"Yes, yes, yes," Li Yinghou said several times. "You really do remind me of how I used to be."
"Miss Li, your phone." Just then, a staff member called out to Li Xingwan.
Thinking it was another call from Fu Chengzhou, everyone pricked up their ears, hoping to listen in.
But it wasn’t the kind of call they could overhear.
Li Xingwan furrowed her brows.
"What? You lost your bead?"
The call was from Qin Yu, who couldn’t come from the hospital but was very anxious. That bead was obtained by her mother at an auction years ago! It was very valuable to her. She had worn it since she was young and had never lost it before.
"Alright! Don’t panic! I’ll have the staff here look for it right away!" Li Xingwan immediately hung up. To the staff onsite, she said, "Excuse me, everyone, please help me look for a bead!"
Everyone looked at each other, puzzled.
"It belongs to a friend of mine!" Li Xingwan said. "A red one! A red bead!"
"Yes, yes, yes, we’ll start looking right away!"
Everyone immediately headed to where Qin Yu had fallen down the stairs earlier. Li Xingwan did as well. Even Li Yinghou and Zheng Shaosu joined in the search.
"Miss Li, is this the bead?" A staff member with sharp eyes spotted the red bead behind the stairs and picked it up to show it to Li Xingwan.
Fortunately, the place had not been cleaned since the morning.
Li Xingwan recognized it at a glance. "Yes, that’s it."
As she walked over to take it, Li Yinghou suddenly spoke up. "This bead looks somewhat familiar to me."
"Ah?" Li Xingwan looked at her, a confused expression in her eyes.
"I feel like I’ve seen it somewhere." Li Yinghou thought hard. "Doesn’t it look like a red ’Buddha’s Disciple’?"
At the mention of that, faces all around registered a shock beyond words.
"Buddha’s Disciple?!"
"A red Buddha’s Disciple?!"
"My goodness, did I hear that wrong?!"
Items like Buddha’s Disciple are said to be worth hundreds of millions! Especially the red ones. After Li Yinghou’s reminder, everyone started frantically searching for images online.
They were astounded beyond words.
"It looks identical!"
"It really does look identical!!!"
"Ah!! My God! So you’re saying, the necklace around Li Xingwan’s friend’s neck, was a ’Buddha’s Disciple’?!"
In that moment, everyone was so shocked they could have fainted.
At that moment, Zheng Shaosu recognized it as well. "It is indeed like a Buddha’s Disciple. I had the fortune of seeing one at an auction once."
Even Zheng Yingdi said he was fortunate to have seen it once, which speaks to its value!
"No... no way?" Li Xingwan pretended to be ignorant. She certainly wouldn’t directly expose Qin Yu’s identity.
At this point, she could only pretend, along with everyone else, that she had just realized what it was.
"Let me have a look," Zheng Shaosu took it and examined it closely. "Indeed no fake, it seems to be genuine."
"Not seems to be, it definitely is genuine!" Li Yinghou confirmed emphatically. Then she turned to Li Xingwan. "It seems then, that your friend has quite a noteworthy identity, doesn’t she?"
All eyes were now on Li Xingwan.
"But earlier Li Yinghou said Li Xingwan’s friend was poor, and Xingwan didn’t refute it, did she?"
"Why do I feel like Xingwan doesn’t know either?"