Rough Stone Trading Market

Jinling City East District, Rough Stone Trading Market.

The Rough Stone Trading Market was the most mysterious trading venue in Jinling City's jewelry industry, and its mystery lay in one word: gambling.

A rough stone's true nature could not be determined from its exterior alone. Even in this age of advanced science, no instrument could quickly see through its outer shell and determine whether it held a treasure—jadeite—or nothing of value.

Thus, trading rough stones was extremely risky and equally thrilling, hence the term "gambling."

Gambling on stones was gambling with your life!

Win, and you could make ten or a hundred times your money, becoming rich overnight.

Lose, and you could suffer losses ten or a hundred times over, losing everything you owned.

Compared with stone gambling, risky ventures such as stocks and real estate seemed tame and paled in comparison.

As Jun Wangchen walked through the Rough Stone Trading Market, he was genuinely awed by its spacious hall.

The hall was divided into numerous rough stone stalls, each packed with so many stones that the sight was dizzying.

From what he learned, the Rough Stone Trading Market had two floors. The first-floor hall housed low-grade rough stone stalls, while the second-floor hall housed high-grade ones.

Generally speaking, stones at the high-grade stalls cost around five or six times as much as those at the low-grade stalls. Their appearance was better, and they were more likely to contain jadeite.

Jun Wangchen had wanted to head straight to the high-grade stalls to try his luck. After all, better stones held more valuable jadeite. But when he learned that entry required a net worth of at least one million, he was so alarmed that he quickly backed off.

With money, a man could stand tall; without it, even a strong man