The next day at 9 a.m., the collector who had owned the Face-Covering Buddha for eight years showed up as promised.
When the collector brought out the statue, Eliana was taken aback.
It looked so much like the original that it was almost impossible to tell the difference.
This Buddha statue, in terms of height, shape, and jade quality, was identical to the real one.
It was impossible to distinguish the authenticity with the naked eye.
Eliana was extremely familiar with this Face-Covering Buddha.
When she was a child, it had always been in her mother’s studio.
Once, she had accidentally gotten red paint on the side of the Buddha’s robe.
Although her mother quickly wiped it off, a trace of red remained in the folds of the robe, and no matter how hard they tried, they
