Chapter 107: Discover

As a rule, such club parties are usually arranged in a restaurant not far from the school, for one thing, it is cheap and affordable for the students, and for another, it is closer so that it is easier and faster for everyone to return to school after a late night of fun.

However, Qiao Lan's first meeting was not in front of the school, but in a Korean restaurant on a busy street, a little far from the school, and at a very high price.

But in the end, we booked it because we heard from our sisters that the barbecue was very good and that the president, Ji Su, was paying the bulk of the money, so we could have a better meal.

Luo Man was so happy that he was bouncing around the dormitory, putting out all his clothes, a bunch of little dresses, and asking his flatmates which one looked better as he changed.

All three housemates were a bit restless, those who went to study, those who went to play in the next dormitory, and of course those who found a boyfriend for a walk.

Qiao Lan didn't have a video with Tan Mo today, so she felt empty. She took out her mobile phone to call Tan Mo, but after thinking about it, she went straight downstairs to look for someone.

It's now 9:27 and there's still an hour of surfing left.

When Qiao Lan called Tan Mo, Tan Mo was listening to a book and doing push-ups while wearing headphones in the dormitory.

There is a gym near the school, but it is too crowded for Tan Mo, and it is a waste of time to go to a more expensive and faraway place.

Xie Hongyi was so excited to see Tan Mo's abs at first that she wanted to follow suit, but gave up after a couple of days.

Every evening after class, Qiao Lan and Tan Mo would either go to the library together or go for a walk around the campus or around the area, so there was always some time for a date. But after the rain, the weather has cooled down, especially in the evenings, so they don't go out much.

Not to mention that it's after nine o'clock.

Tan Mo came downstairs and wrapped Qiao Lan up in the jacket he was holding very smoothly.

Although his mood is still bad, it is well controlled, not to mention the fact that caring for Qiao Lan has become a habit in his bones and some of his actions don't even need to be thought about.

Qiao Lan looked at her jacket and Tan Mo's shirt, and remembering Tan Mo's panting voice on the phone and the speed she had just run down, she put her hand on Tan Mo's neck and touched it.

Before Tan Mo had time to react, Qiao Lan had quickly withdrawn his hand again.

"Put it on," Qiao Lan said, snapping Tan Mo's jacket back over her shoulders, "you've just finished exercising and you're not afraid of catching a cold."

Tan Mo, caught unawares by the touch, froze before saying, "I'm not cold."

"I know you're not cold", Tan Mo is dull to the cold and can barely feel it, Qiao Lan naturally knows this, "just because you're not cold doesn't mean you don't have a cold, dress up, I'm dressed enough."

Tan Mo's heart warmed slightly as she put her clothes back on and took Qiao Lan's hand as she walked, "Why are you out all of a sudden, did your roommates have another fight?"

Although Tan Mo doesn't participate in discussions and comments, he remembers everything Qiao Lan has said. Several times before, Qiao Lan went out to talk to him on video because two girls in Qiao Lan's dormitory were fighting.

"That's not true", Qiao Lan smiled, curling her slightly cold fingers up, Tan Mo wrapped her hand around her whole hand, Qiao Lan narrowed her eyes happily, "Why did you suddenly come over, just simply missed you. "

Qiao Lan's hand was suddenly squeezed and she looked up with a smile on her face before she saw Tan Mo stop in her tracks and suddenly stop moving.

Qiao Lan said, "From this angle, Tan Mo's jawline is really beautiful, and just as he was about to say something, Tan Mo lowered his head, his delicate features suddenly enlarged, and Tan Mo's lips softly kissed down.

It was not yet late at night, but it was already quite dark.

When Qiao Lan said she missed him, all Tan Mo wanted to do was kiss her, and Tan Mo, who had been distracted all night, really needed a kiss.

He needs to be soothed, to be comforted.

But he couldn't tell Qiao Lan why he was upset, so there was no way to get comfort from Qiao Lan, so he chose to do it this way.

Not far from the dormitory building there is an old tree with a trunk so thick that one person could not even hold it.

Qiao Lan is gently but forcefully pushed against a tree, Tan Mo wraps one hand around Qiao Lan's waist and holds her close to him, with one hand cemented behind her head he lifts her cheek slightly and lowers his head to gently nibble on her cold lips.

Grinding, licking, the hot tip of the tongue moistened their lips and finally poked through between their teeth.

Tan Mo's kiss was so sudden that Qiao Lan was already dizzy from the kiss before she could react.

Dazed and slightly out of breath Qiao Lan suddenly realises that they don't seem to have had a kiss since they went to university.

Qiao Lan stretched her arms around Tan Mo's neck and rose uncontrollably on her toes to meet him.

The tree is secluded and her and Tan Mo's position is even more secluded.

Qiao Lan didn't know how long Tan Mo had been kissing her, and every time she thought it was going to end, Tan Mo would come back to her, either on her cheek or on her neck, rubbing the tip of her nose against it.

Qiao Lan hugged Tan Mo's head and called out to him softly, "MoMo."

"Mmm," Tan Mo murmured as if smothering her cheek against Qiao Lan's neck, "I miss you so much."

Qiao Lan smiled and stroked Tan Mo's hair, "I'm right here."

Yeah, you're right here.

But why do I still feel like I miss you so much.

Tan Mo holds the person in his arms tighter.

What the hell am I supposed to do.

Qiao Lan could guarantee that there was something wrong with Tan Mo tonight, although everything was normal in her speech, Qiao Lan thought about the kiss and the silence when she held herself, Qiao Lan could not help but feel sad and her heart ached for Tan Mo.

But why.

Qiao Lan asked Tan Mo if he was upset. Tan Mo smiled, shook his head and asked him back why he felt that way, and then said.

"I'm not unhappy," he says, as if hypnotising himself or trying to convince Qiao Lan, "I'm really not unhappy, I'm in a very good mood."

Qiao Lan's heart swells with a strong sense of dissonance and she stares at the smile on Tan Mo's face for a long moment before saying nothing.

It wasn't until a few days later that Qiao Lan looked at a hardcore counselling book that her sister had recommended to her and finally understood where the dissonance had come from that day.

The book says that when people lie, they always like to repeat themselves, and this is something that even they don't notice.

[The liar, faced with a question, uses the time of a fake smile to think quickly to come up with a lie, and will respond with unusual firmness and will repeat it many times because he is worried that others will not believe it and therefore suspect him].

Although the book is based on experience during the interrogation of criminals and is somewhat serious when put in real life, it sometimes does not make sense.

But a question about whether you are upset is usually just a "no" or "no" from a normal person.

If Qiao Lan is not mistaken, Tan Mo repeats it three times.

Tan Mo , it seems, was lying to her.

Qiao Lan's fingers trembled lightly as she stared at the words in the book for a long moment, shaking her head; it was only a general statement of the situation and not a full adaptation, and it would be too suspicious to take the book at face value.

Tan Mo has been normal for the past few days, and her words have not changed and her smile has remained the same.

So it should be her thinking too much.

Qiao Lan took her mobile phone and opened it to find a friend request.

When Qiao Lan looked at it, it was Xie Hongyi.

Doesn't she have Xie Hongyi's friends? She didn't delete Xie Hongyi, so Xie Hongyi deleted her?

Qiao Lan hesitantly re-agreed to be friends and before she could ask how she had deleted her friends, Xie Hongyi asked her.

[Did you have a fight with Tan Mo, sister-in-law?]

Qiao Lan's heart suddenly stuttered, [No, what's wrong.]

[No? Then what's his problem? I feel like Tan Mo wants to beat me to death every fucking day!]

Although Tan Mo is usually a man of few words, the last couple of days have been so bad that anyone can see that he is in a very bad mood.

Qiao Lan thought of the smile on Tan Mo's face before we parted ways today and took a deep breath before replying, [What about today?]

[Hell Mode!]

Qiao Lan bit her lip and asked him, [He was in a bad mood, what day exactly did it start].

[I thought you two had a fight, but you didn't.]

Qiao Lan tossed the phone aside and closed his eyes for a few days before getting back up and replying to Xie Hongyi, asking him not to tell Tan Mo about the incident.

Xie Hongyi sighed that he didn't dare to do so. Last time, he talked to Qiao Lan on WeChat and took a photo of Tan Mo to Qiao Lan, but Tan Mo forcibly deleted Qiao Lan's friends after he returned.

Today, I went through Kong Sha's phone to find Qiao Lan's number again.

Again, this is something Qiao Lan never knew.

Qiao Lan remembers that when she occasionally mentioned to Tan Mo that she and Xie Hongyi had had a chat or two on WeChat, Tan Mo was not half upset and even asked her with a smile what they had said.

After asking Qiao Lan for help, Xie Hongyi turned around and deleted her, saying she was afraid Tan Mo would be upset if she found out.

If it were normal, Qiao Lan would probably be able to crack a few jokes, but now Qiao Lan is not in the mood for jokes at all.

One moment she was defending Tan Mo, arguing that Tan Mo's behaviour might not be judged by certain psychological conventions, only to be confirmed by Xie Hongyi in the next.

Tan Mo was in a bad mood, but kept smiling in front of her.

Tan Mo cares that she interacts with the opposite sex, but pretends not to care in front of her.

One might argue that this doesn't mean he cares for her and doesn't want to leave her with bad feelings, but that doesn't apply to Tan Mo.

Qiao Lan had thought that she could let Tan Mo practice his impersonation, that he could use everything he had learned to survive in society and be more popular, as long as he showed his true colours when he faced her.

It never occurred to her that for Tan Mo had left the truest side of herself to everyone but her, leaving only the false side to her.

Even if this falsehood is for her.