Lost and Found: Return of My Mysterious Fiancee

Lily Ward looked at Jared Farrell standing next to Tina, her eyes darkening. She had planned to embarrass Tina while Jared was away, but unexpectedly, he showed up. However, it didn’t matter. Tina had already marked the stone numbered 198, and the three billion dollars were destined to be spent. Even if it wasn’t the Reed family’s money, making the Farrell family aware that Tina made Jared spend three billion dollars on a gambling stone would surely make them displeased with her and affect their engagement.

Jared looked down at Tina, his long eyes full of affection. “Buy whatever you like; I’ll pay! Three billion isn’t enough? I’ll give you ten billion!” Three billion was nothing; as long as Tina was happy, he could transport all the raw stones from the jadeite mining area for her to cut one a day for fun.

“It won’t fail,” Tina said nonchalantly.

“Miss Reed is so confident. How about we cut the stone you marked right now?” Lily Ward suggested, hiding the smile in her eyes. She wanted to see Tina humiliated in public!

“Sure,” Tina nodded.

Mr. Montague immediately arranged for it. After all the transactions for the auctioned jadeite raw stones were completed, they would be cut on-site. Not only Tina but other clients who chose not to take their raw stones home also agreed to on-site cutting for everyone to see.

Soon, several raw stones were cut in order of their bids and shown to the crowd, some increasing in value and others failing. The worst failure was Griffin’s stone, which he had bought for 120 million dollars. Although it reached ice quality in some parts and even glass quality in others, it lacked base color and was riddled with cracks and snowflake cotton, making it worthless for bracelets or even smaller pieces like rings.

Griffin glanced at it once, his face darker than the failed stone itself.

“Don’t expect me to reimburse you,” Damian said calmly. After all, Griffin had maliciously bid first; getting tricked was his own fault. He patted his brother’s shoulder. “Consider it a costly lesson; don’t bully your cousin again.”

Griffin glared at Tina hatefully, thinking this lesson was too expensive.

Tina ignored Griffin’s resentful gaze entirely. Lily Ward’s attempt to trick her with this jadeite raw stone was ruthless but ultimately unsuccessful.

Soon it was time to cut Mack’s marked stone. He glanced at Tina and maliciously raised his chin towards her. “Tina, dare to bet with me?”

Tina raised an eyebrow, waiting for him to continue.

“Let’s bet whether your stone will be worth more than mine!” Mack said.

“The stakes?” Tina asked calmly.

“If you lose, you kneel and apologize to my mother and me!” Mack said coldly.

Jared Farrell’s face darkened; this fool didn’t know his place. Wanting Tina to kneel was a death wish!

“Okay,” Tina agreed but held Jared’s hand and asked Mack back, “What if you lose?”

“If I lose, I’ll do a handstand and defecate!” Mack said confidently.

Tina: “…”

Jared Farrell: “…”

No need to be so disgusting!

Mack confidently looked at his raw stone, believing in his judgment that it would increase significantly in value. Gambling on jadeite involves betting on quality, color, and cracks. Tina’s stone numbered 198 had already lost due to its cracks unless it revealed imperial green of high ice or above quality. Otherwise, spending three billion dollars would be a loss.

But how could such a rare thing like imperial green glass jadeite fall into Tina’s hands by luck?

Mack felt sure he would win!

Soon his eighteen-kilogram raw stone was cut open, stunning everyone present. The stone reached high ice quality with full green color and no cracks under strong light-enough for nearly twenty full green bracelets with plenty of leftover material for smaller pieces.

Such full green ice-quality material often fetched collectible prices; spending one hundred million dollars was worth it many times over.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

Someone immediately offered Mack twenty billion dollars for it on the spot.

“Heh,” Mack sneered. “This material can produce nearly twenty bracelets worth more than twenty billion dollars alone without considering the leftover material’s value. And you want to buy it for twenty billion? What nerve!”

The person shut up embarrassedly while others eagerly tried negotiating prices with Mack.

“I’m not selling this raw stone,” Mack declared decisively. “I’ll keep it as a collection.”

Such rare material becomes scarcer over time; collecting it would double its value in a few years-a good investment indeed.

“Tina, you’re doomed,” Mack said smugly amidst everyone’s amazement and compliments.

“What’s the rush?” Tina replied calmly.

After Mack’s stone was cut, next was the one numbered 198.

Mack occasionally glanced at her with malice; he still held a grudge against her for hitting him earlier today and eagerly awaited her kneeling apology later.

Lily Ward sneered at Tina’s calm demeanor; did she really believe Timmy’s nonsense that this randomly chosen jadeite raw stone could reveal imperial green worth hundreds of times more?

That would be laughable-imperial green wasn’t so easy to come by!

The venue wasn’t large; everyone heard about Tina and Mack’s bet and waited eagerly for the result of cutting number 198.

After a long time, the machine finally stopped; two cutters lifted the halved number 198 onto the table under bright lights revealing countless cracks-what people called “imperial cracks.”

Mack’s lips curled into a triumphant smile just as strong light hit number 198’s jade flesh revealing vibrant green color stunning everyone into silence.

“Oh my god! Imperial Green!” someone exclaimed first.

“And it’s full-color glass-quality imperial green!”

“I never thought I’d see such rarity cut before my eyes!”

“What luck!”

Guests couldn’t help but approach with flashlights to admire this rare beauty up close-imperial green glass jadeite!