Everyone had witnessed this dramatic gamble and felt absurd, utterly inconceivable!
Letting the opponent help choose stones? What kind of bizarre operation was this? Was he afraid of losing not miserably enough?
Or was this some kind of filming? But there were no cameras around! And everyone here was a respectable person with a certain status. The people from the jade workshop clearly wouldn't do this without their consent, as doing so would offend everyone.
Ruling out filming, why then did such a strange gamble appear? It was simply like children playing house.
At this moment, no one knew what Yang Feilong was thinking. Let alone these outsiders, even Li Yufei, who thought she knew Yang Feilong relatively well, felt like he was a stranger. Why? Could it be that Yang Feilong had been bribed by his opponent and was deliberately setting her up?
But that shouldn't be the case!
Because if she hadn't repeatedly invited him, Yang Feilong wouldn't have come at all. This indicated that this matter wasn't a setup against her. If it wasn't a setup against her, why did it turn out like this?
Yang Feilong naturally took in all the gazes.
There were mockery, sarcasm, ridicule, smugness, joy, disappointment, and more, reflecting the myriad facets of human life.
"Do you trust me?" Yang Feilong asked Li Yufei, who looked disappointed, with a gentle smile.
Li Yufei was indeed disappointed, but upon seeing Yang Feilong's smile, her expression couldn't help but falter.
"I didn't disappoint you before, and I won't this time either!" Yang Feilong added seriously.
"But..." Li Yufei looked at Yang Feilong, wanting to say something, but when she saw the look in his eyes, she swallowed her words. However, in her heart, she felt lost. How could they win? The five raw stones Yang Feilong had chosen with Wu Lang's 'help' didn't look good at all.
Moreover, letting the opponent choose the stones—it clearly showed no intention of winning!
At this moment, besides Yang Feilong himself, no one believed he could win this gamble!
The stone cutting had already begun.
After all, without cutting the stones, how could they be assessed?
"Let's cut the five raw stones I bought first! His few pieces are completely worthless for cutting!" Wu Lang said triumphantly, looking at Yang Feilong with a face full of mockery. He still couldn't believe he had won this gamble so easily.
Was this opponent a clown sent by heaven? Allowing him, his competitor, to help choose stones!
"The first of Wu Lang's five chosen raw stones has been cut! As expected, it's a large piece of glutinous-like jade."
"Its value is at least three million!"
"Absolutely! The price of this piece of jade alone crushes the value of jade that can be extracted from the five raw stones Yang Feilong bought!"
"This gamble is decided!"
"Yes! It's so uninteresting, a completely unsurprising landslide victory!"
As the remaining four raw stones were cut, the atmosphere in the entire venue was thoroughly ignited.
"It's actually a lavender jade!"
"This is high-grade jade! And it's so large, worth about ten million!"
"What a profit! Wu Lang bet nineteen million, and the jade from these five raw stones is preliminarily estimated to be worth around twenty million?"
"It should be! Let's see the appraisal!"
The jade workshop had professional appraisers, more than one. After some discussion, they appraised the jade from the five raw stones, totaling twenty-one million five hundred thousand.
"Not bad, a profit of at least ten percent! A small gain of over two million!"
"Indeed! If their gamble was about increasing profit, Yang Feilong would still have a slim chance of a comeback. But they are betting on the total value of the jade extracted from the five raw stones! Yang Feilong has no chance at all!"
"Who says not?"
Just then, someone began to discuss the sale with Wu Lang.
"Mr. Wu, how about selling me this lavender jade? The workshop's appraisal is ten million. If you're willing to sell, I'll give you ten million right now!" a merchant said to Wu Lang.
"Ten million? I'm not too keen on selling!" Wu Lang smiled.
Ten million was a substantial price, but he felt he could sell it for more!
After all, how many bracelets and other accessories could be made from such a large piece of lavender jade?
Of course, selling processed bracelets would actually reduce the value of such a large piece of lavender jade. If this lavender jade were first used to carve an artwork, its value would be even higher!
How could he just sell it like this!
"I'll offer eleven million!" someone said. "How about selling it to me?"
Someone raised the bid.
Seeing that everyone seemed interested in his piece of lavender jade, Wu Lang's face showed a smile.
"Wait a moment." Just then, a voice rang out.
Everyone looked over.
"What, what do you want to say?" Wu Lang looked at Yang Feilong, a contemptuous smile on his face.
"Taking my jade to sell, you're quite amusing!" Yang Feilong shrugged, mocking.
"Yours?" Wu Lang burst into laughter at the words. "Are you out of your mind? Do you think those worthless stones I helped you choose can still beat me?"
"Why not?" Yang Feilong chuckled. "Until the very end, anything is possible!"
"Good, very good, then I'll make you lose wholeheartedly!" Wu Lang sneered.
Yang Feilong's five raw stones were now being cut.
The first one took a long time to cut.
"Damn, this is a huge loss!"
"Yeah, a raw stone worth hundreds of thousands only yielded tens of thousands worth of jade!"
"This is normal!"
"Yang Feilong is still hoping for a comeback, I think he's going to fall into a ditch instead!"
"Exactly! I don't know where his confidence comes from!"
As time went by, the second and third stones were also cut.
"For three raw stones, the jade extracted is assessed at less than two hundred thousand. Yang Feilong, do you still think you have a chance to win?" Wu Lang said triumphantly to Yang Feilong.
"Why not?" Yang Feilong's expression remained calm.
At this moment, Li Yufei's face was filled with bitterness, believing Yang Feilong was destined to lose.
"Sigh, I still trusted him too much!" Li Yufei sighed inwardly.
She didn't understand why Yang Feilong was so confident.
Wu Lang didn't understand either, nor did all the onlookers.
"Stubborn until the end! I hope after the last two raw stones are cut, you can still be this confident!" Wu Lang said mockingly to Yang Feilong.
Yang Feilong smiled and remained silent. "Don't make a conclusion before the end. You are still too young!"
"You..." Hearing Yang Feilong's lecturing words, Wu Lang gritted his teeth in anger.
But at this very moment, a clamor erupted.
"Another high-grade jade, glass-like jade! And it's quite large! Not smaller than Wu Lang's lavender jade! Perhaps even bigger."
"What the heck, is there really a chance for a comeback?"
Wu Lang, who had been looking at Yang Feilong with mockery, felt a jolt in his heart at this sight.