The King of Stone Gambling in 1990s Hong Kong

The Ning family's youngest daughter has been found. The news sent shockwaves through Jade Lane. Every household sent its younger members to the Ning family's shop to ask around, but every one of them came back looking dejected.

They had been driven away by the Ning family's eldest son.

Someone said, "I heard the Ning family's youngest daughter has become an idiot who can only smile foolishly at people. The Ning family was barely hanging on as it was. Once the news gets out, even their longtime customers will probably all leave!"

Everyone sighed with regret.

"That little Ning girl was a stone-gambling genius. She was barely taller than a bean sprout when she was a child, and she was already more accurate than her father."

"Back then, everyone said that with a genius like her, the Ning family would soar to new heights. Who could have guessed..."

"Looks like the Ning family really is finished. What a shame!"

The crowd dispersed, leaving behind a trail of schadenfreude.

Then, at the public auction three days later, Ning Fengkai, the Ning family's eldest son, made an unprecedented appearance, with a fair-skinned, pretty young girl by his side!

While everyone was trying to figure out who the girl was, they saw Ning Fengkai follow her advice and spend all his savings to bid on eighty tons of waste rock that had been sitting at the auction for three years!

The Ning family must have gone mad. It seemed the youngest daughter's condition had hit them so hard that they had given up entirely.

But when the rock was cut open, it was completely green inside, with a flash of spring purple along the side. The cut surface was smooth, without a single crack, and its value instantly multiplied a thousandfold. Everyone watched, green with envy.

Yet the young master Ning only smiled mysteriously. He ignored everyone's offers and went home with the girl, escorting the stones himself.

Wait, who was that girl?

Ah Rong, who had squeezed into the Ning family's shop the day before, suddenly stammered, "S-She's the Ning family's youngest daughter!"

The crowd erupted. What?!

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Ning Xu had been different from everyone else since birth. She could sense the condition of uncut jadeite and knew what lay inside without having to cut it open.

When she was three, she met an old Daoist who insisted she had extraordinary spiritual potential. He took her traveling through different realms on a whim, and she spent the next fifteen years following him from realm to realm, seeing countless stones. Only when the old Daoist passed away of old age did he send her home.

When she returned, her parents and elder brother were first overjoyed, then devastated. Before she left, the family had been a leading clan in the jadeite gambling world. Now all that remained was a declining household.

Ning Xu smiled indifferently. "So what? I'll help our family rise again. The Hou family, the Song family, whoever they are, the only leader of the stone-gambling world from now on will be our Ning family."

Her brother smiled and patted her head, saying nothing.

Ning Xu didn't care what he thought. She simply said, "How about this, Brother? Come with me to the public auction. Let's try our hand at stone gambling again."

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