Marriage Seduction Addiction

Chapter 476 Hard Work
Faced with Ji Yan's reaction, Jiang Mu remained silent for a moment, then chuckled again before giving no further response. He got up and returned to his study, leaving Ji Yan alone in the living room.

In fact, Ji Yan was not wrong.

This is Los Angeles, not Huai City. She's unfamiliar with the area, and with the Lu family's influence, it won't be easy for them to take action against her.

Of course, it's not impossible to take drastic measures, but that would be too unwise.

After all, he had already managed to keep Ji Yan on his turf without lifting a finger. Although that girl was indeed good at infuriating people, compared to her, Yan Shiyu's anger was probably many times greater than his.

So, it can be considered a pretty good result.

Faced with Jiang Muchen's attitude, Ji Yan didn't react at all.

She simply sat there quietly, seemingly unaffected and without making any decisions.

……

It wasn't until Lu Xingyan returned to the hotel, knocked on the door, and sat down in front of Tang Xu that Tang Xu learned from him that Ji Yan had actually gone to Jiang Muchen's place.

In an instant, Tang Xu felt a mix of emotions, countless feelings flashing through her mind, but she could only force herself to suppress them and glance back at the bedroom.

Fortunately, Yan Shiyu was inside at the moment and did not hear Lu Xingyan's words.

"Don't mention this in front of him—"

Tang Xu only had time to utter a few words before the bedroom door slowly opened, and Yan Shiyu, who had changed her clothes, walked out.

Tang Xu pursed her lips instantly, and could only continue to hint at Lu Xingyan with her eyes.

Lu Xingyan seemed completely oblivious, his gaze falling on Yan Shiyu. After a moment of silence, he slowly spoke: "Why go to so much trouble to hide things? In the end, has anything truly been concealed? It would be better to be open and honest from the start—"

Before he could finish speaking, Tang Xu couldn't help but kick him in the shin.

Lu Xingyan looked away and glanced at her. Facing Tang Xu's angry glare, he didn't react at all, and slowly turned his gaze back to Yan Shiyu.

Tang Xu looked at Yan Shiyu with some concern as well.

Yan Shiyu met their gazes and calmly said, "It's alright, I heard everything."

Tang Xu fell silent instantly, unsure of what to say for a moment.

Yan Shiyu continued, "I told you that it's her freedom to make whatever choice she wants, and I won't interfere anymore, so it's really okay."

Tang Xu felt a pang of sadness upon hearing this. She looked up to meet his gaze, only to be met with Yan Shiyu's indifferent smile.

After Lu Xingyan left, Yan Shiyu got up and went to the balcony to answer a phone call, while Tang Xu nestled on the sofa, staring at the communication page between herself and Ji Yan on her phone and looking back at it repeatedly.

After meeting Ji Yan at the bar that night, she felt like she had found a way to communicate with her. She knew clearly that even if Ji Yan had a thousand grievances against Yan Shiyu, it was ultimately because she had expectations of him. That's why she was so conflicted, both resenting him and fearing that something might really happen to him.

It was precisely because of this inner conflict that she was able to talk to Tang Xu during the period when Yan Shiyu was missing.

But now that Yan Shiyu has returned, her worries and fears have disappeared, and at the same time, resentment and hatred have once again taken over.

So she didn't reply to any of the messages Tang Xu sent her.

Tang Xu stared at the screen filled with green chat windows, sighing softly. Just as she was trying to think of how to phrase her next message to Ji Yan, Yan Shiyu ended the call and walked in. Tang Xu immediately gripped her phone tightly and looked up at him.

Yan Shiyu seemed to have noticed something, put down his phone, and said to her, "It's getting late, don't wait up, get some rest."

"I'm not sleepy yet," Tang Xu said. "If you're tired, go to sleep first. I want to scroll through my phone a little longer."

Yan Shiyu glanced at her, walked over, took her phone, placed it next to his own, and then said, "Continuing to scroll through your phone will only make it harder for you to sleep. You might as well put it down."

As he spoke, he tried to pull Tang Xu up, but Tang Xu shifted slightly and then nestled back into the sofa. With a sudden pull, he dragged Tang Xu into the sofa as well, looked up at him, and said, "Can you fall asleep just by putting it down? Besides, can you really put it down so easily?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Shiyu remained silent for a moment before saying, "What good will it do if I don't let go?"

"If you're the kind of person who can let go so easily, how could you have ended up like this?" Tang Xu said.

"I've already completely let go once."

“You and I both know how terrible it is to let go like that,” Tang Xu said. “If you came back for me, then please stop suppressing your feelings like this—after everything that’s happened, if you still can’t learn to be honest, then in the end, we might still end up like before. That kind of thing has happened several times already, and you know I can’t bear it if it happens again. You’ve struggled for so long and made such a big decision to come back, is it just to repeat what happened back then? If you don’t want to repeat the same mistakes, then at least make some effort, right? For me, and for her.”

Tang Xu spoke very seriously, and Yan Shiyu listened very attentively.

After staring at each other for a long time, Yan Shiyu finally spoke in a low voice: "Okay."

Since their reunion, the word Tang Xu heard most often from him was "okay," as if he would agree to anything she said.

But Tang Xu didn't want to question him.

Since he had promised, she assumed he would definitely keep his word.

He should do that too.

Tang Xu gently grasped Yan Shiyu's hand. "Miss Hua is currently in New York. Would you like to meet her?"

Compared to other psychological experts, Hua Fanxing should be considered someone who knows him well, and she is the best candidate Tang Xu could think of.

"Okay," Yan Shiyu replied as before.

Hearing his agreement, Tang Xu smiled gently and reached for her phone. However, her hand had already touched the phone when she seemed to remember something and withdrew it. She then turned to him and said, "It's so late, Miss Hua should be resting already. I'll contact her again tomorrow morning."

Yan Shiyu responded softly, his gaze lingering on her face for a long time.

Tang Xu felt a little uncomfortable under his gaze and asked, "What's wrong?"

After a long while, Yan Shiyu finally replied: "Yaoyao, being with me will really be very hard."

The reason he made that decision was that he didn't want to see the person he cared about most suffer pain and torment because of him, which is why he so resolutely chose to withdraw.

But now, she has pulled him back.

Despite his efforts to convince himself, he still couldn't help but struggle internally.

Tang Xu simply reached out and gently stroked his face. "So, to make things easier for me, you know what you should do, right?"

After a long while, Yan Shiyu gently covered the back of her hand, turned his head, and placed a devout and firm kiss on her palm.