Chapter 133: Chapter 133: The thing in her hand is actually real.
The expression ‘fake’ was brought up, and everyone present had intriguing expressions.
Bella Woods kept pondering, how did the necklace end up in the cup?
Since buying the cup, only she and the clerk handled it, and…
Bella suddenly recalled a particular scene where Ashton Marshall handed the couple cups to the waiter for packaging and asked Bella to choose the lid for the couple cups.
At that ti, the clerk was packing the cup that was a gift for Tessa Sutton.
So, did Ashton put it in?
“Bella Woods, you can’t even give a decent gift, and you dared to hide a fake necklace. Are you out of your mind?”
While Bella was thinking, Joy Thompson suddenly pushed her shoulder.
Caught off guard, Bella stepped back and almost fell, but soone supported her from behind.
“Tha…” The second half of ‘thank you’ got stuck in her throat when she saw who it was.
Oliver Hughes.
Bella was quite surprised. After just learning about the connections between the Sutton Family and the Marshall Family, to see Oliver here was unexpected.
Oliver’s face was unpleasant: “What, helping you to not make a fool of yourself by falling, and you can’t even say thank you? Is this how you were raised? And you have the face to criticize others?”
As Oliver spoke, Bella understood that he had been around for quite so ti, including witnessing the recent altercation between her and Joy.
“Thank you.” Bella said, standing properly and giving a complete and polite thanks.
Oliver was dismissive: “You need soone to remind you to say thank you, fake appreciation, not needed.”
Bella: …
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
However, Bella was long used to Oliver’s Young Master attitude, so it didn’t bother her much.
“Young Master Oliver, your timing is perfect.” Soone said, “We just found two identical diamond necklaces here. Could you help us determine which one is genuine and which one is fake?”
The two people holding the identical diamond necklaces hadn’t changed hands, fearing the necklaces might get mixed up.
To help identify better, the person holding Bella’s diamond necklace also held the cup.
“I think it’s unlikely that Joy, the Young Miss of the Thompson Family, would take a fake.” Soone defended Joy.
Everyone in this social circle was familiar with the Thompson Family, a longstanding prestigious family in Peace City.
“Exactly, the Thompson Family has been a respected house in Peace City for decades. How could they present a fake item as a gift to the Sutton Family?”
“So, the fake must be the one that…”
Soone gestured their chin towards Bella Woods.
“Don’t be like that, what if mine’s the fake?” Joy Thompson said helplessly: “I’ve always had a good relationship with Tessa. A few years ago, on my birthday, she gifted a car. So for her birthday, I wanted to give sothing special in return.
But what a coincidence, it ended up being the sa as Bella Woods’ gift.”
Joy sighed and looked at Bella: “Bella Woods, did you expect that even gifting a necklace could end up being the sa?”
“Young Master Oliver, would you mind discerning which is genuine?”
The people holding the two necklaces approached Oliver Hughes.
Oliver had not looked pleased since his arrival. He inspected the two necklaces, then glanced at Bella Woods.
He pointed towards the necklaces: “They an to have expose your fake necklace.”
Bella Woods frowned, disliking Oliver’s words: “I did not give a fake necklace.”
She wasn’t the one who placed it.
If Ashton Marshall placed it, it couldn’t possibly be fake.
The mighty Third Young Master Marshall, a seventy-million-dollar necklace is like a seventy-dollar toy to him, let alone intentionally using a fake.
Moreover, if Ashton placed it, Bella needed to retrieve it to return to Ashton.
“Look at you, tagging along with an older man and even learning to compete in gifts?” Oliver Hughes glared at Bella, eyes full of ridicule and disdain.
Bella was used to Oliver’s disdainful arrogance towards her.
“The necklace appearing in the cup was an accident. My gift to Tessa was just the cup, not a necklace.”
Bella said directly, moving forward to reclaim the necklace, but Oliver blocked her.
“Why take it back after already presenting it? Guilty? Afraid of being exposed for gifting a fake necklace?” Oliver retorted.
In a lowered voice, only audible to Bella and himself, he added: “If you didn’t cause trouble, you would still be the Young Mistress of the Hughes Family, not having to worry about affording a proper gift, using a fake to keep up appearances, and now being called out.
You don’t appreciate what you have and insist on self-destruction.”
Oliver pushed Bella away, stood up arrogantly, and addressed the crowd: “No need to test the necklaces. Bella Woods’ is definitely fake. A country girl, what money does she have for a seventy-million-dollar necklace?
Moreover, can her Woods Family even afford a necklace now?”
Joy Thompson, who had looked rather pensive, imdiately brightened up at Oliver’s words.
Joy shouted: “Bella Woods, I told you earlier, if you can’t afford a gift, don’t force it. Bringing a fake here. Luckily we spotted this, otherwise if it reached Tessa’s hands, what would she think?
Later on, could the mix-up lead to Tessa mistaking mine for a fake?”
Finished speaking, Joy snatched the necklace from the person holding Bella’s necklace and tossed it out.
Bella turned pale: “You can’t throw it, this necklace…”
Bella anxiously watched the necklace’s trajectory, determined to get it back. Instead, the necklace made an arc in the air and was caught securely by soone.
“What’s this?” The person, upon catching the necklace, looked with surprise.
“Young Master Season.” Soone called in surprise.
Tim Season fiddled with the necklace, then looked up at Bella Woods, expression astonished: “Is this yours?”
This question was hard for Bella to answer.
Claiming it as hers, was untrue as Ashton put it there.
Not claiming it, she needed to return it to Ashton.
“Young Master Season, this is indeed hers. But since she couldn’t present a decent birthday gift to Tessa, she had to use a fake to save face.” Joy said with obviousness: “What she didn’t expect was that I gifted the authentic one, and her fake was exposed by Young Master Oliver.”
Joy’s gaze towards Oliver shifted with newfound admiration.
Yet Tim Season found Joy’s words amusing: “You’re saying this necklace is fake?”
“Yes, the real one’s right here.” Joy indicated the necklace beside her.
Tim glanced at Joy’s necklace and laughed.
Then looking at Oliver Hughes, his laughter intensified: “Young Master Oliver judged them, this one’s real, and that one’s fake?”
“What’s there to judge.” Oliver’s expression soured: “Goods from Bella’s hands, could they be real? Can she afford it?”
Tim Season bead even more: “Ironically, the one from Bella’s hands is genuine.”
Tim’s declaration brought surprise to the crowd.
He added: “After all, this necklace was auctioned by .”
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