The Agent Withheld My Wedding Deposit

As I shouted, many onlookers stopped walking and looked over at me.

“Is this for real? Why would such a big store do such a thing?”

“The bigger the store is, the more scheming they are. The price of gold is currently rising, and that’s pure profit! Who wouldn’t be tempted?”

“I’ll definitely avoid this place from now on.”

When other customers in the store saw it, they were also afraid of being overcharged. They immediately left the store, and the sales assistants could not stop them.

Lily glared at me.

I glared back at her confidently.

“I’ll be shouting here every single day until you refund my money. Let’s see who backs off first!”

Unexpectedly, she turned around and called the police on me. She said I was disturbing the public peace.

When the police car arrived, the crowd had grown substantially larger.

Lily played the victim and was the first to say, “She held a megaphone and shouted nonsense in front of our store. She defamed our store and disrupted our business.”

I directly took out the receipt from my bag, dated two weeks ago when I first bought the gold accessories.

“Officers, this store took my money, but they refused to give my gold to me. Now that I’m here, she said the gold price has increased and asked me to pay an extra $130,000.

“Their approach is exploitative, unethical, and fraudulent. This is a scam!”

The police took my receipt and prepared to question Lily.

Lily shouted, “The receipt she has was a fake one. Her purpose is to scam our money.”

As she said, she took a receipt from the counter and handed it to the police.

“This is our store’s official receipt. There’s a security watermark on every piece, but there isn’t one on her receipt. She forged hers.”

After the police carefully compared my receipt to the receipt given by Lily, they frowned and looked at me.

“Miss Lewis, the receipt you provided is fake.”

“No way!”

I grabbed the two receipts from the police and carefully compared them. There was a small watermark in the upper right corner on the receipt from Lily, while there was none on mine.

I instantly understood what had happened. Lily had set me up from the very beginning. No wonder she was so bold to call the police.

I immediately said, “Officers, I request to review the surveillance footage. The receipt can be forged, but the security footage can’t.

“That day, I was in the store selecting the gold accessories and making the payment, while she herself issued the invoice and promised to deliver it personally. The cameras must have recorded everything clearly.”

A sneer flashed in Lily’s eyes. “The surveillance system in our store had a damaged circuit three days ago, and many people know about it.”

She turned back and seriously said to the police, “Officers, Miss Lewis forged the receipt and tried to scam our store. Please take her back for investigation immediately.”

The onlookers looked at me with contempt.

“So it turns out that she was playing the victim while being the real thief!”

“Scammers are so bold nowadays. She actually had the guts to scam the store in broad daylight!”

“This lady looks so innocent, but she actually dares to do something like this. She must be punished strictly!”

Two police officers also moved toward me with handcuffs.

“Chloe Lewis, you have been suspected of using forged documents for attempted extortion. Please come with us to the station.”

I took out my phone and showed it to everyone.

“I didn’t scam anyone. I have a transaction record from the store owner’s account. You can just verify it now.”

At that moment, a black Mercedes sedan slowly stopped in front of the store, and the store owner got out of the car.

“I indeed have the transaction record that Miss Lewis transferred $1,350,000 to me.”