“Don’t worry, this man doesn’t want money, he won’t spend your 30 million again,” she said generously.

Gao Wanning then remembered her money, and her eyes immediately turned red.

However, Shen Wangshu was too lazy to say anything more. She thought of the wrongful deaths of her parents and felt a sharp pain in her heart. She clutched her chest and slowly stepped back. As if she wanted to remember Gao Wanning and Ouyang Yu, she looked at the items carefully for a few moments before pushing her cart away with a sullen face.

With so many pieces of raw material in her hands, the middle-aged man naturally escorted her out very attentively. Once outside, he helped her load all the raw material into the Shen family's car, then rubbed his hands together, unsure of what to say.

Shen Wangshu nodded slightly.

"Although it may be a bit presumptuous, I still want to ask Miss Shen for help." The middle-aged man handed Shen Wangshu an exquisite business card with both hands and said with a smile.

Shen Wangshu looked down at the business card and, sure enough, this person was the owner of a mid-sized jewelry company. She smiled and said, "Mr. Min, what do you have to say?"

"It's still about the gemstones." The middle-aged man, surnamed Min, rubbed his hands awkwardly and said, "As Miss Shen knows, there are wars going on everywhere lately, and the prices of rubies and sapphires on the international market are getting higher and higher. Moreover, Myanmar and Thailand are not stable, so we, as the young masters, dare not order more."

The international landscape is more complex now, with wars raging everywhere, especially in Myanmar and Thailand. These small places are rife with conflict; even tiny islands are engulfed in daily gunfire. While jade is selling extremely well in S city and across the country, other gemstones can't be left out of stock, can they?

He was just the owner of a middling gem company and didn't have the resources to brave the gunfire to buy gems. Besides, he was worried that even if he bought the gems, he wouldn't be alive to bring them back.

As for Shen's Jewelry, he heard that their gemstone supply channels were very stable, so he wanted to ask for one, even if it meant paying a high price.

If you have something that others don't, then you'll attract a constant stream of customers.

"I don't know much about the family business, I can only ask Boss Min," Shen Wangshu said gently, having already repaid the middle-aged man's favor.

Shen Shuya was determined to marry Ouyang Yu and was so desperate to sell her life to Ouyang Jewelry that she never cared about her family's business. However, her parents were still in their prime and loved her very much, so they did whatever she wanted without ever stopping her.

She thought of Gao Wanning's so-called alliance in her previous life.

Jade Alliance.

If you have plenty of gemstones at home and it doesn't affect your market, then what's wrong with supplying some gemstones to these jewelry companies?

If possible, Shen Wangshu decided to name this alliance the Gem Alliance!

Although Shen Wangshu was terrified by the name.

"Thank you so much, Miss Shen." Shen Wangshu didn't refuse, which greatly cheered the middle-aged man. He expressed his gratitude and then tactfully took his leave. After he left, Shen Wangshu got into her car and went home.

The journey was smooth, and Shen Wangshu kept her eyes closed the whole way to calm herself down. When she arrived at the Shen family villa, she got out of the car with a smile on her face. She had her gambling stones moved to the storeroom before heading towards the gate along the path leading to the Shen family villa.

She had only gone halfway when she saw Mother Shen coming out from the other side, and she couldn't help but look puzzled when she saw her.

"Why did you come home today?" Shen Shuya had been sleeping at the company for two days while working on a jewelry design for Ouyang Jewelry's autumn collection, and her mother hadn't expected her to come back.

Seeing her daughter's thinner face, Mrs. Shen handed the tea tray she was carrying to the maid behind her with heartache, and sighed while holding Shen Wangshu's hand, "Why are you working so hard? Do you think Ouyang Jewelry only has one designer?"

She touched Shen Wangshu's somewhat thin hand and said repeatedly, "I'll talk to Old Master Ouyang these next few days and tell you to take a good rest. You're about to get engaged, and the bride is so thin she looks like a ghost. How unsightly is that?" After saying that, Shen's mother was a little sad and shook her head, saying, "You're too stubborn."

She and her father only had one daughter, Shen Shuya. Her father was an upright man who never had any entanglements with women outside the marriage, so naturally they didn't have the messy illegitimate children that other families had.

Although Shen's mother felt very happy, she couldn't let go of the thought of her daughter being all alone without any brothers or sisters to help her, and still being very naive.

If Shen Shuya hadn't liked Ouyang Yu, and if Ouyang Yu hadn't been a gentle and guileless person, Shen's mother wouldn't have arranged a marriage with the Ouyang family.

Compared to those playboys who indulge in debauchery and scheme to seize their wives' assets, Mother Shen felt that Ouyang Yu, who had no bad reputation, should be a good choice.

Shen's Jewelry is not like the Ouyang family, who would arrange marriages for the sake of the market without regard for their children's feelings.

"Don't worry about me," Shen Wangshu said softly, feeling a warm glow in her heart.

Looking at her mother's still-attractive face, she felt a pang of sadness.

Even though Shen Shuya dragged down the Shen family's fortune and caused them to squander it all, and even though she was forced into a life of gambling, Shen's parents never complained about their daughter. Instead, they comforted her.

These are the best father and mother in the world. How could she bear to let them repeat the same mistakes?

“How can I not worry? The Ouyang family is not easy to deal with. Luckily, you married Ouyang Yu. If it were his older brother…” Mother Shen sighed, but didn’t say much more. She waved her hand and said, “After you two get married, your father will hand over the company to your husband. You won’t have to fight with the Ouyang family for the family fortune, and you won’t have to live such a hard life.” She smiled slightly, and fine crow’s feet appeared at the corners of her eyes, but Shen Wangshu felt that they were the most beautiful wrinkles and couldn’t help but reach out and touch the lines at the corners of her mother’s eyes.

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