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

Song Zhi woke up from her daze, her head still a little dizzy.

She lay in bed, and after recovering, found herself in an unfamiliar room.

Suddenly, Song Zhi thought of something, and she sat up abruptly, looking around.

This is a luxuriously decorated bedroom, with French vintage furniture that gleams matte in the morning light.

A glass of water sat on the bedside table, its surface rippling slightly, indicating that someone had just left.

"Is anyone there?" Her voice sounded unusually dry in the empty room.

No one answered.

Song Zhichi got out of bed and walked to the door. She tried to turn the doorknob.

It remains completely still.

She suddenly panicked.

"Open the door!"

She pounded on the carved wooden door, the echo reverberating hollowly in the corridor.

Song Zhi patted for a while, her knuckles quickly turning red, but the outside of the door remained deathly silent.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down.

She patted herself down and realized that her phone had fallen to the ground when she fainted.

Song Zhi suddenly felt a sense of despair.

She turned around and her eyes lit up when she saw the window.

She hurried forward, but the window was locked.

After seeing Hi off, I looked out the window at the view.

This is the Pei family residence.

She came here three years ago.

Pei's mother invited me to come.

So, Pei Jinnian brought him home? That madman.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound outside the door, and the next second, the tightly closed bedroom door was opened.

Song Zhi turned around and paused for a moment after meeting Pei Jinnian's gaze.

"Pei Jinnian, what do you mean by this?"

Pei Jinnian walked in and placed the food box on the table beside him. "Try it, it's crab meat lion's head meatballs from your favorite shop."

"I'm asking you what this means!"

Pei Jinnian seemed not to hear him, slowly unpacking the food box. In the steaming heat, his eyes were so gentle it was chilling.

"What do you mean? I want you back in my life."

"You're crazy, we broke up a long time ago."

As Song Zhi spoke, the porcelain spoon in the food box made a crisp clinking sound.

Pei Jinnian's hand hovered in mid-air, veins bulging on the cold, pale back of his hand: "I regret it."

Sunlight filtered through the gauze curtains, casting dappled shadows on his face. He said, word by word, "Zhizhi, I regret it."

Song Zhi clenched her fists tightly: "Pei Jinnian, what do you take me for?"

Pei Jinnian walked up to her, reached out and took her icy hand, pressing it against his cheek: "Be my life."

His eyelashes cast a fan-shaped shadow beneath his eyes. "Child, I've tried to forget you, but I can't."

His lips brushed against the veins on the inside of her wrist, his voice low and broken: "But just thinking about you smiling at other people, having children for other people…" His Adam's apple bobbed violently, "...makes me want to blow the whole world up."

"madman."

As she spoke, she pushed her away and kept a certain distance from Pei Jinnian.

Pei Jinnian stared blankly at the empty space in his palm for a long time before finally looking up.

The way he looked at Song Zhi was like a drowning person grabbing onto the last piece of driftwood.

"Child, please have pity on me, okay?"

Song Zhi looked up at him, her eyes seemingly covered with frost.

She spoke slowly, each word like a sharp blade.

"Pei Jinnian, I thought I'd made myself clear enough. I don't like you, never have."

She turned to leave, but the next second, her wrist was grabbed tightly.

"open!"

She struggled, leaving several red marks on the back of his hand with her fingernails.

But the hand didn't move at all; instead, it tightened its grip even more, almost crushing her wrist bones.

"Pei Jinnian, I told you to let me go, I want to go home."

"go home?"

Pei Jinnian chuckled softly, a dangerous glint in his voice, "Go find Fu Lu?"

"Yes."

Song Zhi raised her chin. "He's waiting for me."

As Song Zhi spoke, the air seemed to freeze instantly.

Pei Jinnian's pupils suddenly contracted, and the veins on his neck bulged.

Song Zhi could feel the temperature in his palm rising rapidly, and the hand gripping her wrist tightening.

"You love him that much?"

Pei Jinnian practically squeezed those words out from between his teeth.

"like."

Song Zhi answered without hesitation, even offering a faint smile, "From beginning to end, it was only him."

Pei Jinnian looked at Song Zhi with some hurt in his eyes, "Zhizhi, I'm in so much pain, my heart is aching. How could you do this to me?"

“Pei Jinnian, you have Meng Huan now, stop bothering me and treat her well.”

"Meng Huan and I are over. Zhizhi, let's start over, okay?"

Song Zhi closed her eyes and let out a long sigh.

Sunlight streamed in through the window, illuminating half of Pei Jinnian's face, but she only felt absurd and exhausted.

"It's been a year, Pei Jinnian."

Her voice was as soft as a sigh, "Don't you think it's unsightly for you to keep pestering me like this?"

Pei Jinnian suddenly lunged forward and pinned her against the door.

The scent of sandalwood enveloped her, and Song Zhi's back was pressed against the cold door panel, while his burning chest stood in front of her.

"I miss you so much I'm going crazy."

He murmured softly, his fingertips tracing her cheek, his movements as gentle as if touching fragile porcelain.

“Every day, every second… you can humiliate me however you want, as long as you come back to me.”

Song Zhi abruptly turned his head to avoid it, his fingers awkwardly hanging in mid-air.

"Don't touch me."

She said coldly, her voice filled with disgust like a bucket of ice water being poured over her.

Pei Jinnian's hand froze, and the tenderness in his eyes crumbled little by little.

Instead, a chilling undercurrent has emerged.

"You won't let me touch you, so Fu Lu can touch you? You two slept together, didn't you?"

Song Zhi looked directly into Pei Jinnian's eyes without fear and said sarcastically, "Young Master Pei, what are you saying? I'm pregnant, and you're asking me if I slept with him? You..."

"Shut up, shut up."

Before he could finish speaking, Pei Jinnian suddenly roared, his eyes bloodshot, "You can only be mine, you can only be mine."

As he spoke, he lowered his head and kissed her.

Pei Jinnian's kiss was forceful and irresistible. Song Zhi's back was pressed against the cold door, and her hands were held above her head by his single hand.

His other hand gripped the back of her head, as if he wanted to meld her whole body into his.

Song Zhi bit down hard, and the taste of blood spread between their lips and teeth.

Pei Jinnian released his grip in pain, a trickle of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, but his smile grew even more dangerous.

"The more you act like this, the less I'll let go."

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his thumb, his eyes sinister. "Zhizhi, be a good girl and come back to me. You know me, don't you?"

Song Zhi's chest heaved violently as she forced herself to calm down.

She certainly understood Pei Jinnian's personality, but there was simply no possibility between them.

Moreover, she doesn't like Pei Jinnian at all.

"Pei Jinnian, it's over between us."

She tried to keep her voice steady, "What you are doing now constitutes unlawful detention."

Pei Jinnian sneered, released his grip on her, and took two steps back to create distance.

He slowly unbuttoned his suit jacket and casually tossed it onto the sofa beside him, a gesture that inexplicably made Song Zhi feel threatened.

"illegal?"