I Really Didn't Want the Long Aotian to Be My Wife [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 10

The commotion the two were making had already attracted numerous onlookers. After Lao Liu’s bet was put forward, the discussion among the onlookers attracted even more attention.

“This young man is making such a big bet?”

“Are you dense? From the looks of it, the boss might be trying to bilk him. This semi-gambled jade is too good, he’s selling it to him for thirty thousand. Unless the boss’s brain has gone mushy, or there’s something wrong with the jade.”

“But didn’t they say the boss is leaving this for the man because he helped him before?”

The crowd murmured in disbelief, “These days, who do you think gets scammed most? It’s always acquaintances.”

Lao Liu’s face turned grim. The reason he could heartlessly part with this seemingly quality half-gambled jade and sell it to Jian Yuanbai was because it was a scam. The visible part of the jade that was supposedly jade, was actually artificially added.

No one would know better than him. There is no jade inside it, only stone.

Selling to Jian Yuanbai was because this kid only half-understands jade gambling and isn’t particularly keen, often getting conned by others. Lao Liu was confident that if he claimed he was selling it out of brotherly affection, this inexperienced youngster would absolutely believe he scored big.

Who knew… Lao Liu’s eyes suddenly darkened. Who knew this kid would suddenly flip out and refuse? Could it be that his fakery was discovered by Jian Yuanbai?

Lao Liu looked again at Jian Yuanbai and quickly discarded this speculation. His scam was done completely in secret, he didn’t tell anyone, Jian Yuanbai couldn’t possibly know.

Their ongoing discussion was attracting an increasing number of spectators. Lao Liu knew he had reached a point of no return.

If he doesn’t bet, it would seem as though he has a guilty conscience, that his jade has a problem. After this, he would no longer be able to hold himself up in this field. If he does bet, he will surely lose a hundred thousand.

With an indignant face, he spoke indignantly and emotionally, “I treated you like a friend, so I wanted to keep this for you. Everyone knows jade gambling carries risk. I’m selling it to you cheap so I can do you a favor, if it turns out there’s jade, you profit. If it doesn’t, your loss won’t be too severe.”

“You so boldly disregard me, pressing me so hard,” Lao Liu slammed the table, “Fine, I’ll bet you!”

Lao Liu’s righteous indignation caused a shift in public opinion among the crowd, many of them, favoring a good spectacle, were practically shouting for the jade to be opened right away. Soon, they would get their wish.

Jian Yuanbai nodded, swiftly taking out his phone to scan the QR code displayed on Lao Liu’s booth and transferring thirty thousand over, “Open the jade.”

Over at the jade trade marketplace, there’s a designated place for opening jade. You only need to pay a little to borrow the equipment, or you could pay someone to open the jade for you.

Lao Liu said, “Alright, I’ll open the jade then.”

Jian Yuanbai straight out voiced his objection, “Our bet, let others open the jade.”

A crowd went towards the jade-opening machine. Jian Yuanbai put his money on the table, bringing in someone who specialized in opening the half-gambled jades. Throughout the process, Lao Liu kept shouting to be careful, and go slower, his attitude also affecting part of the crowd.

“The boss really sees something good in this rock, he wants to repay a favor and ended up in this scenario.”

“The young man looks quite handsome, why isn’t he contributing more?”

Throughout the discussion, Jian Yuanbai remained silent, and the others also gradually fell quiet. No one else, the half-gambled jade, at Lao Liu’s request, was meticulously stripped from the outside layer by layer, not even a speck of green was visible.

As the entire piece was uncovered, only the initial bit that was opened showed a thin trace of green, useless.

“There really is nothing.”

“A piece of half-gambled jade this good, and there’s not a bit inside, impossible right?”

“Such rotten luck.”

“The boss took a big loss, he initially wanted to give a small favor, but he ended up losing a hundred thousand.”

“Yeah, that’s really unfortunate.”

“I wonder if this young man will feel content after getting a hundred thousand.”

Some even suspected, “The boss insisted on selling it to the young man, now it looks like he’s being dumped on, right?”

But this minor suspicion was drowned out among the crowd, quickly countered by others, “Everyone was watching when the jade was opened, the boss’s reaction didn’t suggest that.”

The crowd began to point fingers towards Jian Yuanbai, a rising murmur of discussion. Lao Liu’s face showed a mix of anger, disappointment, and inner amusement. Only a hundred thousand, he could afford the loss. Maintaining his place in the jade market was more critical, and any unkind impression towards Jian Yuanbai who took the money would place him favorably.

He didn’t consider it a loss.

Lao Liu sighed, “Brother, I will transfer the bet to you.”

“You made the correct bet. Initially, I wanted you to make a profit, selling it to you at cost. I wouldn’t lose much either. I didn’t expect there to be nothing inside, I’m sorry.”

As he spoke, the crowd’s gaze towards Jian Yuanbai turned even more peculiar.

Jian Yuanbai was often indifferent to others, but when everyone perceived him as being in the wrong, he noticed something was off. He started laughing, a radiant smile on his face, “Don’t worry about the hundred thousand. I’ll get another piece of jade from you of similar value.”

Having spoken, Jian Yuanbai headed towards Lao Liu’s stall, casually reaching out, and took a piece of raw jade, not bigger than a baby’s fist, whose surface carried no trace of moss-green or rust spots. It appeared to be a non-descriptive piece of jade.

This raw jade was placed in the two hundred price range, meant for people dabbling in the world of jade betting and new to the game. The experienced jade traders knew there wouldn’t typically be anything special within them.

However, Jian Yuanbai directly picked such a piece of jade, and said, “No need to give the hundred thousand.”

Lao Liu, taken aback, hadn’t expected this young man to catch on so quickly, and hurriedly replied, “How could I possibly accept this?”

Everyone felt moved by the high-stakes gamble, admiring that both were of good character.

Nonetheless, before leaving, Jian Yuanbai seemingly nonchalantly remarked, “Lao Liu, where did you get these unfortunate pieces? The batch of raw jade here is basically stone.”

After saying, he took off, and the onlookers didn’t linger at Lao Liu’s stall. “Let’s go, let’s go. The young man said that a good piece of half-gambled jade is just stone – it really is stone!”

“That half-bet jade hasn’t even been opened. He just took one look and determined there’s probably nothing good inside.”

“How can he be so certain.”

“Ah, well, better safe than sorry.”

Those who bet on jade, more or less, all have some faith in metaphysical luck. Jian Yuanbai’s parting words made it so that no one wanted to buy raw jade from Lao Liu. It left Lao Liu exasperated, his face turning pale, yet with no way out of the situation.

On his way home riding his motorbike, the system asked, “How did you know it was completely stone inside?”

“That half-gambled raw jade looked quite impressive from the window; imagining there is jade inside would be the normal thought, right?”

Because it didn’t believe anyone could be so generous to give away their wealth, the system told Jian Yuanbai not to buy. It was surprised that Jian Yuanbai declined so quickly, and did not allow it to explain at length.

Jian Yuanbai: “It’s easy.”

The system was a little shocked. Had Jian Yuanbai previously held a wealth of experience in jade betting, or did he have extraordinary vision, or some ability unknown to it?

It seemed this host was somewhat… before the system could finish its thought, it heard Jian Yuanbai’s simple, confident reply, “Isn’t going with intuition enough?”

System: …

Jian Yuanbai wasn’t pleased by the system’s repeated silence, “You always do this, suddenly starting a conversation then suddenly going silent, what is this called, that term is…”

“Right, it’s called ‘hot and cold’! Trash, no–trash system.”

The system sneered readily, “No one could chat continuously with you, has anyone ever told you that you’re really bad at holding a conversation?”

Jian Yuanbai responded, “No way, I have lots of friends.”

The system fell silent again, enduring Jian Yuanbai’s incessant bothers until he reached home.

Upon reaching his house, Jian Yuanbai was taken aback and had no more energy to tease the system. Staring at his widely opened house door, and the mess outside, he asked, “Has my house been robbed?”

At that moment, a man walked out from the room, noting Jian Yuanbai, and commented discontentedly, “It’s good you returned home. Clean up this mess from the room, and from now on, I won’t rent this house to you.”

Blinking, Jian Yuanbai, utterly confused, asked, “Who are you?”

The middle-aged man flushed with rage while pointing at his nose said, “You don’t even recognize your own landlord? I am not renting this place to you anymore, get it?”

“Surrounded by all this folly, this won’t work. Leave my house right now,” he demanded.

In his heart, Jian Yuanbai quietly called out for the system, “Didn’t you say, this house was left to the original owner by the parents?”

The system replied, “…..Perhaps the house came with a complimentary landlord?”

“One plus one, you owe me,” it responded while attempting to remain calm.

Jian Yuanbai really wanted to pull out the system, and fiercely pluck a handful of cat fur, but with the landlord present, he could only loudly question, “Exactly how many dramas have you watched? Even such basic information about who owns this house, you don’t know!!”

He threatened callously, “I am going to complain about you, you’re extremely poor. Unless you promise me that you won’t watch anymore, have a clear mind with few desires, repent and make amends, and start over as a system.”

The system promptly replied, “Fine, I promise.”

Jian Yuanbai retorted, “Your answer came too quickly, you must be lying to me.”

The system left speechless for a moment, only to respond after a while, “Fine… I promise.”

Jian Yuanbai replied, “Your answer came too late. You must be trying to trick me. You have to delete all those files in front of me.”

The system wanted to curse somebody’s mother. It didn’t have any files, so how could it delete anything in front of Jian Yuanbai, “Don’t be unreasonable.”

Jian Yuanbai whispered under his breath, “Complain…”

“In front of you, I will delete,” the system asserted with grinding teeth, and it stopped talking to Jian Yuanbai. Hesitating for a while, it sent a message to an unknown location, “Do you have any movies like those watched by the system, can you send me some?”

The message wasn’t lost in the void, rather it was swiftly responded to, “Human evolution from apes took five million years, but your evolution into a degenerate only took a hundred years. Congratulations.”

The System’s face turned so dark it could drip ink.

Jian Yuanbai wasn’t fully aware of all the messages being passed around by the System. He was in a heated argument with his landlord, “I’m perfectly fine here. Why do you suddenly want to kick me out? Doesn’t that breach our contract?”

Although he wasn’t sure if there was a contract in place, he certainly felt justified in bringing it up.

Upon hearing this, the landlord couldn’t help but laugh. “It’s my property, and if I decide not to rent it out, I won’t. Let me be blunt, you’ve rubbed someone the wrong way.”

“There’s a high-profile man, surnamed Wei, who wants you essentially homeless. The moment you try to rent a new place, he’ll offer a higher price to the landlord just to get you kicked out.”

Jian Yuanbai shot him a cold glance, went into his room, gathered up a piece of jade, and then left without a second thought.

“Hey, aren’t you forgetting your things? If you leave them here, I’ll just sell them for scrap.”

Jian Yuanbai didn’t pay him any attention. At that moment, he found himself wanting to see Wei Zhenge. He hopped on his motorcycle and sped off to school. Upon seeing the Jin Yang’s Number One High School sign, he felt a wave of calm wash over him.

As the landlord spouted those words, Jian Yuanbai’s immediate thoughts weren’t about where to live or regret for offending Wei’s father. The first person that crossed his mind was Wei Zhenge.

Wei’s father blatantly targeted him, but what Jian Yuanbai perceived wasn’t a personal grudge, rather it was Wei’s father’s indifference towards Wei Zhenge.

Wei Zhenge was under his guardianship for the past year. The Wei family’s financial support was already inadequate, and Wei’s father never considered that his actions could cause Jian Yuanbai to take his frustrations out on Wei Zhenge?

Wei’s father might have thought about it, but it appeared he couldn’t care less. He dealt with his own son as dismissively as he would with a stray dog off the street.

Jian Yuanbai stood at the entrance of the school for a moment before leaving without seeking out Wei Zhenge or engaging Wei’s father in any further discourse.

Jian Yuanbai wanted Wei Zhenge to face Wei Cheng Ye and handle the situation himself, challenging his father if necessary.

Unable to vent his pent-up anger, Jian Yuanbai stomped his way back to his old apartment complex, completely ignoring the constantly nagging landlord. He brought out his basic jade carving machine, found a faucet typically used for watering the grass, and buried himself in the intricate work of carving the jade stone. The stone he was working on was the rough jade he had gotten from Lao Liu.

Although his technique appeared a bit crude, and he didn’t soak the jade in water, he kept grinding, revealing the crystal clear green color little by little.

Neither the stone chips nor the grinding dust could hide the inherent beauty of the jade. At this moment, Jian Yuanbai turned on the tap and water flowed onto the jade. Underneath the spray, a flawless piece of imperial green jade, an ice type, appeared in Jian Yuanbai’s hand.

Jian Yuanbai felt a sense of satisfaction as he looked at it and snapped a photo with his phone. He scrolled through his contacts for an individual named Lao Liu and directly sent it to him.

“I originally planned to just grab a rough piece of jade without making you shell out a hundred thousand yuan,” said Jian Yuanbai. “Who would have thought I’d accidentally end up carving out a high-quality piece of Imperial Green.”

“Truly, good people are rewarded,” said Jian, turning to Lao Liu, “don’t you agree, Lao Liu?”

Lao Liu, who had unsuccessfully tried to scam people with counterfeit goods before, clenched his fist hard as he gazed at the vibrant green gemstone in the photo. He felt a lump in his throat, building up with a bitter taste, which made him taste iron as if he were tasting blood.

“Fifty million… this size, this quality, it’s worth at least fifty million.”

This fifty million should have been his! It was taken away by Jian Yuanbai without him spending a single cent. This fifty million should have been his! Lao Liu felt suffocated, and nearly passed out from cerebral hypoxia.

The System looked incredulously at the jadeite, “You’ve really carved it out?”

“I knew there was jade inside, that’s why I chose it,” Jian Yuanbai replied casually, tucking the gemstone into his pocket.

The System asked, “How did you know?” It paused before continuing with disbelief, “do you have X-ray vision too?”

If Jian Yuanbai also possessed X-ray vision, could he not have pursued a path in jade gambling, even without Wei Zhenge?

Surprisingly, Jian Yuanbai simply shook his head in response. “Not at all. I’ve told you before, it was pure intuition.”

He spoke with earnest sincerity, “I’m exceptionally lucky, and my intuition is often spot on, you get me?”

The System responded sullenly, “I don’t understand.”

Sorry, it couldn’t comprehend how intuition could lead to the carving of a high-quality Imperial Green jadeite.

Are you hearing the nonsense you’re saying?

Translator Footnotes:

“帝王綠高冰種” (di wang lu gao bing zhong): ‘di wang lu’ translates to ‘Imperial Green’, referring to the highest quality jadeite, which is pure green. ‘Gao bing zhong’ translates to ‘high ice type’ which suggests the jade is transparent, a characteristic of top-grade jade.

“透視” (Tou shi): Literally translated as ‘see through’ or ‘transparent’, in this context it refers to the figurative ability to see the interior of objects, similar to X-ray vision.

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