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Chapter 170: Chapter 170: Falling Off the Horse! Produce the Genuine Shen Dai Item
While everyone was busy discussing, Fu Chen was the first to jump out, taking a deep breath as he looked toward Lu Sheng.
"--- Are you saying, you are the Panda who won the title of Boxing King at that year’s Abis underground boxing competition??"
Fu Chen appeared to have a complex expression.
He had followed that year’s Abis Boxing Competition from start to finish, and by the end, had nothing but absolute admiration for the Panda who wore the bear mask.
This girl was just too strong.
After the competition ended, Fu Chen tried to find out Panda’s real identity through various sources.
But Panda was too mysterious, and he couldn’t find any relevant information about her, eventually giving up.
But Fu Chen never would have imagined that the big shot he had admired to death and wanted to meet, not only had already appeared before him but even had an arranged marriage with him.
No wonder that time outside the bathroom, Lu Sheng caught his punched fist with one hand and almost crushed his hand bones.
He should have thought of it... Who else but Panda could possess such amazing strength, be so formidable?
He truly was blind!
"Do you not believe it?"
Seeing the expression on Fu Chen’s face that looked as if he had eaten something disgusting, Lu Sheng thought he was about to start trouble again and coldly asked.
In fact, Fu Chen did believe it, after all, he had personally experienced the girl’s tremendous strength and feeling of deathly oppression.
But most of the people present were still doubtful.
So Lu Sheng paused, raised her hand to pull down the strap of her evening gown, revealing a long scar about ten centimeters on her right shoulder.
"If anyone here has seen the boxing competition from that year, they should remember the final match where the helmet of the boxer I was fighting against broke, leaving a wound on my right shoulder."
"This scar is left from that wound."
Upon hearing this, the crowd couldn’t help but turn their gaze to Lu Sheng’s right shoulder—
The girl’s right shoulder was fair and smooth, making the narrow, long scar particularly noticeable.
Actually, when she participated in the boxing competition back then, Lu Sheng was using Bai Qiang’s body.
She had just used her Soul Power to replicate that scar on her current body.
Now, this scar was her direct proof of being Panda.
Similar height and build, astonishing strength and fighting skills, and a scar in the same place on the right shoulder, all confirmed that the girl was indeed Panda herself.
The people around couldn’t help but exclaim—
"This Miss Lu, who grew up in the countryside as an illegitimate daughter of the Lu Family, is actually the Boxing King Panda who once took the world by storm... who would have thought?"
"The thing is, wasn’t this Lu Sheng only fifteen or sixteen years old during the competition two years ago? A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl beat a bunch of strong men into that ghostly state; does she truly have some kind of mysterious supernatural power?"
"That’s not the point; the point is that just now you all were mocking Lu Sheng for being poor. You probably don’t know that after that Abis Boxing Competition, Panda’s price tag went up to $5 million per match, quickly ranking as the world’s number one in terms of boxer price tags."
"So what? Even if she can earn $5 million for one match, she still only brought a plain cup as a gift to Old Mr. Fu’s birthday party today, right? Doesn’t this further show that she is a stingy ingrate?"
Fu Siya really had never paid attention to any international underground boxing competitions, so she had no clue why everyone was so shocked.
It just felt absurd that in a moment, Lu Sheng had gone from an illegitimate daughter scorned by everyone to some kind of big shot worthy of admiration.
And she couldn’t understand why even her brother was getting so close, with a look of being on the edge of saying something but holding back.
She had no idea what was wrong with him.
And at this moment, Fu Siya suddenly let out a cold snort, pulling everyone back from their musings.
She mockingly looked at Lu Sheng: "Miss Lu, whatever this ’Pan-not-Panda’ thing is, what does it have to do with Shen Dai’s White Jade Orchid Blossom Vase?"
"I only care about one thing: since you say my item is fake and you hold the real one, then show us your real item."
"Otherwise, anyone can talk big without proof, and here I am, unjustly smeared by you for no reason!"
Lu Sheng glanced at Fu Siya, replying calmly: "I am ’Panda’, and it is directly related to how I acquired Shen Dai’s White Jade Orchid Blossom Vase."
"After winning the champion title in the Abis Boxing Competition, I found the UK jeweler who provided the Bronze Artifact as the prize and asked him if he had any other antiques from China aside from that Bronze Artefact."
"That jeweler admired me for winning the competition and told me he also had Shen Dai’s White Jade Orchid Blossom Vase and White Jade Orchid Blossom Cup. I didn’t want these two items to end up abroad, so I bought them both."
Everyone was shocked to hear this.
"You’re saying that Shen Dai’s White Jade Orchid Blossom Vase and Cup, which had been without news before, were actually in the hands of that jeweler?"
"Yes," Lu Sheng said, "But ever since then, both items have been in my possession."
Everyone couldn’t help but widen their eyes as the young lady continued, "Grandpa Fu enjoys collecting antiques, and I hesitated between the jade vase and cup while selecting a gift."
"While the Orchid Blossom Vase is more imposing, there is actually a tiny crack at the base of its flower, which is not very noticeable, but is still a flaw, so I chose the Orchid Blossom Cup."
"Miss Fu, since you want to see the real item, you might as well look at this Orchid Blossom Cup carved by Shen Dai himself."
Saying so, Lu Sheng walked over to the cart filled with gift boxes and picked the most unassuming and antiquated-looking wooden box.
Then she carefully took out the content from inside, and placed it on the display table next to Fu Siya’s previously shown White Jade Orchid Blossom Vase.
It’s true – you don’t know until you compare—
Just by this comparison, everyone on the scene understood why Ji Yan could tell at a glance that the jade carving Fu Siya had was a fake.
Because the moment Lu Sheng placed the cup beside Fu Siya’s vase, the vase immediately lost its luster and even appeared incredibly cheap.
The Orchid Blossom Cup is still made of greenish-white jade, the whole presenting a clear white gradient.
Modeled after a blossoming orchid, it shapes the wide cup mouth into a five-petaled orchid.
The side of the cup is hollowed out with a branch that is adorned with two budding flowers as the handle, and the stem connected to the buds and full leaves is carved into rings, coiling at the cup’s base.
The embossed leaves and buds on the cup body interweave in various lively and dynamic forms.
What an exquisite and beautiful jade this is! What precision and incomparable craftsmanship!
Who could look at this and not exclaim in wonder!
So, this is the true artwork of Master Shen Dai, no wonder Ji Yan said that imitations can resemble the shape of Shen Dai’s work, but can never capture the essence; this fake is miles apart from the real thing! 𝚗ov𝚙𝚞𝚋.c𝚘m
Especially when these two items are placed side by side, the contrast is just too stark!
Fu Siya in her wildest dreams did not expect to be hit by her own words.
She asked Lu Sheng to show the real item on the spot, and Lu Sheng did indeed bring out the real thing for her to see.
She was dumbstruck, her face slapped resoundingly, and it was she herself who had eagerly asked Lu Sheng for that slap.
Fu Siya’s face turned pale, and as the onlookers caught sight of the true White Jade Orchid Blossom Cup by Shen Dai, someone finally couldn’t help themselves.
"... Wait, this Miss Lu Sheng, this is what you’re planning to give to Old Mr. Fu as a gift?"
"You’re calling this priceless and peerless treasure, just ’a cup’??"
