"Why didn't you tell me clearly? Why did you hide it from me?"
"What secrets do you have that you haven't told me and uncle?"
Meng Yan simply closed his eyes and responded to Jia Yuer's blazing accusations with silence.
Seeing Meng Yan's reaction, Jia Yuer was even more furious.
"Speak! Don't run away from my questions!"
"What on earth do you want to do?!"
"Miss Jia."
"Stop asking." Meng Yan responded calmly, not panicked by Jia Yu'er's questioning.
"You are the new generation genius of the Jia family, and I am your uncle's temporary secretary."
"After this treasure appraisal meeting, our lives should never intersect again."
"In more than ten years, you will soar in the Jia family and become one of the best treasure appraisers in the Xia Kingdom."
"And I will just be an ordinary person who lives an ordinary life unknown in the crowd."
"If it weren't for my daughter's illness, you wouldn't know me here."
"Don't be secretive! I don't want to listen to this. Answer my questions head on!" Jia Yu'er was a little impatient.
"As long as you are willing, I will tell my uncle and let our Jia family fully support you with all our financial resources!"
"Not five years, no, three years! No, two years!"
"In just two years, with your ability, you can become a guest of our entire stone gambling circle!"
“Isn’t it that money and reputation will be easily accessible by then?”
"Aren't you still going to treat your daughter? Don't talk about the disease until then. You can give her a lifetime of happiness!"
"Even a little girl like me, who is inexperienced in the world, can figure this out. You should think about it carefully!"
Meng Yan also smiled bitterly inwardly when he heard this. This little girl didn't pretend to be a rich girl at all. She was really thinking about herself wholeheartedly.
But even so, he would not agree.
"I'm sorry, I have no comment." Meng Yan's tone softened a lot, losing the indifference he had when he deliberately avoided it.
"I have already said that after this trip and receiving three million dollars of medical expenses from the head of the Jia family, I will wash my hands and find an ordinary job and never gamble with stones again in this life."
"Cure my daughter's disease. This is my only purpose for gambling on stones. I am not interested in any glory, wealth or being a guest in the stone gambling circle."
"I just hope to spend this life with my daughter and have a peaceful conversation. If I can fulfill this wish, I will be satisfied." Meng Yan smiled slightly.
"You, you guy." Jia Yu'er had two tears in his eyes.
I hate that iron cannot become steel.
The people I knew in Kyoto were all eager to climb up there, and all of them devoted themselves to jade for fame and fortune.
As the eldest daughter of the Jia family, she has been extremely talented since she was a child, and has been paid a lot of money to take care of her. She has been growing up in such an environment, and she feels that if she has talent, she should climb up. This is completely natural.
This Meng Yan is good. He has an extraordinary ability in identifying stones, but he just wants to find an ordinary job and live a normal life. If his skills were put to the juniors of her age in Kyoto, he could definitely do it with one hand.
Hang them all up and torture them.
But he just wants to be an ordinary person.
Isn’t this a waste of yourself?!
"You guy, I have never seen a man as unmotivated as you!" Jia Yuer lost control of his emotions and finally cursed.
"Everyone I know is trying their best to climb up, but you are just thinking about going down!"
"How can you ruin yourself like this? Are you still a man?!"
"Of course I am a man." Meng Yan sighed.
"If you're a man, you should climb up! What kind of man can you be if you stay down there and get ridiculed by others every day? You can't even cure your own daughter's illness!"
Meng Yan's expression was stagnant, he wanted to say something but couldn't make a sound.
When he mentioned Duo'er, his words hurt his lungs.
There was a long silence.
"Don't try to persuade others to be kind without their suffering. Let's end the topic here." Meng Yan sounded very helpless.
"You are the most talented person among the Jia family's nephews. In time, you will definitely become one of the top people in the Xia Kingdom's jade industry."
"But not everyone is as lucky as you. If they have talent, they can use it without any scruples."
Meng Yan lowered his head and looked at his hands, which were covered with sand and soil from the Mowanji black material and looked very dirty.
"This talent is both a blessing and a curse for people like me."
"As you said, if I make up my mind, within a few years, I will definitely be able to reach the top of the entire Xia Kingdom stone gambling circle."
"But when the time comes, have you ever thought about it? In the dark, how many pairs of eyes will be staring at me, an upstart with no foundation and unlimited glory?"
Meng Yan knew that everything in this world could not be solved by ability.
When everything develops to the highest level, it will eventually turn into grievances and grudges, and it will all turn into human relationships.
Otherwise, more than ten years ago, his grandfather, his father, and the entire Meng family would not have evaporated overnight, leaving him an orphan.
Meng Yan believed that with his grandfather's abilities, he must have been one of the best in the Xia Kingdom's jade world.
But until the end, he didn't know what his grandfather's identity was, and his extraordinary ability only brought disaster to the Meng family.
Obviously, this is not something that Jia Yuer, who grew up in an ivory tower and was always protected by the Jia family, can understand.
"Miss Jia, if you don't have anything else to do, I have to discuss the next stage of the competition with the head of the Jia family." After Meng Yan finished speaking, he gently pushed Jia Yu'er's shoulder, walked past her, and walked out of the hall.
"Meng Yan, Meng Yan! Stop! Stop for me!" Jia Yu'er looked at Meng Yan who was walking away. No matter what he said, he couldn't stop him, and he stamped his feet angrily.
But she didn't step forward to hold him.
Just now, when Meng Yan lowered her head and looked at his hands covered with raw stone dust, the light that flashed in her eyes was something she had never seen before.
Profound, calm, lonely, and without any disturbance, that is not what can be seen in the eyes of the wealthy nephews around him in Kyoto.
They can't even imitate this look.
It was this look that calmed her down, and she realized that there seemed to be an almost insurmountable gap between herself and this person named Meng Yan.
She was eighteen years old, and Meng Yan looked to be at most twenty, so they could be considered the same age.
This is not a look they can have at their age.
Looking at Meng Yan's retreating figure, a strange light flashed in Jia Yuer's eyes.
This man was so mysterious and powerful that she couldn't help but want to get closer and find out.
