Chapter 1900 — Swallowing a Silent Loss
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Bai Weituo and Zhang Duopan raised their cups at the same time. Compared with Bai Weituo's effortless drain of the cup, Zhang Duopan's was far more agonizing—he got the cup down in several gulps, but down it went at last. When he finished, he stared in something close to shock at the empty cup before Bai Weituo.
"You... finished it?" Zhang Duopan eyed Bai Weituo's unflushed face and steady pulse with some hesitation.
"Yep, all done!" Bai Weituo grinned, though he felt a touch guilty inside—best not let the other man discover he had been drinking mineral water!
"Devilish..." Zhang Duopan thought. Was this Bai Weituo playing the pig to eat the tiger too? How could he look exactly the same after drinking as before? But there was nothing he could do about it. He could only say, "All right, then. Let's continue!"
The cups were filled again. Without question, Bai Weituo won once more, and Zhang Duopan's expression began to sour. By now he too was stripped to the waist, but his physique was nothing like Fan Ganhe's—out came a bulging paunch.
Yet the anxious look that Bai Weituo had been unable to hide had not escaped Zhang Duopan's eyes. Could it be... Zhang Duopan snatched up Bai Weituo's bottle. The liquor left inside was not enough to fill a cup, but there remained a finger's depth at the bottom. Zhang Duopan poured it straight into his own cup, lifted it, and sniffed—and at once a look of dawning comprehension spread across his face.
Bai Weituo's heart pounded. He had cheated, and now Zhang Duopan had caught him red-handed. Would He Meiyue not despise him for it? Losing because his capacity fell short was one thing, but cheating was something else entirely.
Just as Bai Weituo was gripped with fear that Zhang Duopan would expose the truth, Zhang Duopan instead set the bottle down on the table with a dark expression and said flatly, "Brother Bai really can hold his liquor. I'm in awe... I concede."
"?" Bai Weituo stared at Zhang Duopan in bewilderment. What was this? Why hadn't he called him out? Had he not noticed?
In truth, it was not that Zhang Duopan did not want to expose him—he could not! The tampering had been Fan Ganhe's doing. Even if he exposed it and declared Bai Weituo a cheater, the one who had first intended to cheat was himself, and that would make He Meiyue despise him all the more.
So no matter how you looked at it, Zhang Duopan had no choice but to pinch his nose and swallow it.
Wang Xinyan, meanwhile, covered her mouth and smiled. As expected, Wei Zhao had not disappointed her. She had known back on the train that Wei Zhao's methods were deft—otherwise those swindlers' money would never have ended up in his pocket. And now, it seemed, Wei Zhao had used the same trick, swapping that bottle of mineral-water-filled erguotou in front of Bai Weituo without anyone the wiser, leaving Zhang Duopan to swallow a silent loss.
Bai Weituo had never expected to win just like that—yes, truly, out of nowhere.