On the other end of the phone, there was no telling what was going on; it took a while before Zhen Han finally heard Yan Manjia’s voice.
“Han Han…”
“Come back! No matter where you are right now, come back immediately!”
Zhen Han’s tone became even more aggressive, the sound of his grip on the phone creaking, but he still endured while waiting for Yan Manjia’s reply.
Yan Manjia seemed a little embarrassed, “Han Han, I’ll come back after I make it clear to him.”
“Damn it!” Zhen Han cursed directly. He was so angry that his words got a bit stuck, and the person on the other end of the line had changed again.
“This is between Man Man and me, you’d better not get involved,” Xiao Zi’s voice carried a hint of nonchalance, but there was no doubt he was warning Zhen Han. He thought it was Zhen Han who had made Yan Manjia choose and say these words to him.
“You motherfucker! Just you wait!” Zhen Han said, directly hanging up the phone. He walked into his living room, no longer avoiding the issue. “Yan Sui, Xiao Zi has arrived in Haicheng. Give me the address, I’m going over to beat him up.”
When Zhen Han said this, Yan Sui hadn’t reacted yet, but Meng Ling, whom he was holding, had already brightened up.
He also thinks that Xiao Zi should be beaten up. Not loving Yan Manjia and still delaying her for so many years, he deserves to be beaten up!
Yan Sui was being watched by these two people, his brows slightly furrowed. He took out his phone and made a call.
“He is at the seaside villa…” It wasn’t Yan Manjia who went to find him; it was he who went to Yan Manjia’s place to confront her.
After Yan Sui finished speaking, Zhen Han turned around and left. Meng Ting didn’t immediately follow. He looked at Yan Sui without saying a word, but his expression conveyed everything. How could Yan Sui not understand?
He tapped his hand on the armrest of the sofa and said coldly, “Just beating him up once isn’t enough…”
“Then two more beatings?” Meng Ting looked at Yan Sui as he said this, so he continued. From his point of view, there was no one who wasn’t afraid of being beaten. If someone wasn’t afraid, it was because they hadn’t been beaten enough.
Yan Sui, who was still contemplating, couldn’t help but curl the corners of his lips when he heard Meng Ting’s words. He gently rubbed Meng Ting’s cheek, and after a moment, he nodded, approving Zhen Han and Meng Ting’s decision.
“Go ahead, but don’t get hurt yourself.”
“Mm-hmm,” Meng Ting nodded twice, then he caught up with Zhen Han. As for Yan Sui, he would arrive a bit later.
“Cousin is really willing to let you go?” Although Zhen Han was still angry, seeing Meng Ting sitting beside him, he couldn’t help but ask one more question.
Meng Ting looked at Zhen Han strangely, then nodded, “That’s also Yan Sui and my aunt, we can’t let others bully her.”
Zhen Han lightly snorted and didn’t respond. He had also witnessed Meng Ting’s skills. Since Yan Sui was willing, and Meng Ting had said so, he could only continue driving him to the seaside villa.
***
The seaside villa was the place where Yan Sui and many friends gathered last time. The scenery here is beautiful, and Yan Manjia stays here whenever she returns. A nanny and a driver have been sent over from the old house, so Yan Manjia’s life is quite convenient.
Before she returned from abroad, she and Xiao Zi had actually been in a cold war for a long time. Xiao Zi remained as charming and carefree as ever, his flirtatious ways unchanged. She, however, was fading with age, and she felt she no longer had anything to offer to compete with the new women around him. She thought that her return to the country would be the end of their relationship.
She came back to the country just before Yan Sui and Meng Ting got married, and it’s been over two months now. It was only recently that Xiao Zi seemed to realize his mistake and suddenly regretted it, chasing after her to Haicheng. After Yan Manjia returned, she frequently attended various exhibitions and parties. The first time she ran into Xiao Zi again, she still forced herself to smile in response. The second and third time… he appeared too frequently, and his intentions were too obvious, causing her heart to gradually become unsettled.
This morning, she only saw Xiao Zi’s back from a distance at an art exhibition. Before he could turn around, she fled in panic. She was afraid of falling back into the miserable and pitiful state she had been in before.
It shouldn’t be like this. The Yan family’s daughter didn’t lack anything; how could she end up like this?
During those times of their cold war, she had also thought that one day Xiao Zi would regret it and come to find her. But she waited until she returned home in despair, but he never came. Now that he has really come, she doesn’t feel proud at all; she only feels annoyed and upset.
Her mood was so terrible that she subconsciously returned to the old house. Although Meng Ting’s words didn’t exactly make her feel enlightened, they did help her make up her mind; there was truly no possibility between her and Xiao Zi.
She insisted on returning to the seaside villa because she wanted some peace and quiet to better sort herself out, but she didn’t expect Xiao Zi to be waiting for her at the villa entrance.
When she unexpectedly became pregnant with Zhen Han, she had just turned eighteen. Now, she is already forty-three, and Xiao Zi is two years older than her.
But he looked exactly the same as he did back then—graceful, handsome, and elegant, with a charming smile at the corner of his mouth. His gaze made Yan Manjia feel as if she were seeing her wild and passionate youth again.
What could she possibly do? She had poured all her love into it, yet it couldn’t even elicit a single response from Xiao Zi.
He might have liked her once, but as Meng Ting told her, he doesn’t love her. He doesn’t see her hardships and anxieties. No, he must have seen them, but he didn’t think much of them.
She, Yan Manjia, was just the most crazier and obsessive one among his many admirers; she had never been special to him. The difference between love and liking lies in being special and unique, and she and Xiao Zi had never had that.
She lost, she was wrong, she admitted it, there’s nothing more to dwell on.
Xiao Zi didn’t know that his glance had truly made Yan Manjia make up his mind. He only saw Yan Manjia smile at him and then walk over, instead of… pretending to smile or directly run away like she did a few times before.
“Figured it out?” Xiao Zi reached out to ruffle Yan Manjia’s hair but she dodged him. He helplessly withdrew his hand and said, “After all these years, you still love to throw tantrums.”
After he finished speaking, he casually asked again, “When are you coming back with me?”
“Tantrums…” Yan Manjia’s emotions inevitably stirred up some ripples again. They had been in a cold war for nearly three years, and Xiao Zi still thought she was just throwing a tantrum.
“We can’t go back, Xiao Zi, we can’t go back,” Yan Manjia said softly, then raised her gaze to tell him more firmly, “We are done, completely done.”
Xiao Zi’s expression also turned cold upon hearing this. Yan Manjia still wanted to say something, but he held her hand, “Are you sure you want to say these things to me here?”
Yan Manjia tried to shake off Xiao Zi’s hand but couldn’t. She frowned, “We have nothing to say to each other. I once loved you and was willing to be mistreated by you. Now that I don’t love you anymore, I’ll just leave on my own. For you, it’s just losing an annoying and clueless lover.”
“Man Man… what’s the point of saying these things about yourself and me?” Xiao Zi tried to force himself to appear calm, and said in a low voice, “Let’s go inside and talk. Let’s talk properly.”
This villa is relatively quiet, but occasionally there are still people passing by. Yan Manjia didn’t want others to see the scene of her and Xiao Zi still being entangled and making a joke out of it. She hesitated slightly before nodding, “Then let’s go inside and talk. Once we’re done, you can leave.”
When Yan Manjia returned to the villa, Xiao Zi naturally sat on the sofa and turned on the TV. Yan Manjia asked the housemaid to bring him some tea. She went upstairs to wash her face and change her clothes before coming down, but unexpectedly, Xiao Zi was not patiently waiting for her downstairs.
When Yan Manjia was in the bathroom, he came in too. Before he could look around, Yan Manjia’s phone on the vanity started ringing. The contact name for Zhen Han was ‘Big Baby’. Xiao Zi frowned and answered it, and then came the chaotic conversation.
Yan Manjia was very angry, but Xiao Zi was over twenty centimeters taller than her and more skilled. It would be much more difficult for her to get her phone back.
“Xiao Zi, that’s enough!” Yan Manjia slapped Xiao Zi, finally getting her phone back, but Zhen Han had already hung up. She glared at Xiao Zi, her body trembling slightly with anger. “How dare you speak to my son like that!”
Xiao Zi’s hand brushed against the cheek that Yan Manjia had slapped. The gentlemanly demeanor he usually carried had vanished. He stepped closer, meeting Yan Manjia’s gaze, “If it weren’t for him, we should have been married by now, don’t you think?”
If Yan Manjia had been pregnant with his child back then, the elders from both families would have arranged their marriage without him needing to propose. But Yan Manjia didn’t even know who the father of the child she was carrying was. How could a prestigious family like the Xiao family allow him to marry her?
“Then it’s just a divorce now!” Yan Manjia didn’t catch the underlying meaning of Xiao Zi’s words. She lowered her gaze to look at Zhen Han’s phone number, her eyes becoming more resolute. Although she was surprised to be pregnant with Zhen Han, she had never regretted giving birth to him.
It didn’t exist then, and it doesn’t exist now either. The reason she and Xiao Zi haven’t had children over the years is actually because of Yan Manjia. What she has always wanted is Xiao Zi’s love, not anything else. Her child is Zhen Han, and it will always only be Zhen Han.
“Fortunately, we didn’t get married, so now we don’t have to deal with such trouble,” Yan Manjia walked to the door, opened it, and said, “Get lost, we have nothing more to say…”
If Xiao Zi really were to let go like this, he and Yan Manjia wouldn’t have been entangled for so many years. He stepped forward, pinned Yan Manjia against the door, and started kissing her despite her struggles. Yan Manjia bit him, but he didn’t let go.
Yan Manjialie’s fierce nature is not fake; she struck hard, and as soon as she broke free, she directly grabbed something nearby and started fighting with Xiao Zi.
Xiao Zi looked at Yan Manjia, who was acting so ferociously, and his expression softened a bit. He just treated it as accompanying her to vent her anger.
Zhen Han and Meng Ting rushed over from the old house. A nearly two-hour drive was somehow completed in just one hour. Zhen Han opened the door and stormed inside. Upon seeing the messy living room and the two people entangled on the sofa, he was so furious that his hair almost stood on end.
He grabbed Xiao Zi’s hair, punched him directly in the face, then kicked him, sending Xiao Zi tumbling to the side. Zhen Han didn’t pay any attention to Yan Manjia; he directly lunged forward and started fighting Xiao Zi, landing blow after blow, extremely ruthless.
Meng Ting pulled Yan Manjia up, examined her carefully, and then his expression also turned cold, “Are you injured?”
There were some bloodstains on Yan Manjia’s lips. Before she could shake her head, Meng Ting stepped forward to help Zhen Han fight as well.
Xiao Zi might still hold back against Yan Manjia, but it was unlikely that he would hold back against Zhen Han. He doesn’t know Meng Ting, so he won’t hold back either. However, whether it’s Zhen Han or Meng Ting, both of their skills are not bad. With the two of them teaming up against him, he would mostly just be on the receiving end of a beating.
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風度翩翩 (fēng dù piān piān): graceful bearing; be dapper in appearance; having an elegant and smart carriage; to describe a person who behaves in an unrestrained manner and has an extraordinary temperament.糾纏不清 (jiū chán bù qīng): hopelessly muddled; impossible to unravel; become entangled in; too tangled up to unravel; being confused and having no clue. It also means to intentionally make trouble and hold on to something and not let go.
張牙舞爪 (zhāng yá wǔ zhǎo): (of a beast) to be ferocious; (of a person, figurative) to act savagely and threateningly; to bare fangs and brandish claws (idiom); to make threatening gestures; act ferociously; behave aggressively; show one’s teeth and claws; be menacing; to describe a ferocious beast with its mouth open and claws waving. It also refers to being rampant and vicious.
怒氣沖沖 (nù qì chōng chōng): spitting anger (idiom); in a rage; be in a black/fume/great rage; be ablaze/swollen with anger; be filled with fury; be in a burning fury; furious; describes a person who is extremely angry.
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