“Oh! You saw those two women! Master, tell me, were they beautiful? And what were they wearing today?” Xiao Laipi started to circle around Mu Lin exaggeratedly, shouting excitedly.
Mu Lin grew annoyed from Xiao Laipi’s circling. “Hey! They’re already two old hags! How could they be beautiful? And why do you care what they wore? Are you trying to annoy me? You’ve been cultivating for so many years, yet you still act like a fan chasing celebrities!”
Reprimanded by Mu Lin, Xiao Laipi quieted down slightly but quickly asked suspiciously, “So you ended up at a disadvantage today? Master, what exactly happened?”
“Hmph! Let me suffer? I’ll make them pay me back with interest!” Mu Lin growled, then recounted the day’s events to Xiao Laipi.
“So what are you going to do then? Master, the people are already healed, so what else can you do?” Xiao Laipi pressed.
“What else can I do? Just wait!” Mu Lin replied grumpily.
“But that doesn’t make sense! Master, do you think they might detain us here and secretly sabotage us?” Xiao Laipi continued questioning.
“Hmph, that’s possible too. If they dare not act openly, perhaps they’ll try something behind the scenes? Xiao Laipi, you’re right to remind me! Tonight, you’ll take the night watch duty! Alright, let’s go have lunch now!” With that, Mu Lin got up and left first, fearing that Xiao Laipi would ask more questions.
After lunch, Xiao Laipi followed Mu Lin step by step back to his room and began circling around inside. Mu Lin grew irritated again, “Xiao Laipi, I don’t think it’s good for your cultivation to stick so close to a handsome guy like me! Besides, don’t you usually take a nap in the afternoon? Why aren’t you resting today? Why are you circling around in my room? If you want to circle, go circle in your own room!”
“Pfft! What’s the big deal? Don’t forget, I’m your pet! And besides, no one knows I’m actually a girl! You just said we should be on guard against them pulling a trick on us. I’m standing guard for you! Do you think I really want to stay here? I’m circling to keep myself alert and awake. Sigh, it’s hard being a good guy!” Xiao Laipi pretended to be foolish, dragging out her tone playfully.
“Alright, alright! You win! I give up! So, what else do you want to know?” Mu Lin said grumpily, his tone slightly weakening.
“Master, earlier I was too busy asking whether they were beautiful and forgot to ask how we’re going to deal with them next. Now that I think about it, given your personality, how could you be someone who just takes losses? Come on, you must have a plan up your sleeve!” Xiao Laipi gloated smugly.
“Ah! I see! You could’ve just asked directly instead of going around in circles for so long just to ask such a small question!
Fine, I’ll tell you! Today when I met the queen, I noticed she’s hiding a serious illness, and currently, only your master here can cure it! So you see, we don’t need to do anything but wait!” Mu Lin answered Xiao Laipi’s question with feigned annoyance.
“Now that you’ve finished asking your questions, I think it’s time for you to return to your room!” Mu Lin finally issued an eviction notice.
“Pfft! That’s all? I thought you had done something really bad! Well then, you take a good rest. I’m going back!” Xiao Laipi said, relieved, then turned and left.
As soon as Xiao Laipi left, Mu Lin quickly shut his door and lay down on the bed, exhaling softly. In his mind, he thought, ‘This little fellow, despite her age, sure has a lot of tricks up her sleeve! She almost saw through my secret!’
In reality, during the prime minister’s scolding, Mu Lin had realized that coming to country Y had been a grave mistake. According to his usual style, he should have made the prime minister and other bigwigs from country Y come to his clinic in New York, U.S., to explain themselves and apologize, and to discuss opening chain clinics in Y.
However, he had overly considered the future of the clinic and its staff if he left, and hesitated out of respect for the U.S. president and government, thus deviating from his usual approach by coming to Y alone. That was his biggest mistake.
A country in conflict with him would naturally use its vast intelligence network to investigate the background of him and his clinic. Only after discovering that he had powerful backers in the U.S., Germany, and France did they abandon plans to take further measures against him.
Additionally, the media support from the influential figures behind him caused the conflict between him and country Y to draw worldwide attention. Otherwise, those self-righteous Western governments would have already tried various means to force him into submission.
Since the other side couldn’t take strong action, they had to resort to other methods. After analyzing his previous actions and understanding his style, and especially after seeing his young age during this meeting, they were misled into believing he had backed down. Therefore, they dared to speak to him in a condescending and even threatening manner after meeting him.
Mu Lin knew that if they dared to speak to him like that, they must have made extensive preparations beforehand. Since they dared to turn against him and change their stance, they must have prepared very effective countermeasures. In short, he had willingly walked right into their trap this time.
After realizing this, Mu Lin decided to teach them an even greater lesson, completely crushing their pride under his feet. If he didn’t thoroughly defeat them this time, he would surely face endless troubles in the future.
Now, using the opportunity of treating Hua Si’s illness, Mu Lin had bought himself time to fully understand the method of timed poisoning. He had also taken the chance to prepare some poisons and antidotes.
That was why, while speaking, he stood up and bowed to them. Using his clothes to block the view, he discreetly took out the poison from his ring and subtly sprinkled the powder into the room, causing all three people inside to be infected with a slow-acting, timed poison.
Finally, under the pretense of touring the palace, he administered poison to the accompanying U.S. ambassador. The reason he didn’t tell Xiao Laipi about all this was to prevent her from worrying about him and calling home, which might cause panic among the women there, thus interfering with his plans.
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