I Became the Most Popular Character by Acting as a Villain in the Manga

Ch. 55


Chapter 55

The force with which Gong Ting gripped his wrist was a bit strong, making Bai Xuechao feel uncomfortable.

He moved his wrist slightly, only to have the other party grip it even tighter.

He half-lowered his eyelashes, a flicker of understanding flashing through his eyes.

As expected, one couldn't use special abilities inside Dream Game City's game rooms. He had just tried to use his special ability to help him break free from Gong Ting's grasp, but the ability was as if it had disappeared, unusable, as if it were restricted by some kind of rule.

Bai Xuechao, completely composed, lifted his eyelids, looked at Gong Ting, and uttered a single syllable, "Oh?"

"Your card is in your sleeve!" Gong Ting, seemingly provoked by his calm attitude, stood up directly, grabbed his hand, and began to feel inside his cuff, wanting to find the evidence.

The second Gong Ting's fingers went into Bai Xuechao's cuff, the hunter-like, excited smile on his face vanished.

Nothing?!

Gong Ting, in disbelief, held Bai Xuechao's wrist with one hand, while his other hand gripped his forearm through the sleeve, meticulously feeling his way up his arm, inch by inch, checking if he had a poker card hidden in his sleeve.

Bai Xuechao's other hand, which wasn't being held, was propping up his own jaw as he watched Gong Ting check his sleeve at his leisure.

However, Gong Ting felt all the way up to the middle-upper part of Bai Xuechao's upper arm, and his palm still only felt high-grade fabric and the boy's slender, soft arm, with absolutely no hard objects. Any higher and he would be touching his armpit. How could a card possibly be hidden there?

A trace of bewilderment and panic flashed across his face.

No card, how could that be?!

"Didn't find it?" Bai Xuechao looked at Gong Ting with a half-smile, raising an eyebrow somewhat flirtatiously.

In Gong Ting's eyes, this was a provocation.

Gong Ting's face was full of unwillingness as he asserted, "It must be in your other sleeve!"

Saying that, he reached out to grab Bai Xuechao's other hand, the one propping up his cheek.

Before Bai Xuechao could react, Zhou Chenhao couldn't take it anymore, perhaps unable to stand Gong Ting's relentless behavior.

"Enough!" Zhou Chenhao's long, strong hand slammed down on the table with a loud "bang," instantly attracting everyone's attention. He declared righteously, "Even your own game system hasn't determined that he cheated,what are you still going on about?"

Ling Feng wasn't too surprised that Zhou Chenhao would do this; he just glanced at him and said nothing.

Gong Ting said defiantly, "He definitely cheated! If you don't believe me, just let him—"

"Here," Bai Xuechao's calm voice interrupted Gong Ting's unfinished words. He took the initiative to lower the hand that was propping up his cheek, presenting his cuff directly to Gong Ting.

Gong Ting's gaze fell on his cuff, and his expression froze.

Inside his cuff, there was nothing.

At this moment, Bai Xuechao let out a light scoff.

Gong Ting seemed to be stung by the ridicule implied in his scoff. His gaze wavered for a moment, and he sat back down in his seat heavily, as if drained of all strength, looking rather crestfallen.

His confidence had hit rock bottom in that instant.

He didn't dare to look up at Bai Xuechao, always feeling that the other was looking at him with mocking eyes, laughing at him for being a loser.

Impossible, that move of his was definitely cheating, his move…

"It's a Jack of Clubs," Bai Xuechao flipped over the card Gong Ting had dealt him, completely unaffected by the recent incident, and continued to prop his chin on one hand, "Hit."

He also said to Zhou Chenhao in passing, "Thanks."

"Ah, I didn't do much…" Zhou Chenhao scratched the back of his head.

Gong Ting had been stunned ever since he saw Bai Xuechao flip over the Jack of Clubs.

Bai Xuechao didn't cheat just now! It was a fake move to trick him!

Realizing this, a blazing, fiery anger burned in Gong Ting's chest. He felt as if he had been played like a monkey.

His expression turned momentarily ferocious as he suppressed his anger and pushed a card to Bai Xuechao.

Damn Dongfang Bubai, how dare he trick him!

At the same time, Xiao 6 couldn't hold back its curiosity and asked Bai Xuechao, "Host, did you really not cheat?"

"Of course not," Bai Xuechao replied. "I was just pretending to cheat just now, to play with him a bit."

He had an Ace, which could be counted as 1 or 11. With the 5, even if he got another 10-point card, he could count it as 16. There was no need to cheat right from the start.

Besides, he had long anticipated that Gong Ting would definitely try to catch him cheating, so wasn't it quite interesting to take this opportunity to play with him a bit?

Xiao 6: As expected of you, you dog Host!

Bai Xuechao looked at the card Gong Ting had dealt.

If this card's value was over 5, he would bust.

Perhaps out of a wicked sense of humor to create some suspense, or perhaps to build up tension, Bai Xuechao stopped propping up his chin. Instead, he sat up straight, placed his hand on the poker card, and hesitated to flip it over.

"What card could it be?" Bai Xuechao asked Gong Ting with a curve in his eyes.

Gong Ting was taken aback when he realized Bai Xuechao was looking at him.

He knew very well that the cards he had shuffled to the top this round were all large, mostly 10-point cards. If Bai Xuechao didn't cheat with this card, he would definitely bust.

Cheat!

Realizing that Bai Xuechao had to cheat this time, his desire for revenge was rekindled. His eyes were fixed on Bai Xuechao's jade-like fingers.

As long as he dares to cheat…

"By the way," Bai Xuechao's hand slid over the top of the poker card without flipping it, and he suddenly brought up another matter, leaving the three people waiting for him to flip the card in suspense, "is there no penalty for wrongly accusing someone of cheating? If that's the case, couldn't one repeatedly accuse someone of cheating to affect their mentality? That's not good, is it?"

As he spoke, he unconsciously slid his hands back and forth over the poker card, as if he were playing.

Hearing this, Gong Ting felt as if a basin of cold water had been poured over his head. The excitement of about to catch Bai Xuechao cheating instantly cooled down, and his heart felt heavy.

He had actually been so carried away by his emotions that he had forgotten this!

Before Gong Ting could speak, Zhou Chenhao had already said, "Oh, there is a penalty for that."

After all, he and Ling Feng had been there from the start and had heard Gong Ting explain the rules here. He continued, "If you wrongly accuse someone of cheating twice in a row, you will also be penalized by 'deducting double the game coins to be divided among the other players'."

In other words, if Gong Ting was wrong again this time, he would lose another 100 million game coins. With only a little over 10 million left, he would also have to start exchanging his own possessions for game coins.

Gong Ting faced two choices—

To call him out? Or not to call him out?

Gong Ting's hand, pressed on the table, tightened, his heart in turmoil.

Reason told him not to call him out this time, to wait until he won back a round of game coins first. But his emotions told him that he must call him out, that Bai Xuechao would definitely cheat this time!

Because of his superb sleight of hand, he had always been rational at the gaming table. It had been a long time since he had gotten so worked up.

Just as Gong Ting was struggling, Bai Xuechao's hand quickly reached for the card on the table, making a move to flip it.

Gong Ting subconsciously reached out to grab Bai Xuechao.

His mind was filled with one thought: Dongfang Bubai is definitely cheating this time! If he doesn't cheat, he's going to bust!

But Bai Xuechao's hand suddenly made a sharp turn, once again sliding over the back of the card and smoothly moving to the back of his own neck. A wicked smile appeared on his face.

"Yo, City Lord Gong," his tone was full of cadence, dripping with sarcasm, "so eager?"

Gong Ting grabbed at empty air. The anger of being toyed with reignited in his chest. He gritted his teeth and said, "Are you going to flip the card or not? Don't waste time."

"I'll flip it, of course I'll flip it," Bai Xuechao moved his hand quickly.

The moment he flipped the poker card, Gong Ting seized his wrist.

The card fell back onto the table and was flipped over by Gong Ting's other hand.

An Ace of Clubs.

It wasn't one of the cards he had shuffled to the top!

After seeing the card clearly, Gong Ting couldn't help but pull back the corners of his mouth into a smile. A low chuckle escaped him, which then grew louder and louder, as if he had encountered the most delightful thing all day.

"You cheated!" Gong Ting laughed uncontrollably, shaking the wrist he was holding, "You cheated, hahahaha!"

Seeing Gong Ting so certain, Xiao 6 broke into a cold sweat of code and quickly asked, "Host, did you cheat?"

"Yes, I did," Bai Xuechao said calmly.

He calmly watched Gong Ting laugh.

Zhou Chenhao and Ling Feng's gazes were focused on him. They both felt that he was too calm, so calm that it was a bit unsettling.

Could it be that because he had so many game coins, he didn't care about losing once?

Meanwhile, Xiao 6 was panicking, "Then Host, you lost?!"

"Not yet," Bai Xuechao said.

Xiao 6: "Huh?"

Bai Xuechao didn't say anything more to it.

Xiao 6 bit its handkerchief: Sob, sob, when I have money, I'll definitely buy a host who can finish his sentences!

Gong Ting laughed for a good half a minute before the frantic laughter finally stopped.

Bai Xuechao: 6, laughing for half a minute, isn't that awkward?

After the ecstasy, Gong Ting finally noticed that Bai Xuechao's attitude was not right. How could he be so calm after being caught cheating?

Could it be that he didn't care at all about his sleight of hand being defeated?

"Had enough laughing?" Bai Xuechao smiled slightly, and his free hand once again made the gesture of propping up his chin, "You say I cheated, where's the proof?"

At this, the last trace of a smile on Gong Ting's face faded.

A hint of caution had just risen in his heart, but it vanished without a trace when he noticed that the wrist he was holding seemed to be trembling slightly.

So he was just putting on a brave front! He must be scared to death inside, right?

Gong Ting snorted, an unconcealable delight in his eyes. He checked Bai Xuechao's sleeve again. Although he didn't know where Bai Xuechao had hidden the card last time, this time he had cheated, so the switched card would definitely be hidden in his sleeve.

"It's right—" he froze again.

It's not in the sleeve?!

Gong Ting roughly pushed up the sleeve of Bai Xuechao's suit jacket. The fabric bunched up at his elbow. Where was the poker card?

As if not giving up, Gong Ting pushed up the sleeve of the white shirt covering Bai Xuechao's forearm again.

Although one could tell just by looking that the shirt cuff was too narrow to hide a card…

Nothing, there was nothing at all!

The delight in Gong Ting's eyes vanished. His emotions had gone through a roller coaster in a short period of time. At this moment, he stared blankly at Bai Xuechao's smiling face.

Bai Xuechao asked, "Where is your proof?"

"Where did you hide the card?!" Gong Ting suddenly grabbed Bai Xuechao's shoulders and shook him, his eyes bloodshot. He was so strong that Bai Xuechao felt his shoulders ache a little.

Bai Xuech-ao said indifferently, "It's just that your skills are inferior."

Hearing this, Gong Ting's heart felt as if it had been stabbed viciously. His expression was ferocious as he said, "You clearly cheated! You switched the card to an Ace!"

Zhou Chenhao frowned, stood up to pull at Gong Ting's hand, trying to pull him away, and at the same time, whether intentionally or not, stabbed Gong Ting with another verbal knife, "You can't find it, do you expect the person you caught to tell you where it is?"

At this very moment, Xiao 6 was also dying of curiosity.

Bai Xuechao had just personally admitted to it that he had cheated. Now, hearing Gong Ting's words, it knew that Bai Xuechao had cheated by switching the card.

It couldn't help but ask, "Host, where did you hide the card?"

Bai Xuechao replied to it in his mind, "Why do you think I've been propping up my chin all this time?"

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