Chapter 113: Anti-Gambling Promotion

Chen Fan was still pinned down in the office. Here, Li Tian sat across from Chen Fan and said, "This is a tricky problem to handle—how do I get you to participate in our competition?"

"Competition? I don't think it's a competition. I'm thinking, no matter how you look at it, this is just you rigging things to clear out the backlog of old cases under your own personal initiative. Someone like you should be dealt with—you're polluting the police profession."

Li Tian scratched his head and said, "Can we, uh, talk about this?"

Chen Fan looked at the photo and said, "Just some woman—you really think that can make me submit?"

Li Tian thought for a moment and said, "This woman likes me."

"????"

At this moment, the viewers in the livestream were dumbfounded. Wait, big brother, you're playing it this big?

Chen Fan was stunned too, then pointed at the young married woman in the photo and said, "Hahaha, not bad, Li Tian, you've got quite the taste—young married women are great, young married women are great at everything, so, you're introducing her to me?"

"You're dreaming. This woman chased me for ages. I helped her out before—on her wedding night her husband died, she didn't even get to touch his hand."

Chen Fan was shocked and said, "No way, Officer, that's that outrageous?"

"Local custom, drinking caused it. At the time, a whole table of young men who came back—I caught them all, and they paid this woman a sum in compensation. She didn't take the money, gave it to her family, and just ran off."

New regulations state that if something happens at a drinking table, everyone at that table has to take responsibility—no one can escape.

"So?"

"If you take part in this competition, I'll agree to this woman's pursuit."

Chen Fan, dark-faced, looked at Li Tian and said, "That's not enough, that's nowhere near enough. You can act, you know—this reason won't cut it."

Li Tian said, "Anti-gambling publicity campaign—how about it, I allow you to go gamble on the public tabby, deal?"

Chen Fan stood up and said, "No problem, bring it on, tell me who's in the competition. Joking—a bunch of baldies thinking they can beat me in a competition? What international joke is that? What do they have to fight me with?"

Li Tian stood up, ready to contact people.

"By the way, when you two go on your date, can we livestream it?"

The flesh on Li Tian's face began to twitch as he said, "You're ruthless."

"Hehe, you agree or not?"

"No problem."

By now, the audience had long been laughing themselves crazy.

"Hahahaha, that killed me—this Chen Fan really is full of nasty tricks."

"Li Tian kept saying before that he doesn't need romance, doesn't need marriage—this time he's truly been forced into a corner."

"Speaking of which, why does this feel so much like something a toxic best friend would do?"

"Got to admit, Li Tian knows how to persuade people."

In the observation room, several celebrities huddled together. Teacher He said, "Where's the fun in this?"

Qin Ming said, "The attraction between people in the same profession. For those of us in this line of work, what we fear most is matters of the heart—because no matter how impressive you are in front of criminals, handling your own personal romantic life is extremely awkward. Chen Fan just wants to watch Li Tian squirm."

Awkward?

Sister Jing Tian said, "Would someone good at deduction feel awkward?"

Qin Ming said, "In this world, the only thing that cannot be mocked is devoted love. A person who is sincere becomes completely unable to speak in front of the one they love."

"Exactly, exactly."

Bai Lu nodded her head. Here, Sister Jing Tian directly grabbed a rubber and stuffed it in Bai Lu's mouth—go eat your rubber, choke on it.

Bai Lu laughed, a face full of contempt—just this?

You think a measly banana can choke me, your lady?

Let me tell you, absolutely impossible. I've eaten way more outrageous things, big sister.

Here, Li Tian brought along some police officers, had Chen Fan put on a mask, then set up a hidden camera and dragged Chen Fan to the train station.

"Anti-gambling publicity video shoot—I can pick you as the male lead, but let's be clear first, public funds for gambling is just public funds, don't go off-script on me, understand?"

"Got it, got it, it's nothing."

With masks on, the group arrived at the train station and gathered together.

Three bowls, only one ball—this gambling trick actually has quite a pull, it's also called Ghost Hand.

The old man shuffled the sticks and bowls in his hands back and forth.

Here, Chen Fan squatted to one side, quietly took out money, and watched the old man placing bets.

"Lock in your bets, lock in your bets～."

Someone was placing money, and Chen Fan placed his money too.

When the bowl was finally lifted, Chen Fan had won.

"This isn't hard at all."

Here, the old man looked up and said, "Hard? Young man, looks like you know a trick or two?"

Chen Fan laughed and said, "The ball is right in your hand—isn't that just cheating?"

"You little punk, what are you saying? Here to wreck the place?"

Just as he was about to stand up, Zhang Tianxiong arrived with his brothers and pinned the old man down on the spot.

The old man, utterly speechless, looked at Zhang Tianxiong, then at Li Tian's familiar face.

"Officer Li, what brings you here?"

Someone tried to run. Li Tian said, "For this kind of gambling, just pay the fine and you can go home. But if you run, the consequences get much bigger—everyone stay put."

The group didn't dare move.

"You know the place, right? Get over there and behave yourself; we're livestreaming here, none of you can escape. Move it, and don't make me come looking for you later."

The few men were speechless and didn't say much.

The old man didn't leave. Li Tian said, "Later you'll act as the guide and lead us into the operation."

"Officer, aren't you making things hard for me? If you guys go in... it's not appropriate."

Li Tian pointed at a KTV in the distance and said, "Over there. The one who called the police is the KTV boss's son. He hopes we can help get his old man to quit gambling and all that."

"A gambling addict is beyond saving."

"Doesn't matter. Whether it works or not, it's still something we ought to do."

Afterwards, the old man led the way, and the group entered the KTV, stepping into a room where several people had gathered, holding playing cards and pushing chips around.

When customers show up, those are just chips—friends messing around with each other. When no one's around, the chips get swapped back for cash.

Chen Fan held up some cash and said, "Exchange some for me too. Can I sit in at the table?"

The old man's face still carried weight around here. Soon after, Chen Fan took his chips and sat down at one side of the table.

He watched the people in front of him deal the cards.