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

"Is it hot or not?"

Seeing his actions, Jiang Hua raised an eyebrow in slight surprise, "Did you take the wrong medicine today?"

In her past life, Pei Zhan would never wash her feet like he does now. When she was in a bad mood and he drove her to the brink of madness, he would always silently turn around and leave without even giving her a glance.

He wouldn't treat her that well.

The warm water reached her ankles, and the water was splashed onto the insteps of her feet. The water temperature, neither too hot nor too cold, quickly warmed Jiang Hua's icy body.

“Some things you just do on a whim, like Mrs. Pei, who came to France without a care in the world. Being kind to Mrs. Pei is what I should do. Or… don’t you like what I’m doing?” His humble yet ingratiating tone, along with his behavior, made Jiang Hua wary. When someone acts strangely, it’s usually for a reason.

Jiang Hua nonchalantly picked up her phone; several messages were from Shen Yebai, which she had forgotten to reply to.

She simply gave him a look, and their eyes met. Jiang Hua replied to Shen Yebai's message and then put down her phone. "But you weren't good to me before!"

"Pei Zhan, didn't you notice?"

"You only do these things when you like me. When you don't like me, you just avoid me and say hurtful things. I'm nothing to you. You don't need to say these things to win me back. It's unnecessary."

"Just do your own thing."

Now, in Jiang Hua's eyes, no matter how much Pei Zhan does, he can't erase the things he did to her back then, including the hurtful things he said.

When Pei Zhan said that she was not as good as Song Qingran, that she couldn't compare to Song Qingran... Jiang Hua was really sad at that time, and her heart ached. She hadn't hurt her in either of her two lives, so why did he have to say such hurtful things to her?

Jiang Hua truly liked him, and even had feelings for him; she couldn't deny that she did love him…

She casually uttered these words, seemingly indifferent to everything, but to Pei Zhan, they were like a spinning blade. How he had treated her back then was how she was treating him now.

It's reasonable, but I regret it...

He lived a miserable and cautious life in his youth, and every step he took was difficult. Pei Zhan never regretted anything he did, except for his feelings for her... He felt indebted and guilty!

No matter how Jiang Hua treats him, he should accept it: "It's alright, we have plenty of time in the future, we can take it slow, I will wait until the day you forgive me."

Jiang Hua gave a mocking laugh. She didn't know whether she should be glad or not. If Pei Zhan had made the same choice as in her previous life, going all the way down the dark path and killing the Jiang family, Jiang Hua felt she probably wouldn't have lived to see this point.

If Pei Zhan hadn't suddenly fallen for her, things wouldn't have changed in this life, and he wouldn't have signed all those messy agreements with her.

However, all of this was done voluntarily by him and had nothing to do with her.

Kagel knocked on the door and entered the bedroom. When he saw the young master condescending to kneel on the floor to wipe the young mistress's feet, he also pretended to be calm and reported, "Young master, all of the young mistress's things are here."

Pei Zhan used a dry towel to gently wipe the water stains off her feet, saying, "Check if anything is missing."

Jiang Hua said, "It's alright, just leave it here."

Kagel: "Yes, young mistress."

Before leaving, Kagel couldn't help but say with concern, "Young Master, your hand hasn't recovered yet; it shouldn't get wet."

Pei Zhan, however, didn't care about his injuries at all. "Get out."

"Yes, Master."

Pei Zhan used another clean towel to wipe his hands, which he had just washed his feet with, and picked up Jiang Hua. Unexpectedly, she frowned the next second and said, "You're so dirty."

Pei Zhan: "I don't mind."

Jiang Hua: "I find it disgusting."

Pei Zhan smiled and said, "I'm going to wash my hands."

Jiang Hua sat on the bed, and Pei Zhan pulled the blanket over her to cover her up. Only then did she see the wound on his hand that Kager had mentioned. It was just a small cut, a tiny wound, nothing compared to the injury she suffered in the car accident.

"Pretentious." The ambiguous voice told Pei Zhan what she was talking about. He withdrew his hand, clenched it into a fist, and then turned around to pour out Jiang Hua's foot bath water.

Half an hour later, Pei Zhan came out of the bathroom. The woman on the bed was already asleep. Hearing her even breathing, the man dried his dripping hair, walked to the bedside, and turned off all the lights in the room. He didn't leave any on and did so very quietly so as not to disturb her.

When getting into bed, he only dared to lift one corner of the blanket before moving to her side, gently pulling the sleeping person along, his hand slipping through her neck. Just then, Jiang Hua turned over in her sleep and bumped into his arms, her thick, long eyelashes closed. She only had these when she was asleep.

Jiang Hua slept soundly until dawn. When she woke up, the spot next to her was still warm, and there was a set of clothes that she had prepared on the bedside table. She changed her clothes, went barefoot, opened the door, and went out.

The sound of the door opening drew the man's attention. "Did you sleep well?"

Jiang Hua ignored her.

Upon seeing the sofa, a foreign doctor in a white coat was injecting something into Pei Zhan.

Kagel: "Good morning, young mistress."

Hotel staff pushed a food cart and placed food on the table. Jiang Hua pulled out a chair and sat down. Without asking about Pei Zhan, she tore off a piece of bread and started eating. "Don't call me that. It makes me uncomfortable."

Kagel glanced at Pei Zhan sitting on the sofa. The moment their eyes met, he changed his tone, but still said the same thing: "...In time, the young mistress will get used to this title."

What are the problems with the people around Pei Zhan?

After the injection, the foreign doctor instructed, "Your wound is very deep, Mr. Pei, please avoid getting it wet and remember to change the dressing on time every day."

Pei Zhan buttoned up the metal buttons on his suit. "Thank you for your trouble."

"It's my duty, and it's my honor to serve you."

The doctor's words made Jiang Hua, who was standing nearby, burst out laughing. "Pei Zhan, how much money did you give him to say something he didn't mean? He's just a country bumpkin from an orphanage. Next time he wants to curry favor, I suggest this doctor keep his eyes open."

"This..." The foreign doctor glanced at the heir of the Huo family in front of him with a slight panic. Everyone in this area knew that everything was under the Huo family's jurisdiction, including... the port of Nice and the island in the sea.

Unexpectedly, this woman spoke so rudely. They thought he would be angry, but Pei Zhan simply waved his hand and told them to leave.

Kagel quietly left with the doctor, closing the door to the presidential suite to leave them some private space and maintain this rare reconciliation.

Pei Zhan put some food on her plate. "I don't know... what I did wrong that made you unhappy."

Jiang Hua looked at him amusedly, "When did you become so concerned about my feelings? Whether I'm happy or not is not your concern. Your focus should be on the company; that's what you should be doing."

With a single sentence from Jiang Hua, the relationship between them was completely severed, devoid of any feelings, and based solely on self-interest.

"You should know that these are not what I want. More than the company, I care about you."

"I don't need your concern." Jiang Hua blurted out these words almost without hesitation. When she looked at his gloomy face, she remembered what she had promised him before. In that instant, all the sharp edges of Jiang Hua's previously raised thorns disappeared.

After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Hua finally told him what was on her mind, "It's not that I haven't thought about starting over with you, Pei Zhan... I've realized that I can't do it anymore, I can't treat you the way I used to."

"I know you want to make it up to me because of Song Qingran, but every time you're nice to me, I can't help but think of the things you did to me and the hurtful things you said."

"My tone of voice, my behavior, and even every moment I make contact with you are subconsciously causing me to feel a sense of resistance towards you."

Even if... even if I know that you and Song Qingran have nothing going on!

"But I just can't forget... During the six months after my car accident, when I was in the most pain, it wasn't you who was there for me."

Upon seeing the guilty look in his eyes, Jiang Hua felt a surge of impatience and irritation. "I really tried my best to cooperate with you."

Pei Zhan felt it too, as if he had been punched hard in the chest, a dull pain that he didn't know what to do about. "Huahua, what can I do to make you feel better?"

Jiang Hua: "I don't need you to do anything."

Actually, when she saw the regret and pain in his eyes, Jiang Hua did feel a sense of vengeful pleasure. She just liked seeing him regretful, and afterwards she felt completely bored.

"I'm going out this afternoon, don't let your men follow me."

"it is good."

After breakfast, Jiang Hua went back to her room and wrote a few more letters. Around 1 p.m., she picked up her bag and left her room. As soon as she stepped out, she saw someone smoking on the balcony. Pei Zhan probably sensed that Jiang Hua had come out. He stubbed out his cigarette and turned around. Then he heard a loud bang as the door slammed shut. She had left.

Pei Zhan stared at the closed door with a gloomy look in his eyes. He stood there for an unknown amount of time. After a while, when Kagel came in, he saw Pei Zhan standing motionless.

Pei Zhan's desire to control Jiang Hua had grown stronger and stronger in his heart since he was unaware of when it started, so strong that he was almost losing control of himself, and he had no idea what else he might do.

"After the young mistress went out, she mailed letters in all the mailboxes in Nice. This is... one of them. Please take a look, young master."

Pei Zhan sat on the sofa and opened the letter. Her handwriting was beautiful, delicate and graceful, yet strong and upright. Every word on the eight pages of the letter seemed to transform into a sharp sword, piercing his chest. Although the man did not show any anger on his face, Kagel saw every subtle change in his expression.

The more he read, the more the violent aura emanating from Pei Zhan wafted out.

Pei Zhan spent more than half an hour reading these letters. Everyone in the letters was mentioned except him. There was no mention of 'longing' in the letters, but every sentence was about her thinking of him.

The last sentence made Pei Zhan's hand holding the letter tremble slightly, as if it was about to explode at any moment.

Jiang Hua: Ji Liangchuan, in the next life, I don't know if I will be able to meet you again. Whether you are safe or not, can you let me know your news?

We have too many regrets in this life that we cannot make up for, but I hope that if there is an afterlife, we can be together again... without any burdens or responsibilities, and let everything take its natural course.

Even if you don't want to come back, I still hope that everything goes well for you, and that you are healthy and safe...

Jiang Hua put pen to paper.

“I think if the young mistress can’t find the person she’s looking for, she’ll go back on her own. Young master, why don’t you… give the young mistress a little more time?”

A sinister glint appeared in Pei Zhan's eyes. He pressed the button on his metal lighter, and a red and blue flame ignited the letter in his hand. In less than two minutes, the flames engulfed the words on the letter, which were then enveloped in black smoke and finally fell to the man's feet, turning into ashes.

"I can't even accept a letter she wrote to Ji Liangchuan. Back then... when she found out about those things, was she in more pain than I was?"

"That car accident cost us our last child, and it almost killed her too."

Pei Zhan said these words with a heavy heart. He didn't know how disappointed Hua Hua must have been in him when he wasn't by her side when she was most helpless and needed someone to be with her the most.

"What she's doing to me now is just punishment for what I did to her back then."

"This is all my own fault..."

Kagel hesitated, then said, "It's not a good thing for someone in a position of power to fall in love. You should focus on the long-term future of the Huo family. There are still many things that need to be done by the young master. You've already wasted too much time on the young mistress."

Pei Zhan: "Everything I did was for her. Without her, what's the point of what I did!"

"I allowed the Jiang family to infiltrate so many of the Huo family's major projects simply because I wanted to keep her by my side forever."

Kagel: "I will have these letters destroyed as quickly as possible, and I will never let the young mistress know about them."

These letters were her only hope and solace. When Jiang Hua returned to the hotel, the hotel staff had already cleaned the living room, leaving no trace.

When she returned, the bodyguards outside the door had already left.

It seems he keeps his word.

It was around 4:30 PM, almost 5 PM.

The waiter brought the food, saying, "Ms. Jiang, these are some dishes your husband prepared for you before he left the hotel. He said he was worried you might not be able to eat them all or enjoy them."

"Where is he now?" Jiang Hua asked for the first time ever.

The waiter said, "Mr. Pei has already left the hotel by car. Before leaving, he instructed that he hopes you can bring someone with you when you go out shopping in the future to protect your safety."

"Okay, I get it."

Jiang Hua tasted the food and thought it was pretty good.

Several days passed in the blink of an eye, and without receiving any news from Ji Liangchuan, Jiang Hua was already preparing to give up on returning to China.

But Pei Zhan suddenly stopped contacting her. It was understandable if he didn't contact her for a day or two, and she didn't really want to see him. But almost a week had passed... Jiang Hua tried to call him, but his phone was still switched off!

The waves surged and crashed against her feet.

I stared at the phone call that had been automatically disconnected.

He doesn't reply to text messages, and he can't get through on the phone...

What on earth is he up to?!

Jiang Hua was about to throw her phone away when it rang. She glanced at the caller ID before answering…