Mated at First Sight
Chapter 1048 - 702 I Really Don’t Want to Be Your Enemy_2

Chapter 1048: Chapter 702 I Really Don’t Want to Be Your Enemy_2

Yet as Mu Lin spoke, the other party casually counter-asked, "Does Linlin truly believe that what’s inside is unimportant?" He believed the woman before him understood better than he did the true nature of the contents within.

Understood both its importance and its danger.

Mu Lin let out a chuckle, "Even if I say it’s important, would you give it back to me?" She was no naive girl, fresh to society and easily seduced by physical beauty.

Mi Zheng simply smiled without speaking. If Mu Lin were such a person, he wouldn’t have looked upon her favorably; although sometimes he really wished she was.

However, the object in his possession truly couldn’t be returned to her; even if he were inclined to return it, it would be impossible; they both were crystal clear about this fact.

After a pause, and it was unclear whether he was probing or something else altogether, Mi Zheng suddenly asked a question that baffled Mu Lin, "If I were to give it back to you, would you be willing to leave with me?" To leave this place with him.

If it came to that!

"Are you joking with me?" Mu Lin’s smiling face lifted, her gaze explorative as she looked at the man before her, "Mi Zheng, you don’t seem like the kind of person who would say such things." And besides, "Why should I go with you?"

Just for what’s inside that bottle?

Or is it that there are other motives Mi Zheng has that she has yet to guess?

For the current Mu Lin, B City had long since become her home. It had her family, her lover, and everything else; how could she possibly leave.

Mi Zheng didn’t respond, or perhaps it would be more fitting to say, he didn’t know how to answer Mu Lin’s retort. He simply looked at her with a complicated expression, "Linlin, I truly don’t want to be your enemy." He really didn’t.

If possible, he truly wished for many opportunities like the one they had at that moment, to sit together peacefully, share a meal, and chat; indeed, this was quite satisfying to him.

Yet he also knew that it was impossible, after all, between the two of them...

"But we are already enemies." Hearing his words, Mu Lin coldly regarded him, "From the moment you killed my father, our enmity was sealed." And besides, there were other conflicting issues between them.

"Yes, I killed your father." Mi Zheng laughed, a laugh that, somehow, conveyed a sense of sorrow to Mu Lin, "If I had met you earlier, perhaps none of these things would have happened; perhaps then, we could have been friends."

"Sadly, those are merely your own conjectures. What has happened, has happened. Unless you have the power to reverse time, perhaps then, we could indeed become friends."

Honestly speaking, even if time were turned back, Mu Lin would still have no desire to know the man before her. This man carried too many unsettling elements, his danger wouldn’t change for anyone.

Of course, Mu Lin also absolutely didn’t consider herself capable of changing him; after all, she wasn’t exactly a good person herself.

It’s true that Mu Lin occasionally regarded human life with indifference, but those were mostly people who deserved death; she would never treat life as nothing like the man before her, pursuing her aims without regard for others. It was here that their paths diverged irreconcilably.

"Indeed, it’s such a pity." Such a pity.

Mi Zheng murmured, continuing to place food onto Mu Lin’s plate, time and time again, even though Mu Lin hadn’t touched her chopsticks from the start. He did it with unabated enthusiasm, his expression even showing a touch of satisfaction.

Actually, could this be considered their first real meal together since they got to know each other?

Eventually, Mu Lin finally set down her teacup and slowly stood up, her eyes steadily on him, "Since Mr. Mi has no further business, then I must be going." Mi Zheng didn’t seem to want to negotiate or anything of the sort, so there was no need for her to stay faced with him any longer. Saying that, Mu Lin stood and walked away, her indifferent eyes gazing at her own bowl and chopsticks, her thin lips slightly curled with a hint of irony, "One more thing, I would like to remind Mr. Mi not to embarrass himself by resorting to despicable and useless tactics like drugging again in my presence." Common drugs had no effect on her in this world.

Indeed, the tea Mu Lin had just drunk, as well as the food in her bowl, were all drugged. And the drugs were not in the taste but in the smell.

This was also one of the reasons why Mi Zheng kept offering Mu Lin food.

Only when the flavors of these two drugs mingled together, they would become the most potent mind-altering drug in the world, colorless and odorless. If affected by it, one would sleep for at least two days and a night.

And this was also the creation of her Master—Mu Jue; it was the only thing Mu Jue ever developed meant to harm others. The rest were meant for healing.

And Mu Lin was all too familiar with Mu Jue’s creations, they were utterly ineffective on her.

Watching Mu Lin’s retreating figure, Mi Zheng just sat there calmly until her silhouette had completely disappeared from his view. Only then did he pick up his chopsticks, take a bite, and chew slowly.

How could Mi Zheng not know that these substances would have no effect on Mu Lin!

Actually, he truly wanted to enjoy a proper meal with her; that was all he really wanted.

Because the next time they met, it might indeed be a fight to the death.