"I wouldn’t."
Angelia said it with a smile on her face. Cassius was just joking around.
She turned around to unlock the door and noticed that the lock didn’t look the same. She frowned, hesitated a little bit, but Cassius behind her pressed her.
"Hurry up."
Angelia refrained from doubting and took out the key to unlock the door.
The case of the porcelain vase was on the table where she placed it.
Cassius did the honor of the house inviting Ruben to take a seat and to have some tea.
"Let’s have a look."
Angelia carefully picked up the container and placed it in front of them.
"This vase was broken into eight pieces, and there weren’t so many fractures that need to be glued, so I completed it in a shorter time."
Cassius grunted and opened the box. After looking at it, his face changed unrecognizably.
He threw the box back on the table angrily.
"Are you joking?"
Angelia glanced at him with confuse. When she was just about to say something, she realized that the noise coming from the box was weird. A rustling sound, it was like the collision and friction of countless ceramic fragments.
She suddenly stepped forward and reopened the lid with a very bad feeling in her heart.
Fragments!
All fragments!
"How did this happen?"
Angelia was shocked when she looked in the box.
Cassius's face was full of darkness, and he said angrily, "If you can’t fix it, at least don’t break the vase into more fragments than before!" Ruben had a look, and somehow the appearance of this vase was familiar to him.
"This... I hope this is not the vase I gave you for restoration, the porcelain of the Song dynasty from the original kiln, right?"
He rushed up, picked up one of the pieces and looked at it, the pattern on it was exactly the same!
"This…" Ruben all of the sudden turned his head and stared at Cassius.
"Cassius! What is happening here?"
Claudia stood outside the window, triumphantly listening to the conversation between the three people inside, enjoying the embarrassment of Angelia. This was what Angelia got for had the guts up against her! Cassius frowned and didn’t say anything. The Diego Mills turned to Angelia once again.
"Ms. Miller, what happened? I have been told that you could fix it. Perhaps you did not want to do the work, but I wonder, why do you destroy it?"
Angelia shook her head.
"The vase was absolutely fine before I invited you to come here."
She looked around and saw that several things were positioned differently on the table. And the door lock had a problem also.
"Someone must have come in and destroy the vase."
Ruben smiled smugly, but didn't believe a word of it.
"We thought you and Cassius were the only ones allowed to come in here? Cassius hasn't come here these days. Has someone seen you fix the vase?"
Angelia frowned.
"Not really..."
"So, nothing more to say."
Ruben looked at the fragments in distress, and said, "I bought this for seven million. I expect you to pay me back!"
"Seven million?"
Angelia’s eyes were widened in shock and she stared at Cassius.
Through her observation over the past few days, this vase wasn’t any different from the ordinary vases sold in the store.
How was it possible for this vase to be worthy for seven million? But Cassius Lloyd overheard what Ruben said without saying a word.
Angelia frowned, thinking about it over and over again.
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