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

"So what are we doing now? Professor Guo has completely and utterly supported Jiang Hua. If we can't come up with a solution, my parents are going to make me drop out of school and work to pay off our debts. All of our houses have been forcibly auctioned off by the court. Now even our only hope has been shattered. If this continues... we really will have no choice but to go to jail." As she spoke, Ye Qing felt a little regretful: "If only I had borrowed Qing Ran's money first to tide us over."

Ye Qing hesitated for a moment, then said, "How about we go and make up with Qingran instead?"

"Qingran is such a good person, let's talk to her properly. She's so kind-hearted, she definitely won't refuse to help us."

Xue Ruyao was a strong-willed person. Thinking about what she had said before, she was unwilling to go back to Song Qingran and make up.

"Go yourself if you want to go, who cares about her money?"

Ye Qing: "The compensation is 230 million. If we can't pay it, then we'll really have to go to jail."

"Don't forget, Qingran's fiancé is the most famous top lawyer in the capital. Who else would be willing to help us now but him?"

Xue Ruyao knew perfectly well that they were at their wits' end. "I said I'm not going!"

"Fine, if you won't go, I will!"

"Wait a minute, I've already thought of a way..."

After leaving the teaching building, Xue Ruyao encountered a middle-aged couple. She was grabbed by one of them, who said, "You must be Xue Ruyao."

"Who are you? What do you want with me?"

The woman's eyes were fierce, and she suddenly slapped her hard across the face, saying, "So it was you who cheated my daughter out of her money, wasn't it?"

"At such a young age, instead of studying properly, you're learning jewelry repair, causing our family to owe so much money. You'd better give me back all the money! Otherwise... I'll make a scene at your house."

Xue Ruyao covered her face and said angrily, "We agreed before that we would invest and start a business together, and make money together. Now that we've lost money, why should everyone come to me and bear the losses!"

"Let me tell you, we all signed a contract. If you continue to act unreasonably like this, I will have no choice but to call the police."

Ye Qing stepped forward: "Let's talk this out. Uncle and Aunt... when we were making money, we all got our share. You can't be unreasonable!"

The middle-aged man grabbed him directly, glaring at him fiercely: "Making money! You college students, instead of studying properly, you're instigating my daughter to give you money to start your own studio. How did Beijing University produce students like you?"

"Let's go, to the principal's office right now!"

"If you don't expel me, you two black sheep, I'll never forgive and punish you, Imperial University!"

Who knew that the campus recruitment office had long since fallen, blocked by a group of parents, and all the parents who had started the studio together had come to the school.

The previous debt collection efforts by migrant workers haven't ended yet, and now another group has come.

Chu Xiangnian was also at his wits' end...

"If this matter isn't resolved today, we'll make a big scene and let outsiders see what kind of students your Imperial Capital University has produced."

"How can you learn to start a business or run a studio if you don't have a down-to-earth internship?"

"Exactly! How exactly do you teachers discipline your students?"

When Xue Ruyao and Ye Qing were brought before these parents, they panicked and tried to escape, only to find that their path had already been blocked, leaving them trapped...

In the private room of Xiangweiju, when Jiang Hua arrived, Shen Bao'er was already there, having ordered a huge feast. She put down her bag and sat down, "...Are you still angry with me?"

"I'm sorry, Bao'er. I had a falling out with Pei Zhan, which dragged you and Ye Bai into it."

"I only found out later that the commercial building next to the city government building also belongs to my family. I've already had them refund you a year's rent."

As she spoke, Jiang Hua took out a shopping card from her bag, "And... this shopping card, consider it a gift from me to apologize to you."

"You can use this gold card to swipe at any of the shopping malls under the Jiang family's umbrella, and it will be completely free. The password is your birthday."

Shen Bao'er lowered her head, munching on the bread in her hand, her eyes glancing over, "Who wants it... I don't want it. You made up with that country bumpkin so quickly, I knew you were going to neglect me and my brother."

“Bao’er, I’ve been busy with the studio and my graduation thesis lately, so I haven’t been able to contact you much.”

"How are things going between you and Shen Bulu?"

She gets angry when she talks about it, "He's so clingy, I can't shake him off, he's like a fly."

"But Huahua..."

Jiang Hua: "Hmm?"

Shen Bao'er: "Shen Bulu and I are getting married soon. He has been discussing the marriage with my brother recently, but it seems that my brother has not agreed."

"Then, he would come to my house to propose marriage all the time, and even said that I should have a child first, then my brother would agree."

Jiang Hua raised an eyebrow. "Does your brother know?"

Shen Bao'er: "He's terrified of his brother, how could he dare let his brother know?"

"Then we'll break his legs again."

Break Shen Bulu's legs?

Shen Ye Bai?

He doesn't seem like the type of person who would do these things.

"But while you were away, the school shouldn't be too noisy. I didn't think they would let Xue Ruyao and the others off so easily. Huahua... why did you drop the charges? They should go to jail!"

Jiang Hua bluntly stated, "Sending them to jail is too lenient a punishment. It would be better to... witness them being entangled in those debt disputes and being chased by creditors."

"I remember Xue Ruyao embezzled a lot of money..."

Shen Bao'er nodded: "Yes. Xue Ruyao is really bold. She colluded with Ye Qing to falsify accounts, bought jewelry from the Jiang family at a low price, and then sold it to other jewelers at a high price. The difference in the price they made was several million."

"Moreover, she is unwilling to share this money; it's all in her own account. It was mentioned before that several people wanted to withdraw from their partnership positions. Given Xue Ruyao's greedy nature, they can invest money, but they probably have no choice but to continue working with Xue Ruyao if they want to take money out of her pocket and leave."

"Xue Ruyao's debts are causing them all to have to pay them too, it's too tragic!"

"However, is this Song Qingran really stupid, or is she just pretending to be stupid? Those two people were just using her, couldn't she see that? Song Qingran even went to the Bai family to borrow money, but she was kicked out by Aunt Bai."

"Now... Xue Ruyao is still not giving up. I heard she's using her old connections everywhere to try and attract investment. I wonder which sucker will invest in them."

Jiang Hua smiled faintly and took a sip of water. "The reason they are so confident in themselves is simply because they think... what I can do, they can do too."

"After all, they still think I'm the nanny's daughter, so they assume that if they can do something, they can do it too. Plus, they have their own arrogant and competitive nature, and they only want to outdo me."

"For a while, Xue Ruyao was investigating my identity, trying to find out if I was really the daughter of the Jiang Group, and she even followed Xu Ma for a period of time..."

"...After I found out, I simply had Xu Ma cooperate with me in putting on a show."

"I guessed their purpose at the time, but I didn't interfere. I just wanted to see how long they could hold out."

"However, it turns out that without Song Qingran and the others, we are nothing."

Without him, Song Qingran, who was once associated with Pei Zhan, is nothing at all!

Thinking of this, Jiang Hua still felt resentful. She put down her teacup. "Pei Zhan gave Song Qingran so much, even her maids got ahead of her because of her. It's just a pity... they were ultimately killed by their own greed. They can't blame anyone else."

"Pei Zhan has protected her for so many years, like a blank sheet of paper, unaware of the wickedness of people's hearts. Perhaps she really is simple-minded and doesn't know the ways of the world, thinking that sincerity can be exchanged for sincerity and that she can make good friends."

But Pei Zhan didn't teach her that whether it's friendship, love, or family, deep or shallow relationships are all based on mutual benefit.

At first, she also thought that Song Qingran was clever and wanted to watch those hypocritical friends fall into greed and be devoured by their own greed, until... when she learned that Song Qingran went to the Bai family to ask Madam Bai for help, perhaps Jiang Hua really thought badly of her.

Song Qingran was simply being stupid...

She is the best friend when there is something of value in her.

Now that something has happened, Song Qingran is powerless to help without Pei Zhan, and the relationship between the three of them has naturally soured.

"Huahua, aren't you afraid that Pei Zhan, that country bumpkin, will help them?"

Jiang Hua: "He dares to do that!"

If I really help.

Then they're completely finished this time.

Suddenly Bao'er's phone rang, and she immediately showed it to Jiang Hua, "Huahua, look... Xue Ruyao and the others have been beaten up."

Jiang Hua also saw that quite a few people had attacked them.

A voice pleading for mercy could be heard in the video, "...I have no money left, I really have no money left."

"All the money was used to pay back the villagers and the Jiang Group."

In the end, it was the security guards who pulled the parents apart.

"The money you owe is all owed by the Jiang Group. It's no use coming to us. You might as well ask the Jiang Group to help you erase this money."

“I’ve consulted a lawyer. The compensation issue can be negotiated with the Jiang family. As long as they don’t pursue the matter, you don’t have to repay this money…”

"Look for the Jiang family, not us..."

Shen Bao'er: "Huahua, Xue Ruyao has gone too far!"

The video is from about an hour ago. If nothing unexpected happens, these people should be causing trouble at the Jiang Group by now.

Jiang Hua frowned and watched the video. "Idiot."

Just as Jiang Hua had expected, when she called Pei Zhan, the group of parents were already causing a scene at the company entrance…

"Don't worry, I'll handle these things. The public relations department will issue a statement. The person who stirred up trouble at the school is to blame, and the Jiang family will continue to pursue the matter."

After Pei Zhan finished speaking, he did not hear her response. He waited patiently for her to speak, and after a long silence, he finally heard her voice, "Can we make compensation based on the usual losses, so that we don't lose money? These people can't come up with 230 million. Rather than not getting a penny, we might as well reduce some of it and let them compensate us at the original price."

"As for Xue Ruyao and the others, just have the school expel them from the school. As for the money they owe you, make them spit it out, even if it's just a penny!"

Pei Zhan signed the document, closed it, stood up and walked to the French windows, one hand in his pocket, looking at the open view in the distance. "When did Mrs. Pei become so kind?"

“Huahua, we can’t be soft-hearted when it comes to business matters. If we make an exception this time, there will be other companies that go bankrupt because of the Jiang family and can’t pay their debts. They will come to the Jiang family and make a scene to force me to give in. There will always be a next time for these things.”

Jiang Hua thought that Pei Zhan would relent after she brought it up, but she didn't expect... he was even more stubborn than she imagined.

"Don't worry, I will have Xiang Nan investigate all the families thoroughly and conduct an asset assessment. If they really can't pay off their debts, I will make appropriate reductions in their debts."

"...Don't let anyone die!"

Pei Zhan: "I know."

After hanging up the phone.

Shen Bao'er: "This Xue Ruyao is a real black sheep."

"Huahua, are you really going to let them off so easily?"

Jiang Hua: "Otherwise... I can't just stand by and watch more than a dozen families be destroyed because of these debts."

After hanging up the phone, I was still a little worried about things at the company, but I had promised to go shopping with Bao'er today, so I had to put that aside for now.

Whatever Bao'er buys, Jiang Hua pays for it. Thinking of Shen Yebai... Jiang Hua also picked out a suit for him. She helped him find a studio before and drove him back and forth... Jiang Hua did take advantage of him, and she felt bad about it.

The shop assistant packed it up, and Jiang Hua handed it to Shen Bao'er: "This suit is for your brother."

Shen Bao'er: "If my brother knew that you bought him a gift, he would be very happy."

Jiang Hua simply smiled and said, "I won't be going back with you later."

"I still need to go to the company..."

Shen Bao'er was a little reluctant. "Alright. I was originally planning to have dinner together, but since that's the case, let's just forget about it."

Jiang Hua took a taxi to Jiang's Corporation and went straight upstairs in the president's private elevator.

Finding no one in the president's office, Jiang Hua went to her regional office. Seeing Fang Liang still there, she glanced at the time and asked, "Hasn't the contract been signed yet?"

Fang Liang turned around, saw the people who came in, and immediately stood up. "Just the two of us... such a big studio?"

Jiang Hua: "This is only temporary."

Fang Liang had never worked in such a comfortable environment before, and this made him both excited and nervous. "So what do I need to do now?"

Jiang Hua: "How about... you play some games?"

"If that doesn't work, it's almost lunchtime. Why don't you go to the Jiang family's canteen and get something to eat?"

"The chefs are all poached from other big restaurants. You can go and have a taste."

Just as Jiang Hua finished speaking, she suddenly heard a knock on the door. "President Pei, the meeting is over. You may go now."

When Jiang Hua went to the CEO's office, she asked, "How did you know I was here?"

Pei Zhan also came out of the conference room and had just sat down when he said, "I received your phone message with the notification that you clocked in."

Jiang Hua: "Where are those people who came to cause trouble?"