Romance

"Shan Xi'an, I really went in."

The moment the door panel was pushed, he finally let go. Ye Yuan hurriedly lowered the curtain and crawled into the bed to cover his body.

Zhang Siling saw him sitting by the moonlit edge of the tent bed, the top button of his white shirt undone, a patch of red tinging around his neck, his sleeves pushed up to mid-arm. He had a handsome face with distinct features and regular features, but his eyes were tinged with a hint of peach blossom, a look that seemed to pierce his bones and gnash his heart.

For a moment, regret pierced her heart like an arrow. It was precisely because of this underlying regret that Zhang Siling's tone carried a domineering intimacy, "What are you doing? You're clearly here, so why aren't you answering me?"

When Chen Yan spoke, his voice was hoarse, but he couldn't hide his lust. "I'm busy."

"Hey!!" Zhang Siling yelled, making a rash statement: "You have a really bad personality."

"It's not like you only knew it on the first day."

Zhang Siling felt uncomfortable after being provoked by him, and deliberately provoked him, "So I would rather marry Zhiwen than you."

"Did anyone stop you?"

"How dare you say that! Why didn't you stop me?" Even if he had tried to stop her, she wouldn't have married anyone else. "It's all your fault!"

Because she is a princess who has been spoiled since she was a child, no one else’s opinion is important to her, and someone else will cover all her mistakes.

Chen Yan'an glanced at him coldly and said slowly, "You have to take responsibility for your own decisions. Don't come to me to seek a sense of existence."

A bad feeling settled in his chest. Zhang Siling took a few deep breaths and digested it with all his might.

Her original intention was to show her goodwill, but thinking about it from another perspective, maybe Chen Di'an's behavior was because he couldn't forget his old feelings for her. After all, he had always been this awkward since they were young. Thinking of this, Zhang Siling couldn't help but feel more confident. She tossed the hair that had fallen on her chest behind her and said nonchalantly, "I heard that you've been in a lot of trouble lately. How about going for a drink and talking it over?"

Sediment An sneered and said, "I don't have much to complain about. You can find someone else."

His wish was dashed, and his newly sparked enthusiasm instantly vanished. Zhang Siling found it difficult to back down. "Chen Xi'an, are you really so petty? You were the one who didn't take the initiative in the first place, so why are you blaming me for this?!"

"Don't talk like that, as if I'm the one you can't let go of."

Zhang Siling turned and walked away angrily. After two steps, he turned back, raised his middle finger at him, and shouted angrily: "Shut the fuck up!"

The door slammed with a deafening roar, and the princess became very angry, not knowing who would be the next unlucky person to suffer.

After a while, the curtain was drawn aside, and Ye Yuanyin quietly poked his head out from inside. He looked around and asked, "Is she gone?"

Chen Di'an was annoyed that she was unwilling to step forward and her behavior always showed that she wanted to sever ties with him. He couldn't help but scold her, "Outsiders are barging in here, and you, a legal person with a permit, are hiding?"

Ye Yuanyin looked at him calmly. When she ridiculed someone, she was very measured in her words. "I'm afraid of damaging your image in her eyes."

"What's the meaning?"

"What's the point?" She glanced over, the corners of her lips slightly raised, her pure and proud character resounding, and her self-deprecating expression refused to give even the slightest wiggle room. "I'm afraid of ruining your happy marriage."

Sediment was stunned for a moment, thinking that there were those who loved to stir up trouble, whispering in her ear, as if they were afraid that his life was not bad enough. It's not that he doesn't complain, he just doesn't tell others.

"Fourth Uncle bought several more plots of land last year. With the real estate market so weak right now, the group already owes nearly 10 billion yuan. With the industry in a downturn, those creditors are not pushovers. They've all come to collect debts after sniffing around."

"I went abroad a few days ago to meet an old friend of my grandfather. Out of respect for my grandfather, he invested part of the capital and acquired 25% of the group's equity. My grandfather wanted to overcome the current difficulties by converting debt into equity."

"The Shen family is about to sell everything they have to pay back the debt. It's a luxury for me to be able to live happily with you forever in this life." Chen Yan glared at her, saying with regret, "Who else would be so stupid as to jump into the frying pan knowing it's frying pan? Only you deserve to be fried into pieces and eaten until there's nothing left."

Ye Yuanyin was stunned after hearing this, and quickly put the slippers in his hand on the footrest. As soon as he put his feet in, she ran over.

She folded her hands together, one inside and one outside, just covering his right hand. Ye Yuanyin stood up for him and said, "Grandpa, you're such a fool! You never think of good things for yourself, but when you run into a problem, you always think of asking you to take the blame. If you want a donkey to pull a mill, you have to blindfold it and dangle a carrot! Why do you just draw a pie in the sky when it comes to you? What's more, this pie is nothing but air, you're just fooling a child?"

She hid in his arms, put her face on his chest, put her arms around him, patted his back gently and said, "Don't be stressed."

A smile spread across her face. Chen Di'an was originally amused by her, but he felt sad when he thought about it. He crossed his arms across her waist, and he wanted to rub her into his body.

"Ouch, that hurts."

"Children know what pain is."

"How can a child not feel pain?" She patted his back desperately, "Let go, let go, I can't breathe."

Chen Yan held her face and kissed her again, but this time she really couldn't breathe.

*

As the situation grew increasingly dire, Shen Yuheng's emotions grew increasingly sensitive. His phone was like a death warrant, the plummeting stock prices and the debt collection messages like the shackles of the Black and White Impermanence. Once they locked around his neck, he would be dragged to the Hall of Hell.

It rained the next day, and he sent a message to Ye Yuanyin.

【Come and talk to me】

The pavilion in the garden is designed in Japanese style. Shen Yuheng sits on the tatami, looking like a monk in meditation.

Ye Yuanyin walked over and called him, "Fourth Uncle."

Shen Yuheng didn't turn around, but just said lightly, "Look at the sky, turning his hand makes clouds, turning his hand again makes rain."

She thought he was probably talking about the volatility of business and the unpredictable nature of fate.

Ye Yuanyin sat beside him and looked out along the eaves. The continuous rain fell from the tiles like beads that had broken off the string. Large clouds piled up together, and the sky was extremely gloomy.

"It's already summer." He leaned his hands on the tatami, raised his head, and let the few drops of rain that could not be blocked from outside fall on his face.

For someone who grew up in the mountains, the changing seasons and solar terms are essential lessons. Nature has its own answers: when to sow, when to transplant rice, when the dew turns white overnight, when the snow begins to fall.

"Yeah, spring is over."

Shen Yuheng sighed from deep within his chest, his expression looking bewildered and confused: "I don't know when the next spring will come."

Ye Yuanyin sensed the suicidal tone in his words and quickly tried to dissuade him, "Winter will eventually pass."

Shen Yuheng knew that she had a strong ability to empathize, so he smiled tiredly and lazily, "It's only the beginning of summer."

Three seasons is too hard to endure.

"There is no unsolvable problem in the world. Fourth Uncle, you still have your family."

Shen Yuheng recalled his father's advice and said awkwardly, "Grandpa advised me to stop three years ago, blaming me for being too greedy and not knowing how to be cautious."

"No one can predict the future," Ye Yuanyin advised, "even gods make mistakes, let alone humans."

After all, he was still inexperienced, and his words were naive. Shen Yuheng thought, ordinary people can make mistakes, of course, and they can just correct them. But he couldn't make mistakes. If he did, it would be an irreparable rift in the sky. Family, wealth, status... the efforts of generations would be wasted in an instant.

"What did Sedimentian say?"

"He didn't say anything."

At this time, no one feels at ease.

"I heard the other day that Chu Jinxi used half of the family assets she got after the divorce to buy shares in Shen's. Did you know about this?"

Ye Yuanyin shook his head.

"When disaster strikes, she'll cut her losses in time. Humph, you heartless bitch." Shen Yuheng turned around and looked at her, saying, "You're not from the Shen family, so there's no need for you to suffer with us. Don't you still have dreams? You wouldn't be willing to be trapped here forever, would you?"

Ye Yuanyin did not answer immediately.

Shen Yuheng added, "You and Chen Yan'an just got married, and perhaps you're caught up in the romance and don't want to let go. But in the long run, a person doesn't die for lack of love. When I read A Doll's House when I was young, I felt the same way. Everything in this family is in an open state of war. From outsiders, this place may seem respectable and glamorous, but who knows the helplessness of being trapped here? Don't let anyone trap you."

Ye Yuanyin grasped the key point in his words and asked him, "When you were young, you didn't leave home. Was it because someone trapped you?"

Shen Yuheng smiled dejectedly, a blush on his pale cheeks as he recalled the past. His eyes fell gently on her, as if he was looking through her to see another person. "Yes, I am trapped by a very beautiful woman."

"Hey," Ye Yuanyin smiled, pursing his lips. "Who's prettier, her or Fourth Aunt?"

"Who the hell is Chu Jinxi? How can he be compared with her?"

"And then?"

"The process was so bitter that people have the instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm, but they have forgotten it."

Before Ye Yuanyin left, it was as if he was making a new agreement with him, "Fourth Uncle, please remember to tell me the ending of the story."

Shen Yuheng understood that she was doing her best to maintain her life.

*

Zhang Siling's solo art exhibition was a great success.

There are thousands of art academy alumni, but only a handful truly become artists. Besides personal talent, family support and financial investment are even more crucial. Zhang Siling isn't greedy. She's been a maverick since childhood, setting her own ambitions early on. She doesn't need to stand out; she just wants to add to her success.

Perhaps in the near future, Anhui University Academy of Fine Arts will have another young scholar and visiting professor.

Seeing Ye Yuanyin coming alone, You Jing said something to his friend and walked over to her in two steps.

"Is your mother okay?"

"fine."

“Is the project going well?”

“It’s not going very well.”

Indeed, Yandi An had no time for anything else right now. You Jing thought for a moment and decided to tell her, "I heard from You Manshan that he'll sell KZ to pay off his debts."

Ye Yuanyin didn't say anything. If KZ was sold, she would have no reason to stay with him because of the project.

"Ayin, please come back. I won't act on impulse like before. I'll recommend a job for you, and once you have a stable job, I'll bring your mother home to spend her old age. It doesn't matter whether you stay with me or not, but just don't stay with him anymore. Only by putting order into chaos can things be put back on track. Let's get everything back on track."

His face, with its deep, strong, and handsome features, was a perfect creation that the Creator had painstakingly created. He had also gifted him with a rebellious character, demanding talent, and artistic acclaim. However, he had forgotten to give him the ability to empathize with others.

"Get back on track? That's so easy for you to say. People aren't machines. How can I get back on track?"

You Jing looked at her, as if he had exhausted all his strength, even his chewing muscles were shaking. He reached out, grabbed her tightly, and said fiercely, "I'll teach you."

Ye Yuanyin couldn't withstand his strength and was dragged out of the venue.