Chapter 26: Spilling the Beans

"I'll be back soon." Luo Hang and his wife were currently at their residence listening to the old man's lecture. Luo Hang had grown tired of listening long ago and was planning to leave.

Luo Bi hung up the communication and dazed for a moment before calling Jiang Zhu. She felt uncomfortable keeping things bottled up inside; finding someone to vent to would make her feel lighter. She had her own way of speaking, so as soon as the call connected, she played coy: "Sister Jiang Zhu, I went to the gambling stone street today. Guess what I won?"

Jiang Zhu hadn't finished work yet, and with the end of the shift approaching, her supervisor acted as if he hadn't noticed, relentlessly piling work onto her hands, leaving her overwhelmed. In the midst of her frantic busyness, her heart skipped a beat upon hearing this. Guessing it must be something good, she thought for a moment and said, "A first-grade high-tier Jadeite?"

She then muttered, "It's strange, though. Every time you don't come to the pharmacy, the workload becomes exceptionally heavy."

Luo Bi wasn't concerned with work matters right now, so she reminded her, "I went to the gambling stone street, not to scavenge at a mine." First-grade high-tier Jadeite was quite common on the gambling stone street and wasn't worth mentioning.

Since she had guessed wrong, Jiang Zhu stopped her busy movements, thought seriously, and guessed again, "A second-grade high-tier Jadeite?" Jadeite was divided into nine grades, and the price roughly doubled with each level up; Jiang Zhu didn't dare to guess blindly higher.

"No." Luo Bi lacked patience. Knowing Jiang Zhu really couldn't guess it, she said, "I won a fourth-grade high-tier Red Jadeite."

"Did you strike it rich?" As expected, Jiang Zhu's exclamation came from the other end.

Wu Yue stepped into the studio and was startled by Jiang Zhu's shout.

"Strike it rich? Don't even mention it." Only then did Luo Bi recount the whole story of Luo Yan demanding the Red Jadeite. As she spoke, her temper flared: "She already snatched Hua Chen, and now she wants my Red Jadeite? Damn her, she sure is clever."

"I spend all day thinking of ways to take advantage of people only to fail, yet she actually dares to covet my things? What a joke."

"Did you really give that valuable Red Jadeite to your fiancé?" Jiang Zhu felt anxious for Luo Bi. Selling it to Luo Yan could have fetched two and a half million Interstellar Credits, but giving it away meant getting nothing.

It was undeniable that Luo Yan was in the wrong for snatching Luo Bi's fiancé, and her character was indeed poor, but could right and wrong be compared to Interstellar Credits? In this world, Interstellar Credits were still the most important.

"I gave it," Luo Bi explained immediately. "But Feng Ling gave me two million Interstellar Credits, so I didn't lose out. He gave me an extra four hundred thousand."

In Luo Bi's mind, losing out was absolutely unacceptable.

Luo Bi suddenly shifted the topic, playing coy again: "Later, Feng Ling and I went to the testing center. Guess what I awakened?"

"You awakened?" Jiang Zhu was shocked. She looked up just in time to see the supervisor, Wu Yue, checking the medicinal plant processing nearby; she hadn't even noticed when he entered. However, Jiang Zhu didn't care. Wu Yue was her cousin; even if she were caught chatting during work hours, it was no big deal—at most, she'd get a few words of reprimand.

"Who awakened?" Wu Yue asked.

"Luo Bi awakened," Jiang Zhu said excitedly, feeling a strange sense of envy.

Wu Yue froze, his movements coming to a halt.

"Awakened? The attribute I awakened is actually quite powerful! You wouldn't believe it." Luo Bi habitually spoke in reverse. Hearing Jiang Zhu talking to someone, she asked, "Is the supervisor there too?"

"Yeah, my cousin is in the studio." Since Wu Yue hadn't scolded her just now, Jiang Zhu decided to stop working altogether. She tossed aside the medicinal plants and asked urgently, "So, what exactly did you awaken?"

(End of Chapter)