Ye Yan came out of the banquet hall before her and was about to get the car. Hearing the sound of high heels, he subconsciously glanced sideways. Originally, he just glanced casually, but when a white figure hit his eyes, his steps stopped instantly.
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"Shu Nian, quit your job!" Mrs. Xiang's first words were an order. She was overbearing.
Shu Nian had been mentally prepared for this, and he was no pushover. "I just found a better job environment, and I don't plan to resign."
"Your profession is not a glorious one. So many people in the venue recognized you today, which made our Madam and Mr. Xiang embarrassed." Aunt Wang, the servant behind Madam Xiang, spoke with contempt in her tone.
"Is it shameful?" Shu Nian glanced at Aunt Wang with a calm expression, "My profession is similar to yours, but you serve rich people, and I serve patients. What's shameful about it? Don't you think your profession is shameful, Aunt Wang?"
Aunt Wang was choked and her face turned ugly.
"As expected, children from poor families lack education! I don't know what our Mu Yang sees in you!"
Shu Nian remained calm, "Madam, a truly educated person would never judge a person by his or her material wealth or poverty, nor would he or she think that legitimate occupations are high or low."
"You... you are so rebellious!" Madam Xiang was so angry that her face turned pale, and she raised her hand to slap someone. Shu Nian's expression was fierce, and he thought he would be slapped in the face. However, the next moment...
He stretched out a hand and tightly grasped Mrs. Xiang's hand.
When Shu Nian looked up, he saw Ye Yan holding Madam Xiang's hand and looking at her seriously.
Her heart tightened.
Being seen by his former classmates in such an embarrassing situation would definitely be a very embarrassing thing. Shu Nian lowered his eyes and did not want to greet him under such circumstances.
"Who are you to meddle in our family affairs!" Mrs. Xiang was so angry that she didn't recognize Ye Yan.
"Madam Xiang, hitting people at every turn is not something a well-educated person would do!" Ye Yan shook the other person's hand heavily, and Madam Xiang took two steps back.
"You! You two! What's the relationship between you two?" He pointed at this and that.
Ye Yan glanced at Shu Nian and found that she just lowered her eyes and didn't seem to want to explain. Ye Yan suddenly felt distressed, "We have nothing to do with each other, I just can't stand your attitude."
"What's my attitude? I'm teaching my daughter-in-law a lesson, so what? Didn't you see how she treated me? A daughter-in-law who can't have children is like a hen that can't lay eggs, what's the use! I'm very kind by not kicking her out of our Xiang family!"
Mrs. Xiang was too angry and told everything to others.
As soon as these words fell, Shu Nian trembled all over and his face turned pale.
Ye Yan was also shocked. Infertility... What does this mean
He looked at Shu Nian again.
Shu Nian felt the look he cast at her, and even felt the pity in his eyes. Her eyelashes fluttered, and her eyes were misty. After a long time, she suppressed the bitterness. She raised her eyes and looked at Mrs. Xiang expressionlessly, "If you don't have anything else to do, I'll leave first. I won't agree to the work."
After she finished speaking, she looked up at Ye Yan again and said softly, "Goodbye."
She walked past him in high heels, with her back straightened stubbornly.
Ye Yan froze there for a long while, with the words "infertile" lingering in his mind for a long time. When he came to his senses and looked at the white figure, he felt as if his heart was being scratched by a sharp claw, leaving it bloody and mangled.
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Shu Nian was walking on the street in a daze.
She felt like a wandering ghost without a body. This world was cruel. When she was in pain, there was not even a corner for her to heal her wounds.
Tonight, in order to match Xiang Muyang's height, he prepared a pair of very high heels for her. However, after two years of marriage, he still couldn't even figure out her shoe size. After walking all the way, his heels were already bleeding.
Shu Nian continued walking.
But the next moment, she was suddenly hugged from behind. When she came to her senses, she had already fallen into the man's strong arms.
The man's strength frightened her so much that she almost screamed. But before she could make a sound, a familiar voice, with a hint of darkness, rang in her ears. "Don't be afraid. It's me!"
Shu Nian looked up and it was Ye Yan again. She was lying in his arms.
The original embarrassment suddenly turned into sadness at this moment.
The tip of my nose also felt sore. The burning sensation in my eye sockets kept spreading outwards, and I was about to lose control of it.
Ye Yan looked at her stubbornly holding back tears even though she was about to cry, and his heart ached. His throat seemed to be stuck, and he hugged her tighter. She was too light, like a feather, lying in his arms, without any weight.
Shu Nian bit his lip and didn't say anything for a long time, nor did he ask anything. He just held his shirt tightly with both hands, just like grabbing a piece of driftwood when drowning.
It wasn't until he carried her into his car parked on the side of the road that she calmed down a little.
"Why are you here?" Shu Nian looked around. Unconsciously, she had walked a long way out of the venue. Ye Yan shouldn't be here.
Ye Yan pulled the seat belt over and buckled it for her. He stood outside the passenger seat, half of his body bent, "I was following behind you the whole time, and you weren't alert at all?"
Outside the window, the moonlight was dim, and with the street lights, Shu Nian realized that he was surprisingly close to Ye Yan.
When she raised her eyes, his angular features were clearly visible to her.
In the past, Xiong Wanting regarded him as her male god, but Shu Nian always disagreed. He was a scoundrel, what kind of male god was he? Therefore, she never even looked at Ye Yan straight in the eye.
But, at this moment...
Looking at him from such a close distance, she suddenly realized that he was really handsome.
He has thick eyebrows and bright eyes, with the sharpness and dominance of youth, as if he is fearless under the sun.
"… Why are you following me?" Shu Nian asked in shock. He had no idea how long he had been staring at Ye Yan. He also didn't know that he was so close to him and didn't feel any fear instinctively.
Ye Yan didn't answer, but just looked down to her feet.
"Is it worn out?"
Shu Nian was embarrassed. He never expected that Ye Yan, who looked careless, could even notice this.
"Take off your shoes."
Shu Nian thought about it, bit her lip, and didn't move. Ye Yan bluntly exposed her thoughts, "It's your nature as a woman to be beautiful, right? You've been worn out like this, and you still care whether it's embarrassing or not? Take it off quickly! If you don't take it off, I'll do it!"
As he spoke, he squatted down and grasped Shu Nian's ankle with one hand.