Chapter 147 — The Long-Awaited...

Yang Ce, Huang Yan, Zhang Bin, and Wang Mei—the four of them walked out of the casino's main doors together. Yu Deyi was still shouting furiously: "What's the meaning of this? Why did you let him go?"

"Yu Deyi, don't get so worked up. If you had seen him when he was betting on big or small earlier, you wouldn't be saying this." Wang Dianxue shook his head. He had not the slightest doubt that Yang Ce could guess the number on that playing card.

"Boss Wang, aren't you boosting their morale and crushing our own prestige?" Yu Deyi said, somewhat unconvinced.

"Let's all take a look at what this playing card actually is before we discuss anything else." Wang Dianxue waved his hand and pointed at the card Yu Deyi had drawn, lying on the gaming table.

"What's there to look at? It definitely isn't the five of hearts." With that, unconvinced, he flipped the card on the table over and slapped it down.

"Ah!" The onlookers in the casino immediately let out gasps of astonishment, because that playing card was indeed a five of hearts.

"How is that possible?" Yu Deyi stared blankly at the playing card on the table, almost unable to speak.

Wang Dianxue patted Yu Deyi on the shoulder and then sighed. "Now do you know why I didn't help you stop him just now?"

Yu Deyi nodded absently. "I never imagined he was this formidable."

"It was my miscalculation. I thought Zheng Shaopeng of the Huawei Casino was no match for you, but I never expected they had such an expert on their side." Wang Dianxue said despondently, "Still, it's not so bad—he at least left us some leeway. Let's find another place and honestly start over from scratch."

"Boss, are you sure that card was the five of hearts?" On the road, Zhang Bin could not hold back his curiosity.

"What do you think?" Yang Ce asked in return.

"How would I know?" Zhang Bin scratched his scalp.

"We've come this far and no one has chased after us, so it must have been," Huang Yan, who had been silent all along, suddenly put in.

"Ah, that's true!" Zhang Bin suddenly saw the light. "If it weren't, that Yu Deyi definitely wouldn't have let it go."

Yang Xu Tang smiled. He had not expected that Huang Yan could sometimes see things so accurately—she was not the silly girl he had always taken her for.

"But boss, how did you know that card was the five of hearts?" Zhang Bin was still very curious.

"I told you, I used to be the God of Gamblers," Yang Ce said very seriously.

"The God of Gamblers? Damn, no way—is that for real?" Zhang Bin recalled that before Yang Ce started high school, he seemed to have run with the underworld, so he asked, "Then tell me, boss, were you a triad boss before too?"

"Probably." Yang Heng gave a laugh. "All right, stop being so curious. Curiosity killed the cat."

Zhang Bin pouted. I'm not a cat, he thought. But Yang Ce clearly did not want to say more right now, so Zhang Bin stopped asking. He assumed it was because Wang Mei and Huang Yan were both present that Yang Yongjin was reluctant to say too much.

Everyone at the Huawei Casino was baffled. Yu Deyi had been on the verge of winning—why had he given up? And not only given up, but directly conceded defeat. This left Xuanming Zong and Zheng Shaopeng utterly unable to understand it.

Just then they saw Yang Ce, Huang Yan, and the others return, and hurried over to greet them. "Yang Ce, Lele, Yu Deyi suddenly conceded just now—how strange. You weren't here earlier, so you didn't see that bizarre sight. He was about to win, and then after taking a phone call he conceded."

"Oh, is that so? Heh heh." Yang Xu Tang smiled.

"Yes, it really was unexpected. But no matter what, our casino doesn't have to close down, while the South City Casino will have to shut for a month!" Xuanming Zong said excitedly. A competitor who had always been suppressing him was now going to close—this was a matter worth celebrating.

"A month probably won't be enough," Yang Lin Yue said calmly. "Three months at least, I'd say."

"Three months? What do you mean?" Xuanming Zong was taken aback, somewhat bewildered.

"The boss won the South City Casino clean—he won over eighty billion in no time. After that, Wang Dianxue had no choice but to beg the boss to spare him a way out. In the end the boss took pity and only asked for forty billion, but he set one condition: the casino had to move to a place more than five kilometers away from the Huawei Casino." Zhang Bin excitedly recounted what had happened, embellishing it as he went.

"What? Your boss is—" Xuanming Zong was dumbstruck for a long while before he asked in disbelief.

"My boss is Yang Ce, of course!" Zhang Bin said proudly, as if he himself had won the South City Casino.

"Eighty billion? Did I hear that right?" Xuanming Zong looked at Yang Ce and Huang Yan with a face full of doubt.

"Uncle Zhang, Yang Ce really did win against them," Huang Yan said with certainty. "The forty billion is deposited in my card."

"My heavens!" Xuanming Zong felt as if he were dreaming. A competitor who had been fighting him fiercely was simply gone, and had even paid out forty billion—was this real?

But before Xuanming Zong could recover from the shock, his phone rang. News in the gambling world travels very fast; before long, the owners of the other casinos had all learned of today's news and were calling one after another to congratulate Xuanming Zong.

But most of these congratulations were insincere, yet they had no choice but to show goodwill to the Guixu Sect. There was no helping it—a peerless expert had appeared in their casino, and after hearing of Yang Juehuan's deeds, aside from being astonished, they were all secretly alarmed.

If Yang Ce were to go make trouble in their establishments, not one of them would be his match. So rather than make an enemy of the Guixu Sect, they might as well hurry to show goodwill and cultivate good relations. After all, they were far away from the Huawei Casino, and there was no conflict of interest.

"Mr. Zhang! Congratulations—you fought that battle beautifully." The caller was the owner of XX Casino.

"Mr. X, haha, the credit isn't mine—it belongs to the boyfriend of our chairman's daughter." Xuanming Sect was quick on the uptake; in an instant he understood that all of it was real, not a dream. The rival who had plagued them for so long was truly about to fade away.

After that the calls kept coming, one after another, all congratulating Xuanming Sect. Even as the excitement mounted, awe toward Yang Shuoxuan began to fill his heart—one hundred million turned into eighty billion. What kind of speed was that? To call him the God of Gamblers would hardly be an exaggeration.

Seeing Huang Yan's usual innocent, endearing manner, he would never have guessed she had found herself such a formidable boyfriend. Earlier Xuanming Sect had wondered just how Yang Ce had managed to win the eldest daughter of the Huang family; now it seemed the man was indeed no ordinary mortal.

With gambling skills like Yang Cenbin's, if he ever chose to make a career in the gaming world, Hua Wei Casino would have a hard time not becoming a giant. To be continued.

874. Arranging to Meet Shu Ya

874. Arranging to Meet Shu Ya—Of course, the affair caused a stir only within gambling circles. Yang Ce had not given his name at the time, and South City Casino, with commendable professional ethics, had not made Yang Juehuan's appearance public.

They were now set on minimizing trouble and dared not stir up any more; otherwise, if Yang Ce ever came knocking again, the trouble would be enormous. So only those in the trade knew the true reason Wuyacheng Casino had relocated. The patrons at South City Casino had each been given a handsome hush payment, and the whole business was conducted with the utmost discretion.

After taking leave of Huang Yan, Yang Ce, Zhang Bin, and Wang Mei returned to the hotel where they were staying.