Hidden Skill

Ashley left the Elijah mansion with a heavy heart. She did not leave until the doors closed, separating her and her son for a few weeks. She was not used to the sudden silence.

The moment she turned around, Ashley stood face to face with the man whom she was once obsessed with. But unlike before, there were no more fluctuations in her heart. Instead, she was looking at Jaxon Elijah with the feeling of a rival.

"I will take Scottie again after my taping."

Ashley's voice was not cold, but rather alienated. It was like talking to someone whom she did not care about which astounded both Harold and Jaxon.

Not waiting for his reply, Ashley walked past Jaxon and Harold. This time, Jaxon's brows were no longer indifferent as he sneered. He looked back at Ashley's retreating figure.

Countless thoughts flashed in Jaxon's mind as he stared at her resolute back. Unlike before, Ashley Connor did not wear those vulgar and revealing dresses he disdained the most. Ever since she mentioned the divorce, from the files compiled by Harold until now, Ashley's restless aura had calmed down a lot.

She stopped interacting with him. Her clothes became cleaner and decent to the point of being elegant. She stopped dyeing her hair and restored the natural waves of it. Gone was also the pungent odor of perfumes replaced by the milky scent of soap which he smelled when she walked past him.

"Boss?"

Jaxon snapped. He was taken aback by the fact that he paid too much attention to the woman he disdained the most! Shaking his head resolutely, he continued his steps to the mansion. He wanted to talk to his son. With that kid's honest temperament, Jaxon could extract small yet important details about that woman. Jaxon wanted to know what scheme she was up to!

Because Jaxon never believed that a leopard could change its spots.

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Scottie's question kept ringing in her mind. The sense of crisis swept her like a tidal wave and the only thing that could make her feel at ease before she took off for taping was to settle her urgent need right now—to start a company of her own.

But where would she get the money and time to start one?

One hidden memory—a memory that Ashley kept at the most faraway place of her mind and heart—surged as if it answered her urgent desire.

Her unique skill that only she knew, a secret that she discovered while she was in high school—her unique physique that could feel the essence of luck. No gambling or betting games could escape from her ever since she knew this skill until she learned from her friend that Jaxon Elijah hated gambling.

And so, Ashley foolishly hypnotized herself about the truth that she could gamble and bet with ease! By using this unique skill right now, she could solve the urgent need for a startup capital. As for what business she would start? Ashley was still undecided. For her, the priority was to have that capital!

With an initial plan in her mind, Ashley finally moved from her standing point. She walked to the nearest bus stop and hailed a taxi to take her to the nearest bank.

Ashley's purposed was clear—to withdraw money.

But this time, she would not use Jaxon Elijah's money or card. This time, Ashley would use the card where she stored her earnings ever since she started being a celebrity. Though it was nothing compared to the astronomical amount of money from Jaxon's card, Ashley did not want him to be alerted this early.

Ashley successfully withdrew all the money from her savings which was ten million dollars in cheques. With the goal to cut off any possibility of early discovery, Ashley chose not to use a card for transaction.

With money in hand, Ashley went back to her apartment to pack a small bag. With the taping schedule a few days later, she did not intend to spend so much time right now. She needed a quick but big turnover!

While booking for a plane ticket, Ashley made sure that her disguise as a young school girl with big glasses and ugly bangs was on point. Ashley chose to reject using her luck in casinos because of its high risk factors so she chose to go to the neighborinYN City's china town.

And she was going there for its jade!

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The gambling stone was also called gambling. It means that when the jade was mined, there was a layer of weathered leather wrapped around it. It is impossible to know the quality of it. It was necessary to cut the quality of the jade.

The original stone of jade was divided into two kinds, namely mountain material and seed material. As the name suggests, the mountain material refers to the mining from the mountain. There was no outer skin, and the mining was jade, but most of the jade quality was relatively poor quality!

The seed material was the raw material of the gambling stone that people often say. The seed material was formed in the riverbed. The surface of the seed material was weathered, so the outer shell was formed. The inside was not seen. It was only by experience to judge whether the interior is internal. Emerald was formed, and these seeds were called wool.

The most profitable, most tempting, but also the most risky non-gambling stone.

There was a jargon in the jewelry world: stone gambling was like casino gambling. The gambling wins, earns ten times and becomes a millionaire overnight; gambling, everything loses. Compared with gambling trade, stocks, real estate and other risky transactions were warm and dwarfed.

The sale of jade stone was the most mysterious trade in the jewelry industry. Its mystery lies in the word "gambling", so the buyer has the saying of gambling jade relies mostly in luck—though many experts came to say that they studied jade stones. But being an expert did not necessarily means having a winning rate of 50:50.

It all boiled down to luck.

Generally only from the appearance, and ca not see at a glance the true face of "Lushan." Even today, when science was bright, there was no instrument that could quickly determine whether it was "Broken" through this shell. Therefore, the risk of buying and selling was very high, and it was also very "irritating", so it is called "gambling". The gambling wins a lot of profits, so this kind of trading has been going on for a long time since ancient times from the east.

The folks of the east brought this to the west and Ashley learned its details from her friend from high school.

The gambling jade was also divided into layers, mainly depending on the species and color.

Besides, the quality of jade, mainly depends on three points, kind, color, water head!

The species refers to the variety of jadeite, which was high in hardness.

The grades were from high to low: old pit glass, ice, hail, alfalfa, bean, oil green, hibiscus, imperial green and so on.

The image of "do not judge a book by its cover" shows the uniqueness of the jadeite species.

Color referred to the color of jade, there were many colors of jade, but the best jade was mainly green.

The color grades were from high to low: green (imperial green, crystal green, apple green), red, yellow, purple.

Because the special color of the jade production was relatively small! This color must be combined with the green and good water of the jade, and it must be less cracked in order to be not worthless.

The head, the transparency, referred to the ability of the jade to pass visible light.

The higher the permeability, the higher the quality, the best jade was like glass, and the jade world calls it the glass pit.

After understanding the gambling stone from her friend's file that he sent for her, Ashley went on to learn about the domestic jewelry brand, history, development, fame, reputation, founder and its family.

Regardless of whether it was a second, third or third line, or not on the line, Ashley had seen it all over.

Because of the limited time, Ashley did not look further into it. She merely practiced by closing her eyes and focusing on 'that' energy she was yet master.

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At seven o'clock the next day, Ashley got up. The first thing was to call breakfast and then wash.

After twenty minutes, breakfast arrived.

Ashley was not in a hurry to go out because it was too early to go, afraid that the shops were not open.

So when it was half past eight, Ashley called the front desk and called the car.

The speed of the other party was very fast. When Ashley came to the first floor, the car was already waiting.

Antiques and gambling stones were all together, so Ashley directly let the driver drove to the antique market.

From the urban area to the antique market, it was not very far. In the case of no traffic jam, it would take 40 minutes.

On the way, Ashley took out her mobile phone and saw the message from Dylan. When she saw that Scottie sent her a voice message, she could not help but smile.

However, Ashley did not open the message for it was not the right time and right place.

When Ashley arrived at the antique market, it was only a little past nine, but at this time, the antique market started to come alive.

Ashley knew that she would stay in the antique market for quite some time. It was impossible for the driver to wait, so she let the driver leave first. When she returns, she would call him in advance.

Entering the antique market of the vast China Town, Ashley was in a state of excitement and nervousness.

The antique market in YN City was much larger than the one from the capital and there were many more items.

As soon as she stepped foot in the antique market, Ashley let her unique skill ran rampant. By doing so, she guided the warm current from her navel to her five sense—guiding her to connect with other lucky objects.

What objects were lucky in this area? Of course the antiques hidden among countless of counterfeits and the jades among the empty jade stones! With this unique skill, she could take a shortcut!

However, because the luck aura was thin, Ashley did not intend to look at antiques first, but to go to the gambling stones and connect with luck!

Antiques and gambling stones were at the two ends of the street, and follow the signs followed by the jade street where stone gambling was centered.

The closer to the gambling stone street, the more the Ashley's heart felt hot, as if she saw a strong lucky aura and a lot of money waiting for her.

The market for gambling stones in YN City was not very big and it was only a dozen stores. However, there were still many people in various races.

Ashley walked to the first store, the shop was not big, fifty square meters, and there were piles of stones big and small on the ground and on the steel shelves.

These were the jade stones for stone gambling.

These wools were brushed by the boss, stacked in equal shares, and all marked with price.

Now, Ashley was eagerly waiting to start earning her first pot of gold!