Chapter 343 - Attracting Onlookers

Emerging from the elevator, Ye Fan and Zhao Shuaijiang walked shoulder to shoulder chatting, while Hu Jing and Zhao Shuaijiang’s female companion silently followed, arm in arm, by their sides.

Entering a huge, opulent hall, Hu Jing couldn’t help but survey this legendary den of extravagance.

The hall was vast, even larger than a football field, and decorated in gold and glitter.

Many people were reveling inside, with most of them being unruly, laughing boisterously, drinking fine liquor, and embracing beautiful women.

Among them were quite a few young, beautifully dressed women with revealing, enchanting clothes, fluttering among the men.

However, while Hu Jing was taking in the hall, Ye Fan and Zhao Shuaijiang had already reached the service counter, ready to exchange chips.

Her attention returned to them as she watched Ye Fan and Zhao Shuaijiang exchange for chips.

Zhao Shuaijiang’s membership card was also a gold one, which gave him a ten percent discount.

After Zhao Shuaijiang exchanged one million in chips for himself, he called out, “Ye Fan, how much do you want to exchange?”

“One million,” Ye Fan said indifferently.

Zhao Shuaijiang smiled, turned his head, used his gold card to exchange another million in chips at the service counter, and then handed this million in chips to Ye Fan.

“Heh, let’s go our separate ways and play for a while, then meet up in an hour to play together,” Zhao Shuaijiang suggested with a smile.

Ye Fan nodded and replied, “That’s exactly what I was thinking.”

After Zhao Shuaijiang walked away with his female companion, Hu Jing couldn’t help but say, “Zhao Shuaijiang gave you a million in chips to play with, he’s really generous.”

“Heh, you thought too much.

I have to give it back to him later,” Ye Fan chuckled.

“Let’s go, what do you want to play?”

“Tee hee, I don’t know yet, let’s just look around first,” Hu Jing replied with a smile, linking her arm with Ye Fan’s as they walked deeper into the hall.

After a big loop around the hall, Hu Jing pointed to a large gambling table surrounded by a couple dozen men and women and said, “Ye Fan, let’s try this.”

Ye Fan agreed and walked over with Hu Jing to take a spot.

Since there was only one chair, Ye Fan sat down, and Hu Jing stood closely behind him, resting a delicate hand on his shoulder.

Looking down, he saw they were playing baccarat.

“Let’s see how your luck is,” Ye Fan handed Hu Jing a hundred thousand in chips.

He himself had little interest in gambling.

Taking the chips, Hu Jing grinned coquettishly, “Giggle, my luck has always been pretty good.

Just watch me!”

After the croupier cleared the cards and chips from the table, Hu Jing began to bet the smallest chip, a thousand yuan.

About ten minutes in, Hu Jing was down over thirty thousand and frowned, “No more, my luck’s just not good today.

If only I had known we were coming here, I would have washed my hands before leaving the house, that would definitely have brought me luck,” Hu Jing complained, pouting her sexy, red lips, and then gave the rest of the chips back to Ye Fan.

Ye Fan stood up, chuckling nonchalantly, “All right then, let’s go check out another floor.”

Immediately smiling again, Hu Jing took Ye Fan’s arm and they headed toward the stairs together.

The second basement level was significantly quieter.

Hu Jing looked around with a visitor’s interest at the surroundings and facilities.

When they passed the billiards room, Hu Jing remembered how Zhao Shuaijiang had introduced Ye Fan before, mentioning that it took him only ten minutes to progress from a billiards novice to an expert.

“Hehe, Ye Fan, let’s play a couple of frames of snooker,” Hu Jing suggested with a smile.

Ye Fan replied, “Sure.

Just two frames.”

Anyway, he was going to kill time here tonight, and he wasn’t into gambling, so all he could do was play some casual and light games to pass the time.

Approaching a snooker table, Ye Fan and Hu Jing were picking out cues when Hu Jing threw a seductive glance at Ye Fan and playfully said with a slight pout, “Ye Fan, I’m just average at snooker, so you’ll have to go easy on me…”

“Go easy…” Ye Fan repeated, his eyes inevitably scanning over Hu Jing’s sexy and explosive figure.

Realizing Ye Fan’s gaze and hearing him repeat “go easy,” Hu Jing’s pretty face instantly blushed a fiery red, and she coquettishly scolded, “Pervert!”

Ye Fan quickly averted his eyes and replied with a thick-skinned smile, “I dare not claim to be merciful.

Before we start for real, you have to tell me the rules of snooker.”

Upon hearing this, Hu Jing couldn’t help but find it amusing that she had asked someone who didn’t know how to play snooker to go easy on her, yet she actually needed him to do just that.

With that thought, she couldn’t help but look at Ye Fan with a peculiar gaze.

Feeling her look, Ye Fan asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Just thought of something funny.

But it’s nothing,” Hu Jing replied, turning towards the snooker table, then started explaining the different colored balls and how to play snooker to Ye Fan.

Snooker rules aren’t too complicated.

After two or three minutes, Ye Fan nodded and said, “Got it.

Let’s start.”

“I’ll go first,” Hu Jing called out playfully.

Ye Fan nodded and stepped aside.

Thus, Hu Jing took up her cue, walked to the front of the snooker table, and bent down in a standard stance to strike the ball.

As she bent over to play, her beautiful figure instantly made many of the onlookers, who were already glancing over from time to time, stare with their eyes glued to her, swallowing hard.

Ye Fan naturally noticed Hu Jing’s sensual posture as she bent over to play.

However, he was relatively unfazed as he had seen plenty of stunning women before, and he was also used to being around Hu Jing, so the impact wasn’t that great.

Hu Jing’s snooker skills were not bad, though they couldn’t compare to Ye Fan’s.

However, Ye Fan intentionally went easy, keeping the score close between them, with Hu Jing occasionally taking the lead.

Yet, as time passed, more and more people began to crowd around to watch Ye Fan and Hu Jing play snooker.

Of course, their eyes were fixed on Hu Jing’s sexy and fiery figure and her exceptionally beautiful and foxy face.

Despite being stared at by many hot gazes, Hu Jing, who was already accustomed to longing eyes, remained composed.

Ye Fan was also composed, but still, he couldn’t help feeling a bit smug.

The second frame of snooker was well underway when the crowd around them had formed two or three layers.

At that moment, a group of people made a grand entrance through the front door.

Leading the pack was a tall young man with a haughty and indifferent demeanor, exuding nobility.

It was Long Aotian.

Accompanying Long Aotian was a young man in his thirties with an exceptional presence, walking slightly behind Long Aotian but together with him, a smile on his face, chatting with Long Aotian.

Eight or nine others followed them, including bodyguards and entourage, as well as a few other young men with distinguished airs.

However, they were all willingly flanking Long Aotian and the young man in his thirties.

“Eh, seems like there’s some excitement over here,” the young man with the extraordinary presence said in surprise.

Then he turned to one of the young men behind him and said, “Zhan Xin, go find out what’s happening.”

“Yes, Qi Ye.” The young man named Zhan Xin immediately responded with a smile, then quickly made his way through the crowd.

This Qi Ye was no ordinary young master; he was An Qiye, one of the four young masters of Hua Hai City.