"At the point where the river runs dry, one sits to watch the clouds rise." The day before Liyan was set to return to China, she received a call from Director Xu Chengyuan in Shanghai. A smuggling ship intercepted at a British port in late April was found carrying looted Chinese cultural relics. The smugglers were willing to testify against their British contact in exchange for a reduced sentence. British police discovered that this contact was none other than Colin Huntington, the head of Huntington Auctions. The British police were eager to dismantle this transnational smuggling ring, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to press charges, arguing that the cultural relics were smuggled outside the UK's jurisdiction.　　The Oxford Magistrates' Court had already accepted a lawsuit filed by Mrs. Huntington against the British police for illegally seizing her property. Without the Crown Prosecution Service’s approval to proceed with a criminal case, the British police would soon be forced to "return" the seized relics to Mrs. Huntington. If these artifacts fell back into her hands, they would once again disappear into Huntington Auctions' "anonymous lots," making it nearly impossible for them to return to their homeland.　　Director Xu sought Liyan’s opinion: "Would you and Martha be willing to testify again?"　　Liyan and Martha didn’t hesitate to agree.　　Martha, citing "contempt of China’s sovereign immunity over national property," demanded that the case be transferred to the British Court of Appeal. As a result, the Oxford Magistrates' Court temporarily froze the seized relics.　　With the Chine