The Top Gaokao Scorer Goes Jade Gambling? Everyone Else Brings a Lamp, I Bring a Book

After the college entrance exams, Chen Mo, the province’s top science-track student, didn’t report to the new student groups at Tsinghua or Peking University. Instead, clutching an old book, he walked into the Ruili stone gambling market. While others brought powerful flashlights, he brought The System of Gemology. While others gambled on luck with their lives, he gambled with knowledge. Everyone laughed at him for being a bookworm, until he sliced open a stone and revealed glassy imperial green! The whole crowd fell silent. Chen Mo closed his book and pushed up his glasses. “Sorry, it was in the book. I was just reading it aloud.”