TSBIR Chapter 55

Chapter 55: Ji Yan’s Thoughts

“Bro, you’re really a man, even able to endure this.”

Gu Ze exclaimed. He had checked the concentration of the drug Song Yichen had been given, and it was very high. Yet Song Yichen had actually made it through.

He had only a door separating him from Shen Xingyang. If he hadn’t tied himself up, how could he have possibly resisted rushing out?

It was just a battle against his own will. Gu Ze couldn’t imagine how Song Yichen had made it through.

“If I didn’t endure, what could I have done? Gone crazy at Shen Xingyang? Who would be willing to do that?”

Song Yichen fiddled with his hands. He was also worried that he would be too uncomfortable and hurt himself, not just afraid of rushing out and doing something to Shen Xingyang.

It was indeed difficult to get through at the time, but now he didn’t feel anything. He was also very grateful that he had persevered.

“By the way, I saw Shen Xingyang’s complexion wasn’t very good when he went out. He and his brother didn’t quarrel, did they?”

Song Yichen frowned, thought for a long time, and finally looked at Gu Ze: “You don’t need to worry about this matter. It’s something between them as brothers.”

Song Yichen knew that no one could surpass Shen Jinjue’s position in Shen Xingyang’s heart. With such a level of care, how long could the two of them argue?

Shen Xingyang returned to the ward and said nothing. Song Yichen also tactfully asked nothing.

Before long, Song Yichen’s injuries had almost healed, but the injury on his hand meant that he could only see patients and not perform surgery during this period, so he had been getting off work much earlier recently.

After Ji Yan was punished, he never appeared again. Shen Xingyang made arrangements and went to where Ji Yan lived.

Actually, he didn’t originally want to punish Ji Yan. In his heart, Ji Yan was already like an older brother taking care of him.

But if he did nothing this time, Ji Yan would continue to obey Shen Jinjue’s confused orders in the future. As the saying goes, without rules, there can be no order. He couldn’t break the rules for Ji Yan. This time, he wanted to let Ji Yan know whose person he was and whom he should obey.

Not long after Shen Jinjue left, Shen Xingyang arrived with his people. Shen Xingyang looked at Ji Yan, unsure of what he was feeling.

“Young Master.”

Ji Yan supported himself, preparing to get up, but Shen Xingyang pressed him down, telling him not to move.

The doctor he brought came to check Ji Yan’s injuries, applied some medicine, and then left.

“Ji Yan-ge, do you resent me?”

Shen Xingyang looked at Ji Yan with a complicated expression.

Hearing this, Ji Yan shook his head in fear: “Young Master, how could I? I was wrong, I deserve to be punished.”

“Then tell me, where were you wrong?”

“I shouldn’t have drugged Song Yichen.”

Shen Xingyang shook his head: “You’re wrong. You were wrong for not telling me about the things my brother asked you to do. You knew that if you had told me these things in advance, my brother wouldn’t have done anything to you, but you didn’t. You chose to hide everything from me and wholeheartedly carry out the things my brother told you to do. Ji Yan-ge, you should have the ability to judge right from wrong.”

Shen Xingyang looked at Ji Yan’s remorseful expression, hesitant to speak, and couldn’t help but continue.

“If Song Yichen had an accident this time, or if he really ended up with Yun Miaoyi, do you think the Song family wouldn’t hold my brother accountable? The Shen family has almost a basketful of children, no one can count how many children the Shen family actually has, but the Song family only has these two direct male descendants. If something happens, who can bear the consequences, you or my brother? My brother is a straightforward person, and he easily loses his sense of proportion when he gets angry. As a subordinate, you shouldn’t lose your sense of proportion too. Even if this time passes, I don’t want this kind of thing to happen a second time.”

After Shen Xingyang finished speaking, he squatted down and met Ji Yan’s eyes: “Furthermore, Song Yichen is my lover, the person I want to entrust my life to. If anyone wants to plot against or harm him, I won’t let them off easily, even if that person is you or my brother.”

Of course, he wouldn’t allow others to harm Ji Yan and Shen Jinjue either.

Shen Xingyang’s eyes were very deep. When Ji Yan saw his eyes, he seemed to see Shen Jinjue’s commanding presence in the military camp.

He used to think that Shen Xingyang was just a sickly young master from a wealthy family, but later, when he saw his decisive and resolute manner, he realized that the person Shen Jinjue painstakingly raised could not possibly be useless.

Now, looking at his eyes, he understood even more clearly that Shen Xingyang was destined to be someone he had to look up to. He wasn’t worthy, and neither was Yin Yan.

Shen Jinjue stood outside, watching Shen Xingyang leave, before entering the room. Before Ji Yan could speak, Shen Jinjue asked:

“Ji Yan, I only asked you to contact Miaomiao and put pressure on the Song family to make Song Yichen marry her. But I didn’t ask you to drug Song Yichen, did I? And in my name, what exactly do you want to do?”

Ji Yan was the most trusted person besides Yin Yuan. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have sent him to Shen Xingyang’s side in the first place.

But this time, what Ji Yan did was indeed inappropriate. If it were really according to the Shen family’s rules, being beaten to death would be a light punishment.

Ji Yan gripped the bedsheets, his face full of shame. He knew what it meant after doing those things, but what he didn’t expect was that Shen Jinjue would actually take on the blame for harming his own cousin in order to cover it up.

“Major General, I’m sorry. If we only relied on pressure, we wouldn’t be able to separate the two of them at all. Song Yichen wouldn’t give up because of this little difficulty…”

“But what if my purpose was just to test Song Yichen? To make him choose between power and Xingyang, do you think you understand me very well?”

Shen Jinjue interrupted him impatiently before Ji Yan could finish speaking. It was most inappropriate to speculate on the master’s thoughts. Ji Yan, who had always been excellent and knew the rules, was now making mistakes one after another.

Ji Yan didn’t speak, biting his lip as if he had something unspeakable, but Shen Jinjue didn’t have the patience to wait any longer, shaking his head in disappointment, preparing to turn around.

“Major General, I like Young Master.”

At the moment Shen Jinjue was about to leave, Ji Yan finally said it loudly. He had hidden his feelings for several years, but he could no longer hide them.

Shen Jinjue was stunned. He couldn’t believe what he had heard. He went back again.

“Say that again?”

“Major General, I like Young Master. I liked him a long time ago, before Young Master was with Yin Yan, I had those thoughts.”

After Ji Yan finished speaking, he waited for Shen Jinjue to speak, like a condemned prisoner waiting for execution.

“Bastard, pack your things after your injury heals and come with me to the military camp. You can’t stay by Xingyang’s side.”

No wonder Ji Yan went to the training camp by himself after Xingyang and Yin Yan were together. He only came back after hearing that Xingyang had broken up.

And he had been constantly saying in his ear that Song Yichen was not suitable for Xingyang, so that was the reason.

Ji Yan shook his head: “No, I won’t go, Major General. I won’t make the same mistake again. I will abide by my duty. I don’t want to see Young Master in danger again.”

Ji Yan’s biggest regret was going to the training camp in the first place, which allowed Yin Yan to take advantage of the situation and almost harm Shen Xingyang.

This time, no matter what punishment he received, he had to stay by Shen Xingyang’s side.

Hearing this, Shen Jinjue hesitated. Now he couldn’t arrange a better person to be by Shen Xingyang’s side, and Ji Yan was indeed very good to Shen Xingyang, abiding by his duty all these years.

But Shen Xingyang couldn’t remain unaware forever; it would be exposed sooner or later. In the end, he looked at Ji Yan helplessly: “Since you are Xingyang’s person, then he should arrange it himself. Tell him the truth yourself, and whether you leave or stay depends entirely on his wishes.”