Chapter 2437 - 16: Discovering Clues

Th-this... isn’t this the gemstone necklace he gave Hua’en when he was a child?

He had picked this necklace out after painstakingly choosing among countless pieces in the Glass Pavilion, and because it was the first thing he ever gave his little wife, it left a deep impression on him. A few years ago, when he was still in the Capital City, he had even seen Hua’en wearing it.

But why would it appear here?

He lifted his head and looked around, and suddenly remembered this was where he had just been arguing with Mu Huarong.

Could it be that Mu Huarong dropped this?

But why would Hua’en’s thing be on Huarong?

For a moment his mind was in turmoil.

In such a situation, the first person he thought of was his own elder brother.

He drew a breath, sprang up onto the rooftop, and used his lightness skill to hurry back to Prince An’s Mansion.

"Dong, dong... Ye Haoxuan, get up, quick... dong, dong..."

"Ye Haoxuan!!"

He pounded on the door a few times, and when still no one came to open it, he gave it a hard kick.

Ye Haoxuan came out in just his inner robe, yawning. Seeing his younger brother bursting in like a man on fire, he couldn’t help being puzzled. "Has the sky fallen? You have to rush me like this? My good little brother, do you have any idea what time it is? You don’t want to sleep, but your brother still does..."

"Bro... you nag too much." Ye Haoyang glared at him, then took out the necklace. "Bro, do you remember this?"

"Huh, it does look a bit familiar." Though it looked familiar, he couldn’t place it for the moment, so he glanced at Ye Haoyang. "Second, you drag me out of bed in the middle of the night just to have me look at this?"

"Bro, I gave this to Hua’en, but it fell off Huarong."

"Isn’t Huarong in Funan?"

"She’s back in the Capital." Ye Haoyang briefly told him what had happened. "Bro, my head’s kind of messed up right now."

After listening, Ye Haoxuan smiled like a fox. "Interesting. The two Mu Family sisters clearly have a story. Huarong comes back to the Capital but doesn’t return to the Mu Residence, and she has Hua’en’s things on her. No matter how good their sisterly relationship is, Hua’en still wouldn’t give this to Huarong." He gave his younger brother another look and said, "If you can’t figure it out, just have someone look into it."

"Bro, you help me investigate it."

"Alright, leave it to me." He patted his brother’s shoulder, then added slyly, "I’ve got a feeling the result is going to be shocking."

On the other side, Mu Huaen was fretting over this very necklace.

It turned out that she had discovered it missing as soon as she returned. All these years, everything Ye Haoyang had managed to send back from outside had ended up with Mu Huarong; this was the only item she’d managed to keep.

Back then, Mu Huarong had wanted this necklace, but she’d used the excuse of having lost it in order to keep it. She never expected she’d actually end up losing it for real now.

Zhuan’er saw how anxious she was and said, "Miss, why don’t we send people out to look for it?"

"Forget it, we’ll go look for it ourselves in the morning. We’re only lodging here temporarily, it wouldn’t be proper to trouble others over something like this." There were just the two of them, mistress and maid. If they wanted to search, they’d have to ask people in the estate, but how could she make others get up in the dead of night to help her hunt for a lost trinket?

"Yes, miss."

The next morning at first light, Mu Huaen took Zhuan’er out to search. The gatekeeper saw that she wasn’t carrying a bundle and didn’t stop her, but still sent two people to follow along.

"This is exactly the road we took yesterday," Zhuan’er muttered under her breath. "Could someone already have picked it up?" They followed along the base of the wall, combing the path for the third or fourth time already.

"Search a little more. If we still can’t find it, then just let it go." Perhaps they really were fated not to have it; even a necklace refused to stay with her.

They all walked with their heads down, carefully checking the roadside, when a sharp female voice suddenly called out to Mu Huaen.

"Hua’en? Is that really you, Hua’en? How are you here?"