Chapter 56: The Greed of Human Nature—You Are Unkind, I Am Unjust!

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Huang Chengye’s eyes were bloodshot, his face filled with unwillingness.

He roared, “Impossible, absolutely impossible! How could a poor loser like you be so lucky? You cheated! You definitely cheated!”

Jiang Cheng’s lips curled into a sneer.

“Young Master Huang, are you alright? Cheat? Haha! How could I cheat on a lump of raw jade? Has one hundred million scared you silly? Could it be that Young Master Huang just can’t accept losing?”

Huang Chengye stared fixedly at Jiang Cheng, but then noticed Murong Xue beside him eyeing him oddly. Gritting his teeth, he forced himself to regain composure.

With a faint smile, he said, “Hmph! Am I Huang Chengye someone who can’t afford to lose? One hundred million is nothing.”

Jiang Cheng pulled out a bank card and placed it in front of Huang Chengye, flashing a triumphant grin. “Alright! Young Master Huang, here’s my bank card. One hundred million—please transfer it to me as soon as possible.”

“I…” Huang Chengye was instantly dumbfounded, his face turning as black as coal, speechless for a long while.

That was one hundred million!

Not just some tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. His family usually only gave him a few hundred thousand pocket money each month. Even if he ran a business, it went through the company accounts. He simply couldn’t pull out one hundred million.

Actually, it wasn’t surprising that Huang Chengye would gamble with Jiang Cheng. A raw jade piece worth one hundred million—whether in Longguo or even in the old mines of Mianfen Kingdom—finding one worth over one hundred million in a year was uncertain.

Moreover, Jiang Cheng only selected one out of four raw stones to cut. Everyone knew Jiang Cheng was bound to lose!

What they didn’t know was that Jiang Cheng possessed an eye that could appraise value at a glance. He saw through the approximate worth of the raw stone instantly.

To Jiang Cheng, gambling on jade was as easy as picking up money!

Beside him, Murong Xue looked on with a smug, mocking expression.

“What’s wrong? Does the Huang family in Qingzhou really not have one hundred million? Huang Chengye, I’m so glad I didn’t choose to cooperate with you!”

Seeing his beloved woman mocking and despising him like this, Huang Chengye’s heart bled.

Losing money was bearable, but losing face was not!

Especially not in front of the woman he loved!

He simply couldn’t afford to lose this.

Gritting his teeth, just as he was about to call his father, Ye Rong interrupted him.

“Chengye, don’t be hasty! You don’t have to pay him that one hundred million!”

Everyone looked at Ye Rong oddly, not understanding what she meant by that.

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Jiang Cheng frowned. “Mrs. Murong, this is a bet between Young Master Huang and me. What do you mean by this?”

Murong Xue also looked at her mother in confusion. “Mom! This is a wager between Jiang Cheng and Huang Chengye. Why are you meddling? Moreover, it was Huang Chengye who proposed the bet. Are you saying he can renege if he loses?”

Murong Shan smiled warmly at his wife but said nothing, quietly observing everything.

Ye Rong ignored her daughter and smiled coldly at Jiang Cheng. “Mr. Jiang, I don’t care what bets you make with others, but you used our Murong family’s raw jade to gamble. Do you think this bet even holds?”

Jiang Cheng looked coldly at Ye Rong. “Your Murong family’s raw stone? Mrs. Murong, what do you mean by that?”

“All the raw stones you bid on were purchased with funds from our Murong family. What does it have to do with you, Jiang Cheng? Did you pay a single cent?”

With this statement, everyone looked at Ye Rong strangely—except Huang Chengye and Murong Shan.

Jiang Cheng was dumbfounded. He never expected Ye Rong to say such things!

Lin Zhou and Wang Hao clenched their fists tightly, despising Ye Rong deeply for her shamelessness.

Even I, Liu Ruiming, thought Ye Rong’s words were utterly unfair.

Murong Xue frowned at her mother. “Mom, how can you say such things? Jiang Cheng bought those stones; I just borrowed money from him. Isn’t this just unreasonable troublemaking?”

“Shut up!” Ye Rong glared at Murong Xue fiercely.

Seeing her mother so harsh, Murong Xue pleaded with her father. “Dad! Mom is being unreasonable. Please control her!”

But Murong Shan just smiled and said nothing, quietly watching Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Cheng looked on coldly, now understanding everything. Without Murong Shan’s tacit approval, would Ye Rong suddenly say such words?

Jiang Cheng’s lips curved slightly, amused. “Alright! Mrs. Murong, if you insist, I’ll call the police! I can’t believe that something I bought with borrowed money suddenly belongs to your Murong family. According to your logic, if I borrowed money from your family to have dinner, would the leftovers be your property too?”

With that, Jiang Cheng didn’t hesitate to take out his phone and call the police.

Since Ye Rong wanted to play dirty, he would confront it head-on.

Wasn’t Ye Rong’s behavior no different from robbery?

Though Jiang Cheng’s words were coarse, his reasoning was sound.

Even if the Murong family sued him, he would only owe them 25.05 million!

Seeing Jiang Cheng call the police without hesitation, Ye Rong suddenly panicked. “Jiang Cheng, what… what does calling the police mean? If it weren’t for my daughter’s strange illness, do you think she would have been coerced to borrow money from you? Borrow money to buy raw stones and then sell them back at a higher price? You’re trying to get something for nothing. Do you have any morals?”

Jiang Cheng snapped back angrily, “Enough, Mrs. Murong. Stop playing mind games; your little tricks are no match for your daughter’s! Don’t put on such a righteous act. Returning your Murong family’s raw stones? You only want to claim ownership because you saw the five-hundred-million-worth Imperial Green revealed after cutting. If I had cut out a worthless piece, Mrs. Murong would probably be begging it to be mine!”

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“Enough talk. When the police arrive, I’ll charge you with illegal possession of others’ property. Five hundred million worth of goods—that’s enough to give you a few years in jail!”

“What? Illegal possession? You’re lying! These stones were clearly paid for by my daughter. What law did I break?” Ye Rong’s face darkened.

Jiang Cheng snorted coldly. “Do you understand the law? I only borrowed 25.05 million. My relationship with Miss Murong is merely a debtor one. What I do with the money is none of your business, not even Miss Murong’s. Even if I couldn’t repay, the court would auction off my assets. I only owe 25.05 million, but you’re illegally possessing raw stones worth five hundred million. That’s illegal possession of large assets!”

“I… I…” Ye Rong’s face twisted, her heart pounding wildly.

Her eyes darted nervously as she said, “Jiang Cheng, don’t you have any morals? Without my daughter willingly lending you money, how could you have had the funds to bid on these stones? My daughter owes you a great debt. Is this how you treat your benefactor?”

“Heh! Auntie, didn’t you just say I coerced Miss Murong to lend me money? Now you say she did so willingly?”

“What? When stealing failed, you resort to moral blackmail? Miss Murong is indebted to me, but whether I repay or not is my business. If I, Jiang Cheng, truly don’t repay, what can you do? Have I broken the law?”

Gratitude is a kindness; ingratitude a crime?

“You…” Ye Rong looked at Murong Shan anxiously, her Adam’s apple bobbing up and down.

She hadn’t expected Jiang Cheng to be as stubborn and foul as a stone in a cesspit.

This was too hard to deal with!

“Since your Murong family is heartless, don’t blame me for being ruthless. From now on, my cooperation with the Murong family ends. I won’t sell a single piece of raw jade to the Murong family anymore! Of course, I will round the 25.05 million I owe Miss Murong up to 30 million as a gesture of gratitude!”

Actually, Jiang Cheng didn’t care about Huang Chengye’s one hundred million bet.

He wasn’t counting on this meaningless wager to make money. He knew Huang Chengye would never admit defeat and actually hand over one hundred million.

He also knew the relationship between the Murong and Huang families.

If the Murong family wanted to protect their relationship with the Huang family and hoped to nullify the one hundred million bet, Jiang Cheng would naturally not make a fuss, especially considering his cooperation with Murong Xue.

But the Murong family, in their arrogance, tried to play a cunning trick to claim ownership of his raw stones.

That was something Jiang Cheng could never tolerate!

Since the Murong family had no shame, Jiang Cheng saw no need to show any either.