{"id":132,"date":"2026-09-28T13:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-108\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:18:40","slug":"in-my-desperate-time-108","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/chapter\/in-my-desperate-time-108\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 108"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 108<br \/>\nIn My Desperate Time novel Chapter 108<\/p>\n<p>My heart turns cold.<\/p>\n<p>I came to this antique store with high hopes that she could repair the vase, but the result is so desperate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m really sorry. There are no other ways. I also want to fix it, but the damage is too bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman&#8217;s face is filled with regrets. I can tell she loves her job of restoring antiques so much, and I can&#8217;t blame her for can\u2019t repair it.<\/p>\n<p>But how to explain to Frances Louis?<\/p>\n<p>If Frances Louis asked me to pay for such an expensive vase, how long would it take me before I could pay it off and leave him?<\/p>\n<p>The guest has bought an antique and left. I feel a headache as I look at the fragments on the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you really like this kind of blue-and-white porcelain vase, we happen to have a similar one in the store, the same technique from the Song Dynasty. Even the pattern is very similar. If you don&#8217;t look carefully, it looks no different from yours.\u201d The woman comes over and says. Her name is written on the working card in front of her chest, Nora.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is it?\u201d I ask hurriedly.<\/p>\n<p>She leads me inside and I see the vase that she said immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know anything about antiques, but it really looks like the one I broke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome.\u201d A mechanized sound comes from the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can look at it carefully. I shall accompany with other guests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nora goes out. I look at the blue-and-white vase in front of me, the more I see the more I feel they are the same.<\/p>\n<p>But this is an antique. Frances Louis\u2019s vase is worth millions of dollars and this one couldn\u2019t be cheap. How can I afford it?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you like it?\u201d Nora takes guests in and asks me from behind.<\/p>\n<p>I like it, but still I don\u2019t think I could afford it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow much is it?\u201d I ask carefully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon&#8217;t bother to ask, you can&#8217;t afford it, why seek for insult.\u201d Behind me is a woman\u2019s disdainful voice.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds familiar.<\/p>\n<p>I turn and see Nicole Snow standing in front of me, holding another woman&#8217;s arm.<\/p>\n<p>For fear of breaking the vase, I take it carefully, but I don\u2019t pay attention to my feet. Suddenly I am tripped down.<\/p>\n<p>I look at the valuable vase in my hand, and a feeling of despair rises in my heart.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody saves me and I fall to the ground. Although I have protected the vase so carefully, I still can\u2019t save its fragile life.<\/p>\n<p>The vase is broken with the same sound as the one of Frances Louis. No wonder it is made in the same kiln.<\/p>\n<p>My face is cut by the fragments of the vase.<\/p>\n<p>But I have no time to notice myself. I look at the debris on the ground and want to die.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJane Noyes, you are so careless. See, you break the vase. But you would pay it off because there are so many men behind you, right?\u201d Nicole Snow laughs with schadenfreude.<\/p>\n<p>I know very well that Nicole Snow is the one who tripped me.<\/p>\n<p>But now the more serious problem is, I broke two valuable vases within one day!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened?\u201d Nora hears the sound and rushes over. She looks at us seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-132","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/icuow.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}