In My Desperate Time

My heart turns cold.

I came to this antique store with high hopes that she could repair the vase, but the result is so desperate.

“I'm really sorry. There are no other ways. I also want to fix it, but the damage is too bad.”

The woman's face is filled with regrets. I can tell she loves her job of restoring antiques so much, and I can't blame her for can’t repair it.

But how to explain to Frances Louis?

If Frances Louis asked me to pay for such an expensive vase, how long would it take me before I could pay it off and leave him?

The guest has bought an antique and left. I feel a headache as I look at the fragments on the table.

“If you really like this kind of blue-and-white porcelain vase, we happen to have a similar one in the store, the same technique from the Song Dynasty. Even the pattern is very similar. If you don't look carefully, it looks no different from yours.” The woman comes over and says. Her name is written on the working card in front of her chest, Nora.

“Where is it?” I ask hurriedly.

She leads me inside and I see the vase that she said immediately.

I don't know anything about antiques, but it really looks like the one I broke.

mechanized sound comes

at it carefully.

at the blue-and-white vase in front of me, the more I see the more

antique. Frances Louis’s vase is worth millions of dollars and this one couldn’t be cheap. How can I

do you like it?” Nora takes guests in and asks me

like it, but still I

much is it?”

can't afford it, why seek for insult.” Behind me is

It sounds familiar.

standing in front

Louis’s wife: Whitney

Snow and Whitney Jordan, both designers, would

I'd see Whitney Jordan again

little complicated, so she goes away to do other

recognizes me immediately and says apologetically, “Sorry about that last time.

she accidentally hit

am afraid to face her. I bow my head and say,

rolls her eyes to me and purses her lips

Jordan doesn’t

Snow whispers something mysteriously in Whitney Jordan's ear, and for an instant Whitney Jordan's