— Okay, I'll download it.
After dealing with Bai Rongran, Rong Lan patted the bodyguard. The bodyguard, looking confused from the pat, bowed and asked, "What are your orders, Eldest Miss?"
Bai Rongran answered on Rong Lan's behalf. "She wants to play poker. Download a poker game on your phone and play with her for a while. It's boring anyway."
The bodyguard, who indeed found it boring, nodded. "Okay, I'll download it right away."
Seeing the bodyguard start to download the game, Rong Lan nodded in satisfaction. She shifted her butt to change her sitting position and wiggled the swivel chair a couple of times.
Bai Rongran immediately grabbed the armrests of the chair, afraid that Rong Lan's movements would make the chair spin 180 degrees. The "battle" on the other side of the bed was in full swing, and it was not something Rong Lan should see.
Knowing Bai Rongran's concerns, Rong Lan smiled at her, crossed her legs, and stopped moving around. She wasn't a curious fox when it came to such things. Otherwise, she wouldn't have worn earphones with such good sound insulation. Although she hadn't seen a thing, she could tell from her sister Ranran's expression that Chu Chuan must be having a hard time.
It was enough to know that Chu Chuan was suffering.
Rong Lan propped her chin and thought for three seconds. Then she took out a bottle of perfume from her pocket.
Bai Rongran didn't expect Rong Lan to bring her own perfume. For a moment, she didn't know what to say. But then she remembered that no matter what she said, Rong Lan wouldn't hear it with the earphones on. So she simply closed her mouth and looked down at the download progress bar of the game.
Rong Lan opened the perfume, dropped a bit on the inside of her wrist, and then placed the perfume on the windowsill without closing the cap, allowing the perfume to work its magic. As a fox with theoretical knowledge, she knew there would be strange smells, and the perfume would help. She had deliberately chosen a perfume with a strong scent that could cover up many other odors.
Bai Rongran didn't touch the perfume that Rong Lan had placed beside her leg. She just glanced at it.
When the two of them finished downloading the game, Rong Lan invited them to form a team. She had lost at poker all morning and was still fuming. She refused to believe that she could be this unlucky and couldn't even beat her sister Ranran and the bodyguard.
The bodyguard secretly asked Bai Rongran, "Little Miss, should I let the Eldest Miss win?"
This question... Bai Rongran glanced at Rong Lan, who had suddenly become highly motivated. "No, just play normally."
Rong Lan looked so confident that she didn't seem like someone with really poor skills...
Right?
After one round, Bai Rongran realized that she had overestimated Rong Lan's poker skills, or rather, her luck.
Rong Lan had a really bad hand. There were no straights, and no pairs.
Rong Lan, who lost the first round, lowered her head. She exuded a sense of dejection and was sadly doubting her fox life. It was okay that she lost to Si Mo and Wang Tong, who could calculate the cards. But couldn't she even beat her sister Ranran and the bodyguard?
Seeing Rong Lan's sad expression, Bai Rongran twitched the corner of her mouth and gave the bodyguard a look. "You'd better let her win a bit." In case Rong Lan was unlucky and got another strange hand, if they let her win a bit, she might actually win.
The bodyguard understood. "Okay."
Rong Lan, who was being let win, finally won the second round. She was the first to play her last card. She couldn't contain her excitement and exclaimed, "Yay!"
The people on the bed heard this sudden cry and all looked in the direction of the windowsill. But they were all tactful enough to look away after just one glance and continued to focus on their task.
"Brother, should we be a bit rougher? He seems to be quite resilient."
"Take out the candles and the whip."
"I've thought of an interesting way to play. Let's use him as an experiment. He should be able to take it."
"Go slowly. I haven't had enough fun yet."
...
Even Bai Rongran was startled by Rong Lan's excited "Yay" and leaned back.
Rong Lan could tell from her sister Ranran's reaction that she had been too excited. She stuck out her tongue shyly, but the excitement in her heart lingered. She had only won this one game all day!
"Let's continue! Let's continue!" Rong Lan couldn't wait to start another round.
Bai Rongran nodded and secretly gave the bodyguard another look. Rong Lan wasn't stupid. If they kept letting her win, she would easily notice something was wrong. From now on, they just needed to let her win when their own hands were average. If their hands were too good and Rong Lan still won, she would definitely realize they were letting her.
In the third round, Rong Lan lost again.
But with the victory in the second round as a boost, she wasn't discouraged. She simply thought she had gotten a bad hand.
In the following games, Rong Lan won some and lost some. She was smiling so widely that her eyes were almost slits. She had calculated that she had won more games than she had lost. For her, this was already great. It proved that her poker skills had improved. Next time she played poker with Si Mo and Wang Tong, she definitely wouldn't be completely crushed.
Bai Rongran, who had managed to make Rong Lan happy, breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing Rong Lan start another game, she glanced at the situation on the bed and sent a message to Rong Lan.
— After this game, we should start the next step.
On the bed, the annoying guy seemed to be so tortured that he couldn't even scream. Seeing that Chu Chuan was breathing more out than in, the people gradually stopped and started to get dressed.
Rong Lan saw the message and nodded. It was already a little past ten at night. It was indeed about time. If she didn't go home soon, her brother would be worried.
The game ended in three minutes, and Rong Lan quit the game.
Bai Rongran held Rong Lan's chair and turned to the bodyguard. "Go find something to cover Chu Chuan, and then take them downstairs."
The bodyguard responded.
After the bodyguard covered Chu Chuan with a quilt as instructed and took those people away, Bai Rongran let go.
Rong Lan kicked her feet, and the chair spun 180 degrees. She slowly took off her earphones and then stared at the person lying on the bed, covered by the quilt with only his head exposed.
"Yo, he looks a bit miserable." Rong Lan said with a smile. Although she could only see Chu Chuan's head and couldn't tell how badly his body had been tortured, his face was scary enough. A piece of flesh seemed to have been bitten off his left cheek, his lips and mouth corners were damaged, and his right cheek was swollen, as if beaten by a whip or slapped.
After putting away her earphones, Rong Lan got up and walked to the bedside. Bai Rongran didn't follow. She still watched from a distance. "Rong Lan, don't lift the quilt." She had just glanced at it and found it disgusting. Rong Lan had never experienced such things and definitely couldn't stand it.
Rong Lan waved her hand. "Don't worry. I won't look at any restricted areas." Then she squatted down beside the bedside table, reached out, and lifted a corner of the bloodstained quilt.
Then she saw the bright red marks on Chu Chuan's neck and his burned back. Looking into his eyes, she smiled innocently. "Why are you looking at me like that?" His eyes seemed to be filled only with "hatred." But now he was in so much pain that he couldn't even move. He could only lie on the bed in a distorted position. Even in this state, he still had the energy to hate them. "You brought this on yourself. You can't blame me or my sister Ranran."