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Chapter 316 - Chapter 316 Uncle 316 is emotional now

Chapter 316: Uncle 316 is emotional now Chapter 316: Uncle 316 is emotional now No one believed An Li’en’s words, after all, what kind of power does it take to suppress a lawyer?

Thus, everyone treated An Li’en’s drunken Weibo post as if it were all an act, as if he were possessed by the spirit of an actor.

You’re getting away with everything, and you still come to provoke?

As the netizens mocked him, they also scolded him fiercely, calling him shameless and devoid of conscience.

…

In the deep of the night, aside from two cats fighting, the living room was still. The clock pointed to half-past ten, Shi Lan finished reading the latest entertainment news, looked up at the clock, put down the laptop on her legs, and called Uncle Yan.

Yan Shixiu didn’t answer but immediately replied with a WeChat message: “Still listening to the report, will be back before twelve.”

After thinking for a while, Shi Lan said, “I’ll come to pick you up.”

Yan Zong: “No need, you go to sleep first.”

At that moment, a woman’s intuition told Shi Lan that something was happening on Uncle Yan’s side. After all, during the time she and Yan Shixiu had been open with each other, Uncle Yan seldom avoided her. So, she made a call to Xun Yinghua.

“What’s going on? What kind of report are you listening to this late.”

Xun Yinghua glanced toward the office and said, “Miss An, Yan Zong doesn’t have any reports to listen to anymore. The Yan Family’s eldest miss came here to weep and made a scene in Yan Zong’s office for a while, and she still refuses to leave.”

“In the future, when Yan Family people come over, you need to be on alert from downstairs,” Shi Lan said.

“But we can’t avoid them forever, can we? After all, they are Yan Zong’s family,” Xun Yinghua said with difficulty.

“I’ll drive over to pick him up,” Shi Lan said on the phone.

For normal people, family should be about mutual tolerance and care, but for the Yan Family, sons are not sons; they are tools to be traded. In this, the Yan Family and the Shi Family are of the same revolting kind. Therefore, when it comes to family affection, no one understands Yan Shixiu’s feelings better than she does.

After hanging up the phone, Shi Lan took her car keys and left the house. It seemed she hadn’t driven since the car accident, and now sitting in the car, she indeed felt dizzy, with the sounds of brakes and the collision from that day repeating in her ears. But the more something terrified her, the more she wanted to conquer it – this was a masochistic habit she developed after being brainwashed by Old Master Shi.

Driving at forty miles per hour, Shi Lan entered Shuangshi’s underground parking lot, then called Xun Yinghua again: “Is she still there?”

“Still here.”

“Notify the control room, cut the power, leave the elevator room alone.”

Xun Yinghua thought to herself, Miss An sure has a way.

Minutes later, Shuangshi was plunged into complete darkness.

Xun Yinghua “reluctantly” knocked on the door and informed the sibling pair in the office: “Yan Zong, there seems to be a little problem with the electrical circuit, I’ve notified the workers to come and repair it. The elevator room is still fine for now, but I’m afraid it might cut out soon too.”

“Brother, think about what I said, I’ll leave first,” said Yan Ziqing, truly afraid of getting trapped there, finally ending her lengthy persuasion effort.

“Don’t waste my time again in the future.”

“No matter what restrictions you set, you cannot change the fact that you are part of the Yan Family, dad and mom’s son, my big brother.”

That’s precisely why it feels disgusting…

“Then I’ll take the young lady away first,” Xun Yinghua said very obligingly.

“Mm,” Yan Ziqing thoroughly enjoyed this VIP treatment.

Shi Lan saw with her own eyes as Xun Yinghua escorted Yan Ziqing to the parking lot and she got into her red Ferrari.

However, once Yan Ziqing’s car had left, the brightness returned to Yan Shixiu’s office, Xun Yinghua went back upstairs, and then said to Yan Shixiu, “President Yan, it’s time to get off work.”

“Was it her idea?”

“Miss An is downstairs, ready to pick you up from work,” Xun Yinghua said with a beaming smile.

After Yan Shixiu heard this, he got up from his office chair, picked up his suit jacket, and went to the underground parking lot with Xun Yinghua.

When Shi Lan saw him coming downstairs, she got out of the driver’s seat, then handed him the car keys, and instructed Xun Yinghua, “Your work is done, you can go off duty.”

Yan Shixiu took the car keys, looked at the car beside him, and said, “I don’t feel like driving today.”

Uncle Yan felt emotional.

Shi Lan took the car keys back from him and said, “Get in.”

As Xun Yinghua walked away from them, he overheard Yan Shixiu’s “I don’t feel like driving” and suddenly felt as if he had never known his own boss. When had he ever spoken to people in such a tone? Most of the time, Yan Shixiu’s emotions were restrained and steady. He would get angry or furious, but Xun Yinghua had never seen him simply be petulant like he was now.

Shi Lan sat back in the driver’s seat, and Yan Shixiu took the passenger seat, but Shi Lan didn’t start the car immediately. Instead, she asked, “Do you know why I can still casually mention Maybach after the car accident, without any impact?”

Yan Shixiu thought of what Duan Langxi had told him, how Shi Lan, as a child, had been trained a lot. Whatever she feared, she was trained on. Old Master Shi wanted to break through all her weaknesses.

“Because I had long become immune to all poisons and had no taboos. When I was a child, that old man would always find various ways to test what I feared. Like any girl, I was once afraid of snakes, soft-bodied animals, and caterpillars. But he specifically had someone collect a box full of random live creatures, put it in a glass cabinet, and placed it in my room… right on the bedside table.”

“The first night, I was afraid those things would come out in the middle of the night and crawl all over me, so I dared not sleep. I stayed up until I had starved most of the creatures inside to death and could smell a foul odor… then I fell asleep. That was the first time I felt that death, to me, was also a sense of security.”

“I had long become desensitized to the word ‘fear’.”

After Yan Shixiu heard this, he pulled Shi Lan towards him and embraced her tightly.

“So, I didn’t attend that old man’s funeral. Not only did I not visit him in the hospital when he was alive, but I also took the opportunity to seize power. He wanted me to watch over the Shi Family, but all I did was return every bit of pain he had inflicted on me back to the people of the Shi Family.”

“It’s as if I’ve lived two lifetimes. I should be more unrestrained in this world, but now I actually have fears and worries,” Shi Lan said, self-mockingly laughing before continuing, “I’m afraid when you’re in a bad mood, scared that you might be burdened by your family, afraid you would be derided and mocked, and scared of you being alone.”

“Yan Shixiu, I must be your everything, because in this world, only I am wholly devoted to loving you, without reservation.”

“You are,” Yan Shixiu answered, “so, in this world, I’m only responsible for bringing you happiness, even if it means being covered in wounds.”

Because of Yan Shixiu’s feelings for Shi Lan, their relationship had taken many twists and turns. Due to his nature, he had been self-torturing for years, so he bore injuries.

His protection of Shi Lan was selfless, willing to sacrifice much, as long as it was what Shi Lan wanted.

However, Shi Lan’s protection of him was possessive; in this world, she only trusted herself to give him everything he desired.