Chapter 414 Too Ostentatious

Pei Ziheng was also slightly startled and looked at her inquiringly: "What is the token you are talking about?"

"It's an amulet," Xia Yu said softly, "wrapped with red silk thread. Ye Xingling put it on her wrist and looked at it tenderly. Isn't the red thread... always a token between lovers? That's why I thought it was from you, Brother Ziheng." She seemed to hesitate for a moment: "Brother Ziheng, I didn't see any diamond bracelet, she wasn't wearing it. Maybe... I was far away, so I couldn't see it. wrong?"

It would be outrageous to mistake a diamond bracelet for an amulet wrapped in red thread.

Pei Ziheng was silent for a moment and waved his hand.

"I still have business to attend to," he said. "I understand your apology. Let's go out first."

Xia Yu knew her plan had succeeded, smiled silently, and retreated.

At night, Pei Ziheng went home as usual, and when he had dinner with Xia Ling, he saw that her wrists were empty.

"Where's the bracelet?" he asked.

Xia Ling was startled for a moment, then looked down at her wrist: "It's too ostentatious, I put it away." In fact, she forgot to put the bracelet back on after taking off the amulet. However, it is true to say that it is ostentatious. When she handed something to the staff this morning, the other person looked at her wrist and his eyes went straight.

"Why didn't I see you in my previous life as showing off with diamonds?" Pei Ziheng said warmly.

Xia Ling glanced at him, could it be the same? In her previous life, she was so domineering that she didn't even know how to write the word "swagger", lest the whole world didn't know how much he loved her. But what about this life? She just wants to live a low-key life and give birth to the baby in her belly safely and raise it.

Separated from Li Lei, her life has been ruined and has been gloomy since then.

Only the baby in her belly is the ray of light in this gloom, and she will live for her baby for the rest of her life. As for herself? Why bother arousing envy, jealousy and hatred anymore.

She lowered her head to drink the soup and remained silent.

Pei Ziheng made a decision: "Tomorrow, I will send someone a few product catalogs. You can choose from them and pick something you like." There are many low-key and beautiful jewelry in the world, and he also has the patience to coax her slowly.

But some things cannot be left behind.

After dinner, Xia Ling went to bed as usual.

Pei Ziheng was busy in the study for a long time before he opened the bedroom door, took off his clothes and got on the bed, hugging her from behind and falling asleep. Xia Ling didn't sleep well tonight. As soon as he came up, she woke up, but didn't move, letting his even and long breaths caress her hair.

I don't know why, but I always feel a little uneasy inside.

The moon is high in the sky, shining through the gauze curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows, flowing like water.

On the contrary, she became more and more awake, and she was suffering from insomnia. She simply stood up carefully from Pei Ziheng's arms without waking him, tiptoed off the bed, and walked barefoot out of the bedroom.

Perhaps it was easier to miss someone in the dead of night. Her mind was filled with Li Lei's bright and handsome smiling face. Unknowingly, she walked to her own small workshop, where there was a small and exquisite handbag. The one she usually carries with her when going out.

She opened her handbag and touched the amulet out of habit.

Unexpectedly, it came up empty.

What about the amulet? !

She was so frightened that she broke into a cold sweat. She touched it again, but there was still nothing. She couldn't help but pour out everything in the bag, but inside there was only the gorgeous and cold diamond bracelet that Pei Ziheng gave her, and the amulet that Li Lei spent half his blood to pray for her had long since disappeared.

She became anxious and searched the whole room, but still couldn't find it.

She felt her head was buzzing, and the unprecedented anxiety made her panic. She walked downstairs in three steps and two steps at a time, rushed out of the hall door, and groped her way to the garage.

In the garage, there are three Rolls-Royces parked side by side.

Xia Ling found the car she was riding in today. She didn't have the key, so she had to stick to the car window and look in desperately. The siren was so loud that she couldn't care less. After a while, the security guard and the driver came over and saw her: "Miss Ye, why are you here so late?"

She glanced sideways at the driver: "Open the door and let me take a look. I forgot something in the back seat."

The driver opened it as instructed. Xia Lingzai searched carefully but couldn't find the amulet. She hesitated for a moment, then turned around and asked the driver, "Has anything been left on the back seat before? For example, a piece of amulet made of sycamore wood with red thread, so big." As she spoke, she gestured with her hands.

The driver said: "I haven't seen it before." Seeing her anxious look, he added, "There are some blankets and pillows in the car, which need to be cleaned every day. Could the thing you are looking for be mixed with them? Do you want If you don’t go to the laundry room and take a look, those blankets must have been taken there by Zhou’s mother.”

Xia Ling didn't wait for him to finish speaking and had already gone straight to the laundry room.

The laundry room was in a corner of the garden, far away from the garage. She walked through most of the house before finally getting there.

She prayed silently in her heart, hoping that the amulet was still there. Recently, she had a severe reaction during pregnancy and she was very lazy. In the evening, she was so confused that she couldn't remember whether the zipper of her bag was zipped. She hoped that it really fell. In the car, it was mixed with the blankets so that she could still find it.

Thankfully, there weren't many things to be washed in the laundry room. There were only Pei Ziheng's suit jacket and a few of her dresses, as well as the blankets and pillows taken from the Rolls-Royce today. Xia Ling eagerly turned through every piece of fabric. However, to her disappointment, there was no amulet anywhere. That small piece of sycamore wood seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, silently and missing.

Her heart felt cold and her body was numb. She looked through all the fabrics carefully in disbelief, but there was still nothing. After being stunned for a moment, she turned on all the lights in the laundry room with trembling hands and searched every corner carefully. Maybe she had dropped it somewhere, and she must find it. Li Lei has disappeared from her life, and that amulet is her only thought and sustenance...

Washing machine, dryer, tub, drain pipe...

She turned over bit by bit, using too much force, hurting her nails and turning her skin. However, she had no time to care. She only had one belief in her heart: she must find it, and she would never give up until she found it!

The entire laundry room was turned upside down by her, like a passing typhoon. She stood in the middle of this mess, and the desolation in her heart was even worse than the scene in front of her. Amulet, where are you?

Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a faint dark red.

Xia Ling turned around in surprise, but saw nothing. But she refused to give up, refused to believe that the small patch of dark red just now was just her illusion, and hurriedly looked in that direction - there was the dirty and dim drain in the laundry room, separated by the rusty iron It was dark inside the fence, and nothing could be seen.