Marriage Seduction Addiction

Chapter 411 Life experience
Tang Xu did not respond much to Yan Shiyu's promise.

She simply responded softly, then turned the car around and drove him back to his company.

Just as the car was about to enter the parking lot of the Yan's Building, Yan Shiyu suddenly reached out and held her hand again, saying, "Let's go home."

Tang Xu said, "Okay, I'll go home in a bit."

Yan Shiyu said, "Not later, now. Let's go home together."

Tang Xu was taken aback for a moment before turning to look at him again, "Aren't you going back to the company?"

"I'm not going back," Yan Shiyu said. "I'm going home first."

Tang Xu pursed her lips, but didn't say anything more. She simply turned the car around again and drove towards Yujing Bay.

On such a late afternoon, it was almost unprecedented for the two of them to go home together. Tang Xu was at a loss after opening the door and entering the house, as if she didn't know how to face Yan Shiyu at this moment.

She put down her keys and handbag, turned to the person next to her and said, "I'm going to the restroom first."

Yan Shiyu seemed to have noticed something, reached out and grabbed her, leading her to the sofa in the living room.

After sitting down on the sofa in the living room, Yan Shiyu immediately pulled her into his arms. Tang Xu was still somewhat dazed, looking at the man so close to her with empty and confused eyes.

Yan Shiyu reached out and gently stroked her eyes before slowly saying, "I must admit that I have never been honest with you... I always thought that I could bear those things myself, but I never thought that being kept in the dark might cause you a heavier psychological burden... Yaoyao, it was my fault."

Upon hearing this, Tang Xu couldn't help but shake her head. Just as she was about to speak to comfort him, Yan Shiyu gently placed his finger on her lips, stopping her from saying what she was about to say.

"I told you, I won't hide anything from you anymore, so feel free to ask me anything you want to know."

Tang Xu listened, but simply looked at him quietly, remaining silent.

Yan Shiyu continued, "If you can't think of anything to ask right now, I'll tell you little by little as I think of it—"

Hearing him say that, Tang Xu lowered his eyes slightly and became even more silent.

Yan Shiyu embraced her, looked at the expression on her face, and remained silent for a moment before speaking softly, "Then... let's start with Yan Yan's background."

Tang Xu suddenly raised her eyes and met his gaze.

Yan Shiyu's expression didn't change much. He even smiled slightly when she looked up before slowly speaking: "You always wanted to know why I hated the Jiang family. That's because the entanglement between the Jiang family and us started a long time ago. It's because Yan Yan has the blood of the Jiang family flowing in her veins—her blood father is Jiang Beiheng."

Even though Tang Xu already had a pretty good idea about this matter, she was still deeply shaken when she heard Yan Shiyu admit it.

However, compared to the complex emotions she felt when she first learned about this, at this moment, she inevitably began to focus on the matter itself.

"Why is this happening?" Tang Xu gently grabbed Yan Shiyu's sleeve and finally asked in a low voice.

Yan Shiyu is a descendant of the Yan family, while Ji Yan is the daughter of Jiang Beiheng—the entanglement between them is far too complicated.

Yan Shiyu said, "I can't answer you much about that. After all, it happened many years ago, and it was something that happened to the previous generation. I was still young at that time, so I couldn't explore my mother's love history, and I can't tell you why she got involved with those two people."

Tang Xu nodded gently upon hearing this, then reached out and took his hand.

The emotional entanglements of the previous generation are indeed difficult to trace in too much detail, especially those two men—

Yan Shuheng is a well-known playboy, and Jiang Beiheng is no better in his eyes.

His mother had encountered two scumbags in her youth, and for him, neither of them was worth pursuing.

"From as far back as I can remember, my mother raised me alone. I think I asked her about my father when I was little, but I can't remember how she answered. Anyway, I know clearly from some point that I am a child without a father. She raised me alone, doing the hardest jobs, just to make ends meet and send me to school... Well, at that time, we were still living in Huai City."

"Then for a year, for a period of time, things seemed to get a little better, and she gradually started to smile again and had some expectations for the future."

“At that time, I didn’t know what had happened. I only knew that things had just gotten better for a short time when one day, the smile on her face suddenly disappeared again… Not long after that, she came back and told me that we were leaving Huai City. I asked her where we were going, and she said she didn’t know. I asked her how long we were going to stay, and she said she didn’t know either.”

"She cried a lot during that time, so I stopped asking and just waited patiently for the day she would leave, but then—"

Yan Shiyu paused for a moment after saying this, and Tang Xuxin, whose heart was in her throat, couldn't help but ask, "What was the result?"

Yan Shiyu remained calm, as if it were something so distant that it had nothing to do with her anymore, and that thinking about it wouldn't stir up much emotion in her.

"As a result, we were driven out of Huai City."

Tang Xu's heart trembled again. "By the Jiang family?" Yan Shiyu slowly nodded.

“I remember it was a late winter night. She always came home very late during that period, and that day was no exception. She would always come to my room to check on me after she came back, and I always had to wait for her to come back before I could fall asleep. But that day, she had just walked into my room when a few people suddenly barged in, dragged me out of bed, and used me to threaten and intimidate her into leaving Huai City immediately.”

Tang Xu was almost suffocating from listening, but Yan Shiyu calmly told her, "That night, Huai City had its first snowfall of the year."

She instinctively reached for his other hand, and intertwined both of her hands tightly with his, as if trying to warm him, who was only a few years old at that time, with her own body heat.

“We couldn’t even take any luggage. She cried and begged those people, swearing that she would never return to Huai City, before she finally got my coat back. When she tried to take my shoes, they wouldn’t let her, forcing her to leave immediately—that night, I left Huai City barefoot.”

Tang Xu's eyes instantly reddened, but she couldn't utter a single word as she looked at him.

But the next moment, Yan Shiyu reached out and gently covered her eyes.

"It's been a long time, and I can't really remember how cold it was that night. I only remember that the snow was really heavy that day."

Tang Xu's eyes still welled up with tears uncontrollably, which Yan Shiyu then silently wiped away.

“We drove for a long time and returned to Qingxi Town—you’ve been there before. I told you then that it’s where I grew up…”

Tang Xu's throat was already choked with emotion. He wanted to say "I remember," but he couldn't utter a sound.

“I lied to you because I didn’t want to bring up those old stories. That’s not where I grew up, but where she grew up. It’s her hometown, so there’s still a very dilapidated old house there, and we still had a place to stay. From then on, we stayed in Qingxi.”

"About eight months later, Yan Yan was born. And so, she raised her two children alone, struggling to make ends meet."

Tang Xu leaned against him for a long time before finally speaking again: "And then? Did you never leave Qingxi again? Did you never try to return to Huai City?"

“We can’t come back,” Yan Shiyu said. “From the moment those people drove us away, I knew we would never return. The ‘Mr. Jiang’ they spoke of will never allow us to return to Huai City.”

Tang Xu's body stiffened slightly, and he didn't say anything more for a moment.

"Then she fell ill," Yan Shiyu said.

Tang Xu's heart trembled uncontrollably.

She had already heard him tell her the story after that.

After his mother fell ill, he was the sole breadwinner of the family—so he only completed elementary school in Qingxi and never even attended junior high school.

Later, the Yan family found him.

After that, it was an endless abyss of pain.

Tang Xu couldn't think about anything in detail; she simply sat up and reached out to hug him tightly.

She once thought she understood his pain enough, but it turns out she still didn't.

It turns out that the more you know, the more it really hurts.

He wanted to keep all of this to himself and didn't want her or Ji Yan involved at all.

If it weren't for her sudden "coup" today, he would probably still have buried these old stories deep in his heart. But now, she has forced him to bring these old stories to light, reopening the already bloody wounds.

Although he always says he can't remember.

But if you really can't remember, how can you say it so calmly?

Tang Xu was filled with grief and regret. She could only hold him tightly, wishing she could pass through his body to soothe the pain in his heart, but she was powerless to do so.

"I'm sorry," she said.

But then she heard a faint chuckle from Yan Shiyu beside her, "What did you say you were sorry for?"

"I don't necessarily need to know these things..." Tang Xu said, "I just want to know what you're thinking..."

Yan Shiyu reached out and gently stroked the back of her head.

“In this world, those who create sins are the ones who should say sorry,” Yan Shiyu said. “And you, you will never have to say those three words.”