Marriage Seduction Addiction

Chapter 346

Yan Shiyu listened, looked at her quietly for a moment, and slowly said, "If it's for this reason, then there's no need to go to such lengths. If you make a phone call, I will definitely come back, just like tonight."

"Oh?" Ji Yan raised an eyebrow slightly and said, "So, no matter when I call you, you'll come back?"

"Yes."

"Wherever you are, whether you're with that woman or not?"

"Yes."

Upon hearing Yan Shiyu's affirmative answer, Ji Yan leaned back on the sofa and said, "Then I wonder how long Mr. Yan can indulge me like this?"

"You are welcome to test the limits of my patience."

Ji Yan was silent for a moment, then chuckled before slowly speaking again: "You can tolerate me because you feel you've wronged me and want to make it up to me. But what about her?"

Yan Shiyu gazed intently at her.

"I've ruined your dates time and time again, causing you so much trouble. You're willing to tolerate it, but what about her? No woman would want to go through this repeatedly, right? Won't she get annoyed? Won't she make a scene? Won't she keep pestering me?"

As she asked this series of questions, a sudden, uncontrollable pang of pain shot through a deep part of Yan Shiyu's heart.

But he still answered her question—

"She won't."

"Oh," Ji Yan replied with a smile, then added, "Not now, and not in the future either? No matter what happens, won't it?"

Looking at her almost completely unfamiliar younger sister, Yan Shiyu felt a sudden, boundless, and excruciating pain spread through her heart.

It's because of her in front of me, and also because of Tang Xu who isn't there.

He remembered the year he parted ways with Ji Yan. She clung to his clothes, crying her heart out, not wanting him to leave. But he still resolutely accepted Old Master Yan's arrangement, leaving her in Huai City while he went abroad.

Although he had regretted his decision countless times over the years, the fact remained unchanged. He recalled Ji Yan's tears that day, and involuntarily remembered her many, many times of crying afterward—

It must have been incredibly difficult for her. She was only a little over ten years old then. After losing her mother, she also lost her brother. Alone in a completely unfamiliar environment, what kind of pain did she go through to lose her memory and transform from that obedient and well-behaved little sister into the prickly person she is today?

Similarly, Yan Shiyu also thought of Tang Xu.

He recalled everything Tang Xu had experienced over the years—

Thinking of her nonchalant manner when she mentioned that she could no longer dance after her car accident, remembering the way she smiled at Song Yuting with red eyes after his sudden death, remembering the way she looked down calmly after Qin Yun passed away...

Her emotions always seem very calm, but what must she have gone through to hone herself to be so "calm"?
These were all momentous events that could have shaken her life and left an indelible mark on her soul. She could have cried and broken down, but instead, she didn't shed a single tear.

Even after everything that had happened between them, after she resolutely let go only to be forced to turn back, and after so many illogical events had piled up, she remained gentle, smiling, and used the calmest emotions to soothe him, relieving him of his dilemma...

But does that mean he can really avoid this dilemma?

Clearly... this is a dilemma he deserves.

Seeing Yan Shiyu's gaze darken and fall into silence, Ji Yan assumed she had hit the nail on the head and couldn't help but laugh, "It seems that Miss Tang is still quite bothered by this, isn't she? How about we arrange to meet for a meal sometime, so that the two of us can communicate directly, instead of always having you in the middle, which would only put you in a difficult position?"

Yan Shiyu was still immersed in his own emotions, but upon hearing this, he still spoke softly—

"Don't try to hurt her."

"What?" Ji Yan was momentarily stunned.

Yan Shiyu slowly raised her eyes. "The situation between us today is entirely my doing. I made the wrong choice back then, and I think it's understandable if you resent me, hate me, or blame me. But these things have nothing to do with her, so don't drag her into this."

His tone was calm yet earnest, so serious that Ji Yan was momentarily stunned. After recovering, she sneered and said, "What if I insist?"

“You can take revenge on me however you want, torture me however you want, and I’ll be willing to endure it all,” Yan Shiyu said. “But I don’t want her to suffer any more pain, so if you do anything to her, I might not be so calm.”

"Really?" Ji Yan understood. After a moment of silence, she looked down, picked up her phone, fiddled with it for a bit, and then waved the screen at Yan Shiyu. "Then I'll do it now. I wonder what you plan to do with me, brother?"