Chapter 1 "I'll bet... all the secrets I know about you, and the evidence to prove them..." Feng Bujue paused for half a second, "...your current identity."

Jiang Daode's expression changed slightly. After a moment of consideration, he asked, "‘My identity’… What specifically are you referring to?"

"Isn't it just the literal meaning?" Feng Bujue licked his lips and replied in an ambiguous tone, "To put it bluntly... it's the 'Jiang Daode's life' that you won back then."

Hearing this, Jiang Daode's face twitched visibly. "I don't understand... what's the point of this kind of bet for you? Even if you win my current identity, you don't intend to become 'Jiang Daode' yourself, do you?"

"Of course that's impossible. Why would I want to 'replace' you?" Feng Bujue chuckled and continued, "In terms of age and looks... you're more likely to want to replace me. I don't care for your women or your social status. As for money..." He paused. "If I wanted money, wouldn't it be better to bet directly with you?"

"So..." Jiang Daode asked in a deep voice, "What exactly is the purpose of you proposing such a bet?"

"To have fun." Feng Bujue answered bluntly, and replied jokingly, "Don't you think... watching a person dance frantically on the edge of despair... is extremely interesting?"

"Absurd..." Jiang Daode probably could never fathom Jue-Ge's thoughts. "If I refuse the bet, what can you do?"

"I can make you spend the rest of your life in jail under your original, real identity." Feng Bujue's tone was quite lazy when he said this, but the content was full of killing intent. "If you don't believe it, you can ask Mr. Kujo next to you... whether I have that kind of ability."

Jiang Daode immediately turned to look at the gambling supervisor, Kujo, anxiously awaiting his reply.

"Yes, Mr. Feng... can absolutely do what he says." Kujo still maintained a calm attitude and said to Jiang Daode, "When he contacted us today, he had already proved this point to us."

Hearing this, Jiang Daode's heart felt like it had stopped beating for a moment. The enormous pressure made the muscles on his face contort, and some traces of plastic surgery gradually appeared on his face.

"In simple terms... if you choose not to bet, the result might be even worse than losing the bet..." Feng Bujue continued, "But if you dare to take a gamble... you have a 50% chance of winning."

Jue-Ge's two sentences had basically helped Jiang Daode to calculate everything clearly. The latter seemed to have no other choice.

"I... still don't understand..." Jiang Daode's aura had already faded, and there was a sense of powerlessness and dejection in his speech. "I have no grievances or hatred with you... why are you..."

"Hey~" Feng Bujue interrupted him. "You can't blame me for this. If your Corpse Blades hadn't threatened me and my editor first, today's events wouldn't have happened..."

Jiang Daode gritted his teeth and replied, "The people in the legal department will put pressure on you... that's because you slandered us in public..."

"I advise you to look up the dictionary and see what the word 'slander' really means before you use it. Also, there are three things I need to emphasize..." Jue-Ge didn't let the other party finish speaking. He held up three fingers and counted them one by one. "First, the things I said about your Corpse Blades... are all facts. Second, I don't like being threatened. Third... I don't want the people around me to be threatened by others because of me." He paused for half a second. "In summary... I just said a few honest words in public, which led to my friends and I being intimidated and harassed by you." He shook his head. "Well... this kind of thing is really unpleasant... Even for the purpose of rectifying social morality, I have to make you pay some price."

"Heh heh..." Ouyang Jian, who hadn't spoken for a long time, was sitting on the sofa on the side at this time. After hearing Jue-Ge's sentence, he added, "Mr. Jiang, it's really bad luck for you... Actually, we just wanted to play a simple counter-extortion, so that your company would lose some money and learn a lesson. Unexpectedly... during the investigation process, our great writer Feng accidentally discovered your secrets... so he had a playful idea."

"Could it be... that there is no room for negotiation..." Jiang Daode asked tentatively again.

"How could there be any room for negotiation?" Feng Bujue laughed, "You and I both know very well... even if I cancel the bet now and promise not to expose your identity... you will still be restless." He looked directly into Jiang Daode's eyes, "Only through the gambling game hosted by Gambler's Sanctum, and let me 'lose' all the information I know to you, can you truly feel at ease."

"You..." Jiang Daode thought for two seconds, "...you're right." He gave the answer. "When you said my secret, there was no room for anything." When he said this, he regained his composure, and seemed to have made up his mind. "In order to ensure that you two can never expose my identity, even if I have to hire a murderer... I will risk it."

As Jiang Daode spoke, he took another cigar from the cigar box on the table. This time, it should be the real deal, because he quickly cut it and put it in his mouth to smoke.

"Okay... I'll accept this bet." Jiang Daode continued, "If I lose, I will lose the identity of 'Jiang Daode', and if I win, you will have to destroy all the secrets about my identity that you know." He raised his eyes and looked at Kujo, "Mr. Kujo, Gambler's Sanctum will guarantee that he fulfills his promise, right?"

"Gambler's Sanctum..." Kujo replied indifferently, "...will guarantee that both parties will fulfill their promises." He looked at the screen inside the briefcase, "If Mr. Feng loses, we will ensure that he can no longer use your identity secrets to threaten you. Relatively, if Mr. Jiang, you lose..." He looked at Jiang Daode, who was sitting at the desk, "We will also be responsible... for turning you back into 'Mr. Feng'."

When he heard the three words Mr. Feng, Jiang Daode's Adam's apple moved up and down obviously, and his nervousness was evident.

"Okay, enough nonsense... Next, let me talk about what we are betting on this time." Feng Bujue said again.

"Wait!" Jiang Daode immediately retorted, "Why should the content of the bet be determined by you? You proposed the bet, and you also determine the content... isn't that a little unfair?"

Faced with this question, Feng Bujue replied calmly, "Whether it's fair or not... it's not up to you to decide. Let's ask Mr. Kujo what he thinks?"

"Hmph..." Kujo snorted coldly, looked at Jiang Daode, and said, "Mr. Jiang, from the perspective of my supervisor, this is precisely very fair."

"You... what did you say?" This time, Jiang Daode began to glare at Kujo.

Kujo didn't care about this. He slowly explained, "As Feng Bujue said earlier, he has absolute dominance over whether to conduct a bet... After all... he can choose not to bet, but Mr. Jiang, you... have no choice but to bet." He paused for a second. "Assuming... this gambling game fails to be established due to unsuccessful negotiation, then... Mr. Jiang, you will immediately fall into an absolute passive state. Even if you want to hire a murderer, I'm afraid it will be too late. Because according to Gambler's Sanctum's estimation, Mr. Feng can completely restrict your personal freedom within half an hour, and you won't even be able to make a phone call."

Jiang Daode was both angry and shocked when he heard this. He trembled and asked, "Mr. Kujo... I thought you were on my side..."

"I'm not on anyone's side." Kujo interrupted him before he could finish speaking. "The gambling supervisor is to remain neutral. Our purpose is 'absolute fairness'. Of course, I also know very well that apart from the founder, I am afraid that no one can perfectly achieve these four words. However... since I am the gambling supervisor of Gambler's Sanctum, it shows that I am very close to this principle." He put his hands behind his back and turned around. "Mr. Jiang, if you think that I have said facts that are detrimental to you, then I can only express my regret. You can refuse this gambling game... and I will leave."

"No! Please wait! Mr. Kujo." Jiang Daode became anxious when he heard the other party say this. "I didn't mean that..."

Many people are like this... they take things for granted and consider problems from their own perspective, and thus produce a kind of blind self-confidence and illusion, but often when things come to a head... they realize that they actually don't have anything special, and they can't even find a way out.

"Well..." Kujo heard that the other party's attitude had changed, so he turned back and continued, "Then... let's listen to the content of the bet that Mr. Feng said."

"Ah... it's very simple..." Feng Bujue responded at this time from the other side of the video, "Let's bet... whether I can appear in the Corpse Blades office building within five minutes and beat up this so-called Mr. Jiang Daode... how about that?"

After he said this sentence, Jiang Daode couldn't help but take a few steps back, frowned, and stared at Jue-Ge in the video, "Hmph... ridiculous, can you fly over here? Or climb out of the screen?"

"So... you accepted it?" Feng Bujue asked.

"Wait a minute!" Jiang Daode's eyes were hesitant. "Tell me first... where are you at this moment?"

"I can't do that." Feng Bujue replied, "The location I am in is the key to this gambling game. It's like my trump card... is there any reason to show it before the gambling starts?"

At this moment, Jiang Daode's brain was running fast. He was also a person who had been in the business world for many years, and it was impossible for him not to have any wisdom and courage. After thinking for nearly a minute, he continued, "Okay... let's bet on this..." He paused, "But... before you start to act, you must give me ten minutes to prepare."

"Five minutes." Feng Bujue cut the price decisively. "No more."

"Okay! Five minutes... five minutes!" Jiang Daode continued.

"Then..." Kujo said at this time, "From this second on, I announce... the gambling game officially begins." He took out a pocket watch from the pocket of his Tang suit, "Mr. Jiang, the timing has already started, you have five minutes to prepare. After five minutes, Mr. Feng can start to act. Before that, I will be responsible for supervising his every move in the video."

Before he could finish speaking, Jiang Daode had already picked up the phone on the chairman's desk, quickly pressed a key, and after connecting, he said in a very fast voice, "Captain Wu? It's me, yes... listen carefully, I give you three minutes to gather all the personnel on duty to the top floor, half of the people guard the door of the chairman's office, and no one is allowed to enter, and the other half are responsible for patrolling all the rooms, entrances, and exits on this floor, and the toilets and ventilation ducts must also be watched... as long as you see unfamiliar faces or people who don't have a company pass, arrest them first!"

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be stunned, and after a few seconds, he replied a sentence, and then Jiang Daode roared, "Who is kidding you? Do you still want to do it? If you don't want to do it, you can take off your uniform and leave! Give the phone to the deputy captain!"

When he said this, the other side obviously realized the seriousness of the matter, so he quickly responded a few times and hung up the phone.

"Heh heh heh..." Ouyang Jian laughed, "Mr. Jiang, I have to remind you that this kid has a lot of tricks... Maybe your reaction has already been calculated by him..."

"Hey hey... you guy, I can hear you..." Feng Bujue immediately complained from the other side of the video, "Who are you helping?"

"As a lawyer, I have already done what you asked me to do. Now I am just a spectator." Ouyang Jian laughed, "I am giving Mr. Jiang some advice out of interest... you can't control it, right?"

"Hmph... then good luck to you." Feng Bujue shrugged and smiled, as if he didn't care.

"Mr. Jiang..." Ouyang Jian said, casting his gaze at Jiang Daode, but the other party responded with a suspicious look, "...hehe, don't look at me like that, I don't intend to act here, to cooperate with him to mislead you... to be honest, I don't know where Feng Bujue is now. But I can tell you... at two o'clock this afternoon, he himself came to my office with this briefcase and handed over the task of delivering the box. I don't know where he went after that."

"Hmph... you think I would believe your words?" Jiang Daode snorted coldly.

"I just want to say a few words of my own opinion..." Ouyang Jian leaned back on the sofa, "If Mr. Jiang doesn't believe it, then just pretend you didn't hear it." He licked his lips and continued, "First of all, based on my understanding of Feng Bujue... with his intelligence, he must have predicted that you would 'make preparations'. If I were him, I would naturally use this point..."

In the process of Ouyang Jian's narration, everyone could already hear messy running sounds coming from the corridor, presumably the security guards had arrived.

"For example, I can sneak into your building earlier today..." Ouyang Jian said again, "Prepare a laptop or tablet that can be used for video, and then find a corner of the storeroom or toilet to hide in, and wait until the evening." He supported his chin and muttered thoughtfully, "When the gambling game officially starts, that is, the moment I can take action... I will turn off the camera, take out the security uniform that I prepared in advance or stole from the locker room, put it on, and take advantage of the chaos to mix into your security line..."

Hearing this, Jiang Daode interrupted in a cold tone, "Is that all you have to say?"

"Oh?" Ouyang Jian's ability to observe words and colors was very strong. At this moment, what he saw on Jiang Daode's face was actually a coldness of being sure of victory, "Mr. Jiang, aren't you going to defend against it?"

"No need." Jiang Daode said, "The possibility you said... I had already thought of it before I notified the security guards."

"Ho~ you're pretty good." Feng Bujue in the video laughed and continued.

"I know very well... you must be able to deduce that 'I will find security guards to defend'. But I still have to call the security guards, because if I don't do this, you will have more ways to get close to here." Jiang Daode said, holding up three fingers, "And in the case that I called the security guards, you should still have three ways to get close to me... first, is the one that Lawyer Ouyang just said. Second, what Lawyer Ouyang said is actually to put pressure on me, so that I will have an idea, that is—immediately leave this room after the video is interrupted, and do a trick of escaping by leaving something behind. If I really do that, you will have an opportunity to take advantage of. Third, although the possibility is small... at this moment, you may also be on a flying plane, ready to skydive to the outside of my building glass at any time, and then quickly break into the window with a set of special agent-level equipment."

"Hahahaha..." Feng Bujue laughed out loud, "Amazing, really amazing!" He couldn't help but applaud the other party, "No wonder you were able to win the 'entire life' of a rich and handsome man back then. I seem to have underestimated you a bit." His laughter gradually stopped. "Then... can I ask, even if you can avoid the second method... what do you do if I use the first or third method to get close to you?"

"It doesn't matter which method you use." Jiang Daode said, standing up and glanced at Kujo, "Mr. Kujo, how much time is left before Feng Bujue can take action?"

"Fifteen seconds." Kujo replied.

"Okay." Jiang Daode responded, walking to the side of the wall, "I'm sorry... Feng Bujue. From the beginning... you overlooked one thing." As he said that, he put his hand into a vase on the side of the wall and pressed a button.

Two seconds later, a fifty-centimeter square area opened on the wall in front of him, revealing an operation screen.

"Now that things have come to this, it doesn't hurt to tell you." Jiang Daode continued, "There is a hidden compartment in my office... the door is equipped with a fingerprint and DNA dual recognition system, and only I can open it." He took a puff of his cigar and looked back at Jue-Ge in the video leisurely, "As long as I enter this room, it won't matter even if you come in an armed helicopter."

Before he finished speaking, he had already extended five fingers and opened the door of the room by scanning.

"You lost, Feng Bujue." Jiang Daode left this sentence gracefully and turned to enter the hidden compartment.

However...

"Oh... you're here, the timing is just right." When he entered that room, there was already someone sitting there waiting for him.