Chapter 1107 - 515: Return from the Grand Dream (5) (Second Update)

Chapter 1107: Chapter 515: Return from the Grand Dream (5) (Second Update)

There’s another suspicious point: Miss Tang once told them that her mother’s close friend told her that Isaac York went to her mother to ask for their token of love back, but her mother refused, or couldn’t produce it, which led Isaac to angrily push Diana Thomas to the ground, triggering her asthma attack and causing her death.

And the reason Diana Thomas couldn’t hand over the token of love was because she had sold or pawned it, so she couldn’t return it to Isaac York.

From this angle, if the token of love was that Jade hair crown, then did that mean the token of love actually belonged to Isaac York?

Did Isaac York give this Jade hair crown to Diana Thomas as a token of love only because he didn’t know its value at the time?

And then, only after he later learned its value, did he, post-breakup and regardless of decorum, insist on taking it back?

But if the token of love was the Jade hair crown, and Diana Thomas had resold or pawned it, she certainly wouldn’t have gotten much money for it.

Because if she had taken this Jade hair crown to Sotheby’s for auction, the money she got definitely wouldn’t have left her still "living in poverty."

Lawrence Winters’ gaze narrowed slightly as he quickly formed several hypotheses.

First, this Jade hair crown belonged to Isaac. He, not knowing what it really was, gave it to Diana Thomas as a token of love. Later, when the York Family’s business ran into trouble and they needed this "family heirloom" to solve the crisis, he went to Diana to get it back. Diana couldn’t produce it, and in a fit of anger Isaac pushed her to the ground.

However, considering that the York Bank did end up getting that sum of money, can we infer that Diana ultimately told Isaac the lead on where she had resold or pawned the Jade hair crown?

Then Isaac went to find the buyer or the pawnshop, redeemed it, and sent it to Sotheby’s for auction?

This possibility exists, but it’s very slim.

Because his inference was that Diana didn’t get much money by reselling or pawning the Jade hair crown, whereas for Isaac to redeem it, it wouldn’t have been a trivial amount.

At the time, the York Bank was on the verge of being wound up and might not have been able to raise a huge sum of cash to redeem it.

So for this hypothesis to hold, there must be one additional possibility: before the York Bank was cleared, they suddenly managed to borrow a sum of money to redeem it.

This assumption is even less likely, but logically it works, so it’s not absolutely impossible.

He would tentatively leave it as doubtful.

Second, this Jade hair crown belonged to Diana. She had worn it once at her high-school graduation ball. Later, when the York Bank ran into difficulties, Isaac set his sights on this Jade hair crown. Either by coaxing her or getting her to willingly give it to him, he obtained it from Diana, then took it to Sotheby’s for auction and finally pulled the York Bank out of trouble.

But for this hypothesis to stand, there is a major problem: Diana was an orphan. Where would she have gotten such an antique piece of jewelry?

Being an orphan means having no home, no relatives, and being raised in an orphanage.

Theoretically, the prerequisite for an orphanage to take in a child is under eighteen, but in reality it’s sixteen.

Would a child under sixteen have the ability to keep hold of an antique piece of jewelry of "family heirloom" caliber, worth a king’s ransom?

Also, if this was a family heirloom belonging to Diana, then who were her parents?

If any parents could leave behind such a family heirloom, how could they possibly let their child enter an orphanage while still a minor?

Yet this possibility is not completely untenable either.

Because Mrs. Fang once said that the reason the current Miss Tang can live in comfort without worrying about food and clothing is that her mother left her a sum of money, so she doesn’t need to work and can live in splendor.

Miss Tang’s mother is Diana Thomas. She was able to leave her daughter enough money so that her daughter doesn’t need to work and can "live in splendor," which means the amount she left was not small.

Yet Miss Tang herself said that her mother, Diana Thomas, lived in straitened circumstances and, after having a child, could only afford to live in a one-bedroom apartment.

Logically, this doesn’t add up.

So was his earlier judgment—namely, that this Jade hair crown definitely belonged to Diana and not to Isaac—actually wrong?

But he still didn’t feel his deduction was wrong, because judging from the quality of this Jade hair crown, given the York Family’s financial resources and discernment in those years, it’s impossible they wouldn’t have recognized its value.

This top-grade imperial green, glassy, old-mine Jade, even in a wealthy household, would be cherished and stored as a family heirloom.

No matter how smitten Isaac might have been, at that time he was only a boy of fourteen or fifteen. Would he really have taken his own family’s "heirloom" just to win a beauty’s smile?

Lawrence felt he needed more information to make a logically sound inference.