Everyone says hearing is fake, seeing is believing. Although Huo Sining hasn't been in the jade gambling business for long, she has encountered her fair share of outlandish events, even cutting imperial green and Emerald Heavenly Beads from Mogang rocks that were discarded as waste.
But she had never encountered such a thing as cracks appearing under the intact surface of a stone.
Huo Sining, though she often read about cracks in books and jade forums and knew that there was a specific gambling practice dedicated to betting on these flaws, she had never realized their power until now after seeing so many raw stones.
A crack as fine as a strand of hair had ruined an entire piece of superior jadeite, and she was truly at a loss for words.
Cracks can be extremely damaging to jadeite. Cracks that appear on the surface are easy to spot, so one can judge their impact on the internal jadeite according to their pattern;
