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

The more inseparable they become.

Everyone has weaknesses. Even if Jiang Hua is covered in a layer of hard, spiked armor, there is always a place that can be breached. What she can't let go of is Jiang Weiguo, and that is where Pei Zhan can break through.

"Six hundred billion, within three years... I will earn it all back, with interest." Pei Zhan reached out and stroked Jiang Hua's long hair, his deep eyes growing ever more intense.

Fifteen years ago, she was kidnapped and taken to Wuchuan, where she was locked in a small, dark room. Pei Zhan secretly visited her several times. That night, she fell asleep holding a crystal ball. Her face was a little dirty, but it was easy to tell that she was a little princess from a wealthy family who had been abducted. She was wearing a beautiful princess dress and a crystal crown hair clip worth 200,000 yuan. After they took it away, Pei Zhan took it back and returned it to her, but he was left with injuries. It took Pei Zhan two whole months to recover from those injuries.

Now, with her long hair down, wearing a beautiful long dress, and looking downcast and meek, she resembles the five or six-year-old girl Pei Zhan saw in the dark room.

He still remembered the girl's innocent yet arrogant voice and the words she said to him: "You coward, remember this: when we get out of here, I want to see what you look like with my own eyes, and then I'll tell you my name. You're too weak now; you don't deserve to know."

"You coward, you better hold on, or you'll get beaten to death before I get out."

"Once I get out, I'll reluctantly take you in and make you my dog. I'll give you all the good food I have. Just don't get beaten to death. If you can't beat someone, just run away, okay?"

Pulling herself back to reality, Jiang Hua looked up. The man's deep gaze met hers, and Pei Zhan knew that she had accepted him even a little bit in her heart, and that would be enough.

"Aunt Xu, I've already had someone pick it up, it'll be back in a bit."

"Go take a shower first, and I'll have the maid come and tidy up the things in the room."

Pei Zhan followed suit, leaned forward and kissed Jiang Hua on the forehead, "Get some rest, goodnight."

"nausea."

Pei Zhan smiled slightly, a slight upturn at the corners of his lips: "Mm."

The danger the two had faced earlier, the atmosphere that felt like a bomb ready to explode at any moment, has now completely disappeared.

Every businessman is built on money and profit. Pei Zhan should be glad that Jiang Hua is still willing to compromise for Jiang Weiguo and for money. He should also be glad that Pei Zhan has enough ability.

After Pei Zhan returned to his study, Kager stepped forward and reminded him with dissatisfaction, "If the young mistress continues to have this temper, the master will never tolerate it. Young master... the master has already arranged a marriage for you. Your current engagement is invalid."

Pei Zhan put on his gold-rimmed glasses, twirled his pen, and looked down at the documents. "I'm not going back to the Huo family, so the arranged marriage is off."

“Sir, you will not allow this.”

Pei Zhan: "Tell him that accepting her is my only condition for returning to the Huo family."

Since someone gave him over 50 billion from the Huo family for free, Pei Zhan had no reason not to accept it.

Kagel: "I will relay your words to the gentleman as they are."

"Young Master, what is it that has made you change your mind? Do you really love Young Madam?"

At the end of the document, Pei Zhan signed his name in a smooth stroke: "The premise of any love is that one cannot live without another."

Pei Zhan went to test his feelings for Jiang Hua.

For the first time, he tested himself to see if he could accept Jiang Hua leaving to be with Shen Yebai!

The second time, he tested himself to see if he could really harden his heart and truly leave the Jiang family.

The third time, faced with the divorce agreement signed by Jiang Hua, in which she would leave with nothing, whether he could personally deliver it to the Civil Affairs Bureau to dissolve their marriage was, with his privileges, simply a matter of his word.

The fourth time, seeing her injured and sick, can I remain indifferent...?

Whether it was the first time, the third time, the fourth time, or all the subsequent tests, as long as it concerned her, he subconsciously couldn't control himself, couldn't care about her, and couldn't ignore anything about her.

Zhou Xu did have feelings for Pei Zhan, but these feelings came from Zhou Xu's selfless and devoted love for him, and Pei Zhan passively responded to her feelings.

At the time, Pei Zhan also felt that he should love her, but... he always felt that he couldn't let go of something in his heart. He didn't know where this feeling of not being able to let go came from, and he was never able to find the answer...

For Pei Zhan now, his love for A-Xu is merely a response to Zhou Xu's love for him back then. He chose this girl because he passively accepted this love.

I also felt that I should love her.

But this love was never pure love; it stemmed from gratitude and a sense of responsibility towards Zhou Xu.

Back then... Pei Zhan was homeless, and it was that girl who gave him a place to stay. He could repay this kindness, but it would require a great price to return it.

Zhou Xu loved him, so Pei Zhan reciprocated her feelings.

Jiang Hua was perhaps different from beginning to end. Whether it was from the start when he deliberately approached her for revenge, intentionally controlling himself and deliberately distancing himself from her, or when he watched Jiang Hua lying on the ground struggling, about to suffocate and go into shock, he stood by and did nothing. No matter which one it was, Pei Zhan never, ever could truly harden his heart and watch her get hurt.

This time... it's probably really bad.

When Xu Qiulan returned to Jinsha Shallow Bay, Jiang Hua had already finished taking a bath and was lying in bed reading the book she hadn't finished.

Xu Qiulan stepped forward with great concern, "Miss, I thought something had happened to you. I searched for you for a long time. I waited for you at the apartment for a long time, but I didn't see you. I almost went to find Mr. Xu. I'm relieved to see you back."

“I found the bag on the floor at home, and seeing that the phone was still inside, I brought it back with you.”

"Young Miss, are you no longer angry with Young Master Pei?"

Jiang Hua sat on the bed for an hour, but she didn't actually read a single word. "So what if I'm angry? Aunt Xu, I have a feeling that Dad and I will never be able to shake off Pei Zhan, that leech."

"This...Miss, I don't understand what you mean."

Jiang Hua slammed the book shut and said with great annoyance, "That bastard Pei Zhan said he wants to clean house for Grandpa and find the murderer who killed Mom back then."

"In order to better control the Jiang family, he also instigated my father to sign an investment agreement with the Huo Group with a financing of 60 billion yuan. He threatened that if I divorced him, he would put the entire Jiang family business down with me."

Xu Qiulan: "This...Young Master Pei, is he threatening you? Does your master know about this?"

"Then... what does Miss plan to do with that girl named Song Qingran?"

"If that's the case, wouldn't Miss have to put up with Young Master Pei keeping other women outside?"

"Young Miss, I think we should tell the Master everything. He'll have a solution..."