Yu Linglong took out her phone and saw the incoming call was indeed from Yu Xiuwen.
Her expression was stiff, and she somewhat didn't want to answer the call.
Mu Jinyu said, "Answer it, if he wants to borrow money, we'll go out and lend him some."
Yu Linglong took a deep breath and then swiped the screen to answer.
"Hello, Linglong, I've encountered a situation here. I had won twenty million yuan, but then…"
The moment the call connected, Yu Xiuwen's voice sounded, somewhat awkward and ingratiating.
Yu Linglong didn't mince words, "So you lost everything?"
"Ha…" Yu Xiuwen laughed dryly, knowing he couldn't hide it from Yu Linglong and quickly said, "Yeah, I had a bit of bad luck afterwards. But this time, I won't play dice. Could you ask the big boss of Jinyu Group to lend me some money? After I turn things around, I won't play anymore, really won't play…"
By the end, he was incessantly making promises.
Yu Linglong really wanted to hang up, not having the patience to deal with Yu Xiuwen, but because of Mu Jinyu's plan, she just furrowed her brows and said, "Alright, I'll try, but don't get your hopes too high."
"Great, great, great, just help me borrow ten million yuan, no, five million will do…" Yu Xiuwen said laughingly, excited.
Yu Linglong did not respond, held the receiver, and turned to Mu Jinyu, "He wants to borrow five million yuan from you."
Mu Jinyu casually said, "Five million yuan is fine, tell him to come over."
Yu Linglong released the hand covering the receiver and said irritably, "Come here…"
After giving the address, she hung up the phone without any courtesy.
Afterward, Yu Linglong looked at Mu Jinyu, her voice laced with worry, "Is this really going to work? Won't it just make him sink deeper?"
"Don't worry," Mu Jinyu reassured, patting her shoulder and said earnestly, "I guarantee that after today, he will absolutely keep his distance from gambling, as far away as possible!"
Then, they left the surveillance room and went back to Li Heshan's office to wait for Yu Xiuwen.
Out of chips and desperate to turn his luck, Yu Xiuwen soon ran over, panting, opened the door, and after taking a few rapid breaths at the entrance, he looked at Mu Jinyu with a smile tinged with supplication, "Boss, thank you, I will repay you right after I turn things around!"
His attitude towards Mu Jinyu had none of the previous dislike and resentment.
He was the picture of a sycophantic underling.
Mu Jinyu sat on the couch and, with his arm around Yu Linglong's slim waist, sipped the Romanican Emperor red wine that Li Heshan had just opened for him, while he nonchalantly nodded toward Li Heshan.
Li Heshan immediately took out five one-million-yuan casino chip vouchers and handed them to Yu Xiuwen.
After taking them, Yu Xiuwen ignored Mu Jinyu's handsy actions towards his daughter, hurriedly expressed his thanks, and turned to leave.
"Wait up!"
Mu Jinyu called out to him.
"What's up?"
Yu Xiuwen turned around, a toadying smile on his face as he looked at Mu Jinyu.
Holding tightly to those five vouchers, he was afraid Mu Jinyu would change his mind about lending him the money.
Mu Jinyu said indifferently, "Don't you need a note for borrowing money?"
"Oh, oh, oh." Yu Xiuwen suddenly realized and quickly signed his name on a piece of paper Li Heshan handed him.
In his eagerness, he didn't bother to read what the terms were.
Then, after signing, Yu Xiuwen clutched the vouchers tightly once more and hurriedly ran back to the No.1 gambling hall. However, he didn't return to the dice area but went to the card games area instead.
This time, he was determined to win back the money he had lost and then stop playing altogether.
Unfortunately, even though he went to the card games' area with croupiers and professional gambling skill experts, Yu Xiuwen lost terribly at games like Fried Golden Flower, Showhand, and Texas Hold'em.
This time, Li Heshan and the others didn't let him win first and then lose; he was simply defeated from the start, not winning a single hand.
With his eyes red from losing, Yu Xiuwen urgently called Yu Linglong, hoping to borrow more money.
Yu Linglong held her cell phone, her eyes wavering with hesitation.
"Don't answer it," Mu Jinyu said. "Let him come here himself."
Yu Linglong then directly declined the call.
Sure enough, when Yu Linglong didn't answer the phone, Yu Xiuwen made his own way straight to Li Heshan's office without an invitation.
"Young Master Mu, please lend me some money again!"
Upon arriving at Li Heshan's office, Yu Xiuwen's first words were to ask Mu Jinyu for a loan.
Mu Jinyu, cradling a wine glass, took a delicate sip before setting it down, then glanced at him indifferently and quietly asked, "Lend to you? Why should I lend you money?"
Yu Xiuwen's expression turned somewhat awkward as he rubbed his hands together and said, "You see, my daughter has been with you..."
Mu Jinyu rudely cut off his attempt to claim a connection, his voice cold, "Your daughter? Didn't you already sell her to me? What relation does she have to you now? Why should I lend you money because of her? What properties do you have that can settle the debt?"
Mu Jinyu's words hit him like a bucket of ice water, abruptly doused over his head, instantly chilling his heart that was still fiery with the heat of his losses.
Indeed, Yu Linglong had long been unrelated to him, hadn't she?
What was the basis for asking him for a loan?
Did he even have any houses or cars to settle the debt?
But...
Why had he been willing to lend him money just before?
Yu Xiuwen was finding it hard to understand.
Mu Jinyu, seemingly guessing his thoughts, ordered Li Heshan, "Bring out that document he just signed so he can take a good look at it."
"Hmm."
Li Heshan responded and took out the document that Yu Xiuwen had signed hastily in his fervor to turn the tables, handing it over to him.
Yu Xiuwen, with a sinking premonition, took the document from Li Heshan with trembling hands.
On closer inspection, it turned out to be an agreement for voluntary organ donation after death.
Mu Jinyu drawled, "Although you're an old wreck and many parts of you have rusted, some parts are still usable. I'll harvest a few pieces from you to just about cover the five million you just borrowed!"
Li Heshan chimed in from the side, "Yes, just a few days ago a wealthy buyer was offering a high price for a suitable heart. I've just examined you, and it's a perfect match. We could earn about thirty million with this one transaction!"
Upon hearing this, Yu Xiuwen felt the world spin around him, nearly losing his balance and falling to the ground!
What the hell?!
Not planning to sell my kidneys for money but to harvest my heart instead?
No wonder Mu Jinyu had him sign that voluntary body donation agreement!
Yu Xiuwen was absolutely terrified, his soul practically scattering as he immediately thought to escape!
But he was firmly held in place by two bodyguards standing at Li Heshan's door, unable to move!
"This is illegal, you can't do this to me!"
Held by the two bodyguards, immobilized, Yu Xiuwen let out a hysterical scream.
Only now did he realize why Mu Jinyu, that seemingly kind person, would lend him money.
Why he was taken to this casino.
Why he was sitting in the office of the casino's owner.
It turned out they were all in it together.
Mu Jinyu wasn't coveting his daughter Linglong; he was after his heart!
He's despicable!