Chapter 132: Absolute Luck (2)

“Ye Lang, can you gamble?” The Seventh Princess asked the most important question on everyone’s behalf.

“No!” Ye Lang replied.

“You’re lying. How could you not know how to gamble? If you didn’t, how do you explain winning the entire Supreme Casino, and even beating King Gaofei?” someone from the Thirteen Allied Nations demanded.

“Nothing special. It was just luck!” everyone said in unison, then broke into laughter. So that was how it was after all. King Gaofei had truly been terribly unlucky to run into this boy.

“Luck?” The envoy from the Thirteen Allied Nations had no time to wonder why they had answered so uniformly. He only wanted to know what they meant by luck.

“That’s right. Luck!” Seventh Brother began explaining. “When this boy was born, a thousand miles of sky were filled with radiant clouds, and he was hailed as the Son of Heaven. Though that claim was later denied, the Goddess of Fortune has continued to favor him. His luck is astonishingly powerful.”

“Gambling does involve skill, but if you encounter someone with absolute luck, then no matter how superb your technique is, it will be useless. Someone with absolute luck is bound to win! And this boy, Thirteen, is precisely that kind of person!”

In gambling, no matter how favorable the other conditions were, a lack of luck would still lead to failure. Even cheating would only help someone like Ye Lang win, because the Goddess of Fortune treated him like her own godson.

That was exactly what King Gaofei had experienced over the past two days. They had tried countless forms of gambling, and he had even cheated in secret, yet Ye Lang had won every single time.

At dice, King Gaofei’s highest possible roll was three sixes. Ye Lang somehow managed to produce three sixes plus one. As it turned out, the die had split apart—and no one knew why it had fallen to pieces the moment Ye Lang threw it.

The king was thoroughly depressed.

They played Heavenly Nine, and Ye Lang drew the Supreme Pair of Heavens every time. No matter how the cards were shuffled, the result was always the same. The strangest part was that King Gaofei himself had been doing the shuffling.

Even more depression.

They played mahjong, and Ye Lang won with a heavenly hand every time, leaving no one else any chance at all.

More depression.

After trying every gambling skill imaginable and getting the same result each time, King Gaofei decided that Ye Lang must be an unparalleled master who had been concealing his abilities. So he stopped using gambling equipment and began competing purely on luck, with games such as coin tosses and drawing lots.

When Ye Lanyu and the others learned of this, they could only sigh inwardly. King Gaofei was acting like an old man hanging himself from a tree—he was literally seeking his own death. To compete with Ye Lang in luck was madness. Unless he himself was the Goddess of Fortune, he had no chance of surviving.

And the facts proved it. No one could compete with Ye Lang when it came to luck. He could casually guess an outcome and still get it right.

Now everyone understood why the door had opened earlier, and why Ye Lang had said the person who came through would be a woman. He and King Gaofei had been betting on it.

They had wagered on whether the first person to enter would be male or female. Since King Gaofei knew his own residence well, he had been certain that the first person through the door would be one of his servants—in other words, a man.

What neither of them had expected was that Ye Lanyu and the others would appear there, and that they would learn Ye Lang might be inside. As a result, Ye Lanyu had entered first, and King Gaofei had lost yet again.

If Sister Mandy had not appeared to hold Ye Lanyu and the others back while also revealing Ye Lang’s whereabouts, Ye Lang would have lost that round. He would then have had to forfeit everything he had won.

But the Goddess of Fortune would never allow Ye Lang to lose a contest of luck. Thus, she had arranged for Sister Mandy to appear and for Ye Lanyu to rush in first.

“What exactly were you two doing in there? How did it take two whole days?” Ye Lanyu and the others asked Ye Lang.

“Gambling, of course. He bet everything he could think of. Now he can’t think of anything else, so it’s over. Sigh…” Ye Lang let out a long breath. “It’s not that I didn’t give him a chance to beat me, but he was simply too terrible. He lost every single time!”

“…”

What could anyone say to that?

Had King Gaofei reached the point where he wanted to die?

No. It was not that he wanted to die.

He was already dead.

“This is bad! His Majesty the King has jumped from the building and killed himself!”

“??”

The cry from outside left everyone bewildered. Wasn’t the king inside? How had he managed to kill himself outside?

Only then did they look toward the place where the king had been. Because they had been so concerned about Ye Lang, no one had noticed that King Gaofei had quietly slipped away.

“Seriously? He killed himself over something like this? Gambling really does ruin people. I’m going to shut down the casino!” Ye Lang said regretfully. As he condemned gambling for ruining lives, he seemed entirely unaware that he was the one who had won everything from the man.

Everyone rushed outside and gathered beside the king’s body. Only then did they confirm that it was not a joke.

They were all curious about why the king had killed himself. Was it really because he had lost to Ye Lang, a novice who did not even know how to gamble? Surely it could not have been that serious.

“Brother, what exactly did he gamble with you?” Ye Lanyu asked with a frown. Thinking about it, there could only be one explanation. He must have lost something he should never have wagered.

Yes, that had to be it. Otherwise, why would he have gone home and killed himself?

No one seemed particularly inclined to sympathize with the dead king. They were merely interested in the reason. After all, gamblers were not deserving of much sympathy. They had brought their misfortunes upon themselves.

“Didn’t I tell you? He gambled everything he could think of! All his property—his casinos, houses, land, gold, silver, jewels, furniture, and so on. I think he even wagered Tianjiu City. He gambled the kingdom too…” Ye Lang slowly recalled the events. There had been so many things that he could not explain them all at once.

By the time he reached the end, everyone’s expressions had changed. They had become extremely strange.

“So, Ye Lang, you won this entire little kingdom? Are you the king of this country now?” The Seventh Princess sought confirmation.

“Mm. That’s right!” Ye Lang nodded.

“…”

Everyone fell silent.

This was an unprecedented wonder. One person had actually gambled away an entire kingdom and won it for himself. What in the world was going on?

Ye Lang, could you possibly cause one more astonishing incident and amaze us again? I think our nerves are already nearly numb!

An entire little kingdom—an entire little kingdom! This boy had won it effortlessly in just two days. Goddess of Fortune, could you be any more biased?

All anyone could do was envy Ye Lang’s opportunities, knowing they could never obtain anything like them.

Ye Lang himself, however, did not care in the least.

“Why did he have to die? He could have just come back and said something. I don’t even want any of this.” Ye Lang looked at the dead king with bafflement.

The poor man had no way of knowing that you did not care. He thought he had lost everything, and that was why he could not bear to go on.