Master of Trading Star Card Game

Chapter 43 - Reborn (Part 2)

Translator: Star River from Wangmamaread

Proofreader: Rhith

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Chen Xiao drove his sports car out of the underground garage. The silver-white levitating sports car dashed along the aerial levitation lane, as if it was flying in the sky. Xie Mingzhe opened the car window, enjoying the excitement caused by being a flyer.

Chen Xiao sat in the driver's seat, wearing a pair of sunglasses. He looked really cool when driving a car.

Xie Mingzhe sincerely thought that he looked better after dressing up. The previous shaggy hairstyle really distracted people's attention from his handsome features. What was he thinking? Even if he was a booster, he didn't need to be that slovenly and dispirited......

Chen Xiao knew that Xie Mingzhe must be complaining about him secretly, but he ignored it and got to the point, "You must have known my brother Chen Qianlin's story. You didn't ask me last night, so I assume that you looked it up yourself."

Xie Mingzhe smiled and said, "I was afraid that it would be hard for you to say things about your brother. So I just looked for information about him online. All the news said that Legend Lin left because he lost the case and became hopeless. What was the case really about, could you tell me?"

"I'm about to." Chen Xiao took a deep breath and gathered his thoughts, then he said in a low voice, "Ten years ago, during the first season of Star Card League, my brother and Shao Bo built the Sanctuary Club together. My brother was responsible for making cards and participating in competitions, while Shao Bo had charge of management and logistic works. Shao Bo was his friend since childhood. They grew up together and went to the same university. My brother extremely trusted the man."

"My brother was outstandingly talented. His original plant cards were powerful and thus he won individual prizes in three successive seasons. Many investors came forward and the club was gaining money. Everything went so well. However, at the beginning of the fourth season, taking advantage of my brother's growing fame, Shao Bo secretly took my brother's cards to auction. A card could casually be sold at several thousand crystal coins. Making hundreds of duplicates, he could earn millions in one day merely by selling cards......"

"At that time my brother was too busy playing games to discover this. When he found out, his cards had been duplicated by the club without permission and hundreds of cards had been sold already. My brother disapproved of his behaviour and wanted to retrieve the card copyrights. The problem was that the contract didn't clearly indicate that the card copyright belonged to him. On the contrary, there was a clause saying that 'When working at the club, 30% of the player's income belongs to the club; 70% belongs to the player'. Shao Bo got hold of it and went to town on it. He claimed that my brother's original cards should belong to the club's income during the contract......"

"When they originally set up the club, he gave verbal agreements so many times to my brother that my brother could dispose cards in whatever way he wanted. My brother trusted him, so he didn't record his words, thus those verbal agreements could not be considered as evidence in court. According to the contract, my brother was not in the right. And it was legal for Shao Bo, the club's manager, to sell his cards." Chen Xiao frowned, and said indignantly, "He insisted on the clause, so we lost the cards in the end."

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Being betrayed by the best friend? Xie Mingzhe could imagine how furious and disappointed Chen Qianlin was. They grew up together and Chen Qianlin trusted him so much. However, the man even set a trap for him. If Xie Mingzhe was him, he would kill him. Xie Mingzhe sympathized with him and couldn't resist asking, "Legend Lin was the founder of the Wood card group. He must be very exalted in the league. Didn't anyone in the league try to help him?"