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

Jiang Weiguo didn't know how many secrets Pei Zhan was hiding. Back then, he asked the Shen family to help investigate Pei Zhan's background. It turned out that he was indeed adopted by the orphanage in Wuchuan. His only fiancée, Zhou Wenqing, had married someone else immediately after breaking up with Pei Zhan and now had a child.

Aside from his experience of surviving by any means necessary before joining the Jiang family, which was not honorable, Jiang Weiguo didn't think much of it.

The world was indeed in chaos back then, and in a small place like Wuchuan, it is no ordinary person to have achieved such success.

He was able to rise from the bottom of Jiang's branch in Haishi to where he is today, and Pei Zhan is not without his methods. Jiang Weiguo never looks at the process of how he handles things; he values ​​the result more than anything else.

He had his shameful past secretly erased the day Jiang Weiguo intended for him to marry Huahua, also to prevent anyone with ulterior motives from targeting him...

But now it seems that Jiang Weiguo was worrying too much...

The Jiang family's rapid development over the years was entirely due to the Huo family. After all these years, he thought that the Huo family's departure would mean there would be no further contact between the Jiang family and the Jiang family. He never expected that such a connection would fall on his daughter, Jiang Hua.

He didn't know whether it was good or bad.

At least in Jiang Weiguo's view, the situation hadn't escalated too badly, and they could only take it one step at a time.

At least, Pei Zhan had some genuine feelings for Hua Hua.

If Huahua truly has feelings for him, Jiang Weiguo will not stop her. He will also turn a blind eye to Pei Zhan's identity, which would not be detrimental to either Huahua or the Jiang family.

On the contrary... with him around, even if Jiang Weiguo doesn't have many years left, he can entrust Huahua to him with peace of mind. At least... if Huahua really reaches the point where she needs a heart transplant, the Huo family won't sit idly by.

Jiang Weiguo burned the letter in his hand with a metal lighter and threw it into the ashtray, where flames roared up. "...We'll talk about this when Pei Zhan recovers from his injuries and comes back."

Wang Qi: "Should we check who sent it?"

Jiang Weiguo: "Don't worry about it."

If Huahua doesn't care about Pei Zhan's identity, she doesn't need to worry about this matter, and all problems can be easily resolved. If she does care, then it's a conflict between husband and wife. Even if he intervenes again, things will reach an irreversible point, and that's their destiny.

Jiang Weiguo wanted to protect the Jiang family, not only by ensuring the beauty of the city, but also by providing Huahua with the best possible material life. He wanted to guarantee that his daughter would be able to live a life free from want for decades after his death.

A bottle costs over 800,000 yuan; it's a highly effective drug for treating heart disease. Over time, it adds up to a considerable sum.

"No matter what their purpose is, revealing their identity means they are not from the Jiang family and their intentions are impure. I can only trust Pei Zhan to handle his relationship with Huahua well."

Wang Qi nodded slightly. "Yes."

Jiang Weiguo just didn't expect that Pei Zhan would pull through in the end. During this time, he had been paying close attention to Pei Zhan's condition in France. Several times he was critically ill, and the news he received was that he probably wouldn't make it.

He had no choice. If Pei Zhan really died, he had to find someone in advance to make further plans for the future of the Jiang family.

Now that he's alright...

This is also a good thing for the Jiang family.

France.

After Jiang Hua hung up the phone, she turned and went back to her room. Kagel had already finished applying the medicine to Pei Zhan. The trash can was full of used bandages stained with blood. After the maid came in to clean up the medical waste, Kagel also went out. "Young Master, Young Madam... Good night."

Pei Zhan tried to button his pajamas, but failed several times. Jiang Hua stepped forward and did what he was doing. "When you hugged me, you were quite strong. How come you can't even button your clothes now?"

“One thing at a time. Even if I’m in a wheelchair, I can still stand up and hug you.”

Jiang Hua was still a little unaccustomed to hearing his cloying sweet words. Most of the time, they were either arguing or she disliked him, and Jiang Hua rarely gave him a kind look.

"Alright, you should get some rest."

"I'm going to sleep next door."

Pei Zhan grasped her hand, his deep eyes fixed on her. "Stay, hmm?"

Jiang Hua stayed in the end. The bed was large, and she lay down under the covers. Pei Zhan couldn't hold her while sleeping; he even had trouble turning over now. Jiang Hua lay beside him, keeping a certain distance, facing each other...

Pei Zhan: "Go to sleep."

After uttering two softly syllables, Jiang Hua seemed to be hypnotized, closed her eyes, and quickly fell asleep. She was indeed extremely tired and slept very soundly.

Pei Zhan was awakened by the pain of his wound in the middle of the night. His cough attracted Kagel outside the door. In the dimly lit room, Kagel quietly entered. Pei Zhan reached out and covered her with the blanket, covering the parts that should not be exposed. She was sleeping very well, not moving or turning over.

Pei Zhan released her hand, which she had been holding. Back in the dark room in Wuchuan, she had done the same thing, liking to fall asleep while holding his hand.

Kagel carefully helped the man on the bed sit up and handed him the painkillers. "Do you need me to call a private doctor?"

Pei Zhan leaned against the headboard and glanced down at the person still fast asleep beside him. "It's alright." Seeing that he hadn't been disturbed, Pei Zhan leaned against the headboard, closed his eyes, and suppressed the pain. His breathing became erratic, but it gradually calmed down once the medication took effect.

Snowflakes fell outside the French windows, and the night was moonless.

After a good night's sleep, when Jiang Hua woke up, Pei Zhan was still asleep. Her hand, which was under the covers, had somehow landed on his waist. She paused for a moment and withdrew her hand. The man on the bed seemed to be startled awake, his brows furrowing slightly. When he opened his eyes, there were bloodshot veins in them.

Jiang Hua was a little worried about his condition, "Does it hurt a lot?"

"I'll go get you a doctor."

She reached out and stroked his face, her eyes filled with worry.

"It's nothing." His voice was low and hoarse.

Jiang Hua then noticed that his body temperature was unusually high. "You said you were fine. Couldn't you have woken me up if you weren't feeling well?"

"I'm telling you, if you die, I'll remarry immediately."

"Kagel!" Jiang Hua threw off the covers, got out of bed, and immediately called out.

Kagel entered with the doctor who had been waiting for a long time, as well as servants who were ready to serve at any time.

Seeing that Jiang Hua was dressed lightly, the servants immediately found her a shawl to put on.

Kagel stood aside, his eyes respectfully avoiding looking directly at the mistress's current appearance. Only after Jiang Hua finished dressing did he look at her. "Young mistress, don't worry. It's just that the special medicine injection that accelerated wound healing yesterday has started to take effect. At first, she will have a high fever, but she will be fine after three days."

"Breakfast is ready. Madam, you may come downstairs for breakfast."

The family doctor took a syringe from the medicine box and slowly injected it into the skin of his arm in less than half a minute.

The doctor stood up and said in broken Chinese, "This is a normal reaction to the medication. Just wait for the wound to heal."

Looking at the doctor, Jiang Hua, she felt strangely familiar. When she was in the hospital bed after her car accident, she always felt that someone was on her bed at night, a doctor wearing a mask, giving her an injection. But when she woke up, there was nothing there. Even when she asked the nurse on duty that night, she had no idea.

So she didn't take it to heart, thinking it was just a dream...

When Jiang Hua went downstairs for a meal, there was a gift on the table. The maid pulled out a chair for her to sit down and said, "This is a gift from the young master to you. You may open it and take a look, young mistress."

Jiang Hua thought it would be another expensive set of jewelry when she opened it, but to her surprise... it was just a women's watch, a couple's watch from the same brand that Pei Zhan usually wore. The price wasn't expensive, only a little over 200,000 yuan.

The one he often wore was a reward his father chose for outstanding employees of the Jiang Group before they got married. Back then, it was rare for his father to accompany her shopping, and Uncle Wang happened to remind her, so Jiang Hua picked out this one.

As an outstanding employee of the Jiang family, Pei Zhan's annual bonuses and monthly commissions totaled over 1.5 million yuan.

As expected, the watch she chose ended up in Pei Zhan's hands. It was the cheapest one in the mall, and she was actually deliberately trying to humiliate him.

However, this women's watch isn't considered very expensive, costing around 150,000 yuan.

"Young Madam...would you like to try it?"

Jiang Hua was slightly lost in thought. She looked down at the watch on her wrist that she had worn for five years. The leather strap was wrinkled and worn, and the clock that had stopped working had been repaired. This was... the only gift Ji Liangchuan gave her when he left the Jiang family.

Jiang Hua... all these years, haven't she also lived in the shadow of Ji Liangchuan in the past?

just now…

Seeing Jiang Hua lost in thought, the maid did not urge her. She had never seen such a beautiful woman before, and she was wearing such a worn-out watch. She thought that the watch must have great significance to her.

Jiang Hua hesitated...

She... shouldn't live in the past.

The moment Jiang Hua buckled the strap and took off her watch, she had already made up her mind.

"I'll put it on you."

After the maid put the watch on her wrist, she said sincerely, "Young Madam, your hands are very beautiful, and the watch looks great on you."

Jiang Hua: "Really?"

She was clearly distracted.

Unconsciously, images hidden deep in my memory surfaced in my mind.

That was the scene she least wanted to recall, because... it was the last gift he gave her.

Jiang Hua wondered if, nine years ago, she hadn't accepted Ji Liangchuan's gift, would he still have left...?

Nine years ago, Jiang Hua was thirteen years old. She was very angry because Ji Liangchuan hadn't had dinner with her for a long time, and... he had been coming home later and later lately.

That day, her father wasn't home either. The maid had prepared a large table of dishes, half of which were Jiang Hua's favorites and the other half were Ji Liangchuan's favorites. However, Jiang Hua had been waiting for him for four whole hours to get out of school, and the dishes on the table had already gone cold.

The maid couldn't bear to watch any longer and cautiously stepped forward, saying, "Miss, Young Master Liangchuan probably won't be coming back. Why don't you eat first?"

Jiang Hua angrily slammed down her chopsticks and even smashed the cold food on the table. "She didn't come home the day before yesterday, she didn't come home yesterday, and she still hasn't come home today..."

"He's not answering his phone. What is he doing?"

"Aunt Xu, please let him come back quickly."

Xu Ma said with difficulty, "Young Master Liangchuan is indeed quite busy learning how to manage the company from his teacher."

Jiang Hua didn't eat dinner that day. She waited for him until 11 o'clock, and when she couldn't bear it any longer, she lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

That night, she thought she heard her father get very angry, but she couldn't hear clearly what he said. As she drifted off to sleep and then woke up again, Jiang Hua saw the person by her bedside. "Why did you take so long to come back!"

"I was so waiting for you I almost fell asleep."

Jiang Hua was very angry when she didn't see him, but all her anger disappeared the moment she saw him.

"I'm sorry... Huahua."

"What's wrong with your eyes? Did Dad scold you? If you don't want to manage the company, that's okay. You just need to stay with me. I still have a lot of New Year's money, enough for us and Dad to spend."

Jiang Hua felt a heavy weight on her wrist. She raised her hand and saw that it was a watch. She looked at him in surprise and asked, "Is this a gift for me?"

Ji Liangchuan: "Do you like it?"

Jiang Hua: "I like it."

"I like everything you give me."

Jiang Hua never imagined that that night would be their last.

If she hadn't overheard her father and Uncle Wang's conversation in the study the next day, she wouldn't have known.

Dad has already sent Ji Liangchuan away, and he's sending him to a very far place...

Jiang Hua was also in a car accident on her way to the airport, and it was that accident that led to her receiving a heart transplant…

For nine whole years, Ji Liangchuan's departure seemed to vanish into thin air, and Jiang Hua never heard from him again.

"And... what about this watch?"

"You handle it as you see fit."

Since she wants to make peace with the past and completely let go of Ji Liangchuan, there shouldn't be anyone else in her heart.

"Okay, young lady."

Jiang Hua ate a little something and then went upstairs.

Zuo Xiangnan, carrying a briefcase, walked out of Pei Zhan's room.

"Miss."

Jiang Hua: "Are you leaving?"

Zuo Xiangnan nodded: "Yes, I still need to take care of some things at the headquarters in Beijing. My flight is in three hours."

Jiang Hua nodded without saying anything. When she entered the room, Pei Zhan was lying on the bed flipping through documents. He only stopped what he was doing when he saw her come in.

He reached out his hand to her, and Jiang Hua's fingertips landed in his palm, where he gently held them. She sat down beside him, and Pei Zhan held her slender hand, looking at the watch she was wearing, a slight smile playing on his lips. "A New Year's gift, not very expensive."

Pei Zhan kissed the back of her hand. "I have a meeting to attend later. If you're bored, I can have Kagel accompany you for a walk."

Jiang Hua: "I remember you were supposed to go to the hospital for a check-up this afternoon."

Pei Zhan: "He's also at that hospital, together?"