Chapter 66

As soon as Xu Tian finished speaking, he felt the body in his arms stiffen for a moment.

Xu Tian curled his lips slightly and pulled Tang Bingyan a little tighter.

"Is there nothing you want to ask me?"

Tang Bingyan was silent for a few seconds, pushed Xu Tian away slightly, and looked up, staring straight into his eyes.

There were some things she would have to face sooner or later; rather than worrying all day that Xu Tian would despise her because of those things, it was better to just lay it all out.

However, since Xu Tian refused to leave when she first proposed a divorce, then even if Xu Tian thought she was cold-blooded or a demon, she would not let go again.

"What do you want me to ask?" Xu Tian said with some helplessness.

So his wife was still concerned about what happened in the evening, worried to the point of having nightmares even while sleeping.

Was he really that untrustworthy... Well, recalling the various misdeeds of his past life, he suddenly felt that if he were Tang Bingyan, he probably wouldn't just distrust himself, he would tear himself into eight pieces.

Thinking about it this way, his dear wife definitely loved him truly!

"Don't you think I'm scary?"

Tang Bingyan paused, trying her best to ask in a calm tone.

"That's because she deserved to die."

Xu Tian hugged the person in front of him once more, this time very tightly, as if he wanted to embed Tang Bingyan into his own body.

"Bingyan, you are not scary. You did those things because the other party touched your bottom line."

Although Xu Tian had many misunderstandings about Tang Bingyan in his past life, he also knew how much pressure Tang Bingyan had been under all along.

She was surrounded by people who wanted to harm her and take her place at any time, including those so-called relatives.

"But what if I am someone who harms the innocent?"

"Then I will stay with you." Xu Tian lowered his head and kissed Tang Bingyan's forehead lightly: "Because I know you will never hurt me."

Tang Bingyan stared at Xu Tian for a long time, the ice and snow in her black eyes gradually beginning to melt.

She looked straight at Xu Tian, her tone terrifyingly calm: "Xu Tian, don't lie to me."

"I won't, Bingyan." Xu Tian said softly: "I will never lie to you again."

"Although you may not be able to believe me immediately, I will let you see my sincerity. I want to live a good life with you."

"Mm." Tang Bingyan gave a soft "mm," but her beautiful eyes remained as dark as ink.

Xu Tian, if you are still lying to me, I hope you are confident enough to lie to me for a lifetime.

At the same time.

A VIP room at a beauty salon in the center of Jiang City.

An Xingyue and three of her sisters were receiving services from beauticians.

"Not pursuing a smart and beautiful woman like you, Sister Xingyue, but running off to find an unremarkable Rong Yan instead—I think Yun Shuo's eyes are truly blind."

"He just couldn't catch you, Sister Xingyue, and wanted to find a substitute for you. It's just, tsk tsk, this substitute is really not very good."

While one of the sisters was speaking, as if she had suddenly thought of something, she looked at An Xingyue and said:

"Xingyue, I remember your family still has a partnership with the Yun family. With you and Yun Shuo making such a scene, won't that partnership have problems?"

An Xingyue gave a disdainful snort upon hearing this: "Yun Shuo finding another woman is just to make me angry. In a major matter like our two families' partnership, he wouldn't dare to mess around."

"That's true. Him finding Rong Yan is just a 'hard to get' tactic to play with you. Unless he really doesn't want any possibility with you anymore, he couldn't possibly dare to tamper with the partnership between your two families."

Upon hearing this, the expression on An Xingyue's face became even more smug.

However, just as she was about to continue complaining with her good sisters, the phone beside her suddenly rang.

An Xingyue glanced at the caller ID and hurriedly made a shushing gesture to the others: "It's a call from my grandmother."

"Then hurry and answer it, Xingyue, we'll be quiet."

An Xingyue picked up the phone and walked into the inner room of the suite, asking in a soft voice: "Hello, Grandma, why are you calling me so late?"

Because the power of the An family was still held in the hands of the An Laotai, An Xingyue's attitude toward her grandmother was quite respectful.

"Xingyue, Grandma wants to ask you something."

A somewhat aged but still majestic voice came from the other end of the phone: "Why hasn't that sum of money from the Yun family been transferred yet?"

"What? The Yun family's funds haven't been transferred?"

An Xingyue frowned in surprise: "Didn't they promise to transfer the money as soon as the bank opened today?"

"The Yun family said their account had some problems and part of the cash was frozen. They have to wait a week to transfer the money."

Hearing the old lady's words, the anger in An Xingyue's heart surged up immediately: "What on earth is the Yun family doing? The partnership was already negotiated long ago; how could they drop the ball at a critical moment!"

The An Laotai was clearly also very dissatisfied with the Yun family's actions.

However, as someone who had experienced great storms, she always thought about problems more comprehensively.

"Xingyue, tell Grandma the truth: have you been arguing with Yun Shuo recently?"

"No... no argument."

An Xingyue felt a bit guilty, but still feigned calmness: "I'm doing quite well with him."

"You child, don't always throw your young lady temper in front of Yun Shuo. The Yun family's conditions are no worse than ours, and he is also a pampered young master. If you make him chase after you and order him around all day, one day he will also lose patience."

"Listen to Grandma, lower your stance, take the initiative to buy him some gifts or cook him a meal, let him know you care about him, and the partnership between our two families will naturally go more smoothly."

"Grandma, why do I have to go and please him? I'm not his nanny, and I have to cook for him—why should I?"

"And Grandma, I already told the family before that I have someone I like, and the engagement with Yun Shuo is just a family marriage for the sake of profit. How can you..."

"Shut up!"

The An Laotai's tone changed, and she scolded An Xingyue sternly:

"Xingyue, I can let you do whatever you want in other matters, but marriage is not a child's play. Since our family has already formed an alliance with the Yun family, I don't care who you like, but on the surface, you must fulfill your responsibilities as a daughter-in-law of the Yun family. You must never let anyone pick out any faults!"

"You must know that our company is currently in a rising period. As long as we get that investment from the Yun family, our company will grow and strengthen in the future, and I won't care who you want to be with."

"But if you mess up the partnership between the two families because of your willfulness, I won't spare you!"

Although the An family knew that An Xingyue didn't like Yun Shuo, for the sake of the family's interests, they still arranged for An Xingyue and Yun Shuo to get engaged.

Of course, the An family only agreed to a temporary engagement, and the engagement could be canceled after the An family developed using the Yun family's influence.

Now that they hadn't received that investment from the Yun family yet, neither the An Laotai nor An Xingyue's parents would allow An Xingyue to affect the relationship between the two families at such a critical juncture.

"I don't care what method you use, you must go and coax Yun Shuo in the next two days and get their family to transfer that capital to the company account as soon as possible. Do you hear me?"