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.

knew that was all just appearances. The

many customers at his stall, so he was getting

and headed to that stall.

asked the stall owner as

this bracelet for me, and it is our family heirloom.

A hundred grand?

other customers glanced at the gold bracelet in Alex’s hand and started talking about it because it seemed like an authentic antique.

expensive?” Jessica

family heirloom. Of course

and put the bracelet back. He picked up a horse ornament and inquired, “What about this?”

looked at it and said, “This is a treasure my great–grandfather

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

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was only around a few hundred, so Alex couldn’t help but laugh when the owner kept claiming that the items were his family

understood Alex’s hint that most of the items here

wouldn’t dare to sell expensive antiques at

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