The woman smiled and said, “I think we touched this raw material at the same time, so we can compete for it.”She didn’t know whether there was jade inside or not, but she thought that it was highly possible. She felt that this jade raw material was of good quality, and she was experienced in stone gambling too.
“Well, in fact, I touched this jade raw material half a second earlier than you,” Lisa said and wasn’t annoyed at all.
Although the woman tried to grab this piece of raw material away, her attitude wasn’t very rude and she was also willing to compete for it.
People around them turned to look at them. None of them had paid attention to them before, so nobody knew whether they touched this raw material at the same time.
The stand owner did see both of their hands, but he thought they touched this raw material at almost the same time. However, Lisa insisted that she touched this raw material half a second earlier.
Hyunsung and Jungkook also noticed the argument. Hyunsung asked, “It seems that boss encountered trouble, do we need to help her?”
“It’s fine. She can handle it.” Jungkook clearly heard their discussion, and knew that it wasn’t a big deal.
Since Lisa told them to wait for her, they should listen to her. If Lisa couldn’t solve this problem, she would turn to him for help.
“Can you prove it?” the woman asked.
“There are surveillance cameras everywhere. It’s easy to find out the truth,” Lisa said, then turned to look at the stand owner. “Right?”
Seeing Lisa being so confident, the stand owner nodded. “Yeah, yeah.”
“Great!” The woman had no intention to give it up.
Even if the surveillance video proved that she was half a second later than Lisa, she could apologize. It wasn’t easy to find a piece of jade raw material of high quality, so she was unwilling to miss it.
Afterwards, the stand owner told his assistant to guard the stand, and he went to check the surveillance video along with Lisa and the woman.
After watching the video, they found that Lisa indeed touched the raw material half a second earlier than the woman.
“Well, fine, I’m sorry. This is yours,” the woman said, although she was disappointed.
“Thanks,” Lisa said, then turned to the stand owner. “Please weigh this. I want to buy it.”
The stand owner was struck dumb for a second, because Lisa directly bought this raw material without observing it at all.
The woman was also surprised by Lisa’s confidence.
“Sure,” the stand owner said, then weighed the raw material.
After that, Lisa paid the bill, and left with it.
The woman walked away too, and kept on shopping for jade raw materials.
However, when she saw Lisa walking back to Hyunsung, she was surprised again and walked over. “Hi, Mr. Zheng!”
Hyunsung turned around, and his face lit up the second he saw the woman. “Oh, hi, Ms. Xue, been a while!”
“Been a while!” Ms. Xue glanced at Lisa and Jungkook. She was a little stunned by Jungkook’s outstanding appearance, but soon calmed herself down. She wasn’t a young girl anymore, so she had no interest in handsome young men.
“Ms. Xue, please let me introduce Gu Lisa. She’s my boss,” Zheng Peng said.
Hearing that, Xue Suxiu was shocked. She knew that the boss of Colorful Jade Provider was a young girl but she didn’t expect that the young girl was Lisa.
“I’m so sorry, Miss Lisa. I didn’t know that you’re the boss of Colorful Jade Provider.” Xue Suxiu apologized again. She respected Lisa, who was a successful young businesswoman, and they had cooperation in business too.
Xue Suxiu worked in the jewelry industry, and was responsible for acquiring jade. She was one of the clients of Colorful Jade Provider.
“It’s not a big deal, Ms. Xue,” Lisa said.
“Boss, this is Manager Xue of XX Jewelry Company. She’s in charge of jade purchasing and also a client of our company,” Hyunsung said to Lisa.
XX Jewelry Company was a famous company in the jewelry industry.
“Oh, Ms. Xue, thank you so much for purchasing jade from my company,” Lisa said.
“I should thank you, Miss Lisa, because the jade from your company is always of high quality,” Xue Suxiu said.
“Glad to cooperate with you!” Lisa smiled.
“Me too!” Xue Suxiu said. “Please excuse me, I need to leave now.”
“Bye-bye,” Lisa said.
Before long, Lisa and others arrived at the factory of Colorful Jade Provider.
Those jade raw materials she just bought all had jade inside, so she planned to cut them out at the factory.
Stone-cutters were already used to cutting jade out every day, and it wasn’t surprising at all when Lisa came with several good jade raw materials.
They were curious why almost every piece of the raw materials in this factory had good jade inside, but they didn’t dare to ask further about it, because they had signed an agreement not to leak any information. Nevertheless, many peers in the same industry were jealous of Colorful Jade Provider.
They all wanted to find out the reason, but no workers working in this factory were willing to tell them. Actually, none of them knew the real reason.
Lisa, Jungkook and Hyunsung left the factory at 5 pm for dinner. Coincidentally, they met Xue Suxiu again at the restaurant.
There was a man following Xue Suxiu; he must be her secretary.
There was another middle-aged man and a young woman with Xue Suxiu, and the young woman was obviously the middle-aged man’s secretary.
It dawned on Lisa that women always had male secretaries, while men often had female secretaries.
Xue Suxiu didn’t see them, so Lisa didn’t greet her.
However, Lisa noticed something abnormal in the middle-aged man’s eyes.
It seemed that this man was going to trap Xue Suxiu, but it had nothing to do with her, so she didn’t pay much attention to them.
After a short while, Lisa found that Xue Suxiu was dining in the next room.
Because she thought that the middle-aged man behaved strangely, she used her Jade Eyes to see what they were doing in the next room.
She was right. Lisa caught Xue Suxiu’s secretary secretly put a pill into her glass when he was pouring wine for her.
It turned out that both the middle-aged man and Xue Suxiu’s secretary planned to hurt her.
“Uncle Hyunsung, do you have Ms. Xue’s phone number?” Lisa asked all of a sudden.
“Yes, I do,” Hyunsung said, and took out his phone at once.
“Please call her right now. I have something to tell her,” Lisa said in an urgent tone.
She was reluctant to get involved in another person’s personal affairs, but she should do something since she already found out the dirty trick.
“Sure.” Hyunsung called Xue Suxiu without delay, then handed his phone to Lisa.
Jungkook glanced at Lisa. He knew that she did it for a reason.
In the next room, Xue Suxiu just raised the glass and was about to have a drink, but her phone rang at this moment. She said something to the middle-aged man, then picked up the call.
Lisa felt relieved.
“Hi, Mr. Zheng,” Xue Suxiu said.
“Ms. Xue, it’s me, Gu Lisa,” Lisa said.
Xue Suxiu was surprised.
“Oh, hi, may I help?” Xue Suxiu asked.
“I just saw you in XX Restaurant, but you were with your friends, so I didn’t greet you. I just thought of something important, can I talk with you for a minute right now? I’m in No.666 room,” Lisa said. “Please come alone.”
Xue Suxiu didn’t understand why Lisa suddenly called her, but she knew that it must be something important. Therefore, she agreed. “No problem, I’m coming.”
…
After hanging up the call, Xue Suxiu said to the middle-aged man, “Mr. Zhang, I’m so sorry. The boss of Colorful Jade Provider is in the next room right now, and she needs to see me for a while. I’ll be back in a few minutes.”
“Sure,” the middle-aged man said, and didn’t think further. He believed that nobody would find out his dirty trick.
After that, Xue Suxiu stood up and left.
Someone knocked on the door of the private room where Lisa stayed, and Lisa opened the door in person.
“Hi, Miss Lisa, Mr. Zheng!” Xue Suxiu greeted Lisa and Hyunsung after she walked inside. She didn’t know Jungkook, so she didn’t greet him.
Jungkook didn’t know Xue Suxiu either, so he remained silent.
“Ms Xue, I noticed something strange with the middle-aged man who came here with you. The young man by your side exchanged glances with the middle-aged man too. I have a bad feeling and I think that you should be careful. You better not drink or eat tonight,” Lisa said.
Xue Suxiu wasn’t dumb, and she realized what would happen to her the moment Lisa said that. In fact, she had a premonition herself when her boss assigned the middle-aged man to be the vice president.
The middle-aged man didn’t get along with her, so she was worried that he might scheme against her someday. However, she hadn’t found any solid proof yet.
To her astonishment, her secretary was also involved in this.
She wasn’t sure whether her secretary had already betrayed her because the young man had worked for her for several years. She decided to investigate later.
Seeing Xue Suxiu’s reaction, Lisa understood that she must have suspicions of the middle-aged man.
“Miss Lisa, thank you so much for telling me that,” Xue Suxiu said with sincerity, but the problem was that she couldn’t leave right now. Even though she knew she was in a dangerous situation now, she had no evidence.
Besides, the dishes could have nothing harmful inside.
“You’re welcome. I just have a bad feeling and I hope that you can stay safe. I understand that you can’t leave right now. If you trust me, you can take this pill. If there really is something harmful in the drink or dishes, it can protect you,” Lisa said, and took out a porcelain bottle from her backpack.
Xue Suxiu was surprised and held doubts.
Anyway, since Lisa was kind enough to remind her to be careful, Lisa wouldn’t hurt her, so she accepted it. “Thanks, Miss Lisa.”
“Be careful,” Lisa said.
“I will,” Xue Suxiu said.
Before she left, she stared at the bottle with hesitation for a while, but still opened it at the end and took the pill inside.
The pill melted the second it was put into her mouth, and she felt quite comfortable.
She had stayed up very late every night with her work these days, and lacked sleep and energy, but this pill refreshed her. Lisa’s medicine was unbelievable!
When Xue Suxiu got back to the next private room, she composed herself and said, “I’m so sorry to keep you waiting.”
“It’s fine,” the middle-aged man said. “Let’s enjoy our dinner now!”
Although Xue Suxiu was still worried, she had to eat with them.
The other three people around the table, however, checked Xue Suxiu’s reaction once in a while. They felt quite confused seeing her being clear-headed and conscious for so long.
The medicine would come into effect within a minute, but nothing happened to Xue Suxiu even after a few minutes.
Xue Suxiu didn’t miss their glances, so she was sure that there must be something harmful in the dishes on the table. Her secretary was also disloyal to her.
Thinking of that, she felt hurt and disappointed. Nevertheless, she had to stay calm and pretend that she knew nothing about it.
She was also sure that Lisa’s pill was very effective, so she enjoyed the dinner as she liked and even invited the middle-aged man to share a drink with her.
…
Lisa was still a little worried about Xue Suxiu’s safety, so she used her Jade Eyes to check her condition.
The middle-aged man, who was Mr. Zhao, and the others couldn’t help but keep glancing at Xue Suxiu when she stayed normal. It was hard for Xue Suxiu to ignore their glances now, so she asked, “Why are you looking at me so often?”
They panicked and withdrew their glances at once.
Mr. Zhao said, “Nothing. Ms. Xue, you have a very good appetite today. I thought you would eat little in order to stay in shape like other women.”
“I don’t care about it and I eat as I like,” Xue Suxiu said.
Mr. Zhao smiled, and said nothing further, but he couldn’t figure out why things didn’t go the way he wanted.
He didn’t think that Xue Suxiu had found out about his dirty trick at all.
Is the pill not effective?
Mr. Zhao was disappointed, but he didn’t dare to annoy Xue Suxiu right now. Therefore, they separated after dinner.
…
Lisa was also relieved since nothing terrible happened.
…
In the car, Xue Suxiu looked at her secretary thinking how she should deal with him. Her head ached a little when she thought about this problem, so she rubbed her temples.
“Manager Xue, what’s wrong? Do you feel uncomfortable?” her secretary asked to see whether she wasn’t in a good condition.
“I’m fine. I’m just a little tired,” Xue Suxiu said.
Hearing that, her secretary shut his mouth, but felt upset and confused.
…
Lisa and Jungkook went to a hotel together after dinner. They had nothing else to do.
…
Once Xue Suxiu was home, she called her leader, and told her leader what she had been through tonight.
Her secretary was disloyal to her, and she had to get rid of him.
The next morning, Xue Suxiu’s new secretary reported for duty in her office, while her ex secretary received an offer to study abroad, which was organized by their company.
Normally, only excellent staff members would have the chance to study abroad, but Xue Suxiu’s ex secretary was an exception.
It wasn’t appropriate to directly fire him right now, so Xue Suxiu’s leader made use of this offer to move him away from Xue Suxiu.
The young man was greatly surprised when he heard the news, because it happened too suddenly, and Xue Suxiu had never mentioned it before. He thought that Xue Suxiu might have found out what he had done behind her back. However, Xue Suxiu stayed kind as usual to him.
He didn’t ask her why, because he wouldn’t admit it even if Xue Suxiu had already found out.
“Well, I know you’re confused about why you suddenly got this chance to study abroad, and why I’ve never mentioned it before. Well, my new secretary is my leader’s relative, and I only got this information yesterday myself. In order to make you feel better about it, we are giving you the chance. You can seize this chance, and you’ll have a brighter future in our company,” Xue Suxiu said, and lied.
It was an acceptable reason, but still not reasonable.
The young man couldn’t reject it, and had to accept it.
After walking out of Xue Suxiu’s office, he called Mr. Zhao at once and told him everything.
Mr. Zhao was very confident that nobody could find out his dirty trick, so he was sure that Xue Suxiu told the truth. In that case, the young man felt relieved.
…
At the same time, Lisa and Jungkook left for Yangon, Burma. Although it was only 9 am in April, the sunlight was very strong.
Because of the public jade bid, there were a lot more people here than before.
Hyunsung had booked a presidential suite in Yangon Hotel for Lisa.
Lisa and Jungkook went to the hotel once they arrived at Yangon, Burma. They planned to take a shower before they went to the public jade bid. However, as soon as they walked into the Yangon Hotel, Lisa saw a familiar face. The person was Zhao Yuefeng.
Zhao Yuefeng’s face lit up the second he saw Lisa.
“What a coincidence, Miss Lisa!” Zhao Yuefeng greeted Lisa with a broad smile, then his sight fell on Jungkook. “Nice to see you, Mr. Jeon.”
“Hi, Uncle Zhao, when did you come here?” Lisa smiled at him, while Jungkook just nodded an acknowledgment.
Zhao Yuefeng understood that Jungkook always stayed cool, so he didn’t mind it.
“I came yesterday. Miss Lisa, did you just arrive?” Zhao Yuefeng asked because Lisa was still in clothes with long sleeves, while people in Burma were all wearing clothing with short sleeves due to the hot weather.
“Yeah, we just arrived,” Lisa said.
“Have you booked a room yet?” Zhao Yuefeng asked with concern, because there were no available rooms anymore.
“Yes, and we’re going back to our room now,” Lisa said.
Lisa only carried a small suitcase with her this time, containing some clothes and skincare products.
Because she came here with Jungkook, it wasn’t appropriate for her to put it into the telepathic eye space.
“Great, see you then!” Zhao Yuefeng said. “I think you better be quick so that you can have more time to look for jade of high quality.”
In fact, Zhao Yuefeng hoped that he could join Lisa’s team, because he might get some guidance and help from Lisa given her outstanding stone-gambling ability. However, he was unwilling to bother her.
Anyway, the public jade bid would last for three days, and they could meet each other again sooner or later.
On the first day, jade was put out for closed bids, and the prices would be made public the next day. The jade could be cut out in the afternoon on the second day, which depended on the buyer.
The third day of the public jade bid was an auction.
“See you,” Lisa said, then walked away with Jungkook.
They moved fast, and left the hotel half an hour later.
…
The public jade bid only accepted cash, or bank cards from Swiss Bank. Although Lisa had a bank card from Swiss Bank, she wasn’t sure she could use it here, so she still went to exchange for dollars from a local bank.
The public jade bid wasn’t located in the city center, but a place 20 kilometers away in a suburb.
Lisa and Jungkook took a taxi and reached there about a dozen minutes later.
When they got to the entrance, Lisa showed her invitation letter, and a staff member gave Lisa a document with information of matters needing attention in bidding, a bidding item number, bidding category (open bid or closed bid), quantity as well as reserve price, and bid time on it.
…
Although the rules said that only people with an invitation letter could get inside, others were able to enter this place by paying some money too.
The public jade bid was held at a spacious square with shops on either side and stands of jade raw materials in the middle.
Jade raw materials that were placed in the shops were all selected with great care, so it was more likely to cut jade from them, and their prices were comparatively higher.
On the contrary, the jade raw materials placed on those stands were picked at random, so it was less likely to cut jade from them, and so their prices were lower.
The shops around the square had three stories. Only the first floor was open for buyers, and the second along with the third floor was a teahouse or a restaurant, which were only available for people with an invitation letter. And across the square, there was a five-story building where the jade auction would be held.
There were many people on the square, but luckily the square was large enough that it wasn’t crowded.
However, there were countless jade raw materials placed in the square, and it was impossible for a normal person to have a look at all of them. It wasn’t a problem for Lisa however, because she had a pair of Jade Eyes.
There was no limit for one’s bids. As long as you have enough money, you could bid for every piece of jade raw material. However, nobody would do that.
There were thousands of jade raw materials in the square, but there wouldn’t be jade in every piece of them. It was highly risky, and no one was willing to do that.
Lisa held a pen and a piece of paper in her hands. She started from the stands, because there were too many people inside those shops at the moment.
People could only make closed bids on the first day, so there might be many people who bid for the same piece of jade raw material, and only the most generous buyer could get it. Because there were too many jade raw materials, not every piece was bid for.
Lisa decided to put in a higher bid if she found any she liked. She was going to make a lot more money than the bid after all.
Jungkook followed Lisa in silence. Even though Lisa didn’t talk to him, he didn’t feel bored at all.
Lisa would only choose jade raw materials with jade above medium-high level inside, but it wasn’t suitable for her to bid too many times, so she would let Jungkook help her do it.
In most cases, there was only stone in those jade raw materials. There might only be 10 jade raw materials with jade inside among a pile of jade raw materials, so it wasn’t easy to find a jade raw material with jade of high quality inside.
After checking five stands, Lisa bid on five jade raw materials.
When she came to the ninth stand, she met Zhao Yuefeng again. He was with several other businessmen.
“Hi, Miss Lisa!” Zhao Yuefeng greeted her.
Lisa glanced at the jade raw material in Zhao Yuefeng’s hands, then smiled and said, “Well, I don’t think there is jade in it.”
Hearing that, Zhao Yuefeng put it down at once.
However, a man by Zhao Yuefeng’s side was displeased, and said with a cold face, “You’re just a young girl. How much can you know about stone gambling?”
Zhao Yuefeng was a little annoyed. “Chairman Wu, Miss Lisa is my friend, so please show some respect.”
“You…” Chairman Wu was mad when Zhao Yuefeng sided with Lisa. “Fine, if you want to listen to a young girl, do as you like.” After that, he walked away.
Zhao Yuefeng ignored him, and apologized to Lisa, “Miss Lisa, please don’t mind it. He’s always like that.”
“It’s fine.” Lisa smiled. She wouldn’t be mad at a stranger.
Afterwards, Lisa glanced at those jade raw materials placed on the stand, then said to Zhao Yuefeng in a low voice, “Look at the F-1003 jade raw material. I think there might be jade in it.”
There was a piece of medium-high-level jade in it, and Lisa said that to give Zhao Yuefeng a hint.
Zhao Yuefeng understood it and he also trusted Lisa. “Thanks, Miss Lisa.”
“You’re welcome. I’m afraid that I’ve gotta go now,” Lisa said.
“See you,” Zhao Yuefeng said and didn’t stop Lisa.
Once Lisa was gone, Zhao Yuefeng wrote the number of that jade raw material down. He believed that there was jade in it, so he made a much higher bid for it to make sure that it would be his.
…
It seemed that Lisa was fated to meet more than one familiar face at this public jade bid in Burma, because after walking for a short while, she ran into Aimee Hill.
Aimee came here along with her older brother, Adam Hill. Adam held no grudge against Lisa, but Aimee did.
Aimee had tried to kill Lisa in vain before, so Lisa wouldn’t let her get away with it this time.
When Aimee saw Lisa, she was scared, because she remembered Lisa’s warning. She was born in the Hill family, but her older brother had told her that their family wouldn’t help her if she annoyed Lisa.
Lisa had a close relationship with Minhyuk after all, and Minhyuk cared a lot about Lisa too.
Aimee was still jealous of Lisa, and she still hated Lisa, because Minhyuk liked Lisa and Lisa had injured her.
Thinking of that, Aimee thought that she should teach Lisa a lesson.
Lisa stayed calm and didn’t care what Aimee was thinking. She didn’t forget what Aimee had done to her, but she had no intention to deliberately get back at Aimee. However, Aimee showed up in her sight today, and there was no reason for her to miss this chance.
Besides, if Aimee had avoided meeting her and kept a distance from her, she would be kind and let her go, but Aimee just had to do the opposite. Therefore, Lisa understood that she must do something to stop Aimee from hurting her again.
The second Jungkook saw Aimee’s expression, he knew that this woman had a grudge against Lisa, so he gave her a cold glance.
Aimee felt threatened by that glance, and moved her eyes away in fear. Adam also got nervous when he saw Lisa’s expression, and gave Aimee a warning glance to tell her not to annoy Lisa.
Nevertheless, Adam didn’t know many details of what Aimee had done to Lisa, or he wouldn’t be so optimistic.
“Miss Lisa, nice to see you again,” Adam politely greeted Lisa.
“Nice to see you too, Adam,” Lisa said.
Adam didn’t know Jungkook, so he just nodded at him. Jungkook did the same.
Lisa planned to get revenge on Aimee, but not now, because in her eyes it was more important to find good jade.
“Adam, if you don’t mind, we need to go over there,” Lisa said.
“Please,” Adam said and stepped aside to let Lisa and Jungkook pass.
When Lisa and Jungkook were far away, Adam warned Aimee again, “Aimee, don’t ever think to hurt that girl again. If you cause any trouble to our family, nobody will help you. If Arthur gets the goods on us, our family will be in a dangerous situation.”
Arthur Hill was also a member of the Hill family. He was Aimee’s older cousin. Although the Hill family looked to be harmonious, the young generation were competing against each other for the right of inheritance.
It was unavoidable in a powerful family, and Jungkook was going through the same thing. The Tang family in City B was very special and different in that situation. It really wasn’t common among super-rich or powerful families.
“I understand,” Aimee said, but she lied.
Adam didn’t have much time to teach Aimee to behave herself, so he kept on looking at jade raw materials.
The Hill family was also involved in the jewelry industry. Except for Adam and Aimee, Arthur and Yak also came here on behalf of the Hill family.
It was a test laid down by the Hill family for them. Although Adam was always the best out of the younger generation, he had to continue to compete against the other children in their family to become the sole heir.
Lisa and Jungkook walked around, and wrote down numbers of jade raw materials they liked along the way.In order not to attract too much attention, Lisa observed many other raw materials too.
Jungkook was also curious about Lisa’s behavior, because it seemed to be very easy for her to choose a good jade raw material, but he didn’t ask any questions about it. He knew it was her secret. Everyone had secrets after all.
Nevertheless, even though Lisa did her best to behave like a common buyer, she still aroused others’ curiosity. She wrote the numbers down too fast!
It didn’t mean that she would make a bid for all of those jade raw materials on the paper, but her behavior still surprised others.
When Lisa finished looking around the square, it was already lunchtime. Therefore, Lisa and Jungkook decided to have lunch before they went to those shops.
After this morning, Lisa wrote down numbers of 375 jade raw materials with jade inside, but there were only 12 pieces of top-level jade among them.
It was really hard to find jade of high quality.
Lisa wrote numbers of over 90% of the jade raw materials with medium-high level or above jade inside down on her paper, and left 10% for others.
It wasn’t a fair game, but Lisa was already being kind. In addition, it wasn’t illegal after all.
…
When Lisa walked into a restaurant, she met another familiar face. The person was Zhang Dequan, the head of Jade Association in City Teng.
There were two middle-aged men and two young men with Zhang Dequan. They seemed to be his helpers.
Zhang Dequan was excited to see Lisa, but wasn’t surprised at all, because he knew that she would attend this public jade bid.
By now, Lisa’s jade business in City Teng was already superior to the Zhang family’s and the Lu family’s. Her company became the No.1 jade company in City Teng within a short time.
Not only in City Teng. Colorful Jade Provider was also dominant in many other cities which were famous for their jade industry.
It was very difficult for other jade companies or jade providers to compete against Colorful Jade Provider. Other businessmen in the same industry were jealous of it, but they could do nothing about it.
Competition in the business world was always fierce and cruel. Moreover, not everyone would scheme to hurt others just because the others did better than them.
In fact, only evil people couldn’t tolerate the fact that someone could be more successful than them. The Wang family in City Teng was a great example.
Nowadays Lisa’s company, the Zhang family’s company and the Lu family’s company were the three largest jade developers in City Teng.
The Zhang family was amazed by Lisa’s achievement, but they weren’t jealous of her, and they even hoped to maintain a good relationship with her.
The Lu family had tried to scheme against Lisa behind her back before, but they failed and gave up.
Neither of the two families was willing to have the same result as the Wang family.
“Miss Lisa, nice to see you again!” Zhang Dequan beamed the moment he saw Lisa and walked to her.
The other people with Zhang Dequan were surprised when they saw Zhang Dequan being so polite to a young girl.
Since Zhang Dequan was so polite to her, the young girl couldn’t be an ordinary girl.
“Master Zhang, been a while! How are you doing?” Lisa greeted Zhang Dequan with respect.
“I’m good,” Zhang Dequan said. “Miss Lisa, did you find any jade raw materials you like?”
“I found some,” Lisa said with a smile.
“We don’t see each other often. Why don’t we dine together today? My treat,” Zhang Dequan said.
“Sure.” Lisa accepted Zhang Dequan’s invitation.
“Ha-ha, this way please.” Zhang Dequan guided Lisa and Jungkook towards the private room he booked.
When they were all seated, Zhang Dequan introduced the others to Lisa.
“Miss Lisa, please let me do the introduction. This is my nephew, Zhang Binsheng. His father, Zhang Decheng, is my older brother,” Zhang Dequan said to Lisa.
Zhang Binsheng was the heir of the Zhang family, and he had learned a lot from Zhang Dequan. He wasn’t bad at stone-gambling and the members of the Zhang family got along with each other, so they didn’t have many conflicts although they did have to compete against one another for the heir position.
Zhang Binsheng was the winner of the competition in the end because of his outstanding ability, and the Zhang family was in harmony now.
“Binsheng, this is the boss of Colorful Jade Provider, Gu Lisa.” Zhang Dequan turned to Zhang Binsheng.
“Nice to meet you, Mr. Zhang.” Lisa politely greeted Zhang Binsheng.
Zhang Dequan was greatly surprised to hear that Lisa was the owner of Colorful Jade Provider.
“Nice to meet you too, Miss Lisa!” Zhang Binsheng smiled at Lisa. He really appreciated her outstanding ability.
Zhang Dequan didn’t introduce the other three men to Lisa because they weren’t very important. The middle-aged man was Zhang Binsheng’s secretary, while the two young men were their bodyguards.
Lisa didn’t introduce Jungkook to them either, but they understood that Jungkook was from a powerful family too given his natural air of power.
After lunch, they had a rest for a while, then went outside to keep on looking around for good jade raw materials.
Zhang Dequan and Lisa were going to seperate once they left the restaurant. However, they met several members of the Lu family when they reached the first floor.Lu Weili, the oldest son of the Lu family, who was 34, and Lu Weiwei, who was his younger sister and was 27 this year, came on behalf of the Lu family. There were two stone-gambling experts and two bodyguards with them too.
Although Lu Weili was the heir of the Lu family, he wasn’t very good at stone gambling, so he brought two experts with him. And because Burma was always involved in wars, so it was much safer to have some bodyguards by his side.
The second Lu Weili saw Zhang Dequan and his group, he greeted them, “Hi, Master Zhang, and Lord Zhang!”
He greeted them on his own initiative, but didn’t sound kind. The Zhang family and the Lu family were competitors in the jade industry after all.
Lu Weiwei, on the other hand, was stunned by Jungkook’s appearance. She could barely move her eyes away from him.
Lu Weiwei had a plain face, but thought too highly of herself, and was only attracted to handsome men. She would do anything in order to get a handsome man she was attracted to.
Jungkook, however, felt disgusted when Lu Weiwei fixed her eyes at him. He didn’t lose his temper just because she was staring at him, but simply moved a little farther away from her.
However, Lu Weiwei wouldn’t withdraw her leer, causing Lisa to frown with displeasure.
“Hi, Lord Lu and Miss Lu,” Zhang Dequan said.
“Master Zhang, what do you think of today’s jade raw materials?” Lu Weili asked.
“Hard to tell,” Zhang Dequan replied.
“Master Zhang, you’re being too modest! I think you can get a lot of good jade raw materials today,” Lu Weili said with jealousy evident in his tone.
Yes, he was being jealous. Zhang Dequan was the head of the Jade Association in City Teng, and he was well-known for his excellent skills at stone-gambling. Therefore, Lu Weili got jealous upon thinking that Zhang Dequan could get a lot of jade today.
“Ha-ha, I hope so!” Zhang Dequan said.
At this moment, Lisa used her Jade Eyes to see the numbers on the piece of paper in Zhang Binsheng’s hands.
She planned to bid for different jade raw materials from them to avoid conflicts. If they still had conflicts, Lisa was willing to leave some to them in case they got nothing at the end of the day.
“Good luck!” Lu Weili also laughed a little, but with a cold face.
Afterwards, Lu Weili’s sight fell on Lisa. He was struck dumb for a second, then realized who Lisa was.
“This miss must be Miss Lisa, who just replaced the Wang family and became one of the three largest jade providers in City Teng, right?” Lu Weili purposely asked this question with arrogance to take Lisa down a notch.
He understood that Lisa wasn’t simple since she could replace the Wang family, but he didn’t believe that she was able to do it alone. In fact, Lu Weili thought that Lisa was too young to be important.
“Yes, I did replace the Wang family,” Lisa said with confidence.
“Very well. I’m surprised that Miss Lisa is able to make such a great achievement at such an early age!” Lu Weili said in an ironic tone.
In his eyes, Lisa was simply a little girl, and the real boss of Colorful Jade Provider must be someone else.
Lu Weili was curious why Lisa was chosen to represent Colorful Jade Provider. He was too self-satisfied to face reality.
“It’s not a big deal,” Lisa said and took Lu Weili’s irony as a compliment. “If you’ll excuse me, we need to leave now.”
Lisa hated Lu Weiwei staring at Jungkook, and couldn’t stand it a second longer.
Lu Weili didn’t stop her, but Lu Weiwei opened her mouth. “Wait a second.”
After that, she walked straight towards Jungkook and said to him, “Hey, why don’t you give me your phone number? We can share a meal together someday.”
Saying that, she put on a smile she thought was attractive, but it actually was quite disgusting.
Jungkook ignored Lu Weiwei. It was as if Lu Weiwei wasn’t talking to him.
Lisa stood in between them and coldly looked at Lu Weiwei. “Miss Lu, don’t you think it’s too much that you ask my fiancé for his phone number right in front of me?”
Other people also disliked Lu Weiwei’s behavior, but they weren’t surprised because they knew her personality very well.
“Fiancé?” Lu Weiwei was a little surprised, but soon sneered, “So what? You aren’t married yet, so he’s still available.”
Hearing that, everyone was shocked by Lu Weiwei. Although Jungkook and Lisa indeed hadn’t got married yet, they were already engaged. She was challenging Lisa by saying that to Lisa’s face.
Jungkook was mad this time, and glared at Lu Weiwei.
Lu Weiwei felt scared. Even though she knew both of them were annoyed now, she was unwilling to give up because Jungkook was the most handsome man she had ever seen.
Witnessing Lu Weiwei’s inappropriate behavior, Lu Weili had no intention to stop her. Nobody could tell what he was thinking.
Zhang Dequan was willing to support Lisa, but he also knew that Lisa wasn’t a weak girl.
“Miss Lu, it sounds that you’re very confident about yourself, but I think that you’re no match for me,” Lisa said.
Lisa seldom attacked others in public, but Lu Weiwei was asking for it.
“You…” Lu Weiwei was mad when Lisa despised her. “I was born in the Lu family!”
“So? I’m the boss of Colorful Jade Provider!” Lisa said.
“A jade provider is barely comparable to my family’s wealth,” Lu Weiwei said with disdain. Lu Weiwei had heard little about Colorful Jade Provider, so she thought that it wasn’t important.
“Weiwei.” Lu Weili had to stop her at this moment.
Although a jade company was indeed barely comparable to their family’s wealth, it wasn’t a good thing if they had a bad relationship with its boss. Colorful Jade Provider was one of the three most famous jade companies in City Teng after all.
Lu Weili didn’t care about Lisa, but he was afraid of the real boss behind her back.
Zhang Dequan and the others thought that Lu Weiwei was quite stupid after hearing her opinion of Colorful Jade Provider. She had no idea how fierce the competition in the jade business in City Teng was.
“Am I wrong?” Lu Weiwei didn’t think she was wrong.
Lisa laughed a little. “You’re right. A jade company isn’t worth mentioning compared with your family’s wealth, but I had ruined the Wang family before I built Colorful Jade Provider.”
“You?” Lu Weiwei was shocked.
Lu Weili also rounded his eyes in shock. They had heard news about it, but didn’t believe that a young girl could do that.
In addition, the Wang family was ruined because many of their dirty secrets were exposed, so they believed that it must have been the Wang family’s enemies in politics who had done it.
To their astonishment, Lisa told them that she was the person who had unseated the Wang family.
“It’s impossible!” Lu Weili blurted it out.
“Well, I simply gave the Wang family’s enemies a helping hand. That’s it,” Lisa said with a smile, which was scary.
She wasn’t showing off her ability, but gave the Lu family a warning. If it was possible, Lisa preferred to spend less time on scheming against them.
“Lord Lu, I have no intention to become the Lu family’s enemy, so I hope we can mind our own business. If you really dislike me, I don’t mind playing the game with you,” Lisa said and warned. After that, she looked at Lu Weiwei. “Miss Lu, don’t ever leer at my man again, or you’ll regret what you’ve done.”
Lu Weili was stunned, and didn’t know what to say now.
“You…” Lu Weiwei was furious, and still wanted to argue with Lisa.
“Weiwei, shut up!”
Before Lu Weiwei could say anything else, Lu Weili stopped her. No matter what, they shouldn’t have conflict against Lisa now.
Lu Weiwei pouted, but had to listen to her older brother.
“Let’s go now!” Lisa hated to stay here for a second longer, so she walked out at once, followed by Jungkook. Zhang Dequan and the others also left soon.
…
“Weiwei, don’t do that again,” Lu Weili said to Lu Weiwei.
“I understand,” Lu Weiwei said, but she was still reluctant to give Jungkook up.
…
Lisa and Jungkook went to the first shop of jade raw materials after walking out of the restaurant.
Compared with the stands, there were far fewer shops, so it didn’t take long for them to look around the jade raw materials. There were only one or two hundred jade raw materials in each of those shops.
It was more likely to find jade of high quality in select jade raw materials.
Among the one or two hundred jade raw materials, there could be more than five pieces of medium-high-level jade.
After looking around seven shops, Lisa already found over 30 jade raw materials with good jade inside. In fact, there were more jade raw materials with jade inside, but some of them had been chosen by Zhang Dequan, so Lisa didn’t write their numbers down. Although Lisa had the intention to leave some good jade raw materials to Zhang Dequan, it depended on his luck whether he could get all of them.
Zhang Dequan had only written down a few numbers of those jade raw materials, so Lisa still had plenty of choices.
A short while later, Lisa received Tzuyu’s call. Tzuyu just arrived at Yangon, Burma, and she asked Lisa whether she was at the public jade bid at the moment.
Lisa gave her an affirmative answer, so Tzuyu directly came to meet her.
Yangon was the capital of Burma, but it wasn’t very large, so Tzuyu reached the square within half an hour. Mengda and Nan came along with her.
Tzuyu didn’t have the invitation letter, but it was very easy for the Zi family to get one, so Tzuyu entered the square with an invitation letter in her hand in the end.
“Lisa, I’m here!” Tzuyu was super excited to see Lisa.
“Hi, Mr. Jeon and Miss Lisa.” Mengda and Nan greeted Lisa and Jungkook.
Jungkook and Lisa nodded at them.
“Hi, Jungkook!” After giving Lisa a big hug, Tzuyu greeted Jungkook with a broad smile. She didn’t feel embarrassed at all although she had admired Jungkook before.
She was a smart and kind girl. She mostly liked Jungkook because he was very outstanding among his peers, but they knew little about each other. In addition, Lisa was Tzuyu’s good friend now, and Tzuyu was unwilling to lose such a good friend.
“Hi,” Jungkook said to her.
“Lisa, what do you think of the jade raw materials in the square?” Tzuyu asked Lisa.
“Well, I think I have about a dozen shops left in the square, and I’ve already found many jade raw materials with jade of high quality inside,” Lisa replied.
“Oh, sounds great. You can keep on looking around and I won’t bother you,” Tzuyu said. She knew nothing about stone-gambling, and came here just for fun.
“Sure,” Lisa said.
Afterwards, Lisa walked ahead. Tzuyu followed her, and sometimes looked around herself.
Actually, Mark and Tzuyu’s father was unwilling to let her take part in this public jade bid in the beginning, because Burma wasn’t a safe and stable country, but Tzuyu told them that Lisa and Jungkook would be there too, so Mark and her father agreed.
They weren’t familiar with Lisa, but were quite familiar with Jungkook.
Tzuyu wasn’t a weak girl either, and she had two ace bodyguards by her side too. With Jungkook’s help, they believed that she would be safe.
Tzuyu’s father had recovered now. Although it was Jungkook who had given them the medicine, they knew that the medicine belonged to Lisa, so they felt grateful to her.
Nevertheless, Tzuyu had a conflict with someone after she had gathered together with Lisa for a short time. Coincidentally, Lisa’s enemies, Sehun and Yeri, were also involved in it.
Sehun and Yeri were present at today’s public jade bid too, but Tzuyu didn’t have the conflict with them at the very beginning.
The thing was that a man accidentally rubbed against a woman’s body among the crowd on the square, which was unavoidable because there were too many people today, but the woman was very violent and pushed the man away with great force. It was obvious that the woman wasn’t an ordinary woman, and the man stumbled into a pile of jade raw materials.
It was quite painful falling into a pile of hard rocks, and his back started bleeding instantly.
Tzuyu noticed that the man didn’t do it on purpose, while the woman was too violent, so she was annoyed. Most importantly, Tzuyu noticed that the woman was from Country R, so she got furious at once.
Tzuyu hated people from Country R.
Since she had witnessed the woman’s violent behavior, she had to do something now.
Therefore, once the man got back to his feet, Tzuyu ran over and pushed the woman into the same pile of jade raw materials.
She purposely did it so that the woman could taste the same unpleasant feeling.
The woman was in a lot of pain after the sudden fall. Luckily, she was good at martial arts, so she was stronger than ordinary people, and wasn’t seriously hurt.
“Miss Yamaguchi!”
Sehun and Yeri were scared when they saw that.
The next second, a strong man who stood by the woman’s side ran forward to punch Tzuyu.
Mengda jumped out to fight against him without delay.
While the man from Country R was fighting with Mengda, Sehun and Yeri helped Miss Yamaguchi get back to her feet. She wasn’t seriously injured, but was still hurt, so she glared at Tzuyu as if she was going to tear Tzuyu to pieces.
After a few minutes, the man from Country R lost the fight with Mengda. He knew that he wasn’t a match for Mengda, so he turned to swear at Tzuyu.
“What are you doing? Why did you push her?”
“I think you should ask this miss why she violently pushed that innocent man into the pile of jade raw materials first,” Tzuyu calmly said.
“You…” The man was mad. He didn’t think that it was the woman’s fault. “He asked for it himself. He knocked into Ayumi!”“He didn’t do it on purpose. It’s too crowded on this square. Couldn’t you see it?” Tzuyu said.
Most onlookers supported Tzuyu, because the man and the woman from Country R were indeed too rude.
“You…” The man was furious, but didn’t dare to fight against Mengda again.
At this moment, Lisa and Jungkook came after hearing the noise.
When Lisa saw Sehun and Yeri, she was displeased, but didn’t show her real feelings on her face.
Sehun and Yeri were also surprised to see Lisa. In fact, Sehun felt happy to see her, but he was a little upset when his sight fell on Jungkook.
He didn’t recognize Jungkook, so he wasn’t aware that Jungkook was a member of the Jeon family, but he hated to see such a handsome young man standing by Lisa’s side. He wondered whether he was Lisa’s boyfriend.
Thinking of that, Sehun was unhappy and didn’t greet Lisa.
He was so self-centered!
Yeri, on the other hand, hated Lisa as usual, so she directly ignored her.
“Tzuyu, what happened?” Lisa asked Tzuyu.
Tzuyu then told Lisa everything, and Lisa thought that Tzuyu was right. If she had witnessed the same thing, she would have done that too.
However, it wasn’t appropriate for them to cause trouble here, so Lisa said, “I don’t think we should argue or fight anymore, or we’ll be chased out by the host.”
Hearing that, Tzuyu agreed to stop arguing with them.
The man and the woman from Country R were unwilling to let Tzuyu get away with it, but they had to agree because they didn’t want to be chased out either.
Even though they couldn’t cause trouble here right now, it didn’t mean that they wouldn’t do anything in the future and at another place.
Lisa glanced at the man whose back was still bleeding.
“Mengda, please help him get over here,” Lisa said to Mengda.
“Sure,” Mengda said, then supported the man to walk towards Lisa.
Lisa took out a porcelain bottle from her backpack and poured out a power crystal. She told the man to take it, and let Mengda help him move to a quiet place for a rest. After that, Lisa and her friends left.
Once they were gone, Sehun, Yeri, the man and the woman from Country R held different ideas.
“Damn it, how dare they treat me like that!” Ayumi Yamaguchi’s expression was evil.
Sehun and Yeri turned to give her a glance. Seeing her expression, they knew that she would take revenge, but they said nothing to stop her.
They now relied on the Minamino family to help the Tang family enter the market in Country R.
The Minamino family was an influential family in Country R, and Shouta Minamino was its sole heir. As long as Shouta Minamino was willing to help them, it would be easy for them to enter the market in Country R.
“Ayumi, don’t worry. I promise that I’ll take revenge for you,” Shouta Minamino said.
He liked Ayumi Yamaguchi and his heart ached for her when he saw her hurt.
However, Ayumi Yamaguchi disliked Shouta Minamino because he wasn’t good-looking, but she didn’t reject him either. In fact, Shouta Minamino was a plan-B in Ayumi Yamaguchi’s eyes.
Shouta Minamino was aware of it, but he was willing to be a back-up.
Although they weren’t a couple on the surface, they did everything a couple did. Therefore, Shouta Minamino thought that it wasn’t a big deal that Ayumi Yamaguchi didn’t accept him as her boyfriend.
“Takuya, go follow them. I want to know which hotel they are staying at. Be careful not to be noticed by them,” Shouta Minamino said to a young man by his side.
He just had a fight with Mengda, so he knew that they weren’t weak.
“Yes, sir,” Takuya said and left.
Ayumi Yamaguchi was injured now, so she needed a rest.
The Minamino family was also involved in the jewelry industry, but jade jewelry was just a part of their family’s business and they didn’t know much about jade raw materials. They came here mainly for the auction which would be held on the third day.
It wasn’t important for them to join in the first two days of the public jade bid.
In that case, Shouta Minamino went back to the hotel along with Ayumi Yamaguchi. Sehun and Yeri also left.
They were in the same group as Shouta Minamino and Ayumi Yamaguchi, so it wasn’t appropriate for them to stay if they left.
…
Lisa soon noticed that someone was stalking them, and she knew the person must be sent by Shouta Minamino.
She did nothing, because she wanted to know what the person was going to do.
Actually, Lisa planned to cause big trouble because Sehun and Yeri were also involved in it.
Since Sehun and Yeri were in the same group as the two people from Country R, Lisa thought that it was a good chance to teach them a lesson too.
Lisa couldn’t wait to see them in trouble.