The box had been opened, and Lingya had checked that the jewelry and crown were in good condition. After completing the necessary procedures with Xu Wan, the box was closed again, and the auction company's bodyguards escorted them out of the company.
The two people were sitting in the same car.
Xu Wan clutched the letter in her hand and said to Ling Ya, "Mom, I'll take the letter. There's no news from Tingzhou right now, and this diamond is too valuable. Besides, it's not safe for me to keep it. It's better to..."
“What do you mean by safety?” Lingya interrupted her. “Although this diamond auction was trending on social media in China, nobody actually knew who won the bid. Let alone who won it, nobody even knew which country the person who won it was from.”
"Can……"
“Wanwan, I know my son. He wouldn’t have gone to bid for this diamond if it weren’t for you. Since he did bid, he must hope that you will accept it. No matter what your plans are in the future, even if you remarry, this diamond and this crown belong to you, not to the Jiang family.”
Lingya's tone was very firm.
Xu Wan shook her head: "Mom, I won't get married..."
"What nonsense are you talking about? This isn't ancient times anymore. You're so young, why would you want to be a widow?" Ling Ya held Xu Wan's hand and asked seriously, "Also, have you told your mother about this child? What are her plans?"
Xu Wan recounted Xu Pingrong and Xu Pingshan's attitudes at noon.
Finally, she said firmly, "I'm sorry, Mom, but I must give birth to this child."
A moment of silence fell over the car.
Ling Ya sighed deeply and gently patted Xu Wan's hand. "Wanwan, if you're free, come stay at my place for a while."
"Okay." Xu Wan nodded.
The car drove to the Jiang family's old residence, and at Ling Ya's request, Xu Wan placed the crown, worth nearly 10 billion, on the back seat of the car.
However, Xu Wan still took the letter.
She thought that Ling Ya would also want to read this handwritten letter from Jiang Tingzhou.
Xu Wan accompanied Ling Ya to a room on the second floor and asked a maid to bring the key over.
As the door opened, Lingya asked, "Do you know where this is?"
"……have no idea."
"This is Tingzhou's bedroom. He has hardly lived here since he went to university. Everything inside is exactly as it was. I used to think that I should respect my son's privacy. Even when I came in, I would just clean up and not touch anything. But we don't know when he will come back next time, so let's come in and take a look together."
As Lingya spoke, she inserted the key into the keyhole, turned it, and opened the door.
The room was very clean; it looked like an ordinary student room, with a backpack, books, a pen holder, a computer, and so on.
"Oh dear, this photo album!" Ling Ya walked to the bookshelf, picked up a photo album, and said, "I was wondering where this photo album was. Turns out it was here."
Xu Wan did not speak.
When Ling Ya opened the album, she saw a miniature version of Jiang Tingzhou and a young Ling Ya inside, and realized that this was a man's growth album.
Lingya gently placed her finger on the yellowed photograph and said, "Children are so much better when they're young. They're like little shadows, following me everywhere. But now that they're older, they often don't even call for a month. It's really..."
Xu Wan also looked at the photo.
As Lingya finished speaking, a tear fell onto the photograph.
"mom……"
When Xu Wan saw Ling Ya crying, her eyes also became very heavy.
But she knew that Lingya was probably on the verge of an emotional breakdown, so she couldn't cry; she had to comfort Lingya.
"Look at him! He's slept on a high-end mattress since he was a child, and now we don't even know where he is. He can't have enjoyed the good life for over thirty years, only to spend the rest of his life sleeping in the sea. How can he stand that? He's just causing me trouble. Even if I wanted to burn paper money for him in the future, I wouldn't be able to do it in the sea!"
Lingya spoke quickly, but her voice became increasingly unclear.
The hand covering the photo trembled violently, and the tears on the photo became more and more numerous.
Finally, Lingya couldn't hold back any longer and covered her face with her hands, sobbing uncontrollably.
“Mom…” Xu Wan quickly hugged Ling Ya. “Mom, Tingzhou said he will come back. He never lies. I believe he will definitely come back.”
This wasn't Xu Wan saying to comfort Ling Ya.
Deep down, she firmly believed that Jiang Tingzhou was not dead.
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