Lost and Found: Return of My Mysterious Fiancee

On the other side.

Watching Tina overtake Griffin, Arthur excitedly shouted, “Cousin, you’re awesome! That big idiot Griffin finally lost to me!”

“How childish,” Audrey Woodwind rolled her eyes at her brother. “Griffin lost to Tina, not you.”

“And…” she pointed at the music player, “Brother, can you tell me how you managed to debut through a singing and dancing talent show with this taste in music?”

Audrey Woodwind couldn’t understand.

“What do you know?” Arthur brushed his silver spiky hair. “Your brother relies on personal charm!”

“Hah, no wonder you switched to acting right after debuting from a singing and dancing show,” Audrey Woodwind snorted. “You must have realized early on that you had no talent.”

“You!” Arthur gritted his teeth. “I won’t argue with you!”

While the siblings were bickering, Tina drove into Oakhaven.

This jade market belonged to MT Company and opened annually. It wasn’t Tina’s first visit.

She skillfully parked at the market entrance and waited for a moment before Griffin’s car arrived.

“Was it you driving just now?” Griffin asked Arthur with a dark face as soon as he got out of the car. Tina had overtaken so quickly that he hadn’t seen clearly.

“It was me, so what?” Arthur said with his nose in the air.

Tina raised an eyebrow while Audrey Woodwind and Damian felt embarrassed by Arthur’s shamelessness.

Griffin was skeptical but scanned Tina and the others. Damian always drove steadily and wouldn’t mess around with passengers in the car. Audrey Woodwind had crashed into Whispering Pines’ gate four times and was a notorious road hazard. As for Tina, he dismissed her as a possibility.

Half-believing, he snorted coldly at Arthur and said no more.

“Let’s go in,” Lily Ward called out to everyone, walking into the market first with Willow on her arm.

Liliosa walked beside them with Mack, and the others followed.

Tina walked beside Damian, bringing up the rear.

“If you see anything you like, let me know. I’ll get it for you,” Damian whispered to Tina. “Jasper brought you back in such a hurry that I didn’t have time to prepare a gift.”

He glanced at Audrey Woodwind and smiled at Tina. “But don’t let Audrey find out; she’ll drain my wallet dry. I’m a bit broke lately.”

Tina smiled slightly; she had a good impression of Damian.

As soon as they entered, they saw two large pieces of jadeite rough at the entrance, each weighing seven or eight hundred kilograms.

Inside the market hall, the ground near the entrance was lined with low-quality jadeite roughs.

Tina and her group ignored these ordinary roughs and headed straight for the high-quality ones inside.

Because Lily Ward was an invited guest, unlike those who paid to enter and buy, MT Company’s Mr. Montague personally came to greet them. He smiled at Lily Ward, “Miss Ward, they specifically instructed us to treat you well today. Feel free to pick anything you like.”

Lily Ward smiled and pointed at Tina and Audrey Woodwind. “I’m just here to look around, but my two friends don’t know much about jadeite. Could Mr. Montague assign some staff to guide them?”

“Of course.” Mr. Montague instructed his assistant.

Two staff members soon came over to assist Tina and Audrey Woodwind, providing them with strong flashlights for examining jadeite quality.

Damian and the others knew a bit about jadeite and didn’t need assistance; they took flashlights and started looking around.

Audrey Woodwind wanted to find material similar to the jade bracelet Annabelle had given Tina.

But such material was rare; after wandering around the market, she found nothing comparable.

In the end, she bought a cut piece of sky-blue jadeite for five million dollars. It could make a pair of bracelets with enough leftover for some small jewelry pieces-a pretty good deal.

Willow and Liliosa also bought some favorite pieces of rough jadeite for making jewelry.

Tina wandered around the hall intending to pick some top-grade roughs to take back.

But Timmy, the staff member assigned to her, kept chattering and misleading her-calling good material bad and hyping up cracked pieces as valuable.

Did he think she was stupid?

In contrast, Audrey Woodwind’s staff member behaved much more professionally.

Tina glanced curiously at Lily Ward, who was chatting happily with Mack and Griffin nearby.

Timmy continued pointing at a piece of green-veined rough on display. “Miss Reed, this piece is excellent-glass-like quality with minimal cracks. You could get dozens of bracelets from it for just one billion dollars; it’s sure to be worth much more.”

Tina glanced at it indifferently; she didn’t even need a flashlight to see that beyond the open window section showing some quality material, most of it was worthless. If it yielded two bracelets, that would be lucky-it was worth only a few million dollars at best. Did she have “big fool” written on her face?

She wondered what Lily Ward intended by assigning such a person to her.

She pocketed her flashlight hand and said disinterestedly, “I’m not interested in these. Do you have anything better?”

Timmy’s eyes lit up as he signaled towards Lily Ward before speaking. But before he could say anything, Mack spoke up from nearby. “Lily, these cut pieces are boring. Didn’t you say there were unopened rough stones we could play with?”

Lily Ward exchanged a glance with Mr. Montague before laughing.

“Of course,” Mr. Montague led everyone out through a back door into another hall behind the main one.Content © NôvelDrama.Org 2024.

This inner hall was much more refined than the crude setup outside.

The display tables were covered in dark red velvet cloths with dozens of unopened rough stones arranged neatly on top-each marked with numbers, weights, and starting bid prices.

The hall also had servers offering various drinks and self-service snacks like a mini-salon.