Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“What else do you want to bet on?” Bai Ran raised her eyebrows and felt a sense of foreboding rising in her heart.
“What wicked schemes have this evil man come up with now?”
“Hmm…I bet that you’ll win. My wager is twenty-four hours of your time.”
“He wants one day of my life? For what?
“Never mind, there’s nothing for me to lose here.
“But I want to reap some benefit out of this as well.”
Bai Ran thought about it for a moment. Then she said, “I also think that I’ll win. And when I do, you cannot marry Jiang Bangyuan.
“That woman is unbearably arrogant and deceitful, and she also ill-treated my mother and me in the past. Since the right opportunity has presented itself this time, there’s no harm in me embarrassing her for once.”
“We have a deal.” Quan Rui nodded his head.
“Anyway, I will be the ultimate winner no matter what happens.”
Bai Ran’s comment ended her discussion with Quan Rui. She flipped over her cards unhurriedly before she flashed Quan Rui an extremely sweet smile. “It’s a real pity, but you won’t be able to hold that beauty in your arms anymore.”
Everyone gasped as soon as Bai Ran flipped over her cards and spoke. Their eyes were all fixed on the cards in front of her.
An ace of spades and a queen of spades.
The instantaneous silence that filled the room was deafening.
The dealer took over Bai Ran’s cards and pushed out three cards among the five open cards on the table. A jack of spades, a ten of spades and a king of spades.
When these three cards were combined with the two cards that Bai Ran had in her possession, they formed the greatest card combination of any poker game, a straight flush.
The dealer smiled and announced the result of the game in a loud, clear voice. “The straight flush wins.”
The crowd broke out into a sea of applause as soon as the dealer made the announcement. It was even interwoven with the sounds of cheering and gasps of astonishment.
“It’s really…a straight flush!”
Meng Fan’s initial confidence was instantly crushed by Bai Ran’s card combination.
His face turned deathly pale, and he fell back into his chair. His mind was a complete blank.
“I’ve…lost everything that I have.”
On the other hand, Jiang Bangyuan heaved a sigh of relief. At least Meng Fan was not the winner of the game, and her role in the wager was voided.
Bai Ran was unsurprised by the outcome of this game, but she still wore a triumphant smile on her face.
“I’ll have the money for mother’s medical treatment now!”
Bai Ran was still immersed in the sudden change that was about to happen to her world and never thought to consider how this would affect Jiang Hao. When Jiang Hao saw the defeated look on Meng Fan’s face and the overjoyed Bai Ran in Quan Rui’s arms, his temper flared like an erupting volcano.
He leaped to his feet in an instant and glared at Quan Rui.
“Brother-in-law, I can’t stand this anymore! You have an arranged marriage with my sister, but right now, you’re… How could you…! And on top of that you’re hugging this wench who is completely unrelated to us. How can you be so indifferent and disrespectful while they casually used my sister as a wager?”
Jiang Hao had always been short-tempered. In the past, Jiang Yuanshan had been there to reign in his son’s temper. But now that he had passed away, Jiang Hao lashed out whenever he got the chance.
As Jiang Hao spluttered and raged, Jiang Bangyuan reached out her hand and tugged at him to warn him not to act rashly.
It was pointless bringing this up now since Meng Fan lost the game anyway.
But Jiang Bangyuan’s gesture only served to provoke Jiang Hao instead. The look on her face incensed him even further because he was unable to bear seeing his sister this aggrieved. He began to scold Bai Ran in a louder voice, “You too, ungrateful wench! At the very least, you should be addressing him as your brother-in-law. Why are you seducing your brother-in-law instead?!”
The uproar broke through the roof as Jiang Hao said this.
“Brother-in-law?!”
“Were we mistaken?!”
“Why does the woman whom Master Quan is hugging have to address him as brother-in-law?!”
“Is she actually Jiang Bangyuan’s sister? But I have never heard that the Jiang Family has three daughters!”
Bai Ran watched bleakly as Jiang Hao raged in agitation. While he spoke, he even pointed and jabbed his finger in her direction.
She frowned and waited a moment before speaking up. Before she could say a word, Quan Rui, who was behind her, snatched up this opportunity to speak.