His breathing was also somewhat rapid.

With seven million right in front of him, it would be a lie to say he wasn't tempted.

Especially for seasoned lottery players like them.

Their greatest hope...

was that one day, they would strike it rich overnight by winning the jackpot!

And now, the opportunity was right before them.

"After all, we've already pocketed the smaller prizes he won before. Just like before, we only have to tell him he didn't win," Xie Lianqing said.

Seeing Chen Ping still hesitating, Xie Lianqing continued to coax him.

Actually, Qin Mu had been buying lottery tickets at their shop for nearly half a month.

He bought one every day.

Several times, he didn't even take the tickets after getting the numbers, only asking the next day if he had won anything.

After becoming familiar, he often didn't even come in person but asked them to buy a ticket for him over WeChat.

There were actually quite a few lottery players like this in the shop.

Many people trusted them to buy tickets on their behalf.

This provided them with an opportunity.

For some of the lotteries they could manipulate...

they would tell the lottery players the next day, falsely claiming they hadn't won, and would go and collect these small prize amounts themselves.

Of course, this was only aimed at beginner lottery players who were just trying their luck.

Experienced lottery players usually remembered their numbers clearly and would hold onto their tickets, watching the draw on TV.

With those, they couldn't interfere.

"This guy clearly looks like a newbie, just dabbling in the lottery occasionally. He probably doesn't pay much attention to the draw. Didn't we pocket his second prize last week?" Xie Lianqing said, clutching the first-prize Lotto numbers in his hand.

The more he talked, the more excited he became. "This is seven million we're talking about! Right now, this Lotto ticket is in our hands, and lottery claims recognize the ticket, not the person..."

The previous second prize...

they had used this method to tell Qin Mu he hadn't won.

They had claimed the second prize money of 270,000 themselves!

After the deceit, they were initially a bit nervous.

Thinking that if Qin Mu found out, they would simply return it to him.

But in the following days...

it seemed he hadn't checked the draw results at all.

They said he hadn't won, and he seemed to believe it, not investigating any further.

"But this is a first prize, seven million... it might not be so easy this time," Chen Ping said hesitantly, taking a deep breath. "When a lottery shop issues a first prize, the lottery center will have banners hung for publicity, and it could easily expose that this set of numbers has won.

"There's also the TV interviews. The bigger the news spreads, the greater the risk of exposure."

This was exactly what he was struggling with.

Although a second prize was also rare, it wasn't huge.

A first prize was different.

The lottery center would love to use it as a "get rich overnight" case to encourage more people to join the throngs of lottery players.

Even if the other party didn't pay much attention to the draws...

he would definitely know about the seven million prize, and that couldn't be hidden.

"What's there to fear!"

"The timid starve, the bold flourish!" Xie Lianqing slapped his thigh, once more excitedly saying, "Brother-in-law, the chance to get rich overnight is right before us; you couldn't earn this much money even if you ran a lottery shop for many years!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Ping's body shuddered.

These words struck right at his heart.

In the past few years, running a lottery shop could still make some money.

Now it was in decline, and running a lottery shop...

calculating a commission based on the number of bets placed, he only made six or seven thousand yuan a month.

Converted to five million...

he would have to run it for over eight hundred months, nearly eighty years!

Wealth was enticing.

For a moment, he too was tempted by Xie Lianqing's words.

"Let's do it!"

Chen Ping gritted his teeth and steeled his heart.

He made up his mind.

However, he wasn't as rash as Xie Lianqing.

Instead, he analyzed it from a legal perspective.

"Lottery tickets aren't registered, there's no real name required, no loss reporting; they belong to a type of 'contingency' contract. We can approach it from this angle! Even if the other party discovers it, as long as we have a unified story, we just say there was a mistake while printing the ticket when he asked us to buy it, and his numbers didn't win. Even if he sues us, it won't hold!" Chen Ping said.

As he spoke, he quickly searched among the piles of tickets in the shop, looking for another ticket printed around the same time with similar numbers.

These were all tickets that various lottery players had asked him to print for them via WeChat before the draw.

「A few minutes later.」

He finally found a ticket printed around the same time, with numbers that were only two digits off!

The number combination on this ticket... had an error in two numbers.

Although it had won fourth prize, this was far behind first prize.

The prize money was just over 200 yuan.

"This one, this was the ticket we printed on his behalf!"

Comparing the two tickets, Chen Ping's eyes flickered briefly.

"Brilliant!"

Hearing this, Xie Lianqing's eyes immediately lit up. "Brother-in-law, it figures you studied law! That's right! The fourth-prize ticket was the one he bought; we made a mistake when printing it. The other one was ours!"

A smug smile touched Chen Ping's lips.

He had majored in civil law in college.

He was very familiar with these kinds of civil disputes, contract disputes, and disputes concerning commercial instruments.

A 'contingency' contract, also known as a 'no liability' contract, purely depends on luck.

It refers to a type of contract that relies on the occurrence of a chance event for one party to perform their obligations.

The lottery ticket purchased by the buyer is not typical property but a chance at winning. Once they win, they effectively gain the right to claim their prize and acquire property rights.

Before ever winning... strictly speaking, it doesn't hold a value of 7 million, but merely represents a chance at winning.

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