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

Pei Jinhe slowly raised her eyes and saw Jiang Jing, who was dressed in a flamboyant manner, across from her. It took her a while to remember who she was.

The doctor I met when I went to the hospital to see Qin Yuyang last time.

She spoke calmly, "Does this place belong to your family? Why can't I come?"

Jiang Jing glanced around to make sure no one was paying attention to them, then lowered her voice and warned, "I'm warning you, Qin Yuyang is the man I've set my sights on. You'd better stay away from him, or I won't let you off the hook!"

"Oh," Pei Jinhe said casually.

Jiang Jing was enraged by her nonchalant attitude: "Didn't you hear me talking to you?! What do you mean by that 'oh'?!"

Pei Jinhe honestly said, "You're just acting out of impotence and rage, making trouble out of nothing."

Jiang Jing wanted to lash out, but with so many people around, she was afraid of losing face, so she held back, leaving behind a harsh threat: "You just wait!"

Pei Jinhe looked nonchalant, not even bothering to lift her eyelids.

What is all this about?

Seeing Jiang Jing's unpleasant expression, her follower Li Xue whispered, "Jingjing, I just saw her talking to Shen Hanyin. They seem to get along very well."

Jiang Jing snorted coldly, "Shen Hanyin is only talking to her a few more words because of Qin Yuyang. If they were really that close, why doesn't Shen Hanyin introduce her to her friends?"

Her gaze swept over Pei Jinhe, her eyes filled with malice: "I'm going to teach her a lesson!"

Qin Yuyang was the man she had her eye on, and she even thought about using Qin Yuyang's reputation and status to climb to a higher position, but unfortunately, Qin Yuyang didn't even give her a second glance.

How could she accept a man who wouldn't even give her a second glance being so gentle and considerate to other women?

Li Xue asked, "What do you want to do?"

Jiang Jing coldly curled the corners of her lips, already having made up her mind.

……

As the birthday banquet began, the atmosphere reached its climax.

These kinds of events are mostly for networking and discussing collaborations; very few people actually come to eat.

Pei Jinhe was engrossed in her phone, oblivious to everything around her.

With a "crash!", Pei Jinhe's bag, which she had placed on the table, was knocked to the ground.

Before Pei Jinhe could react, Li Xue quickly picked up the bag and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

Pei Jinhe frowned slightly, but didn't say anything, taking the bag from her hand: "It's nothing."

What if she breaks it?

That's so careless of him to walk.

Pei Jinhe didn't take the little incident to heart.

Shen Hanyin walked over and sat down, rubbing her sore calves: "My face is cramping from laughing so much."

Pei Jinhe put away her phone and placed a glass of juice in front of her: "Have a glass of juice and take a break."

Shen Hanyin slowly took a few sips of her drink, then asked gossipily, "How's your relationship with Huaiyu going?"

Pei Jinhe pursed her lips, speaking ambiguously, "We get along quite well."

That's absolutely right; they really do get along quite peacefully.

"What else?" Shen Hanyin pressed.

Pei Jinhe replied, "Anyway, it's pretty good."

Shen Hanyin said mysteriously, "I have something to give you after the birthday banquet."

Just as the old lady had said, their relationship hadn't progressed much at all.

As the older sister, she definitely had to help them.

Otherwise, who knows when they'll finally confess their feelings to each other.

"What is it?" Pei Jinhe asked curiously.

Shen Hanyin blinked: "It's a secret now, you'll know once you get it."

Pei Jinhe's curiosity was piqued: "So mysterious?"

Shen Hanyin said with a straight face, "Yes, the best things are always revealed at the last minute."

The birthday banquet was more than halfway over.

"Oh no! My diamond bracelet is gone!"

Jiang Jing's sudden exclamation broke the atmosphere of the birthday banquet. With tears in her eyes, she said, "That bracelet was brand new. It was the first time I wore it today. How could it be gone?"

Li Xue comforted her, "Jingjing, don't worry, let the maid help look for it."

With tears welling up in her eyes, Jiang Jing said to the maid, "That bracelet is very important to me. You must help me find it."

Those present exchanged a subtle glance.

Pei Jinhe watched the farce unfold before her, her beautiful peach blossom eyes narrowing slightly.

She stared at her bag for a few seconds, then looked up and glanced at the cameras overhead.

The servants dared not make decisions on their own regarding such a serious matter as a guest losing something, and someone quickly reported it to Qin Yuyang.

Qin Yuyang rushed in from outside and asked Jiang Jing, "What kind of diamond bracelet do you have?"

Jiang Jing concealed her joy, tears streaming down her face, and showed Qin Yuyang and everyone else a picture of the bracelet on her phone.

"Has anyone seen this? Could you help me find it?"

"No, we didn't see any."

"Yeah, I didn't see it either. Maybe it fell into some corner? Everyone, please help me check."

"We've looked everywhere, but it's not there."

Jiang Jing's tears welled up again: "What should I do? That bracelet means a lot to me."

Qin Yuyang said businesslike, "Ms. Jiang, please don't worry, I've already had someone check the surveillance footage."

"Wait a moment!"

Li Xue pointed at Pei Jinhe's bag and exaggeratedly covered her mouth, asking, "Miss, what's in your bag?"

Everyone looked at Pei Jinhe's bag and saw that the right side of the bracelet was sticking out. Judging from the style, it was very similar to the one Jiang Jing had shown them.

Jiang Jing approached Pei Jinhe: "Could you open your bag and let me see it?"

Shen Hanyin said coldly, "What do you mean by that?"

She now understands the situation clearly.

Although she didn't know how the bracelet ended up in Pei Jinhe's bag.

But she knew it definitely wasn't Pei Jinhe who stole it.

Jiang Jing's voice was soft and weak: "Miss Shen, I didn't mean anything by it, it's just that the exposed side looks too much like my bracelet."

Li Xue chimed in, "In that case, Miss Shen, please open your bag and let us see. If there's nothing there, it will clear your name."

Pei Jinhe didn't speak, nor did she open the bag.

"In my opinion, she's just feeling guilty."

"Definitely. If she didn't take it, why wouldn't she let everyone see?"

"..."

Some people looked at Pei Jinhe with disdain.

Everyone in the upper-class circle knows each other, but this is the first time Pei Jinhe and her group have met.

Those who saw her arrive with Shen Huaiyu assumed she was Shen Huaiyu's female companion, while those who didn't see her guessed she was the female companion of some young master.

There are many such female companions in the circle; they have no status whatsoever, and to put it bluntly, they are just playthings for rich young men.

"Miss Pei is a VIP guest I invited. It is illegal to search someone else's bag without evidence. I have already asked someone to check the surveillance footage. Once the footage is available, we will know what happened."

Qin Yuyang insisted that they not see Pei Jinhe's bag.