A secret tryst? Her brotherly love triangle backfired.

Chapter 17 - I am Jiang Yanzhi
Unless one day you tell me that you've fallen for someone else...

Then I promise I won't bother you anymore...

Tang Wanwan was speechless.

Is this the party that forced her to 'transfer' her affections?
Was she wrong just now? Instead of calming his doubts, she chose to confirm it directly and tell him that she had fallen in love with Jiang Yanzhi and that they had broken up.

So simple?
But just now... he didn't seem like he was going to break up peacefully at all.

Right.

Jiang Yanzhi was his good brother.

She wants to be with Jiang Yanzhi, so how can they break up peacefully?

It was only a matter of time before things came to a head.

Even so, Tang Wanwan would definitely do it.

Previously, she might have had doubts about Jiang Yanzhi being her "perfect remedy".

Now, with the two meeting again, her last shred of uncertainty has completely vanished.

There's no way around it; facts speak louder than words.

The fact is, her physical condition underwent a dramatic change after she met him.

Even before she saw Jiang Yanzhi, her body reacted first.

The female supporting character's entanglement with the male lead is this extensive.

If you still don't believe it, then you're just deceiving yourself.

Originally, she thought she should break up with Shen Xianyu first.

He then pursued Jiang Yanzhi.

But now, does she have to express her feelings for Jiang Yanzhi before she can break up with Shen Xianyu?

At that moment, the door was pushed open, and Shen Zhixing walked in.

Tang Wanwan reacted quickly, almost the instant she heard the sound, she pushed the person in front of her away, her reaction was like that of a child in puppy love who was afraid of being caught by their parents.

Shen Xianyu was pushed away and, somewhat displeased, reached out to hold her hand. "Uncle isn't an old-fashioned man. We're boyfriend and girlfriend. What's wrong with hugging?"

Shen Zhixing, standing by the door, clicked his tongue softly, pretending not to have seen it.

The three began their meal.

At the dinner table, Shen Zhixing asked Tang Wanwan about her summer plans.

There are still more than 20 days until the start of the semester at University A. What are my plans?

"Would you like to work for me for a few days?"

……work.

Tang Wanwan was somewhat tempted. "What can I do?"

She is only an adult and has no work experience whatsoever.

Furthermore, his health was very poor.

"It depends on what you're interested in,"

Shen Zhixing had no intention of using her as a labor force.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "You young people must be curious about the entertainment industry, right? There are many scripts coming to Shen's Entertainment seeking investment. You can go and take a look and see if there's a price..."

"Uncle!"

Shen Xianyu frowned deeply, "Wanwan only has so little vacation time, why is she going to work?"

He had finally managed to get her to come to Beijing, but she went to work. Wouldn't he become a waiting-for-him-wife stone again?
"But you have to go to work too,"

Tang Wanwan tilted her head and looked at him: "I can't possibly go to work with you, can I?"

"Why not?"

Shen Xianyu laughed, "If you want to go to work, I can find you something to do at the company. You don't need to listen to your uncle and look at any entertainment industry projects. It's a shady business there. They'll see you're an outsider and a stranger and try to coax you into investing."

Losing money is not a big deal.

They'll even call you stupid behind your back.

This is not okay.

Tang Wanwan thought about it and agreed.

Shen Zhixing treated her like a niece-in-law and was willing to give her a few projects to practice on, but she didn't see it that way; she was already planning to break up with Shen Xianyu.

If she takes real money and invests it, and then loses it, she'll feel bad even if she doesn't have to pay out her own money.

Thinking of this, Tang Wanwan said, "Thank you, Uncle, but I'd better not go."

"Row."

Shen Zhixing wasn't annoyed by the polite refusal; it seemed like he had just mentioned it casually.

Lunch is finished.

Shen Zhixing drove the two back to Hanlin Garden.

As he left, he glanced at his nephew and said, "Talk things out calmly, and stop bullying girls."

"...?!?"

Shen Xianyu watched the Bentley speed away, feeling utterly absurd. "Look," Tang Wanwan couldn't help but laugh, "even your uncle said you bullied me."

Shen Xianyu paused for a moment, looking at her with a complicated expression, "I feel like my uncle treats you better than he treats me, his nephew."

That tone was quite unpleasant.

"..." Tang Wanwan was speechless. "Shen Xianyu, you're even jealous of your uncle?"

That's his own uncle.

A true elder!

Shen Xianyu chuckled, "Don't blame me for overthinking. He's quite old, and there's never a woman around him, yet he's so caring towards you."

"My uncle is only twenty-five years old, he's not old at all,"

Seeing that he was still going on and on, Tang Wanwan became a little impatient, "Alright, that's enough, stop it."

She disliked his pervasive sense of unease, his tendency to see enemies everywhere.

Jealousy without any rules.

Shen Xianyu fell silent.

Once inside the house, he grabbed her waist, pinned her against the doorway, and bent down to kiss her.

His movement was sudden, and Tang Wanwan reacted quickly, instinctively dodging it.

Warm lips landed on her cheek.

Shen Xianyu paused slightly, pecked her cheek, and clicked his tongue softly, "You won't even let me kiss you when there are no outsiders around?"

His voice was hoarse and deep, as if it had a hook, making one's heart itch.

Tang Wanwan blushed as she listened, "If you keep doing this, I'm going back to Z City."

When it came to breaking up, he was completely unmoved.

And he still keeps coming to nibble on her.

Tang Wanwan simply couldn't bring herself to be intimate with him without any guilt while simultaneously planning their breakup.

Shen Xianyu's back teeth were hard from hearing this.

She won't let me kiss her; if I do, she'll go back to Z City.

He squinted at her for a long time, wondering why she had suddenly changed.

Was it just because of what his mother said?

Not appropriate.

Even if she's angry, she shouldn't be so determined to break up.

So, what went wrong?

Childhood sweethearts, deeply in love, suddenly found themselves speechless.

……

That afternoon, Shen Xianyu stayed home and worked instead of going out.

Tang Wanwan went into her study.

When decorating, Shen Xianyu considered everything thoroughly, and almost everything was copied one-to-one from her study in Z City.

Tang Wanwan has been in poor health since childhood. She cannot run and jump like other children, and she cannot even have large emotional fluctuations.

She needs peace and quiet to calm her mind and cultivate her character.

Playing the zither, calligraphy, chess, and painting are all beneficial for calming the mind and cultivating character, and she has been exposed to them since childhood.

I wouldn't say I'm interested.

But over the years, it has become a habit.

When emotions are fluctuating, playing a game of chess, copying a calligraphy model, or focusing on painting are all good ways to calm the mind.

This time, however, Tang Wanwan couldn't concentrate on writing because her wrists were aching.

Not only was my head throbbing, but I also felt a frightening heaviness in my chest.

It's time to take your medicine.

She took out a porcelain bottle, poured out a pill, tilted her head back, and swallowed it directly.

The familiar aroma of medicine filled her throat, and Tang Wanwan closed her eyes and leaned back in her chair.

After a long while, she picked up her phone from the table.

I found Shen Xianyu's chat window.

Yesterday, when he asked Jiang Yanzhi to pick her up, he sent each of them the other's contact information.

Tang Wanwan stared at the eleven numbers, clicked copy, added a new friend, and searched for the phone number.

Jiang Yanzhi's WeChat account was quickly found.

The profile picture is of a vast blue sea.

JYZ.

(End of this chapter)