Chapter 107: Chapter 97: Brother Bo, Can’t You Cut Us Some Slack?
"Don’t play this card." The man’s voice resonated like a bass speaker, as he easily placed the card from her hand down and casually played another card.
"Play this." He said.
Jiang Ruan suddenly realized that she almost put herself in a worse situation just now.
She couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat and looked up at him, sticking out her tongue, her face charmingly cute: "Thanks, I zoned out just now."
As if explaining to him.
Bao Ye responded: "Mm."
Seeing their tender and affectionate interaction, Si Chen’s dissatisfied voice came through: "Brother Bo, can’t you cut us some slack?"
Bao Ye replied indifferently: "No."
Si Chen nearly cried out: "We’ve been tortured by you all night. Finally, my sister-in-law came, and I thought she was our savior. Turns out, it’s a disaster!"
"You two deserve each other, equally relentless."
Si Chen complained strongly.
After all, losing several villas is indeed painful.
It would be impossible not to feel the sting.
Bao Ye sat back in his chair, his slender fingertips pinching the Buddha Beads, his dark eyes slightly squinting.
He sneered: "Saying that is a bit shameless."
"How many years have you been playing Mahjong? It’s one thing to not win against me, but even she beats you?"
"Aren’t you embarrassed?"
"That’s because you, Brother Bo, are guiding my sister-in-law, I didn’t have that." Si Chen argued defiantly.
In Bao Ye’s eyes, he was just like a child.
"Feng Meiling was also guiding you just now, yet you still followed your own ideas."
Bao Ye said calmly: "The road you choose, regardless of win or lose, don’t blame others."
With that sentence, he directly blocked Si Chen from speaking further.
Si Chen was deflated, sighed, and stopped talking.
But in Jiang Ruan’s ears, Bao Ye’s words seemed to carry deeper meaning.
Yet she didn’t have time to think further.
Her thoughts were focused on the Mahjong table.
Even with a sliver of opportunity, she didn’t want to lose.
They played until two in the morning.
All of them were inevitably tired.
Bao Ye spoke, ending it just like that.
He called the staff to come in to collect the cards and tally the points, and in just one night, Bao Ye and Jiang Ruan together won over twenty hands.
Dozens of villas.
Except for Bao Ye and Jiang Ruan, the others nearly ground their teeth to dust.
"Have them sign to record the debts." Bao Ye pinched his cigar with his fingertips, took a drag, exhaled thick smoke, and laughed: "So that no one will deny it after tonight."
The waiter said: "Yes."
Soon, three IOUs were brought in.
The other three signed.
Despite the circumstances, they had to smile and make their peace with Bao Ye, then each went home.
Their hearts were strained, but only they knew.
The room quickly was left with only Bao Ye and Jiang Ruan.
Jiang Ruan finally couldn’t hold back her laughter, her stomach hurt from laughing, she held her belly: "They probably won’t play Mahjong with you again; tonight was certainly a nightmare for them."
Seeing her laugh uncontrollably, Bao Ye leaned down and extinguished the cigar in the ashtray.
He asserted: "Nope."
"Why?"
"You scammed them out of so many villas, and they still want to play with you?" Jiang Ruan pouted in confusion: "Isn’t that clearly asking for trouble?"
Bao Ye got up, the purple embroidered silk shirt accentuated his refined gentlemanly demeanor, every gesture radiating the nobility of an upper-class man.
Cold and stern, his face showed no expression as he patiently explained to her in a lazy, magnetic voice: "The Si Family is a prestigious clan in Beijing, with more than a hundred years of history. Initially, half of the villas in Tongluowan were built by their family but were sold off later through investments. Still, their core business is real estate. Now, you know of those bustling individual commercial and villa streets in Beijing North. Almost all are properties of the Si Family."
"I heard they’ve bought several islands and plan to build sea villas; the area of each island is not small, about a thousand kilometers."