The Villain's Wife Chapter 768 Chips

The Villain’s Wife Chapter 768 Chips

Chapter 768 Chips

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"Each chip is worth five hundred thousand," Harringfort declared, his gaze had a hint of amusent and glee. He sat opposite Zhou Jingren before he gestured to one of his n to give Zhou Jingren so chips. "I have a total of two hundred chips. How about you? How many— "

"Sa as you." Zhou Jingren interrupted him. "A hundred million worth of chips."

"Very good!" Harringfort bead. "Well... I am really feeling generous today. So... how about we call your friend? Oh, wait. He is still asleep. How about your secretary? You know... for so support?"

"You can do whatever you want." Zhou Jingren answered. To be honest, his mind is currently with Lily. He could not help but wonder if she was safe or if this man dared to attack her. What if he was planning to use Lily against him? "My only concern is my wife."

"What about your wife? Are you telling that you wanted her to join us?" Harringfort chuckled. "Don’t tell the smart President Zhou wanted to ask for his wife’s help in playing a simple ga of poker?" he laughed. Seeing Zhou Jingren’s serious expression, Harringfort made a deliberate pause. "Are you serious?"

"I want you to assure that she is safe." The fact that these people could enter the premises of this secured bungalow only ant that they had a way to bypass his security undetected. While the security in his house was not as strong as the one on The Peak, he still wanted to make sure that his wife is safe.

"Oh! I thought... you wanted to ask for her to help you. Silly . Of course, President Zhou would not do that." Harringfort gave another boisterous laughter. However, instead of feeling irritated about the man’s eccentric behavior, Zhou Jingren stayed calm. He pursed his lips as he eyed the boxes of playing cards on top of their table. He sighed. Without this man’s assurance that Lily is safe, he would not play a single ga against him. "Oh! You can call her."

Zhou Jingren did not wait for the man to utter those words again. He imdiately opened his phone and called Lily. Of course, he didn’t forget to activate a certain application that would tell Qin Yuanfeng he is in danger. Good thing, he was able to warn Qin Yuanfeng ahead of ti not to tell Lily about this in case he received the signal. "I can’t call her. There is no... reception." Saying the words itself almost knocked his lungs out. Without reception, he won’t be able to tell Qin Yuanfeng about the ergency. This could an that he won’t have a way to tell them about his current situation.

"Oh! Right... I forgot about the signal jamr." Beaming, Harringfort gestured to one of his n to turn it off for thirty seconds. "Surely, that would be enough for you to confirm that she is safe no?"

Zhou Jingren nodded in response. He only needed twenty seconds to send the signal to Qin Yuanfeng. This will then trigger another program that Qin Yuanfeng installed in the satellite owned by the Chinese governnt. Using the satellite, Qin Yuanfeng could easily track him. He imdiately dialed Lily’s number and waited for her to answer the call. He pressed the loudspeaker feature.

"Hey," Lily’s groggy voice reached his ears. "You are still awake?" she yawned. Zhou Jingren eyed Harringfort before he answered.

"I am about to sleep. I just called to tell you, I miss you."

"When are you coming back?"

"Tomorrow. I have so things to discuss with Bei Tian. Then I will co ho... tomorrow."

"Oh." Lily let out another yawn. "I am too sleepy."

"I know." He smiled. "I love you. You should sleep now." He heard Lily hum before she responded.

"I love you more. I will see you tomorrow."

Zhou Jingren then ended the call. All throughout the conversation, his eyes never left the man sitting opposite him. This ans he saw the rage in Harringfort’s eyes as he listened to their conversation. He imdiately wondered why this man would feel anger while listening to them. He shook the thoughts out of his head.

"See? Did you really think I am that kind of man? I would never hurt a woman— a pregnant woman." Harringfort grinned before he lowered his eyes, hiding the emotion that swirled in his blue orbs. "Are you ready?"

Zhou Jingren nodded without saying anything. "One question." Zhou Jingren said. "How will we know who will win?"

"Oh! I forgot about that!" Harringfort held his chin. "Well... we can buy more chips? Until we ran out of money?" he smirked. "Or... we can buy a total of five hundred million chips and... well, the first one who runs out of chips will lose. Of course, I accept other bets too... like an arm. Or an eye." He smiled. "Perhaps a life."

"Good." Pursing his lips, he instructed Secretary Go for his checkbook. Both he and Harringfort imdiately wrote a check for the chips. Then, they signed a contract— sothing that Harringfort insisted on doing. A contract that says, no matter what happened, the loser would never bla the winner. He ntioned that this is sothing that the organization required in bets like this. Of course, Zhou Jingren complied.

He doesn’t have a choice. He never had one.

The only thing that he needed to do now is to play and win. Again, losing is not an option.

"Alright... we really should start." Harringfort rubbed his palms as he gave Zhou Jingren a boyish grin. Seeing Zhou Jingren nod at his words, he imdiately gestured to one of his n to deal for them.

"Hmmm... so again, we have an opportunity to exchange two of our cards before we can start betting against each other." Harringfort reminded as he excitedly looked at the five cards in front of him. Beaming, he picked two of the cards and laid it in front of Zhou Jingren. "I am changing this, queen of hearts and ten of diamonds."