Chapter 144 What the Zhong family can give you, the Shen family can also give you.
Xiao Qi's expression remained unchanged. She answered whatever Ji Tanyuan asked, even though she knew the other party was asking questions she already knew the answers to. She showed no emotion whatsoever.
Ji Tanyuan looked at the woman standing there. She appeared respectful and polite, neither humble nor arrogant, but she did not move an inch.
Ji Tanyuan smiled and said, "Your young master is really boring. He asks me to come every time, but I really don't want to go."
Xiao Qi bent down, "There's something you might be interested in."
Actually, Ji Tanyuan was more interested in Xiao Qi than the mentally unstable Shen Xichen.
She was very beautiful, with well-defined muscles in her arms and a great figure. Her hair was also very black, but her eyes were calm and expressionless, like a mindless puppet.
She took a few steps forward. "Your real name is Xiao Qi?"
Xiao Qi lowered her eyes, avoiding Ji Tanyuan's gaze, and replied, "Yes."
Ji Tanyuan nodded: "Shouldn't you be inviting me with a gesture of invitation? What are you doing? Tying me up?"
Xiao Qi said expressionlessly, "Miss Ji, this is the Ji Group Building. I could not possibly kidnap you."
Ji Tanyuan raised an eyebrow. "So, you kidnapped me as soon as I left the building?"
Xiao Qi stepped aside and replied, seemingly unrelated to the question, "The master is waiting for you."
“The crisis has just been resolved, and you don’t want the Ji family to be embroiled in scandal again, do you?” Xiao Qi added.
Ji Tanyuan scoffed, "The Ji family has plenty of scandals. Which one are you talking about?"
"Ji Ziqian's death is related to Mr. Zhong, and you also think it doesn't matter?"
Ji Tanyuan stared at Xiao Qi, "What did you say?"
Ji Tanyuan looked coldly at Xiao Qi, who took a few steps back and repeated, "The master is waiting for you at the manor."
Ji Tanyuan turned and left, saying, "I'll take my own car to the teahouse where we met last time."
Xiao Qi watched the person leave, turned around and got into the car. She didn't call Shen Xichen because Shen Xichen was there.
When Ji Tanyuan arrived at the tea room, she was surprised to find that there were already people inside.
There were two men.
One is Shen Xichen, and the other is Zhao Qingye, the Asia-Pacific president of Ming's Pharmaceuticals.
Zhao Qingye looked up at Ji Tanyuan. She still had the same gentle demeanor, just like when they first met at the dinner party in Yanjing. She looked harmless.
But who would have thought she was a ruthless character behind the scenes? Rongxi is still recovering from the fall she suffered at her hands, and has suffered heavy losses because of her schemes.
Zhao Qingye used to think that Zhong Yan was a master who never revealed his scheming, but now he realized that Ji Tanyuan was even more so. Ji Tanyuan would endure for the sake of profit, and she would also risk her life to turn against others for the sake of profit. Deep down, she was actually radical.
He thought of Shen Xichen beside him and pondered in his heart that perhaps the situation would change in the future, but no matter how it changed, it would be difficult for the Ji family to return to its previous weak state.
He smiled and said, "Long time no see, Miss Ji."
Ji Tanyuan smiled. "It has been a long time. Mr. Zhao, are you at the end of your rope?"
Zhao Qingye lowered his head and smiled faintly, "Why don't you say that I chose a good tree to perch on?"
Ji Tanyuan glanced at Chen Xichen and clicked her tongue twice. "Not necessarily."
Zhao Qingye sneered twice, "There's plenty of time in the future."
After saying that, he left.
Ji Tanyuan put down her bag and went to open the window wide; the incense in the room was giving her a headache.
The tea room was decorated in a natural wood style. She sat at the tea table, watching the wisps of steam rise. As she approached the tea, the aroma of tea mixed with incense created a strangely comforting atmosphere.
This place doesn't look like it was just arrived at. Ji Tanyuan immediately understood and asked Shen Xichen:
"You already guessed that I wouldn't go to your manor with Xiao Qi, and would choose here instead?"
Shen Xichen raised an eyebrow, her gentle features shrouded in misty tea smoke. "Wasn't this your choice? I merely predicted it accurately."
Ji Tanyuan twitched the corner of her mouth. "It really is something that makes people unhappy."
"Zhao Qingye is your man, isn't he?"
Shen Xichen did not answer directly: "Didn't he say, 'Choose a good tree to perch on'?"
Then he looked up and said, "Happy divorce."
Place the tea in front of her.
Ji Tanyuan looked down and didn't move.
Shen Xichen: "It's not poisonous."
Ji Tanyuan: "I'm not thirsty."
Shen Xichen didn't press the matter further. "Miss Ji, I've always wanted to talk to you about why you chose the Zhong family over the Shen family."
Ji Tanyuan: "Mr. Shen, I just don't want to do as you wish."
She smiled faintly, her eyebrows curving, but her eyes were cold. "You want me to ask you for help? Who do you think you are? Although I am not the one who controls the heavens, the Shen family is not the only one in this world who controls the heavens."
Looking at Ji Tanyuan's beaming smile, Shen Xichen chuckled softly, "Really? Am I that special to you?"
Ji Tanyuan stopped laughing. Did this person not understand human language?
She tapped on the table: "Can we get down to business now?"
Shen Xichen raised an eyebrow. "You didn't call Zhong Yan? That means you don't trust him either, right?"
"That's true. No matter what your relationship with your cousin is like, it's not right to lay a hand on your cousin without your consent. Who knows, the next step might be to your mother."
Ji Tanyuan: "No, I just wanted to ask how to make Young Master Shen shut up."
"This happened before the divorce, so it's a family matter. At worst, it's a criminal case, and it has little to do with Mr. Shen, so it's best not to spread rumors."
These words truly surprised Shen Xichen. Shen Xichen stopped laughing and said, "Are you sure? How come it has nothing to do with me? He made me take the blame."
He stood up and closed the window.
His expression was as cold as if covered by a layer of ice and snow. "You didn't ask anything? Do you believe him or are you simply protecting him?"
Ji Tanyuan rubbed her forehead, somewhat impatiently: "I shouldn't be asking you, Young Master Shen. I'll say it again: if you want to deal with the Ji family, I can't stop you. Come on then, but could you please stop bothering me?"
She couldn't handle this person at all; he was an enigmatic and incomprehensible creature.
Ji Tanyuan frowned, deciding she wouldn't come to this teahouse again; the incense smelled unpleasant.
Shen Xichen nodded: "I was wrong. It seems that Miss Ji has fallen in love with her ex-husband. So, was your divorce a sham?"
Ji Tanyuan: "No, there's no such thing as fake."
"So, can you state your conditions now? Isn't this the very thing you're using to threaten me in order to negotiate?"
Shen Xichen calmly took a sip of tea. "I want you."
Ji Tanyuan didn't hear clearly, "What?"
Shen Xichen raised his eyes, "Is it hard to believe? What's so hard to believe? You can marry Zhong Yan, and of course you can marry me. What the Zhong family can give you, the Shen family can also give you."
Ji Tanyuan stood up, utterly speechless: "You hate me this much? I just crawled out of that hellhole, and you want to drag me down with you?"
Still talking about the Shen family? Is she someone who lacks a husband's family?
Neuropathy.
"Seeing you defend Zhong Yan, I thought you wanted to get married."
Ji Tanyuan was about to leave and reached for her bag when she suddenly realized that the bag was doubled.
Shen Xichen suddenly said, "Are you feeling dizzy?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he went limp.
Ji Tanyuan only caught a whiff of tea fragrance in the end.
Shen Xichen readily accepted Ji Tanyuan's softened stance.
"I already said, the tea isn't poisonous."
It's a problem with the aromatherapy.
He looked down at Ji Tanyuan and said, "If you trust me, you'll be fine after drinking the tea."
But from beginning to end, even though he talked until his throat was dry, he never looked at the cup of tea in front of him.
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