[3] Hidden Marriage 99 Days: Please, Restrain Yourself

Chapter 585: Men Tend to Be Fickle

Li Beinian leaned over curiously and saw what Mu Xichen was holding.

This item had accompanied her for more than ten years, she could recognize it at a glance.

Seeing the amulet, Li Beinian exclaimed in surprise. “You haven’t thrown it away. Didn’t this break the other time?”

Li Beinian stepped forward and took it from him. “It’s so broken. I still remember that the cotton inside was dug out by me.”

Mu Xichen’s expression darkened on hearing this.

Sensing that something was wrong, she asked, “What’s the matter?”

“Do you remember if there was anything else inside after you took out the cotton?”

This time round, it was Li Beinian’s turn to look surprised. She said without a moment of hesitation, “No, it was just cotton used for filling. What else would there be?”

Although she had said that, her mind was racing.

At that time, Mu Xichen was injured. She had thought that there would be cotton in the pouch.

However, the cotton had been soaked by his blood and became a sticky mess.

Hence, Li Beinian had thrown it away without a second thought. She then took off her cotton top to cover his wound.

After dealing with it, she did not pay attention to the amulet.

Now it seemed that Mu Xichen had picked it up.

Mu Xichen looked at Li Beinian and frowned slightly. He said steadily, “Think again.”

Li Beinian thought for a long time and shook her head. “No, there was nothing inside.”

Mu Xichen was silent.

He looked down at the amulet in her hand. After a long pause, he asked, “Where did you get this amulet?”

“I had it for a long time.” Li Beinian didn’t seem to mind. She tried to recall the details and said, “My godmother told me, they were very close to my mother. Godfather personally hung it on me. Just that they didn’t expect the Li Family to lose me later on. Eventually, when they went to the orphanage, they recognized me at once because of this amulet.

“And that’s all?”

“Yes.” Li Beinian nodded, but she quickly remembered it didn’t end there. “There’s something else.”

“Uh huh?”

“A gemstone.” Li Beinian looked at him. “Similar to this amulet, the gemstone had been with me since I was a child. It was a ruby, and it was obviously very valuable. When I was a child, the orphanage director tried ways and means to steal the gemstone from me. I tried my best to hide it. Later on, the director thought that I lost it and stopped bothering about it.”

“Gemstone?”

“Yes, I hid it well. Later on, because Godpa and Godma had to send the two children to school, finances were tight. I handed them this gemstone. It was only then that they knew I had it.”

Life wasn’t easy.

Raising two children was even more difficult.

Besides, Li Beinian wasn’t their biological daughter.

Under such circumstances, no matter how reluctant Li Beinian was, she couldn’t be so ungrateful.

As a result, she insisted that they took it. She initially wanted them to sell it to improve their lives, but unexpectedly, Tang Xiaoge and Chi Dali ended up hugging her and wailing.