Li Muchen stood frozen, still struggling to process the reality of the situation. Following his initial shock, a tide of irrepressible regret and terror surged within him.
Seven million was no small sum for Li Muchen. When combined with the fact that the ten pieces of jade he had just cut open were each larger and more valuable than the last—each worth over a million—his total losses were approaching twenty million.
To dig such a massive hole on the very first day of the Jade Gambling Festival meant that if his father found out, he would surely be beaten to death upon returning home. Although Li Muchen had skimmed plenty of money from the family business for his own pocket, his liquid capital was limited; he could not scrape together seven million on the spot.
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