Marriage Seduction Addiction

When Ji Yan looked up again, her gaze met Lu Xingyan's once more.

Lu Xingyan did not avoid her gaze; on the contrary, he looked directly at her, as if trying to discern her attitude towards the bouquet of flowers and the card from her face.

Ji Yan seemed to have seen through Lu Xingyan's thoughts, so she didn't give him any reaction. She simply calmly looked away and put the card back into the flower.

In the end, Ji Yan ignored Lu Xingyan and had no intention of being picked up by Gao Yan. Instead, she chose to go home with the driver sent by Grandpa Yan.

The caregiver pushed her wheelchair all the way to the underground parking lot, and the driver carefully helped her into the car before turning around to retrieve the wheelchair from the trunk.

Perhaps because he had never operated a wheelchair before, the driver seemed very unfamiliar with it, dawdling in the back and not managing to fold up the wheelchair for a long time.

Ji Yan, who was sitting in the car, seemed completely unaware of the passage of time. She sat quietly in the car, and after a while, she leaned over again and took out Jiang Beiheng's business card from the bouquet of flowers.

Holding the business card in her hand and examining it for a long time, she couldn't help but recall Yan Shiyu's loss of composure that day, as well as Lu Xingyan's slightly unpleasant expression just now.

Clearly, both of their reactions were related to the person on the business card.

She knew nothing about this person; all she knew about him was that he was a relative of the Yan family in some way and that he was Tang Xu's former father-in-law.

Neither of these two identities had anything to do with her. If she had to choose, she might pay more attention to Tang Xu's identity because of her interest in him.

But no matter how much she paid attention, this person should have nothing to do with her—it's not like he, as her father-in-law, would come looking for her, the "destroyer," for his former daughter-in-law's new relationship, right?

But if that's really the reason, Yan Shiyu and Lu Xingyan shouldn't have reacted this way.

Ji Yan stared at the number on the business card for a long time before finally taking out her phone and entering the numbers one by one, matching them to the information on the business card.

However, just as she entered the last number, the car door beside her was suddenly pulled open with a thud, and she saw Lu Xingyan with a furrowed brow and cold eyes.

Lu Xingyan had never shown such an expression in front of her before—

Even when he was extremely helpless and his face would turn cold uncontrollably, he never showed any negative emotions.

At this moment, he seemed genuinely angry, his eyes filled with disappointment and resentment as he looked at her.

The driver in the back finally managed to put the wheelchair away. Hearing the commotion, he rushed forward to try and get rid of Lu Xingyan. However, before he could even get close to Lu Xingyan, two people who appeared out of nowhere covered his mouth and dragged him away.

Ji Yan coldly watched the driver being dragged away, her gaze slowly returning to Lu Xingyan. "What do you mean? In broad daylight, in a public place, Mr. Lu, are you planning to kidnap someone?" Lu Xingyan still looked at her with that almost condescending attitude. "Would kidnapping be useful to you? If it were, your brother would have done it to you a thousand times over without me even lifting a finger."

Ji Yan turned her face away and said, "Since it's not a kidnapping, what do you want to do?"

Lu Xingyan took the business card from her hand. "You want to contact this person? Do you know who he is?"

Ji Yan sneered and said, "Isn't he your good friend's ex-father-in-law? What, as a friend, you even have to interfere in this kind of thing? Aren't you meddling a bit too much?"

"Do you know who your brother has affected the most since he returned to Huai City?" Lu Xingyan threw the business card back onto her lap. "It's the Jiang family founded by this person on the business card! Now that the Yan family is under your brother's management, it's like fire and water, irreconcilable enemies with the Jiang family. Anyone with eyes can see what this person's intentions are in approaching you, and yet you still intend to give him a chance and take the initiative to contact him?"

"So what?" Ji Yan was clearly angered by Lu Xingyan's tone and attitude. "You know he and Yan Shiyu are sworn enemies, but don't you know that I'm also sworn enemies with Yan Shiyu? The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so why can't I contact his enemy? Shouldn't I be cultivating this relationship more?"

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend?" Lu Xingyan repeated the sentence word by word, then looked at her and said, "In your heart, your brother is your enemy? So Tang Xu is your enemy, and I am your enemy too. Then who are your friends? Those who stand on the opposite side of us are your friends, right? What do you plan to do? To unite with those friends so that we enemies have no chance to turn the tables, right?"

Ji Yan turned her face away from him, not intending to answer his question. However, the next moment, she heard Lu Xingyan's merciless question—"Ji Yan, do you even have a brain?"

This was the first time Lu Xingyan had called her by her full name like this, and it was also the first time he had such an emotional outburst in front of her.

For a moment, Ji Yan's breath caught in her throat. She turned to look at the man in front of her again, her lips pressed tightly together, her face stiff and cold.

"Asking this question is probably an overestimation of your abilities!" Lu Xingyan continued, "Even a fool has perception and insight. He would know who is genuinely good to him, and he would subconsciously gravitate towards those who are genuinely good to him, instead of being like you—you take advantage of those who are good to you, and rush to fawn over those who take advantage of you—you're not a fool, you're just plain sick!"

In the nearly nine years since I can remember, no one has ever spoken to her so harshly, not even the high and mighty Old Master Yan.

And what makes this man in front of me so special?
Ji Yan's anger surged to its peak, but miraculously, she calmed down before she could speak.

She looked at Lu Xingyan in front of her and said slowly, "Mr. Lu, don't you think you're being too emotional? The more you act like this, the more curious I become about why this person on the business card is so important and so sensitive."

Ji Yan had expected Lu Xingyan to react to her words, but to her surprise, Lu Xingyan simply laughed, a laugh that was almost contemptuous.

"Do whatever you want," he said. "Anyway, no one can stop you from doing what you're going to do, and you can indeed destroy several people by yourself... Do whatever you want. Life is only a few decades long, and it's most important to enjoy yourself. Who says people have to compromise and consider the bigger picture? What's wrong with going crazy? Go crazy as much as you want, there will always be someone to back you up, and even if you cause the sky to fall, there will still be someone who will tolerate you... Do whatever you want, no one can stop you—your own brother can't stop you, and an insignificant outsider like me has even less to do with it."

After saying this, Lu Xingyan didn't look at her again and turned to leave. (End of Chapter)