"How is Mr. Lin planning on making things right with my wife?" Words that were as light as a feather came from behind them. The speaker's tone was very flat without any sign of anger. Lu Beichuan expressionlessly walked over here from a side corridor. He wrapped his arm around Ye Zhen's waist like it was routine. Standing opposite of Lin Zhan, he coldly stared at him.

Lu Beichuan was very possessive. He wouldn't allow others to long for someone or something that belonged to him. In his opinion, that would be disrespecting him.

Ye Zhen inwardly sighed, but she kept a smile on her face as she looked at Lu Beichuan. She intimately held his arm and said, "I'm just chatting with an old classmate. Why did you come here?"

"I heard you guys talking about making things right, and I came here out of impulsive curiosity." Lu Beichuan narrowed his eyes and looked at Lin Zhan with a gaze tinged with oppressiveness.

Lin Zhan's expression didn't change. He looked like he had no intention of backing down.

Their gazes crossed, and the faint collision caused fierce sparks.

"Mr. Lu heard wrong. Your wife and I were just reminiscing."

"Reminiscing?" Lu Beichuan's lips slowly curved into a smile, but from Ye Zhen's point of view, she only felt trepidation in the face of disaster.

Lu Beichuan and Lin Zhan would be on opposing sides just from their identities. And right now, Lin Zhan didn't have the capital to face off with Lu Beichuan. Where did he get the courage to stand in front of Lu Beichuan and challenge him?

Shouldn't the best policy be to hide and secretly grow in power?

Ye Zhen truly didn't understand why Lin Zhan would take the initiative to send himself to Lu Beichuan's door.

"I know that Mr. Lin and my wife have a history together, but I'm not a petty person. The past is the past. There's no need to bring it up now. So Mr. Lin, what you said about making things right, that's completely unnecessary."

It sounded as if he had no ill-feelings towards Lin Zhan and Ye Zhen's past relationship.

Such tolerant and magnanimous words, it didn't sound like something Lu Beichuan would say.

After saying that, Lu Beichuan took out the blood jade bracelet that Lin Zhan had given to Ye Zhen and held it in front of Lin Zhan. Lu Beichuan's gaze was mocking and contemptuous. He looked at this priceless blood jade bracelet as if it was worthless.

"Mr. Lin, you should give this bracelet to someone you're fated with. My wife can only wear jewelry that I give her."

It was rare for Lu Beichuan to show such patience towards Lin Zhan and speak civility with him. Taking the time to speak slowly? That wasn't in Lu Beichuan's standard behavior.

It was a bit hard for Ye Zhen to keep the smile on her lips. She wanted to refute Lu Beichuan's declaration of sovereignty, but since they had a prior agreement, she went along with his words. "Mr. Lin, thank you for kind intentions. This is the gift your mother prepared for her future daughter-in-law, and this bracelet is so expensive too. I really can't accept it."

When a husband and wife were of the same mind, their sharpness could cut through metal. Seeing that they were of one mind when it came to dealing with an outside party, their attitude was clear-cut, and their trust for each other was absolute, Lin Zhan should understand what to do next.

"I didn't have any other intentions. I gave this bracelet to thank Mrs. Lu for taking care of my mother and keeping her company in the last part of her life. I think my mother would be very happy to see me doing this. I hope that you won't refuse."

Lu Beichuan slightly furrowed his brow. "Mr. Lin, I don't say this to be offensive, but in my opinion, Ye Zhen took care of your mother without expecting a reward. She gave her sincerity, but now, you're giving her a material good in return. Mr. Lin, don't you think that’s inappropriate?"

Lin Zhan paused for a moment before lowering his head and chuckling.

Yeah, Ye Zhen had given her sincerity. How could he pay her back with a material good?

He took the blood jade bracelet back. "I understand."

Right after Li Zhan had taken back the blood jade bracelet, Lu Beichuan took out another blood jade bracelet and slipped it onto Ye Zhen's wrist.

However, this jade bracelet had a more developed red color. This naturally formed jade was flawlessly transparent and crystal-clear under the light. Compared to Lin Zhan's bracelet, the quality of this bracelet was even more beautiful, which made the cost even more inestimable.

"This is..." Ye Zhen looked at the blood jade bracelet on her wrist, extremely surprised.

"I said that every jewelry that you wear has to be bought by me. Blood jade suits you very well, wear it."

Ye Zhen had a slender wrist, and this bracelet seemed tailor-made for her. Her wrist looked even more fair-skinned while she was wearing the blood jade bracelet. Ye Zhen, who usually didn't wear bright pieces of jewelry, looked extremely eye-catching with it. It was a striking attraction.

"Do you like it?"

Ye Zhen's mood was very complicated. In the novel, Ye Qing was the first person to wear a blood jade bracelet in this coastal city, and it became a trending item. Blood jade was rare. Even though many people rushed to buy it, they were only able to buy inferior pieces that were much worse than Ye Qing's blood jade bracelet.

But now, Lu Beichuan had casually taken out a blood jade bracelet that was higher quality than that one.

"When did you buy this? How come I didn't know?"

"I wanted to surprise you," Lu Beichuan lightly stated.

When he saw Lin Zhan's blood jade bracelet, he thought that it would be very suitable for Ye Zhen to wear. But, how could he let his wife wear a gift from someone else? After scouting around, he finally acquired this one-in-the-world blood jade bracelet before their son's first lunar month birthday.

Lin Zhan's expression changed a few times. Looking at the blood jade bracelet around Ye Zhen's wrist, he clenched and unclenched his hands a few times. He took a deep breath and forced himself to suppress his impatience. He slightly nodded, then he turned around and left.

Ye Zhen watched Lin Zhan walk away. Then, she carefully lifted her hand up so that she could look over her blood jade bracelet.

When Ye Zhen was reading the novel, she had been curious about Ye Qing's bracelet that had attracted everyone's attention. How could she not be excited that she now possessed a priceless blood jade bracelet that had a higher purity value than Ye Qing's bracelet?

"Mr. Lu, this must have been very expensive, right?"

Lu Beichuan looked mostly impassive, but there was a smug curve to his lips. As Ye Zhen lowered her head to look over the blood jade bracelet, he looked at her with an undisguised pampering gaze. "It's price was okay. No matter how expensive something it, my wife will be deserving of it."

"But... This is so expensive. What if I break it?"

When Ye Zhen was very young, her paternal grandmother had given her an ordinary jade bracelet. But on the next day, she accidentally broke it. At that time, she didn't know how to judge the value of the bracelet. By now, she no longer remembered what it looked like. Regardless, she firmly believed that the bracelet her grandmother had passed down to her must be a good thing and might be of high value. And so, she had always dwelled on it.

Lu Beichuan didn't seem to care at all. "If it breaks, it breaks. I'll just buy you another one."

Although he didn't know if there was a jade bracelet of better quality and more expensive than this one, it was only a bracelet. It was just an object. Why should his wife have to be cautious over some object?

Could a mere object be more precious than his wife?

Lu Beichuan’s words really got Ye Zhen in the heart. She raised her head and looked at Lu Beichuan. "Thank you for the gift. I like it a lot. Did you buy something for mom as well?"