Marriage Seduction Addiction

Chapter 175 A familiar figure

Ten days before the Spring Festival, Song Luobai boarded a plane to New York.

After seeing him off, Tang Xu boarded a plane to Melbourne.

However, she only stayed in Melbourne for one day. After receiving a phone call, she turned around and flew from Melbourne to Boston.

As soon as the plane landed, Tang Xu rushed to Song Yuqiao's apartment.

She knocked on the apartment door, only to find Song Yuqiao standing unharmed inside, looking at her with slight surprise.

"Why are you here?" Song Yuqiao asked.

Tang Xu looked at her and asked, "Weren't you in the hospital?"

"Who told you that?" Song Yuqiao raised her hand and showed Tang Xu the bandage wrapped around her wrist. "I just fell and wasn't seriously injured, so the doctor told me to come back and rest."

"Why did you fall down the stairs?" Tang Xu asked again.

“It was an accident,” Song Yuqiao replied. “There were too many people when school was letting out, and I accidentally missed a step and fell.”

"Are you sure?" Tang Xu asked.

Song Yuqiao asked with slight confusion, "Otherwise what?"

Seeing her expression, which didn't seem to indicate that she was hiding anything, Tang Xu relaxed slightly.

Song Yuqiao paused, then suddenly said, "You didn't fly here just because I was injured, did you?"

"No," Tang Xu replied, "It's the Spring Festival holiday, and I'm taking the opportunity to travel."

Song Yuqiao asked, "Didn't Luo Bai say you were going to Australia for tourism?"

"I changed my plans at the last minute," Tang Xu said simply. "I'm glad you're alright. I'll head to the hotel now."

Song Yuqiao was a little taken aback for a moment. Seeing Tang Xu about to enter the elevator, she snapped out of her daze, chased after him, and held the elevator door open to ask, "Now that you're here, how long are you planning to stay?"

"We'll see," Tang Xu replied. "Nothing's decided yet."

"Then let's stay a few more days," Song Yuqiao said. "When Luo Bai and his study tour group arrive in Boston, we might be able to have a meal together..."

Tang Xu looked at her quietly for a moment, and when she spoke again, she replied with a single word: "Okay."

Song Yuqiao pursed her lips slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but couldn't bring herself to say it. In the end, she just stepped back a little and said, "Then you should go to the hotel to rest first."

Tang Xu went downstairs and had just stepped out of the apartment building when a silver sports car honked at her from the street.

Tang Xu turned her head and saw Meng Tianyou running out of the car.

Meng Tianyou was still his usual cheerful and smiling self. "Sister, did you finish watching Song Yuqiao so quickly? Where are you going next? I'll take you."

Tang Xu looked at him with some helplessness, "Why did you describe her injuries as so serious?"

"Really?" Meng Tianyou shrugged. "I was just describing it as it was. It's you who's making things up, sister. You're exaggerating."

Tang Xu was speechless for a moment.

"Anyway, she's alright. It's great that you're back in Boston, sister!" Meng Tianyou said. "I'll treat you to dinner tonight to welcome you back!"

"No need," Tang Xu replied. "I'm a little tired and want to rest for a day."

Meng Tianyou didn't give up, "Then tomorrow?"

"Aren't you going to class tomorrow?" Tang Xu asked.

“Nothing is more important to me than you, my sister,” Meng Tianyou said. “Besides, I don’t have class tomorrow.”

Tang Xu sighed softly, then said, "I don't want to set the itinerary too rigidly. Let's leave it to fate."

Although she said "it's all up to fate," Tang Xu set off for Pittsburgh early the next morning.

She wandered aimlessly through Pennsylvania for almost a week before finally returning to Boston.

On the day she returned to Boston, Meng Tianyou intercepted her at her hotel.

Seeing his persistence, Tang Xu knew that she couldn't avoid the meal, so she offered to treat him to a meal at a restaurant near the hotel.

Meng Tianyou was naturally overjoyed and agreed.

It started raining in the evening, and the streets were wet and cold, but the restaurant had a warm atmosphere.

Meng Tianyou was in a good mood and talked non-stop, trying hard to get Tang Xu's reaction.

Tang Xu did respond to him, laughing when he should and responding when he should, but he remained indifferent throughout.

It was as if she would disappear from sight if we weren't careful.

Meng Tianyou noticed, "Sister seems to have more worries this time than before."

Tang Xu simply looked at him quietly, "You're so young, yet you're quite perceptive of people's emotions."

"Please, I'm only four years younger than you. Don't make it sound like there's a galaxy between us," Meng Tianyou said, dissatisfied.

Tang Xu chuckled and said, "How could that be? You're from Huai City, and so am I. We're only two districts apart, which is far from being as close as Yinhe."

Upon hearing this, Meng Tianyou became happy. "The two districts are very close, right?" Tang Xu did not answer, but instead asked, "Your surname is Meng. What is your relationship with the Meng family that Meng Lianshan belongs to?"

Upon hearing the name "Meng Lianshan," Meng Tianyou seemed to pause for a moment before lowering his head and smiling, saying, "Meng Lianshan is my uncle."

"Oh." Tang Xu nodded and said, "The Meng family is very wealthy, but most of it is controlled by your uncle, right?"

Meng Tianyou smiled, picked up the decanter and poured wine for Tang Xu, "Why would my sister care about these things?"

“Just like you care about me,” Tang Xu said. “Isn’t it normal for me to care about these things too?”

Meng Tianyou paused slightly while pouring the wine, then resumed his normal motion. "Of course I'm happy that my sister cares about me."

“Since you’re Yu Qiao’s friend and call me ‘sister,’ I still have to say what I need to say,” Tang Xu said softly. “Although I’m nominally a member of the Jiang family, I’ve only ever held the title of Mrs. Jiang. In a few months, that title will no longer belong to me. I know nothing about the Jiang family, and I won’t take any of Jiang Muchen’s assets after our divorce. So, I am who I am now, and I will be who I am in the future. I can’t offer you any help, so you don’t need to put your effort into me.”

Meng Tianyou listened quietly to her finish speaking, his gaze shifting several times before he finally smiled. "Sister, you've misunderstood me. How could you think I only approached you for those reasons? Do you really think I'm that kind of person?"

Tang Xu simply smiled slightly.

In fact, she sensed something the moment Meng Tianyou approached her.

He comes from Huai City, his surname is Meng, and he is a rich young master.

With these elements combined, his background becomes clear.

Among the many prominent families in Huai City, the Meng family is also well-known, with a large business empire.

For example, Meng Xiyue, who had previously plotted to abandon her in the snow forest, was a junior member of a collateral branch of the Meng family.

Meng Tianyou's status was obviously much higher; he was a legitimate second-generation member of the Meng family. Unfortunately, due to his father's incompetence, the family business fell entirely into the hands of his uncle, Meng Lianshan.

Children raised in such families are rarely so cheerful, bright, and carefree.

If Tang Xu was only guessing at first, Meng Tianyou's subtle reactions have now given her a definite answer.

She was not wrong.

Tang Xu did not answer his question. Instead, he picked up his wine glass, touched it to the glass in front of him, tilted his head back and drank it all in one gulp before saying, "It's understandable that he is that kind of person. It's just that you have misunderstood."

She turned to look at the wet street outside the window.

The city's neon lights became mottled and fragmented in the rain, and the figures of pedestrians on the road were equally blurred.

There are so many things in this world that cannot be seen clearly; this applies to people and to the mind.

Why insist on a clear and unambiguous explanation?

But ironically, she was too clear-headed.

To be awake is to suffer.

She was destined to endure such pain.

……

Meng Tianyou is a smart man.

After Tang Xu spoke frankly, although he wouldn't admit it, he probably already had the answer in his heart.

So he spoke much less afterwards. After dinner, he walked Tang Xu to the hotel lobby and then turned and left.

For Tang Xu, this can be considered as solving a problem.

She felt neither joy nor sorrow, her heart was completely unmoved.

Just as she was about to turn and head towards the elevator, a woman in uniform suddenly approached her. "Miss Tang?"

Tang Xu noticed the hotel manager's title on her name tag before nodding and replying, "Yes, that's me. Is there anything I can help you with?"

"You have a visitor waiting for you in the Executive Lounge."

Visitor?

Could it be Song Yuqiao?

Tang Xu had some questions, but since they were within the hotel grounds, she followed the manager into the elevator.

The elevator quickly reached the top floor, and after exiting the elevator and turning the corner, the spacious and luxurious executive lounge came into view.

It was still early, and the executive lounge should have been quite full of guests at this time.

But at this moment, the entire lounge was unusually quiet and deserted.

The only thing that caught Tang Xu's eye was a figure sitting by the window.

A figure she knew all too well.

Tang Xu's breathing suddenly tightened, and her body stiffened, remaining frozen in place.

The manager behind him quietly stepped back.

The man by the window stood up and walked towards her step by step.

"Did you have a good dinner?" he asked.