"After this, we and Second Aunt will be one family, Grandmother said, a family doesn’t need to be so formal!" Jiangjiang smiled harmlessly.
Little did he know that this sentence was another vicious blow, causing a dull pain in Qi Zeyan’s chest.
Since Grandmother said it, it meant that not only did the Jiang Family know about their relationship, but the Tang Family must know as well. At this moment, he truly realized what it felt like to suffer a heart attack.
As soon as those two left and the door closed, the entire private room immediately turned into a major chaotic scene!
Qi Zeyan put down his chopsticks, crossed his arms and glared at the person across from him, while Jiang Jinsang had just started shelling a few shrimps, tossed a few onto Tang Wan’s plate in front of him, and gave all the rest to Jiangjiang, leisurely wiping his fingers with a wet wipe.
And Jiang Yanting was drinking tea, watching from the sidelines with amusement!
"Jiang Jinsang, are we brothers or not?"
"This is how you treat me?"
"That’s why as soon as we confirmed our relationship, I notified you first, inviting you out to eat."
"Thank you so much!" Qi Zeyan said through gritted teeth.
Qi Zeyan couldn’t outtalk him and now, flustered and speaking incoherently, he gasped for breath, took a sip of water to calm his nerves, "I treat you like a brother, and you actually betray me by pursuing my sister-in-law? Are you even human?"
"I’m telling you, I’m going to repudiate our brotherhood!"
"It seems our brotherhood is over."
Jiang Jinsang, however, nonchalantly tossed the wet wipe into the trash bin:
"First of all, Wanwan and I were already engaged, so if anyone was undermining the other, it was you undermining me first."
"Secondly, I never said I didn’t like her."
"Moreover, back when we were in Pingjiang, I hinted at it many times, especially with the few songs I chose the last time we saw each other off. As brothers, it’s not easy to state some things outright, to save you some face I chose a more subtle way, but sadly you never understood."
It was only now that Qi Zeyan suddenly realized.
Someone then said indifferently, "I have already hinted that all this was your ’One-man Show’; don’t be the ’Third Party’ who ruins other people’s relationships."
Jiang Yanting raised an eyebrow at Qi Zeyan, "Xiaowu already hinted as much to you, and you didn’t get it?"
"When we went to sing, he chose a bunch of messed-up songs, how was I supposed to know he was hinting at me."
"Are you missing a screw!"
"Jiang Yanting, you have a nerve, you also knew I was interested in her, you surely knew about their thing long ago, and now you dare to make snide comments."
Jiang Yanting couldn’t help but laugh, "You said it, it’s just an interest; do you understand Tang Wan? Do you know what she likes to eat, what she likes to drink? What kind of guy she likes, or even what she wants and needs help with right now, do you know any of that?"
Qi Zeyan was stumped by these questions; he indeed didn’t know much about these things.
"You know nothing, your kind of liking is just like chasing a celebrity – you think she looks good and fits your taste, so you believe you found love."
"Have you asked yourself if you really like her? That in this lifetime, only she will do? You wouldn’t marry anyone but her?"
Qi Zeyan realized he perhaps didn’t feel that strongly about Tang Wan.
Jiang Yanting took a sip of tea, "Once a person meets the ’right one,’ it becomes hard to accept anyone else. There might be many out there better than her, and she has her flaws, but no one can replace her."
"That’s love, yours at most is a liking."
Qi Zeyan found himself falling into contemplation; he did like Tang Wan, but to say she was irreplaceable, that seemed like an overstatement...
Jiang Jinsang glanced at his elder brother, "Bro, you’ve reached such a deep understanding, then why did you and Sister-in-law part ways?"
Jiang Yanting shot him a look.
He tried to help her get out of a tight spot, and here he was, rubbing salt into his wound.
Jiang Jinsang was genuinely curious; his brother wasn’t the type to play games and then turn his back, so he really wondered what had happened back then.
A mother, how could she bear to leave her child behind? The Jiang Family had suspected multiple times whether Jiangjiang’s birth mother had passed away, otherwise what had happened all those years ago...
Yet, this was a topic Jiang Yanting always refused to discuss.
Tang Wan came back rather quickly with Jiangjiang, only to find the atmosphere in the private room exceptionally tense; still, she asked with a smile, "What’s wrong?"
"Nothing, take a seat." Jiang Jinsang was still considerate.
But Qi Zeyan continued to eat silently, never speaking again.
Tang Wan could sense something was off with him, and thinking he might be ill, even if she had her suspicions, she wouldn’t ask further out of politeness.