Chapter 499 No Need to Be So Self-Defeating
Cleverly dodging them, Elise symbolically searched inside the room with Tom before turning around and leaving.
Following behind her, Tom reminded, “Ziggy’s found several pieces of special-quality jade these few days, Miss Sinclair. I imagine there’s not much left inside that’s good.”
“I see,” she replied flatly without showing too much of a reaction.
With that, she stepped out of the room and headed to where the second-grade rough stone was piled.
“Miss Sinclair,” Tom protested, growing anxious as he saw that, “you haven’t paid much attention these few days, so you might not know that the Carnegie Family’s higher-grade rough stone was selected from inside the room. Everything out here is waste rock. We’d best save time by returning inside.”
“Sure,” she answered off-handedly but she had no intentions of turning back. After surveying the display cases in the outer hall, she walked directly up to the person in charge of registration and rattled off a series of numbers, “10896 …11023.”
There were a total of five numbers, all above ten thousand.
Speechlessly, Tom watched on as he mused, Surely she doesn’t need to be so self-defeating, does she?
The rough stone at the venue was numbered according to the organizers’ preliminary review of them. The smaller the number was, the higher likelihood there was of the stone producing a jade; the larger the number was, the worse condition the stone was in. Since the stones numbering six thousand and below were in the inner hall, there was no doubt that everything Elise chose came from the outer hall.
By now, Tom was certain she knew nothing about stone gambling.
“We still have time, Miss Sinclair. Perhaps we still have the chance to look through the stones carefully,” he made a last-ditch attempt to convince her. “Even if we’re going to throw in the towel just like that, we could still choose stones from the inner hall—that way, we might not suffer so many losses in the end. Or perhaps a miracle might happen like it did in Landred City!”
and comforted, “Hasn’t lady luck been by your side all along? You’re
confidence but now, he could only feel endless despair. “Miss Sinclair, please listen to me. There isn’t much left in the inner hall, but there’s still a
harm in buying a few more. Why are you so
imposing, majestic manner
loss
Tom didn’t say anything else to her and only turned to instruct the
Are you sure that on the
past few days, the registrar knew that Tom and the woman with him were the objects of Ziggy’s bet. Thus, the registrar deliberately raised his voice, emphasizing the words ‘outer hall’ and attracting quite a
has goals in mind
she’s only chosen materials from
creating a gimmick because she knows she’s going to lose. Maybe
the outer hall? Ha! Is that any different from
one in the crowd believed
quickly, the
head, Elise looked at Tom. “What about the ones you like? Go note down their serial
even then I’m not certain about it…”
it. Don’t worry about it. I’m paying.” She
didn’t know what to
Inwardly, he sighed.
help him assess the stone once she arrived, but based on today’s scene, she was merely choosing at random, so how could he rely on
still have time. I think I’ll
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