Chapter 848 Verification or Settling Accounts
This conversation kept replaying in Lin Tan's mind.
She knew they meant no harm.
It's not wrong to consider things from the perspective of her younger brother and mother. After all, a family needs a leader. If the head of her family is a love-struck person who disregards the family for the sake of his feelings, she wouldn't feel secure either.
Amidst a jumble of thoughts.
Time passed little by little.
Lin Tan sat by Qin Mo's bedside, watching him and waiting for him to wake up.
As for Qin Luofeng and Yu Peiyun, they stayed in the next-door lounge, leaving all their remaining time and space to her.
"Is it really okay to leave her there alone?" Yu Peiyun frowned, clearly wary of Lin Tan. "What if she tells Qin Mo about our conversation?"
Qin Luofeng: "Don't worry, it's nothing."
Yu Peiyun was extremely worried.
She didn't want to get involved in Qin Mo's affairs, but after all, he was her son.
No matter how much she disliked him or how many harsh words she said, she was still shocked when she heard that he had been in a car accident. Qin Muchuan was in jail, and she didn't want anything to happen to her two children.
"No, that won't do." Yu Peiyun was still worried. "I'll go talk to her."
“We’ve already talked about what needed to be talked about, and she knows what she’s doing,” Qin Luofeng stopped her.
In matters of the heart, they wronged Lin Tan.
But leaving the rest of the time for her to talk to her brother herself was the last thing he could do for her.
Yu Peiyun frowned slightly. After a while, she turned to look at her easy-going son and asked, "Didn't you tell me to mind my own business before? Why are you willing to stand on my side this time?"
"There's no need to interfere with feelings, and being well-matched in social status isn't that important." Qin Luofeng's thinking wasn't so stubborn. "But this time it involves my brother's safety, and I can't watch him take risks."
He and his father had both experienced firsthand what kind of person Huo Sinian was.
In terms of intelligence and ability alone, I'm no less than him.
But Huo Sinian was willing to go all out; he had everything the Huo family had obtained from Huo Zhizhou.
He wasn't as responsible as his brother.
With all these rules and regulations in place, he could almost see that his brother was destined to lose.
Since we're bound to lose, it's better to cut ties early to avoid losing our family, our livelihood, and our lives.
Yu Peiyun managed to calm herself down, a rare occurrence.
"You should go back first." Qin Luofeng played his part completely. "Don't let anything slip about what happened today. Just pretend you never saw Lin Tan, that she only came to the hospital and left."
Yu Peiyun opened her mouth.
Qin Luofeng: "I'll send you a message when you wake up, brother."
After much deliberation, Yu Peiyun finally agreed.
Another twenty minutes or so passed.
Qin Mo woke up.
When he woke up and looked at the white ceiling, he only felt a slight headache. Just as he was about to rub it, a warm hand pressed down on his head, and a familiar voice sounded in his ear: "Don't move, your head is wrapped in gauze."
Qin Mo looked in the direction of the sound and saw Lin Tan beside the sickbed.
She was wearing a long coat, and a mask covered the slap mark that hadn't completely faded from her face. Her eyes were calm, revealing no extra emotion.
"Why are you here?" Qin Mo's voice was a little hoarse.
His last conscious thought was of being put into an ambulance by Bai Xu and the doctor after the car accident. During that time, he tried to send a message to Lin Tan, but his head was spinning and his vision was blurry.
“You haven’t been here for a long time, and you didn’t answer your phone, so I asked around,” Lin Tan said, her voice steady, with a hint of concern and worry in it.
Qin Mo: "I'm sorry."
Lin Tan: "It's nothing."
Silence fell between the two.
Qin Mo kept looking at her, wanting to ask her about the recording, but he didn't know how to bring it up.
"How's your head? Does it hurt badly?" Lin Tan asked.
Qin Mo: "It's alright."
Lin Tan: "Is there anything that feels uncomfortable on your body?"
Qin Mo: "Not for now."
Lin Tan: "That's good."
Qin Mo: "Mm."
Lin Tan's fingers, resting on the hospital bed, curled slightly, and she fell silent. Selfishly, she wanted to prolong this calm and boring conversation and spend more time with him.
After all, this might be the last time they meet and have a peaceful conversation.
"You came to see me this morning, is there something you need?" She suppressed her worries and asked.
Qin Mo fell silent.
Looking into her eyes, one sees a deep, unfathomable depth.
Lin Tan noticed something was wrong and asked, "What's wrong?"
For a fleeting moment, she even wondered if Qin Mo wanted to be with her first and secretly get married behind his family's back.
If that's the case.
How cruel would the words she was about to say to him be?
"Were you in the bathroom when I messaged you last night?" Qin Mo asked casually.
Lin Tan nodded: "Mm."
Since we're going to cut ties anyway, we shouldn't let him worry.
Qin Mo: "Does your stomach feel uncomfortable?"
Lin Tan: "More or less."
Qin Mo just stared at her, as if trying to break through her defenses.
After a while.
He called her name: "Lin Tan".
Lin Tan asked gently, "Hmm?"
Qin Mo asked, "Would you lie to me?"
Lin Tan paused.
My first thought was whether he knew something.
But upon closer reflection, whether it was the conversation just now or the matter with Huo Sinian, only the few people involved knew about it, so there was no reason for Qin Mo to know.
"Why are you suddenly asking this?" She didn't answer.
"You and Huo Sinian—" Qin Mo paused here, looked at her for a while, and then said the rest of the sentence, "What exactly is your relationship? Have you two broken things off completely?"
Lin Tan raised her eyes.
There was a moment of emptiness in the area of my heart.
“I received a recording last night,” Qin Mo said. “It’s a conversation between you and him.”
Lin Tan had a rough guess, but on the surface she didn't show any emotion: "What did you talk about?"
Qin Mo reached for his phone.
Seeing that he had been trying to reach it for quite a while without success, Lin Tan helped him get it.
"The password is your birthday." Qin Mo didn't answer, gesturing for him to see it himself. "You can see it by opening Huo Sinian's chat window."
Lin Tan did as instructed.
He opened the message and saw it was from Huo Sinian.
Huo Sinian: [Did Lin Tan tell you she was in the restroom? She lied to you.]
Huo Sinian: [Qin Mo, you lost.]
Huo Sinian: [This is what we talked about when she replied to your message.]
Lin Tan clicked on it.
The recording came from inside.
The first voice to appear was Huo Sinian's.
"Where did I go wrong, hmm?"
Next up was hers.
"I shouldn't have called you President Huo at the table."
She listened from beginning to end and realized that the conversation wasn't just Huo Sinian trying to make things difficult for her by watching her give in; he also took Qin Mo's feelings for her into account.
Not to mention that she and Qin Mo are not together yet.
Even if they were actually together, hearing such a peaceful conversation would probably make them angry.
--"knew."
--"good."
As the last two sentences fell.
Lin Tan's hand holding the phone gradually relaxed, and her initially anxious and conflicted heart began to calm down.
She was originally worried about how to make Qin Mo give up, but now she's not worried at all. With this recording and her acting skills, making Qin Mo give up is not difficult.
"Now that you know, did you come to me to verify something or to settle a score?" Lin Tan placed her phone next to his pillow, and her whole demeanor suddenly became distant.
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