Captured Hearts: The Substitute Bride’s Gambit

Chapter 375: Chapter 375: Imperial Green Onyx Pendant Chapter 375: Chapter 375: Imperial Green Onyx Pendant “It’s impossible to sell it this fast, and besides, this villa has been mortgaged by me and Wen Xingye. It couldn’t be sold even if we wanted to!”

Wen Nianyou stared at the empty villa, wanted to turn on the lights, but realized the electricity had been cut off, wanted to drink water, but turning the tap revealed no water either.

She angrily smashed the wall, then suddenly remembered something, “Right, I hid some stuff inside a wall in the house. Ye Chuyi and Ye Jinyu definitely don’t know this secret. My things should still be there!”

She hastily ran into the storeroom on the first floor, with Lin Yueqin following.

The two of them moved a cabinet, revealing a wooden board.

Upon removing the board, there was a large hole behind it.

Wen Nianyou reached in, pulling out several items one by one: a few children’s clothes, a pendant, a diamond ring, and some other jewelry.

Lin Yueqin recognized these items instantly, “Aren’t these Ye Chuyi and Lady Wen’s belongings? How come they’re all with you?”

“Isn’t it obvious? I took— grabbed them!”

Wen Nianyou wiped the dust off the pendant and hung it around her neck, “This pendant belonged to Ye Chuyi; she must have stolen it. She claimed back then that someone had given it to her, but with such good quality and excellent carving, not to mention its weight, the Imperial Green Onyx must be worth at least a few hundred thousand dollars. Who would gift such an expensive item to her?”

Lin Yueqin had indeed seen Lin Chuyi wearing this jade pendant but always thought it was just a piece of green glass. Hearing Wen Nianyou calling it an ‘Imperial Green Onyx,’ she was shocked, “This thing is worth that much money? Are you sure? It looks almost like glass to me!”

“No insight.”

Wen Nianyou disdainfully glanced at her, “Does glass give off such luster and animatedness? This jade pendant is watery inside, obviously the highest grade. I haven’t seen such good quality even in years working at the jewelry store.”

“Can this piece of jade really sell for hundreds of thousands?”

“If auctioned, it’s definitely worth more than a million, but I need money urgently, so I can only take it to the jeweler. It should still fetch around seven to eight hundred thousand.”noveldrama

Smiling at last, Lin Yueqin said, “Youyou, you really had the foresight to hide all these valuable things here! Let’s hurry and sell them, then buy an apartment. We need a place to live, right?”

Wen Nianyou ignored her, continuing to pick up other pieces of jewelry and putting them on herself, and then covered them with her clothes.

Finally, she picked up the diamond ring.

With a gentle wipe, the diamond reflected a dazzling light under the flashlight of the mobile phone.

Wen Nianyou then slid the diamond ring onto her finger and asked Lin Yueqin, “You remember this, right?”

Lin Yueqin nodded, “I remember, it is Lady Wen’s diamond ring. Mr. Wen gave it to her during their wedding, saying he spent all his savings on it, very valuable. She always wore it, but then you said it was stolen by Ye Chuyi. I even severely beat her for it, breaking two sticks in the process.”

Wen Nianyou laughed triumphantly, “Actually, I was the one who took it! I just wanted to see my mom distressed. Later, when she was about to call the police, I framed Ye Chuyi, and my mom believed it, then she didn’t call the police. Humph, I knew she would protect Ye Chuyi!”

On one hand, Lin Yueqin felt her daughter had done brilliantly, being so cunning at such a young age, but on the other hand, hearing her still calling Lady Wen ‘Mom’ made her very uncomfortable.

Wen Nianyou stood up, “Come on, now that I have all these things, I can exchange them for money. I want to stay in the best hotel and eat the most expensive supper!”

Lin Yueqin wanted to advise her to be more frugal, but the words reached her lips and she dared not say them, fearing it might anger Wen Nianyou again.

She turned to look at the clothes and books on the floor, asking, “Aren’t you taking these?”

“Why would I want that trash? Those were Ye Chuyi’s clothes from when she was young. Some she stole, and some my mom secretly gave to her. I couldn’t stand it, so I took them all.”

Lin Yueqin simply nodded and said nothing further, following her daughter as she walked away.