There's something bothering me—I suspect they were setting me up.

Over the New Year holiday, I went home and had dinner with a group of old classmates. After eating, they started pushing to play a couple rounds, so a group of us went to a room to play Dou Dizhu (a Chinese card game).

I said at first that I didn't know how, and asked them to play first. Then one classmate who I'm relatively close with kept teaching me on the side. After just 2 rounds, they started pressuring me to join in. I said I wanted to watch more, so we waited 2 more rounds and they pressured me again.

Finally I just told them straight up that I only brought 1000 out, that I'd watch them play and cover the room rental fee for them later.

After that, the atmosphere got really cold. They played 2 more rounds and then everyone left.

Later I started thinking—maybe they really were setting me up. It seems they found out that cryptocurrency has made me pretty good money.