Chapter 691: Chapter 691: I Am a Jade Cabbage
The few people in the reception room simultaneously turned their heads, and upon seeing the person at the door, they were clearly taken aback.
“Scarlett Jennings!”
Adam Jennings abruptly stood up, his eyes full of astonishnt.
Why is she here too?
The person in charge beside them was equally surprised.
He knew these two.
Especially the young lady of the Jennings Family.
So, she is the Grant master?!
“Miss Jennings, is what you said true?”
The mont the words were out, the person in charge couldn’t help but regret speaking.
She had no reason to deceive him.
Though the identity of a jade sculpture master was a bonus, being a young lady of the Jennings Family, her accolades were already plentiful—
Top scorer in the college entrance exams, city ambassador, and a genius Master…
From this perspective, the other one must really be an impostor?
Seeing the person in charge looking over seriously, the woman’s eyes showed a trace of panic, yet she forced herself to remain calm,
“Just because she says so? You’re not going to take her word just because of her stature and status, are you? Where’s the evidence?”
She didn’t know Scarlett Jennings, but judging by her and the man beside her’s attire and deanor, she felt these two were extraordinary.
“Do we even need evidence? If you insist on evidence, this is it.”
Adam Jennings sneered, indicating the Benedict Jade in his hand, then looked at her with a hint of mockery,
“You keep saying you’re Grant, but haven’t you realized yet that this is a work of Grant in my hand?”
This was what he had spent eight million real dollars on!
Who else could have more say than him?!
Upon hearing this, aside from Scarlett Jennings, everyone’s gaze turned to the jade piece in his hand.
Especially the Treasure Appraiser, upon careful inspection, the lines and techniques seed to have a bit of Grant’s master style.
It’s just, how did he not notice this jade piece just now???
The woman evidently didn’t expect the jade piece she was eyeing to be a work of Grant.
No wonder, this person had been accusing her of being a fraud from the start!
“This, this doesn’t prove anything…”
“If you want other evidence, I do have so.”
Scarlett Jennings suddenly spoke, her almond eyes scrutinizing the woman’s face for a mont, her gaze slightly cold,
“But this evidence might be sowhat rough, I suggest you brace yourself.”
Adam Jennings and the others were curious upon hearing this, what kind of evidence could be rough?
Scarlett pulled out a Talisman from her bag.
At the mont she saw the Spirit Talisman, the woman finally changed her expression, turned around without a word, and suddenly dashed towards the window.
The movent was swift.
Before the others present could react, the woman agilely jumped onto the window ledge.
The person in charge’s eyes widened,
“Don’t…”
Being exposed as an impostor doesn’t warrant jumping out of a window!
But the woman ignored him, pulling open the window ready to jump down.
Faster than her actions was Scarlett Jennings’s commanding shout,
“Bind!”
The Spirit Talisman flew out, and the Talisman Light Chain materialized to tie up the woman, she couldn’t even resist for a second.
Dragged back directly by the Talisman Light Chain to Scarlett Jennings, the woman was frightened, looking at Scarlett Jennings, she imdiately pleaded,
“M-master, don’t kill , I was wrong.”
Adam Jennings and the person in charge both froze.
They thought she was jumping because of her fear of exposure, but… she imdiately pleaded with the master not to kill her?
Adam Jennings had a foreboding feeling.
Sure enough, they heard Scarlett Jennings ask in a cold voice,
“What kind of demon are you?”
Adam Jennings didn’t speak, the person in charge and the Treasure Appraiser’s eyes widened even more.
They said she was impersonating a master, but now… it beca about catching a demon?
“I-I’m not a demon.” The woman looked both anxious and innocent, “I’m a Jade Cabbage.”
Adam Jennings, person in charge: ???
No wonder they were shocked.
They never thought that nowadays, even cabbages could beco spirits?
No, not ordinary cabbages.
A Jade Cabbage.
“Are you the Jade Cabbage I think you are?”
The Treasure Appraiser beside them had eyes lit up, looking at the woman with so fervor.
This is, jade stone becoming a spirit?
Even though he knew this world had taphysics, who would have thought he would encounter such a thing in his career!
“Are you the Jade Cabbage stored in the National Museum?!”
In his view, it must be a national treasure-level antique jade stone to have beco a spirit.
The woman glanced at the Treasure Appraiser, said curtly,
“No.”
She was just an ordinary Jade Cabbage.
The person who made her was unknown.
Unlike the one in front of her.
She had confird, the master before her was indeed Grant himself.
She could sense the familiar jade aura unique to craftsn on her.
“You are Grace.”
Scarlett Jennings’s tone carried a few strands of certainty.
The woman, now bound, completely gave up resisting, nodded,
“Kind of.”
She said,
“I have no na, you probably don’t know the person who made … he was specialized in imitating Jade Antiques.”
With these words, everyone’s expression in the room, especially the person in charge and Treasure Appraiser, sank.
The thing they hated most in their profession, was counterfeiting.
“He initially wasn’t doing this.”
As if wanting to defend the one who created her, the woman said,
“He was just unlucky.”
At first, the man entered the field with passion, from learning to identify jade, to hands-on practice, to successfully making his first completed piece, he spent five years.
He dread of becoming a famous jade sculpture master, for which he spent all his savings to beco an apprentice under a well-known master.
He hoped to improve his skills under the master’s guidance and also hoped for more opportunities, even if he had to humble himself daily and worship his teacher like an idol, he didn’t mind.
However, in the end, what he got was his teacher claiming his works as his own.
First, he said, your works under my na will allow more people to see them.
Second, he said, see, people are starting to acknowledge your work, but the ti is not right yet.
Third, he said, does it matter whose na it bears? I’m renowned, and you’re noticed because you’re my apprentice.
Later, he said, who do you think you are? It’s not because of you, but because of that people appreciate your work.
Watching his laboriously created works beco soone else’s belongings, the man couldn’t endure it anymore, he stood up to expose his teacher.
One was a renowned master in the circle, the other was a low-profile apprentice, the result was predictable.
He betrayed his teacher and ruined his reputation in the industry, later he was further frad for plagiarism, resulting in his banishnt from the field.
In order to survive, and out of despair, he began doing what he once despised the most.
Imitating Jade Antiques for others.
His skills improved day by day in the imitating process, but at the sa ti, he gradually lost himself.
When he ca to realize it, he was no longer able to produce his own works.
Each piece he made carried heavy traces of others’ styles.
Those antique dealers ntioned he was proficient in imitation, able to perfectly replicate others’ works.
They praised him, saying he was born to do this work.
The man listened,
laughed,
and then, committed suicide.
“Before he died, he destroyed all his works, including those stolen by his teacher, leaving only …
Perhaps because, I was just a counterfeit.”
Unlike those works filled with his effort and ingenuity, she was just a Jade Cabbage that could easily be imitated.
Don’t humans often say, mass-produced cabbage.
Jade Cabbage, is the sa.
“Actually, being a copy is not bad, I don’t understand why he committed suicide.”
The woman’s voice carried so confusion, “Perfect imitation of others’ works, isn’t that a talent too? Why does one have to beco a renowned master?”
She didn’t understand, so after she was able to transform, she wanted to experience what it’s like to be a master.
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