Chapter 118 We each have our own difficulties, but I will still complain; that's just the kind of person I am.
Zhong Yan didn't move at all; there wasn't even the slightest tremor in front of him, and there was no indication that he had been punched hard in the waist.
After the person left, Zhong Yan turned around and rubbed his lower back.
"Ji Tanyuan, you're going to hit my waist instead of my face? Don't you want sexual happiness either?"
Ji Tanyuan: "You say everything?"
While she had the window open, Zhong Yan reached in, opened the car door, and got in.
Ji Tanyuan leaned back. "Get out, I need to go to my mom's."
Zhong Yan sighed, "We're not divorced yet, why are you hiding?"
Ji Tanyuan remained unmoved: "That will be soon."
Zhong Yan nodded: "Soon, but we're not divorced yet, are we?"
Ji Tanyuan pressed herself against the other side of the door, "Future ex-husband, it's done, right?"
Zhong Yan's self-healing ability is truly amazing. At noon, she looked like she was about to cry, but now she's back to her carefree and lazy self.
"You were all all lovey-dovey at noon, weren't you? You could have been a star and made it big in acting."
Zhong Yan loosened his collar. He wasn't used to Ji Tanyuan's sarcastic tone. She used to call him "husband" so sweetly, but now all that was left was "almost ex-husband".
Zhong Yan moved closer to her, trapping her between his arms and the window: "Since we can't leave each other anyway, why should I get angry for no reason and affect our relationship?"
"Even if you call me your ex-husband, I will still call you my wife."
"Don't call me wife." Ji Tanyuan turned her head to the side.
Zhong Yan hummed in agreement, then kissed her ear, his lips parting slightly as if to bite but not quite.
"How about calling him Baby? Hmm?"
Ji Tanyuan slapped him hard, "The driver's still up ahead! Stop acting like a jerk!"
Zhong Yan's chin was gently tapped, producing a crisp sound.
He glanced at the partition, then looked at Ji Tanyuan.
Ji Tanyuan was confused. When did Uncle Li raise the partition?
Ji Tanyuan pointed at him and said, "Be serious, or I'll report you for sexual harassment."
Zhong Yan then grasped her finger and pressed it down, while his other hand cupped the back of her head, and then he lowered his head.
At very close range, Ji Tanyuan turned her head away: "I don't want to."
Zhong Yan paused for a long time, looking at her long, trembling eyelashes and then at her tightly pursed lips.
He then straightened up.
"I have something to discuss with my father-in-law. I'll go back to Yanjing afterward and return in a couple of days."
Ji Tanyuan hummed in agreement and said, "You don't need to tell me anymore."
Zhong Yan clenched her fists, then looked down at her empty hands: "Where's your wedding ring?"
Ji Tanyuan looked down and said, "I'm not wearing it."
"Ji Tanyuan! We're not divorced yet!"
He took a deep breath, suppressing his anger. "To the outside world, we are still husband and wife. The crisis has been temporarily resolved. Even if you only consider the interests of the group, you must first maintain the appearance of our marriage."
Ji Tanyuan's fingers twitched, and she pursed her lips. "I've told your father that we're getting a divorce."
Zhong Yan was stunned. "I'm sorry, I didn't know he called you. I'm not..."
“It’s not your fault. Your father is so powerful, who can stop him? You don’t need to feel guilty about many things.”
Ji Tanyuan: "We each have our own difficulties, but I still feel resentful. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm really sorry to have dragged you into this, but what can I do? You're the one I'm directly involved in this arranged marriage."
Ji Tanyuan felt that she should be thankful that neither she nor Zhong Yan were puppets of the family and that they each had their own autonomy.
She doesn't have to be a puppet of her family in a marriage alliance, enduring every grievance or hoping for intervention from her family or husband.
She knew that Zhong Yan had already done his best. Faced with such immense power, their generation was still too insignificant. Their greatest bargaining chip was undoubtedly their kinship.
Zhong Yan's insistence on keeping him suggests that he likes him.
But as Zhong Yan gains more power, how much of his true feelings will remain? Will he become a second Zhong Fangqi?
She dared not gamble because he posed a greater threat as the other half of their shared interest group.
To reiterate, Ji Tanyuan dared not trust Zhong Yan. She wanted to, but a sense of caution inherent in human nature prevented her from doing so.
Zhong Yan felt like a balloon that had finally been inflated, but now it had to deflate again when Ji Tanyuan came to it.
He patted Ji Tanyuan's head without saying a word.
The two arrived at the Ji family's residence soon after.
As soon as she entered the door, she saw her father smoking. Ji Tanyuan asked, "Dad, were you waiting for us?"
Ji Qing nodded, "Your mother is in her bedroom upstairs. Go find her. I'll chat with Zhong Yan for a while."
Ji Tanyuan nodded and then went upstairs.
Ji Tanyuan went upstairs and saw her mother drinking medicine as soon as she entered the door.
She approached, frowned, and looked at her mother sitting on the sofa holding medicine. Sheng Wan heard the voice, looked up, and asked in surprise, "Huanghuang?"
Ji Tanyuan squatted down and took her hand. "Why are you still taking so much medicine? You've been feeling much better lately."
Sheng Wan pinched her daughter's nose. "Silly girl, you can't stop taking your medicine."
Mental illness is a lifelong condition; it's no longer a matter of whether she has a mental block or not. It's already a physiological illness.
Sheng Wan didn't want her to focus on her illness, so she asked, "Are you done with your work?"
Ji Tanyuan nodded, and Sheng Wan continued, "I heard from your assistant that you were going to send your aunt and Yingying away, and I've already taken care of it for you."
She smiled and said, "Your father is bound to be soft-hearted towards his eldest brother's only two remaining relatives, so it's good to send them abroad to retire in order to prevent them from causing trouble. But it wouldn't be good if you did it, so it's perfect if I did it."
“You need to inherit the group, which requires a balance of firmness and flexibility. Ji Ting just went in, and you immediately sent your relatives out. Many people in the group will have opinions about this, and you will easily be labeled as ruthless. But it’s perfect for me to do it.”
"Your father blames me, so he'd better divorce me. That would be perfect."
downstairs
After Zhong Yan finished talking about Ji Ting, he only said that the Shen family wasn't so easy to mess with.
The specific progress is still unclear.
Ji Qing had long anticipated that everyone acts cautiously. A foundation with a vast base would not collapse in a short time, and one without major crimes would not be in trouble, but it would certainly suffer a severe blow.
Shen's father is unlikely to be promoted in the short term and may even be demoted. The leadership of Hujiang will change the situation, most likely by parachuting in a leader to completely change the existing interest groups here.
Zhong Yan finally asked, "When my father came to visit you, did he say anything to you?"
"I may have mentioned the follow-up plans and given you a heads-up, but you didn't tell Tan Yuan, did you?"
Ji Qing stubbed out his cigarette and asked in a low voice, "What do you want to say?"
"Wasn't it you who kept forcing Tan Yuan to overturn the table?"
"You didn't tell Huanghuang either, so it's like you're working together," Ji Qing said with a smile.
"Actually, when Old Zhong impulsively pushed him into the river to warn Tan Yuan that he had caught her dog, your fate was already sealed."
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