Although he was a little surprised that the girl looked younger than him, not like a woman in her twenties, he didn't know for sure. But perhaps this girl also had an older sister who tragically died young. It didn't seem impossible that her parents, in order to keep their promise, would have the younger sister fulfill the arranged marriage for the older sister.
In just a moment, Pei Zijun had already seamlessly connected the two in his mind.
"If it's not mine, could it be yours?" Hua Qingcheng snatched the jade pendant from Pei Zijun's hand and quickly put it in her arms.
Hiding under her clothes, Hua Qingcheng placed the jade pendant unnoticed on the desk in her room in the space villa. This was a gift from Erlang, earned by him, so she had to protect it and not lose it.
"Miss, please forgive me for being so presumptuous, but is this jade pendant... really yours?" Pei Zijun was afraid of making a mistake, so he planned to confirm it again.
"That's quite presumptuous of you. This jade pendant fell from my body, so it's naturally mine."
Hua Qingcheng thought, considering Duan Yunfei's personality, he didn't seem like the type to take someone else's things for himself. Since this jade pendant came from Duan Yunfei, it must have belonged to him. Even if it didn't belong to him, now that it was in her hands, it was hers.
Could this person have deliberately bumped into her to try to scam her? Hua Qingcheng looked at Pei Zijun with a hint of wariness and hostility.
"No...I'm sorry, Pei...Pei knows."
Pei Zijun received a positive answer from the other party, but his fair and tender face suddenly turned red.
"Sir, are you okay?"
As soon as Pei Zijun's servant arrived at the backyard, he saw Pei Zijun standing blankly by the well, his handsome face slightly flushed, and his bright eyes staring stupidly in the direction of the lobby on the first floor of the inn.
“No…it’s okay!”
"Tell the waiter to fetch some water. I'm going to bathe soon. Rest early tonight. We have to get up early tomorrow to head to Baishui Town in Fufeng County, Qiandeng Province."
"Yes, sir."
The Pei family is a merchant family. After Pei's mother passed away, her husband also passed away soon after. Pei Zijun's father took over the family business as the concubine and supported the entire Pei family.
Pei Zijun came from the capital this time, on the one hand to visit his distant cousins in Baishui Town, and on the other hand to see their newly opened store so that he could observe and learn and then promote it in the capital.
And his distant cousin was none other than Yang Kaitai's family, who had provided Hua Qingcheng with the first pot of gold for his business.
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