454 No Order Without Rules (2/2)

Against the wall of rejection, only Ye Shuang remained silent as she studied the few rooms in the living room silently. The room that the owner had walked out from appeared to be the study. When the door opened earlier, she had caught sight of a large surveillance screen and safes. That should not be a place suitable to keep someone hostage. The other locked rooms were not that far from each other. Based on the size, they should be resting rooms or bedrooms. The doors were made from normal wood, and the locks were spring locks. Sturdy, yes, but probably not enough to keep a master thief locked up. Minus the possibility of hidden doors and rooms, there was nowhere else that could be used to hide a person.

With the analysis done, and confirming that Su Zheng was not kept there, Ye Shuang instantly lost any interest in staying there. Her focus turned from the building to the owner himself.

The owner seemed to have expected that they would not concede easily. Without hurrying, he listened to all the protests, and when everyone was done and the voices died down, he coughed and added lightly, ”Like I said earlier, if there are no rules, there's no order. I cannot let people think that they can walk away from my place by paying money after creating trouble, right?”

”But we didn't mean to…” Some still tried to struggle.

The owner interrupted him. ”Furthermore, the stay won't be unkind.”

He turned to signal at the rooms that Ye Shuang had been paying attention to earlier. ”My place is quite spacious, and there is everything that you might need here. It shouldn't be too hard to live here.”

Stay here? That's even worse! Ye Shuang pouted.

”How about this? Don't say I didn't give you all a chance,” the owner said confidently. He placed his arms on the armrest. The bodyguard took out an unopened deck of cards from his breast pocket, opened it, and handed it to his master.

The owner took his time to open the deck. He rolled up his sleeves, shuffled the deck twice without looking at anyone, and then leaned back and fanned the cards open on the coffee table. ”Everyone should be given a fair chance. If you beat me, you can leave the casino.”

The group looked at each other.

Stop joking, we are amateur gamblers. How can you expect us to beat a casino owner? You might as well not have given us a chance!

Ye Shuang was silent for a while and then cleared her throat in the silence. After gaining everyone's attention, she raised a harmless smile while plucking away the arm of the woman who had landed on her shoulder and stood up from the sofa. ”Mind if I go first?”

The owner raised his brow as he studied Ye Shuang. ”Please.”

There was no spare deck, and the situation was unfavorable for cheating. Ye Shuang scanned the cards on the table and realized that she had to rely on the most banal of means. ”Can I shuffle the cards myself?”

The owner smiled, shrugged, and raised his hand in a 'go ahead' manner before leaning back to sit down on the sofa.