Chapter 946 Once you've chosen someone, it's for life.

Chapter 946 Once you've chosen someone, it's for life.

“Weren’t you engaged to Miss Wen?” Lin Tan tried to bring him to his senses. “You even publicly announced your engagement.”

“Fake.” Huo Sinian uttered two words.

Lin Tan was stunned.

Her mind went completely blank.

"What……"

"That was just a show put on for you and Qin Mo," Huo Sinian said unhurriedly.

Lin Tan shook her head: "Impossible."

Although the Wen family is not a top-tier wealthy family like the Qin or Huo families.

But at least they are a family with a rich history and a respectable reputation.

How could a public engagement be fake?

“As long as they are offered enough benefits, they will agree to any reason, no matter how absurd,” Huo Sinian explained, his gaze never wavering as he looked at her.

"So you were just putting on an act for us when you went on those blind dates?" Lin Tan asked.

“What if the police come knocking on our door if we don’t do this?” Huo Sinian’s lips curved slightly, his composure as always. “Now I have enough evidence to prove that your disappearance has nothing to do with me.”

"Qin Mo will find me," Lin Tan emphasized.

“He can’t find it.” Huo Sinian said with certainty, “He still thinks I’m negotiating with the Rockefeller family and is trying every possible way to get cooperation and contact with them.”

Lin Tan froze.

"And when he gets permission to enter the Rockefeller family, they will tell him that I have already gone out with their prince." Huo Sinian had planned everything very carefully.

This moment.

Lin Tan knew that escaping would be very difficult.

If what Huo Sinian said is true, then he might really be trapped here for the rest of his life.

We can't get out of there.

No one outside knows she's here.

This creates a vicious cycle.

"Why?" Lin Tan asked the question she had asked countless times. "You have power and status, what kind of suitors don't you have? Why are you fixated on me?"

She is just an ordinary person.

An ordinary person, as ordinary as can be.

“You can interpret this as me being devoted,” Huo Sinian said. “Once I’ve chosen someone, it’s for life.”

Lin Tan sneered.

Huo Sinian pushed up his glasses: "Don't believe me?"

"Do you even know what it means to be devoted?" Lin Tan mocked him.

"You understand?"

“At least it’s not like you,” Lin Tan said.

"Do I need to answer the question again?" Huo Sinian steered the conversation back to what had just happened. "Do you choose to treat me as your fiancé and get along with me properly, or should I take the initiative to get along with you properly?"

Lin Tan remained silent and did not answer.

Huo Sinian didn't press her: "I can give you a day to think it over. If you don't give me an answer after a day, I will choose the latter."

After saying that, he stood up and glared at the door.

He glanced at her injured hand as he reached the door, but ultimately walked out without saying a word.

The moment the door closed.

Lin Tan felt somewhat dazed and unreal.

She didn't expect Huo Sinian to let her go so easily.

You know, back in Jingzhou, if she had provoked him like this, he would have definitely used all sorts of methods to torture her, to make her afraid, to make her beg for mercy.

This is the first time I've ever seen anything like this.

Amidst various thoughts, an unlikely answer emerged in Lin Tan's mind.

As for Huo Sinian.

After leaving the room, he left the manor and stood on the edge of the island's cliff, looking out at the boundless sea.

"Have you finished negotiating?" Gu Yang walked over casually.

"Not yet." Huo Sinian fiddled with his phone, his eyes behind his glasses unfathomable.

Gu Yang: "What do you plan to do if she doesn't compromise?"

Huo Sinian's lips curled into a smile, but it looked dangerous no matter how you looked at it: "She will compromise."

Gu Yang raised an eyebrow: "So confident?"

“She can also pretend to compromise.” Huo Sinian said casually, “Without extreme pressure, it is very difficult for a person to want to die, especially for someone who still has hope.”

"What if we compromise?" Gu Yang looked around. "Although this place is well-hidden and Qin Mo won't be able to find it for a while, you can't hide her away forever."

"If I can't hide here, I'll find another place," Huo Sinian retorted.

Surprise appeared in Gu Yang's eyes: "You really intend to hide her away for the rest of your life?"

Huo Sinian: "The choice is hers."

Gu Yang clicked his tongue.

After a while.

Gu Yang looked at his chest, shook her head and sighed, "You got such a big wound on the first day. I can't imagine if you'll have any healthy parts left after a month."

"It doesn't matter," Huo Sinian said.

The two of them didn't say anything more and just stood there.

The waves on the sea were higher and higher, and the surrounding silence was terrifying.

I don't know how much time passed.

Huo Sinian then called Secretary Ye over and asked him about the situation: "Has Shen Yuanqiao arrived?"

"I'll arrive tomorrow at noon," Secretary Ye said.

Gu Yang: "?"

A hint of doubt flashed in Gu Yang's eyes: "Who is Shen Yuanqiao?"

"A doctor."

"Don't you have a lot of doctors here?"

"This is different."

"What's different?"

"Why are you so talkative?" Huo Sinian did not answer him.

"You've been enslaving me every day, and I can't even ask you a question?" Gu Yang said casually, looking very relaxed. "In a sense, I'm an accomplice now, and if I get caught, I'll be sentenced."

Huo Sinian gave him a disdainful look.

She seemed too lazy to bother with him.

Time flies.

Night fell in the blink of an eye.

When dinner was ready, Secretary Ye went upstairs to call Lin Tan to eat. Lin Tan didn't want to eat at first, but thinking about the battle of wits she still had to fight with Huo Sinian, she eventually went downstairs anyway.

Only Huo Sinian was sitting at the dining table.

Secretary Ye pulled out the chair opposite Huo Sinian and gestured to Lin Tan, "Sit down."

Lin Tan walked over and sat down.

On the table were some of her favorite dishes.

She felt no emotional reaction to this; all she could think about was escaping.

"Not to your liking?" Huo Sinian asked, noticing that she hadn't touched her chopsticks for a long time.

Lin Tan didn't say anything, and picked up her chopsticks to eat.

The meal was eaten very quietly.

Apart from the clinking of bowls and chopsticks, there was nothing else on the dining table.

"You actually ate it." Huo Sinian saw that she had eaten half a bowl of rice, his dark gaze falling on her, and he spoke slowly and deliberately, "Aren't you afraid I'll drug you in it?"

Lin Tan paused.

She stopped eating almost immediately.

"These are all your people, so it doesn't matter whether you drug them or not."

He drugged her so that she would be at his mercy.

But here, there are no communication devices, and no one to ask for help.

Huo Sinian could easily manipulate her.

“There is.” Huo Sinian put down his chopsticks, his eyes unfathomable. “Without the drug, you resist, but if it’s drugged, you’ll be the one coming at me.”

"What do you think Qin Mo's reaction would be if he saw the video of you actively pursuing him?"

In the past, Lin Tan would have panicked and been afraid.

But Qin Mo's concern for her during this time gave her confidence.

She met his gaze and calmly told him, "He will know I'm still alive."

Huo Sinian paused, and their eyes met.