Third Master, please restrain yourself. Our marriage is a marriage of convenience.

Pei Jinhe took out her phone from her pocket, trying to distract herself.

Upon seeing the message from Zhou Yuanche, Pei Jinhe's upturned lips drooped.

She opened their chat window, glanced at the message Zhou Yuanche had sent, and replied immediately.

[Mr. Zhou, I see no sincerity in you. Your products are substandard and riddled with flaws. Even if the smart home assistant is developed, it will only harm consumers. Our cooperation ends here. I'm giving you one day to return the A chip and cease development. Otherwise, I will sue you.]

Zhou Yuanche had been waiting for news. After reading it, he was shocked and completely panicked: "We can talk things over. Anything I did wrong, I can fix."

If he can't continue research and development, wouldn't all the money he invested be wasted?

This is no small sum of money; it could even cost him his position as heir.

No need, it's a waste of time.

After sending this message, Pei Jinhe didn't wait for his reply and immediately blocked and deleted him.

There's no need to waste your precious time on such scum.

I'll agree to any request.

Zhou Yuanche stared at the red exclamation mark behind him, his eyes blazing with fury, his anger burning with nowhere to go.

With a "crash!", he swept everything off his desk and onto the floor.

Folders, cups, and computers crashed to the ground with a clatter.

When Guo Tianhao and Ji Yuyan pushed the door open, they saw the mess on the floor and Zhou Yuanche teetering on the edge of rage.

Suppressing her fear, Ji Yuyan asked cautiously, "Brother Che, what's wrong?"

Could it be because of Pei Jinhe again?

When will that troublemaker finally be able to marry into the Shen family?

Guo Tianhao walked around the mess on the ground and came up to Zhou Yuanche: "Brother Che, what happened?"

Zhou Yuanche's chest heaved violently, his eyes bloodshot: "He Bing's apprentice wants to terminate cooperation with the Zhou Group and retrieve the A-chip!"

Guo Tianhao was horrified: "We signed a contract! How could he go back on his word!"

He also understood what that chip meant to the Zhou Group.

Zhou Yuanche was so angry that his face turned red: "You forgot, the contract states that he has the right to take back chip A at any time."

Guo Tianhao's face was filled with anxiety, and his voice was hurried: "What are we going to do now? All the working capital the group can use has been used to develop the smart butler, and we've also borrowed a large sum of money from the bank. If we can't continue the development, then everything will be over!"

Zhou Yuanche clenched his fists and remained silent.

His current position in the group is all thanks to A-chip, because it means he has aligned himself with the China Academy of Science and Technology, which will allow him to dominate the artificial intelligence industry in the future.

But now the chips have been recalled, and research and development has been interrupted.

What hope does he have left?

"How could this happen so suddenly?"

Ji Yuyan was unaware of the seriousness of the situation or what had actually happened, but that didn't stop her from subtly blaming Pei Jinhe: "Could it be that my sister instructed you to do this?"

"What did you say?!" Zhou Yuanche stared intently at Ji Yuyan, his voice suddenly rising.

Ji Yuyan had never seen Zhou Yuanche like this before, and her voice trembled with fear: "I... I was just guessing. Although the research my sister participated in was the most basic, it was still related to the development of artificial intelligence, so there must be some connection between them."

"If my sister deliberately says bad things about me to Dean He Bing's last disciple because of my breakup with Che-gege, then..."

Her voice stopped abruptly.

It stopped perfectly.

Guo Tianhao was successfully persuaded by her words and roared angrily, "Brother Che, you and Pei Jinhe just broke up a few days ago, and the research institute wants to take back the A chip. If you ask me, Pei Jinhe is definitely involved in this!"

"That's enough!" Zhou Yuanche exclaimed in exasperation. "The most important thing now is that they're preventing us from doing research and development!"

He suddenly remembered that Pei Jinhe seemed to have reminded him about the raw materials.

At the time, he thought Pei Jinhe had only joined a research group at the school, and that it wasn't very prestigious. What could she possibly know?

Now it seems he really underestimated Pei Jinhe.

Zhou Yuanche closed his eyes, feeling a tightness and congestion in his chest, as if he couldn't breathe.

Ji Yuyan's eyes darted around, and a thought suddenly occurred to her: "Just because she says we can't do research and development, doesn't mean we won't?"

These words enlightened Guo Tianhao: "Brother Che, Yan Yan is right. We have developed a part of the A chip. We can use this part to continue developing the smart butler. The functions of artificial intelligence are all pretty much the same. Who can prove that we are using the functions of the A chip?"

Zhou Yuanche didn't say anything, and it was unclear whether he had taken their words to heart.

.....

When Pei Jinhe was leaving get off work, she picked up her phone and saw a message that Shen Huaiyu had sent half an hour earlier.

Shen Huaiyu: [I'll wait for you where you got off the bus.]

Pei Jinhe bit her lip, her cheeks slightly flushed: [Understood.]

Chu Yunyan walked over: "Jinhe, I happen to be going to the lab today, I'll give you a ride home on my way."

Pei Jinhe turned off her phone screen and made an excuse: "No need, I'm going to the market to buy some groceries, you can go back first."

Chu Yunyan opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but Pei Jinhe had already picked up her backpack and left.

Actually, he wasn't going to the lab; he just wanted an excuse to send Pei Jinhe back.

A black Bentley was discreetly parked on the side of the road.

As one of the car doors opened, a cool breeze mixed with a faint floral fragrance wafted in, fresh and elegant, with a hint of sweetness.

Shen Huaiyu turned his head to look.

Pei Jinhe was wearing a light blue casual outfit with a white cashmere coat on top. She was holding a bunch of white hibiscus flowers in her arms, and her peach blossom eyes sparkled with tiny starlight. She seemed to be very happy.

The pure white hibiscus flowers made her innocent face look ethereal.

It was no longer the season for hibiscus to bloom, but the hibiscus in her arms was in full bloom.

Shen Huaiyu looked at the hibiscus flowers in her arms and asked casually, "Where did they come from?"

Could it have been given by that kid named Chu Yunyan?

Pei Jinhe bent down and sat in the car, her eyes crinkling with a smile: "I just bought this at a flower shop I passed by. It'll fit perfectly in the vase at home."

These were the last ten, and she bought them all.

Home.

These two words seemed like an invisible hand, gently plucking at the long-dormant strings of Shen Huaiyu's heart.

It's a little warm.

There's also a hint of sweetness.

Seeing that Shen Huaiyu didn't speak, Pei Jinhe assumed he didn't like it and hurriedly said, "If you don't like it, you don't have to let it go."

Her voice sounded a little down.

The place I'm living now is Shen Huaiyu's home.

It's not hers.