Why are people tricked? Apart from the mischief of their own greed, it's often their naive righteousness.
"How could he? How dare he? How could people be so wicked?" these are just comforting thoughts we feed ourselves.
In reality, they can, they dare, and people can indeed be that wicked. Deceiving others is simply too cost-effective.
If you trust the promises of your competitor, be prepared to be duped.
All talk and play, it's only about fooling a few young masters. The hardest losses in the world to admit are being cuckolded and being deceived.
The former is hard to confess, and the latter is hard to voice, are dumb losses that can only be swallowed, will they tell others that they are made a fool of?
Xiang Loulan's smartest trick is not putting all her eggs in one basket and only requiring a small portion of investment.