"Second Master Lü, it’s your turn."
Cai Wei sat there, calmly reminding him.
Upon hearing this, Lü the Second collected his thoughts, casually raised his own dice cup. When he saw the dice inside, he took an involuntary breath of cold air.
An onlooker couldn’t help but murmur softly.
As soon as these words landed, uproar exploded within the crowd. Everyone was saying that Second Master Lü had slipped up.
Well-known among the frequent gamblers, Second Master Lü’s gambling skills were superb and he seldom lost. Tonight, however, he was defeated by this naive young girl. Certainly, he must have been thrown off by the girl’s beauty, even rolling the tiny numbers of 1, 2, 3. What a shame!
Second Master Lü stared inside the dice cup for a long while. He stretched out his hand chubby as a pig’s trotter, rubbing his eyes energetically and looked inside the dice cup once again.
Inside, it remained...1, 2, 3...
"Hey, this is truly bizarre!" he exclaimed, he’d clearly shaken three 6s, how had they suddenly turned into 1, 2, 3? It was beyond comprehension!
Cai Wei looked on with cold eyes, asking, "Second Master Lü, want to continue gambling?"
"I will gamble. Why wouldn’t I?!"
Like a petulant child, Lü the Second smacked the table and roared, "Tonight I shall conquer you!"
After that, he was the first to pick up the dice cup, shaking it.
Hearing his crass words, Cai Wei’s gaze grew colder, but she didn’t retaliate immediately, instead storing his words in her heart as she calmly observed the Second Master shaking his dice.
Lü the Second’s plump arm shook, the incessant murmurs from inside the dice cup sounding like the rain falling on the ground. So many sounds that not even the veteran gamblers who were good at distinguishing dice numbers just from sound could figure out in the chaos.
The dice cup fell, making the table tremble.
This time, he applied double his previous force, reshaking the three dice into Three Flowers Gathered together, vowing not to drop the ball again!
"Young beauty, your turn now!" Lü the Second said.
Seeing his determined appearance, Cai Wei shrugged nonchalantly, her mouth curling up as she casually picked up the dice cup and started shaking it, slamming it onto the gambling table just like him after a few shakes.
She asked, yet her face was adorned with an inscrutable smile. Although her smile was beautiful, it sent a chill down Lü the Second’s spine.
He said, not believing that he’d heard the soft clinking of 2, 4, 5 from the young beauty’s dice cup, while he had Three Flowers gathered together--the three 6s!--in his.
"Fine, I’ll go first then!"
Cai Wei chuckled nonchalantly, and casually lifted her own cup.
"2, 4, 5--" someone cried out!
Cai Wei was startled. What’s going on? Wasn’t it supposed to be three 6’s? How come it became 2, 4, 5? She quickly summoned Chang Mei with her thoughts.
"Hey, Chang Mei, what happened to the promised Three Flowers Gathered together?"
Chang Mei caressed his eyebrow, appearing nonchalantly as he said, "Master, rest assured, I guarantee you’ll win. What’s the point of always having Three Flowers Gathered together? When playing, the fun is in the suspense. Just hold on!"
Hearing him say this, Cai Wei finally felt relieved. Looking at the self-satisfied Lü the Second across from her, she said, "Second Master Lü, your turn, please!"
The gamblers behind her grew excited, shouting, "Second Master Lü, hurry up and reveal your dice, this time, you’re bound to win!"
Seeing Cai Wei’s dice number was the same as he heard, Lü the Second felt relieved. Squinting his small eyes, he smirked and slowly lifted the dice cup in a grandiose, mysterious manner.