Chapter 87: Refuse Help And Waste Best Years Of Life

Yan Liang spoke in a distant manner, as if what she said was not an order that was a matter of life and death.

And she, indeed, had taken a position of absolute authority in the Yan family.

Only, within the Yan family, there was indeed someone she still needed to respect and be wary of.

And recently… that person happened to be absent.

“Thank you all for coming, sorry for that embarrassing episode.”

“The Yan family has prepared a little wine to both remember my sister Yan Yue’s death and to celebrate my grandfather’s birthday!”

“Please, everyone, if you would follow me.”

Yan Liang rose, her black qipao clung to the woman’s perfect figure, showing both seductiveness and sharpness.

She invited everyone with great composure, making it hard for the celebrities who had been specially invited to refuse.

Despite this being a formal birthday banquet, the entire old mansion was draped in white silk—truly a significant show of authority.

But when everyone thought of the “explosion” over by the icy lake.

They suddenly felt that hanging white silk was a trivial matter… rather unimportant.

After seating the guests.

Yan Liang did not hurry to leave the ancestral hall. After Old Master Yan had fainted from shock, she had him carried away.

As for Second Uncle’s son Yan Qicheng, he was probably paralyzed for life or something.

Her biological brother Yan Han was luckier—at the crucial moment he dragged over two nearby bodyguards to block that deadly shockwave.

Although he had been saved, he still sustained considerable internal injuries.

When Zhou Ning reported all this to Yan Liang, the woman had already taken Qin Jiang into the most important secret chamber within the ancestral hall.

Even Zhou Ning did not dare to follow further.

Qin Jiang was a little curious, but he understood that Yanyan trusted him. She was bringing him here only because she regarded him as family and lover.

He would not, like in his previous life, be ungrateful and fail to appreciate it.

In his past life, Yan Liang had also taken him into the ancestral hall’s secret room.

Only it was not at this time.

It seemed Yanyan had opened her heart to him earlier this time.

Yan Liang led him through a hidden corridor.

They finally arrived at a dark chamber.

“Jiang, when I said I would share everything of the Yan family with you, it was not an empty promise.”

“I know you feel you need to grow now. You want to stand beside me through your own efforts, which is good… but we are husband and wife.”

“Consider that I am temporarily placing these things in your care. Once you accept them… they will rightfully belong to you.

Of course, this can also be the confidence you need on the road to starting your business!”

“In business, it’s hard to succeed without using resources, and I… will be the one to always support your rise.”

Yan Liang lowered her eyes and moved closer to Qin Jiang on her own initiative.

At that moment her sharpness seemed to fade. Like an ordinary girl admiring her beloved, she laid out everything she had before him like treasured belongings.

Qin Jiang, at that moment, felt a little queasy in his stomach.

Lately, he found that he didn’t mind living off his wife sometimes.

Besides, he was living off his wife, not just any woman he found! So that was fine, right?

He refused to a young man who pridefully refused help and end up wasting his best years!

He wouldn’t take that detour… screw that!

He was going to cling to his heiress wife’s glorious, long legs~ She would be his greatest source of resources!

In his past life, what Yan Liang said to him was not much different—she also intended to “support him.”

But back then, he didn’t care for her one-sided affection toward him.

He had pushed her away and fled on his own.

He hated the Yan family old manor where everyone conspired against him.

Naturally, he rejected this so-called secret chamber.

“Jiang, what’s wrong?”

Yan Liang noticed his daze, fearing he would persist in his stubborn refusal to accept.

But what she had decided to give, she would certainly give.

Yan Liang opened her hand, revealing a blood jade pendant in her palm, exquisitely carved with a lion motif—clearly an old heirloom.

In his previous life, he had never seen this pendant.

“Nothing, I’m just a bit hungry.”

“We can eat after we’re done here. I’m sure you must have brought me here for something important, so don’t worry about me.”

Qin Jiang made a lame excuse.

But Yan Liang took him seriously.

“Hungry?”

“I have something to eat here, fill your stomach first.”

Yan Liang took out a chocolate ball wrapped in gold foil, like a little gold nugget.

Qin Jiang took it, pinched it in his palm, and looked at Yan Liang seriously. Seeing her solemnity, he lost his appetite for food.

“Yanyan, this pendant… what is it?”

“I don’t know much about jade, but I can tell this is an invaluable antique.”

“This… is for me?”

Qin Jiang felt a little euphoric. Although he had planned to sponge off her, the things Yan Liang casually gave always blew his mind.

Even though he really wasn’t that greedy for money.

Of course, he did not really know nothing about jade—on the contrary, he understood it well enough to see that this blood jade pendant was extraordinary and priceless.

“Mm, not only that.”

Yan Liang placed the blood jade pendant in Qin Jiang’s palm. True jade warms to the touch, and its delicate texture made him reluctant to let it go.

“Jiang, I know after you disappeared from the Qin family, your father happened to obtain a fine piece of jade, also blood jade.”

“He had the blood jade made into pendants and gave each child in the Qin family one. Of course yours was included.”

“But because you disappeared, they directly allocated your share to Qin Yun.”

“Qin Yun’s pendant, made from double the blood jade material, was carved into a tiger badge with superior material and exquisite carving… its current market value could reach $300 million!”

Yan Liang spoke, calmly recounting these past facts she had already known.

She had of course thought of revenge, but Qin Jiang refused. He cared about everyone in the Qin family and would protect them with his life.

Over time, she gave up the idea of strangling everyone in the Qin family.

But she would not allow the grievances her Jiang suffered in the Qin family to continue.

Wasn’t it just a blood jade pendant?

The heirloom blood jade pendant of the capital city’s top financial family… who else could produce something more valuable than it?

Qin Jiang was stunned. He never thought that the facts that he had long resigned to and the past he had been disheartened by, would be something that affected her.

Yet Yan Liang picked these pieces up and presented this jade to him like a treasure.

Was she making amends to him?

But Yan Liang herself had suffered many grievances in childhood too. Yet she chose to compensate him first, as if intending to raise him anew, giving him in this moment everything he hadn’t gotten from his birth family.

The Young Mistress Yan Liang’s love was hidden in the details.

It surged into every corner of his world.

“Jiang, their failure to cherish you is their lack of discernment and foresight.”

“What you once didn’t receive, I will compensate for.”

Yan Liang stepped closer. Seeing the hair at Qin Jiang’s temple a little messy, she reached out to gently straighten it—her movements tender yet tinged with intense possessiveness.

Only now did Qin Jiang understand.

This yandere Young Mistress, rather than merely compensating his past, was to a greater extent expressing an extreme possessiveness toward him.

She wanted her marks to cover his past as well.

She wanted to possess Qin Jiang completely.

But for now, Qin Jiang willingly allowed himself to be possessed!

“Yanyan, you’re so good to me, how can I ever repay you?”

Saying that, Qin Jiang obediently planted a kiss on Yan Liang’s cheek. “Luckily… we are one flesh as husband and wife!”

“I can at any time… re…pay…you…”

Qin Jiang’s words carried an ambiguous flirtation, sending Yan Liang’s heart into sudden agitation.

“What does my darling plan to do to repay me?”

“Pay billions as the price, or obediently be locked in a little dark room with chains at my mercy…?”

Yan Liang’s eyes paused as excitement suddenly bloomed in her gaze, like a little girl rewarded with candy, unable to hide her glee.

“Ahem… steady! Let’s not get carried away for now.”

Smooch~

Qin Jiang obediently gave Yan Liang a kiss on the other cheek. “Stock’s running low lately.”

“Please, Yanyan, slow down a bit… hmm?”

Qin Jiang skillfully stroked Yan Liang’s hair, an expert smoothing gesture.

Yan Liang was teased and itchy with longing, yet had nothing to feed it.

She couldn’t help standing on tiptoe and fiercely leaving a bright red mark on Qin Jiang’s neck.

Mm… that was her exclusive “rose badge.”

“To return to the point, the blood jade pendant’s intrinsic value is actually ordinary.”

“Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it can open all the secret vaults of our Yan clan…”

“For example, this is one of the Yan family’s secret vaults. Place the blood jade pendant in this slot.”

Yan Liang took Qin Jiang’s hand and placed the pendant into a hidden position.

Immediately, the strangely painted picture before them flipped open, revealing an especially intricate door.

Yan Liang stepped forward and reached out to open it…

Watching this scene, Qin Jiang couldn’t help but recall the classic moment in the movie, *Hello *Mr. Billionaire, where the protagonist’s legs went weak seeing a stockroom full of money.

Qin Jiang now felt his legs go a bit weak too.

And what met his eyes was not only towers of cash, but gold!

Gold bars, ingots, diamond jewelry, world-famous paintings…

If he could imagine it, it was there—nothing lacking!

“Jiang, this is only a small portion of our marital joint assets—do you like it?”

Qin Jiang was too stunned to speak. “Like” was an understatement.

He… he wanted to cry but had no tears came. In his past life he had been one step away from becoming the world’s richest man!!

He worked his ass off for nothing.

Just by clinging to Yan Liang tight, he could live off her for thousands of lifetimes and be content~~