He lured her deep into his trap, using both overt and covert methods to seduce her.

Song Zhi said irritably, "It's so late, let them go back."

"Did Yinuo go back too?"

Song Zhi nodded: "Yes, Xu Ning took her home."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yan muttered a curse under his breath.

Song Zhi looked at him with a puzzled expression: "Who are you cursing?"

Zhou Yan smiled somewhat awkwardly: "Nobody's here. Are you going back now too?"

Song Zhi nodded: "I was planning to go back, but Yinuo just called me and said that she might have left her things in the private room. I'm going to go look for them now."

"I'll accompany you."

Song Zhi didn't say anything. The two went to the private room, where the cleaning lady was cleaning. Song Zhi quickly stopped her and asked about the necklace.

The cleaning staff shook their heads, quickly disclaiming any involvement: "I didn't see it. I just came in and didn't notice."

"It's okay, I'll look for it myself first."

As he spoke, he began searching the private room.

Seeing this, Zhou Yan asked curiously, "What necklace?"

"It was a birthday gift from Yinuo's father. I saw her putting it away when I left. How could she be so careless?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yan pursed his lips and muttered under his breath, "It's just a necklace."

Song Zhi didn't hear him clearly and turned her head to look at him: "What did you say?"

Zhou Yan chuckled, reverting to his usual carefree demeanor: "It's nothing, I'll help you look for it."

"No need, you go about your business, I can find it myself." After saying that, he thought of something and said, "How about you help me ask the boss to check the surveillance footage?"

Zhou Yan nodded: "Okay."

As soon as Zhou Yan left, Song Zhi picked up her phone flashlight and began searching the private room.

But after searching around, I still couldn't find it.

Just then, her phone rang. She glanced at the contact and saw it was Fu Lu calling.

Song Zhi quickly pressed the call button.

"Hey, Ninth Brother."

"finished?"

Fu Lu's pleasant voice came from the other end of the phone.

Song Zhi said with some distress, "Yinuo lost her necklace. I'm looking for it for her, but I haven't found it yet."

Where is she?

"I sent them back first."

"If you can't find it, come downstairs. I'll be waiting for you."

"okay."

After hanging up the phone, Song Zhi walked out of the private room and headed towards the elevator until someone called her back.

"Song Zhi".

Song Zhi paused for a moment, turned around, and saw Pei Jinnian standing in the corridor, staring at her intently.

"What are you doing here?"

Pei Jinnian strode forward.

Song Zhi said indifferently, "It has nothing to do with you."

Pei Jinnian sneered: "You knew I was here, so you came looking for me, didn't you? You still care about me, don't you?"

Song Zhi didn't know what had gotten into Pei Jinnian, so she immediately frowned and said, "My being here has nothing to do with you. Don't flatter yourself."

Let's go.

Seeing Song Zhi's bad attitude, Pei Jinnian restrained his temper and quickly stepped forward to grab Song Zhi's wrist: "Let's talk."

Song Zhi sighed and looked up at the man in front of her.

Under the warm yellow light, the man's rugged and arrogant features appeared much softer.

Song Zhi suddenly felt exhausted, and she bluntly said, "Pei Jinnian, are you being a masochist? I've already..."

"As long as you come back to me, you can have anything you want?"

Pei Jinnian interrupted her.

Without even thinking, Song Zhi refused outright: "Sorry, I'm not willing."

"Is 100,000 a month enough? If not, how about 1 million?"

Song Zhi frowned: "What do you mean?"

"What Lawyer Fu can give you, I can give you too. If you think it's not enough, name your price..."

Before he could finish speaking, Song Zhi suddenly raised her hand and slapped him.

There was a snap.

The loud slap echoed down the corridor.

The next second, clear finger marks appeared on Pei Jinnian's face.

Song Zhi said with a stern face, "Pei Jinnian, I originally wanted to handle things a little more gracefully between us, but obviously, that's not possible."

Pei Jinnian pressed the tip of his tongue against his stinging cheek and sneered, "Dignity? When you treated me as a substitute, did you ever think about dignity?"

Three years, more than a thousand days and nights, Song Zhi, and now you're talking to me about dignity?

"Even if I treated you as a substitute, in these past three years, have you ever truly cared for me? Pei Jinnian, we're even long ago."

With that, she ignored him and turned to leave.

She had only taken a couple of steps when Pei Jinnian's gloomy voice came over: "Song Zhi, you'll regret this?"

Song Zhi paused for a moment, but ignored his words and went straight into the elevator.

As Song Zhi stepped out of the club, she saw Fu Lu's car parked on the side of the road.

She quickened her pace, walked over, opened the passenger door, and got into the car.

While fastening her seatbelt, Song Zhi asked, "How long have you been here?"

"It won't be long. Let's go, I'll take you home."

With that, he started the car and drove off.

Fu Lu didn't say a word the whole way, but Song Zhi would occasionally glance at him out of the corner of her eye.

"Ninth Brother, is the company very busy?"

During this period, she and Fu Lu did not meet, only occasionally exchanging phone calls.

"Something came up, are you a bit busy?"

Song Zhi turned to look at him: "What's wrong? Is it serious?"

"It's okay, I'll handle it. Don't worry. After I'm done with this busy period, I'll take you out to play, okay?"

Song Zhi nodded obediently.

More than ten minutes later, the car came to a smooth stop in front of the apartment building. Song Zhi got out of the car and watched Fu Lu leave before walking towards the unit door.

When she got home, Song Zhi was a little puzzled to see an extra pair of shoes on the shoe rack in the entryway.

Is someone coming home?

Song Zhi put down her keys, changed her shoes, and walked into the living room. She paused when she saw Xiao Wan sitting on the sofa.

"Wanwan, why are you here?"

Xiao Wan pouted and said with a somewhat aggrieved expression, "You wouldn't see me, so I came to find you."

"What do you want from me?"

Xiao Wan stood up, walked to Song Zhi, took Song Zhi's hand, and said sincerely, "Zhi Zhi, I apologize for what happened before, so please don't be angry with me anymore, okay?"

Song Zhi was slightly taken aback, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.

Angry?

Actually, no.

But after going through all that, she knew that their relationship could only go this far.

Song Zhi shook her head slightly: "No, I'm not angry."

Xiao Wan reached out and hugged her tightly: "Then let's be like before, okay?"

Song Zhi didn't answer, but gently pushed her: "Let go of me first."

"No, you have to promise me first."

Helpless, Song Zhi could only nod and say, "Okay."

Xiao Wan got a satisfactory answer and immediately let go of her, grinning foolishly at Song Zhi: "By the way, you didn't know about the scumbag Jiang Huai that I told you about before. He's so weird."

Song Zhi looked at her with some curiosity: "What's wrong with him?"

Xiao Wan said with a look of disgust, "Her mother came to the gate of my villa, put up a banner, and said that I abandoned her son. I have never seen such a bizarre family before."

Upon hearing this, Song Zhi also found it rather bizarre.

That night, Xiao Wan pestered Song Zhi to tell her about many bizarre things that happened in Jianghuai, and naturally ended up staying at her place for the night.