Marriage Seduction Addiction

Chapter 186: Full of bad intentions
The journey back was smooth and uneventful.

This was probably the happiest night Tang Xu had experienced since leaving the country.

Of course, it would be even better if you didn't see anyone you didn't want to see in the hotel lobby when you arrived.

Tang Xu wasn't greedy. She knew that the moment they held hands in the restaurant was already precious enough. So when she got back to the hotel, she got out of the car first and was about to walk straight to the elevator when she suddenly saw someone turn around at the front desk, smiling and waving at her.

Yan Fengqi.

Tang Xu stopped in her tracks and looked up at him.

Yan Fengqi's gaze quickly fell on what was behind her.

Tang Xu remained standing there without moving, but a hand gently placed on her waist from behind.

Tang Xu wasn't actually afraid of seeing Yan Fengqi; she just hadn't expected him to appear so quickly and suddenly.

But when Yan Shiyu placed his hand on her lower back, her initial shock suddenly turned into anticipation.

She suddenly felt a sense of anticipation, eager to see Yan Fengqi's next reaction.

Yan Fengqi's gaze fell on Yan Shiyu's actions, and a cryptic smile appeared in his eyes behind his thin glasses.

Yan Shiyu didn't even glance at him before leading Tang Xu toward the elevator.

"In a foreign land, such a coincidental encounter, shouldn't you at least say hello?" Yan Fengqi's voice came from behind.

Judging from the force in Yan Shiyu's hand, he really didn't intend to greet Yan Fengqi.

But when Tang Xu heard Yan Fengqi's words, she stopped in her tracks again and turned to look at him.

“Mr. Yan, I didn’t expect you to stay at this hotel. That’s quite a coincidence,” Tang Xu replied.

Yan Fengqi curled his lips into a smile, his gaze still fixed on Yan Shiyu's face. "This hotel is rather low-class, but I think that since you, Yan San, are willing to stay in such a hotel, it must have some merit. Why not give it a try?"

"To be honest, it's pretty average," Tang Xu replied. "I hope you won't be disappointed."

Yan Fengqi tilted his head and smiled, "I've never been a demanding person."

After he finished speaking, he suddenly gestured in a certain direction.

Tang Xu followed his gaze and saw Qiao Ling being led over by someone.

If the Qiao Ling that Tang Xu saw in the afternoon was anxious, the Qiao Ling she saw at this moment was calm, looking at Yan Fengqi with angry and resentful eyes.

When her gaze fell on Tang Xu, she was clearly stunned.

Tang Xu's gaze met hers several times, but he did not reveal any emotion.

Qiao Ling quickly withdrew her gaze and looked back at Yan Fengqi.

Yan Fengqi simply handed her a room key and gave her a slight smile.

Qiao Ling showed no sign of yielding, but took the card without hesitation and turned to walk towards the elevator.

Yan Fengqi glanced at Yan Shiyu and Tang Xu again before following them.

Yan Shiyu then took Tang Xu's hand and walked towards another elevator.

The elevator doors slowly closed, and Tang Xu turned to look at Yan Shiyu, "Don't you have anything you want to ask me?"

Yan Shiyu looked straight ahead and said, "If you want to say it, you will."

Tang Xu remained silent for a moment, staring intently at the rising floor display. The elevator stopped, the doors opened, and Yan Shiyu led her out with steady steps.

Standing at the doorway, Tang Xu finally couldn't help but turn to look at him again, "Aren't you curious at all?"

Yan Shiyu looked down at her and asked, "You really can't hold back?"

Tang Xu then realized what was happening, couldn't help but snort at him, and turned to push the door open and enter.

Once inside the room, she finally told him about several things related to Qiao Ling.

"The reason I hesitated to tell you before was because I was afraid of dragging an innocent woman into the struggle between you and Yan Fengqi. She went to so much trouble to escape Yan Fengqi's control, so she must hate him deeply. I was afraid of implicating her."

"And now?" Yan Shiyu asked, "Do you think she's not innocent?"

"Whether she's innocent or not, it's not that we want to drag her into this, it's that Yan Fengqi wants her involved. He deliberately brought her to us."

Yan Shiyu gave a faint "hmm," then asked, "So what do you plan to do?"

"Me?" Tang Xu said, "Yan Fengqi is targeting you, not me. Of course, you can decide this yourself."

"If you hadn't provoked him, why would he have come knocking on our door?"

Tang Xu suddenly turned to look at him, and after realizing that she had overreacted, she snorted again and said, "Even if I provoked him, wasn't the effect quite obvious?"

“How come you see?”

“I met with Qiao Ling this afternoon, and he rushed to bring her to you that evening,” Tang Xu said. “By doing this, he seems to be showing us that Qiao Ling is an insignificant person to him, and he’s mocking me for choosing the wrong direction and wasting my energy. But if Qiao Ling really is an insignificant person, would he have reacted so strongly?”

Yan Shiyu sat in the sofa chair, listening quietly to her analysis and statement, responding occasionally but without expressing any opinion.

Until Tang Xu walked up to him and asked, "So what do you plan to do?"

"I don't have any plans," Yan Shiyu replied.

Tang Xu couldn't help but widen her eyes slightly. "You have no plans? Yan Fengqi has already provoked you at the last minute, and you still have no plans?"

"Hmm, no." Yan Shiyu continued looking at her. "Then what do you plan to do?"

Tang Xu met his gaze and vaguely sensed that Yan Shiyu seemed to be subtly persuading her about something.

She stared at him quietly for a moment before finally speaking again: "Of course, it's to use this Miss Qiao to fight against Yan Fengqi."

Yan Shiyu said, "Didn't you keep quiet about this Miss Qiao from the beginning because you were worried I would do something to her?"

“Yes,” Tang Xu said frankly, “but if someone asks you to help and you don’t, wouldn’t that be too disrespectful? Since Yan Fengqi thinks you should do it, then you should do it.”

"Aren't you afraid of hurting Miss Qiao?"

“Don’t be afraid,” Tang Xu said. “Because you never intended to hurt her from the beginning. From the very beginning, all you wanted to do was protect her and help her escape Yan Fengqi’s clutches.”

Yan Shiyu continued to look at her, a hint of a smile in his eyes, "What do you mean?"

“We don’t need to do anything, nor do we need to use her to threaten Yan Fengqi,” Tang Xu said. “We just need to protect her, keep her as far away from Yan Fengqi as possible, and make sure that Yan Fengqi never knows where she is. That’s all we need to do.”

Are you sure it will work?

"I'm not sure," Tang Xu said. "But... what if?"

Yan Shiyu remained silent for a moment before asking, "Where did you learn this method?"

Tang Xu chuckled softly and said, "I'm full of mischief, aren't you afraid?"