After being reborn, my sister insisted on marrying me.

In the living room.

After the kiss, Chen Xinyi stepped out of Wei Yi's arms, her face flushed and her lips a little swollen.

She adjusted the neckline of her nightgown, cleared her throat, and pretended nothing had happened.

But her next words revealed her true feelings.

"Have you placed your bets tonight?"

"I haven't finished setting the bets yet. I was planning to set them before going to bed; there are four matches I need to study."

"Then don't sleep." Chen Xinyi snapped her fingers. "I'll watch with you tonight. I want to see for myself how you gamble."

"Sis, you have class tomorrow..."

"The semester is over! No classes tomorrow!" Chen Xinyi said confidently, then turned and called out towards Lin Siyan's room, "Siyan!"

Lin Siyan pushed open the door and came out, her expression having returned to its usual calm.

I probably did a lot of mental preparation in that last minute.

"What's wrong?"

"Come watch the game with me tonight. Wei Yi wants to place bets, we'll be his advisors!"

Lin Siyan glanced at Wei Yi, then at Chen Xinyi, and her lips twitched slightly.

They couldn't even understand the betting odds, so what kind of advice could they give? But she still nodded: "Okay."

Wei Yi moved his laptop to the coffee table and opened the Zhifubao betting platform page.

Chen Xinyi sat cross-legged on the sofa, with a blanket covering her legs.

Lin Siyan sat next to her, holding a cup of freshly brewed green tea, clearly planning to stay up all night.

Wei Yi sat on the floor, leaning against the sofa, and began to study the four games of the evening.

The betting odds information on the screen was densely packed. Chen Xinyi looked at it closely for a while, and her eyes started to blur.

"What is all this? Win/Draw/Lose? Handicap? Over/Under? What does all this mean?"

Wei Yi explained things to her while operating the machine, speaking at a moderate pace.

Chen Xinyi listened attentively, nodding occasionally and asking a question now and then, just like in class.

Lin Siyan watched quietly, occasionally interjecting with a comment like, "The odds are so high," before continuing to drink her tea.

Wei Yi's operational strategy remained unchanged.

He clearly remembered the match between France and Ecuador, where the two teams drew 0-0 with odds of 5.5.

I don't remember much about the other three games; as usual, I randomly bet four million on wins, losses, and scores as a smokescreen.

France placed a separate bet of two million on Ecuador, betting on a "draw".

Chen Xinyi watched as he made a series of moves, and six million disappeared in an instant, causing her heart to race.

The match has begun.

Chen Xinyi had vowed to stay with Wei Yi until the end, but when the first game was about 30 minutes in, her head started to tilt to the side.

Out of the corner of his eye, Wei Yi saw her head nodding little by little until it finally rested on Lin Siyan's shoulder.

Lin Siyan's shoulders stiffened for a moment, then relaxed, and she adjusted her posture to make her more comfortable.

"Why don't you go inside and sleep?" Wei Yi asked in a low voice.

Lin Siyan glanced down at Chen Xinyi, a faint smile appearing on her face:

"She'll be angry when she wakes up and finds out. She was too excited today and is exhausted. Let her sleep leaning against me."

Wei Yi didn't say anything more.

Then something unexpected happened.

Of the matches Wei Yi haphazardly bet four million on, one actually won.

He bet 200,000 on a score between Bohemia and Bosnia, with odds of eight. And it actually came true.

Two hundred thousand became one million six hundred thousand.

Lin Siyan stared at the results page on the screen, and unusually raised her voice: "I won!"

Chen Xinyi sprang up from Lin Siyan's shoulder as if she had been electrocuted.

"You won? How much did you win?"

"Two hundred thousand becomes one million six hundred thousand".

Before Chen Xinyi could even rejoice, Wei Yi added, "However, the other bets all lost. So even though this one won, we're still at a net loss of 2.4 million."

Chen Xinyi's smile froze.

Then she picked up a cushion from the sofa and smacked Wei Yi on the back of the head twice.

"Two million four hundred thousand! Do you know I only earned less than one million five hundred thousand last year! The money you spent recklessly tonight is enough for me to open several new stores!"

Wei Yi rubbed the back of his head and turned to look at her: "Sis, didn't you say you'd give me 16 million to handle things? This is nothing..."

"That's not for you to throw away like trash!" Chen Xinyi threw the cushion back onto the sofa, covered her face with her hands, and said, "Oh my god, now I finally understand why gambling on sports is so harmful."

Lin Siyan calmly added from the side, "The harm of gambling lies mainly in this psychological mechanism. When you win, dopamine is released, and when you lose, you always think that you can definitely win it back next time, and then you just keep losing."

Wei Yi turned around and glanced at Lin Siyan.

Siyan, your summary is quite professional, but could you please not add fuel to the fire at this critical juncture?

It's finally France's turn to challenge Ecuador.

The match was extremely dull.

France dominated possession but couldn't score, and Ecuador's counter-attacking efforts also failed to produce results.

The score was 0-0 at halftime, 0-0 at the 70th minute, and 0-0 at the 80th minute.

Chen Xinyi was fully awake, her eyes fixed on the TV screen, her fingers gripping the edge of the blanket.

"Alright, this round should be won."

Are you sure it's a tie?

"Sure."

"What if France scores in the last ten minutes?"

"I won't go in."

"How did you know!"

Wei Yi couldn't answer. He couldn't very well say, "Because I saw it in my past life."

He took a sip of beer and said, "Intuition."

Chen Xinyi gave him a "you better be right" look.

In the 89th minute, the French team was awarded a free kick in an excellent position.

Chen Xinyi sat up straight, not even noticing the blanket slipping off her legs.

France took the penalty; the ball went over the wall, but went wide. It grazed the crossbar and flew out.

Chen Xinyi slumped back onto the sofa.

Four minutes of stoppage time.

Ecuador nearly scored on a counter-attack, but the French goalkeeper made the save.

Chen Xinyi covered her eyes, too afraid to look, and stared at the screen through her fingers.

The final whistle blew.

Zero to zero. A draw.

The living room was silent for about a second.

Then Chen Xinyi jumped up from the sofa like a firework that had been lit.

She screamed and threw herself at Wei Yi.

Wei Yi was sitting on the floor when she pounced on him, causing him to lean back and hit the edge of the sofa.

"I won! I really won! How much has two million become? Five and a half times? Eleven million! Eleven million!"

She cupped Wei Yi's face in her hands, kissed his forehead, his nose, and his lips.

Then he kissed her again. The third kiss was noticeably stronger.

Wei Yi instinctively placed his hand on her waist. His sister's waist was really slender; he could feel the warmth of her skin even through her cotton nightgown.

Lin Siyan sat on the sofa, watching this scene, her teacup hanging in mid-air.

Her expression was subtle.

A smile played on his lips; he was happy for Chen Xinyi.

But the smile didn't reach the corners of her eyes; there was a sour feeling there.

It took Chen Xinyi a long time to get off Wei Yi. She sat on the floor and pinched Wei Yi's face with both hands, pulling it to both sides.

"How much did you make tonight? Let's calculate!"

Wei Yi's face was being pulled by her, and his voice was muffled: "It's all calculated. We made a net profit of 6.6 million tonight."

"Six... million... six... hundred... ten... thousand..." Chen Xinyi repeated each word, her voice trembling.

"After you took 15 million, I still have about 16.6 million left. Adding the 6.6 million I won tonight, I have a total of about 23 million."

Chen Xinyi released his face, lay on her back on the floor, and stared at the ceiling. She remained silent for a long while.

Lin Siyan thought she had been through something, so she peeked over to look.

They found her lying on the floor, laughing like a little fox who had stolen a chicken.

"In just one day and one night, he earned more money than I could in three years of running my shop. Siyan, my brother is a genius. No, he's a god of wealth."

She rolled over, lying on Wei Yi's lap, and looked up at him: "You really won't gamble after the World Cup ends?"

"I'm really not gambling anymore."

"ensure?"

"ensure."

"Okay." She got up from the floor, patted her nightgown, and her expression returned to her usual "big sister calls the shots" mode. "Then I'll manage the money for you. When you graduate from university, if you want to start a business or buy a house, use this money as seed money."

Wei Yi wanted to say that he already had enough start-up capital for his business.

But seeing the earnest look in his sister's eyes, he swallowed his words.

"Okay, I'll do whatever you say, sister."

The game is over.

The sky outside the window was beginning to turn a pale white.

None of the three of them felt sleepy.

Chen Xinyi was because her adrenaline was still surging, Wei Yi was because he was used to staying up all night, and Lin Siyan was because she had drunk too much tea.

Chen Xinyi leaned on Wei Yi's shoulder, with her legs resting on Lin Siyan's lap, and the three of them squeezed onto the sofa in an odd position.

"Siyan, don't you think my brother is amazing?"

"Um."

Are you jealous?

"...A little."

Chen Xinyi smiled; her laughter was sweet.

She reached out and patted Lin Siyan's leg: "Don't be jealous. What's mine is yours."

These words made Lin Siyan glance at her.

Wei Yi rolled his eyes inwardly.

Sister, what do you mean by that?

He knew it perfectly well.

In her past life, she dragged all her beautiful girlfriends down with her step by step.