Burdened by enormous debts, Su Wan was an ordinary jade cutter in Emerald City. The mess her father left behind weighed on her, and creditors came knocking every day. She could barely see any hope of turning her life around. Then an accident activated her ancestral jade pendant, giving her the ability to travel between the modern world and the Ruili border region in 1986.
The pendant came with a static storage space capped at 510 kilograms and could only perform a simple test to determine whether a stone contained jade. She had to rely on her years of experience with stone gambling to judge the quality, cracks, and inclusions of each uncut stone. Frequent trips took a mental toll, so she couldn't use the ability recklessly. Nurturing the pendant with high-quality jade might also unlock sealed fragments of ancient martial arts, a trump card she could use to protect herself in the chaotic borderlands.
In 1980s Ruili, supplies were scarce. Modern goods like nylon stockings, plastic sandals, and hair clips were in high demand. Su Wan took advantage of the information gap between the two eras, trading goods across worlds for local cash. She carefully avoided the eyes of the local gangster Dao Biao Qiang, quietly made deals with independent Burmese traders, and picked rough stones from bamboo sheds along the riverbank.
She set herself strict rules: limit how often she traveled, sell her goods discreetly in small batches, and never reveal her trump cards. When others couldn't tell what an uncut stone was worth, she cautiously opened a window and rubbed away the surface, repeatedly uncovering astonishing pieces of jade and recouping her investment so she could keep growing her business.
On one side was the relentless pressure of debt in the modern world; on the other, the dangers simmering along the 1986 border. Powerful enemies surrounded her, while opportunities hid among piles of rough stones. Using her advantage of traveling between two worlds, Su Wan advanced one careful step at a time, climbed out of the mire of debt, and used jade as her springboard to slowly build a business empire of her own and carve out a path to wealth that belonged to her alone.
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