All the relatives shuddered, disbelief shining in their eyes.
Glass-type, the highest grade of jadeite?
Imperial green, the highest-ranked color?
How could jadeite worth an astronomical sum be in a college student's hands?
Shen Licheng and his wife even cried out, their eyes full of doubt. "Impossible! It has to be a fake! How could he own jadeite like that?"
Glass-type imperial green jadeite was an exceptionally rare, top-quality variety whose market value was impossible to measure. A piece the size of the one in Jun Wangchen's hand would fetch at least thirty or forty million at auction.
How could a college student possibly get his hands on something like that?
"Licheng, there's no need to doubt it. This jadeite has a fine texture, flawless purity, and the crystalline transparency of glass or crystal. It's unquestionably glass-type imperial green jadeite!" Shen Xin'an swallowed, his gaze burning with excitement. He was so thrilled that even his voice changed.
Judging jadeite largely came down to a simple mnemonic: rich, bright, vivid, pure, and even; pale, dull, lifeless, impure, and mottled.
"Rich" meant a deep green without any black, while its opposite, "pale," meant a shallow, weak green. Clearly, this glass-type imperial green jadeite's color was as rich as it could get.
"Bright" meant a vivid, luminous color, while its opposite, "dull," meant a dark, stagnant green. The mirrorlike sheen radiating from this glass-type imperial green jadeite far exceeded the requirement for brightness.
"Vivid" meant a beautiful, crystalline green, while its opposite, "lifeless," meant a flat, listless green. One glance at the glass-type imperial green jadeite in Jun Wangchen's hand was enough to settle that point.
"Pure" meant a vivid, true green. Any green tinged with yellow, cyan, blue, gray, black, or other colors was considered "impure."
"Even" meant a uniform, unmottled green.