Reborn As Lucky Star

Chapter 107: Chapter 107 Continue

“You deal the cards,”

Lin Chunju pushed a stack of cards toward Yue Jiannan, and Yue Jiannan, without any hesitation, took them and shuffled twice.

His movements were deft, indicating he had indeed played quite a bit over the past few days.

The rules of the game were simple enough.

Each player got one card; both bet, and the one with the higher card won, taking all the chips.

Yue Jiannan dealt the cards, one in front of him and another in front of Lin Chunju.

Yue Jiannan placed one yuan in the middle, and Lin Chunju did the same.

“I…”

Just as Yue Jiannan was about to speak, Lin Chunju, without even looking at her card, tossed it aside.

“I lost this round. Continue,” she said.

Yue Jiannan, baffled, took back both yuan and flipped over his card. It was a 9.

Curious, he picked up Lin Chunju’s discarded card, only to find a 5.

“Indeed, mine is higher, but why wouldn’t you check your card?” Yue Jiannan thought Lin Chunju didn’t understand the rules.

Lin Chunju, growing impatient, said, “Just continue.”

Yue Jiannan dealt the cards again, feeling utterly confused, as Lin Chunju still didn’t even glance at hers before discarding it.

“I lost, continue,” she stated.

Yue Jiannan checked and saw that he’d won again.

Winning the first two games made him quite proud.

“See, I do have a bit of a talent for this,” he boasted.

Lin Chunju just gave a cold smile, saying nothing more.

Yue Jiannan shuffled and dealt once more. Lin Chunju looked at the card in front of her, yet again without turning it over.

“Raise,” Lin Chunju added another yuan, and Yue Jiannan revealed his card, seeing a Q.

Not many cards could beat that.

He felt reassured and matched the raise.

Lin Chunju, expressionless, said, “Raise again.”

Yue Jiannan chuckled, “Mother, you should take a look at the size of your card. How can you win by guessing like this?”

“None of your damn business, are you raising or not?” Lin Chunju retorted bluntly.

“Raise!” Yue Jiannan was defiant.

The two of them went back and forth until the pot reached five yuan.

Yue Jiannan was hesitant to follow, mainly because he was afraid his mother couldn’t afford the loss and would end up thrashing him.

“Forget it, let’s show,” Yue Jiannan flipped over Lin Chunju’s card and it turned out to be a K.

The money he had just won was gone in a blink of an eye, and he was even three yuan in the hole.

Yue Jiannan found it odd.

But he had dealt the cards himself, and the deck was new; moreover, Lin Chunju clearly had not known how to play cards before, so there seemed no way she could have cheated.

His gaze then fell on Yue Qingqing’s face; everyone in the Yue family knew that despite her young age, Qingqing was clever and not to be underestimated.

If Yue Qingqing had been standing behind him, Yue Jiannan might have suspected the little one was signaling to their mother.

But Yue Qingqing was sitting properly beside Lin Chunju, clearly unable to see his cards.

Besides, his mother hadn’t even looked at her own hole card.

“Why stop playing? Can’t handle a loss?”

Lin Chunju scoffed, and Yue Jiannan was immediately provoked.

“Who says I can’t handle a loss? Continue!”

However, what followed only made Yue Jiannan more confused.

Whenever his mother discarded her card without a second glance, it was surely lower than his; if she raised, her card was definitely higher.

Towards the end, Yue Jiannan felt as if he had encountered a ghost. Lin Chunju clearly hadn’t looked at the cards, she hadn’t even touched them, so how did she know which were higher or lower?

He couldn’t find a reason, and the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became. Whenever Lin Chunju placed a bet, he started to panic.

The money in front of him was quickly disappearing.

Yue Jiannan scratched his head, feeling a sense of helplessness as if all his efforts were futile.

Before long, his spot was completely empty.

In just a quarter of an hour, all of Yue Jiannan’s money had ended up in front of Lin Chunju, not a single yuan left.

The sound of cards scattering echoed.

Yue Jiannan could no longer hold onto the cards, and they spilled all over the floor.

Lin Chunju bent down, picking up the cards one by one and stacking them in front of her son.

“Continue!”