Chapter 302: I Actually Have X-Ray Vision

mmediately!"Gu Ke'yu from her past life didn't know how many times she had experienced such online verbal attacks. For those netizens' harsh words, she even felt familiar.This time, she was finally no...Sparse applause filled the hall.

However, the host was already accustomed to this attitude from these high-and-mighty wealthy people. He wasn't embarrassed at all, still maintaining a standard, professional smile on his face, and continued with the next introduction of the raw stones.

In the private room, Xu Zui'ning and the others were listening casually.

“What’s going on today” Puyun Gu Xia peeked through the gap in the screen, glancing at the auction hall below. A look of astonishment appeared on her face, “How come there are so many people attending this jade stone auction”

Xu Zui Ning heard Pu Yun Gu Xia's words and quickly walked to the edge of the screen. She took a look and indeed saw that almost every seat in the auction hall was full.

Xu Zui Ning raised an eyebrow and asked, "Is it usually this crowded"

"Indeed." Pu Yun Gu Xia looked puzzled, "I've participated in quite a few raw stone auctions here before. The attendance rate was always low; there would never be this many people."

While Pu Yun Gu Xia explained things to Xu Zui Ning, the host on stage continued to maintain their enthusiastic smile and introduced to the audience. Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate!

As you all know, one of the highlights of this stone auction is that we were fortunate enough to invite Mr. Alex, the former design director of Longxi Shengjing twenty years ago, to be our designer for this event.

"This designer Alex, was the chief designer of our Long Xisheng Landscape Stone twenty years ago. He is also famous for designing the jewelry ring - Angel's Sigh, and became renowned both domestically and internationally because of this ring design."

“After he designed The Sigh of the Angel, he never designed any other jewelry, not for twenty years. This time, his return to the world of jewelry design is sure to bring everyone a totally surprising jewelry design. This was decided after much discussion by the auction committee.”

"Today, the guest who bid the highest price for the raw stone can have a face-to-face invitation to have Alex personally create a bespoke diamond product for him, one of a kind in the world!"

As soon as the host finished speaking, applause erupted from the audience, a thunderous roar unlike the perfunctory response just moments before.

At this point, Xu Zui Ning and Pu Yun Gu Xia in the VIP box also understood why so many people attended the gemstone auction today.

The real reason everyone was there wasn't to bid on the stones in this auction, but to see Alex, the top jewelry designer.

Pu Yun Gu Xia glanced at Ou Yang Chu, who had been silent all evening. "It seems we have a lot of competition tonight. Simply bidding our hardest won't be enough to win this raw stone. If you want to meet this designer, I estimate you'll need to pay dearly today."

The host just said it very clearly, Alex is back in the game today, and obviously he doesn't design for every rough stone, but makes a selection.

Today, there were dozens of stones up for auction at this event, but Alex would only design for the stone that fetched the highest bid.

That is to say, Ou Yang Chu must ensure that the rough stone he shoots will be the highest price at today's auction. This is not a small difficulty.

However, Ouyang Chu nonchalantly replied with a faint, "It's nothing." Evidently, for someone like him, money was never an issue.

He gave her a thoughtful glance, then stood up and walked to her side, handing her the bidding card in his hand.

"Hold on, you take the picture."

According to the rules of the auction, if someone likes a certain lot and wants to bid, they only need to raise their bidding card. The bidding card that Ouyang Chu gave Xu Zui Ning was his.

Xu Zui Ning was slightly stunned, she lowered her head and glanced at the bidding card made of ink jade in her hand, and asked puzzledly, "Why is it me who bids instead of you"

"My voice could very well be recognized."

That's right.

Although they all dressed up and the private room they were in was very discreet, simply looking from the outside, no one would recognize anyone inside. However, their bidding voices could still be recognized, which meant that if someone realized it was Ou Yang Chu, things would go wrong.

After Xu Zui'ning had made this clear, she stopped talking and reached out to take the bidding card.

Here, Xu Zui Ning and Ou Yang Chu were talking, while on the stage downstairs, several burly men in black had already carried a block of ore onto the stage.

Xu Zui Ning and they attended this jade auction, their real intention wasn't the jade itself. They were after that designer, and Xu Zui Ning wasn't really interested in jade, so she just glanced at the items on stage casually.

However, the moment her eyes swept over the rough stone, she froze.

A diamond in the rough refers to an uncut gemstone, meaning it's a piece of rock containing diamonds that appears as a plain, dark stone from the outside.

The rough stone on stage now looks like a fist-sized piece of coal. Whether there is a diamond inside, the naked eye can't tell.

Now, this black stone in Xu Zui Ning's eyes was completely different.

Under her gaze, the ore, though black, was encircled by a faint silvery glow.

That radiance was something Xu Zui Ning was very familiar with, it was the glow of a diamond.

Even in her everyday life, when she saw those diamond products, she would see such sparkle.

Therefore, there is a high probability that this raw gemstone contains diamonds.

"Zui Ning, what are you looking at" Zhou Shuangqing beside her noticed Xu Zui Ning kept staring at the stone intently and couldn't help but ask curiously, "What's so interesting about this dark stone"

Xu Zui Ning didn't directly answer Zhou Shuang Qing's question, but instead suddenly thought of something and looked at Pu Yun Gu Xia, "Pu Yun Gu Xia, didn't you say before that because the rough stone can't be seen clearly, it's impossible to tell if there are diamonds inside, so their prices are much lower than finished diamond products"

Puyun Gus Xia didn't quite understand why Xu Zui Ning suddenly asked that, but she nodded and answered truthfully: "Of course. Although the rough stones at the Long Xi Sheng Jing Original Stone Auction were selected by professionals, even the most experienced mineral procurement experts couldn't be 100% certain that every rough stone contained diamonds."

"About half of the rough stones at an auction actually contain diamonds. And even among those that do, the quality varies greatly; some have poor color, while others are too small. Generally, no one would spend a lot of money on these rough stones."

Xu Zui Ning's eyes flashed a glimmer of light after hearing Pu Yun Gu Xia's explanation, "So, if someone can see whether there is a diamond inside a rough stone and the size of the diamond, wouldn't they be able to buy those rough stones at a low price, and then cut out the diamonds to make a big profit"

Puyun Gusha didn't understand why she was asking these questions, but she still nodded.

"In theory, that's how it is, but diamonds are all wrapped inside rocks. Unless you have X-ray vision, how could you possibly tell if there's a diamond inside"

Xu Zui-ning heard Pu Yun Gu Xia's words, a smile gradually appearing on her face.

X-ray vision

Well, I actually do have X-ray vision.ations between people."Nothing special, we did agree to go out for a meal together, right There's a new restaurant that looks good recently, I wanted to see if you have time, maybe dinner on Sunday"Of...