Sun Decai’s hand hung in midair as he exchanged glances with Bai Yufeng, seeming to communicate something silently. After all ten players had chosen their cards, Lin Tian, who had drawn the Joker, revealed it to everyone.
Bai Yufeng consoled himself that it was just an accident, and he might even end up tricking himself. Thinking this way, Bai Yufeng felt a bit better.
"I’m really sorry, everyone, but in the first round, I am the King, and now it’s time for me to give a command," Lin Tian apologized modestly, then issued the command, "I command number 3 to take off their shorts, put them on their head, then go outside to the nearest utility pole and hug it while loudly saying ’My illness is finally cured!’"
"Pfft..." Xiao Manxuan suddenly burst out laughing from behind, thinking to herself that this troublemaker was indeed incorrigible. Meanwhile, Liu Wenxing felt terrified by Lin Tian’s words, wailing in his heart, Brother Tian, take it easy, what if it ends up being you?
The others hastily picked up their cards to check, terrified they were number 3. As soon as Lin Tian finished speaking, Bai Yufeng’s face turned extremely unsightly. Lin Tian glanced at him and couldn’t stop smirking. What card do you have, you think I can’t see? Hmph, let’s see how you get out of this one!
"Reveal your cards," Lin Tian pretended ignorance and shouted, "Let the King see who the brave number 3 is!"
All nine players flipped their cards onto the table, and Lin Tian revealed his own. The eyes of the crowd immediately focused on Bai Yufeng, looking at him with schadenfreude. Many of them had been pranked by Bai Yufeng before, and now they all felt a sense of vengeful satisfaction.
"Brother Lin Tian, can we... change the command?" Bai Yufeng awkwardly pleaded.
Now you remember to call me brother, Lin Tian thought indifferently, recalling how Bai Yufeng had previously sent someone to him with "dissolve power medicine" without mentioning brotherhood. "Brother Bai, you can’t joke about these things. Once the King has spoken, there is no taking back the command. Carry it out."
Ignoring the command was to go against the game rules, resulting in a fine of ten million yuan. Lin Tian was certain that Bai Yufeng wouldn’t dare to default, with so many witnesses around—unless he wanted to ruin his reputation.
"Lin Tian, you’re ruthless!" Bai Yufeng’s expression darkened as he went backstage to remove his pants.
Damn, this is how such people are, Lin Tian thought, flipping the bird in contempt. They can prank others, but when it’s their turn, they become furiously embarrassed. Who was it that had so clearly explained the rules of the game just a moment ago?
After Bai Yufeng had been backstage for over ten minutes, the crowd’s unanimous chanting finally prompted him to slowly open the door and come out. As soon as he opened the door, everyone burst into laughter, because his underwear was already on his head.
His face beet-red, he pushed through the crowd and ran out, with a group following behind him. Sadly, there was no utility pole at the entrance of the Night Rose Bar; the nearest one was several hundred meters away.
Upon reaching the entrance, Bai Yufeng realized this sorrowful fact, but there was no turning back now. He had to go through with it. It was the start of the night life in the city center, with plenty of people on the street. Passersby pointed and commented at the running Bai Yufeng; some even took out their phones to take pictures.
He finally reached the nearest utility pole, which was plastered with various small ads, all promising cures for men’s difficult and complex diseases. Bai Yufeng was so angry he almost fainted, but he dared not delay. The longer he stayed, the more onlookers gathered.
"Ah, my illness is finally cured!" Bai Yufeng hugged the utility pole and suddenly shouted, startling the pedestrians. After shouting, he quickly yanked his underwear off his head and bolted back toward the bar.
Once everyone was seated again, Bai Yufeng actually dared to continue playing. This was the gambler’s mentality: after losing once, he wanted to win it back the next round.
"Brother Bai, I admire you. A true hero is one who can bend and stretch," Lin Tian gave a thumbs-up and praised him sarcastically.
But Bai Yufeng just kept his head down, shuffling the cards without responding. Having shuffled the cards, Sun Decai was eager to draw, but no matter how fast he was, he couldn’t beat Lin Tian, who, unsurprisingly, became the King again.
Everyone was stunned; drawing the King card twice, the luck was defying heaven!
"I command, number 4 slap number 6, and make it resound," Lin Tian started giving orders again.
"Haha, I’m card number 4," Sun Decai suddenly raised his poker card high, shouting with glee.
"Dammit, I’m number 6!" Bai Yufeng slammed his card down onto the table with force, having only played two games, he felt like he was going insane.
He began to suspect that Lin Tian had rigged the game, it was just too coincidental. Bai Yufeng also felt a tinge of regret for listening to Sun Decai in the first place and offending Lin Tian, and in a moment of heated folly, he had even instructed Uncle Zhao to administer dissolve power medicine to him. If word of this got out, the Bai Family couldn’t save him.
"Do it, hit him..." Someone started jeering, and a group followed, shouting along. The Bai Family truly lacked popularity, having bullied their way through for so long, now in trouble, no one stepped forward to help.
"Brother Bai, I’m sorry," Sun Decai didn’t hold back, his slap landing on Bai Yufeng’s face.
"Sun Decai, you..." Bai Yufeng couldn’t dodge the black belt Taekwondo skills of Sun Decai, and was struck with a "smack" that everyone heard.
"This isn’t fun, I’m not playing anymore," Lin Tian doled out a lesson to the two and suddenly lost interest.
"No way." Bai Yufeng had taken hits twice in a row, and now Lin Tian suddenly said he was quitting. Where could he turn to reclaim his dignity? He was the first to object.
You chose to bypass heaven and break into hell; Lin Tian chuckled darkly to himself, determined not to let these two bastards know how to write the name Lin Tian.
"I’ll deal this time," Bai Yufeng finished shuffling the cards and started dealing them to everyone.
Without question, the Joker landed in his own hands. Bai Yufeng looked at the card in front of him, confirming through the markings that it was undoubtedly the Joker, his expression turning savage. Flipping it over with full confidence, indeed, it was the Joker—this round, Bai Yufeng was the King!
Bai Yufeng glanced discreetly at Lin Tian’s and Liu Wenxing’s cards. He could see the marks on them and smirked inwardly, "Just you wait."
"Bring up two cocktails!" Bai Yufeng ordered loudly.
The cocktail he was talking about wasn’t made from any ordinary mix—it was concocted with a high alcohol content along with a mixture of ingredients like salt, oil, vinegar, and others. Whoever drank it would surely have nightmares that night, a fate more disastrous than embracing a utility pole.
The people in the bar stood with wide eyes upon hearing this; they hung out in bars often and naturally knew what this meant. Those who had drunk it looked visibly sick.
"The jerk, he’s the King, what do we do? He’s definitely looking to get revenge," Xiao Manxuan clutched Lin Tian’s sleeve, her eyes filled with worry.
"Don’t worry, just watch," Lin Tian said, scratching her palm and eliciting a coquettish glare from the little girl.
"I command, numbers 2 and 9 drink the cocktails, all of it!" No sooner had Bai Yufeng spoken than Liu Wenxing’s face turned incredibly sour, because the poker card lying on the table in front of him was number 2!
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