Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“It says here you were previously engaged to Xu Chenglin. If Jiang Yueping no longer likes Xu Chenglin, he will return to you for sure. Also, you’re still sitting on my lap now so don’t think your eldest sister will let you off easily.” In contrast to Bai Ran, Quan Rui was not the least bit worried about himself. In fact, he thought that he had better remind her to worry about herself.
Bai Ran was stunned, speechless at what Quan Rui had pointed out.
“I would rather die than get engaged to Xu Chenglin again!
“As for Jiang Bangyuan…
“It’s definitely extremely difficult to deal with that woman…”
Bai Ran instinctively turned to look at Jiang Bangyuan who was the subject of contention at the moment and coincidentally met her gaze.
Her eyes were filled with malice, animosity, and hate to their very core.
“I think she can’t wait to kill me now,” Bai Ran said rather helplessly. She had always been an eyesore to all three siblings of the Jiang Family. Now that Quan Rui had stirred things up so thoroughly, she was destined to be their sworn enemy once this event came to an end!
“That’s why you have to win this round of poker for me,” Quan Rui said to Bai Ran coldly. “If you lose, even I won’t let you off. To top it that, you’ll also have to pay in full the whole sum of the bet everyone made.”
“What?!” At this cruel revelation, Bai Ran was so shocked that she felt her jaw slacken and drop, nearly touching the ground!
“What does he mean I’ll have to pay for in full the whole sum of the bet everyone made?
“Two hundred million dollars? You’ve got to be kidding me!”
She turned to him. “Are you crazy? I’m not the one who wanted to gamble with this much money!” Bai Ran felt her senses heighten and she bristled up like a little porcupine.
“You were the one who looked at the cards,” Quan Rui replied nonchalantly, smoothly and casually pushing all the responsibility of the game to Bai Ran.
“…!” Bai Ran was speechless now.
“Oh, why did I look at the cards just now?
“Really… What’s with this situation? I’m just asking for trouble!
“Is it too late for me to leave now?” Bai Ran felt even more helpless than before. She had simply been minding her own business, looking for her ring quietly in the dark of the lawn. She never asked to get involved with a terrifying and formidable person like Quan Rui.
“Besides, my top priority right now is to recover that ring!
“It’s a pity I didn’t manage to find it even after spending so much time searching. I really don’t know if I will be able to find it on my own.
“So right now, the ideal option available to me is to win this round of poker and then demand that Quan Rui help out with my search for the ring.”
Bai Ran gritted her teeth with determination and finally decided to put all her energy into the game before her. Shutting Quan Rui out of her thoughts, she straightened her back and directed all her focus on the cards and the players involved almost entirely.
What Bai Ran had thought about was actually very simple. “Quan Rui has to give me what I want if I win this round, so why do I need to care so much about all these other things?
“These annoying Jiang Family kids had never even considered helping me or my mother, so there is no need for me to worry about leaving their pride unscathed.”
Having arrived at this conclusion, Bai Ran replied Meng Fan in an identical arrogant tone as though she was the one who had the advantage in the game.
“As Master Quan has said earlier, if you win, you can have Jiang Bangyuan as yours. But if you lose… You cannot ever touch poker again in your lifetime!”
It was part of Bai Ran’s nature to speak roughly and arrogantly. After all, her maternal grandfather was the King of Gambling and she had learned all her grandfather’s techniques. What that she disliked the most about this game was watching this scheming lecherous man in front of her reaching out with itchy fingers to grab whatever caught his fancy at the casino table.
His existence was an insult to poker!
Meng Fan felt his confidence drop a little at the counter-proposition Bai Ran made.
“Never touch poker again? Then, what am I supposed to do with my life?”
“Is that too much for you? Do you have cold feet now? Or are you just afraid to lose? Or maybe… Jiang Bangyuan is not important to you after all and you were just using her to bait me?” Bai Ran turned around and looked at Jiang Bangyuan meaningfully.
Jiang Bangyuan was the shrewdest and the most scheming one among the three siblings of the Jiang Family. She liked to put up a front pretending she was elegant and big-hearted when she was nothing like that at all. It had been an eyesore for Bai Ran to watch.