Chapter 34: Chapter 33 I’ve Got Your Back

    In the private room, Cheng Zhu and Lin Lu were extremely close.

    As they both leaned down to look at the dice, he could smell the light fragrance emanating from her.

    Well, it’s normal for a beautiful girl to smell nice.

    A man’s scent, on the other hand, would at best be that of laundry detergent.

    But he had heard that if a girl really liked sniffing your scent while dating, she probably really liked you.

    After checking the dice, Cheng Zhu gently closed the shaker.

    ...

    What surprised him was how quickly this voice actress had grown; she was already using external distractions, pretending with an amazed expression as if she had rolled extraordinary dice.

    Cheng Zhu looked at her, compliantly nodding slightly and even covering her face with his hand, as if he didn’t want the others to see her expression and reveal the strength of our dice.

    And to think, Lin Lu had always found dice games boring and never thought they were fun.

    Yet, tonight, she found it incredibly thrilling and really good fun, putting her in a great mood.

    Being with a man of Grandmaster caliber has that effect; not much else to say, it definitely boosts your spirits.

    On the other side, glasses-wearing Wang Wei pushed his wooden-framed glasses up his nose, looking tense.

    There was a trend back in the day for wooden-framed glasses, though their popularity had declined.

    He was about to roll the dice when he heard Liu Hongjing say, “Little Cheng’s side had Lin Lu roll; we’ll have me roll this time and use my roll.”

    Saying this, he pushed his shaker towards Wang Wei.

    Wang Wei took it and saw triple sixes inside!

    Liu Hongjing had rigged the roll.

    Everybody’s attention was on the drama king Cheng Zhu and queen Lin Lu, so for a moment, nobody noticed Liu Hongjing and Wang Wei’s slight of hand.

    Suddenly feeling confident with his triple sixes—essentially six 4s—Wang Wei thought arrogantly, “Ha, six fours, this’ll crush you!”

    “I have triple sixes, how can I lose?” Wang Wei thought confidently, sure he’d win.

    His dice were: one one one four four.

    Cheng Zhu’s dice were actually decent too: one one one two three.

    But the moment he closed the shaker, he was already cheating again.

    He turned to Lin Lu and said, “You remembered the numbers, right? Okay, you can’t look anymore, lest your expression gives away our dice strength!”

    “Okay!” Lin Lu was now utterly compliant to Cheng Zhu.

    Per the rules, Wang Wei’s team had lost the last round, so they called first.@@@@

    Wang Wei didn’t bother with tactics this time, simply calling out, “Three 4s!”

    Cheng Zhu glanced at him and said casually, “Three 1s.”

    “Damn!” Wang Wei and Liu Hongjing cursed internally.

    This jerk suddenly calling 1s? Their triples were wasted!

    If 1 is called, it’s no longer a wildcard. Wang Wei’s count went from six 4s to just two.

    “So confident, he must have 1s. We have three, and he’s adding one!” Liu Hongjing, acting as the Think Tank, whispered to Wang Wei.

    “Four 1s!” Wang Wei shouted.

    “Add one,” said Cheng Zhu coolly.

    Liu Hongjing analyzed again softly, “If he was bluffing from the start, he wouldn’t dare call five 1s. He must have several. Damn it, just go higher!”

    “Six 1s!” Wang Wei nearly broke his voice, feeling desperate.

    Lin Lu was getting nervous listening to this.

    But really, shouting about six 1s in the final round was indeed thrilling.

    Cheng Zhu leisurely opened his shaker, seemingly pondering which number to call, but actually manipulating his dice again.

    As everyone knows, many magicians have accomplices.

    You’re my only accomplice, a sign of my ultimate trust in you!

    See, you were the one rolling the dice after all!

    In a way, he was just bluffing at the table, cheating actually.

    But that’s not how you say it; I performed a magic trick for you, which sounds rather romantic!

    Suddenly, Lin Lu felt a little disheartened, her heart racing as she faced the gaze of this ‘little brother’.

    A subtle atmosphere had started to stretch between the two.

    However, at this moment, Liu Hongjing and Wang Wei couldn’t sit still.

    “Impossible! I don’t believe he got seven 1s!”

    “There must be an issue; those odds are too low!”

    Both had drank a bit during dinner and were slightly tipsy.

    And you should see how men usually act carefree but become ridiculously nitpicky over drinks at the table.

    What’s worse, they’re the type to force others to drink while being bad drinkers themselves.

    Liu Hongjing was utterly speechless; damn it, he purposefully set up a triple and still Wang Wei lost?

    At that moment, Lin Lu felt like she was being questioned, since she was the last to roll the dice.

    But as a witness to the “magic,” she didn’t feel confident enough to argue back.

    Indeed... there definitely was an issue.

    Cheng Zhu, however, couldn’t care less, just thinking about arguing with them.

    He even deliberately rolled the seven 1s just awaiting their complaints.

    “Little Cheng, little Cheng, been calling me that all night,” he cursed internally.

    Damn it, ruining the atmosphere I was just creating with Lin Lu.

    I’m going to show you who’s boss at this table today!

    Cheng Zhu picked up the shaker and methodically started dropping the dice back in one by one.

    As he did this, he said, “We were all watching during the game.”

    *Clack,* a dice went in.

    “You have doubts about my skills, fine.”

    *Clack,* another dice went in.

    “How about this then? Let’s drop the group game. One of you come out and face me alone, Lin Lu will still roll the dice, and we can only check them once they’re rolled, no chance to tamper then.”

    “Five rounds, three wins, whoever loses, drinks half a bottle of wine.”

    Holding the shaker in one hand, he gently shook it, the striking sounds clear in the quiet room.

    Earlier, he had taken down eight people single-handedly, pushing his momentum ever upwards, now at its peak, his presence overwhelming!

    Little trash, dare to play?

    One-on-eight is a bit about luck, so I’m giving you a task; in a one-on-one, I’ll play you to death!

    Understand the value of a Drink King?

    Today, you’re going out of this room door sideways!

    Lin Lu sat beside him, watching his sharp profile, her large eyes twinkling.

    Right now, the young girl was not thinking about the cheating, because that’s how human thought patterns work: People think from their own perspective.

    Since she had rolled the dice and had just been silenced by accusations, she suddenly thought:

    ——He’s supporting us!

    “Ah, I think I might be getting a little bad,” she felt as if the little devil inside her was about to jump out.

    “But, today was really, really fun!”