Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Seven: Alice’s Insanity II (1/2)

Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Seven: Alice’s Insanity (II)

It wasn’t easy for Chu Ge or Yan Jin to explain their feelings towards Nan Chan.

In the midst of their male group, Nan Chan had always received their doting as the only girl. Despite only being cousins, Chu Ge had always treated her as a little sister. Yan Jin had even assumed the responsibility of taking care of Nan Chan after Chu Ge broke off from the Nan Family.

It seemed very normal to outsiders that Nan Chan would develop feelings for Yan Jin. However, Yan Jin was very clear that Nan Chan’s love for him was actually an abnormally warped possessive desire.

When they were young, Nan Chan actually wasn’t too close to Yan Jin. Their relationship could be considered very normal. It had only developed rapidly after Chu Ge abandoned everything including his family name and left for an unknown place during Yan Jin’s 17th summer.

One of those abandoned “things” was Nan Chan.

Reality crashed for Alice in Wonderland, leaving Nan Chan all alone.

After discovering some unexpected things Chu Ge wasn’t aware of, Yan Jin recalled his hidden fury when he’d told Nan Chan, “Serves you right.” He also remembered Nan Chan’s retaliation.

But, all of Yan Jin’s resentment had faded when Chu Ge asked him to take care of Nan Chan in his place.

That was when Nan Chan had changed into the current Nan Chan.

With each passing day, her dependence on Yan Jin increased as if they’d never fought. She had returned to her own self-constructed wonderland.

If Chu Ge hadn’t so abruptly left Nan Chan’s side, perhaps she wouldn’t have become the way she was today.

Because Yan Jin didn’t think it was Chu Ge’s fault, he’d accompanied Nan Chan through all her silly antics for all those years. It wasn’t quite accurate to say that it was all for Chu Ge. Part of it came from commiserating together over shared sorrows. Even now, Yan Jin still somewhat pitied Nan Chan.

Nonetheless, Yan Jin couldn’t indulge Nan Chan forever.

If she wanted to entrust anything to him, that would be entirely her decision. Yan Jin wasn’t willing to suffer for it. And, her latest actions had hit his bottom line.

It was time to wake her up from her dreamland.

When he had rejected the engagement, Yan Jin had already prepared an explanation and plan. Originally, he had wanted everyone to sit down together to exchange some trivial gifts and meaningless pleasantries as if nothing was wrong. He hadn’t expected Nan Chan to revolt before he could make his move.

Nan Chan had had countless ways to extract compensation from him, but she had chosen the silliest route. Yan Jin would have even considered it if she’d asked for a share of the global market.

Even though Nan Chan hadn’t accomplished her goal because Xiao Yu had managed a lucky escape, Yan Jin could no longer keep calm when someone had such evil or killing intent towards his Fishy.

Sitting down currently for a chat now was his last time for leniency. No matter the outcome of their chat, he could not let this loose cannon wantonly run amok any longer.

“Why? Am I not good enough for you? We’re clearly very well suited for each other. Oh! I know…” Nan Chan’s beautiful face warped. “It’s that guy, he seduced you!”

“Please don’t talk nonsense about my beloved to me.” Yan Jin unconsciously patted his shirt pocket.

Xiao Yu grabbed Yan Jin’s finger and rubbed his little nose against it.

Earlier, he’d been truly scared. But now, his fear had been suppressed by other feelings. He felt bad that Yan Jin was facing down Nan Chan alone right now and felt ashamed that he could not stand at Yan Jin’s side as a human.

“I refuse!” Nan Chan’s voice suddenly jumped. “Why won’t you marry me? You agreed to it to both my family and brother!”

“I never said anything of the sort. In front of your brother, you never left any favorable impression on me.”

“So, now that you have what you want, you’re going to burn your bridges?” Nan Chan jumped up from the sofa. She spat out, one word at a time, “If brother hadn’t left, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. You know what happened to Tangtang—”

She stopped abruptly.

It was as if her plug had been disconnected. When she restarted again, her entire system seemed to have reset.

“Let’s not fight. Fighting isn’t good.” Nan Chan sat back down onto the sofa. She lifted her teacup and smiled. After a drink, she set it down and said, “If that guy wasn’t here, would you have picked me?”

Yan Jin repressed a desire to mock her and casually responded, “Why do you think I came?”

“To get me to release your little boyfriend?” Nan Chan laughed.

“To convince you to turn yourself in and plead guilty for a reduced sentence. The penalty for attemped abduction is much lighter than that of attempted murder.”

Nan Chan’s smile slowly became stiff. She had long suspected that Yan Jin could only come here so calmly because he had a trump card prepared. She hadn’t wanted to give any reaction to anything Yan Jin said, but Yan Jin’s attitude was really quite unnerving.

“Sorry, let me make a call. Please wait a moment,” Nan Chan said.

Yan Jin gestured for her to go ahead.

After Nan Chan departed to the next-door lounge, Yan Jin finally took his hand out of his pocket.

“*Squeak*.” Nan Chan is really scary, Xiao Yu squeaked.