Chapter 9 (2/2)

Elly is p.i.s.sed off, for she is ignored the entire time. She can’t keep pretending to be tolerant, “Qin Baojia, don’t you dare to go too far! Don’t you want to keep your job?!”

Lin Luoran hesitates. Elly is right. After all, Baojia still works for Fortune House. Will things become harder for her at work? As the daughter of the boss of Fortune House, Elly does seek revenge for the smallest grievance.

Baojia holds Lin Luoran’s hand tighter. She turns around when they reach the gate and says to Elly with a fake smile, “Manager, I have already filed my resignation. Don’t you see it?”

Baojia doesn’t give time for Elly and Li Anping to make any response. It’s like that she is trying to make Elly angrier. Baojia says, making an appearance of enlightenment, “Sorry, I forget that manager Elly is busy being in love with her a.s.sistant. No wonder she doesn’t have time to read my resignation.”

Elly’s complexion is cold as winter. She holds on to her handbag so tightly that her fingers are turning white.

Anger and resentment intertwine on Li Anping’s face.

As for Liu Zheng, his eyes under the gold-rimmed gla.s.ses are lightened up.

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They get out of the warehouse. Suddenly, it comes to Lin Luoran that without Li Anping and Elly, even the sky looks bluer. She was blind to be deceived by such a man and it was not a bad thing that he cheated, because she was lucky to gain an insight into him earlier.

Baojia has vented her anger and is now smiling. She suggests to Lin Luoran, pointing to a group of people who are bidding aloud, “Your future job is to sell jewelry. Let’s go to have a look at them gambling on stones. It is harmless to get some experience for you.”

Lin Luoran is actually very curious and she finds Baojia’s words reasonable. She won’t be qualified for the job if she knows nothing about jade, which is becoming more and more popular lately.

“Eight hundred thousand! This stone is mine!”

Approaching, they hear a fat man bidding. The man in a s.h.i.+ning and thick gold necklace looks confident.

Lin Luoran is shocked because she has never seen anyone buying a raw stone with eight hundred thousand yuan when n.o.body knows whether there is jade in it. There is a huge gap between normal people and the rich!

“Eight hundred thousand? Fatty Cui, aren’t you ashamed of yourself? I offer nine hundred thousand!” A plump lady in her forties offers a higher price.

Fatty Cui is so angry that his fat cheeks are shaking. Out of some reason, he manages to hold his anger inside and says, grounding his teeth, “Nine hundred and fifty thousand!”

The bystanders all start laughing. They say nothing and wait for them to keep bidding.

As they expected, the plump lady offers a million yuan even without blinking. Standing by the truck, the owner of the raw stone is thrilled.

Lin Luoran begins to understand how stone gambling works. She notices that Baojia is also trying to hold her laugh, and asks, “Who are these two people?”

Baojia clears her throat and answers in a low voice, “They are a couple. Both of their original families do business in the jade industry. Mrs. Cui is the only daughter of her family, so she must take over her family business. Every time the couple comes here, there will be an exciting bidding. It is well-known in the industry…that Mrs. Cui always tries to take the raw stone that Mr. Cui likes.”

Lin Luoran laughs. This indeed is a fantastic world.

Looking at the arguing couple, an idea comes to Lin Luoran. It is always written in novels that jade bears immortal energy. Since she can see the immortal energy of plants, will she be able to see it in jade?

Her heartbeat starts to race and she can’t stop thinking about this.

Lin Luoran takes a deep breath quietly and concentrates on the raw stone which the couple is bidding on…