The three questions forced Mo Xiaoqing to retreat repeatedly until she was backed against the wall, with nowhere left to go.

His voice wasn't loud, nor was it particularly sharp, yet it left her speechless, her throat aching so badly she couldn't breathe.

Mo Xiaoqing turned her face away, clearly not wanting to talk to him.

Ji Muhan wouldn't allow her to escape. He grabbed her chin with his left hand and forced her face to turn towards him.

"Um?"

His gaze was indifferent, and he said in a low, deep voice, "Mo Mo, I never thought that I was so untrustworthy in your heart."

The sigh seemed to strike her heart like a drumbeat.

"No..." Mo Xiaoqing's eyes reddened. She knew... she had always known that she hadn't been doing well lately...

But her brother was gone, and she couldn't find him. She felt increasingly insecure, as if she couldn't hold onto anything...

She couldn't even tell which were lies and which were the truth.

The friendship she had always believed in became incredibly fragile in the face of this incident. Even after it was exposed, it revealed a series of unsavory lies, forcing her to confront them in a bloody way.

She watched helplessly as the people around her left one by one, their numbers dwindling, and there was nothing she could do.

She couldn't cry yet, and she couldn't tell her parents the truth, because they wouldn't be able to handle it...

So she had to keep forcing herself not to think about those things, but the more she tried to distract herself, the harder it became…

"Hanhan, I seem to be feeling worse these past few days. How about we take a break for a while?"

Mo Xiaoqing spoke these words with great difficulty, but after she finished speaking, she seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

However, in Ji Mohan's eyes, his series of actions made her eager to escape from his side, as if he were a monstrous beast that she didn't want to stay by her side for even a second longer.

Ji Muhan's eyes were filled with an overwhelming, burning gaze, and her dark eyes wouldn't allow her to escape. "Momo, I said that you must accompany me, whether I go to heaven or hell. If I go to hell, you can't go to heaven."

Mo Xiaoqing's vision blurred with tears, two streams of tears flowing down her cheeks, her voice choked with sobs and difficulty, "Hanhan, why do we have to torture each other?"

Ji Muhan's large hands gripping her arms tightened suddenly, the force so great it seemed she wanted to break her bones.

He asked through gritted teeth, his voice dark and menacing, "In your eyes, all we're doing now is torturing each other, is that it?"

It turns out that in her heart, being by his side had become torture...

Mo Xiaoqing shook her head, her eyes blurry with tears.

No, no, she clearly didn't want to say that.

But she felt terrible right now. She felt like there was a volcano inside her that was about to erupt at any moment. She didn't want Hanhan to see her in such a bad mood.

"Momo, if you take a step back, I will take a step forward. If you retreat ten thousand steps, I will still chase after you relentlessly. I can allow you to do anything, anything at all!"

"But... if you dare to leave my side, I will definitely chain you up and lock you by my side, so..."

Ji Muhan's last few words were clearly pleading, "Momo, don't force me..."

He didn't want to do something so drastic, but he also couldn't accept the fact that Mo Xiaoqing wanted to escape from him.

Actually, what he really wanted to tell Mo Xiaoqing was not to be so cruel to him!

She felt terrible, and her eyes seemed to be pleading with him silently, "Can you please stop pressuring me, Hanhan? Please stop pressuring me! I beg you!"

"Momo, you didn't give me a chance in the first place, so you barged into my heart. Do you think I'll give you a chance to escape from me now?"

"Is this really meaningful? I've already said I just want to be alone for a while, is that too much to ask?"

Ji Muhan's gaze was gentle and tender. Her fingers covered her face, very lightly and slowly sliding down from her forehead to the tip of her nose, and then to her lips.

Somehow, in the end, his right hand landed on Mo Xiaoqing's fair and slender neck.

"Momo, don't force me anymore. Even if I die, I will die with you. I will never allow you to escape from my side."

If it were the old Mo Xiaoqing, she would have been overjoyed to hear those words, overjoyed beyond words!

But now, after experiencing this, she feels exhausted from the inside out and just wants to relax for a while.

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