Chapter 146 After fear comes destruction.

Ji Tanyuan took a few steps back, shook off his hand, and turned to leave.

The next moment, I was almost forced to press my hand on the fingerprint recognition button.

Shen Xichen usually looks half-dead, like a sickly person.

But when it came to exerting force, he was uncompromising. Ji Tanyuan was held in his arms, and he controlled her fingers.

As soon as the door was pushed open, a huge picture frame came into view.

Ji Tanyuan's pupils constricted.

Shocked, he stepped back.

A chill ran through me, and cold sweat broke out on my back.

She remained in a daze for a long time.

Shen Xichen: "Didn't you say I was inexplicable? I've been inexplicable for several years now, but you can't see that, you only see Shen Xiling."

Ji Tanyuan seemed to be electrocuted, and immediately stepped into the room.

Looking at the painting in front of her, she felt only horror.

No matter how beautiful the painting was, whether in terms of color or technique, she couldn't see it. All she knew was that someone was silently watching her during her daily life.

She simply couldn't accept it.

She turned to look at Shen Xichen, "Are you telling me this to say that you've been watching me all along?"

Ji Tanyuan looked at him with disbelief, as if she were looking at a patient.

Because her mother in the Ji family suffers from a mental illness, Ji Tanyuan is extremely accepting of the idea that anyone can develop a mental illness.

So at this moment, without any intention of insulting or cursing, she genuinely felt that Shen Xichen was sick.

"You should see a doctor. I'll introduce you to my mom's medical team, okay?"

Shen Xichen grabbed her wrist and pulled her closer. "What, after seeing all this, you're finally looking at me properly? Hmm?"

Ji Tanyuan couldn't shake him off, and looked at him coldly, "So you've been targeting the Ji family in every way just to make me take you seriously."

"You want me to beg you, right?"

She sneered and began to approach him. "So I was right. It's a pity my father didn't let me find you as you wished. At least the Zhong family gave me the position of a wife. What about you? Are you thinking of taking over the Ji family and ruining me?"

Shen Xichen raised his eyes and smiled faintly, "Ji Tanyuan, I admire your clarity, but I also really hate this kind of clarity."

Ji Tanyuan smiled, still very sweetly, then turned around, approached the painting, looked up at it, and casually picked up the frame from the display stand and threw it at the larger painting.

The two objects collided, shattering the glass into pieces with a deafening cracking sound.

The smiles of the people in the painting also became ferocious.

Shen Xichen watched quietly as she smashed all the paintings in the room; he had long expected her to do this.

Fear is followed by destruction.

Ji Tanyuan was surrounded by shards of glass, which reflected the colorful halos on the canvas, and she stood in the center.

It destroyed everything, yet remained completely unharmed.

Even if she destroyed the painting, so what?

The genuine article has already appeared; the fakes are insignificant.

Shen Xichen straightened up and finally spoke his first words: "After this house is renovated, it can be your bedroom, how about that?"

Ji Tanyuan met his gaze and said, "You'll have to be born with that kind of luck."

Shen Xichen: "You want to kill me?"

He moved closer to her, took her hand, and shoved shards of glass into it. "You can hurt me."

Ji Tanyuan looked at the shards of glass in her hand and calmly said, "You're sick."

Shen Xichen frowned. "I didn't."

His hands were cold. He held her wrist and pressed it against his neck, above her collarbone, where the major artery was located. "You can do this."

Shen Xichen smiled and said, "Go ahead and try it."

Ji Tanyuan looked at his pale neck and shook him off. "I hurt you. Are you going to try and blackmail me next?"

Shen Xichen said, "If you don't want the opportunity I'm giving you, then let's just get along well?"

Ji Tanyuan: "Take me back."

As Shen Xichen watched the person prepare to leave, he suddenly said coldly, "You can't leave."

Ji Tanyuan turned around and smiled, somewhat speechless:

"You've imprisoned me? Within 24 hours, someone will realize I'm missing. Where do you get your confidence from...?"

“Then we’ll just wait until someone finds you,” Shen Xichen said directly.

Ji Tanyuan tidied her hair. "You don't like me."

He said that liking someone shouldn't be like this; it's unhealthy and abnormal. But Ji Tanyuan could say otherwise.

After Ji Tanyuan finished speaking, she planned to leave; she felt suffocated here.

As he walked, he said, "If you're living such a tiring and boring life, you might as well just die. Why drag me into this?"

Shen Xichen didn't want her to leave, so he grabbed her shoulders and held Ji Tanyuan between himself and the door. His expression suddenly turned sinister.

"Yes, life is tiring. Why can you be so relaxed? Why are you different from other rich kids? You come from a poor family, yet you can still be so carefree."

“We are clearly the same kind of people, and our mothers are both mentally ill, so why do you live so happily?”

Why does your mother love you so much?

He raised his hand to touch her face, his attitude serious and his eyes focused, and asked, "Tell me, why?"

And he could only watch from the gutter.

You can't even see a ray of sunlight.

Faced with his accusations, Ji Tanyuan finally remembered that Shen Xichen's mother had mental problems and that they had met in the hospital before.

It was there that she met Shen Xichen, and also when she went to visit her aunt, Shen Xiling.

Shen Xichen sneered: "You remembered? You met me first, but you were with Shen Xiling. Am I that unlikable?"

He asked again, "Am I really that unlikable?"

Ji Tanyuan looked at him and said, "I'm sorry, I've always been the one being flattered since I was a child. I find it hard to see others. I don't lack friends, but I don't have much compassion. As for you, I haven't paid much attention to you."

Each word was like a dense needle pricking Shen Xichen's ridiculous pride.

This was the first time someone had ignored her like this.

"That's right. Your parents didn't want you to suffer in social situations, so you've been a princess since you were little."

As high as Ji Qing climbs, so too does Ji Tanyuan's social circle, which fosters Ji Tanyuan's belief that social interaction is the source of emotional value.

However, in the adult world, socializing is always part of the job.

"But your father isn't omnipotent either. Didn't he still manage to marry you into that powerful and wealthy circle in Kyoto, where you've been subjected to endless ridicule and sarcasm?"

Don't we still need to learn these things?

Ji Tanyuan turned her head away, "Have you said enough?"

Shen Xichen pinched her chin, and his emotions suddenly erupted. He seemed unable to tolerate Ji Tanyuan's neglect.

"I want you to look at me, Ji Tanyuan."

Ji Tanyuan grew impatient and then looked at him: "Why are you so fixated on my attitude?"

Shen Xichen: "Didn't I say? I like you, don't you understand?"

"I've liked it for so many years."

Ji Tanyuan pushed him away and looked up at the man: "I don't like you."

"You'll like it."

Shen Xichen: "You and Zhong Yan are not related and have never met, yet you still fell in love with each other."

He finished speaking and frowned slightly. "What are you dissatisfied with about me?"

Ji Tanyuan opened the door, too lazy to say another word.

But as soon as I opened the door, I saw a white snake.

Ji Tanyuan was truly frightened.

Shen Xichen followed from behind, saying, "She doesn't bite, she's very well-behaved."

He then reached out, and the snake quickly crawled from the wall onto the man's wrist.

Throughout the entire process, Ji Tanyuan's eyes were wide open.

She looked up at Shen Xichen, "I can really see you now, and I will never forget it."

Upon hearing this, Shen Xichen smiled, his mood cheerful, his eyes gentle as if filled with deep affection.

Shen Xichen, who was already a gentle and refined gentleman, looked even more so now. "Is that so?"

Ji Tanyuan: "Can't you tell I'm being sarcastic?"

"I didn't feel that way."

Ji Tanyuan couldn't get out, and Shen Xichen couldn't understand human speech.

They said it was too late, so they'd do it tomorrow morning.

Ji Tanyuan was arranged to stay in a very luxurious bedroom on the third floor.

She didn't want to be with Shen Xichen and asked to move to the second floor.

Shen Xichen didn't insist and allowed the change.

Ji Tanyuan sat on the sofa in the bedroom watching TV; she really didn't dare to sleep.

What if something happens while I'm asleep?

It's three in the morning, and she's watching TV while thinking about Shen Xichen's weakness.

He hates his mother, hates his father, and is misanthropic and averse to life and people.

Ji Tanyuan: "..."

Such a person's very existence is a source of suffering for both himself and others.

As Ji Tanyuan pondered, she returned to the conclusion that "[he might as well be dead]".

She rubbed her eyes, propped her chin up, and watched the television.

The TV is replaying an entertainment gossip program.

Entertainment media outlets have compiled a summary of events that have occurred in the entertainment industry over the past week.

Among them was a rumored affair with Xin Gan, a popular A-list actress.

Paparazzi photographed her going to the hospital, suggesting she might be pregnant.

Media outlets also speculated that Singan had broken up with her financial backer and was in a bad state due to heartbreak.

Ji Tanyuan scoffed lightly. How come she didn't know she was talking to Xin Gan?

etc.

Could Cheng Gengxu have really gotten that girl pregnant?

She picked up the remote and started playing back the photos to see the paparazzi's shot of Xin Gan's back.

I can't tell anything from it.

She didn't have her phone with her, so she couldn't make a call.

She opened the bedroom door and went downstairs.

An hour later, the manor caught fire.

The fire started in a room on the second floor.