As he spoke, Qin Shou crossed his arms, looking completely full of himself.
Gu Shengsheng replied, "No wonder. A dying man's words are kind."
"You're speaking quite kindly."
Then she bypassed him and said to the stonecutter, "For mine, just cut the rind straight off."
Qin Shou was speechless. "You're not even copying how I cut stones. It's obvious you're an amateur. A stone you picked so casually... it won't matter if you cut it right down the middle."
"Otherwise, you'll just be wasting my time and the time of everyone watching."
After he said that, Gu Shengsheng told the stonecutter, "Listen to me. Just cut it."
As the saw blade sliced off a small piece, stone fragments flew out with it.
Soon after, an expert in Qin Shou's livestream chat commented, "Looks like they'll be able to get a piece of jadeite out of that. Probably enough for a bangle."
Then, when about an eighth of it had been cut away, even without knowing if the jade had any green coloration, it was already clear that it was ice-type...
Ice-type jadeite is very hard to find. In many places, it sells for an exorbitant price.
If her luck held and the cut went deeper, and if the color band on the surface permeated the entire stone, then this cut would be the one to decide its fate.
Its price would also skyrocket.
Its value would become completely immeasurable.
As many people watched nervously, no one in the surrounding crowd dared to speak.
The jade master continued cutting downward. With a THUD, the entire green jadeite stone fell to the ground. The part cut from the middle of the stone was all ice-type jadeite!
Beneath the thin green rind, there wasn't a single impurity...
A find like this was incredibly rare.
In this day and age, when weren't the markets flooded with worthless material? How long had it been since anyone had cut open a stone like this?
The gawkers in the crowd, the viewers watching the livestream... all of them forgot they had been mocking Gu Shengsheng just moments before.
Now, they were absolutely stunned.
"This material... this material is incredible!"
"Ice-type! How long has it been since we've seen ice-type jadeite! To be fair, this is several tiers better than what our male streamer found."
"The comparison is just brutal. How is our streamer, Qin Shou, so pathetic?"
"I'm getting annoyed now. How can there be such an embarrassing streamer..."
As these people reeled in shock, on Gu Shengsheng's end, the System's Emotion Value was soaring.
[System]: DING! Emotion Value collected: 89, 93, 100... 356.
[System]: Congratulations, Host. You have received: Nephrite Jade Attribute Panel x1.
Once Gu Shengsheng's stone was opened, many so-called experts began to estimate its value.
Her current weaknesses were her lack of money and connections. It would take too long to have it processed into bangles and jewelry to sell.
Selling it as a raw stone would be the best option for Gu Shengsheng.
Taking advantage of the high traffic and popularity from the stream, with so many people still gathered around, Gu Shengsheng didn't hold back.
She held up the stone and announced, "Who wants this stone? Highest bidder gets it."
"Sixty thousand!"
"Eighty thousand."
"..."
"One hundred and fifty thousand!"
Finally, an old man leaning on a cane stepped forward, a smile on his face. "I'll offer one hundred and fifty thousand. How about you sell it to me, young lady? This is quite interesting."
Although the stone was good, its value was probably around the one hundred thousand mark. To offer one hundred and fifty thousand was truly impressive.
So, no one else competed with him. Gu Shengsheng handed it over directly—a clean transaction, cash for the goods.
The male streamer, Qin Shou, watched this scene unfold. The visual shock was one thing, but the main issue was the blow to his ego.
It wasn't a big deal to cut a stone worth twenty thousand. The real problem was that he had cheated to get that twenty-thousand-yuan stone, yet it was still nothing compared to one she had picked casually.
Hers was worth one hundred and fifty thousand—more than seven times his!
Qin Shou was on the verge of tears, but he gritted his teeth and said to his fans with a tremble in his voice, "This was just a fluke. That's jade gambling for you!"
"Everyone knows, one cut can make you a pauper, the next can make you a prince. There's no surefire way to win at this game."
He said tearfully, "I hope everyone can understand."
Just then, Gu Shengsheng walked over to Qin Shou and said, "Remember our bet?"
Qin Shou looked aggrieved. Facing the huge audience in his livestream—the viewer count had now climbed to one hundred thousand—he cried as he spoke into his stream:
"Let me help everyone identify something. As a man who is so... ugly, I must be worthless."
"A man like me is unworthy of jade gambling."
"My very existence pollutes the world of jade gambling."
"I was wrong!"
After repeating this twenty times, screenshots of him were shared like wildfire. Furious, he took one look at Gu Shengsheng and ran away.
Now he truly felt the shame.
Because of this, he lost followers like crazy, and a large portion of them migrated over to Gu Shengsheng.
In any case, Qin Shou was too embarrassed to show his face for a while.
However, he also went viral, albeit in an alternative, humiliating way.
On her end, after earning over a hundred thousand yuan, Gu Shengsheng felt much calmer.
Many netizens were still waiting to see how she would achieve the goal in her stream's title: earning ten million in one week.
Even if she could really earn two hundred thousand a day, it would be impossible to make ten million in a week. The goal was simply preposterous.
Gu Shengsheng was very calm. After making the money, she immediately went to buy a bowl of congee to soothe her stomach.
In her current condition, eating too much at once would overfill her stomach and cause problems.
Just as she was peacefully drinking her congee, her phone rang. She saw she had 23 missed calls.
Seeing it was an unknown number, Gu Shengsheng answered it.
"Hello."
"Sister... it's Rongrong." The girl's voice was soft and weak, as if speaking any louder would be an act of bullying.
"Sister, where did you go? You shouldn't wander off. The city is big, and we were afraid you'd get lost. Mom, Dad, and I were all so worried about you."
Gu Shengsheng said, "Cut the crap. What do you want?"
"Sister, are you unhappy that Mom and Dad are having you marry in my place? You were born in the poor countryside; you've already lived through all sorts of hardships. I've always been frail and timid around strangers. Mom and Dad had no other choice."
"The Lu Family is very rich, much richer than your family in the countryside. Sister, what more could you be unsatisfied with?"
Gu Shengsheng said, "Nothing. I'm just unsatisfied with you."
"If that's the case, then if I died, would you be satisfied, Sister?"
"Suit yourself."
With that, Gu Shengsheng hung up. After a moment's thought, she also blocked the number.
On the other end, Gu Rongrong played a recording of the call. She sat in front of a bay window, looking as if she were about to jump.
Then her parents rushed in from outside the door and quickly pulled her back, holding her. "Rongrong, what's wrong? My treasure."
"Mama... Sister won't forgive me. She said it's my fault she has to marry to improve the family's luck."
"She said I'm the one forcing her to get married, and she wants me to die."
"I'm not your biological daughter. I'm the one who should be despised. I deserve to die..."
She spoke through her sobs, making Guan Wutian and Ms. Song Shuhua's hearts ache with pity.