Chapter 182 You shouldn't be like this, you're different.
"You're not asleep?" Zhong Yan's voice was low and hoarse.
The distance from Yanjing to Shanghai is not short, and he had been busy all day. He should have been exhausted, but seeing his family at this moment gave him a sense of belonging.
In the past, for Zhong Yan, going home didn't feel like going home; it felt more like going to the morning court.
He suddenly remembered that when they had just gotten married, Ji Tanyuan had suggested that they go back to her house when there were many people in the Zhong family. At the time, he thought it was just a joke.
Now we realize that there was no one here; this one person alone carried the weight of so many family ties.
He knelt on one knee by the bed, propped one hand on Ji Tanyuan's head, and bent down to kiss her forehead through the blanket.
There was no movement.
He kissed her again.
Ji Tan turned his head away and said in a muffled voice, "Get lost."
The word "roll" was spoken without any force due to the hazy night and ambiguous atmosphere.
"Why did you block me when I called you?" Zhong Yan asked.
Ji Tanyuan abruptly threw off the covers, her hair flying all over her face. She sat up, paused, then stood up again, standing at his level, but just a little taller. Her face was cold, and her voice was sarcastic:
"You called me? You can call me whenever you want, or not call me whenever you want, but if you call, I have to answer, right?"
"It's the same at my house. You can come whenever you want, and you don't have to come whenever you don't want to, right?"
"Who are you to me? Oh, my ex-husband! Ex-husband! Former husband, am I clear?"
Upon hearing this, Zhong Yan straightened up: "When do I come and go as I please? You went abroad this week and didn't answer your phone. You even blocked your bodyguard's number. I told you you were angry with me, and Assistant Liang's words were all implied that I was delusional. See, they don't believe you're angry. Sometimes I wonder if Ji Tanyuan's anger towards me is even a little bit because she cares about me. How happy I would be if my emotions were affected by her?"
Zhong Yan looked at Ji Tanyuan and spoke without interruption, as if he had thought about it a thousand times. His expression was unusually serious.
Emotional breakdowns are the best proof of a relationship, but Ji Tanyuan is always too rational, making him feel like he's the only one caught in the emotional whirlpool while she's just playing around.
Zhong Yan approached her, tilted his head back, his expression gentle yet earnest, his eyes focused intently.
“Even bystanders can see that you have no feelings for me, and you won’t be angry. It’s a reminder that I’ve never been close to you.”
Ji Tanyuan sneered, clearly not buying his act.
"Don't give me that highbrow nonsense. I don't understand your roundabout way of speaking, but I know that Zhong Yan, it was you who got angry and jealous because of another man and then gave me the cold shoulder."
"I didn't do anything wrong, so why am I being tested and ignored like this, as if you're angry? You want to prove how much I care about you, but you're doing it this way..."
The belated grievances found the right person. Anyone who chatted with her and asked how she was doing could say that everything was fine without batting an eye. She even had time to go to bars in an attempt to find a substitute or two to replace this ungrateful thing.
No one with abs is as rich as him, no one richer than him is as handsome, and no one more handsome than him is as intelligent.
After going around in circles, I finally discovered that Zhong Yan was different.
Halfway through the conversation, Ji Tanyuan's eyes reddened, and she began to shed tears. Then, unable to contain her anger, she slapped him: "You shouldn't have done this. You're different."
Zhong Yan's face was slapped, and his brain and nerves were so numb that they couldn't even register the pain. He really didn't expect her to cry like that.
Ji Tanyuan is 24 years old at most. She is strong at work, decisive and efficient, and does things without being wishy-washy.
She can fight against octogenarians and stand up to Zhong Fangqi, the boss of the Zhong family who satirizes them in front of their colleagues. No matter what happens, she always fights with a smile.
Standing before him now, he shattered all of Zhong Yan's preconceived notions.
Actually, it's not exactly inherent. Assistant Liang often says that Ji Tanyuan is Princess Ji because she is inherently arrogant and spoiled.
He held her hand and asked, "Does your hand hurt? Do you want to hit it again to vent your anger?"
As soon as she finished speaking, another slap landed, but this time with less force. Ji Tanyuan wiped away her tears and casually flicked the hand away, then pointed to the door:
"Get out."
Zhong Yan dared not ask again whether he wanted to vent his anger by hitting him again. He had no doubt that if he said that again, a third slap would come.
He pulled her over, making her almost level with him, and hugged her, saying, "Don't cry, if you don't cry, I'll get out of here."
"It's the old lady's birthday today. I told her that if she leaves early, she'll have to kneel on a washboard."
Ji Tanyuan: "No need, you can leave."
Zhong Yan sighed and shamelessly said, "No way, the money from the sale of Huashi Shares just arrived in my account, do you want it?"
"don't want."
"Really don't want to?" Zhong Yan didn't have any tissues to wipe his tears, and his shirt sleeves had been worn all day.
So he took the hem of Ji Tanyuan's nightgown, lifted it up, and used it to wipe away her tears.
At first, Ji Tanyuan thought he was going to do something by lifting her skirt, and she was about to call him a beast, but to her surprise, he just used the corner of her own clothes to wipe her tears.
Ji Tanyuan choked on her breath, unsure of what to say.
"..."
"Don't cry, I'll tell you something else, it's free. Recently..."
Ji Tanyuan slapped his hand away, saying, "Feelings are feelings, and work is work. Don't try to use work to cover up your mistakes in handling your feelings."
Zhong Yan choked, this person is quite logical.
Zhong Yan: "Then tell me, what should I do?"
Ji Tanyuan: "Don't get jealous over unrelated people in the future."
"Okay, so do you get jealous? Why don't you get jealous? Isn't it normal for me to be jealous of my love rival? It has nothing to do with trust."
Possessiveness cannot be eliminated by reason.
Ji Tanyuan pursed her lips and thought for a moment.
"I have no idea."
Zhong Yan said coldly, "What do you mean? What do you mean you don't know? If, and I mean if, a member of the opposite sex gets close to me, regardless of my reaction, what would you think?"
Ji Tanyuan frowned: "How did the topic turn to me? I didn't do anything wrong. Shouldn't we be discussing you now?"
Zhong Yan's eyes were dark and focused as he looked at Ji Tanyuan.
It seemed that Ji Tanyuan couldn't get away with it even if she wanted to.
Ji Tanyuan: "Of course I'm not happy either."
She was breathing through her nose, her voice still a little hoarse. "So you'd better watch out. If you dare to do anything suicidal to test me again, I'll castrate you."
Zhong Yan: "..."
He wouldn't dare, but he was already satisfied with the reply he received, and he truly believed that Ji Tanyuan would do such a thing.
Even if she doesn't do it, her mother probably won't let him off the hook.
Zhong Yan laughed, but before he could finish, Ji Tanyuan said something else:
"But this time I realized that it's not good for us to be too close. Now you can leave, and you're not allowed to come to my house without my permission."
Ji Tanyuan got out of bed, opened the door, and sniffed: "Get out."
Zhong Yan stepped forward again, hugged the person, and closed the door: "No, it's already 12 o'clock, where am I going?"
"The nanny hasn't left; don't let people laugh at us."
"Hua Shi, how much money did you get?"
Zhong Yan: "..."
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