Chapter 179 President Ji went to America
"What's wrong with you?" Ji Tanyuan pushed him away.
"Why are you taking your anger out on me?" Ji Tanyuan looked at him coldly.
Ji Tanyuan felt that Zhong Yan was being unreasonable. She had not done anything outrageous, and besides, they were currently divorced.
"I have no obligation to be responsible for you," Ji Tanyuan said angrily, turning her head to the side.
Zhong Yan took a deep breath, his face turning ashen; at this moment, his sense of security had plummeted to negative levels.
The bond between him and Ji Tanyuan was already thin, and Ji Tanyuan had never given him any guarantees. Now that she had said such things, Zhong Yan's heart grew colder and colder.
He gritted his teeth, gripping her wrist tightly to prevent her from escaping:
Say it again.
Ji Tanyuan: "You think I'll just tell you to talk?"
“You mind Shen Xiling, you mind this and you mind that, ultimately it's because you don’t trust me.” Ji Tanyuan stopped avoiding his gaze and looked him straight in the eye.
“You mind my circle of friends, and even want me to stay away from the opposite sex to make you feel safe. This is not my responsibility, it’s your paranoia.”
"Have I ever minded you and Miss Shuyun? Because I trust you..."
Zhong Yan interrupted her, "Do you mean you trust me? You mean you don't care."
“Ji Tanyuan, no one wants to see the person they like chatting and laughing with someone of the opposite sex. This has nothing to do with trust.”
Zhong Yan's eyes were complicated, then he silently mocked.
His eyes held helplessness, bitterness, and sarcasm. "You say you don't mind Shuyun? Is it because you believe me, or because you've never taken that person seriously at all?"
Ji Tanyuan suddenly fell silent. She looked up at him and said, "Then tell me, what should I do? If there was a possibility between me and him, I would never have married you, and I would never have allowed you to stay in my family."
Ji Tanyuan was also upset, but she couldn't pinpoint the exact reason. It wasn't sadness or anger, but a kind of suffocating feeling of helplessness after a sudden argument.
"Can you please stop getting angry at me over this? What does his transfer to Shanghai have to do with me? Why are you putting this on my shoulders?"
Since none of the decisions Shen Xiling made had any positive or negative impact on her, why should such sacrifices be imposed on her?
Ji Tanyuan felt annoyed; she was already fed up the moment Zhong Yan spoke his first sentence.
What do you mean by "transferring her to a lower-level position for her sake"? This is blatant extortion.
Ji Tanyuan viewed this way of venting her dissatisfaction as nothing more than a useless person's self-indulgent sacrifice, and she really couldn't understand why this had to be imposed on her.
She didn't get any benefits but ended up taking the blame.
But what angered her the most was that Zhong Yan actually said the same thing.
At this moment, Zhong Yan's mind was completely blank with Zhong Yi's last words and the scene he had just seen downstairs. Especially since Ji Tanyuan did not think she had done anything wrong, he was even angrier.
The man's face remained indifferent as he nodded repeatedly. "It has nothing to do with you. Then where did the rumor about you two being childhood sweethearts come from?"
"Is this just a baseless rumor or someone maliciously spreading it? You used to visit him every year when you went back to China, and you had the best relationship with him. He left when you got married, and he came back when you got divorced. Now you're walking your dog and laughing and talking. Do you think I'm being unreasonable?"
Ji Tanyuan interrupted him, "Then what should I do? Should I break off all contact with him? Or should I put on a chaste facade, keeping out all men?"
“Ji Tanyuan!” Zhong Yan said coldly.
He asked incredulously, "You think I'm just being jealous for no reason?"
When has he ever stopped her from attending meetings or activities with other people? He never even stopped her from being with Duan Huaixu.
The concern was that this might cause problems for Ji Tanyuan at work.
But Shen Xiling is different; he's a member of the Shen family. There were all sorts of rumors circulating in the second-generation elites circle of Shanghai, and Ji Tanyuan knew that he was interested in her, which is why he was particularly sensitive.
Ji Tanyuan was somewhat exhausted: "Isn't that right? Aren't you just being unreasonable?"
"Do you think I have to announce to everyone that I'm cutting ties with him to be considered responsible for our relationship?"
To Zhong Yan, these words of compromise and helplessness sounded like Ji Tanyuan calling him naive.
Zhong Yan took a few steps back, put his hands on his hips, and nodded repeatedly. He didn't know what to say. What else could he say?
Is it difficult to sever ties with Shen Xiling?
"Fine, I'm being unreasonable."
Ji Tanyuan: "I haven't been in contact with him for the past two years. I just happened to run into him."
The only response she received was the sound of the door closing.
Zhong Yan left without looking back, leaving Ji Tanyuan behind.
The puppy rubbed against Ji Tanyuan's leg, its eyes wet as it looked up at her.
Ji Tanyuan lowered her eyes and rubbed the dog's ears, her voice gentle: "Mommy is fine."
She stood up to pour water.
He sat on the table, twirled the cup in his hand, and then drank it all down, trying to extinguish the anger in his heart.
She hates arguing.
This was different from the arguments she had with her colleagues in the past when they disagreed on work matters.
Such arguments only made her feel mentally exhausted and inexplicably irritable and easily angered.
When the nanny returned, she saw the young lady sitting on the living room sofa, lost in thought.
She stepped forward. "Miss, what would you like to eat now? I'll make it for you."
Ji Tanyuan, who was staring blankly out the window, turned around at the sound and looked at her aunt: "Did he call you?"
The aunt rubbed her hands together and nodded. "The master said he had some things to take care of and asked me to come back."
Since Zhong Yan started moving in every few days, her workload and that of the other two nannies have been greatly reduced. At first, she was worried that she would lose her job or have her salary reduced.
It turned out that it wasn't that the employer's living costs had decreased, but rather that one of them simply disliked that they were "too bright."
And so, they began their paid leave.
"How about I make you some seafood porridge?"
Ji Tanyuan gave a listless "hmm," clearly not in the mood.
She sat on the sofa in a daze. Normally, she could be complaining to Zhang Zhang and the others, or going to work as if nothing had happened.
But now she doesn't want to do anything at all, just like lying on the sofa and not thinking about anything.
Ji Tanyuan thought, if this can't prove that she likes him, then what can?
This discovery evokes mixed feelings.
Ji Tanyuan sighed, regretting that this belated relationship, like her marriage, was destined to end prematurely.
Ji Tanyuan thought to herself, "Actually, this is quite good."
For a whole week, Ji Tanyuan did not meet Zhong Yan.
She went to the company as usual to attend press conferences and meetings.
He acted like nothing had happened.
Similarly, Zhong Yan was also busy handing over her work, working overtime night after night.
Meetings were held even in the middle of the night, which was quite exhausting for Assistant Liang.
His assistant was exhausted, let alone someone who was constantly doing mental work.
People say that dating interferes with studying and working, which shows that there's a lot of truth to it.
Look at this person who has no romantic relationships, yet works like a madman.
Liang Zhufu is increasingly convinced that the boss's spring revival has failed and that he is about to break up with Princess Ji.
We really need to consult a master fortune teller.
"Liang Zhufu, come in."
Zhong Yan, with a cigarette between his fingers, flipped through the documents, then signed them and handed them to Assistant Liang: "Submit it."
Assistant Liang took it.
He was stopped as he was about to leave: "How's it going with Hujiang?"
"Everything is going according to plan."
"Ji Tanyuan was also part of the plan?"
Assistant Liang turned around and said, "President Ji has gone to the United States."
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