Chapter 758 - 362: Everyone but Myself Is an Actor! (Part 2)
"Lose no more than 10 million, and if my luck doesn’t change, I’ll give up decisively!"
Zhou Tong lost forty to fifty million in one go, feeling that his bad luck was finally about to end, and his good fortune was just around the corner.
At this moment, even if Peng Fei and the others weren’t there provoking him, he still wouldn’t give up easily.
When a gambler starts getting carried away, reason increasingly departs from him, until his home is broken and he’s ruined!
Cherish life, stay away from gambling!
Behind these eight short words are countless bloody lessons.
"President Wang must be joking, President Zhou doesn’t seem like a man who’s afraid of his wife at all."
"Hehehe, who says he isn’t? If he were my husband, I wouldn’t have enough time to cherish him."
"Brother Zhou, I would only shower you with love, never control you. Why not consider me?"
"President Zhou, hang in there. Once we’re done, I’ll accompany you to the guest room to relax."
"All of you step aside, this is my husband~ Husband, hang in there~"
A few girls were giggling and bantering off to the side, lightening the mood.
Although Zhou Tong lost a lot of money, his emotional value was greatly satisfied with the series of calls of Brother and Husband.
The game continued.
Sure enough.
This time, Zhou Tong’s luck was much better.
In the third round, he received a "Triple King" and conveniently caught Liu Xunhuan’s straight.
With just one hand, he won over 12 million!
With this bit of "good luck," Zhou Tong felt his chances of breaking even were even higher!
Moreover, his ambition had inflated again.
Break even?
Tonight, I want to take down the entire arena!
Ring ring ring—
A burst of phone ringing sounded.
The phone placed on the table suddenly rang, startling Zhou Tong.
Seeing that the caller ID wasn’t his wife but an unknown caller without a name, the heart that Zhou Tong had in his throat finally fell back into his stomach.
Just as he was about to hang up the call, he suddenly felt an urgent need to pee.
Moreover...
"Could it be that lady back home using a strange number to check up on me?"
At the thought of this possibility, Zhou Tong got another chill!
To be honest, given what he knew about his wife, it was indeed possible!
"Brothers, wait a moment, I need to go to the restroom to relieve myself."
Saying this, Zhou Tong grabbed his phone and headed towards the restroom.
Boom~
The bathroom door closed, blocking out the noise outside, Zhou Tong adjusted his breathing rhythm before answering the call.
"Hello, who is this, calling at this ungodly hour, can’t a person get some sleep?"
"Zhou Tong..."
Listening to the voice on the other end, a strange man’s voice, calling his name right off the bat, Zhou Tong tensed up.
After hearing what the man said next, his forehead and back started sweating, and his body felt a cool chill.
Ding dong~
Following the instructions of the person on the phone, after adding the other’s WeChat, Zhou Tong received an audio message.
After listening to the audio sent over, Zhou Tong sat heavily on the bathroom floor, his face painted with an expression of extreme fright.
"Liu Xunhuan, Peng Fei, Wang Hai... What a scheming trio you are!"
"I naively treated you as brothers, but you’re trying to make me a cash cow!"
"Man proposes, God disposes, heh, luckily I just won back over 12 million."
"If I pull back now, the most I’d lose is eight to nine million, still able to patch this hole with my stash."
Though he hadn’t verified it, the evidence Zhou Tong had just received was definitely real.
The voices, tones, styles... in the audio matched Liu Xunhuan and the others perfectly.
Even the details of their conversation coincided with the personas of those involved.
This segment of audio was surely secretly recorded, definitely not AI-generated.
Moreover, the various "tactics" mentioned in the audio to deal with Zhou Tong aligned perfectly with tonight’s realities!
Just now, Zhou Tong’s "Triple King" annihilated Liu Xunhuan, and winning 12 million from him was also part of the "script"!
All circumstances indicate that tonight’s poker game was a "setup" by Liu Xunhuan and the rest.
Besides Zhou Tong, everyone else is in on it!
Including those models brought in tonight, they’ve all been roped in by Liu Xunhuan to "act" for Zhou Tong!
"According to their plan, they’d let me win only this round, then later make me lose more."
"I have to get out of here quickly!"
After smoking a cigarette to calm down, Zhou Tong soon made up his mind.
As for breaking ties with them on the spot, such an approach isn’t wise.
After all, in the entire building, besides himself, everyone else belonged to Liu Xunhuan themself.
His fists were no match for four hands, let alone facing so many people!
The best current approach is just as the person on the phone suggested, to preserve the evidence and leave immediately.
With this evidence, Zhou Tong could recover every penny he lost without a hitch!
The actions of Liu Xunhuan and the others had already amounted to fraud!
If it goes through legal channels, they’d all end up inside!
At that time, their company would also be impacted, suffering greater losses!
Once Zhou Tong returned to his senses from the gambling "high," he then exited the restroom.
"Brother Zhou, we thought you fell asleep in the bathroom, just about to send Nana in to check on you, come on over."
"Brother Zhou..."
The crowd in the living room chitchatting and laughing saw Zhou Tong finally come out of the bathroom and warmly invited him to sit.
"Brothers, tonight’s probably not doable, the call I just got was from my wife, she’s already at the airport and told me to hurry and pick her up."
"Sorry brothers, I need to rush off, let’s meet up another day."
"What? Brother Zhou, you’re really leaving?"
"Brother Zhou, aren’t you the one who isn’t afraid of your wife? What’s the rush, play for another half hour."
"Brother Zhou, once you leave, how are us three going to continue!"
After saying a few words, Zhou Tong turned decisively and strode towards the door, ignoring everyone’s persuasion, grabbing the clothes hung on the coat rack by the door and left.
Boom~
The door closed once more, leaving everyone inside looking at each other, puzzled.
"Damn it, Old Zhou’s wife coming back at this time has messed up our whole plan!"
"Damn, Zhou Tong that lucky bastard just won back 12 million and quit playing."
"Worked for days and only made seven or eight million, all for nothing!"
"Next time, wait for Old Zhou’s wife to travel again and plan anew."
After complaining for over ten minutes, Liu Xunhuan and the rest each took their companions and headed back to their rooms.
Zhou Tong went downstairs and directly called a car. By the time he got home, it was already past 1 AM.
As the saying goes, those involved are confused.
Until today, Zhou Tong had always considered Liu Xunhuan and the others his closest friends.
Decades of friendship, the brothers had collaborated on many business ventures.
Zhou Tong never thought his three best friends would scheme against him!
Combined with the audio evidence received on WeChat.
Zhou Tong stepped back from the "those involved" perspective to view the past few days’ experiences from a bystander’s angle.
Liu Xunhuan and the others’ "wolfish ambition" became crystal clear to him.
"Luckily there’s this mysterious person’s warning, otherwise, I might have been scammed to death by Liu Xunhuan and them!"
"After decades of friendship, they’re the ones who understand me best."
"For those who understand me best to set traps for me, it’s really hard to guard against!"
Sitting on the couch in his living room, chain-smoking, Zhou Tong felt increasingly afraid as he thought more about it.
At this point, he also realized he hadn’t been quite himself earlier, had gotten carried away.
If he hadn’t woken up in time and kept being conned by Liu Xunhuan and the others, who knows how much he would’ve lost tonight!
Thirty to fifty million, maybe even seventy to eighty million!
And given his level of trust in Liu Xunhuan and the three of them.
Even if he had lost seventy to eighty million, he definitely wouldn’t suspect them of orchestrating it.
He would just think he had bad luck.
After this time, perhaps there would be a next time, and the time after that!
Continued situations like this, he would undoubtedly be schemed to death by these "good friends!"