Lost and Found: Return of My Mysterious Fiancee

The Reed family members all widened their eyes, staring at the Imperial Green glass jadeite that Tina had cut from the raw stone.

“Did Tina just hit the jackpot?” Audrey Woodwind asked Arthur in disbelief. “Is this thing worth three billion?”

“It’s worth much more than that, even a hundred billion,” Arthur replied, utterly stunned.

Griffin, standing next to Damian, also couldn’t believe his eyes as he looked at the sliced stone on the table. He had previously thought Tina was an overconfident novice, but now it seemed he was the real novice for not recognizing the potential of this stone. Even with the emperor’s crack, any small piece cut from it would be snatched up by high-end collectors before it even hit the market. Ordinary people wouldn’t even get a chance to see it.

“You lost,” Tina said to Mack.

Mack was too shocked to speak. He hadn’t expected Tina to be so lucky, actually cutting out an Imperial Green glass jadeite. His ice jadeite could yield many bracelets, but it lost in both quality and color.

Lily Ward and Timmy snapped out of their shock. They hadn’t expected the random jadeite stone they picked to trick Tina would actually yield an Imperial Green. Not only did it not collapse upon cutting, but its value had increased thirtyfold. Their plan to make Tina lose big money had completely failed!

Was Tina just incredibly lucky, or did she really understand jadeite and had been pretending to be clueless all along?

Lily Ward clenched her fists in frustration. Tina’s luck was too good. Timmy’s earlier claim that this black stone could yield an Imperial Green was meant to deceive her, but it turned out to be true! Spending three billion casually and turning it into a hundred billion-how could the Reed and Farrell families possibly disdain her for being extravagant now?

Tina didn’t care about others’ thoughts; she simply reminded Mack, “Don’t forget to fulfill our bet.”

Mack’s face turned ugly. Was he out of his mind when he made that bet?

“Don’t even think about reneging,” Tina said with a faint but cold smile. “No one can default on a bet with me.”

“You have my word!” Mack glared at Tina before asking Mr. Montague to have his raw stone moved out and loaded onto his car.

However, Mr. Montague refused. Transporting jadeite worth twenty or thirty billion with just a car full of women was too risky; they could get robbed halfway.

After explaining the risks, Mack had no choice but to call for an escort.

The two stones Griffin bought were also placed with Mack’s, waiting for someone from home to pick them up.

Tina rode back in Jared Farrell’s car.

Upon seeing Tina cut out an Imperial Green, Jared Farrell had Nathan Lehman prepare an escort team and instructed staff to move her Imperial Green stone outside.

“Miss Reed! Could you sell me some pieces from your Imperial Green raw stone?” Someone approached as they saw Tina preparing to take the stone away.

Just like how people were eyeing Mack’s icy green jadeite, many were interested in Tina’s stone as well. However, no one could immediately come up with enough liquid funds to buy the whole piece, so they hoped Tina would sell some smaller pieces instead.

“Sorry, I need this raw stone for myself,” Tina declined them all.

Willow and Liliosa weren’t initially interested in gambling on stones and were invited by Mr. Montague to have tea in the VIP room. Hearing that the auction inside had ended, they were about to go in when they saw Nathan Lehman leading people moving Tina’s raw stone outside.

“Oh my God, Imperial Green!” Liliosa exclaimed, recognizing its value immediately.

She wanted to ask if she could buy a piece for her collection once it was cut but saw Tina walking out with Jared Farrell without even glancing their way.

As she passed Timmy, Tina smiled lightly and said, “Thank you for helping me pick such a good Imperial Green.”

Timmy turned pale and kept silent. He realized now that Tina wasn’t just lucky; she was a master pretending to be clueless.

Although Liliosa was ignored by Tina and felt angry, she was more eager to find out who owned that Imperial Green stone.

“Mack, whose Imperial Green is that? I want to buy a piece for a pendant,” Liliosa asked her son directly.

“Tina’s,” Mack replied sullenly.

“What!” Liliosa couldn’t believe it.

Willow glanced at Lily Ward and understood they had miscalculated seeing her daughter’s grim face.

“How much did she pay for it?” Liliosa persisted.

“Three billion,” Mack answered more gloomily.

Now he was more worried about fulfilling his bet than about Tina turning three billion into a hundred billion. Did he really have to do something so humiliating?

Liliosa and Willow were shocked speechless.

Liliosa almost screamed in excitement, “Three billion? That raw stone is worth a hundred billion!”

Tina was so lucky!

“Mom, let’s go home!” Mack said in a low voice.NôvelD(ram)a.ôrg owns this content.

He felt utterly humiliated and didn’t want to hear any more about the hundred-billion value; he feared he might vomit blood from frustration!

By the time they returned to Whispering Pines, it was getting dark.

Annabelle and Jasper had already had dinner since the younger ones hadn’t returned yet.

As soon as the nanny finished clearing the table, several cars pulled up outside.

The first car carried Mack and Griffin’s raw stones; behind it were Jared Farrell’s car and another car called in for escorting the stones.

Audrey Woodwind got out first and cheerfully told Annabelle, “Grandma, I bought a piece of raw jadeite that can make a pair of bracelets and some jewelry. You promised you’d reimburse me!”

Annabelle smiled warmly. “Of course I will!”

Then she looked at everyone else. “It seems today’s harvests were quite good.”

Mack had asked her for a car earlier, saying he’d gotten some good material. Seeing several cars arriving now suggested significant gains indeed.

Mack should have been happy about getting material worth twenty or thirty billion dollars. But thinking about Tina’s hundred-billion-dollar material made him unable to smile.

Seeing Mack’s gloomy face, Damian explained to Annabelle, “Cousin got material worth twenty or thirty billion dollars; Cousin got Imperial Green material worth a hundred billion dollars-today’s harvests are indeed impressive.”

Annabelle looked at Tina with surprise and delight. “Tina is amazing! She actually got material worth a hundred billion dollars.”

“We should thank Miss Ward for recommending this raw stone enthusiastically,” Tina said with a half-smile towards Lily Ward. “I was just lucky.”

Damian and others fell silent; this wasn’t just ‘not bad’-it was extraordinary! How many people could be so lucky as to get Imperial Green?