Chapter 74 "Teacher Lin's acting is good?"
Xu Ziang lazily sank into the booth and snapped his fingers. A red-haired buddy immediately hunched over, pulled a slender cigarette from a gilded case, and carefully held it to his lips.
"Click—"
A cluster of faint blue flames shot out from the silver lighter, reflected in Xu Ziang's sinister eyes.
He took a slow puff, smoke escaping from his lips. He squinted his eyes, looking at Lin Che across from him through the curling smoke, and suddenly twitched his lips: "Teacher Lin, do you want one too?"
The younger brother immediately handed over the cigarette box in a servile manner with a fawning smile on his face.
Lin Che glanced down, then reached out and pulled out a cigarette. His movements were gentle, his fingertips lightly touching the edge of the box, as if he was afraid of getting any dirt on it.
It ignited with a "click".
The firelight illuminated Lin Che's drooping eyelashes, casting a small shadow under his eyes. He took a slow breath, his Adam's apple rolling slightly. As the smoke escaped from his lips, his eyes remained as calm as a pool of deep water.
Jiang Jinjin was stunned.
She had never seen Lin Che smoke—no, she couldn't even imagine someone like him smoking.
But at this moment, Lin Che was sitting on the sofa at the side, holding a cigarette between his slender white fingers, the cuffs of his white sweater were casually rolled up on his forearm, revealing a cold white wrist bone.
Amidst the smoke, he exuded a strange and dangerous sense of laziness.
Xu Ziang stared at him and suddenly laughed: "Teacher Lin, you are quite talented."
Lin Che said nothing, but flicked the ash lightly. The spark flickered for a moment in the dim light before returning to silence.
Xu Ziang's younger brother had already set up five sets of dice cups. Under the ice-blue light, the black dice cups glowed coldly.
"Best of five," Xu Ziang said, cigarette in hand, his eyes sinister, "Don't say I'm bullying you."
Lin Che rolled up his sleeves, revealing his well-defined arms. He casually picked up the first dice cup and flicked his wrist, causing the dice to clash with a crisp sound.
The first game begins.
They both clinked cups at the same time.
Xu Ziang called out the number first: "Six fives."
Lin Che tapped the tabletop lightly with his fingertips: "Eight fives."
Xu Ziang's pupils shrank slightly: "Open."
The moment the cup was lifted, Xu Ziang's face changed drastically - Lin Che's five dice were all fives, plus his three, making it exactly eight.
"One round." Lin Che counted calmly and lit another cigarette.
In the second round, Xu Ziang became noticeably impatient. When he called "seven threes," Lin Che flipped the cup and said, "Not enough."
Xu Ziang looked at the only two or three points he had, and sweat broke out on his forehead.
"Second round." Lin Che exhaled a puff of smoke, his eyes dim and unclear through the smoke.
Before the third round began, Xu Ziang suddenly called a halt: "Change the dice!" He pulled a brand new pair of jade dice from his pocket, "Do you dare to use them?"
Jiang Jinjin stood up suddenly: "Xu Ziang you——"
"Sure." Lin Che interrupted her and took the dice. As he flipped them between his fingers, he raised his eyebrows imperceptibly.
In the third round, Xu Ziang was extremely cautious in his calls. When Lin Che called out "ten sixes," the whole crowd erupted in laughter.
"Are you crazy?" Xu Ziang grinned, "Open!"
Lin Che slowly opened the dice cup—five sixes facing up. Xu Ziang's dice cup also showed five sixes.
"This is impossible!" Xu Ziang stood up suddenly, and the chair scraped against the ground with a harsh sound.
Lin Che flicked the special dice in front of Xu Ziang and said, "Master Xu, your dice doesn't seem to be behaving well."
The dice spun on the table and finally stopped at a bright red dot - this tampered dice should have always shown six.
"Three rounds." Lin Che put out his cigarette and stood up. "You lose."
Xu Ziang's face turned pale, and he suddenly jumped up and overturned the table: "You are cheating!"
Lin Che bent down to pick up Xu Ziang's fallen coat, gently brushed off the glass shards, and handed it back to him. "It's cold in the snow, so wear more clothes."
His voice was very soft, but it made Xu Ziang tremble all over.
Just as Xu Ziang was about to overturn the table in anger, the door of the bar was suddenly pushed open.
A cold wind blew in, carrying snow with it. Everyone subconsciously turned around.
Lu Yu stood at the door, his black coat making him look tall and straight, his eyebrows and eyes cold.
Behind him, Zhou Jiming put one hand in his pocket and glanced at the chaotic scene with a half-smile.
The entire bar fell silent in an instant.
Xu Ziang froze in place, and his drunkenness instantly sobered up.
Lin Che lowered his eyes to glance at the unburned cigarette between his fingers, feeling inexplicably uneasy.
The next second——
He raised his hand and stuffed the cigarette into Xu Ziang's hand in front of him.
Xu Ziang caught it reflexively, and his fingertips immediately turned red from the heat.
Lin Che quickly lowered her eyelashes and folded her hands neatly in front of her.
The cuffs of the white sweater on his forearms had been lowered at some point, covering his wrists tightly.
The fingers that had been holding the cigarette with ease just now were now twisted together nervously.
Everyone in the bar was stunned.
Xu Ziang held the burning cigarette butt in his hand, not knowing for a moment whether to throw it away or keep it. Lin Che, who had been full of aura just a second ago, now looked like a little rabbit that had done something wrong.
Zhou Jiming chuckled and leaned over to Jiang Jinjin's ear: "Teacher Lin's acting is pretty good, isn't it?"
Jiang Jinjin opened her mouth and took a long time to utter: ".....I may need to get to know him again."
Xu Ziang finally came to his senses and threw away his cigarette butt like a hot potato: "Mr. Lu, he was the first one—"
"Did I ask you to speak?" Lu Yu didn't even turn his head, his voice was as cold as ice.
He unbuttoned his coat with one hand, wrapped Lin Che in his arms, and sniffed the tobacco scent in his hair. "I'll deal with you when we get back."
Lin Che buried her face in his chest, revealing a pair of wet eyes, and blinked at Xu Ziang.
Xu Ziang was so angry that he was shaking all over - these were actually two different people, right?!
Zhou Jiming embraced the stunned Jiang Jinjin and smiled meaningfully as he passed by Xu Ziang: "Second Master Xu, remember to post on WeChat Moments after streaking in the snow."
Xu Ziang stared at the smoking cigarette butt on the ground, then suddenly gave the table a hard kick. Amidst the shards of glass flying around, he belatedly realized that he might have been tricked.
Jiang Jinjin bent down to pick up Lin Che's dropped scarf, and suddenly found two dice lying quietly on the ground - the two dice that Xu Ziang had used to cheat just now.
Zhou Jiming appeared beside her without her noticing: "Now you know why Lu Yu fell in love with him, right?"
Jiang Jinjin looked in the direction the two had left and sighed softly, "That's not a canary...it's clearly a little fox."
Zhou Jiming continued with a smile, "Besides, he's a little fox that's specifically designed to counter people like Xu Ziang."
The bar didn't explode until the four of them left.
Someone murmured, "Is that person...really the same person?"
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