Su Qing carefully picked out five pure-gamble roughs. The quality of the stones here was quite good—out of all the ones she’d touched, the vast majority contained jadeite. The only difference was the strength of the fluctuations she could feel. Because of this, she deliberately chose one stone that had no jadeite inside.

Su Qing had been planning to stop there. But as she got up, she casually rested a hand on a nearby stone to steady herself. A massive fluctuation instantly jolted her, nearly making her fall to the floor.

Su Qing turned, shocked, to look at the raw stone beside her. It was a considerable size, roughly half a meter in length, width, and height. Large black patches covered each of its four sides. In fact, the entire stone was practically enveloped by them.

Su Qing stared intently at the stone, placing her hand on it to feel it again. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

The pulse.

It was still just as strong, a powerful, impactful surge. But as she focused, she could sense some interruptions within the pulses. The source of these interruptions was clearly distributed around the stone’s periphery, while the strongest surge came from the very center.

Su Qing glanced at the section where the stone was located and raised an eyebrow. It was in the eighty-yuan tier. For such a large stone to be placed in this price range, it was clearly not highly rated.

However, Su Qing didn’t care about that and immediately decided to buy it.

In fact, there were two stones that had piqued her interest the most today: this half-meter-cubed one, and the other, brick-sized one.

This half-meter-cubed rough was not small, so Su Qing had a staff member help her carry it over to pay. For the six roughs, Su Qing spent a total of six hundred and forty yuan.

Cheng Beilin had also been browsing the pure-gamble section for quite some time. She just wanted to test her luck and wasn’t concerned about whether the stones she bought actually contained jadeite. If they did, great. If not, it didn’t matter. The money was trivial to her; she was just there for the excitement.

When she had a staff member carry her eight chosen roughs over to pay, she saw Su Qing was also at the checkout. She cheerfully came up to greet her, "Su Qing, you’ve picked out your stones too?"

"Yeah." Seeing it was Cheng Beilin, Su Qing gave a faint smile and nodded.

"Whoa, your stone has so much moss on it!" Although Cheng Beilin didn’t know much about stone gambling, her family was in the jewelry business, so she knew a thing or two about raw stones. Seeing the half-meter-cubed rough at Su Qing’s feet, her eyes widened and she exclaimed, "Su Qing, this stone doesn’t look too promising."

Su Qing looked at the mossy rough and smiled. "I don’t know much about this stuff. I’m just here to try my luck. I thought this one looked pretty special, so I bought it to see. If there’s jadeite, I’ve profited. If not, it’s no big deal. It’s all up to luck anyway."

"Mhm, that’s true." Hearing Su Qing’s reasoning, Cheng Beilin immediately agreed. "I feel the same way. It’s fine. So what if it has moss? We’ll just cut it for fun."

The fact that Su Qing was here buying rough stones told Cheng Beilin that she wasn’t short on cash. After all, stone gambling was a huge risk. Anyone without a good amount of disposable income wouldn’t dare come here and throw money around.

Su Qing pursed her lips and smiled.

"Are you going to have your stones cut in a bit?" Cheng Beilin asked.

"Yes, I am." Su Qing nodded. There was no way she could carry so many stones home by herself. She might as well have them all cut here, sell the ones she didn’t want, and keep the ones she liked.

"Great! Wait for me, we’ll go together," Cheng Beilin said quickly to Su Qing, then urged the staff to hurry up and ring her up.

Right now, everyone was still looking at stones, so there were few people at the checkout. Soon, both of them were paid up, and the staff helped them push the stones to the cutting machines.

There were three cutting machines over here, all of which were currently free. So, Su Qing and Cheng Beilin simply took one each and asked the cutting masters to help them cut their stones.

Seeing that the two were about to have stones cut, a number of people immediately gathered around.

Seeing that both Cheng Beilin and Su Qing were going to cut stones, Cheng Beize told his family’s stone-gambling expert to keep looking at stones and walked over himself. He was curious to see how his little sister’s luck would be today.

Cheng Beilin simply waved her hand and said to the cutting master, "Sir, just go ahead and cut. Anywhere is fine."

Obviously, Cheng Beilin didn’t have much confidence in her own luck, so she just let the cutting master use his own judgment.

On Su Qing’s side, the cutter asked, "Miss, which one do you want to cut first?"

Su Qing pointed to a stone whose fluctuation had felt rather ordinary. "Let’s do this one."

"You got it."

The cutter placed the stone on the machine and asked for her input. Su Qing had no idea, so she just told him to rely on his experience.

With her approval, the cutter examined the stone, lined up a spot on one side, and switched on the machine.

With a loud WHIRR from the saw, a slice of the stone was cut away. The crowd looked over to see a swath of plain white rock.

Immediately, the cutter made another slice, and someone in the crowd shouted, "Whoa, it looks like there’s green!"

Over on Cheng Beilin’s side, they had already made three cuts without a hint of green. Hearing that Su Qing’s stone was showing green, she hurried over to take a look and said joyfully to Su Qing, "Wow, Su Qing, that’s great! You got green on your very first stone! That’s a good omen, a very good omen."

Su Qing smiled. "It’s just luck. We still don’t know what the rest will be like."

Cheng Beilin smiled and was about to speak when An Zhiwei’s mocking voice drifted over. "Tch, it’s just a tiny speck of green. What’s there to be so smug about? It’s probably just skin-deep green. Be careful you’re not celebrating for nothing."

Hearing this, Cheng Beilin turned her head and said to An Zhiwei, "Airhead, are you nuts? Is this any of your business?"

"You... what did you call me?" Being called an airhead in front of so many people, An Zhiwei was instantly furious. "Say that again, I dare you."

"Airhead. Airhead. You’re the airhead," Cheng Beilin said, raising an eyebrow. "You asked me to say it. I had to oblige."

"You!" An Zhiwei gritted her teeth and stepped forward as if to hit Cheng Beilin. Su Qing saw this and took a step forward, saying in a cold voice, "Have you already forgotten your lesson?"

Seeing Su Qing, An Zhiwei instantly remembered the defeats she’d suffered at Su Qing’s hands yesterday and today. Although she was burning with anger, she didn’t dare to step forward. She only said angrily, "You two, don’t go too far."

"If you hadn’t been yapping like a dog just now, we wouldn’t have even had the chance to ’go too far,’ would we?" Su Qing said with a dry laugh.

"Su Qing." An Zhiwei now knew Su Qing’s name. She gritted her teeth and said to her, "Sooner or later, I’ll make you pay."

Su Qing dramatically patted her chest. "Oh my, I’m so scared."

An Zhiwei was left speechless with rage.