Chapter 206 Choosing Antiques On Portabello Street

He knew if Jessica revealed his identity as the chairman of Four Seas Corporation, the whole birthday dinner would be ruined as everyone’s attention would be on him.

He didn’t want to steal the old lady’s thunder at her own birthday dinner.

“Then how should I address you?” Jessica asked after a brief pause..

“My name. What else?” Alex was amused.

“Okay,” Jessica responded.

“Let’s go find your gift,” Alex urged.

“Alright,” Jessica nodded her head and followed Alex around to look at the street stalls.

“That stall has a lot of stuff. Why don’t we go there?” Suddenly, Jessica pointed at a stall and suggested. That particular stall wasn’t even a stall. It was just antiques spread all over a plastic sheet on the ground. There were silverware, jewelry, paintings, ceramics, and pottery on that plastic sheet.

Alex glanced over the stuff and immediately determined that they were all fakes.

The stall owner was a tanned and skinny man dressed in dirty denim jeans. His hair was disheveled and greasy, as if he hadn’t washed it in days. At first glance, he looked like a man trying to make an honest living.

was all just appearances. The stall owner was, in fact, terribly

customers at his stall, so he was getting a lot

Alex nodded and headed to that stall.

this?” Alex asked the stall owner as he knelt and picked up a gold bracelet.

owner stared at the gold bracelet with his bulging eyes as he replied, “My grandma left this bracelet for me, and it

A hundred grand?

hand and started talking about it because it seemed like an authentic

hundred grand? That expensive?” Jessica

it’s our family heirloom. Of course it’s expensive,”

He picked up a horse ornament and inquired, “What about

treasure my great–grandfather found

chuckled. “Looks like your ancestors are rich, huh? If you have so many family

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here was fake and mass–produced. The total cost was only around a few hundred, so Alex couldn’t help but laugh when the owner kept claiming that the items were his

that most of the items

wouldn’t dare to sell expensive

horse ornament, I can sell it to you at a cheaper price.” The

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