Fierce Love: Bringing Wife Home
Chapter 671: Love Above All - 30: A Game Decides the Outcome

Chapter 671: Love Above All Chapter 30: A Game Decides the Outcome

Gu Xiaoxi washed her hands in the restroom; although the hall was heated and not cold, she still had a cold and had stayed up late. Thus, her face showed signs of fatigue.

As for that card game...

Gu Xiaoxi looked at the woman in the mirror, her thin lips silently curving into a mischievous smile. Even though her luck tonight had indeed not been great, there always came a time for it to turn.

And she never missed an ounce of good fortune!

She walked out of the restroom and saw a tall figure at the corner of the corridor.

The man leaned against a pillar, his long fingers holding a cigarette, his head bowed, revealing only the twinkling sparks at the end of the cigarette.

Gu Xiaoxi gave him only a glance before heading straight for the banquet hall.

However, she had just turned around when her arm was suddenly grabbed, and the faint scent of Gunitin wafted to her.

"Are you stupid, didn’t you see they were all ganging up against you? Why do you still play with them?" Quan Shaoqing looked at Gu Xiaoxi with a breezy demeanor, his brows tightly furrowed, anger repressed between them.

Gu Xiaoxi’s lips slightly lifted, her gaze falling on the man’s fingers gripping her arm, her tone a bit playful. "What is this for? Are you worried about me?"

"You..." Quan Shaoqing took a breath then exhaled heavily, "Is worrying about you necessary? No matter what, if you cause a disaster, there’ll be someone to clean up your mess. I’m just reminding you not to be a fool."

"Hmm!" Gu Xiaoxi blinked, her long eyelashes concealing a hint of disappointment in her eyes, "I know my own limits! Your hand is hurting me."

No sooner had she spoken than the fingers holding her arm let go.

Gu Xiaoxi took a deep breath and strode forward.

What exactly did Quan Shaoqing mean by this?

Treating her hot and cold, hassling her time and again, taking advantage and then running off?

What did he take her for?

After all, there wasn’t much of a relationship between them.

Returning to the banquet hall, Mi Xi was cautious, neither losing nor winning all evening.

When Gu Xiaoxi came back, everyone else seemed to be impatient, quickly beckoning her to sit down.

"Brother, I’m thirsty; can you get me a glass of water?" Gu Xiaoxi asked Mi Xi with a smile.

Mi Xi, seeing weariness on her face, went to get her some hot water out of concern.

"Ah, always losing; it’s not fun at all. That deck seems suspicious. Here, let me wash it, see if I can change my luck," Gu Xiaoxi playfully winked at the card dealer.

The waiter looked hesitantly at the other people present.

Everyone was staring at Gu Xiaoxi...

The woman appeared as innocent as a little rabbit, and yet she casually rested her chin on one hand, lazy like a sleepy little fox.

"If it’s not allowed, then forget it; I’ll just go to sleep. Losing so much doesn’t sit well with me!" She pretended like she was about to leave.

Upon her words, the others immediately nodded in agreement, "Let Miss Gu wash the cards; it’s all about luck in card games. It would be no fun if she gets upset and leaves."

Gu Xiaoxi chuckled and took the cards handed to her by the waiter.

At that moment, Mi Xi arrived with the hot water; Gu Xiaoxi took it, but her hand slipped, and she spilled the water all over.

The crowd’s expressions changed at once, and Gu Xiaoxi looked innocently at the soaked cards, tremblingly exclaimed, "Ah, how did this happen. They’re all wet now!"

"If you don’t want to play, just say so; was that really necessary?"

"Exactly, are you trying to kill the mood on purpose?"

"I swear, I didn’t do it on purpose. Sigh..." Gu Xiaoxi feigned innocence. However, she picked up a playing card and looked at the back upper right corner, where the value of the card was immediately revealed by the water, her expression growing colder.

The cards had been tampered with!

The noisy betting table suddenly fell silent.

"So you’ve been winning by these despicable means?" Gu Xiaoxi threw the cards on the table, and at this point, some partygoers gathered around.

"How could this happen, we are all in the same circle here, just casually playing; cheating could get one’s hands chopped off."

"So many of you bullying Miss Gu, do you really take the lady of the house for a fool?"

Clearly, someone couldn’t stand it and was discussing behind the scenes.

Gu Yuxin’s face turned various shades of red and white, it was obvious that someone had informed her about the tampered cards while Gu Xiaoxi was in the restroom. And they had taught her how to question everyone in this manner.

The card players were unable to save face, hastily making excuses, "We don’t know what’s going on, who is playing tricks on us!"

Obviously, at this moment, everyone was shifting blame, with nobody admitting to it.

Listening to everyone talk at once, Gu Xiaoxi couldn’t help but sneer inside.

From the beginning, she had seen through their not-so-clever tactics.

However, she didn’t tell them that firstly, she wanted to give them a taste of sweetness, and then let them experience what it means to go from sweet to bitter.

Secondly, she had a contingency plan; no one who had crossed her that night would be getting away.

"I am a magnanimous person, and besides, that little bit of money doesn’t mean much to me. Since everyone wants to play, let’s make it fair. Or perhaps, let’s play for high stakes!" Gu Xiaoxi said with a light chuckle.

At that moment, the place suddenly fell silent, and the waitstaff were asked to leave.

The president of the resort brought out an ordinary deck of playing cards, the kind that costs just a few dollars in the market.

After Gu Xiaoxi personally inspected the cards and handed them to the others for scrutiny, they agreed there were no issues and the fair game began.

At that time, because of earlier cheating, everyone at the table felt quite embarrassed and naturally didn’t dare to speak much.

Since Gu Xiaoxi didn’t hold them accountable and didn’t ask for her money back, everyone turned a blind eye.

"I’ll make it clear from the start—I don’t like wasting time on small bets. We’ll decide the winner in one round," Gu Xiaoxi said as the last to shuffle the cards, before handing the deck to a waiter.

Upon hearing this, Gu Yuxin’s expression turned strange. Gu Xiaoxi had just returned from the restroom, not only had she changed the cards, but she also looked utterly confident of victory.

This left everyone feeling uncertain whether she had a way to beat them all.

But it turned out to be an overthought, as Gu Xiaoxi’s luck in the first round was so poor with a terrible hand, she lost disastrously... handing over a billion directly.

Gu Yuxin, Wu Jingshan, Tian Qiaoqiao, and several men got a taste of victory, thinking that Gu Xiaoxi had some sort of trick up her sleeve with her grand preparation of the cards.

It seemed that even after changing the problematic cards her luck was still terrible!

Mi Xi watched nervously, very worried about her.

Gu Xiaoxi, chin propped on one hand, tapped the table idly with her fingers, and soon the second round began.

Gu Xiaoxi was the first to deal the hole card, and without even looking at it, she immediately wagered fifty million.

At this point, all those young ladies and gentlemen who were dancing, celebrating, and drinking gathered around, perhaps wanting to see exactly how Gu Xiaoxi would lose.

Especially since she had already lost over two billion, everyone admired Gu Xiaoxi’s audacity.

The money recently extracted from the Gu family was on track to be squandered by her at this rate.

Gu Yuxin, who originally only had tens of millions in her fortune, had just won some from Gu Xiaoxi, and now had a little over a billion in her hand, so she boldly followed the bet.

The others were no exception.

When the second card was dealt, Gu Xiaoxi had a single black spade A.

The other players had different cards, Gu Yuxin pressed a bottom card that was a Q, and the second card she received was also a Q.

The other players’ cards varied, but all were very good starting hands.

From the look of the cards, Gu Xiaoxi was ahead.

In the second round, Gu Xiaoxi bet eighty million, which was followed by everyone else.

The third card for Gu Xiaoxi was a black spade K; she still had the highest ranking hand.

At this, everyone’s expression changed.

They hesitated on whether to follow or not, but Gu Xiaoxi didn’t bet much, only two million.

In fact, she was worried that Gu Yuxin would not be able to afford the money and would run away, which would mean her own losses would be in vain.

Gu Yuxin, holding a triple Q, clenched her fists and stared at Gu Xiaoxi. She didn’t believe Gu Xiaoxi could have a straight flush, so she grit her teeth and placed her bet.

After that bet, she nearly ran out of money, and the remaining men gambled all their pocket change, even the winnings they had just taken from Gu Xiaoxi were put on the table.

The fourth card for Gu Xiaoxi was a black spade 10. From the looks of it, everyone else’s hand was better than hers.

Now it was the others’ turn to speak.

Everyone frowned upon seeing her hand but, fortunately, since Gu Yuxin had three Qs, they didn’t believe Gu Xiaoxi could hit the jackpot out of so many cards. So...

Hardening their hearts, they went all in.

If they wanted to earn Gu Xiaoxi’s money, they had to commit fully.

The fourth card for Gu Yuxin was a red heart A. Among the others, some had a straight flush, some had four 8s...

They called fifty million immediately.

Gu Xiaoxi looked indifferent as she matched the bet...

Perhaps, because she lost so often and even though she had good cards, without a black spade Q or if the next card was poor, it was still a weak hand.

But looking at the other players’ hands, they were almost made.

In this moment, everyone clenched their hands with sweat, just one last card away from soaring to success.

Should they lose, all their spending money would vanish.

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