was truly unfolding in real life, on this gambling table before them!
True and false, false and true.
Illusion and reality, reality and illusion.
This is gambling! This... this is the art of deception!
The art of deception that, while not life-threatening, is certainly capable of ruining lives!
...
I don't know how long it had been.
"Clatter!"
Wang Yu's hands, which had been tightly gripping stacks of money, loosened their hold. He stood there, frozen as if struck by lightning.
Wang Yu, who had already been certain of my defeat, his expression shifted repeatedly, but in the end, he couldn't utter a single word!
It was Zhou Xi, on the other hand, who, having lost the money he had in hand, immediately chimed in with a sarcastic remark: "No way? How could it be such a coincidence?"
Hearing this, Wang Yu, who had been in a daze, snapped back to reality. He looked up at me and roared menacingly, "That's right!"
"It couldn't be such a coincidence! Chen Xiang, your hands must be dirty! Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that a Sky Dragon appeared and beat my hand?"
"Tell me! In the hand with the Ace of Spades and Three of a Kind, were you playing tricks too!?"
Facing these baseless accusations, I scoffed dismissively and said, "Heh. If I win, it's a coincidence and trickery, but if you win, it's because you're amazing?"
"In the last hand, Zhao Wei shuffled the cards and you cut them. Please tell me... how could I have played any tricks?"
Seeing Wang Yu speechless, I immediately continued, "Although I shuffled the cards just now, if I recall correctly, didn't you cut them in the end?"
"And the side bet was also proposed by you!"
"Furthermore, even if we were to go for a side bet between just the two of us, the person with the biggest hand wouldn't be me, but Xu Xiaobo!"
"If I wanted to play tricks, why would Xu Xiaobo have the biggest hand?"
"And the most important point, I'd like you to explain... how could I have known that we would go for a side bet between the two of us before you even spoke, and then dealt myself a good hand in advance?"
"Wang Yu, you proposed the game, you had Zhou Xi find the location, you initiated the side bet, and you even brought the cards!"
"If you accuse me of playing tricks, I'll accuse you of playing tricks too!!!"
"If we're going to settle this, let's do it fair and square, one by one! Let's call the boss in first to inspect the cards!"
"If the cards are fine, then the two of us will let everyone search us in turn!"
"Do you... dare or not!?"
As soon as I finished speaking, I saw Wang Yu's mouth twitch violently.
As the saying goes: to catch a cheating spouse, you need proof; to catch a thief, you need the stolen goods.
Setting aside how the cards hidden on my person were dealt with, the marked deck of Bin Wang cards on the table alone was enough to silence Wang Yu.
This tactic of striking first and then retreating was something I learned from Zhang Zifeng, the old cheater, and then improved and refined.
You want to catch me? Clean up your own mess first!!!
My reasoned and sharp words left Wang Yu and Zhou Xi utterly speechless.
Seeing that the two of them had fallen silent, I took the opportunity while collecting the money to gather all the cards back into the deck and signaled Xu Xiaobo to shuffle.
As I completed the action of returning the cards, I took one stack from Wang Yu's three stacks of money and drew out about four to five thousand yuan, which I then handed to Xu Xiaobo.
"Sorry, Xiaobo! If this round had been played normally, you would have won even more than this!"
"Consider this my personal compensation to you."
Upon hearing this, Xu Xiaobo, who had been grumbling silently, instantly changed his expression from gloomy to cheerful.
Although he kept refusing verbally, his hands honestly reached out and accepted the money.
As soon as he took the money, Xu Xiaobo immediately turned to Wang Yu and asked, "Xiao Yu, are you still playing?"
"If you're out of money, borrow from Xiangzi!"
When Xu Xiaobo said the first part, Wang Yu's expression was still very grim, but he could manage to hold it together.
However, after the last sentence left his mouth, this guy... immediately lost his temper!
"Borrow your mother's smelly pussy!!!"
"I'd rather die than ask that bastard for money!!!"
"I'm not playing anymore! What the hell kind of game is this!"
"Going back to sleep! Damn it!!!"
After speaking, before anyone could react, Wang Yu angrily stood up, picked up his suitcase, and walked out.
Seeing Wang Yu choose to leave, whether it was because he no longer had enough capital or because he suddenly felt insecure without him, Zhou Xi, disregarding the suspicion he might attract, immediately got up and chased after him.
In less than a minute, only four people remained from the six-person card game.
At this moment, Xu Xiaobo, who had just come back to his senses, immediately went into a rampage.
"Damn you, Wang Yu! Just because you have a good father, you think you're a dragon prince?!"
"With this kind of character? Don't contact me again in the future! Let's all disperse! I'm not in the mood to play anymore!"
With that, Xu Xiaobo abruptly stood up, scattered all the playing cards on the table, and then turned and left in anger.
With another person gone, the card game was obviously impossible to continue.
In fact, after Wang Yu and Zhou Xi left, I had no intention of continuing to play with them.
Now that Xu Xiaobo had left, it provided me with the perfect opportunity.
After tucking the money away securely, I got up and said goodbye to Zhao Wei and another classmate.
Turning and stepping out of the private room, I vanished silently into the summer night under the cover of the moonlight...
Although night had fallen, the moonlight and the dim night lights illuminated a different kind of fragmented night scene.
Walking on the road, my mood was also exceptionally joyful and exhilarating.
The side bet tonight was not only the first step in Wang Yu's descent into an endless abyss, but also the first counter-attack in my formal declaration of war for revenge!
Because his economic lifeline was cut off by Wang Yangming due to gambling, and Wang Yu suffered such a heavy blow tonight.
Therefore, all that's needed now is for Yu Shuang to secretly have people keep a close eye on him.
One fears not the hardship of losing, but the cessation of gambling.
After being baptized by several large gambling sessions, Wang Yu had transformed from an ordinary gambler into a gambling addict.
For a gambling addict, losing or winning is not terrifying; what is terrifying is... losing the opportunity to gamble!
This is something they simply cannot accept.
Therefore, Wang Yu will find ways to raise money to recoup his losses!
Just as I was contemplating whether to call Yu Shuang right now to brief her, a person walked towards me, causing me to stop in my tracks...