Finally Abroad - Copper Fragment, Don't Cause Trouble for Me!

Faced with the professors' questioning, Shen Le could only chuckle, shrug, and refuse to answer. The professors exchanged looks, but there was nothing they could do about him:

If this Buddha statue had belonged to any museum, Shen Le would have had to write a paper on his restoration plan before repairing it.

Even if he wanted to be as lazy as possible, he would still have had to pick one of his junior brothers' and sisters' proposals and explain why he had chosen it.

No paper, no report, and he was just going to get his hands on it?

Give it a rest. Cultural relics belonged to the state, not to him. If he clumsily damaged them, could he bear the responsibility?

But this Buddha statue happened to be part of Shen Le's own collection...

He could restore it however he liked. Never mind covering it in gold foil—even if he painted it bright red, that was his own business.

As teachers who had taught him, at most they could gripe, "When you go to academic conferences in the future, don't mention my name." They had no power to restrain him in this matter—

Even so, the professors carefully inspected the restored remains of the Buddha statue. To keep him from getting too full of himself, they harshly criticized his restoration work:

"How did you apply this gold foil? You gave no thought at all to preserving traces of the old gold foil!

"It's all glittering gold. Other than looking splendid and magnificent, there's no trace of history left. You're restoring a cultural relic, not refurbishing a temple statue!"

"The coloring of this painted decoration is far too rich! You didn't preserve even a single trace of its former state!"

"How did you restore these crumbly stone sections? I