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

"Why, little Ling'er, can't you remember? I told you... call me brother." Huo Ling had never seen Xu Zhoulan's violent side before. In the time she had spent with him, he had always been nonchalant in front of her and liked to say dirty jokes. But he had never looked at her like this before, with such a fierce look in his eyes, as if he were looking at an enemy he hated to the bone.

"Brother...brother..." Huo Ling grabbed his wrist and called out with difficulty when she could hardly breathe.

Hearing what the man wanted, the hand that was gripping her neck quickly released her. Huo Ling felt like a fish out of water, now that it was back in the water, she felt like she had finally come back to life.

Huo Ling coughed violently several times, tears welling up in her eyes, which were slightly red. When she looked at him, Xu Zhoulan thought Huo Ling looked extremely pitiful.

She frowned as she looked at the man whose emotions were unpredictable. Xu Zhoulan suddenly reached out, picked her up, and sat her on the sofa, resuming their usual way of interacting. "Let your brother see if it hurts."

Xu Zhoulan went to check the marks left on her neck from being choked, but Huo Ling turned her face away and refused to look at him. "Brother is just angry. Little Ling'er wants to leave brother."

"Brother, I don't want to be separated from Xiao Ling'er either."

"Little Ling'er is right too!"

Huo Ling felt that this person might have some kind of mental disorder, and that she couldn't confront him head-on, otherwise who knew what uncontrollable things this old man might do next.

"What makes you think I'd be with you, Uncle? Is it because you're too old, or because you're never short of girls around you who are eighteen or nineteen?"

"Uncle, we already agreed that it's just for fun, don't take it too seriously."

"My arms and legs are so thin, they can't take this. If you pinch me like that, Uncle, and I really die, my older brother... won't let you off the hook." Huo Ling was too lazy to argue with him anymore and was about to leave when the man grabbed her waist, preventing her from leaving. "Is your older brother... very powerful?"

"When will you introduce your brother to your family?"

Xu Zhoulan's lewd gaze swept over her from head to toe.

Huo Ling's sixth sense told her that this person wouldn't be so easy to get rid of. "Uncle, I told you, we... are not suitable for each other."

The man just smiled slightly and didn't say anything more. He took out his black wallet from his pocket, took out a card from it, and put it into the canvas bag she was carrying. "Little Ling'er, you're too thin. You're so light that you don't even have weight to carry you. Take your brother's money and eat your fill to get fatter."

"It's more comfortable when my brother holds me like this."

Huo Ling: You damn scoundrel.

Huo Ling's figure is indeed not as good as Hua Hua's, but she's not that bad either.

Seeing her puff out her chest, Xu Zhoulan chuckled, "No matter how much you puff it out, you're not even half as big as Miss Jiang."

"Little Ling'er is still young. She should eat something else and get more nutrition. There's still a chance."

Huo Ling: "I need to go to class, let me go."

Xu Zhoulan: "Don't rush, brother will take you somewhere."

Huo Ling was practically dragged along by Xu Zhoulan the whole way. When they arrived at a shooting range with few people, Huo Ling's eyes widened when she saw the people there. "Are you crazy! Why did you bring me here!"

As Huo Ling hurriedly turned to leave, she suddenly realized it was too late; Jiang Hua's gaze was fixed on them…

Xu Zhoulan smiled slightly, and without Huo Ling noticing, the man intimately and naturally put his arm around the girl's slender waist. He smiled and leaned close to her ear, "Looks like... you've been discovered."

"Little Ling'er, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave."

Huo Ling had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow Xu Zhoulan into the shooting range.

Pei Zhan noticed Jiang Hua's gaze and stopped moving. Following her gaze, he saw the person walking with him. His deep gaze was fixed on Huo Ling and Xu Zhoulan, who was standing on her.

Jiang Hua looked at Huo Ling, "Didn't you go back to school? Why are you with him?"

Huo Ling quickly came up with an excuse: "It's my jewelry design assignment. I happened to see Director Xu here, so I thought I'd ask him to take a look at my design sketches and see if there were any problems."

Jiang Hua immediately saw through the trick. She brought Huo Ling over, hoping to keep her away from this show-off. In Jiang Hua's opinion, Xu Zhoulan was no good.

Xu Zhoulan smiled and said with her long, narrow peach blossom eyes, "Miss Jiang, are you so wary of me?"

"With him here, I wouldn't dare to have any ulterior motives." Xu Zhoulan said, looking at Pei Zhan, "Now that you're married and have a wife, have you forgotten your friends?"

"Play a game?"

Huo Ling didn't dare to look at Pei Zhan. She hid behind Jiang Hua, who could clearly feel the hand gripping her tighten.

"Let's stop here for today." Jiang Hua took off her goggles and was about to leave with Huo Ling.

Suddenly, a casual voice rang out from behind, "Miss Jiang, when did you start making chicken soup? I remember the chicken soup that Pei Zhan and I drank in the office two years ago tasted really good."

Jiang Hua didn't take Xu Zhoulan's words seriously at all. She took Huo Ling to rest in a nearby spot, and Kagel ordered someone to bring them fruit juice and drinks.

Jiang Hua didn't hold back and asked without any hesitation, "You and him, you must have met sometime before."

Huo Ling stammered, her words revealing a hint of concealment, and nodded, "We met a few times and spoke a few times at the company before."

Jiang Hua took a sip of juice and said directly, "Stay away from him, he's no good."

"If you have any questions about jewelry design in the future, you can come to me. Be careful not to get involved with this kind of person, as she might try to take advantage of you."

Huo Ling: "Sister-in-law... Sister Huahua, don't worry, I won't contact him again."

"Sister Huahua, do you know him well?" she asked curiously again.

“She’s cut from the same cloth as Pei Zhan, birds of a feather flock together. They worked together in Haishi back then.” When she said this, Pei Zhan and Xu Zhoulan were both looked down upon by Jiang Hua.

Gunfire could be heard all around, so I couldn't hear what they were saying.

Xu Zhoulan: "I don't even need to listen to what this young lady is saying. Just by looking at her eyes, I can tell that I probably won't get any good words from her either."

Don't stretch your reach too far.

Pei Zhan's words immediately conveyed the tension that lingered between the two.

Xu Zhoulan smiled wickedly, "You mean... that Miss Jiang, or the young lady sitting next to her?"

Pei Zhan fired a shot, "It seems the design department still has too little work to do."

“There happens to be a job opening in Haishi that I think would be a good fit for you.”

"No! I was just joking. Mr. Pei... don't take it too seriously. Working under Mr. Pei is always better than going elsewhere and having to be at the mercy of others."

After Pei Zhan put down his gun, he walked towards Jiang Hua and reached out his hand to her, saying, "Let's go home."

Jiang Hua reached out and placed her hand in his palm. "Come with us."

"If any shady people come into contact with you, remember to stay away. People who come to you on their own are not good people."

Xu Zhoulan also fired a shot...

Just then, he overheard those sarcastic remarks about him reaching his ears.

After everyone left.

The target showed that he was off-target.

Pei Zhan got a perfect 10, hitting the bullseye, while he... only got a 9.

So, in everything I do, I have to lag behind him?

Xu Zhoulan narrowed his eyes, his gaze icy, and fired dozens of shots at the bullseye, but every single one missed, until he caught sight of a staff member out of the corner of his eye…

He moved slowly, aiming at the figure…

The staff member seemed to have witnessed his actions, and the other person was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, looking at him with a terrified and fearful expression. He opened his mouth as if begging for mercy.

Standing at a distance, he couldn't hear, but he thoroughly enjoyed the fear in the eyes of those around him.

Xu Zhoulan pretended to pull the trigger, and "bang..." the other person's face turned pale instantly.

Just as he was about to faint from fright, Xu Zhoulan smiled and put down the gun in his hand. Then, a man in a black suit walked up behind him and said respectfully, "Young Master, everything has been done according to your instructions."

"good."

I can't wait for that day to come, the heir of the Huo family...

On the way back, Kagel was going back to Jinsha Shallow Bay and wouldn't be with them. Pei Zhan drove, Jiang Hua sat in the passenger seat, and Huo Ling sat in the back seat. When they arrived at Imperial University, they suddenly saw police cars and ambulances at the school gate.

Huo Ling: "What happened? Has something happened?"

As Huo Ling spoke, she opened her phone and browsed the school's forum. This... how could this be!

On the school forum, there were several photos of Song Qingran standing on the school rooftop.

Jiang Hua glanced at Huo Ling's unusual expression in the rearview mirror. "What's wrong?"

Huo Ling: "Sister Huahua, I think it's better if you don't know."

Jiang Hua raised an eyebrow: "Don't tell me, it has something to do with me!"

Huo Ling shook her head, then glanced at Pei Zhan, who was driving, and said, "It's... Song Qingran, she said she's going to jump off a building."

"Now the school forum is full of her photos."

"Jump off a building? Her? That's really strange." Jiang Hua always maintained an indifferent attitude, keeping to herself as long as it wasn't her business. "What's she up to this time?"

"Aren't you going to check on... your Xiaoran?"

Pei Zhan brought the car to a smooth stop, placed his hand on the steering wheel, and looked sideways at the person beside him. "Does Mrs. Pei think I don't have enough trouble already?"

Huo Ling: Thank goodness, brother, you're not worried about Song Qingran. She was just scared, but I told you I'd get out of the car and go see her.

Huo Ling said, "President Pei, Sister Huahua, thank you for taking me back to school. I'll be going now." She quickly got out of the car to avoid being a third wheel.

The car door was closed, and from the school, a group of medical staff could be seen carrying the injured person on a medical stretcher into an ambulance.

Song Qingran was covered in blood and bruises, her mind hazy, when she saw the people in that familiar vehicle…

It was him…

It's Mr. Pei.

He's here...

In the last second before the girl completely lost consciousness, she heard that devilish, seductive voice in her ear, "Jiang Hua used a car accident to win back Pei Zhan's heart, and Jiang Weiguo became the richest man in the capital. She used the Huo family's resources to support everything in the Jiang family."

"For her, he was willing to give up his revenge against the Zhou family, and even fell in love with the daughter of his enemy."

“The Jiang Group should have been in Pei Zhan’s hands, and the Jiang family should have been destroyed, with Jiang Hua displaced and forced to step down from her high position.”

"But in the end, none of that happened. It was all saved by Jiang Hua's life. The entire Jiang family was saved, and Jiang Hua even won his love."

“Clearly…you knew Pei Zhan much earlier than Jiang Hua. Even if it weren’t for Jiang Hua, you would have been the first person he wanted to marry.”

"She dared to risk her life for all of this."

"What can't you do!"

"You want more, including the position of the future matriarch of the Huo family. Shouldn't you be willing to risk your life for it?"

"We both only have one life. What if... everything you've lost comes back to you?"

"This is a high-stakes gamble. If you win, you'll be a superior person, and Jiang Hua... will be nothing more than an ant in your hands."

"Don't forget... even if you are Zhou Xu's substitute, so what... he clearly... fell in love with you first."

"It was also him who forced you to stay by his side. If it weren't for... him giving you hope and all the fantasies of loving him, you could have been living a good life. He's the one who disrupted your peaceful life."

"And what you're doing now is simply trying to win back his love."

"Is it wrong?"

Her blood-stained hand slipped limply to the ground, and Song Qingran fell into a deep coma. In the moment when she thought she was about to die, all she could think of were beautiful memories of him.

The number one city under heaven.

"Congratulations, young master, you've gotten ten rings every time."

Xu Zhoulan fired, and his last bullet once again hit the bullseye. For the entire afternoon, in the same spot, Xu Zhoulan never left. If he missed, he would try again.

Night was gradually falling, and darkness was descending...

Xu Zhoulan put down the gun with satisfaction. "Let's go back."

Pei Zhan, since you're reluctant to start this game, I'll start it for you this time.

Soon, news of Song Qingran, as if premeditated, was reported by major media outlets, and all of this once again involved the Jiang Group.

Kagel: "This is the video footage that circulated at the time. Nobody knows what Ms. Song went through."

"By the time someone found her, Miss Song was already standing on the school's rooftop."

In the video footage, Song Qingran, with a numb expression, jumped off the rooftop.

However, the newspapers reported that the role model of the top-scoring liberal arts student was actually someone else who took her place...

A gifted girl jumped off the school rooftop...

Even though Song Qingran used such actions to prove her innocence, the messages online did not disappear; instead, they were all gloating.

She should have died long ago; she's a homewrecker.

Exactly! I really don't know what she's upset about. I'm still feeling sorry for Miss Jiang, and it makes me so angry. When her husband was with her, did he never think about how sad and upset she was? Now she's crying, where was she before?

"All those involved have been taken to the police station for investigation."

"We learned from the school that Ms. Song's balcony was locked for safety reasons. We just don't know where Ms. Song got the key and opened the door that was supposed to be closed."

Jiang Hua was holding a plate of freshly air-freighted cherries. She had just showered and changed into her pajamas. "Aunt Xu, something doesn't taste right to me. Could you try some? Is it spoiled...?"

"No way, Young Master Shen said they were all just airlifted here today, delivered as soon as they landed."

"I guess so, the taste does change over time..."