Translator: Guy Gone Bad

  Huo Qu should know nothing about the passport, so Yu Qinghuan could only get the answer from Huo Qu’s brother. But thinking of what he was going to do with Huo Qu, he was afraid to make the call. After hesitating for quite a while, he didn’t call Huo Rong at last.

  Finally, he gave up and handed the phone to Huo Qu, “Call your brother, and ask him whether you have a passport.”


  He always deemed that he was prepared to face Huo Qu’s family, but when the moment came, he still lacked the guts. However much psychological construction he had done, he still felt guilty and faint-hearted.

  Huo Qu didn’t have such mental struggle like him, he dialed his brother’s number without any hesitation.

  Listening to his straight-forward tone, Yu Qinghuan scratched his palm lightly with envy. At such a critical moment, he still needed his Professor Huo to stand forward.

  “He said I have it.” Huo Qu looked delightful, “The chauffeur will send it to me tomorrow morning.”


  “That’d be great.” Yu Qinghuan felt relieved, he passed the chopsticks to Huo Qu, letting him continue his dinner, and then sent a confirming message to Zhao Rui.

  Under Zhao Rui’s strong demand, they took the earliest flight to Macau and didn’t arrive there until 7 p.m……

  Zhao Rui could hardly wait to go to the casino. After delivering the luggage to the hotel, buying some stuffed buns at the stand downstairs and withdrawing some HK dollars, he dragged Yu Qinghuan and Huo Qu to a casino he had already selected beforehand.

  He heard that one could not win the gambling in the hotel where he/she checked in. Therefore, he selected another casino in the distance.

  The casino was splendid from the exterior and was all-golden inside. It was the first time Zhao Rui had ever entered such a fancy place, he exhilarated and kept looking around. “Just watch, I’m gonna go exchange a lot of chips to win a great fortune!” Zhao Rui swore to Yu Qinghuan.

  Yu Qinghuan ignored the crazy Zhao Rui. He walked with Huo Qu around the casino and asked him, “So? Do you want to have a try?”


  Huo Qu was not interested in it and shook his head.

  Yu Qinghuan did not have the intention, either. He was frightened by his creep good luck. One jackpot was enough, he was never a greedy person.

  Therefore, the two of them decided to merely watch Director Zhao’s gambling show.

  “I exchanged 50 thousand’ chips,” Zhao Rui said painfully as if he had been filleted, “I swear I am not a man if I can’t double them!”


  Yu Qinghuan, “.……”


  So? His “a lot” meant 50 thousand? And who gave him the confidence that he would definitely win money?

  As if seeing through Qinghuan’s mind, Zhao Rui winked at him, “That’s because I got you, the god-blessed koi here. I planned to exchange only 5 thousand at first.”


  Yu Qinghuan, “.……”


  With a gale full of courage circling around, Zhao Rui rushed to the gambling table. He strongly demanded Yu Qinghuan stand behind him, forbidding him to leave for even one second.

  Yu Qinghuan had no choice but accommodate to him.

  Fortunately, he’d got Huo Qu beside him. Standing behind Zhao Rui, he explained the rules of the gambling to Huo Qu, making the whole process not that boring.

  However, even accompanied with Yu Qinghuan’s luck, the gambling luck was against him. Ordinarily, the new casino comers would win for a couple times first, but Zhao Rui didn’t win at all! Not even a single round!

  He lost almost all his chips in quite a short time.

  Zhao Rui’s face twisted with his aching heart, “S**t, I shouldn’t have come here! 50 thousand! Totally gone now!”


  He suspended and glanced sideways at Yu Qinghuan, “Qinghuan, your luck sucks today.”


  “Those were all merely coincidences.” Yu Qinghuan smiled with relief. “They were just joking. Don’t take it seriously.”


  “No, maybe that’s because your luck was used out by me last time,” sighed Zhao Rui. As he was about to bend his arm around Yu Qinghuan’s shoulder, he saw the glare from Huo Qu, he could only pull his hands back and threw 2 chips of 100 to Qinghuan instead. “I quit! My heart has broken. Spend it, Qinghuan, we gotta go.”


  “Alright.” He didn’t refuse this time.

  He didn’t get good luck today. It was nothing to play a round.

  Looking around, he chose the closest Caribbean Stud Poker. Clicking on the starting button, he bet after the card showdown.

  The first card revealed was spade A, Zhao Rui joked, “Wow, won’t it be a straight flush?”


  He was immediately flooded by the contemptuous look from the people around the gambling table. They were all veteran here, who had seen numerous silly tourists like him.

  A straight flush? Daydreaming!

  Yu Qinghuan just ignored it. Glancing at Zhao Rui to let him stop, he continued to reveal the cards.

  But with the cards revealing one by one, the atmosphere on the gambling table changed. And many people came to see his cards.

  As the successive appearing of J, Q, K, they murmured in their heart: Was this guy really lucky enough to get a straight flush?

  Yu Qinghuan’s heart was shaking. He wanted to quit immediately, but once a gam-bling began, no one could stop it. He had no choice but to reveal the last card.

  Spade 10.

  “Hiss!” gasping from the people around hit the celling.

  That was a straight flush! A big one!

  Wining 8.5 million by 200!

  What a good luck the boy had!

  The whole casino seethed with excitement!

  A great number of guards rushed over within the highest speed, blocking the gambling table, and Yu Qinghuan and his fellows were protected by rounds of guards.

  The top administrator of the casino showed up, registered Yu Qinghuan’s ID and passport number.

  The whole casino entered the highest alert immediately. The people outside were for-bidden to enter. And the whole scene was spectacular.

  Until this moment, Zhao Rui finally found out the situation. Holding his fluttered heart, Zhao Rui spelled the 4-letter word with full his force, “F**k!”


  Comments from the author: The incident in the casino was a real thing that happened last year in Macao. But it’s a pity that I missed it because I was having a meeting at that time. Hearing the scene described by my colleague, I wrote it down in my story.