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

All six people collapsed to the ground in pain. Pei Zhan went forward to untie them. The ropes binding her hands behind the chair loosened slightly. Just as Jiang Hua was about to fall forward, Pei Zhan caught her. Her chin rested weakly on the man's shoulder, and she breathed shallowly.

Amidst the illusory light and shadow, Jiang Hua vaguely saw the person standing up with a knife on the ground, and said, "Be...be careful."

"Go to hell!" He didn't dodge. The sharp knife in his hand pierced through Pei Zhan's back. From the initial numbness to the later throbbing pain, Pei Zhan just lowered his eyes and looked at Jiang Hua, who had already fallen into a deep sleep.

Just as the person behind him was about to strike again, a gunshot rang out from behind.

"never mind."

Jiang Hua was unable to hear the whispering in her ear.

Pei Zhan picked her up in his arms, each step steady and powerful, completely ignoring the blood flowing continuously from her back.

The inspectors who arrived quickly cordoned off the scene and rushed forward to inquire about Pei Zhan's condition, "Are you injured?"

Pei Zhan: "I'm fine."

"We called an ambulance on the way here, and it arrived very quickly."

Pei Zhan nodded, then, holding the person in his arms, left the dirty and chaotic abandoned site.

A red sedan drove up, and when she saw this scene, she froze on the spot, at a loss, her eyes wide as she looked at him and asked, "...You dropped everything and rushed here just for her?"

"Do you know what you're doing? For so many years, our goal has always been to bring down the Jiang family and make them pay the price."

"The things that happened to the Jiang family are enough for us to achieve our goals without even lifting a finger, but what are you doing now?!"

"Have you forgotten how Ah-Xu died back then?"

After walking outside the factory for a while, and as the last character fell, Pei Zhan stopped. "It has nothing to do with her." His dark eyes were like ink that couldn't be blurred, and his tone was heavy. He looked down at Jiang Hua in his arms, who had lost a lot of weight recently.

"She knows nothing."

“How could she not know!” A hint of panic appeared in Zhou Yan’s eyes. She stepped forward and stood in front of him, her eyes urgent, as if she wanted to know some answer from him. “Maybe she’s just pretending. She knows perfectly well that her heart belongs to A-Xu, but she’s just pretending to be innocent and living off A-Xu’s heart without a care in the world.”

Pei Zhan narrowed his eyes, looking at her with a hint of coldness. "Jiang Weiguo will not let her know what the Jiang family has been doing behind the scenes."

Jiang Hua had never left the Jiang family home since she was a child. She was always a pampered and spoiled child. Jiang Weiguo only had this one daughter, and in order to maintain his image as a kind father in front of Jiang Hua, he would not reveal all the things about the Jiang family.

Zhou Yan couldn't believe that he would say such words to protect her. At this moment, she finally woke up completely and realized that he had really fallen in love with her.

"Where's Ah Xu? Are you planning to give up on revenge? Jiang Weiguo is seriously ill, you should have ignored it, but you still hired the best medical team. Is this what you call revenge?"

"If Mom knew, do you think he could handle it? Don't forget... what have we been working for all these years!"

Pei Zhan didn't give her an answer, but he could hear the sound of an ambulance in the distance.

Seeing that he did not leave without hesitation, Zhou Yan's heart trembled uncontrollably, and she almost lost her balance.

She couldn't accept that he would just leave her and her mother like that...

...

When Jiang Hua woke up, she was already lying in a hospital bed. A doctor in a white coat and blue mask was in front of her and performed a series of examinations. "Fortunately, there's nothing seriously wrong. The ether she inhaled didn't have a major impact on her body. Just rest well and pay attention to her diet. She's too thin. She needs to eat three meals a day on time, otherwise her body will eventually become too weak and collapse."

Pei Zhan was taking a statement outside the door, while also checking on Jiang Hua's condition.

The inspectors handed Pei Zhan a cell phone. "This is Ms. Jiang's cell phone that she dropped at the scene. There was indeed an incoming call in her call log, but the caller was very clever. They set it to be connected to a number they knew and called Ms. Jiang, using deception to get her to go back to school to get some materials. It just so happened that she was out alone under these circumstances and that's how she encountered this situation."

"However, it will take some time to find out who the other party is, as they are using a specially configured virtual number."

Pei Zhan took the phone and nodded, "Thank you for your trouble."

"I will have my staff inform you of any new developments."

By the time the inspectors left, Jiang Hua had already woken up and was sitting on the edge of the bed. The two looked at each other. Jiang Hua saw Pei Zhan, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, and now that he was in front of her again, she simply ignored him as if he were air, giving him a faint glance before looking away.

Pei Zhan walked to the bedside, sat down next to her, placed the phone in her hand, and explained to her, "This time, it's probably the Wang family who wanted to kidnap you and use your safety to force Chairman Jiang to compromise and destroy all the evidence in his possession."

"This is my family's business, it has nothing to do with you, get out." Jiang Hua's tone still sounded somewhat angry.

At this moment, Xu Qiulan stepped forward and said, "Miss, you have really misunderstood Mr. Pei this time."

Jiang Hua's face was somewhat pale: "Aunt Xu, even you are speaking up for her?"

Xu Qiulan hesitated, then said, "Miss, I know you're angry. Young Master Pei hasn't shown up lately, but I know... he's been helping the Master find evidence."

"Aunt Xu, how do you know all this?"

Xu Ma: "I overheard the conversation between Mr. Pei and Mr. Pei in Mr. Pei's study."

Jiang Hua narrowed her eyes, finally deigning to give Pei Zhan a glance, a hint of emotion appearing in her eyes, "When did this happen?"

More than anything else, Pei Zhan was worried about her health. "It's all in the past now. You need to rest properly."

"I'll ask you another question!" Jiang Hua wanted to hear him say it to her face.

Pei Zhan looked into her eyes and said, "I spoke with Chairman Jiang on the phone beforehand. I was afraid that the contents would be hard for you to accept, so I only gave it to you after asking and getting Chairman Jiang's consent."

Jiang Hua: "So... during this time, you disappeared without a trace. What did you find out?"

Hearing what he said, Jiang Hua realized that during the week he had been missing, he had gone to the obstetrics and gynecology hospital where his mother had been treated and to find the people who had taken care of her. More than 20 years had passed, and it would indeed take a lot of time to find witnesses from those involved back then.

When all the evidence, including all the surveillance videos he had cleared, was presented to her, Jiang Hua was speechless.

She thought... the person who always wanted her dead wouldn't care about the Jiang family's fate, let alone her father's. Jiang Hua knew that Pei Zhan originally had a fiancée, but because of her interference, he broke up their engagement.

She heard it from an employee of the Jiang Group, who said that Pei Zhan and his girlfriend were childhood sweethearts who grew up together. Their relationship was naturally much deeper than hers, who had been forcibly taken from him.

His dislike for her and his father wasn't without reason; he had genuinely helped them this time, and now even Aunt Xu was speaking up for him.

Although Jiang Hua was sometimes unreasonable, she was also a person who clearly distinguished between gratitude and resentment. Holding the USB drive that Pei Zhan had given her, she calmly asked him, "You really did help us this time. What kind of reward do you want?"

"I remember you had a fiancée back then, wasn't she also...sent...abroad by your father?"

"Once Dad recovers, I will help you find her."

Thinking back, those photos he kept hidden on his computer as secrets, those that bore some resemblance to Song Qingran, must have been his fiancée from back then. However… Song Qingran… Jiang Hua never expected that her existence would become a substitute left by Pei Zhan’s side.

If you think about it that way, Jiang Hua is almost unable to tell whether his departure in his past life was because of Song Qingran or because of the fiancée that Jiang Hua had never met.

She was almost unable to tell who the person he truly loved was.

The reason why Pei Zhan hates her so much, besides forcing him to marry her, is probably because... she was sent away by his father.

After all… Ji Liangchuan was also sent abroad by his father.

At first, Jiang Hua didn't believe that Pei Zhan had a fiancée. She thought it was just a fabricated excuse to shut him up. Perhaps later, Jiang Hua remembered that in her past life, Pei Zhan had accidentally called out someone's name when he was drunk.

Her name seems to be A-Xu.

Back then, when Jiang Hua questioned him, she never mentioned it again.

The name was so old that she overlooked the person.

Looking back now, it's true that Pei Zhan had a fiancée.

"Is her name Ah-Xu?"

When Jiang Hua uttered this name, she also checked Pei Zhan's reaction. In his eyes, it was probably well hidden. This name seemed to him as if it were just a stranger he didn't know. There was no emotion in his eyes, and his expression was very indifferent. "I don't have a fiancée."

"No?"

Pei Zhan uttered a single sentence: "You don't need to repay me anything."

"Then what do you want, company shares?" Jiang Hua made the decision for Jiang Weiguo and said, "You can have them, and I will give you an extra one percent as compensation for taking the fall for you."

"If you really want to make it up to me, then eat properly."

Unexpectedly, Jiang Hua frowned the next second and looked at him with an incomprehensible expression.

Xu Qiulan then interjected, "Miss, what Master Pei means is that everything he does is what he should do, and he doesn't need anything in return. For now, Miss, all you need to do is take good care of your health."

“Aunt Xu, I believe that if someone doesn’t have ulterior motives, it’s just that the terms I’m offering don’t interest him.” Jiang Hua was also tired and didn’t want to argue with him anymore. “While I still have some patience with you and I’m not in a bad mood, and you can still negotiate with me, I won’t be as easy to talk to as I am now in a while.”

Pei Zhan tucked her in and said, "Okay."

Seeing him like this, it seemed like he really just wanted to do things for him alone, without asking for anything in return.

In Jiang Hua's opinion, he was being incredibly fake.

Given the lessons of her past life, he single-handedly devoured the entire Jiang family, not even sparing Yulong Bay. A man whose eyes were only on transactions and profits, now he wants nothing at all. Does she believe it?

"Has the wound been bandaged?"

With a casual expression of concern, Pei Zhan's lips curled into a faint smile. "This is the first time in so long."

Jiang Hua: "You're crazy."

"Get out, I need to rest."

Jiang Hua lay back down in bed. She was indeed sleepy. During this period, she had barely slept a wink because of worrying about her father, feeling anxious and anxious. But for some reason, she suddenly became... so sleepy.

In less than half a minute, Jiang Hua closed her eyes and fell asleep.

All I could hear was the faint sound of conversation.

“Miss, you’ve been worried about the master lately and haven’t eaten much for several days. If it weren’t for Young Master Ye Bai, your body wouldn’t have held up until now.”

Pei Zhan reached out and brushed her hair aside. Looking at her sleeping face, he felt inexplicably uneasy, and his thin lips pressed into a sharp curve.

How...how did she know Ah-Xu?

Pei Zhan never mentioned it to her, and even the photos she accidentally discovered had long been destroyed.

What else did she know?

There are some things that Pei Zhan hopes will never be known to her.

To prevent this from happening again, Pei Zhan has already ordered bodyguards to protect this floor, and Jiang Weiguo's side is no exception. Now is not the time for him to get into trouble. He is being kept alive only because of her... If Jiang Weiguo dies, Huahua will not be able to bear it.

With Pei Zhan's arrival, Xie Huai saw no need to stay any longer, and after he left...

Jiang Hua was resting, and Pei Zhan was by her bedside, his eyes closed, trying to relax. As the sun set and dusk fell outside, the moment footsteps entered through the door, Pei Zhan's sharp eyes snapped open. Seeing Zuo Xiangnan approaching, his steps hurried, and before he could even speak, Pei Zhan had already stood up. "Let's talk outside."

The outside corridor.

Zuo Xiangnan: "The day before yesterday, people from the tax bureau suddenly came to the company to audit the accounts. They said they had received a report that Jiang's Group was evading taxes. In addition, all of Jiang's Group's major subsidiaries have run into problems. One of them said that our project was reported for cutting corners. All the materials were also found to be substandard. It is probably because the people below us took kickbacks."

"The inspectors are on their way to find Chairman Jiang, but he is not in a condition to be investigated right now."

One wave subsides only for another to rise. Even Pei Zhan is feeling exhausted. Because of the Wang family's affair, Pei Zhan found an underground intelligence-selling organization and finally got some results. Now... all the major branches of the Jiang family are experiencing problems. It's clear that someone is targeting the Jiang family and trying to destroy them.