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CHAPTER 72: Fortune Celestial Pearl
Ethan smiled."Is the Luo family really so generous?" he said. "I haven't noticed that quality before. Besides, I'm a man of my word. Once I've made a bid, I don't withdraw it. That's settled."Charlotte was at his arm immediately."Xiao Fan, this isn't a matter of stubbornness. Listen to what Young Master Luo is saying and pull your bid. This isn't the right property to fight over."She had concluded, from watching the exchange, that Ethan's continued opposition to Luo Wentao was connected to her, that he was reacting to the competition between them, that this was somehow about her. The thought produced a warmth she did not examine too carefully.What she had not accounted for was that Ethan's reasons had nothing to do with Luo Wentao personally and everything to do with a formation built by a practitioner who had deliberately destroyed a developer's life work, and with who would own the site when that formation was broken."I'm not being stubborn," Ethan said. "And I'm not withdrawi
CHAPTER 71: Making Wedding Dresses for Others
The moment the auctioneer announced the Eden Heights contract, the room came alive with the specific energy of a hundred wealthy people all calculating the same problem simultaneously."I know that development. The location is exceptional, mountain backdrop, water frontage, perfect positioning for a luxury villa community. The developer put over a hundred and forty million into it. Starting at fourteen million is practically giving it away""There's a reason it's priced that way. Do you have the nerve to buy it? Yes, it's cheap. But people have died there. More than once. Under circumstances nobody can explain.""Exactly. Even if you acquire it, you can't sell a unit. Who's going to buy a luxury villa in a development where the construction workers refused to go back? What are you going to do with it, live there yourself?""And the construction isn't even finished. Workers won't go near the place. You'd be buying an incomplete development you can't complete and can't sell."The discus
CHAPTER 70: Obtaining the Artifact
The auction began with the formality that these events maintain regardless of their scale, the professional auctioneer, the arranged items, the paddles corresponding to membership numbers. Charlotte and Ethan shared a paddle, since he had come as her companion.The auctioneer was a woman in professional attire who moved through the opening courtesies with the practiced ease of someone who has done this many times and values efficiency. After a brief welcoming statement, she announced the first item.The order of the auction was the reverse of the catalog, the Fortune Celestial Pearl, which had led the promotional material, was being saved as the climactic finale. The first item to come to the stage was the unidentified black bottle that had occupied the last page.A server in a red dress walked out carrying a tray.The moment the bottle came into view, Ethan felt it.Not saw, felt. The Spiritual Qi radiating from the object hit his cultivated perception the way concentrated heat hits
CHAPTER 69: Poor Psychological Quality
Every eye in the VIP room was on the dice cup.Master Zhao lifted the lid slowly, with the deliberate control of someone who has done this thousands of times and understands the theater of the moment.Three sixes.The room absorbed this for a beat.Then it erupted."He won! He actually won again, he beat Master Zhao!""Over three hundred million in one round, that's not money you could spend in several lifetimes""How is this possible? Master Zhao has never lost in all the years I've known his reputation""This young man's luck is genuinely beyond anything natural, why can't I ever have luck like this"The gamblers who had gathered around the table were not invested in the outcome financially and could afford to be fully amazed. They were fully amazed.Luo Wentao's face had arrived at an expression that no longer had any relationship to composure. It was the face of a man watching something he has spent years building take damage he had not calculated for.He could not understand it.
CHAPTER 68: Please Invite Master Zhao
Luo Wentao crossed the floor to meet the old man with a deference he did not show to most people.He was the owner of this establishment. He was, in the normal operation of this building, the most significant person in it. But there were people whose specific usefulness placed them outside the usual hierarchy, and Master Zhao was one of them.The casino had faced dangerous situations before, players with systems, players with partners, players who had found ways to work around the house's controls. In every case that had reached the level of genuine concern, Master Zhao had been the resolution."Old Master Zhao," Luo Wentao said, "Ghost Hand Old Eight had a small accident. I had to ask you to come out and exert yourself."The phrasing was deliberate. What he was communicating, without stating directly, Old Eight is not the problem, the opponent is. The situation requires you specifically.Master Zhao nodded. He had already understood this from the moment he was summoned. If Old Eight
CHAPTER 67: Ghost Hand, Old Eight
Charlotte grabbed Ethan's arm."We won again!"She was genuinely excited in the way that people get genuinely excited at gambling tables regardless of how much money they actually need, because the mechanism of winning produces a specific feeling that is independent of the stakes. As the daughter of a family whose assets ran to hundreds of millions, eighty thousand dollars was not a meaningful sum. The feeling was still the feeling.Luo Wentao stared at the open dice cup.Three fives. Fifteen points. Big.He had lost again.The dealer beside him was visibly deteriorating, sweat had appeared on his forehead during the previous round and had not stopped appearing since. He had been running the manipulation technique for four years without a single failure. He had checked his setup. He had confirmed it. He had lifted the cup and found something else.He had no explanation.Ethan's expression was mild and pleasant.Under his control, a thread of Primordial True Qi extended through the air
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