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

Jiang Hua quickly fell asleep, unaware of when the person beside her got up. A bedside lamp was turned on slightly, and Pei Zhan found a first-aid kit in the room, applied medicine to her wound with cotton swabs, his fingernails digging into the wound on his palm. The blood dried, leaving only a slightly painful mark.

The man was backlit, his face dark, his eyes devoid of emotion, and the atmosphere around him was tense. Besides applying the medicine to her, he also had to constantly watch for any signs of her waking up. Pei Zhan's movements were very gentle, but the medicine would inevitably stimulate her and wake her up...

I just applied some medicine to her and saw that she was still fast asleep, with tear stains hanging at the corners of her eyes, her long eyelashes clearly visible, and the ends of her eyebrows damp.

Pei Zhan turned off the last light. After he left the room, Kager silently followed behind the man. When they got downstairs, there was a table of food that had gone cold.

"What is it? Speak!"

After going downstairs, Pei Zhan sat on the sofa, and a maid immediately poured him a cup of tea and brought it to him.

The document in Kagel's hand was placed in front of him: "Mr. Ji refused to sign and will transfer all of Jiang's shares to Madam. His only request is that he wants to stay in the capital."

Pei Zhan: "Does he still have the right to bargain with me?"

Kagel nodded: "So, before Madam left Royal Dragon Bay, our people had already knocked him unconscious and sent him to Suzhou in another way. I think Mr. Ji should be arriving around this time."

"well done."

"This is what I should do."

Pei Zhan spoke again: "Have you found what I asked you to find?"

Kagel: "Young Master Xu is meticulous, especially considering he took those important documents without our knowledge. Our people are already investigating, but it will probably take some more time."

Pei Zhan: "There's something else..."

Kagel: "Master, rest assured. Miss Song has arrived safely at her hotel room. Our people are personally monitoring her, so there won't be any problems."

As Jiang Hua walked downstairs, she suddenly overheard this conversation and heard Song Qingran's name coming from his mouth.

Sure enough, he still chose to protect her.

"This is real-time surveillance footage from the hotel. Just in case, the owner can monitor it anytime on their phone."

Jiang Hua slowly walked downstairs. Pei Zhan heard the faint footsteps behind him, glanced over, composed himself, and stood up. Jiang Hua was still wearing her clothes, and the cold emotion in her eyes had not faded. She looked at everyone with a cold expression, as if she wanted to keep strangers away.

Hearing Pei Zhan's words, she walked past the sofa where he was sitting without even glancing at him, went to the kitchen, took a bottle of ice water from the refrigerator, and belatedly remembered that the doctor had advised against drinking cold drinks. Before she could put it back, a hand appeared beside her and did what she wanted to do, closing the refrigerator door as well.

"hungry?"

"I'll cook for you?"

Pei Zhan's question did not receive a reply from Jiang Hua. She merely glanced at him without much emotion, seemingly unmoved by what she had just heard.

She had no intention of questioning him whatsoever.

She... had no mood to care about his relationship with Song Qingran anymore.

Jiang Hua simply took a glass bottle of fresh milk from the cabinet next to her, turned around and was about to go upstairs. It wasn't until her wrist was grabbed that Jiang Hua gave her a spare glance. She looked listless, without much energy or emotion for him.

So Jiang Hua didn't say a word to him. She trembled slightly with her long eyelashes, lowered her eyes, and looked elsewhere without speaking.

She waited for Pei Zhan to speak.

Seeing her in such a state because of Ji Liangchuan, Pei Zhan felt a surge of resentment, but he didn't show it in front of her.

She has never forgotten him all these years, and Pei Zhan has become the culprit who broke them up.

Even if he did a hundred things to make her happy.

Ultimately, influenced by Ji Liangchuan, he will negate everything he did.

"Eat something before you sleep; sleeping on an empty stomach is bad for your health."

"Kagher, immediately have the servants prepare another meal of what the lady likes."

Kagel: "Yes, sir."

"No need to trouble yourself, just cook me a bowl of noodles." Her voice was indifferent, and she didn't look at him once throughout. "Make it and bring it to me."

Jiang Hua brushed away the hand that was grabbing his wrist, and Pei Zhan stepped forward and picked her up in his arms, not giving her a chance to escape. "You can only listen to half of what I have to say. There's no reason to leave halfway through. You have to stay and listen to the whole thing."

Kagel instructed the servants to get busy again, clearing away the cold food from the table and preparing to cook a new meal.

Pei Zhan held her in his arms and they sat down on the sofa together.

Kagel stepped forward and handed over the tablet.

Jiang Hua then saw the scene coming from the video.

This is inside the Royal Dynasty Club Hotel, and she is very familiar with the style and decoration of this corridor.

Song Qingran received a text message saying that Lu Yuanzhou had gotten drunk at a social event and needed her to take him home. However, by the time she arrived at the private room, the event had already ended, and only a waiter gave her a room key and told her to go upstairs to her room.

Holding the room key, she pressed the elevator button almost without thinking and went upstairs to the presidential suite…

Jiang Hua sat in Pei Zhan's lap, watching this scene. No matter how you looked at it, it seemed like a setup, and the person who set it up was sitting right next to her.

What does Pei Zhan want to do?

Jiang Hua continued watching the footage from the surveillance camera. After Song Qingran went upstairs, she stepped out of the elevator and went to a hotel suite. She was holding her room key and was about to open it to go inside when…

But she stopped moving.

Song Qingran left the hotel room and went to a quiet corner of the corridor. She took out her phone as if to make a call, but no matter how she dialed, the phone remained unanswered.

Just as Jiang Hua was wondering what was going on, Kagel spoke up: "Knowing that Mr. Lu was in the room, she hesitated to go in and even tried to probe him by phone."

“Miss Song doesn’t seem to have much genuine affection for Mr. Lu; on the contrary… she seems somewhat wary.” Kagel then added, “This kind of reaction doesn’t seem like how one would act towards someone they like.”

Jiang Hua: If Pei Zhan were lying inside, Song Qingran would have rushed in long ago.

"Don't you find it disgusting to scheme against someone like this?"

"What's so interesting about it!"

Before Jiang Hua could get up, Pei Zhan pressed her back down. "I just... made what was supposed to happen happen sooner."

"Not really, it's scheming."

"Keep looking."

Kagel added, "Master is right! We've only added fuel to the fire to further confirm the relationship between Miss Song and Mr. Lu. They are already engaged, so even if they had a relationship, it would be perfectly reasonable."

"Unless one party is unwilling, it can only mean that one of them is not sincere about the relationship."

Pei Zhan actually dared to send Song Qingran to Lu Yuanzhou's bed?

Won't he regret it?

Seeing this calculated scene, Jiang Hua suddenly realized that she and Pei Zhan seemed to be doing the same thing.

She attended a banquet at that time, and someone had drugged the red wine she was drinking.

After a night of passionate infatuation, she realized when she came to her senses that the person next to her was him.

...

When Jiang Hua woke up, the room was filled with the lingering, sweet, and cloying scent of debauchery. Clothes were scattered on the floor, and her camisole was on the table. Her underwear was lying by the bed, unfortunately…

Right at the feet of the man who had already slowly put on his clothes, it was so bright, so conspicuous and so glaring.

This was her first time...

His whole body looked like it had been run over; the sheets and blankets, which hadn't been changed, were damp and sticky.

Pei Zhan buttoned up the last button of his black shirt, his eyes catching sight of a sexy black lace bra. He bent down and slowly picked it up, tossing it onto Jiang Hua's bed. Then he buttoned up his cuffs. "Miss Jiang, shouldn't you give me an explanation for what happened last night?"

Jiang Hua was hugging the quilt, her upper body completely naked. When she saw the underwear thrown in front of her, her mind went blank and she hadn't reacted yet.

Is she asleep?

Did she sleep with Pei Zhan?

Just slept like this?

Then, another pair of underwear fell out of her blanket. As if afraid he would see it, Jiang Hua quickly picked it up by the bedside. She gritted her teeth at his back, "Explain? You still want me to explain? You surnamed Pei, you actually took advantage of me, you filthy dog."

Pei Zhan glanced at her sideways, then looked back at her with a faint smile on his lips.

Jiang Hua recalled what happened last night. Before entering this room, she had drunk that glass of red wine. She originally planned to get drunk and force herself on Rong Xingzhi.

Who knew that, in just one night, she would end up sleeping with him without her knowing why.

Jiang Hua pursued Pei Zhan.

However, Pei Zhan and Wang Xueying got involved together, and the rumors circulating in the capital city were all about the vice president of the Jiang Group and the daughter of the mayor of the capital city having secret meetings every night.

The entire Jiang family has always been at odds with the Wang family. Jiang Hua didn't even consider Wang Xueying's man, so she turned her attention to Rong Xingzhi.

She also planned to use her beauty to seduce Rong Xingzhi tonight, so that things would naturally progress to him marrying into her family or marrying into her household.

Who would have thought... that old man Pei Zhan, that bastard, would actually sleep with him.

She felt dirty.

Jiang Hua finished dressing, stood at the door, stopped, turned around and walked to Pei Zhan, grabbed his collar with both hands, and threatened him fiercely, "Let me tell you, if you dare to spread this matter out, and let even a whisper of it leak out, you just wait and see."

"And... you'd better not let me see you during this time."

Jiang Hua gave him a rather unfriendly smile, "Otherwise, I'll curse you every time I see you."

Pei Zhan had a suit jacket draped over his arm, and he smelled faintly of tobacco mixed with the scent of sandalwood. The cherry-red mark on his neck made her ears burn, and she almost couldn't bear to look at him.

He tilted his head and stated a fact calmly, "How many times has Miss Jiang insulted me?"

"If you don't want to have anything to do with me, I will naturally respect Miss Jiang's decision."

"Let's pretend nothing happened tonight."

Jiang Hua: "That would be best."

During that time, she and Rong Xingzhi were still in an ambiguous relationship. To be honest, if it weren't for his unclear attitude and the fact that he couldn't give her the affirmation she wanted, she would have thought that Rong Xingzhi was really a good person. He was emotionally stable, reserved and refined, a gentleman, and didn't care about colluding with those people.

"Rising from the mud yet remaining unstained, cleansed by the clear ripples yet not becoming seductive"—this is Jiang Hua's highest praise for him.

Thoughts came back.

To this day, Jiang Hua still doesn't know who drugged the red wine she drank...

The surveillance footage showed Song Qingran making a phone call, presumably unable to reach Lu Yuanzhou. She didn't intend to swipe her card and went straight into her hotel room.

She was very calm, yet no one could know what she was thinking. Song Qingran remained composed throughout, unlike the innocent image that people usually saw in her.

Just then, a housekeeper pushing a linen cart came out of the small room. Song Qingran stepped forward and said, "Auntie, a friend of mine is drunk and asked me to come and pick him up. He said he's in this room. Could you please go in and check on him for me?"

"I... am a little scared to be alone."

"I just called him but he didn't answer."

Jiang Hua: "Pei Zhan, can't you see it now?"

"When you're drunk and facing someone you like, your first instinct should be to ignore everything else, not to be so wary as you are now."

It was only at this moment that she dared to confirm one thing: Song Qingran no longer had Lu Yuanzhou in her heart.

Otherwise, she shouldn't be like this.

Pei Zhan should know best who Song Qingran is hiding in her heart.

Pei Zhan: "Have someone go and handle it."

Kagel: "Yes, sir."

Pei Zhan gave the order, and Kagel quickly carried it out.

Jiang Hua saw this scene and should have stopped it, but instead, she forcibly brought the two together in the face of such shameful behavior.

But thinking about her past life, if she didn't change things, she was afraid...

Jiang Hua chose to remain silent.

This would completely sever any possibility between her and Pei Zhan.

Song Qingran followed behind the room attendant, who was holding a room key and about to accompany her inside when, just in case something went wrong, the bodyguard knocked Song Qingran unconscious.

"This is none of your business. You can leave now."

“This guest…she!” The room attendant tried to stop her.

The bodyguard said, "It's best if you don't ask any more questions."

The room attendant was an older middle-aged woman, probably not wanting to cause trouble. Only the very wealthy and powerful could afford to stay here, costing tens of thousands of yuan a night. Perhaps some important person had taken a liking to this young girl and wanted to possess her.

She left quickly.

The bodyguard carried Song Qingran into the room and, holding his breath, immediately placed her next to Lu Yuanzhou.

The bodyguard had a brooch with a hidden camera on his chest. Jiang Hua could see clearly that the person lying on the bed was Lu Yuanzhou.

Jiang Hua: "What if Song Qingran won't let him touch her, and Lu Yuanzhou would rather hurt himself to stay sober?"

Kagel: "That was taken into consideration, so we lit aphrodisiac incense in the room, so there won't be any problems."

Jiang Hua: That's really despicable.

The scene ends here; as for the room…

The results will be known tomorrow.