"Mom! Why are you still crying? It’s such a happy day; look how moved you are."
Clara ca forward with a playful smile, looked at the gift bag in Hazel’s hand, and scread in surprise, "Wow! Is this a gift from my brother-in-law to my mother? Mom! Let see what good things my brother-in-law gave you!"
As she spoke, Clara playfully snatched the beautifully wrapped gift bag from Hazel’s hand, opened it, and took out the gift under everyone’s curious gaze.
"Rolex!" Ben, who was wearing an Oga De Ville watch on his wrist, imdiately recognized the Rolex logo.
"Could it be a Rolex watch?" Yana excitedly leaned forward to take a look.
After being treated like this by Clara, everyone gathered around curiously. Clara looked at the Rolex box in surprise and paused with her hand half-opened on it.
A Rolex watch? The cheapest one would probably cost more than 5,000 dollars. Could it be that my brother-in-law Harry really gave my mother a Rolex watch?
Hazel was also stunned at that mont, looking at Harry with a puzzled expression, her eyes full of disbelief.
Only Yafa’s family still doesn’t understand what a Rolex is.
"Open it quickly and take a look!" Ben urged curiously.
Clara took a breath and pulled an exquisite and luxurious watch box from her bag. With a "click," the box opened, revealing a brand new Rolex watch inside.
Under the light, the watch’s face and its circle of diamonds emitted a dazzling glow.
"It’s really a Rolex watch!!" Yana shouted in surprise.
Everyone gasped in disbelief. No one would mind spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a car, but spending that much on a watch was still astonishing to those present.
Watches are luxury items, and while spending hundreds of thousands on a car is considered a basic need for so, anyone who can spend that much on a watch is definitely rich. Poor people play with cars; rich people play with watches!
Even a family like the Jace family’s, which owns a small business and has tens of millions in assets, cannot afford to buy such an expensive watch.
Jace and Yana only wore a Longines and a Plum Blossom watch on their wrists. Yet Harry directly gave Hazel a Rolex watch worth tens of thousands of dollars—how could that not be shocking!
"Harry! You..." Hazel took the watch from the stunned Clara in surprise and handed it back to Harry with so disapproval, saying, "Harry, I can’t accept such an expensive gift from you! I know it’s not easy for you to make money. I’m already very happy today. You can return this watch."
"Husband, you... where did you get so much money? This Rolex must cost at least tens of thousands, right? Listen to your mother and return the watch,"
Wanda advised Harry in a low voice with so heartache.
"It’s okay. Do you really think this is a real Rolex? You haven’t even looked at the watch on your brother-in-law’s wrist. Do you really think it’s real? The Breguet 6654 on your brother-in-law’s wrist is more than 90,000 dollars. An A-grade watch is only four or five hundred dollars at most. The ones he wears are fake, and the one he gave your aunt is also fake. It’s just a few thousand dollars—no big deal,"
Ben said with contempt, and after examining the watch, he imdiately concluded that the one Harry gave was a fake.
"Ah? It’s fake? Really! Harry, why don’t you give sothing else but a fake watch? I wanted to praise you, but now look—you just want to save face." Yana felt relieved when she heard that it was fake.
"Turns out it was fake..." Wanda finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Hazel imdiately removed the watch, placed it on her wrist, and gestured as if to comfort Harry.
She then said with a smile, "What’s wrong with it being fake? Fake ones are more cost-effective, and I like fake ones. I like this watch so much! Harry, then I’ll accept this watch! Thank you, my good son-in-law!"
"Hey, brother-in-law, look at you—it’s fine that you just brag to us, but now you even give my aunt a fake watch. I really don’t know what to say to you," Ben added with another sarcastic remark.
Harry had been in the spotlight all day, which only made Ben increasingly unhappy and jealous. Now, Ben just wanted to see Harry make a fool of himself so that he could vent his anger.
"Haha, I was wondering, how could Harry have so much money to buy a Rolex worth hundreds of thousands? I can’t even afford it," Jace sneered.
"It doesn’t matter whether it’s real or fake, as long as the intention is genuine. Can’t this replica watch tell ti? I think it looks good—quite good—and it’s much more cost-effective than the original. Why spend tens of thousands of dollars when you can get the sa thing cheaper?" Yafa couldn’t stand it and spoke on Harry’s behalf.
"That’s not right... If it’s a fake watch... How co there is an invoice from the Rolex counter and a bill from the POSS machine?"
At that mont, Clara curiously took out the invoice and bill from the packaging bag and said to herself, "This can’t be fake, this can’t be imitated..."
"Sister, you don’t know—nowadays those who make high-quality imitations can replicate anything, so this is a piece of cake..." Ben reached out and snatched the invoice and bill from Clara’s hand, saying with a smug smile.
But halfway through his words, he suddenly froze.
"Fuck! Holy shit!! It’s really an invoice from the Rolex counter in Vientiane !! Isn’t this fake?!!! Twenty One thousand nine hundred and eighty! Oh my god! A watch for twenty thousand? Brother-in-law, you are really rich! Wouldn’t it be nice to buy a car for my aunt with this money?" Ben scread in horror.
"What?! Is this true?!" Jace was shocked and imdiately snatched the invoice from Ben’s hand. He was stunned and shook his head repeatedly.
Yana stared at the watch in her sister Hazel’s hand with envy and jealousy. She had wanted to buy a Rolex watch for a long ti.
Although she had the money, she couldn’t bear to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a watch.
For them, luxury goods such as Rolex watches were indeed very attractive, but if they really spent money to buy them, it would be a waste.
With that money, the sensible thing to do was to buy luxury cars and speculate in real estate—using it to buy luxury goods was simply extravagant!
However, although they all felt that Harry was a spendthrift, they still couldn’t help but feel envious and jealous, and they coveted the watch in Hazel’s hand.
"Harry, tell the truth—does this watch really cost so much?" Hazel suddenly felt that the watch on her hand was a little hot, but the more she looked at it, the more she liked it.
The more she looked, the harder it was to let go. She asked Harry with great heartache.
"Of course it’s real, Mom. How could I give you a fake watch? Just wear it. Won should buy more jewelry. This watch suits you very well. It’s noble, beautiful, generous, and elegant! It’s the most beautiful when you wear it! Its very purpose is to set off your beauty and nobility."
Harry smiled and put the watch on Hazel, then said to everyone calmly, "Let’s not talk about this. It’s just a watch. Co, let’s eat cake!"
Harry gestured to the waiter to cut the cake and distribute it to everyone.
Everyone sat down again.
This ti, the atmosphere beca a little weird. The originally warm mood imdiately shifted to one of surprise, disbelief, envy, jealousy, and heartache.
Everyone had different thoughts, and their expressions grew a little heavy.
After a mont’s silence, Jace was the first to stand up.
"Harry, let say this. You may not like to hear it, but as an elder, I still need to teach and guide you." Jace, adopting the deanor of an elder, stood up and said to Harry with a glass of wine in his hand.
"Uncle, you say," Harry hurriedly stood up with a smile, picked up his wine glass, leaned over, and clinked it with Jace’s. Although Harry disliked Jace a little, he was his elder after all. On such an occasion, Harry did not want to lose face; he behaved very humbly and even lowered his cup deliberately.
Seeing Harry’s respectful attitude, Jace’s expression grew even more arrogant. After coughing lightly, he said directly in front of everyone, "You arranged it very well today. Everyone is very happy. You are a good child and very filial. We all see this."
At that point, Jace changed the subject, and his expression beca stern: "But you can’t spend so much money just for the sake of face. Such a big banquet hall, this table full of food—at least thirty or fifty thousand! Your uncle has seen big occasions too. After all, I am a boss. Even I can’t bear to spend money in such a place.
"We are all family; there is no need for you to show off in front of us. In fact, we wouldn’t mind eating so ho-cooked als."
"Besides, you haven’t bought a house yet, and you only drive a small Toyota, but you bought your mother a watch worth hundreds of thousands. Although you are filial, you’re wasting money! How much money do you make now? Are you so proud? I, your uncle, run a business and make hundreds of thousands a year, but I only wear a Longines worth a little over ten thousand."
"Is it because I can’t afford it? Am I poorer than you? I know that money should not be wasted! If you have the ability, buy a car for your mother and Wanda, and buy a house for yourself! What’s the point of buying a watch?"
"What I said today was a bit harsh, but as an elder and your relative, I’m doing this for your own good! If I didn’t regard you as my junior, I wouldn’t say such words to you. Do you understand?
Harry, if you can listen to what I say, you will benefit from it for the rest of your life! If you don’t listen, you’ll regret it one day!"
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