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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.

appearances. The stall owner

were many customers at his stall, so he was getting

Alex nodded and headed to that stall.

owner as he knelt and picked

for me, and it

A hundred grand?

and started talking about it because it seemed like an authentic antique.

grand? That expensive?” Jessica gasped

Of course it’s expensive,” the

and put the bracelet back. He picked up a horse ornament

my great–grandfather found in an ancient tomb. Eighty

“Looks like your ancestors are rich, huh? If you have so many family heirlooms, why Would you sell them at

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

Alex’s hint that most

dare to sell expensive antiques at a street stall,