CHAPTER 446: CHAPTER 446: THE JADE RING WAS STOLEN

"Mr. Li, I’ve told you many times already, the matter of succession has nothing to do with me. Why do you keep bringing it up over and over again?"

"But regardless of whether you acknowledge it or not, you are now the sole legal heir. Besides, so many years have passed; do you really still hold onto what happened with your grandfather?"

"I can’t let go, and besides, he was never my grandfather. If he had been, the incident back then would never have occurred."

At this point, Li Fu could only let out a long sigh.

It seemed that no one knew exactly what had happened back then, only those directly involved could recall the pain of that time.

"Yaru, as an elder, I really need to give you some advice."

"Enough, stop it. I don’t want to hear about these matters right now. I have my own life, and I’m actually doing really well. I’m begging you, please don’t bring up these tedious issues and disrupt my life, okay?"

Li Yaru spoke with an almost strangled voice, before bursting out.

It was evident how deeply this issue affected her.

Li Fu stopped talking. He could only shake his head helplessly and then turned to walk in another direction.

At this moment, Ye Chen arrived where the crowd was gathered. He found that many people were crowding around, and inside, a young man was squatting, clutching his head as if in pain.

Quickly making his way through the crowd, he saw that it was the young man who had spent a large sum to buy a finger-ring just before.

However, looking at his current state and the whispers from people around, Ye Chen guessed that something must have gone wrong.

Although it was his first encounter with the young man, Ye Chen had a very good impression of him.

So Ye Chen walked up to him and gently patted his shoulder.

The young man just looked up at him, and it was clear that his eyes were becoming red and swollen.

"What’s wrong with you? Is there some trouble?"

"Just now, just now someone... someone snatched my Jade Ring."

"What? Snatched? How can it be snatched in broad daylight? And, you were alone, right? Where are the others?"

As he said this, he turned and realized for the first time that near a corner of the wall, there were two bodyguard-like figures, who seemed to have been badly beaten just before.

"What did they look like?"

"They were quite tall, but they all had their faces covered, so it’s impossible to tell who it was."

"Alright, don’t talk about it for now, stand up first. Are you hurt anywhere?"

"No, they only took the ring and didn’t harm me. My bodyguards tried to stop them but failed; it seems the robbers were quite skilled."

Without mentioning anything else, as long as he heard ’skilled’, Ye Chen genuinely wanted to meet this person.

To claim to be an expert in front of him, he thought this person might really be overestimating themselves.

"Come on, stand up. That’s enough, there’s nothing for you all to see here, please hurry along, nothing interesting left."

Ye Chen turned back to address the crowd.

Seeing there was no more excitement to be had, and with the item already stolen, naturally, the crowd felt there was no point lingering.

And so, the crowd scattered.

"Who exactly are you?"

The young man just lifted his head and looked at Ye Chen to ask.

He masked the sorrow in his eyes, understandable since a priceless Jade Ring was snatched in broad daylight; one could imagine his immense agony at this moment.

"My name is Ye Chen, I came to attend the auction today. Actually, I noticed you earlier. That Jade Ring seemed especially significant to you."

"That’s correct, the Jade Ring holds extraordinary significance for me. Moreover, that item is a family legacy lost long ago. Regardless of the cost, I was prepared to repurchase it, but who would have expected it to be so coincidentally snatched away."

"What did you say? It belongs to your family?"

"Yes, because our family served in the imperial palace generations ago, and that item was a reward bestowed by the Emperor himself. With the turmoil back then, it disappeared without a trace, but because of this, our family has never given up searching for it over the centuries."

"I see, in that case, this item really is of extraordinary significance. But how can you be so sure that this lost Jade Ring is the one belonging to your family?"

"On the side of the Jade Ring, there is an engraved character that is truly unique in this world. After the Emperor bestowed it, he specifically had craftsmen add it, so there is no room for error."

"Those robbers, what was their situation? And had they appeared in the venue before?"

"I had never seen them in the venue; they were all masked and looked quite tall and strong, it seems they were not ordinary people."

"Don’t worry for now; where did they go after the robbery, which direction?"

"That way, toward that direction."

He simply pointed out, and Ye Chen observed the direction, which seemed to be towards an emergency exit.

Currently, as the crowd was dispersing, if they took advantage of the multitude and slipped away through there, they would indeed go unnoticed.

Even if they wore masks, what then? After snatching the item, they could easily remove the black cloth and then easily leave the scene unnoticed.

"Go back first, I’ll try to investigate and help you. If all goes well, I believe that I might be able to help you recover the item."

"What are you saying? You, you can help me find it, is that true?"