No reconciliation, no forgiveness! Mr. Pei leaves with nothing.

Shen Yebai said, "Eat more so you can regain your strength."

"Flights will resume tomorrow."

Jiang Hua: "Does my dad... know I'm in Wuchuan?"

Shen Yebai said, "I didn't tell him. I just said that you were with Bao'er."

Jiang Hua was quickly put at ease.

After drinking a bowl of porridge and sweating a little, Shen Yebai left the room after seeing her fall into a deep sleep.

Hotel kitchen.

Hotel manager: "Boss, Miss Jiang has started eating, and we've also turned on the heat in her room separately. I think she should be fine."

Pei Zhan untied his apron, and when he wore it, he gave off a married man vibe.

He was the one who invested in and built this hotel, and he is also the legal representative of this star-rated hotel. It has always been operating at a loss, but it has been running for nearly ten years.

Night was falling, and it had been raining for a short while, but it had stopped now.

A bedside lamp was lit in the hotel room.

Jiang Hua slept fitfully, waking up several times during the night. She wondered if she was hallucinating, but she saw a dark figure by the bedside.

When she tried to see who the other person was, she couldn't make out their face. Her voice seemed to be blocked, and she couldn't utter a sound...

A moment later, Jiang Hua felt a lightness in her body, and she collapsed weakly onto someone. She didn't know who it was... and couldn't see clearly...

When Xie Huai returned from running errands elsewhere and saw the open door, he had a bad feeling...

When he entered the hotel room, he found the bed empty.

...

A foul, pungent smell of Chinese medicine wafted in through the window. Jiang Hua felt hot all over, her body sticky and sweaty, making her very uncomfortable. There was also a pungent taste in her mouth, and the bitter liquid was being passed into her mouth. She didn't want to drink it, but the next second, she felt as if her breath had been taken away. Then, something soft pried open her lips and forced her to swallow the liquid.

Jiang Hua tried to struggle and resist, but she was clearly aware that her body was out of control and being manipulated beyond her control.

I don't know how much time passed, but it sounded like someone was talking in my ear.

"You need to take your medicine properly to get better."

Jiang Hua couldn't hear very clearly. After some time, the person who had fallen into a deep sleep finally settled down, but the unpleasant smell in her nose still lingered.

The first ray of light shone through the thin curtains outside the window.

The person lying on the bed opened their eyes without warning. The ceiling was yellowed and dilapidated, and there was an unbearable smell of Chinese medicine. Jiang Hua turned her head to look at the side of the bed and immediately saw Pei Zhan sitting in a chair with his arms crossed in front of his chest, resting with his eyes closed.

Jiang Hua's mind went blank. After half a minute, she sorted out her thoughts and remembered that Pei Zhan had brought her to this wretched place.

During that period, he was still taking care of Song Qingran.

Jiang Hua sat up, threw off the covers, and tried to get out of bed. The wooden bed made her bones stiff and aching, and the creaking sound woke up the man next to her.

"It's not ready yet, can't you just behave?"

Jiang Hua noticed her shoes were missing from the bedside. She wanted to go barefoot, but the cement floor was too dirty to walk on, so she gave up and could only sit on the edge of the bed, frowning and looking at him with disgust. "Where's Shen Yebai? And my phone?"

"They're all at the hotel; I didn't bring them."

Jiang Hua laughed out of anger, and said in a commanding tone, "Find me a pair of shoes."

Pei Zhan glanced at Jiang Hua with his deep gaze. Their eyes met, and a strong sense of tension emanated from Jiang Hua. Pei Zhan remained silent for a moment before standing up, taking a pair of slippers that fit her size from a cabinet outside the outer room, and placing them by the bed.

A pair of red crystal slippers, with a small yellow daisy on them.

Jiang Hua felt her temples throbbing. One day, she would really be driven crazy by him. The designer of these shoes was just as incredibly tacky as him. She endured the discomfort and put on the shoes. When Jiang Hua lifted the covers and got out of bed, wanting to leave, Pei Zhan grabbed her wrist. "On the way back to the airport in the capital, we encountered a mudslide. It will take half a day to repair it."

"I'm going to find Shen Yebai. I'll discuss when I return to the capital with him. It's none of your business." His voice was icy cold. Jiang Hua looked down at her hand, which he was holding. "You've been missing for half a month, and you've done everything you should and shouldn't have done with Song Qingran. Pei Zhan... how can you be so disgusting?"

"Aren't you going to let go? How long are you going to keep holding on?"

Pei Zhan released his grip, and Jiang Hua left without looking back. Then, a threatening voice came from behind her, "Miss Jiang, aren't you curious why, every time you need a heart transplant, there's always a suitable heart that matches you?"

"And yet you always manage to survive unscathed?"

Jiang Hua stopped in her tracks at that moment, her heart clenching as if struck by a heavy punch.

"I don't want to know, and I'm not interested in knowing."

Pei Zhan turned around. "After all these years in the Jiang family, did Miss Jiang think I was completely unprepared?"

"Was the Jiang family, where I grew up, really...clean?"

Jiang Hua stopped in her tracks. At that moment, Pei Zhan also noticed her unusual behavior. He had thought that a pampered and wealthy woman like Jiang Hua, who had grown up in a greenhouse, would know nothing.

"What do you want?"

Pei Zhan said, "Go back to bed and lie down."

After saying that, Pei Zhan knew she wouldn't leave. He walked past her and went to a pharmacy in the backyard. In the courtyard, an old man in his eighties was lying on a chair, stroking his goatee and basking in the sun. "If you want to woo a girl, this isn't how you do it. Saying things like that will only push the girl further away."

"However, I still have to advise you that it's better to end some relationships as soon as possible."

Even if you fall in love with her, she won't live more than two years.

"You'll be crying your eyes out and acting like you're going to die then. I think you should find a new girlfriend now."

Pei Zhan: "I married her."

The old man who had just spoken was so startled that he dropped the fan he was holding.

Pei Zhan poured out the medicine when he saw that it was almost ready, and carried it to the room on the east side. When he entered, he saw Jiang Hua standing in the sunlight with her hair disheveled, shielding her eyes from the glaring sun with her hand, her skin glowing white, as if she were wearing a white veil.

Pei Zhan: "Come and drink your medicine."

Jiang Hua came to her senses, put her hand down, and looked around at her surroundings. They were all old-fashioned houses with black bricks and tiles, and water dripping from the eaves onto the tiled ground.

Jiang Hua turned and walked into the house. "Tell me, what is your purpose in coming to the Jiang family?"

"What do you know?"