A fortune teller had once told Bertley that he would live a very long life, and that it would be very difficult for him to die.
Bertley believed firmly in this. After all, those who were able to crawl out of the slums were normally very hard to kill as they would've died in the slums already without sufficient resourcefulness.
Hence, no matter what kind of situation he was in, he was always able to retain clarity of mind, and then make the decision that would secure the most benefits for him.
In his eyes, there was only eternal profit, so he was never going to incur losses.
People like him often lived very long.
However, only when the blade was slowly withdrawn from his chest did Bertley realize that everything the fortune teller had said was just to swindle him out of a gold coin.
