Alex’s heart twinged badly at the woman’s words. She doesn’t remember anything, yet / accuse her mother of being a homewrecker who destroyed my family. Obviously, no one can put up with this. His voice quietened at once. “I can show it to you, but on one condition.”
Jewel withdrew from his embrace and straightened her clothes. “Shoot!” Alex said, “I want to look into it with you.” Jewel’s eyes grew cold. She looked up at him.
“You don’t trust me?” He was speechless. “How can I not trust you? I want you to promise me that once we get to the bottom of this, we’ll start all over again regardless of the result, okay?”
She eyed him for a long time as if studying him. She asked impatiently, “Didn’t I make myself clear enough?”
Alex looked at her and said in a solemn voice, “You did, but I can’t bear to be parted from you, nor do I believe you can just break up with me. Don’t you yearn for me at all?” Jewel replied cruelly, “No, I don’t.”
He looked into her swollen eyes, asking, “You can’t fool me. Otherwise, why are your eyes swollen?”
At hearing this, Jewel instantly reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. She retorted angrily out of embarrassment, “Can’t it be that I had too much sleep?”
“Yes, you can!” Alex hurriedly placated her while reaching out in an attempt to embrace her again. Jewel nimbly dodged him while glaring at him with stern eyes. “Don’t touch me!”
Standing frozen in place, Alex looked at her with a hurt expression. Not wanting to see the look in his eyes, Jewel immediately withdrew her gaze. “I gotta go. Just call me after you find the material.” Alex asked, “Does that mean you agree that we’ll start all over again after getting to the bottom of this?”
Jewel was a bit annoyed. “I never agreed to anything.” Startled, Alex replied, “If you don’t agree to it, I won’t agree to break up with you either.” Jewel got really pissed off. “Can you stop being so childish?”
Displaying his shamelessness to the full, Alex said uncompromisingly, “Say what you will, but either we find out the truth of what happened at the time and then get back together, or we don’t look into it and stay together.”
Jewel glared at him in exasperation. In the end, she replied angrily, “I don’t need you! I’ll look into it on my own.”
Alex said, “How are you gonna look into it? You have no memory of your mother, and besides, this happened over 20 years ago.”
She glared at him. Her hands clenched into fists by her sides, and her body trembled slightly. He knows I have no way of looking into it, yet he has to restrain me with so many rules! For some reason, she felt a surge of bitterness. Is he planning to keep bullying me like this?
Seeing the look in her eyes, Alex felt inexplicably sorry for her. He gave in, saying, “Alright, I’ll help you look into this. Just think about it once we get to the bottom of this, will you? It took me a lot of effort to find you, so I really don’t want to break up with you.”
At an underground auction house, Amy and a close friend of hers were watching the auctioneer introduce a deep blue necklace onstage. The necklace was very beautiful; it featured a large and sparkling multifaceted sapphire pendant adorned with white diamonds, and it looked a bit like the famous Heart of the Ocean in the film ‘Titanic.’ While introducing the necklace onstage, the auctioneer even mentioned the poignant love story in the film, touching the hearts of the bidders in the audience..
In the end, the auctioneer said, “The starting price for the necklace is 7 hundred thousand, and each bid has to be no less than 70 thousand higher than the previous one.”
Soon, there were bidders taking part in the bidding, causing the price of the necklace to soar all the way from 7 hundred thousand to 11 million.
Amy curled her lips disdainfully in secret. It’s just a lousy necklace, no? Yet somebody’s actually willing to pay 11 million for it! It doesn’t seem that precious to me; it’s not even as finely made as the one we gave Olivia. Just why is it worth 11 million?
Perhaps because the Maxwell Family was no longer as opulent as it used to be-or perhaps because they had once gifted Olivia with a necklace like this before-she couldn’t help feeling that these bidders were all suckers with nowhere else to spend their money. If the necklace was worth so much, how could Henry be willing to give it to Olivia?
