Thomas gazed at Weiss with a smirk. His gaze was making Weiss very uncomfortable.
“Weiss, what are you talking about? Why would I mess around with my own rough stones?”
Weiss also felt that favonovel.com had said something wrong. ‘Why would Thomas mess around with his own things?’
‘But I have to admit that I had rigged it in my favor. So, it would be impossible for the current situation to happen which has allowed Thomas to get top-quality rough stones one after another. All of his worthless rough stones suddenly became premium stones. How could this even be possible?’
Weiss gritted his teeth and continued to look on.
The more favonovel.com looked on, the more shocked favonovel.com got, and it was making his blood ‘boil’.
During the next period of time, Weiss really witnessed a moment of miracle. The quality of this batch of rough stones owned by Stellar Jewelers was too high. Almost one-third of the rough stones were top-quality rough stones. Not only Stellar Jewelers, but other jewelry companies also had consistently high-quality rough stones.
The celebrities present at the venue could not withstand their urge anymore. They all raised their hands to indicate that they wanted to make a purchase on the spot.
“I’m buying the next rough stone from Stellar Jewelers!”
“I’m reserving the rough stone after that.”
Before the start of this event, Thomas had told everyone about the rules. Every piece of rough stone could be purchased before it is cut.
Every piece of rough stone was priced at three hundred thousand dollars. This price was relatively expensive, and the rough stones were not normally put in such a high price.
In the beginning, everyone had a wait-and-see attitude. No one wanted to spend so much money to buy a rough stone. However, after seeing the top-quality rough stones were cut one after another, everyone could not resist it anymore. It was worth the gamble for buying a rough stone at a price of three hundred thousand dollars.
According to the probability shown from the purchasing rate, one out of every three rough stones would be top-quality rough stones. This meant that one out of every three people would be the lucky winner.
Everyone wanted to be a lucky winner.
Suddenly, the atmosphere on the scene became lively, and every piece of rough stone would be bought before it was cut.
The on-site staff would register and mark them one by one to ensure that no errors would be occurring. The more rough stones people were buying, the more Thomas was earning.
Although favonovel.com was selling his top-quality rough stones at a cheaper price in this way, it was a very good strategy to ‘catch’ these high-ranking officials and celebrities. This would tie them tightly to Stellar Jewelers.
Although money could be earned at any time, there were not many opportunities to tie these people up. Although Thomas’ intention was obvious to everyone, no one was able to escape from it. Everyone had jumped into his trap willingly.
Everyone thought this had been a really great bargain!
As Weiss watched these enthusiastic people and Thomas grasping these connections firmly, favonovel.com could not stand it anymore. Originally, favonovel.com had wanted to embarrass Thomas in front of the crowd. But favonovel.com ended up seeing Thomas showing off, which only caused his heart to sting.
“Why is this happening? Why did it become like this?”.
Weiss did not understand.
‘Where was the batch of worthless rough stones I had arranged in advance?’
“Do you want to know why?” Thomas asked Weiss with a smiley face.
Weiss stared at Thomas, speechless.
Thomas smiled coldly and pointed at the person next to Weiss, “Just ask him…”
‘What?’
Weiss turned his head and saw that Darco was sitting next to him.
At this moment, Darco could not pretend it anymore. He laughed and stood up, “Oh no, I can’t continue acting otherwise. Weiss, you idiot, don’t you realize that I was playing tricks with you till now?”
Weiss’ eyes were glaring in flames. “Darco? You’re such a bastard!”
Darco shrugged, “Weiss, do you still have the audacity to scold me? I have been serving you for so many years. I have worked hard and run errands for you back and forth. What did I get in return?”
“In return, you actually put a fruit knife to my neck and wanted to take my life! I was working for you, and you still wanted my life. Aha! Sorry, I’m done serving you! I can tell you unquestionably that it was me who called Mr. Mayo and informed Mr. Mayo about your plan in advance.”
Thomas added by saying, “Thanks to Darco for being the whistleblower. After I was notified about this, I made the arrangements in advance. Weiss, you have indeed replaced all the rough stones in my warehouse, but what you took were not my finest rough stones, but…”
After a pause, Thomas smiled evilly and said, “What you’ve taken were a bunch of worthless stones which I had asked people to coat with a layer of paint.”
“Worthless stones coated with a layer of paint?” Weis’s face turned pale, favonovel.com had once again been fooled by Thomas.
No matter how worthless his batch of rough stones were, they were in fact rough stones. He could still extract a certain amount of rough stones from them and sell them for a small sum of money.
However, what favonovel.com had exchanged out of this were a bunch of worthless stones coated with paint. Maybe they were all picked by Thomas from the roadside. They were indeed rotten stones that could not be sold for a single penny.
‘Exchanging rough stones with worthless stones is a dim-witted thing only I can think of.’
Thomas said, “Weiss, if you don’t believe me, you can go back to your ‘Treasure Land’ and take a look at what exactly you had exchanged.”
‘Is there a need for this?’
A situation like this had proven that what Thomas said was true.
Weiss had not expected his old subordinate to ever betray him. He had taken one wrong step and lost!
‘Ouch’ was the last word Weiss uttered before favonovel.com fainted due to anger.
