Crashing into an Old Flame
Chapter 243: Two sons

Chapter 243: Two sons

’Clang’

Just as Daisy stood up, a sound caught her attention.

Everyone looked at the object that Angel had dropped on the floor.

It was the golden lighter that belonged to Louis.

Diana’s eyes widened, ’’This... I kept it in my room. How did she get her hands on a lighter?" They were lucky that she was playing with it in their presence.

Daisy’s face turned pale, ’’She was playing in your room while you were sleeping. I didn’t realize when she took it,’’ She squatted down and picked the lighter up but just as she was about to pass it to Diana, something caught her attention.

Ivy also walked towards them. Upon noticing where Daisy’s attention was, Ivy glanced at the carvings on the lighter.

’’Is that a lizard?" Ivy mumbled, closely observing the carvings.

Diana carried Angel in her arms and moved towards them, ’’No, I think it’s a snake.’’

Daisy’s expression turned worse, ’’You don’t recognize this?" she turned the lighter towards Diana.

Noticing the strangeness in her tone, Diana took another look at the lighter seriously. But she had already seen it countless times before. Had she known anything about it, it would not have taken her so long to figure things out.

Daisy took a deep breath, ’’I suppose you were too young to remember it.’’

Diana was bewildered, ’’Remember what?"

’’When our grandpa was alive, he would talk to us about our family ancestry and such things. On one of those days, he mentioned some obscure information regarding four main families in Beijing. The Si Family went into decline since Si Yena’s great-grandfather’s generation. But the Chen Family, Qin Family, and Lu Families remained stable in their positions.’’

Ivy was confused. After Diana’s outburst the day before, she had got to know a lot of things about their family but still at this moment, what she could not understand was that... ’’What has it got to do with this lighter?"

Diana also glanced at the lighter before looking at Daisy questioningly.

’’All the four top aristocratic families have their crest that stays by the family’s Master’s side in the form of an heirloom. After our Grandpa’s death, Father was so devastated that he never wore his watch again. Do you not remember what that watch was?"

Diana paused for a moment as she tried to remember. When it came to age, she was not that younger than Daisy. But she was not prompt as Daisy regarding their family history or heritage, or even business details. Daisy had been trained in all these things since she was 4 as she was the eldest daughter and the inheritor of their family.

But things changed when Daisy started rebelling in her teenage years which shifted their parents’ attention towards Diana. And since they could not control Daisy, they put twice the amount of constraint and tightened the reins on Diana so that she would not rebel like her sister.

’’I do remember. During grandfather’s funeral, Dad took off a watch...’’ And he used to wear it most of the time before.

But Diana never thought there would be some kind of meaning behind it.

’’There is a sign of our crest on the leather of that watch. It’s a pair of phoenix wings. The four great families are represented by four mythological creatures from folklore. For the Lu Family, I am unsure of where their family crest is but from what my grandfather once told me, it is represented by white stripes. As for the Qin family...’’

’’...I can tell it. A snake..?" Ivy interrupted, promptly changing her guess from ’lizard’ to ’snake’. She did not remember a lizard being a mythological creature ever so Diana’s guess must be right.

Diana nodded.

Daisy: "_"

After a moment of speechlessness, Daisy flipped the lighter towards them, to let them have a clearer look at it, ’’Does it look like a snake to you both?"

"Is it not?"

Both of them replied at the same time.

’’It’s a dragon,’’ Daisy mumbled as she looked at the lighter, her brows tugging together, ’’And it seems to belong to that mysterious patient you mentioned.’’

Diana nodded, opening her mouth to speak. But her words were stuck in her throat as her eyes snapped towards her sister, ’’Daisy, I remember some vague rumors about the Qin Family.’’

Daisy glanced at her.

’’Maybe you were not aware of this. But in socialite circles, what the ladies love the most is gossip,’’ Usually, Diana would socialize with them with a smile on her face while spouting profanities in her heart but there were a few rare occasions when things caught her attention, especially when it was related to the people she knew.

After her grandfather’s death, she did not see Old Master Qin much but in her mind, the old man was like a family to her.

But she had the impression of these rumors about the Qin Family, ’’They only have the three generations of the Qin Family now. Grandpa Qin, his son, and his grandson. But from what I heard, Grandpa Qin had two sons. At that time, I thought they were just baseless rumors. Is it possible that...?"

’’The Master of the Qin Family wears a signet ring that represents the family’s crest. But this...’’ Daisy looked at the lighter in her hand, ’’There is ’Qin’ carved inside this intricate pattern. It’s not a fake,’’ she passed the lighter to Diana who observed it closely.

Diana sighed, ’’If Louis is related to them, then does he have no family? Even when he visited the hospital, he had no family members with him. Only a few guards appeared during his surgery.’’

Diana flipped the lighter in between her fingers.

’’The current heir of the family lost his mother when he was young. It was said that the Madam of the Qin family committed suicide.’’

Diana was surprised when she heard that Alex’s mother had committed suicide. But she quickly went back to analyze the situation.

’’But it is no reason why someone would hide the existence of their son,’’ Ivy mumbled in wonder.

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