Artificial? Natural?

"Mr. Chen, you can't do this to me. Do you know what I put in to help you buy natural pearls? How can you do this to me?" Spike was freaking out.

He'd really lost too much this time. He'd thought that there would be good news in the natural pearl market, so he'd been buying them up crazily these days. But before good news came, he heard that Mr. John had already stopped buying natural pearls.

By the time he processed this, it was already too late. He'd borrowed from the bank with high interest to buy the pearls.

The market price for natural pearls recovered to the original price. This wasn't the worst part. The worst part was that even though the price had recovered, the market order hadn't.

The market wasn't that big since no one really needed natural pearls. With the recent rises and falls, no other sellers would touch natural pearls in the following period. The items were stuck in his hand now.