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

Jiang Hua hesitated for a while, and finally agreed. However, for some reason, she always felt uneasy whenever she saw him.

I don't know if there's enough white jade ointment. She brought him some last time and hasn't contacted him since. Now that we have a suitable anesthetic for him, his surgery should be almost over.

Pei Zhan noticed her absent-mindedness and tightened his grip on her hand. "What are you thinking about?"

Jiang Hua: "It's okay, I'll go change my clothes."

She got up and went to the dressing room, feeling that something was wrong, but she just couldn't figure out what it was.

Jiang Hua wore an alpaca-colored coat and long boots. Her long hair was braided and casually draped over one shoulder, giving her a lazy and beautiful look.

It was snowing outside, not heavily, but with a thick layer of snow. She sat in front of the dressing table, put on her earrings, and Kagel pushed the wheelchair over, helping the person on the bed to sit in it. Just then, the phone next to her vibrated.

She picked up her phone and glanced at it; it was a message from Shen Yebai: Happy New Year.

The text was concise. He was still the same as before. During that time, even when he wasn't in the capital, he would still say "Happy New Year" every year!

Jiang Hua replied to him: Happy New Year.

That was the end of the story.

"Let's go."

Jiang Hua picked up her phone and put it in her bag.

Pei Zhan didn't ask who she replied to.

Kagel pushed Pei Zhan, who was in a wheelchair, down the stairs in the family elevator. The driver was already waiting outside the manor.

Sitting in the car, the wheels crunching over the snow on the ground, the car was moving very slowly. Pei Zhan held the back of her hand, his deep eyes looking at her, "Are you cold?"

Jiang Hua: "It's alright."

"Do you want to go back? If you're not used to staying in France, I can take over things back home. I'll have Xiang Nan come on a business trip, and I'll go back to keep you company."

Jiang Hua leaned back in the car seat, turned her head to meet his gaze, and then glanced at his leg. "Let's wait until your leg injury is almost healed before we talk about it. Dad is going to Grandpa's house this year, and Xiaozhu is there too... I feel more at ease with them accompanying me."

"okay."

“During the time Xiang Nan was here, she told me about a lot of things that happened in China. Shen Yebai had a child… I asked Xiang Nan to prepare a set of longevity gold locks and send them to the Shen family’s old house on behalf of the Jiang family. As expected, they have been received now.”

Jiang Hua suddenly remembered this matter. She was not very knowledgeable about social etiquette, let alone gift-giving. Usually, Uncle Wang handled these gift exchanges. Jiang Hua really hadn't thought of it.

She took her phone out of her bag and asked Pei Zhan, "Should I have Xiaozhu send some more over?"

“The Jiang family is the Jiang family, and I am me. Consider this my personal way of making up for the full moon gift I owe them.”

Pei Zhan: "Alright."

"Whether they accept it or not, since Xu Xiangjun went to the Shen family's old house, it means that the Shen family has indirectly accepted her existence, including that child..."

"No matter what, he is still a descendant of the Shen family."

Pei Zhan's words made no sense. The child was Xu Xiangjun's bargaining chip. It was probably only a matter of time before the Shen family accepted her existence. The elders of the Shen family were not reasonable people.

Not long ago, the marriage between the Shen family and the Ye family was called off, and Ye Ying stopped bothering Shen Yebai. Now the Shen family no longer needs to rely on anyone.

Jiang Hua sent a message to Jiang Zhu, asking her to go to the jewelry store and buy some gifts for the children. As soon as she sent the message, Jiang Zhu quickly replied, "Okay, sister."

Then another message popped up: "Sister, wishing you prosperity and wealth! Give me a red envelope!" (A New Year's greeting emoji.)

Jiang Hua looked at her phone and chuckled softly: Bank card account number.

Jiang Zhu didn't think much of it and sent the account number over.

A few minutes later, Jiang Zhu received a huge transfer of five million yuan from Jiang Hua.

Far away in the Jiang family's old house, Jiang Zhu was sitting on the sofa holding a doll. Suddenly, she jumped up and let out a piercing scream.

Jiang Huai and Jiang Weiguo were playing Go nearby, and the two of them glanced at each other.

Jiang Huai: "Shouting and yelling like that, what kind of talk is that?"

Jiang Zhu ran barefoot to Jiang Huai's side, "Grandpa, my sister gave me a really big red envelope."

Can I keep this money for myself?

"If I give it to you, you can keep it for yourself."

Jiang Weiguo smiled and said, "Huahua went to find Pei Zhan. The two of them should be together right now."

Jiang Zhu felt like she wanted to love her to death. She and her grandfather had lived such a hard life before. Even her allowance for school was only fifty yuan a day. This was five million... She had never seen so much money before.

Thinking back to the first time she met her, she had splashed a bucket of water on her, and she felt that she was a terrible person back then.

She was overjoyed and immediately called Jiang Hua...

A tense situation quickly arose on the other end. Jiang Zhu asked, "Sister, when are you coming back?"

Is my brother-in-law there?

"Can I talk to your brother-in-law?"

Jiang Hua answered the phone and glanced at the man beside her. Pei Zhan was also looking at her with a different gaze. He heard the voice on the phone, and Jiang Hua knew it.

Hesitantly, she handed the phone to her anyway. It was a strange feeling that Jiang Hua couldn't quite put her finger on. It seemed like this was the first time Pei Zhan had interacted with her family. It was as if... at this moment, Pei Zhan had truly become a part of her life.

"Xiaozhu, I want to talk to you on the phone."

Pei Zhan knew the people around her very well; she was just a girl of fifteen or sixteen. Seeing the inexplicable nervousness in her expression, he took the phone and pressed the speakerphone button: "Speak!"

Hearing the voice on the phone, Jiang Zhu suppressed her excitement, "Brother-in-law, Happy New Year! Wishing you prosperity and good fortune! Do you have a red envelope?"

Pei Zhan glanced at Jiang Hua and said, "I understand." He only said a few words before handing the phone to her.

Pei Zhan transferred the money to her account...

Two hundred yuan.

Jiang Hua took his phone and looked at it several times in disbelief: "Pei Zhan, why are you still so stingy?" Then she tossed the phone back to him.

Pei Zhan put his phone back in his pocket. "My money is all in Mrs. Pei's hands, that's already... the bottom line." He casually put his phone back in his pocket.

Kagel rarely saw them being so harmonious.

"Young Master, Young Madam, we've arrived..."

Upon entering the hospital, Kagel handed her the wheelchair, saying, "Young Madam, just go straight to the fifteenth floor."

"I have other things to do and need to leave for a while."

Jiang Hua had no choice but to push him into the elevator first. There were no bodyguards with them. Several people in the elevator looked at the two well-matched people, raised their phones and took a few pictures of them, and all they could hear were voices praising them.

A woman in her fifties standing nearby asked Jiang Hua in fluent French, "Are you siblings? Or husband and wife? You are so beautiful."

Before Jiang Hua could speak, Pei Zhan preemptively explained in French, "She is my wife."