Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 228: Chapter 225 Crown Jade Beauty Chapter 228: Chapter 225 Crown Jade Beauty As for snatching someone else’s fiance, Ye Zixin didn’t feel she had done anything wrong. A woman like Su Qingqing lacked nothing; why should she get love, kinship, and friendship so easily while Ye Zixin had nothing?

Ye Zixin believed she was dispensing justice on behalf of heaven. Since fate was unfair, she would take everything Su Qingqing had and see what else the woman could boast about.

Ye Zixin would never admit that she was merely jealous and felt aggrieved inside.

“Zhen’er has finally become sensible this time, it’s really wonderful!” Mother Zhou’s eyes reddened with excitement, she was almost in tears.

“Of course, have you seen who he takes after!” Father Zhou laughed, “He has inherited our excellent genes!”

Hearing this, Mother Zhou laughed through her tears, “What excellent genes do you have that I don’t know about? I think it’s the old man’s wise decision to call Zhou Yan back and put pressure on Zhen’er. Only then did he realize the threat and finally became willing to make progress!”

The Zhou Family looked forward to the arrival of the Stone Gambling conference but were also overjoyed with Zhou Zhen’s awakening.

They had no idea that the architect of this plan was someone else and that their son was nothing more than a dishonorable plagiarist.

And they were unaware that, not far away in a shop within Chenghuang Temple, two cunning and astute women were preparing to cut in.

“There’s a pillow when you need a nap; it seems you won’t have to spend money on radio ads. When the time comes, there’ll be free TV broadcast promotion and a huge prize to win.”

While holding the flyer, Huo Sining called Bai Yishan, her eyes narrowing with laughter.

Bai Yishan was somewhat uneasy: “But since the Zhou Family dares to do this openly in front of a TV station, they must be well-prepared. There’s no way they’d let us disrupt their plan, right? Are you sure we can win?”

Huo Sining laughed nonchalantly, “Even deities struggle to predict the outcome of jadeite; even if they’re prepared, can they win against fate? Before the jadeite raw stone is cut open, who can determine what can be carved out from it? Indeed, man’s plans are inferior to heaven’s, they can guess the beginning but definitely not the outcome.”

Bai Yishan asked with a smile, “You’re so confident, do you already have the right raw stone?”

Huo Sining glanced at the pile of uncut full-gamble raw stones in the basement, “Beating the Zhou Family should be more than enough.”

Bai Yishan breathed a sigh of relief: “Then there’s nothing to worry about, we’ll just follow your plan. Encountering a wily genius like you, the Zhou Family deserves to be unlucky.”

The Stone Gambling conference was starting in just a short two weeks from the promotional activities. During this time, Bai Yishan’s store had been renovated and quietly opened for business, with a large stone carved with the words “Jade Beauty” standing proudly at the entrance, distinctive and eye-catching.

Due to budget constraints, Bai Yishan only hired a master sculptor, two sales associates, and a design assistant. The simple studio was basically up and running normally.

However, Huo Sining guessed that it wouldn’t be long after the Stone Gambling conference when she would find they were understaffed.

Fortunately, those issues could be dealt with when the time came. For now, Jade Beauty’s workshop could handle the few private orders it was receiving; the current staff was sufficient.

The Stone Gambling conference began quickly, and on that morning at 8:30, Bai Yishan and Huo Sining arrived at the venue with their raw stones. They took out a registration form they had obtained earlier and filled out the form information carefully.

No matter how you look at it, the Zhou Family’s plan this time is indeed quite appealing. Coupled with powerful marketing, it has indeed become a hot topic of fervent discussion among many people in S City during this period.

Some novice stone gamblers are greatly interested in this event, and with the temptation of a million-dollar prize, there are quite a few amateurs and laymen participating. This has even caused the prices of jadeite raw stones in S City and the nearby provinces and cities to rise accordingly.

For the average citizen, they do not understand stone gambling and cannot afford luxury jadeite jewelry, but seeing jadeite being cut out of raw stones is also quite an interesting event.

Therefore, even before the Stone Gambling Conference had started, many who got wind of the event rushed to the scene, eager to see firsthand what unprocessed jadeite raw stones look like.

Not long after the contestants entered the venue with their stones, the stones were placed one by one in the designated marker areas of the display stands. There were a total of one hundred and fifty stones for the competition, which is quite a significant number.

The Stone Gambling Conference will be exhibiting from nine in the morning until noon, and stone gambling will begin at two in the afternoon.

There are six experts at the venue who explain the stones and appraise and predict the performance of the raw materials.

In addition to the major stone gambling event inside the venue, there is a private betting pool opened by Zhou Shi Jewelry Company on the outside, where ordinary citizens can place bets on which raw materails they think will ultimately win the championship.

These raw materials all have odds, with well-performing raw materials generally having lower odds, usually at ratios like one to two, one to three, one to four, while the less-promising raw materials have slightly higher odds, with the highest being one to ten.

The performance of these raw stones will be displayed on a huge electronic screen at the venue, and it is open to all ordinary citizens to participate.

Such a betting game is very novel for citizens. Although everyone doesn’t understand it, quite a few are willing to spend tens to hundreds of yuan to take part in this thrilling and high-risk, high-reward game.

Zhou Zhen was controlling the overall situation backstage. Hearing that the TV station people had arrived, he quickly went to greet them. Meanwhile, the experts had their own opinions and thoughts after a series of analyses of the stones.

Although there were many stones in the competition, most were just “brick materials,” and the raw materials performed so poorly that the experts showed a look of disappointment and understanding after inspecting them.

It was clear that the Stone Gambling Conference was a marketing strategy by Zhou’s Jewelry, with an obvious purpose.

Especially one raw stone, which had not a single line on its surface and was also granite, looking even more like ordinary building material. How could such a stone be qualified as a raw stone? Without cutting it open, there was no doubt that jadeite couldn’t possibly be inside.

The experts scoffed at the piece of granite marked as “Jade Beauty”, offering high odds of one to ten. People were shocked when they saw the numbers on the electronic screen.

“One to ten, that’s the highest odds, right? Number 128, is this stone really that bad?”

“The experts have seen it; there definitely won’t be a mistake. That raw material looks different from the other gambling stones; I think it’s not like a gambling stone, more like granite…”

“Hahaha, how could there possibly be jadeite in granite? The person who entered this as number 128 must be crazy about getting rich?”

“Exactly, probably rushing for that million-dollar prize; their brain must be waterlogged!”