Chapter 69: Sent to Your Door

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Chapter 69: Sent to Your Door

Young Master Mu was a man of action, so when he decided to investigate the Qinling Mountains, he immediately gave the order to Mu One.

Mu Yanxiao directly handed the task to Mu One because his intuition told him that this matter had to be investigated by the most capable person available. Otherwise, they might end up returning empty-handed.

Besides, if his Linlin really was a spirit rather than a person who knew spells as he hoped, having Mu One investigate would at least give him a slightly higher chance of making it back alive.

Thinking of this possibility, Mu Yanxiao ultimately cut off a tuft of dog fur and had Mu One carry it close to his body, just in case.

Mu One knew how important this mission was. To put it bluntly, it might even concern his boss’s lifelong happiness. So, he solemnly accepted the dog fur, took several pictures of Young Master Lin You in his current form with his phone, gave Mu Yanxiao a firm look, and turned to leave.

After Mu One left, Lin You and his blind master spent several peaceful days recuperating in the hospital. Even without Mu Yanxiao saying anything, Lin You, who spent almost every day lying in his arms, could always sense that his headaches were becoming more severe. Because of this, Lin You’s mood would inevitably sink whenever it happened.

He and Mu Yanxiao had been undergoing their tribulation together for almost three months, but the situation between them didn’t seem to be gradually improving as he had imagined. Instead, his lifeline was becoming increasingly faint, while Mu Yanxiao’s headaches were growing more and more severe. It seemed as though the two of them had both reached the end of the road.

“Linlin?”

Mu Yanxiao felt that Linlin, who was usually constantly acting crazy, seemed to have developed depression over the past two days. Especially after his headaches, it was as though Linlin had been infected by them too, listlessly drooping his tail and lying on his lap, whining softly.

“Woof.”

“It’s nothing. I was just wondering what we’re going to do about your head.” Lin You the husky burrowed his head deeper into his blind master’s arms, looking like the very definition of silly and adorable.

Mu Yanxiao chuckled when he heard this. “What do you mean, what are we going to do about my head? I’m recovering pretty well here in the hospital, aren’t I? Look, even Dr. Ouyang has been much kinder to me these past two days. We’ll probably be able to leave the hospital in another three or four days. So don’t worry. Once I’m better, how about I take you to the night market every day?”

The husky pouted and gave him a textbook doggy eye roll. “Are you kidding me? Do you really think I’m stupid? Going to the night market is like trying to get yourself killed! Or like throwing a meat bun to a dog, never to return. Either way, it definitely won’t end well. In the end, I’ll still have to lead you around trying to find our way home. Tsk. Back when I was a parrot, I really never imagined that I’d still be unable to escape the fate of becoming a guide dog. You’re pretty lucky to have me, aren’t you?”

Mu Yanxiao nodded. “Yes. I also think I’m very lucky.”

Young Master Lin You’s response was a haughty lift of his head, but he still couldn’t outmaneuver his blind master. Somehow, Mu Yanxiao had managed to steer the conversation elsewhere, and in the end, Lin You didn’t dwell any further on his headaches.

This just went to show that humans really were the most cunning creatures.

“But Linlin, I remember that when you were a cat, you seemed to particularly despise your current body. How come you adapted so quickly this time?”

One sentence from Young Master Mu instantly ruined the good mood Young Master Lin You had just built up.

Husky Lin abruptly raised his head and glared fiercely at his blind master with his tiny black bead-like eyes and bean-shaped eyebrows. Then he rolled his eyes and said, “What do you know? When you’re in a position, you do the job that comes with it! I’m the kind of person who loves whatever line of work I’m in! Sure, I thought dogs were a little stupid before, but that doesn’t mean I’ll be stupid just because I’ve become a dog!”

“If you don’t believe me, go find a dog. I guarantee I can train it to be incredibly smart. Even that fat cat Garfield will have to bow before the sharp teeth and wisdom of our canine race! A mere question of intelligence? With Young Master Lin here, what’s there to be afraid of?!”

Mu Yanxiao was already quite calm about the things his pet said. After all, the clever one was the soul—or perhaps the ghost?—inside the body. So no matter what species he happened to be, even if he were a mosquito, as long as the soul inside was Linlin’s, Young Master Mu felt that he could find something good to say about him.

Smack!

Mu Yanxiao followed the sound of a mosquito buzzing beside his ear and swatted it dead. Then he silently reflected on what he had just said.

He seemed to have exaggerated a little. If his pet really became a mosquito, he might very well swat him to death before recognizing him…

That would be terrifying.

Young Master Mu twitched the corner of his mouth. Sure enough, ordinary animals were still better!

Peaceful days always passed quickly. Just when Mu Yanxiao thought he would spend the next few days quietly with his pet, an uninvited guest barged onto the hospital floor early the next morning.

Mu Three was guarding the door while playing on his phone. The moment he saw this person, he felt a visceral wave of disgust. He curled his lip, stretched out one long leg to block the way, and said with absolutely no attempt at politeness, “Who do we have here? Big celebrity, top student Lu, what brings you to this place? If you’re here to treat some unspeakable disease, I suggest you go downstairs and have a look! This floor is spotlessly clean. Nothing dirty can get in here.”

Lu Yuan’s expression turned extremely ugly.

He didn’t know why, but ever since his attempt to inject Young Master Mu with a hallucinogen at the hospital had failed, the Mu Family’s attitude toward him, including Mu Yanxiao himself, had changed drastically. From then on, no matter how hard he tried to find an opportunity, he couldn’t get close to Mu Yanxiao. Even when he called, no one answered.

Furthermore, for some reason, his image among his fans seemed to have plummeted over the past few days. The directors and production companies that had once been lining up to cast him seemed to have vanished overnight, never contacting him again.

Of course, Lu Yuan wasn’t worried about that. After all, he didn’t rely on his looks to make a living. His main business was drug trafficking within the entertainment industry.

The entertainment industry was a massive dye vat. Without a strong background or extraordinary willpower, it was far too easy to fall into corruption there. And, naturally, it was also far too easy to make money off those popular idols.

So even if his exposure decreased and no scripts came looking for him, Lu Yuan didn’t care. What concerned him was the big fish he had been trying to hook. For some inexplicable reason, it had suddenly flicked its tail and swum away, not even bothering to sniff the fragrant bait he had laid out.

Then he suddenly heard about the series of changes that had occurred within the Zheng and Chen families’ businesses, and he immediately felt a sense of danger closing in on him.

When Zheng Yuhu called him, half pleading and half threatening, and urged him to do something quickly to stabilize Mu Yanxiao, Lu Yuan knew that things were going badly.

But they were both in the same boat. Zheng Yuhu had business dealings with him involving pharmaceutical raw materials and facilities, so even though Lu Yuan was reluctant to act rashly at this particular moment, he had no choice but to make some kind of move in response to Zheng Yuhu’s demands.

Otherwise, given Zheng Yuhu’s gloomy personality, Lu Yuan felt that in a fit of anger, he might expose his identity to Mu Yanxiao, the identity he had been hiding all this time.

That was why Lu Yuan had come to the First Hospital at this time.

However, when he heard Mu Three’s mocking and insulting words, a rather ominous thought suddenly occupied his entire mind.

Although he had taken the syringe containing the hallucinogen away last time and destroyed it thoroughly without leaving any evidence behind, he still had a feeling that Mu Yanxiao might have discovered that he had intended to inject him with the hallucinogen.

Other than that, he really couldn’t think of anything that would make these people so hostile toward him. At least before, the bodyguards had merely ignored him and treated him coldly. They had never shown such intense hostility, let alone murderous intent.

Mu Three had also mentioned something about being “dirty.”

Standing outside Mu Yanxiao’s hospital room, Lu Yuan knew that all he had to do was reach out and knock, and the person inside would know he had arrived. Yet at this moment, he couldn’t utter a single word.

More and more cold sweat soaked through his back. Lu Yuan forced a stiff smile and said to Mu Three, “…I don’t know what you’re talking about. I sincerely came to visit Brother Mu. But since you’re so unwelcome to me, I’ll leave first. I’ll just call Brother Mu later to say hello.”

With that, Lu Yuan turned around with a stiff expression. His slightly unsteady footsteps made Mu Three sneer repeatedly.

No wonder this person could thrive in the entertainment industry. His ability to read the situation and avoid danger was several times better than those stubborn, foolish people who didn’t know how to adapt.

But did he think he could escape just like that?

Mu Three snorted.

What a pipe dream.

They had Linlin, that heaven-defying existence, acting as their spy. Someone who dared to use hallucinogens to target the boss—never mind Mu Yanxiao himself, the five of them had been investigating Lu Yuan with everything they had.

By now, they had basically found out everything they needed to know.

They really hadn’t expected that Lu Yuan, a major celebrity and top student who appeared gentle and refined on the surface and spoke so softly that he seemed like a thoroughly good person, would secretly be involved in such filthy business.

If they got tired of handling him themselves, they could simply hand the evidence they had gathered over to the narcotics bureau. That alone would be enough to utterly ruin him.

But since he had dared to target the boss, and according to their investigation, the drug that had caused the boss’s mental paralysis in the initial car accident also seemed to have been Lu Yuan’s doing, wouldn’t simply handing him over to the narcotics bureau be letting him off too easily?

Mu Four had said that Lu Yuan needed to lose everything bit by bit, then become utterly disgraced, and finally spend the rest of his life in the harshest prison. Only then would he consider his revenge satisfied.

When dealing with someone sinister and ruthless, you had to be ten times more sinister and ruthless than him for it to count.

Just as Lu Yuan turned around and hurried away, Mu Yanxiao received an unexpected text message inside the hospital room.

Lin You the husky was curled up in his blind master’s arms. He slapped the phone open with his paw, looked at the message, and found himself completely speechless.

“…What is it? Who is it?” Mu Yanxiao seemed to sense the bewildered expression on his pet’s face and reached out to stroke the dog’s head.

Lin You the husky disdainfully flicked his tail. “Your little cousin. Tsk, he actually said he’d trade us some information for the safety of his parents in prison. Should we even bother with him?”

Young Master Mu was pleased by the way his pet had casually included himself in the word we. His hand moved from the dog’s head down along his back as he said calmly, “Weren’t you just complaining about being bored? Since someone has come right to our door to entertain us, let’s decide whether to deal with him based on our mood!”

Husky Lin furrowed his bean-shaped eyebrows. “But what if his information really is useful? Will we reduce his parents’ sentences and keep them safe?”

Mu Yanxiao raised the corners of his mouth. “His parents are perfectly safe already. It’s just that the food and labor in prison are a little harsh. They already meet the requirements as things stand, so why would we reduce their sentences? We’ll just consider it a free piece of information.”

Lin You the husky raised his head at this and accused his master with a cute yet slightly fierce expression. “You’re really insidious.”

Mu Yanxiao gave a quiet chuckle.

“Besides, he came to us himself. We might as well let him reunite with his parents. After all, isn’t this kid so worried about his parents?”

Lin You: “…”

Although he felt that he probably shouldn’t be enjoying someone else’s misfortune this much, he still really wanted to wag his tail and bark.

Good job, Master!

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