Chapter 851 has finally come to an end.

Chapter 851 has finally come to an end.

For the next half hour.

After they finished eating the cake, they started tidying up, organizing their clothes, and putting away their household items.

The three of them immediately got to work.

Fortunately, Lin Tan didn't have much stuff, and he packed it up in no time.

“Now all that’s left is cleaning.” Xi Mo lay down on the sofa and looked at Lin Tan locking the suitcase. “I packed the most personal items. You and Fang Ci will take care of the ribbons on the floor and cleaning.”

"What do you mean you packed the most? I was the one who organized the most." Fang Ci retorted.

Xi Mo: "I packed that entire box."

Fang Ci: "I'm the one who organizes all of Lin Tan's cosmetics."

Xi Mo: "You suggested using small fireworks."

Fang Ci: "You didn't refuse either."

Xi Mo: "I didn't refuse because I was afraid of spoiling your fun."

Seeing the two of them arguing, Lin Tan knew they were trying to lighten the mood, so she simply said, "Isn't it my job to make the ribbons? What are you two arguing about?"

The two paused, then nodded randomly: "Yes, yours!"

"Ding-dong."

The doorbell rang.

As Fang Ci walked over, she said to Xi Mo and Lin Tan, "Who could it be at this hour?"

Xi Mo shook her head.

Lin Tan also looked confused.

Fang Ci decisively opened the door.

When she saw the tall, upright person standing outside with a bandage wrapped around their forehead, her mind went blank for two seconds.

Although she had never met Qin Mo, she knew him because his family was in business.

"What's wrong?" Xi Mo lay casually on the sofa, looking very comfortable.

Fang Ci pursed her lips and coughed lightly, her gaze falling on Lin Tan. She hesitated before saying, "Looking for you."

Lin Tan: "?"

who?

She put down what she was doing and went over.

Before she even reached the door, her gaze met Qin Mo's dark eyes.

Her heart skipped a beat, and the emotions she had managed to suppress suddenly surged forth.

"Do you have time?" Qin Mo's voice was low and hoarse, his face expressionless. "I'd like to talk to you."

Lin Tan glanced at Fang Ci and Xi Mo, and agreed: "Let's talk outside."

Qin Mo: "Okay."

As the words fell.

Qin Mo and Lin Tan then left the room and went to the corridor.

Fang Ci and Xi Mo exchanged a glance, neither speaking nor following the others to look. They simply picked up the cleaning tools beside them and swept up the ribbons and fireworks on the ground, but they were somewhat worried about Lin Tan.

In the stairwell.

Lin Tan suppressed all her worries, and her whole demeanor became as distant as it had been in the hospital: "What do you want to talk about?"

Qin Mo pursed his thin lips into a straight line.

She didn't care about him.

From the moment we met until now, her eyes have been cold.

"If I have nothing else to say, I'll go now." Lin Tan raised her wrist to check the time. "I have to go to the company this afternoon; there's a lot to do."

"Were you serious about what you said at the hospital?" Qin Mo asked.

Lin Tan: "Yes."

Qin Mo fixed his gaze on her: "If you were just using me, why did you make a promise to me about the future?"

"Because I have to hook you. Only by giving you a sense of anticipation can I make you devoted to me." Lin Tan said naturally, the indifference in her eyes completely dispelling her previous emotions.

Qin Mo looked into her eyes: "You're not that kind of person."

"Trying to comfort yourself with the hospital excuse again?" Lin Tan met his gaze. "But I'm not the Lin Tan you know, much less the silly girl from before."

Qin Mo wanted to see the pretense and strength in her eyes.

But how do you look at it?

They only saw her aloofness towards them.

"When did Huo Sinian propose to you?" He began to believe it. After all, such sharp words were not something the Lin Tan he knew would say. Her eyes and the distance she maintained between them all told him that she didn't like him.

Lin Tan: "Before we met again."

Qin Mo: "Since you chose him, why did you reciprocate my feelings?"

"I didn't respond to you, but you kept bothering me." Lin Tan's words grew sharper with each sentence.

Qin Mo reminisced about the past.

That seems to be the case.

She initially rejected him outright, and for a long time afterward, she maintained a distance from him. He, however, kept wanting to have a relationship with her, wanting to rekindle their romance.

"Then why did you leave him in the first place?" Qin Mo said. "You said he was your fiancé, but at the same time you hated him for imprisoning you and wanted to escape. It doesn't make sense."

“There’s nothing that doesn’t make sense. Dislike and liking aren’t contradictory.” Lin Tan said something that even disgusted herself. “I just don’t like him controlling me too much and treating me like his possession. Apart from that, he’s always been very good to me.”

Qin Mo asked the question that was on his mind like a machine: "Then why are you so resistant to him when you see him?"

"I want to teach him a lesson, to make him realize that disrespecting me will lead to losing me." Lin Tan had already prepared his reasons, and he said them without the slightest hesitation.

Qin Mo's gaze paused for a second.

After a while.

He looked at her and said, "So all this time you've been using me as a tool to make him jealous and create a sense of crisis for him."

"Yes," Lin Tan said.

"Lin Tan," Qin Mo called to her.

Lin Tan looked up.

Qin Mo just looked at her, his eyes no longer gentle and easygoing as before, but filled with barely suppressed emotions: "Aren't you afraid I'll blacklist you for being so direct? Or do you think I won't get angry and will continue to indulge you?"

Lin Tan paused.

The look in her eyes was filled with panic.

Because of this slight panic, Qin Mo completely believed her words.

After all, the Lin Tan he knew wouldn't be afraid of him blacklisting her, because she hadn't done anything wrong. Only Lin Tan, who had been using him all along, would have such a subconscious reaction.

"I..." Lin Tan opened her mouth, feeling flustered and at a loss.

"This is the last time." Qin Mo couldn't bring himself to be ruthless in the end, after all, he had truly loved her. "From now on, don't let me see you again."

He left immediately after saying that, without lingering for a moment.

Until the elevator doors closed.

Lin Tan's tense body finally relaxed slightly.

Thinking about the conversation just now, she felt like giving herself an award.

If she hadn't reacted quickly, she probably would have given herself away when Qin Mo asked, "Aren't you afraid he'll get angry?"

After all, the answer that comes to mind is: you won't.

Fortunately, she didn't forget her public persona, nor did she forget the car accident this morning, or the words spoken by Huo Sinian and Madam Yu.

She and Qin Mo.

It's finally over.

"Lin Tan," Fang Ci called softly from the doorway.

Lin Tan suppressed her emotions and turned around casually: "What's wrong?"

Fang Ci glanced at the elevator, then walked over and asked with concern, "Are you alright?"

"It's fine." Lin Tan hid all her emotions and said as if nothing was wrong, "Let's go, we'll move after we finish cleaning, we have a lot to do this afternoon."

Fang Ci hesitated, looking somewhat distressed.

"Didn't you say I was supposed to clean this up?" Lin Tan walked in and looked at the ribbons that had already been cleaned up, without mentioning what had just happened. "How come they're all cleaned up?"

"Who told our Tan'er to know how to hide?"

Xi Mo put her hand on her shoulder, and seeing that she didn't mention it, she didn't ask, assuming that she had just gone out for some fresh air and picked up a takeout.

Lin Tan: "I'll treat you to dinner tonight."

Xi Mo: "You said it."

Lin Tan: "Mm."

Fang Ci: "What's the point of just eating? I also want to drink. Your first movie has wrapped up filming, so we should at least have a proper celebration."

Xi Mo: "And we moved to a new house."

Fang Ci: "Yes, double happiness."

"Okay, plenty." Lin Tan responded, forcibly suppressing all the sadness, repression, complex emotions, and pain at that moment.

She actually hoped Qin Mo would retaliate against her, so she could feel better.

Even though her actions were for his own good, she still hurt him in the end.