Marriage Seduction Addiction

The following afternoon at 3 p.m., just before the boarding deadline, Gao Yan finally met Yan Shiyu and Tang Xu, who had arrived just in time, in the VIP lounge.

Gao Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the two people.

The two were late in arriving, and he dared not urge them. He was also worried that the public opinion storm that broke out yesterday might have had some impact on them, so he was very uneasy.

But at this moment, the two people who appeared in front of him showed no signs of anything amiss. On the contrary, they seemed even more natural and sweeter than they had been a few days ago.

Gao Yan naturally had no idea what had happened in between; he was simply happy for the two of them as soon as he saw that they were doing well.

Soon, the three of them boarded a plane to Helsinki.

Tang Xu's phone has been switched off since yesterday, and she only remembered to turn it on when she boarded the plane and wanted to check some information.

After connecting to the in-flight Wi-Fi, all sorts of information flooded in.

Tang Xu let the messages flood in all at once, and waited for several minutes before picking up her phone again to filter through the information and make sure she hadn't missed anything important.

Tang Xu originally intended to ignore the similar messages, but paused when she saw Meng Tianyou's name, and then reached out to open his chat window.

She had seen Meng Liancheng just the day before. Although that man no longer caused any ripples in her life, the appearance of Meng Tianyou's name still made her pay a little attention.

She and Meng Tianyou hadn't been in contact for a long time. After changing her phone, the only messages in her chat were three new ones from Meng Tianyou.

"Ugh."

"Is it really him?"

"However, it doesn't seem unreasonable."

Tang Xu thought for a moment and didn't reply. But when she turned her head, she found Yan Shiyu looking at her.

"Whose news are you reading so carefully?" Yan Shiyu asked.

Tang Xu didn't think he really cared, but she still put her phone in front of him.

Yan Shiyu glanced at it, and his eyes showed no change whatsoever.

Tang Xu thought for a moment, then asked, "That person..."

She only said three words, but Yan Shiyu already knew what she wanted to ask and quickly replied, "He appeared on the streets of Huai City yesterday afternoon, was spotted, and reported to the Meng family."

"And then?" Tang Xu couldn't help but ask.

"By the time the Meng family arrived at the place where he had appeared, he had already disappeared," Yan Shiyu said. "As for where he went, no one knows."

Tang Xu paused for a moment, then softly said "Oh".

This was actually expected.

In that long and hopeless torment and pain, Meng Liancheng had long since lost the will to live and the strength to survive. Even if he returned to the Meng family, what good would it do? To be taken care of, to be ridiculed by his former rivals, to survive under the hands of people he would never bow down to, to become a scandal and fodder for gossip in the large family... Such a life was absolutely unacceptable to Meng Liancheng, who had such great ambitions.

So, after regaining his freedom, he disappeared before the Meng family could find him.

This disappearance is not just a disappearance from the Meng family, or from that street; it's more likely that it will disappear from the world...

I just wonder if, to this day, he has ever regretted what he did back then?
After only a brief moment of contemplation, Tang Xu quickly pulled herself back to reality and turned to look at Yan Shiyu.

He knew all too well what kind of punishment was most torturous. Death would never be the best form of punishment. Everyone has their own inner demons, and only by unleashing the power of those inner demons to the fullest extent can one receive true retribution.

The reason he was so clear about this was simply because he had personally experienced too much pain.

Tang Xu's thoughts raced through her mind, but in the end she said nothing more and simply leaned into his arms.

After a flight of more than ten hours, the destination was in sight. As Tang Xu got up to tidy up, she glanced out the window. When she turned back, she clearly noticed that the man's body had stiffened silently.

Tang Xu couldn't help but glance at him, but Yan Shiyu avoided her gaze.

Tang Xu certainly knew what this city meant to him—

All that extreme torture, training, and pain happened in this city. To him, it wasn't a cold and boring city, but... a hell.

Only he himself can truly understand what he will suffer mentally and psychologically upon returning here.

Tang Xu couldn't ask anything at this moment, so she simply reached out and gently held his hand.

Yan Shiyu then turned to look at her. After exchanging a glance, he lowered his head and gently kissed her lips.

The kiss seemed no different from any other intimate one before, but Tang Xu only felt that his lips were slightly cool. Unable to bear savoring it, she stepped forward again and kissed the corner of his lips.

As soon as the plane landed, Gao Yan had already arranged everything. A car was waiting for them outside the airport and drove them in a certain direction of the city.

For Tang Xu, this city was a familiar place to revisit, especially since many things had happened here on his last visit.

But that one time, when she was so close to him, she chose to run away without looking back.

This time, however, she would never let go of his hand again.

The car quickly arrived at the entrance of a luxury hotel in the city center. Before Tang Xu could ask anything, Yan Shiyu had already spoken: "Go to your hotel room and rest first, wait for me."

Tang Xu paused for a moment before saying, "It's not like we don't have a place to stay, so why stay in a hotel? You've lived here for so many years, you must have a fixed place to live, right?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Shiyu's eyes darkened slightly, and even Gao Yan in the front seat changed his expression.

Gao Yan quickly turned around and said, "Miss Tang, that house... is not suitable for living."

"Oh," Tang Xu responded. "It's not suitable for living here, but we can still go and take a look. We've only just landed, and you're already planning to leave me alone in the hotel?" Yan Shiyu's gaze fell on her face, a thousand emotions surging deep within him, but ultimately all turned into helplessness. He simply said, "That place... isn't good."

"No, but we can still go and take a look, right?" Tang Xu insisted.

Yan Shiyu ultimately couldn't bring himself to say "no" to her, and the car eventually restarted and drove away from the hotel.

The car drove past the street where Tang Xu had experienced a fire, past the bar she had once seen, and finally stopped in front of a detached house across the street.

Just one street away, this street seemed much more deserted, and the dark-colored house with its doors and windows tightly closed seemed like a forgotten corner, too quiet and too heavy to breathe.

The moment Tang Xu stepped inside, the unease she felt intensified.

Although the space inside wasn't small, it felt cramped everywhere. Light barely managed to squeeze in through the window cracks, illuminating only a gray, dusty floor without any warmth. The wooden furniture looked particularly old, its color a deep, almost black. The curtains were also thick and heavy, and if you got too close, you could almost smell the musty odor on them.

The whole house was like a piece of black cloth soaked in water, cold and heavy, making it hard to breathe.

Before this, Tang Xu had never imagined that someone would decorate the house like this.

But he actually stayed here for more than ten years during his teenage years!
Tang Xu simply couldn't imagine how he got through those ten years.

Even a normal person would likely be driven to the brink of collapse living in such a house for an extended period, let alone someone who had to endure so much additional torment at that time...

Because of this home atmosphere, Tang Xu was somewhat silent from the moment she entered. When she looked at Yan Shiyu's back, she felt that his body was stiff and that he had many unresolved emotions buried in his heart.

No wonder, he didn't want her to come here and see all of this.

While she was still staring blankly at his retreating figure, Yan Shiyu seemed to have finally composed himself, turned around, and extended his hand to her, "Want to go up and take a look?"

Tang Xu then came to her senses, quickly stepped forward and placed her hand in his palm, smiling as she replied, "Okay."

Yan Shiyu took her hand and slowly walked upstairs.

Actually, the layout of the house was not much different from that of a normal house. The layout of the three rooms upstairs was also quite normal. However, when Yan Shiyu pushed open one of the room doors, Tang Xu held her breath once again.

The room, which was clearly of normal size, had only a window about the size of a vent that could barely let in a sliver of light, and apart from a hard wooden bed, there was nothing else in the room.

Even though she had prepared herself mentally, Tang Xu was still a little taken aback.

She walked into the room, stood in front of the bed, and then looked around at the empty space to make sure that the bed was the only one in the room.

Tang Xu was reluctant to believe it, but she still had to ask, "This... is this the room you used to live in?"

"Mm," Yan Shiyu responded.

Hearing his nonchalant response, Tang Xu felt an indescribable sadness in her heart.

Why is there only one wooden bed?

"It's probably what they call 'testing one's will and straining one's body.'"

Why are the windows so small?

"He has a rough temperament and an unstable mind. He needs to calm down and be tempered."

Hearing Yan Shiyu's nonchalant response, Tang Xu's emotions began to rise and churn uncontrollably—

No wonder he has that kind of personality, no wonder he acts that way, no wonder he has so many strange and unspeakable secrets...

Old Master Yan thought he could train a perfect successor using this method, but he didn't know how much the person involved would have to endure.

How could there be normal people in such an environment?
It can clearly only breed monsters, utter monsters...

Tang Xu's heart was churning. She turned around and threw herself into his arms, reaching out to hug the stiff body in front of her tightly.

After a long while, Tang Xu finally spoke in a hoarse voice: "Tonight, let's stay here, okay?"

Yan Shiyu seemed to have heard something out of the blue. After a moment of hesitation, she finally spoke, "You want... to stay here?"

"Yeah," Tang Xu replied, "What's the point of always staying in hotels? We should change our accommodations for a day or two now and then, don't you think?"

Yan Shiyu seemed to have a lot to say, but in the end, just like before, she couldn't utter a single word of refusal.

Fortunately, apart from the room he was staying in, the other rooms in the house were in relatively good condition and could be moved into if cleaned up.

After a long flight and jet lag, Tang Xu was arranged to stay in the room next door.

Yan Shiyu told her to lie down and rest, but Tang Xu obediently lay down for a short while before getting up again.

Gao Yan, who was sitting downstairs, was clearly taken aback when he saw her. "Miss Tang, I thought you were asleep."

"Where is he?" Tang Xu asked. "Did he go out?"

"Hmm." Gao Yan responded, seemingly trying to find an excuse for Yan Shiyu. Only when he realized that the person in front of him was Tang Xu did he breathe a sigh of relief and say, "It's not a pleasant place here... I can see that Mr. Yan is trying his best to be patient, but... it may still not be that easy."

This was within Tang Xu's expectations, so she simply nodded and then said, "He has a way to release his emotions, right?"

Gao Yan nodded again.

"That's good." Tang Xu breathed a sigh of relief, then said, "Let's get to work now."

Gao Yan was taken aback. "Work? What kind of work?"

Tang Xu turned to look at the somber and heavy room before her, sighed softly, and said, "Big job." (End of Chapter)