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

Back in her hotel room, there was a knock on the door. Jiang Hua didn't respond. The light made her face look pale. She just stared at the picture books in her hands, her mind filled with memories of everything Ji Liangchuan had done over the years.

"Liang is very nice. He's kind to everyone, and many beautiful women pursue him, but he rejects them all, saying he already has someone he likes. I remember the first time I met him, the security here wasn't very good. His wallet was stolen, but he only got back the photos inside."

"I've seen the photo above; it's you."

"He told me a lot about you guys..."

"Not long after that, I will invite him to work for me."

"But later, he said he was leaving. I didn't know where he was going. He was gone for several years. I haven't seen him since he left."

"If he left you a letter, you can ask around at the places he visited, maybe... those friends know his whereabouts."

Jiang Hua was engrossed in her own world and didn't hear the knocking on the door. The knocking continued for several minutes until it stopped…

The waiter could only leave silently. In the castle villa across the street, there was a deathly silence, like hell. All the servants lowered their heads and dared not make a sound. The mess on the ground was enough to prove Pei Zhan's emotions at this moment. Pei Zhan rarely lost control, but when it came to her, he was always helpless.

A few minutes later, the hotel staff member who had knocked on Jiang Hua's hotel room door spoke fluent French and said apologetically and helplessly, "I'm sorry, young master. I've knocked several times, but the young mistress just won't open the door. The things I prepared can't be delivered in, and there's nothing I can do."

"The young mistress is in a bad mood, and no one will open the door at this time."

Pei Zhan stared sadly at the light on in the hotel room across the street. He could vaguely see her sitting alone by the floor-to-ceiling window. Suddenly… Pei Zhan saw her get up, and the next second, she fainted.

In that split second, without thinking, Pei Zhan pushed aside the person in front of him and rushed out…

Within just a few minutes, the entire hotel seemed to be in complete chaos.

Outside the entire floor that had been booked out, the hotel butler, using a spare room key, heard a 'beep' sound when a powerful, impatient force pushed open the door and found a person lying unconscious on the ground.

"Huahua!" Pei Zhan stepped forward and picked her up. He saw that her face was haggard and covered in tears. He knew she would be like this. He had arranged for a doctor at the hotel to give her a check-up as soon as he arrived.

Jiang Hua's hand lay limply in that rough, burning palm. When Pei Zhan touched her body to check her temperature, her body was ice-cold. It had been raining in France all this time, and she hadn't brought any clothes with her. After the examination, Pei Zhan wrapped a blanket tightly around her and held her hand, trying to warm her up in this way.

The doctor removed his stethoscope: "It seems that this young lady has only fainted due to excessive grief and low blood sugar from not eating. Have the kitchen make her a bowl of porridge, and she will be fine after a good rest."

As soon as he finished speaking, a hotel waiter brought over a bowl of porridge. Then, he quietly brought the clothes, coats, skirts, and some underwear that had not been brought in earlier to the room.

Pei Zhan took the bowl of porridge and held it to her lips, managing to get her to drink some with some difficulty. "Kagher, go and urge them to arrive as soon as possible tonight."

Kagel nodded and replied, "Yes, young master."

Jiang Hua vaguely regained consciousness and coughed uncomfortably a few times. Why did this aura feel so familiar?

She slowly opened her eyes and saw the hotel butler standing in front of her, with an unfamiliar face beside her—a hotel employee.

"Miss Jiang, you're finally awake."

Jiang Hua's mind was still blank. "What... happened to me?"

The hotel butler clasped his hands in front of him and said in broken Chinese, “When we came to deliver your meal, we found that you were not responding. The room attendant was worried that something had happened to you, so they took it upon themselves to send me here… I used the hotel’s spare room key to open the door and found you unconscious in the room.”

"The doctor said that you only have low blood sugar and there is nothing else wrong. Ms. Jiang, don't worry. Tomorrow, the hotel staff will accompany you to the hospital for a full check-up, just in case."

Jiang Hua looked at the waiter who stood up beside her and asked, "Were you the one who was just next to me?"

Waiter: "Yes, Miss Jiang."

But... the scent on her body was clearly wrong. Jiang Hua wasn't unaware of it while she was unconscious. The scent she smelled was clearly the incense that Pei Zhan often wore on his suits, a faint yet cold fragrance. This kind of incense is not very common.

Before the doubts in her heart were resolved, she noticed out of the corner of her eye the rows of clothes on the hangers in the room, all of which were clothes suitable for the current temperature in France. "What are these clothes?"

The hotel butler calmly and without any flaws replied, "When the housekeeping staff cleaned your room today, they noticed that you didn't have any change of clothes. These... Ms. Jiang, please rest assured, you can wear them as you like, or take them with you."

She didn't think too much about it, after all, a presidential suite costing hundreds of thousands a night, with these basic services, was acceptable.

Jiang Hua was still a little dizzy and didn't want to think about it anymore. "I understand. I'm fine now. You can all leave."

"Okay, Miss Jiang."

"We will deliver your meal upstairs within five minutes. The doctor said you need to eat on time to prevent this from happening again."

Jiang Hua: "Mm."

After they left, the room attendant pushed the food cart in, placed the food on the table, and was about to call the people in the room, but... seeing that Jiang Hua was on the phone, he just gave a soft nod and left.

Kagel: "Young Madam, the condition hasn't worsened; it's clearly under control..."

Suddenly, a cell phone rang, interrupting the conversation. Pei Zhan hadn't gone far. Standing in front of the elevator, he saw the caller ID, raised his hand, and everyone around him immediately fell silent. Kagel didn't say anything more either.

Pei Zhan covered the ringtone of his phone, afraid that it would be heard in Jiang Hua's suite, so he went to the quiet rooftop before answering the call.

Jiang Hua glanced at the darkening night outside the French windows and asked calmly, "Where are you?"

"I'm at the company, just finished a meeting. Sorry... I've been a bit busy lately and forgot to call you. What's up?"

"Take a picture of me." Jiang Hua's tone was commanding, as if she were asking for confirmation.

Pei Zhan responded calmly, recalling how she treated him differently from Ji Liangchuan. Although he couldn't suppress it, he could only endure it. "Is Mrs. Pei trying to check up on me, or is she worried about me?"

"Chairman Jiang called me today and said... he couldn't reach you."

"Where did you go?"

Jiang Hua: "Don't change the subject."

"hurry up."

Pei Zhan countered, "Now?"

Jiang Hua: "Yes, now."

Pei Zhan gazed at the night sky not far away, one hand resting on the railing. The long hair on the man's forehead was slightly blown by the wind, and his deep eyes held a surge of emotions. "But I can't bear to hang up the phone, Huahua... you almost never call me first."

"Wait a little longer, okay?"

There was a hint of humility in that tone.

"It's not that I didn't call you, it's that you didn't want to answer. Later, to avoid me, you got a new phone." Jiang Hua's voice was completely emotionless as she told him these things. Hearing Pei Zhan's silence, Jiang Hua knew she had said things she shouldn't have, things he didn't want to hear, but... it was the truth...

“I know I shouldn’t bring these things up, as we agreed before. But… just because we’ve chosen to start over doesn’t mean these things didn’t happen.”

"From now on, I will try my best to maintain the length and frequency of our calls."

"That's all for today. I'll tell Dad myself that I need to rest."

Jiang Hua hung up the phone after he answered.

Jiang Hua had no appetite for the meal brought by the room attendant, but she forced herself to eat a little. At least... before she knew Ji Liangchuan's whereabouts, she couldn't let this happen again. She needed to recover and live as well as possible.

Jiang Hua only put down her chopsticks when she was almost unable to eat anymore.

In just a short while, Jiang Hua turned her head to look again and saw that Pei Zhan had already sent her more than a dozen photos. These were photos of him sitting in the main seat, taking pictures of the employees of Jiang's overseas branch, as well as photos of him eating and having dinner...

The last message from underground: This will not happen again. Starting tomorrow, I will personally report my daily schedule to Mrs. Pei.

Go home early, don't worry Chairman Jiang.

The last sentence in the message made Jiang Hua's brow twitch, and she clenched her other hand...

He... probably doesn't know.

She is here.

No matter how powerful Pei Zhan is, she couldn't possibly have connections to this extent. Besides, her phone, which had been equipped with a tracking device, was placed in her bedroom at Yulong Bay.

Maybe... she's overthinking it.

After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Hua replied: Whatever.

Just as her father said, her relationship with Pei Zhan couldn't continue to be so strained. And she... would find it hard to find someone as suitable as Pei Zhan to manage the Jiang family business. He had also undergone sterilization and owed an agreement. If she continued like this, it really seemed like she was in the wrong.

The message had barely been sent when Pei Zhan replied almost instantly: Remember to eat.

Jiang Hua: I ate it.

Pei Zhan: What did you eat?

Jiang Hua saved the previously backed-up photos and sent them to him as a way of... dealing with it. He wouldn't be able to find any flaws, and besides... Jiang Hua thought he probably wouldn't have that much free time to call back to China to investigate.

Pei Zhan never imagined that Jiang Hua could be so meticulous in her deceptions…

I didn't want to push her too hard...

After the photos were sent out, the reply disappeared without a trace, and there was no further response.

A luxurious black car, a symbol of status and power, was parked downstairs at a foreign private hospital. As soon as he entered the elevator and reached his floor, the elevator doors opened, and Pei Zhan regained his signal and immediately replied to her message.

Two bodyguards in black suits stood guard outside the ward. When the door opened, Pei Zhan saw Ji Liangchuan in a very disheveled state. He walked in with a sharp look in his eyes, pulled out a chair, unbuttoned his suit jacket, sat down, crossed his legs, and looked at Ji Liangchuan's pained appearance without any change in his demeanor.

The man's lips curled into a mocking smile as he lowered his eyes. "I saved you once back then, and now look at my situation... isn't that retribution?"

Bai Rui looked at his pained expression and tried to help him up. "Pei Zhan, what do you want! Even if Liang Chuan didn't reveal his identity back then, and didn't tell Jiang Hua that you were the one by her side, you're already married to Jiang Hua..."

"Isn't this punishment enough after all these years?"

"If you're still not satisfied and want to get revenge on him, I'll take the blame for him..."

"No matter what, I beg you... please give him the medicine!"

Ji Liangchuan's condition flared up; every part of his body was wracked with pain. Only the special medicine at this hospital could alleviate his suffering. However… just because of Pei Zhan's words, the hospital cut off the medication. Now, Ji Liangchuan felt as if his entire body was being slowly tortured, an unbearable agony…

The veins on the back of his hands bulged, and he knelt awkwardly on the ground, forced to endure the pain.

"I gave you a chance, blame yourself for being too greedy."

"Besides those letters, what else did you leave behind?"

Ji Liangchuan: "If you want to know, I can tell you everything..."

"I can also cooperate with you to make her give up on me completely."

"Huahua, now she's just an obsession with me from the past that she can't let go of."

"Even if she knew I was alive, she wouldn't divorce you for the sake of the Jiang family."

“You don’t need to be so afraid of losing her.”

"The more you try to stop or change something, the more you try to control it, the more counterproductive it becomes, and the less she likes it..."

“From childhood to adulthood, she has always been like this. The more you want her to do something, the more she will resist. Unless there is an unavoidable reason, she will not compromise. But because of this, she will only suppress herself and will never be happy.”

No one understood her better than him.

She also knew better what Pei Zhan should do to make Hua Hua's heart lean towards him again.

Seeing that he was in so much pain that he couldn't speak, Pei Zhan waved his hand, and a pharmacist brought out a special medicine for him to take. "Ji Liangchuan! I looked down on you twenty-six years ago, and I still do now..."

"Jiang Weiguo, the best thing I did was to let you leave."

"What can you offer her if you stay by her side?"

"You've been in the Jiang family for almost ten years, and Jiang Weiguo has poured so much money into you. In the end... what's the difference between raising a good-for-nothing?"

When Pei Zhan first took over the mess that was the Jiang family, the Wang family was a bunch of wolves and tigers who had already infiltrated the entire family, and were just short of changing their surname to 'Wang'.

The Wang family had long planned to kidnap Jiang Weiguo and use the same methods they used on Jiang Qingcheng to force him to hand over the shares of the Jiang family business, so that they could completely control everything in the Jiang family business.

People are not enough to swallow elephants.

What the Wang family wants is not just the Jiang family, but... the entire Jiang family, including the lives of Jiang Weiguo and Jiang Hua...

If it weren't for him, do you really think... the Jiang family could have survived until now?