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Chapter 3

"Young man, winning is winning, and luck is luck. Don't get too caught up in it. Across China, there are tens of millions of lottery players, but only a few actually win big. The odds of winning are very slim..." The shop owner advised earnestly once again.

"No worries, boss. I'm feeling lucky today. Maybe all twenty of these lottery tickets will win again? Even if I lose, I don't care. It's just two hundred bucks, and I've already made over twenty thousand today!"

Bai Wu scratched his head with a carefree smile.

The owner: "..."

Following Bai Wu's request, the owner tore off twenty ten-yuan scratch cards one by one.

Without a word, Bai Wu picked up a coin and casually selected one from the twenty tickets handed over by the owner.

Under the owner's watchful eyes, Bai Wu scratched the ticket.

No win!

"Whew~"

Bai Wu clearly noticed the owner breathe a sigh of relief.

"Young man, I told you, luck is fickle and unreliable!" the owner said kindly.

Bai Wu picked another ticket with a 0% success rate and scratched it.

No win!

Third ticket, no win!

Fourth ticket, no win!

Fifth ticket, no win!

After scratching ten tickets in a row, none of them won.

Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.

Bai Wu's expression turned 'unpleasant.'

The reason for the quotation marks is that this unpleasant look was something Bai Wu put on.

In contrast, the owner let out several breaths of relief.

Seeing Bai Wu's unpleasant expression, the owner patted his shoulder and advised earnestly again, "Sigh, young man, I told you to quit while you're ahead. Luck is unreliable, and you didn't believe me. I guess winning earlier, even scratching a twenty-thousand-yuan prize, has drained all your good luck for the year!"

Bai Wu silently glanced at the remaining ten unscratched tickets, noticing one with a success rate as high as 30,000%, his expression grew even more 'unpleasant,' his fists clenched, and he remained silent.

"How about this, young man? I'll refund you a hundred yuan, and let's forget about the remaining ten tickets. With your current luck, having even one winning ticket among them would be quite good!" the owner advised earnestly, and Bai Wu could faintly sense a hint of schadenfreude in the owner's words.

People are such creatures; they envy others' good fortune and secretly rejoice in others' misfortune.

"No need, boss, but thanks for your kindness!"

Bai Wu still wore an 'unpleasant' expression as he declined, "I refuse to believe that out of these ten tickets, I can't scratch a single winning one!"

"Young man, let it go. A hundred yuan is still something..." the owner advised.

"It's just a hundred yuan, I don't care. I've already made over twenty thousand pure profit today!"

Bai Wu waved dismissively, "I was just bored and wanted to scratch a ticket for fun. Who knew I'd be so lucky to win twenty thousand yuan! Twenty thousand yuan, that's equivalent to five months of my salary~"

The lottery shop owner paused, initially feeling secretly pleased that Bai Wu had scratched ten non-winning tickets.

But now...

Bai Wu kept mentioning the twenty thousand, making the owner both envious and jealous.

"You, sigh, whatever, do as you please!" The owner shook his head helplessly.

Bai Wu picked up the coin again.

Under the owner's watchful eyes, he began his winning streak.

First ticket, 20% success rate, won ten yuan!

"Heh, heh heh..."

Bai Wu immediately looked up at the owner, 'innocently' scratching his head with a smile, "Boss, looks like my luck is back!"

The owner smiled calmly.

Second ticket, 100% success rate, won fifty yuan!

"Wow, won again, fifty yuan!" Bai Wu exclaimed 'excitedly.'

The owner nodded calmly.

Third ticket, 20% success rate, won ten yuan.

"Boss, boss, I won again!" Bai Wu waved the ticket in his hand.

The owner smiled slightly.

Fourth ticket, 20% success rate, won ten yuan.

"Sigh, won again, only ten yuan!" Bai Wu muttered with disdain.

The owner forced a smile.

Fifth ticket, 50% success rate, won twenty-five yuan.

The owner: "..."

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The last ticket, 30,000% success rate.

Bai Wu didn't scratch it immediately.

Instead, he held the coin, glanced at the nine scratched tickets, and muttered, "After scratching nine tickets, the highest prize is only a hundred yuan. That's too little..."

The owner's mouth twitched twice.

"Heavenly spirits, earthly spirits, Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, please bless me. Let this last ticket win a prize over ten thousand!" Bai Wu muttered to himself.

"Young man, the odds of winning a ten-thousand-yuan prize from a scratch card are probably 0.0001%, if that. You already had a stroke of luck winning twenty thousand earlier. How could you possibly win again..."

Before the owner could finish, Bai Wu suddenly shouted in surprise, "Fifteen thousand! Boss, fifteen thousand! I won fifteen thousand! I really scratched a ten-thousand-yuan prize! Hahahahaha, my luck is truly extraordinary!"

The owner quickly leaned over to take a look.

The patterns matched.

Damn, he really won fifteen thousand!

A shiver ran through him.

"By the way, boss, what were you saying earlier about a stroke of luck?" Bai Wu suddenly asked.

"Nothing, nothing..." The owner's hand trembled as he held his cigarette, forcing a smile.