Marriage Seduction Addiction

Chapter 118 Long time no see
Tang Xu hadn't expected him to ask this question right away. After a pause, she lowered her eyes slightly and gave a helpless, bitter smile. "You already know."

Yan Shiyu looked at her quietly.

He had never seen Tang Xu shed tears.

As far as I can remember, she only ever had tears in her eyes two or three times in front of him.

Everyone has moments of vulnerability, especially her, who has experienced so much in just six months.

But she never cried.

Yan Shiyu recalled the absent-minded look on her face as she sat in the car just now.

He didn't know what she was thinking at that time, or why she could sit motionless in the car for so long.

He only saw her overwhelming vulnerability.

But she just wouldn't cry.

She used to ask him for help, but since Song Yuting passed away, she has not asked him for any help.

This time, Qin Yun disappeared and ended her life at sea. Her choice was to call the police and hire a private investigator herself.

If he hadn't heard that Song Yuqiao had moved in with her and learned about Qin Yun's situation from elsewhere, he probably wouldn't have known what had happened until now.

After a long silence in the car, Tang Xu finally remembered that she hadn't answered his question yet.

“What’s done is done, and there are a bunch of follow-up issues to deal with. When I get busy, I forget everything,” Tang Xu said. “You’re not in Huai City, so I didn’t think to tell you.”

After another moment of silence, Yan Shiyu finally asked, "So, what are your plans after that?"

“My sister wants to study abroad,” Tang Xu said. “I’m planning to help her choose a school and send her abroad. As for my brother, teenage boys are rebellious, let him stumble along for a while.”

After saying that, she turned to look at him again, a slightly apologetic smile on her face. "So I probably won't have much time to spend with you these days... You won't be angry, will you?"

Yan Shiyu did not answer.

Tang Xu paused, turned and leaned into his arms, raised her head and gently placed a kiss on the corner of his lips.

"Don't be angry with me, okay?" she asked.

Yan Shiyu looked down at her for a long time, then simply said, "Go upstairs."

Tang Xu smiled and kissed him again, "You should go back and rest early too."

After saying that, she pushed open the door, got out of the car, and walked into the elevator.

Two minutes later, Gao Yan emerged from some corner and got into the driver's seat of the car.

The air pressure inside the car is very low.

Gao Yan sensed it clearly, and without saying a word, he drove straight away from Yujing Bay.

On the way, Yan Shiyu received a work call.

After listening to him calmly communicate with the other party for more than ten minutes, Gao Yan finally breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Hearing him hang up the phone, to avoid the previous oppressive atmosphere in the car falling back into its previous state, Gao Yan took the initiative to speak: "Miss Tang has had a tough time, losing so much and still having to take care of her younger siblings... Although it won't be convenient for us to meet at Yujing Bay in the future, she can still come up to Qiushui Terrace."

After a long while, Yan Shiyu was heard to chuckle faintly.

Do you think she would come up to Qiushui Terrace on her own initiative?

Yan Shiyu asked a question in a deep, slow voice.

Gao Yan was taken aback, and after a moment, hesitantly replied, "Maybe?"

Yan Shiyu did not respond further.

……

As it turned out, Tang Xu and Yan Shiyu did not see each other again for nearly two weeks after that.

Tang Xu's life is so simple that it almost consists of only two points: going to work and going home. Even if she has occasional social engagements, she will end them as soon as possible.

Despite this, she and Song Yuqiao, who lived under the same roof, rarely met.

Many times when she came home, Song Yuqiao would quickly retreat to her room as soon as she heard the door open;
Sometimes Song Yuqiao would stay out very late, and by the time she got home, Tang Xu would often already be back in his bedroom.

Although they are called sisters, they are more like roommates who don't bother each other.

Late that night, Song Yuqiao came out of her room to get a drink of water. When she passed by Tang Xu's bedroom, she found that her door was open. She could not hear Tang Xu's voice inside, but could hear the deep surround sound of a stereo. Many documents were spread out on the bed.

As if guided by some strange force, Song Yuqiao went inside, picked up a document from the bed, and looked at it.

It turned out to be application materials from a foreign university.

Not just the one in her hand, but all the ones on the bed.

Tang Xu had given her the same information more than ten days ago, asking her to select and decide for herself, and to complete all the preliminary preparations.

She had been racking her brains trying to figure it out for a long time, only to find that Tang Xu was doing the same thing.

The difference is that Tang Xu listed all the schools and majors she could apply to in a detailed table, analyzing the pros and cons one by one, which was much clearer and more detailed than the results she had compiled over the past ten days.

Song Yuqiao was staring intently at the summary report when she suddenly heard the sound of water coming from the bathroom. She quickly put down what she was holding and turned to leave, but she still ran into Tang Xu at the door of the room.

Such an encounter was inevitably a bit awkward, but Tang Xu didn't seem to think so.

In Song Yuqiao's eyes, Tang Xu always had that self-centered attitude.

As a child, Song Yuqiao witnessed Tang Xu's rebellious behavior and disrespect for his parents.

At that time, Tang Xu was convinced that Qin Yun was the third party who destroyed her perfect family. Therefore, for a long time, Tang Xu was rebellious outside and disobedient at home, and did many things that clashed with Song Yuting and Qin Yun.

As a stepmother, Qin Yun often finds it inconvenient to express her opinions, but Song Yuting is extremely worried about her.

Until Tang Xu was seventeen years old.

She disappeared for a few days that year, and when she returned, she was suddenly like a different person.

She no longer acted recklessly as before, but her personality remained indifferent. Two years later, she gradually began to smile at Song Yuting and Qin Yun.

She began to live like a normal person in the Song family.

However, Song Yuqiao had long been accustomed to her former self, and she was convinced that all of Tang Xu's changes were an act, that she had other motives, and that she was trying to destroy this family.

This family was ultimately destroyed.

Song Yuqiao once believed that her family was ruined by Tang Xu.

But Tang Xu "helped" her time and time again.

Even before Qin Yun passed away, she told her and her brother that the only person they could rely on in this world was their older sister, Tang Xu.

Song Yuqiao was unwilling to admit it.

But she had no choice.

She wanted to leave the city, to leave behind all the messy people and things.

Tang Xu promised to help her.

Although Tang Xu's help was not thorough, pushing so many things onto her to do, she could only obediently listen and wait for the day she could finally escape from here.

But it was only at this moment that she realized that Tang Xu wasn't completely indifferent to her after all.

She was genuinely trying to help her.

For a moment, Song Yuqiao didn't know how to react.

After a long while, she reached out and pointed behind her, saying to Tang Xu, "The music is very nice."

Tang Xu looked over her shoulder at the audio equipment in the room, paused for a moment, and slowly said, "Yes, it was a gift from a friend."