"Shall we chat?"
Before they even reached the room door, Chen Ji suddenly stopped, turned around, and looked at Xu Ruantang.
His expression was serious and focused, unlike his casual demeanor downstairs just now.
Xu Ruantang lowered her eyes. "Go on."
She adopted a fully defensive stance.
Even though there were no thorns, Chen Ji choked on his food.
That's just her personality; she doesn't easily open her heart to people, and once she does, it takes a lot of effort to get back in.
It appears soft, but is actually incredibly stubborn.
Chen Ji's eyes narrowed slightly. "Shall we go inside and talk?"
There are some things that are not suitable to be said in this kind of environment.
Xu Ruantang didn't speak or look at him. After a two-second silence, she walked forward, opened the door, and went inside first.
Chen Ji followed her in, closed the door, and pulled her into his arms, holding her tightly.
Xu Ruantang did not struggle, but she also did not hug back.
"Let go."
Chen Ji ignored her and instead pulled her closer to him, his voice slightly hoarse: "Wife, didn't you say I'm very clingy?"
His voice was tinged with laughter.
Xu Ruantang's face flushed instantly.
So Chen Ji stood not far away watching her when she left the classroom?
They even overheard her conversation with her teacher?
The man followed her the whole way, and she didn't even notice.
It's one thing to hear it, but to say it out loud and tease her about it is another.
"You! You shameless person!" Xu Ruantang struggled in his arms. "Are you stalking me? If I had known, I would have agreed to go with the teacher..."
Before she could finish speaking, Chen Ji lowered his head and instantly silenced her incessant chatter.
There are some things he simply cannot bear to hear.
He kissed Xu Ruantang until her limbs went weak, finally relieving Chen Ji of the pain of longing he had been enduring for so long, before he finally released her lips.
Chen Ji looked at Xu Ruantang with an ambiguous gaze and whispered in her ear, "Wife, if you dare to go with him, you'll stay in the compound from now on and never go anywhere else."
Xu Ruantang was having trouble breathing. Hearing these words that shattered her understanding, she opened her mouth slightly in surprise, "What do you mean?"
"It doesn't mean anything, I know you won't go."
Chen Jisong released Xu Ruantang, sat down on a stool in the room, pointed to the bed, and said, "Sit down and talk."
Now they know to keep their distance.
They really take advantage of you, then just pack up and leave!
Xu Ruantang was indignant, but adhering to the principle of not making things difficult for herself rather than for others, she still walked to the bedside and sat down.
"It was wrong of me not to discuss the Xu family's affairs with you beforehand."
Chen Ji said sincerely, "But I don't regret it."
Xu Ruantang pursed her lips and remained silent.
"Wife, are you sure that after doing those things, even if it means risking the lives of Xu's parents or even affecting Xu Qian, you won't even blink an eye?"
Won't.
Xu Ruantang knew perfectly well that it was precisely because she wasn't ruthless enough that she had been hesitant and indecisive.
If she were ruthless, she could have taken action directly when the Xu family came to her door in the first place.
Putting everything else aside, it would be quite simple to make the Xu family lose money and property and leave the capital in disgrace.
She didn't hug Xu Qian, and didn't even dare to look at the child for long, forcing herself to harden her heart.
While she claimed to be avenging the original owner of the body, she also had her own selfish motives. She saw the shadows of her parents in the Xu family.
Her parents were subtly sexist, not overtly different in their treatment of her, but they gradually eroded her, turning her into a puppet of her family of origin.
Even her ability to wear books is related to her family background.
She was still in college when her family started introducing her to potential partners, saying that it was better to find someone sooner rather than later.
She knew better than anyone else what her motives were.
Her parents bought a house for her younger brother, but after she went to university, she didn't even have a place to stay when she returned home.
I always end up making do on the sofa.
She studied art because her grandfather strongly supported her and supported her with his retirement pension; otherwise, she would never have had the opportunity.
After her grandfather passed away, she went to university and began working part-time to support herself.
They're either in class or working.
She didn't find any of this bitter; at least her dream had come true.
Because she wasn't proactive in going on blind dates, her family jokingly released a Tibetan Mastiff to chase after her.
Her younger brother and father stood by watching her run desperately, laughing and saying that even dogs were afraid of her, how could she be so timid? She would be fine after some training.
They knew perfectly well that when she was a child, she was chased by a dog down a street in the countryside, and the dog even bit off a piece of flesh from her ear.
They did it that way anyway.
She transmigrated into the book, which meant she died!
How could I not hate it?
Chen Ji had been sitting next to her without her noticing, and slowly took her hand, pulling her into his arms.
"Wife, I know you won't, and I'm not doing this to help the Xu family."
Chen Ji's eyes were filled with tenderness. "You're not that kind of person. The pleasure of getting revenge can't wash away your guilt. Instead, you'll keep punishing yourself for other people's mistakes."
"That's you. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been unable to sleep night after night, and you wouldn't have kept putting it off until they took advantage of you and you had no other choice but to take action."
"I've already sent them back to Xujia Village. They'll never appear in front of you again. As for the past, try to forget it."
Learning to let go is an essential lesson in resisting emotional damage from family relationships.
Chen Ji understood her feelings; he had been in the same situation before.
Don't let resentment ruin you.
If your upbringing didn't provide you with normal communication skills, then you need to learn to heal yourself.
Xu Ruantang certainly understood, but sometimes reason is one thing, and doing it is another.
People are deeply entangled in it, and most cannot extricate themselves.
Xu Ruantang pressed her face against Chen Ji's chest and silently shed tears.
After a while, she suddenly looked up, her eyes filled with tears, and gazed at Chen Ji.
After crying, a thin mist clouded over her shimmering eyes, making Chen Ji's heart skip a beat.
"No, then what about the emotional abuse you've been giving me these past few days? Am I just unlucky?"
Putting aside others, they argued all they wanted, and she even came out to help, but Chen Ji didn't care at all.
Chen Ji took out a handkerchief and gently wiped away her tears.
Xu Ruantang has very long eyelashes. Chen Ji thought absentmindedly, "People say that girls with long eyelashes have bad tempers."
His wife certainly has a temper.
He quickly came to his senses, looked at her red eyes with heartache, and said softly, "I haven't abandoned you. I know when you came to Shenzhen, what you do every day, and whether you're safe or not."
Chen Ji didn't ask Wang Xiuxiu; he went directly to Huan Yuanliang.
He kept track of her daily activities, arranged things in Beijing, and when he learned that Xu Ruantang's training was about to end, he rushed over to pick her up and take her home together.
"Otherwise, how could I have found you so easily?"
Xu Ruantang fell silent again.
So all that sadness she felt for days because of the argument was for nothing?
Chen Jiyou kissed Xu Ruantang's earlobe intermittently, and she couldn't stand it, so she moved away to the side.
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