Chapter 88: Why Is That Woman Ignoring People?

“Hey, look! There’s actually an idiot who isn’t grabbing food or water, but is here taking jewelry instead!”

“She must have never seen anything nice before. Look at all these valuables—she can’t even be bothered to care about food or drink.”

“Hahaha! This woman must be out of her mind from being poor!”

These were a few people who had just come in from outside, planning to head down to the supermarket on the basement level to look for supplies.

An Nan ignored them and kept sweeping jewelry into her large backpack.

After mocking her for a while, the group saw that she wasn’t responding and quickly lost interest, hurrying downstairs to search for supplies.

However, a man and woman who had just entered the mall were drawn over by the commotion.

The woman saw An Nan stuffing handfuls of jewelry into her bag and tugged at the man’s arm, whining,

“Darling, I want some jewelry too!”

The man looked helpless. “Let’s hurry up and find supplies first. We can come back later! Otherwise, someone else will take all the food and water.”

The woman wouldn’t let it go. “Oh, come on, grabbing a few necklaces and rings won’t take much time!”

Saying this, she started walking toward An Nan.

The man had no choice but to follow.

Seeing them approach, An Nan quickly stuffed the jade pieces near her into her bag with practiced speed.

As for the other gold and diamonds, she didn’t really need them—she already had plenty in her storage space. There was no need to get into a conflict and waste time over these. She focused only on collecting jade.

Unexpectedly, the woman was displeased. “Hey! You there, why are you taking all the jade stuff?”

An Nan didn’t respond, her hands never stopping.

“Hey! I’m talking to you! Why are you ignoring me?”

The woman’s shrill voice was giving An Nan a headache.

While still packing things away, An Nan replied expressionlessly,

“Do you want this gold? If not, I’ll take it too.”

Hearing this, the woman hurriedly started stuffing the gold necklaces in front of her into her own bag, calling to her companion as she did,

“What are you standing there for? Come help me!”

The man wanted to go look for supplies, but seemed a bit afraid of the woman, so he reluctantly came over to help her collect jewelry.

An Nan glanced at them.

She thought to herself: They’re definitely a young couple, or maybe newlyweds.

If they’d been married for more than two years, the guy would’ve flicked her on the forehead and said, “Stop wasting money! Go find food!”

But under his girlfriend’s tyranny, the man had no choice but to help her collect jewelry.

However, after a while, his expression changed.

The more he grabbed, the more excited he got, his hands moving faster and faster.

This was gold and gemstones, after all!

Back in the day, after working hard for a whole month, he couldn’t even afford half a gold bracelet. Now he could just stuff handfuls into his bag!

Each handful was worth ten thousand yuan—how satisfying!

Meanwhile, the woman, while grabbing diamond rings in front of her, kept eyeing An Nan’s haul greedily.

Seeing An Nan still packing jade into her bag, she couldn’t help but say,

“Hey! Don’t take all the jade jewelry! Leave some for me!”

With that, she stopped grabbing the diamond rings in front of her and hurried to stuff a few jade pieces from the next counter into her bag.

An Nan glanced at her but said nothing.

What the woman was grabbing wasn’t even jadeite, but chalcedony.

So An Nan couldn’t be bothered to argue.

Chalcedony might have “jade” in its name, but it’s actually a type of quartz. It looks a bit like jadeite, but its value is worlds apart.

This stuff is only worth a few dozen yuan. In the mall, with fancy lighting and branding, it might sell for a few hundred or even a thousand at most, but it’s nothing compared to jadeite, the king of jade.

Besides, even if it were valuable, it wouldn’t help An Nan upgrade her storage space, so it was useless to her.

The woman couldn’t even tell the difference between chalcedony and jadeite—clearly, she didn’t actually like jadeite jewelry, she just wanted to compete with An Nan.

An Nan found it a bit ridiculous.

What’s the point of fighting over this? There’s so much gold and jewelry here—everyone could take plenty and still have more than enough.

Why get upset over something you don’t even like, just because someone else is taking it?

An Nan kept packing things away in silence.

Seeing that An Nan continued to ignore her, the woman seemed to get even more competitive, deliberately grabbing only the jade pieces.

But she didn’t know anything about quality—she just took whatever looked clear and shiny.

So all she got was chalcedony.

An Nan, on the other hand, only picked out jadeite.

True jadeite always has some “cotton” (inclusions) in it. The better the quality, the less cotton, but to be so clear it’s transparent would require “glass-grade” jadeite, which simply wasn’t available here.

So, the more crystal-clear the piece, the cheaper it was—just chalcedony.

Very soon, An Nan had collected all the jadeite.

She also grabbed some diamonds and gold while she was at it.

Seeing this, the woman was about to curse, but just then, a crowd surged up from the basement level.

“Let’s go! This supermarket is too small—there’s nothing left!”

“Too many wolves, not enough meat! Let’s check somewhere else!”

The man who was grabbing jewelry instantly panicked. “Crap! All the supplies are gone!”

The woman finally started to worry too. “What do we do now?”

Seeing An Nan still calmly packing jewelry into her bag, she couldn’t help but say,

“Hey! Supplies are all gone, and you’re still picking up jewelry?”

An Nan lifted her eyelids and finally responded,

“Ma’am, calling someone ‘that woman’ when you don’t even know them is really rude.”

She paused, then added,

“I don’t need to look for supplies. I have five younger brothers, all over 1.8 meters tall. They’re out looking for supplies. I’m just here collecting jewelry because I have nothing else to do.”

—When you’re out in the world, your identity is whatever you say it is.

If she wasn’t worried about sounding too ridiculous, she’d have claimed to have 108 loyal followers.

Seeing the woman’s face darken, An Nan twisted the knife,

“I’m not an idiot. Who would be here collecting jewelry if they didn’t already have food?”

With that, she calmly finished packing up the rest of the jewelry, slung her backpack over her shoulder, and walked out.

The woman was furious, yanking the man’s ear and shouting, “This is all your fault! Why didn’t you stop me? What do we do now?!”

The man didn’t look happy either. “Maybe… we should follow her? She said she has supplies!”

The woman snapped, “Are you stupid? Didn’t you hear her say she has five big strong brothers? Do you think you can take them?”

An Nan couldn’t be bothered with these two idiots and walked out on her own.

They could have just focused on finding useful supplies, but instead, they wasted time competing, and ended up with a pile of useless jewelry to take home and worship…

An Nan shook her head, got back in her car, and drove to the next mall."