Severing Ties

"How much did you say it costs?!" Brian asked in disbelief, his voice about to crack.

"2.8 million dollars, Sir," Jane repeated, deliberately slowing down her speech to quote the price carefully.

"How is that possible?! It… it's just a vase. How can it be so expensive?!" Brian yelled hysterically, almost on the verge of breaking down.

If the vase was sold at a less prestigious place, he might have thought it was only worth a couple dozen dollars. But since it was placed in a store like the Heavenly Pavilion, where cheap goods didn't exist, Brian had braced himself and raised his expected price to about $150,000.

Thus, he gritted his teeth and took out his bank card with a balance of one million, thinking that it should be more than enough.

But to his surprise, the vase had a staggering price tag of $2.8 million! The money he had was less than half of the vase's price!

How could he afford to compensate for it?