Volume 3, Chapter 167 – She Owes the Money, Why Should I Pay?

The black-haired girl lay sprawled against the edge of the gambling table, her hands clutching the table’s edge tightly, her reddened eyes fixed on the dice cup on the gambling table, looking completely crazed.

However, the next moment.

“How is this possible!” The black-haired girl shrieked. “Something’s wrong here!”

“There must be something wrong!”

The black-haired girl’s fingertips trembled as she pointed at the dice before her, her face full of disbelief.

Her face looked as if it had lost all blood in an instant.

“Miss, you should accept your loss gracefully.”

“You placed your bet, I opened the cup. Everyone here plays this way.”

“If you’re not satisfied, you can put down more silver and play another round.”

The black-haired girl’s face turned ashen as she staggered back several steps, murmuring, “It’s over, everything’s over… Mother…”

Chi Xiyan walked to her side and sighed softly. “I told you, the moment you sat down at that gambling table, you had already stepped into a pit of fire. You had no chance of winning.”

As she spoke, Chi Xiyan’s gaze swept coldly over the people before her.

That dull-witted girl couldn’t see anything. But Chi Xiyan could see it all clearly.

That empty spot at the gambling table had been prepared for fools like that girl.

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From the very beginning, that girl never had a chance to win.

Was this what the gambling house in Five Immortals House was like?

How ridiculous.

Now that she thought about it, this gambling house was the lowest-tier gambling house in Five Immortals House. Nothing that happened here would be surprising.

“It’s over, everything’s over…” The black-haired girl still clutched her chest and sobbed quietly. “What have I done… Mother…”

“Stop crying. Crying won’t help,” Chi Xiyan said beside her.

After hearing this, the black-haired girl cried even louder.

At this time, the middle-aged man who had written the contract for the black-haired girl earlier also walked over.

“Miss, over twenty taels of silver, and I didn’t expect you to lose it all so quickly.”

The black-haired girl slightly raised her head, looking at the man with a terrified expression. “…What do you want?”

“Miss, you see, this Five Immortals House isn’t a charity,” the middle-aged man continued. “The silver you borrowed here has to be repaid, right?”

The black-haired girl said hesitantly, “But… but I’ve already lost all my money…”

The middle-aged man replied, “That’s your problem. Once the money was lent to you, how you spend it or gamble with it has nothing to do with us. But if you can’t repay the money, then it concerns us.”

The black-haired girl’s face filled with alarm. “W, what will you do?”

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The middle-aged man chuckled. “Miss, you seem to have forgotten what you signed just now. Do you need me to remind you?”

“No! No!” The black-haired girl screamed. She instinctively retreated, trying to dodge. “I don’t want to enter a brothel! Help!! You… you’re all in this together!!”

“Miss, you don’t seem to understand what kind of place Five Immortals House is.” As the middle-aged man spoke, several thugs behind him also stood up.

A group of burly thugs surrounded the black-haired girl.

The black-haired girl crouched on the ground in despair.

“Wait a moment.” Chi Xiyan blocked the black-haired girl’s path. “Is this how Five Immortals House does business? The money just lent out must be collected immediately?”

The middle-aged man looked at Chi Xiyan, a trace of doubt flashing through his eyes.

The black-haired girl from earlier had worn shabby clothes, her eyes full of clear stupidity, clearly the easy-to-manipulate type.

Having seen countless people at Five Immortals House, he could tell at a glance that the black-haired girl had quite a nice foundation.

There was no reason not to accept such a lamb that delivered itself to his door.

However, the young lady now blocking his path was completely different from that foolish girl earlier.

Although she wore no excessive accessories, and her white dress was rather plain.

But just by standing there, she exuded an unhurried air of nobility.

In this low-tier gambling house, she was like a sacred white lotus blooming from the mud.

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He didn’t recognize who this girl was, but he could keenly sense she wasn’t someone to provoke.

Such bearing could only be possessed by young ladies from great families.

But why would such a young lady from a prestigious family appear in a place like this?

This low-tier gambling house was the lowest area in Five Immortals House. The gamblers here were also from the lowest class, and the silver circulating was very little.

The middle-aged man had a feeling that all the silver on all the gambling tables here combined might not equal the value of a single garment the young lady before him wore.

Such a family’s young lady, no matter what her actual identity, wasn’t someone they could afford to offend too much.

“This young lady.” The middle-aged man’s face pulled into a slight smile as he asked, “That young lady… what is she to you?”

Beside Chi Xiyan, the disheveled black-haired girl also raised her head, her eyes full of hope as she looked at Chi Xiyan.

“…” Chi Xiyan hesitated for a moment.

What was the relationship between that wild girl and Chi Xiyan?

That foolish wild girl was very likely Chi Xiyan’s cousin.

But she couldn’t say that now. This matter hadn’t been completely confirmed yet.

“I already said I was just passing by,” Chi Xiyan said. “She has nothing to do with me.”

The black-haired girl’s eyes instantly became dim and lifeless, as if she had lost all hope.

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Chi Xiyan saw this. She lowered her eyes slightly and continued, “It’s just that I can’t stand watching you all bully a young girl like this.”

“Ah damn.” A trace of coldness flashed through the middle-aged man’s eyes. “Are you determined to interfere in this matter?”

“I just think that Five Immortals House is such a large establishment, it shouldn’t bully a young girl like this,” Chi Xiyan said. “Or is this how Five Immortals House operates, without any reason or rules?”

The middle-aged man realized that this family’s young lady before him wasn’t easy to deal with.

“Miss, you also saw that it’s this young lady who owes money. It’s not that we’re being unreasonable. We lent out the money, so naturally we need to find a way to collect it back, right?”

At this point, the middle-aged man’s eyes rolled. He looked at Chi Xiyan. “Or are you saying, Miss, that you want to repay this debt for her?”

“If you can repay this money for her, naturally we won’t make things difficult for her anymore.”

“Repay the debt for her?” Chi Xiyan frowned. “Why should I?”

The expression on the middle-aged man’s face suddenly froze.

This young lady had blocked him and said so much, yet she turned out to be someone who only moved her lips but didn’t want to pay?

Even the expression on the black-haired girl beside Chi Xiyan froze at the same time.

On that bloodless, deathly pale little face, her eye sockets became even redder, tears filling the corners of her eyes.

Chi Xiyan then continued, “The money she owes, why should I be the one to repay it?”