Captured Hearts: The Substitute Bride’s Gambit

Chapter 377: Chapter 377: Cousin, the Jade Pendant You Sent Out Has Returned Chapter 377: Chapter 377: Cousin, the Jade Pendant You Sent Out Has Returned “What? That’s impossible!”

Wen Nianyou clutched the diamond ring with shock hardly light. The wedding ring that Wen Xingye gave to Ye Jinyu turned out to be a fake? But Ye Jinyu had worn it for at least seven or eight years, hadn’t she noticed?

“Mr. Tang, this is my mother’s wedding ring. Please take another good look. Is it because the light is too dim from the rain, and you didn’t see it clearly? Look how brilliant and bright the fire color is! How could it possibly be fake?”

“It’s fake because it’s too brilliant, overdone in fact. Don’t you think the fire of this diamond is too colorful? The fire of a real diamond isn’t like that; it has cold light and blue light. Only fake diamonds are multicolored.”

Wen Nianyou found herself speechless. She knew nothing about diamonds, but she felt there was no reason for Tang Chen to lie to her.

That meant Wen Xingye had deceived Ye Jinyu with a fake diamond!

She clenched the ring tightly, cursing in her heart: this scumbag had indeed been a bastard, she just hadn’t realized he had been one from a long time ago.

“Miss Wen, the rest of these jewels are very outdated. Only the rubies and sapphires are of some value. I’ll give you 100,000 for them, making it a total of 500,000. What do you think?”

“That little?”noveldrama

Wen Nianyou was not too satisfied. Before coming, she had thought these items could sell for two million, but now the diamond was fake, the jewelry outdated. The only valuable thing turned out to be the jade pendant she had stolen from Ye Chuyi.

She gritted her teeth and said, “600,000! I want cash!”

“500,000. That’s all it’s worth. I can give you the cash right now.”

Wen Nianyou hesitated for a while. She was cold and hungry, and her head ached like being stabbed by needles after getting rained on. She couldn’t take it much longer: “Fine, 500,000 it is.”

She was used to spending freely; honestly, she didn’t care much about 100,000 yuan.

Tang Chen nodded, went into the villa, and then came back out with a bag: “500,000. You can count it.”

“No need. I trust Mr. Tang wouldn’t cheat me out of this money.”

It would take her until dawn to count the 500,000 yuan, and she certainly didn’t have the time to spare. Right now, she needed to find a hotel to stay in and have a good meal first.

After saying that, Wen Nianyou got into her car with the bag and drove off without stopping.

Seeing her car drive away, Tang Chen was wide awake already.

He opened his palm, looking at the jade pendant in his hand.

No, this was not just a jade pendant. It was a jade ornament, of the finest Imperial Green as the base, intricately designed and carved by the master craftsman Sima Jingfeng. The dragon and phoenix were auspiciously presented, lifelike, and it took a full six months to complete.

This had once been one of the Tang Family’s treasured heirlooms. Completed alongside this jade ornament was a piece of top-quality Imperial Green jade bracelet, with the pendant as the bracelet’s centerpiece.

When his aunt got married, the grandparents gave them to her as a dowry.

Later, when the aunt had a son, she wore the jade bracelet and gave the jade ornament to her son.

But the jade ornament was lost when the aunt’s son was a child. Only when he grew up did he reveal the truth; he had given it to a girl, and he had been searching for that girl ever since.

Tang Chen felt that Wen Nianyou couldn’t be that girl.

Because Sheng Tingyuan had said that the girl lived a hard life, she couldn’t even afford to go to school, while Wen Nianyou was the young lady of the Wen Family, living a comfortable life.

The rain poured torrentially down. Tang Chen held an umbrella, but his trousers were completely soaked, and he seemed not to notice as he took out his phone and called Sheng Tingyuan.

The phone rang for a long time before being answered on the other end: “Tang Chen, what is it?”

“Cousin, the jade pendant you gave away back in the days, it’s back. Come get it when you’re free.”

The voice on the other end of the phone paused noticeably before asking, “How did it come back? When? Who brought it back?”

“Just now, a girl brought it in. But I think she’s not the person you’re looking for, so I pressed the price down, only gave her 400,000, and took the jade ornament.”

“It’s too late today. I’ll come to you tomorrow, and we’ll talk in detail then. Keep the jade ornament safe. I’ll take it off your hands tomorrow; name your price.”

Tang Chen started to smile, sensing he might make a fortune. Opportunities to firmly knock his cousin down a peg weren’t common.