Becoming The Bigshot's Only Love After Breaking Her Engagement-Chapter 494: Who Hasn’t Been a Young Girl Before
Zhan Hanjue asked everyone in the house, but no one knew what bracelet the old lady was referring to.
There were quite a few bracelets in the house, but when brought to the old lady, she wouldn’t even spare them a glance.
Zhan Hanjue felt that although his grandmother was confused, she must have held this bracelet in high regard deep in her heart.
That’s why she mentioned it during a moment of clarity.
To fulfill his grandmother’s wish and not let her have any regrets, Zhan Hanjue really put aside his pride and even asked Mrs. Leng.
After Leng Ziqing’s divorce, Mrs. Leng seemed to lose interest in everything too.
When she heard Zhan Hanjue mention the bracelet, she frowned and said, "Never heard of it, didn’t you find anything in the house?" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
"I went through all the bracelets in the house, but my grandmother shook her head at each one, so it must not be any of those," Zhan Hanjue replied.
Mrs. Leng suddenly remembered something and quickly said, "Wait, I’ll go check the photos."
She left, taking housemaids with her to the warehouse to search through the albums.
Since these were old photos from decades ago, they were stored in the warehouse to save space.
Mrs. Leng found a couple of maids and after a long search, finally came across the iron box she had been looking for.
She brought the iron box to the living room and said to Zhan Hanjue, "These are all old relics. This box is older than your father. I kept some precious things in it from when I received my first gift of cookies."
"Is there a clue to the bracelet in here?" Zhan Hanjue frowned.
It’s just a cookie box. She must have been a little girl back then. Besides her trinkets, what else could be inside?
"Open it and you’ll see," Mrs. Leng said with a smile.
Zhan Hanjue opened the iron box.
From years of disuse, it was rusty at the edges and quite hard to open.
So Mrs. Leng let Zhan Hanjue handle it.
Zhan Hanjue used a lot of effort before he succeeded in opening the box.
Upon hearing it open, Mrs. Leng was excited and hurriedly took it, saying, "I haven’t opened this box in ages; I didn’t expect it could still be opened."
Zhan Hanjue: "..."
So just now, making him open it was just to try it out?
And not done with the assurance he could open it?
"If you couldn’t open it, I would’ve had someone saw it open," Mrs. Leng laughed.
With that, she lifted the lid, revealing colorful trinkets inside.
They were Mrs. Leng’s old collections, including a floral headpiece which had oxidized over time. A touch would turn it to dust.
Gazing at these old items, Mrs. Leng’s eyes sparkled with rare brightness.
She sighed, "It’s been many years since I last saw these. Seeing them again feels like returning to those carefree days."
"Do you have any clues?" Zhan Hanjue urged impatiently.
Though he knew Mrs. Leng must be feeling deeply nostalgic.
However, he didn’t have much time to listen to her reminisce.
Mrs. Leng quickly said, "Look at me, seeing these things made me forget the important matter. I know you’re in a hurry, so I wanted to show you this. Look at this photo, the jade bracelet you’re looking for should be this one."
With that, Mrs. Leng dug out a photo from the bottom and handed it to Zhan Hanjue.
The photo was of a pretty young girl, in black and white, but you could still see the innocence on her face.
She wore a moon-white qipao, which could have been another color. But with a black-and-white camera, vibrant colors can’t be captured well.
Her hair was cut short at the ears, her hands crossed in front of her, and one wrist indeed had a jade bracelet.
The jade bracelet was likely also of white jade, nearly blending in with her fair skin.
If you didn’t look closely, you’d almost miss the bracelet’s shape.
"This is..."
"This is your grandmother when she was young," Mrs. Leng said.
Zhan Hanjue was surprised, finding it hard to believe that the girl in the photo was his grandmother.
Mrs. Leng said, "Why are you so surprised? Your grandmother was young once too. So was I. We’ve all gone through girlhood. I think the jade bracelet your grandmother mentioned should be the one on her wrist. Later in the Zhan Family, I never saw her wear it again."
"Where did this photo come from?" Zhan Hanjue asked.
He knew Mrs. Leng had never been on good terms with his grandmother, maintaining surface-level calm only for his father’s sake.
So he found it odd that she kept his grandmother’s photo.
Mrs. Leng answered, "I told you, this was something I collected as a little girl. You saw inside, it even has a flower and pretty candy wrappers, showing how naive I was back then. I probably didn’t dislike your grandma then. She must have tossed this photo and I picked it up, thinking it was pretty and kept it."
"I haven’t seen this bracelet in the Zhan Family, but you can’t tell anything from just a photo. I’ll take it with me and carefully search at home," Zhan Hanjue said.
Mrs. Leng nodded, adding, "I think you should inquire about your grandmother’s family. Maybe you’ll learn something."
"Alright, thank you," Zhan Hanjue expressed his gratitude.
"If you see Ziqing, tell him to bring the kids over sometime,"
As Zhan Hanjue was leaving, Mrs. Leng hurriedly chased him to the door, urgently reminding him.
Zhan Hanjue nodded, "I’ll tell him."
Mrs. Leng finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Indeed, the battles between parents and children rarely end in total victory.
Unless there is no love, it’s hard to win against the children.
Mrs. Leng knew she lost completely, but she didn’t regret it. Losing to her own son wasn’t something to be sad about.
After returning, Zhan Hanjue told Ye Ningwan about the matter.
Ye Ningwan took the photo, looked it over, and shook her head, "The photo is too old to clearly see the bracelet. All the bracelets in the house look the same to me as an outsider, it’s hard to tell if it’s from this family."
"You can restore it to color," Zhan Hanjue suggested.
Ye Ningwan suddenly realized, "Right, how could I forget about technology? Let’s have it restored and determine the bracelet’s material."
Zhan Hanjue assigned the task to Chen Tan.
Soon, Chen Tan got back to him.
He sent the restored color photo and informed him about the bracelet’s material.
Zhan Hanjue specifically brought in a jade appraisal expert to see if any of the house’s bracelets matched the one in the photo.
Indeed, after the jade appraiser’s careful evaluation, none of the bracelets matched.
