Take her as my wife

After lunch, Jiang Ni decided not to attend the evening banquet. She made a move to leave, but Jiang Qiaonan unexpectedly called her to a lounge, clearly wanting to talk to her about something.

"Sit down," Jiang Qiaonan gestured to a chair, and without any preamble, asked her directly, "So you're getting involved with that youngest son of the Tan family again?"

Jiang Ni wasn't taken aback by his abrupt question. Instead, she calmly countered, "What do you mean by 'stirring things up'?"

Jiang Qiaonan simply summarized it as: "Dating."

"Then I can tell you, not at the moment."

She used the word "temporarily," and Jiang Qiaonan understood perfectly well what she meant. She frowned and said, "I disagree. You know their family better than I do."

Jiang Ni didn't understand: "Then why didn't you object to my marriage to Tan Yan in the first place?"

Jiang Qiaonan said with a straight face, "That was your first time dating, so I thought you had good taste in people."

It turns out that her taste in partners is not as good as her taste in studies and work.

Jiang Ni looked up and met his gaze: "When I was little, you taught me not to be afraid of making mistakes when doing problems. Making mistakes is just a necessary step to find the correct answer. You won't feel a sense of accomplishment if you can get a problem right the first time."

"That's for solving problems. You can't use that kind of trial and error when it comes to relationships. You'll only get hurt," Jiang Qiaonan said, her brows furrowed and her tone cold and hard. "In short, stop getting entangled with the Tan family. That Tan Wen isn't as simple as you think."

Jiang Ni had lost the desire to continue talking to him. She stood up, nodded to him, and replied perfunctorily, "I will keep your teachings in mind—happy birthday."

"Jiang Ni!" Jiang Qiaonan shouted angrily, calling her name.

Jiang Ni didn't stop walking; the sound of her high heels gradually faded into the distance.

After Jiang Ni disappeared from sight, Xu Ke knocked on the door and leaned against it, saying softly, "Uncle, I told you long ago that you won't let Nini communicate with you properly if you keep acting like this. If you don't change your bad temper, I bet Nini won't even invite you to her wedding."

After making things difficult for Jiang Qiaonan, she left without a care in the world. She had to go back to the hospital to see patients in the afternoon, so she followed Jiang Ni and slipped away.

The parking lot at [neos] has both open-air and underground parking. Xu Ke's car was parked in the open-air parking lot. She saw Jiang Ni standing at the hotel entrance for a while, typing on her phone.

Tan Wen had originally planned to leave after finishing his meal, but Yang Jiu was still discussing a collaboration with someone. Yang Jiu told him to wait a while, so Tan Wen sat on the sofa in the rest area and played on his phone out of boredom.

Young girls or mature women saw that he was handsome and wanted to chat him up, but he ignored them and didn't even give them a polite smile. After a few people went up to him and were turned away, no one went to him anymore.

Just then, a message from Jiang Ni popped up on his phone.

[Sister]: Did you drive today?

Tan Wen immediately stood up and quickly typed: It's open. Sister, are you leaving? I'll see you off.

Yang Jiu was still drinking with someone, thinking that Tan Wen would be driving later, so it wouldn't matter if he got drunk. But when he turned around, Tan Wen was nowhere to be seen.

Jiang Ni stood at the door for two minutes before Tan Wen ran out.

This was the first time he had seen Jiang Ni with this curly hairstyle. It added a touch of charm compared to her straight hair, and since she already had a striking appearance, this hairstyle suited her very well.

Upon closer inspection, Tan Wen's heart fluttered.

"Sister, you look so beautiful today that I didn't even recognize you at first," he said, leaning down slightly and reaching out to touch her face. "Sister, don't move, there's some gold dust stuck to your eyes."

Jiang Ni obediently stopped what she was doing, without even blinking, and just tilted her head back slightly to wait for him to remove the things from her face.

So well-behaved.

Tan Wen's blood was boiling with excitement. He wanted to hold her by the back of the neck, press down and kiss her lips fiercely, and let her tilt her head back like this, slowly letting her eyes well up with tears...

Jiang Ni observed his subtle expressions. He seemed calm and indifferent, but her limited emotional experience made her completely unaware that a man's "desire" is not simply conveyed through facial expressions and eyes.

If she were to move her gaze down a little further and see the taut veins on Tan Wen's neck, and the labored movement of his Adam's apple—she would know just how unsettled and uneasy the man in front of her was at that moment.

Xu Ke had never actually met Tan Wen before, but now she was certain that the man standing next to Jiang Ni was indeed Tan Wen.

"Wow, so handsome..."

Jiang Ni said that having erotic dreams is perfectly normal. With a man this handsome, wouldn't anyone have wild fantasies if they had intimate contact with him?

She watched as the two of them walked to a Porsche. Tan Wen was the epitome of "thoughtful," not only opening the car door and holding the roof, but also squatting down to help Jiang Ni straighten her skirt after she got in the car.

While he was adjusting her skirt, he insisted on holding Jiang Ni's ankle to complete the entire process.

Jiang Ni was currently highly sensitive to his physical touch; she felt his body temperature was so high that it was burning her skin.

His hands are also very big.

Tan closed the passenger door for her and got in the car on the other side: "Sister, are you here for Mr. Jiang's birthday party today? I thought you wouldn't come."

Jiang Ni fastened her seatbelt and explained again, "Grandma called; we have to give the old lady some face."

She turned to look at him: "Do you know about my family situation?"

Tan started the car and replied, thinking he had handled the situation perfectly, "Brother mentioned it before."

He figured that Jiang Ni wouldn't be able to go to Tan Yan to verify these trivial matters anyway, but he didn't know that Jiang Ni never liked to talk to Tan Yan about her family situation.

Jiang Ni didn't expose his lie, but instead asked him, "What are you doing here?"

"Someone invited me to dinner, and I already told my sister this morning," he added this time, "I've been doing a small business with some friends, and I was thinking of expanding my network today."

Jiang Ni could never believe his claim of a "small business," but since he didn't want to be honest with her, she respected his "secret." She just wanted to know that he wasn't making money he shouldn't be making like before.

"What about your friend?" Jiang Ni remembered this. "This car is his, right? What will happen to him if we leave?"

Tan asked in silence: "..."

He was so focused on getting his wife home that he completely forgot about his brothers.

"Sister, could you please get my phone for me? It's in my pocket. I need to make a call."

Jiang Ni said "okay" and reached into the pocket of his suit jacket.

Her suit pocket was pressed against the side of his thigh, and when her hand reached into the pocket, it inevitably brushed against his thigh.

Tan Wen's eyes darkened; even such a simple, normal touch, devoid of any lust, made his heart pound.

"Shall I call for you?" Jiang Ni asked, taking out his phone.

"Okay," Tan said, calming himself down. "0502, just open my private message and call him. His name is Yang Jiu."

Jiang Ni wrote down the string of numbers, used her phone to access his private messaging interface, and then clearly saw that her chat box was pinned to the top.

It's also the only one pinned to the top.