Marriage Seduction Addiction

Chapter 251 The Reason for Stopping Dancing

As they were talking, Gao Yan and his secretary knocked on the conference room door.

The atmosphere inside the room was obviously oppressive; the moment you entered, you were hit with a feeling of being unable to breathe.

Gao Yan couldn't help but glance at Yan Shiyu.

Equally rare, he saw a chilling aura on Yan Shiyu's face.

Over the years, Yan Shiyu has been able to control his emotions with great ease. Even if he has great emotional fluctuations inside, he always remains calm on the surface, especially when facing outsiders and Old Master Yan.

But at this moment, Gao Yan could not see Yan Shiyu's concealment.

This shows just how unpleasant the conversation between the two was.

Gao Yan was on tenterhooks as he placed the prepared lunch in front of the two men, then said to Old Master Yan, "Mr. Yan, these dishes are prepared according to your taste. If there is anything you don't like, please let me know."

Upon hearing this, Old Master Yan merely glanced at him indifferently. Although his face showed no great expression, his imposing aura remained undiminished.

Gao Yan dared not say anything more for a moment, glanced at Yan Shiyu again, and then left with his secretary.

The meeting room fell silent again.

Yan Shiyu didn't touch the food in front of him. Instead, Old Master Yan slowly picked up the hot tea in front of him, took a sip, put down the cup, and then looked at Yan Shiyu again, saying, "Don't worry, I won't do anything to her. To me, she's just a woman who tempted you to fall. Even if it wasn't her, it would have been someone else. I value you more; it's you after all."

Yan Shiyu seemed to know what he was going to say, and curled the corner of his lips, "Grandpa raised me with his own hands, so of course he can also destroy me. On this matter, it is naturally Grandpa's decision, and I have no objection."

He was calm and fearless, as if he had truly made all the necessary preparations.

Grandpa Yan sighed softly and said, "You can say that you are someone I raised from the ground up, someone I poured so much effort into, how could I just watch you fall into such a state?"

"Then I'm afraid Grandpa will be disappointed."

"I know that since you've made this decision, you must not care about everything you've sacrificed or your reputation," Old Master Yan slowly leaned back in his chair. "But besides that, don't you have any other people or things you care about?"

Yan Shiyu looked at him intently, "What do you want to say?"

Grandpa Yan looked out the window, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "If I remember correctly, that child used to study dance, and she was extremely talented. She had already been invited to dance programs while still in school, and she was just a little bit away from becoming a professional dancer... But suddenly one day, she stopped dancing. Why do you think that is?"

……

Twenty minutes later, Grandpa Yan, leaning on his cane, slowly walked out of the conference room.

Gao Yan hurriedly stepped forward, glanced at Old Master Yan's face, but couldn't tell anything from it, and his heart couldn't help but pound.

After finally getting Grandpa Yan into the elevator, Gao Yan watched the elevator doors close in front of him and then turned and ran towards the conference room.

When the meeting room door opened, Yan Shiyu was still sitting in the same chair as before, and the food in front of him remained untouched.

Gao Yan rushed forward, "How was it? What did he say?"

After asking anxiously, he noticed that Yan Shiyu's face was stiff and somewhat unnatural. At the same time, Gao Yan looked down and saw that Yan Shiyu's left hand was gripping the armrest of the chair tightly and was trembling slightly uncontrollably.

Gao Yan was immediately shocked and hurriedly reached out to grab his hand, even though he knew it was futile, his voice still trembling with anxiety, "What happened? What did he say?"

"Get out," Yan Shiyu said only in a low voice.

Gao Yan stared at him with wide eyes, hesitant, completely unsure of what to do.

Yan Shiyu slowly closed his eyes, his voice still calm, "I told you to leave."

"But……"

"I'm fine," Yan Shiyu said. "I want to be alone."

He did indeed appear very calm; if it weren't for that uncontrollable hand, even Gao Yan probably wouldn't have noticed his unusual behavior.

But that hand... was enough to illustrate the seriousness of the problem.

But... what can he do?

Gao Yan was filled with worry, but in the end he had no choice but to withdraw his hand and leave the conference room, looking back every few steps, leaving Yan Shiyu alone.

He stood at the door of the conference room, but never heard any sound coming from inside.

……

After lunch, Tang Xu took Song Luobai to school, and then spent several hours working at the freight yard. By the time he left the freight yard and drove home, it was almost dark.

There were no messages on her phone; everything remained calm and peaceful.

Tang Xu really wanted to call Yan Shiyu to ask about the situation, but considering the recent circumstances, she felt it was inconvenient and had to give up.

Tang Xu drove straight back to Royal Bay.

She finally breathed a sigh of relief when she went upstairs, opened the door, and was surprised to see the black leather shoes placed under the shoe cabinet.

But the relief lasted less than a second before it was quickly caught in my throat again.

Tang Xu quickly changed her shoes and went inside, where she saw a man sitting on a single sofa on the balcony, flipping through a book.

Tang Xu quickly stepped forward, "Why didn't you tell me you were coming?"

Yan Shiyu closed the book in his hand, slowly raised his eyes to look at her, and then reached out and pulled Tang Xu into his arms. "Is it very important?"

Tang Xu found the question he asked utterly absurd.

How can it be alright?
With so many things piling up right now, and she hadn't even finished dealing with her own affairs, the addition of Old Master Yan was already enough to throw her into chaos. And yet he was coming to see her so brazenly. If something else were to happen, Tang Xu felt she might really go crazy.

"Are the two groups of people who followed me before still following me?" Tang Xu couldn't help but ask.

Yan Shiyu shook his head.

Tang Xu paused for a moment before asking, "Then... has anything else happened these past two days?"

Yan Shiyu shook his head again.

Tang Xu breathed a slight sigh of relief, but her brows were still unconsciously furrowed, which made Yan Shiyu unable to resist reaching out and gently pressing her brow.

"I told you, nothing will happen," Yan Shiyu said softly. Tang Xu looked at him for a moment, responded, and then leaned into his arms again.

Just as she leaned on his shoulder, she suddenly noticed something on the desk behind him. Tang Xu was startled, then sat up straight, stood up from his embrace, and walked over to pick up the file folder.

Yan Shiyu's eyes suddenly darkened, then she turned her head and said, "I found it when I was looking for a book."

"Oh," Tang Xu responded, putting the file bag back into the cabinet before adding, "It's just some stuff from college, nothing important. I didn't date anyone in college, so there aren't any photos or love letters in there. I'm not worried about you getting jealous."

Yan Shiyu watched her back as she organized the bookshelf, and upon hearing this, the corners of his lips involuntarily curved up, but only for a moment.

The hint of a smile vanished without a trace before it even reached his eyes, leaving only a barely perceptible pain hidden in his deep gaze.

"Why is there only a graduation certificate inside, and no degree certificate?" Yan Shiyu asked.

Tang Xu paused slightly, remained silent for several seconds, and then replied with a smile, "Is that even a question? You don't have a degree certificate because you didn't receive it."

"why?"

Yan Shiyu's voice became uncontrollably low and hoarse.

However, Tang Xu did not notice this and continued to tidy up the bookshelf in front of her. After a while, she replied in a nonchalant tone, "Because I did not have a graduation project and my graduation thesis did not meet the requirements, I will not be able to get my degree certificate in the end."

After saying that, she quickly closed the bookcase door, turned around and went back to Yan Shiyu, asking him, "Have you had dinner? I've been at the freight yard all afternoon and I'm starving... Is there anything you want to eat? I'll call it for you."

She abruptly changed the subject, clearly not wanting to continue the previous conversation, but Yan Shiyu reached out and grabbed her, speaking again: "You finally got into university, but in the end you didn't get your degree. Don't you feel regretful?"

Tang Xu's eyes flickered slightly, and after a moment of silence, she finally spoke: "Of course there will be regrets, but they are all in the past. People always have to look forward, like... what should we eat tonight?"

Yan Shiyu still didn't let her change the subject, and spoke again: "I've never asked you before why you stopped dancing?"

The two failed attempts to change the subject seemed to make Tang Xu a little anxious. She looked at Yan Shiyu and said, "If you haven't asked, then don't ask. Why ask? I haven't danced in so many years. I don't even remember it myself. Why are you asking?"

The sudden outburst of emotion stunned Tang Xu herself. She stared blankly at Yan Shiyu, and after a long silence, she whispered, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have lost my temper with you."

Yan Shiyu cupped her face in his hands, his gaze lingering for a long time before finally leaning forward and gently kissing her eyes.

Tang Xu closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and then spoke again: "Actually, it's not a big deal, after all, so many years have passed... I stopped dancing because in the first semester of my senior year, I had a car accident—"

She had only spoken half a sentence when Yan Shiyu suddenly silenced her with a kiss, preventing her from continuing.

Tang Xu opened her eyes slightly in surprise and looked at the man in front of her. She was a little confused. He was the one who asked the question. Why did he give up after she had finally prepared herself to tell him?
Not only that, Yan Shiyu kissed her with extreme force, holding her tightly to the back of her neck and head, forcing Tang Xu to press herself against him so that there was no gap between them.

It's as if it was meant to be this way.

For the rest of my life, I should live like this.

Tang Xu was breathless from his kiss, her lips and tongue went numb, and with many things weighing on her mind, the combined physical and psychological pressure caused tears to uncontrollably roll down her cheeks and melt between their faces.

Yan Shiyu finally released her slowly, reached out and touched her eyes, feeling the dampness between his fingers, his body stiffened slightly as he looked at her, and then made no further move.

Tang Xu quickly turned her head away, wiping away the uncontrollable tears in her eyes. When she spoke again, she said, "I'm sorry, it's not because of that, it's because... you kissed me too hard!"

After a long while, Yan Shiyu finally kissed her face gently again.

As he kissed her eyes, he said, "I'm sorry."

As he kissed the tip of her nose, he said, "I'm sorry."

When he kissed the corner of her lips, he still said, "I'm sorry."

Tang Xu burst into laughter through her tears at his string of apologies, looking at him with red eyes, "There's no need for so many apologies, is there? You're so sincere, how can I repay you?"

After she finished speaking, she saw the tears she had wiped on his face and couldn't help but reach out and gently wipe them away.

Yan Shiyu took her hand, brought it to his lips, and kissed it again and again.

Tang Xu watched his movements, gently pressed her forehead against his, and after a long silence, asked again, "So, are we going to eat dinner or not?"

Yan Shiyu gazed at her for a long time before finally kissing her forcefully once again.

……

By the time Tang Xu's long-awaited dinner finally arrived, it was already past 1 a.m.

She didn't know if she was still hungry or not; all she knew was that she was so tired that she didn't even want to get out of bed.

She lay motionless on the bed, recalling what had happened in the past few hours.

Tang Xu felt that Yan Shiyu was different from usual tonight. Although he seemed normal in many ways, Tang Xu felt that something was off about many of the subtle details.

Could it be that something else has happened, and he's planning to keep it from her again?
Thinking of this, Tang Xu sat up abruptly from the bed. Just as she turned her head, she saw Yan Shiyu carrying a plate and walking in, sitting down next to her.

The dishes on the plate were all her usual favorites. Yan Shiyu picked up her chopsticks, took a warm slice of fish, and brought it to her lips. "Open your mouth."

Tang Xu stared at him for a moment, then obediently opened her mouth.

Yan Shiyu fed her several bites in a row, and Tang Xu obediently ate them all before asking, "Aren't you going to eat?"

Yan Shiyu gently shook his head, then picked up the food again and brought it to her lips.

Tang Xu didn't speak again, but simply said, "I don't want to eat anymore."

"Let me have a couple more bites," Yan Shiyu said.

Tang Xu shook her head, glanced at him again, and then said, "Unless you tell me everything that has happened in the past two days."

Yan Shiyu paused, then asked, "What is it?"

The two stared at each other for a long time, but Tang Xu could not detect a ripple in Yan Shiyu's deep eyes.

So much so that she was somewhat uncertain.

Could it be that I'm imagining things?
"Tell me everything that happened to you these past two days, without hiding a single thing—that's what you promised me." Tang Xu said.

After gazing at each other for a long time, Yan Shiyu put down his plate and chopsticks. After a moment of hesitation, he finally looked at Tang Xu again and said, "Yaoyao, how about we leave for a while?"