"Can I come along and take a look when you go to the Jade Trading Center?" Chen Mo asked Nangong Xue.
Nangong Xue raised an eyebrow, remembering that the first time she had met Chen Mo had been in the jade Stone Gambling area. Back then, he had made a bet with Zhang Liwei—and won.
Nangong Xue had originally planned to get in touch with Chen Mo afterward. Since she ran a jewelry business, wouldn't having someone skilled at Stone Gambling mean she would never lack raw materials?
But when she sent someone to look for Chen Mo afterward, they could not find him. Of course, if she had used some resources, finding him would have been easy. But Nangong Xue had not done so. They had merely met by chance, and perhaps Chen Mo's Stone Gambling success had just been a blind cat catching a dead mouse.
So, with an indifferent attitude, she had not put any effort into finding him.
When Zhang Liwei died, Nangong Xue saw Chen Mo again. But they had merely passed each other, and she had not thought much of it. It was only then that she recalled her impression of Chen Mo.
In the end, after hearing about Gourd Valley, Nangong Xue came looking and got to know Chen Mo again. And that encounter had left her at a disadvantage.
So many men wagged their tails and begged for favor before her like lapdogs, but Chen Mo was different. Not only had she seen none of that from him, he had even extorted her, and her bodyguard had been beaten up by him.
If Chen Mo had not voluntarily stopped after identifying some things in the end, who knew what would have happened that day? Nangong Xue had witnessed both Chen Mo's methods