Chapter 300

Chapter 300

Mealtime soon arrived.

Lin Yin prepared an entire table full of delicious dishes.

It was hard to believe a pampered daughter from a wealthy family had made them. They looked, smelled, and tasted wonderful, no worse than a housekeeper’s cooking.

“Everyone, hurry and eat. I haven’t cooked for myself much these last few years.”

“Don’t hold it against me if it doesn’t taste good.”

Lin Yin removed her apron and sat down, looking both happy and shy.

Before learning the truth, we would have picked up our chopsticks at once and eaten with great relish.

But now Seventh Master and Song Xiaotian maintained smiles while neither dared touch the food.

Meng Yifan appeared famished. He raised his chopsticks to take some food.

I quickly struck his hand with my chopsticks and scolded, “Xiao Yin worked so hard to cook all this for us. How can you be the first to eat?”

He looked completely bewildered. “Didn’t she cook it for us? What are we supposed to do, just stare at it?”

I quickly took food from two plates, placed it in Lin Yin’s bowl, and smiled. “You must be hungry. Taste it first and see whether your cooking skills have declined.”

Lin Yin immediately blushed, acting as though my concern for her left her deeply embarrassed.

Honestly, when I thought she liked me, the situation had troubled me. Now that I knew it had all been an act, I actually felt a little disappointed. It was like suddenly discovering… she had never been attracted to me at all.

I could hardly believe her acting was so good that she could even imitate falling for someone.

Lin Yin suspected nothing. She swallowed all the food I placed in her bowl, and her expression did not change in the slightest.

Anning stared in amazement, as if asking whether I had not said I disliked Lin Yin.

But I could not explain anything yet.

Blushing, Lin Yin said, “I think… it tastes all right. Please make do with it.”

I laughed and quickly invited everyone else to eat.

She had not poisoned this meal. If she had, she could never have eaten it herself.

After lunch, Lin Yin busied herself again, clearing the plates and taking them into the kitchen to wash.

Watching her left me with extremely complicated feelings and an indescribable frustration.

Before, her diligence would have made me marvel at what a rare and wonderful woman she was.

Only now did I know that her father had sent her to monitor us. Everything she did was intended to win our trust so she could watch us.

While she was in the kitchen, I quickly pulled Anning and Meng Yifan into a room. I said to Anning, “You’re best at stealing things. You haven’t let that skill get rusty, have you?”

Anning stared at me. “I know she’s outstanding, but you don’t need to mock me.”

I froze. “What are you talking about? I need you to steal something. Lin Yin has poison in her handbag that she plans to use on us. I want you to verify it. Don’t take the poison away, though. Bring us a small sample without letting her see you.”

Anning and Meng Yifan were dumbfounded.

“Po… poison!”

Meng Yifan clicked his tongue. “What happened? Why would she poison us?”

I said, “I’ll explain later. For now, just know that Lin Yin has bad intentions and has been monitoring us.”

Anning declared righteously, “Hmph. I knew from the start that she was no good.”

Then she walked straight out.

I felt nervous, afraid Lin Yin would catch Anning searching her bag.

But I had clearly underestimated her skill. Barely more than a minute later, Anning returned.

She held a wad of tissue containing a small pinch of white crystalline powder that looked somewhat like sugar.
“Damn, that was fast!”

“This was all I found.”

Anning said, “There’s a small bottle in her bag filled with this stuff. The bottle is still full.”

“That’s because she hasn’t poisoned us yet. It won’t be full afterward.” Song Xiaotian carefully took the tissue and held it beneath his nose.

His brows quickly knitted together, and his expression became grim. “It’s potassium cyanide!”

His was not the only face that turned grim. All of ours did.

Potassium cyanide was lethally toxic. Lin Yin truly intended to poison us!

If we had failed to piece everything together today, one of our meals… might have been our last!

Fuck!

“That woman is vicious!” Meng Yifan cursed.

I calmed myself and addressed everyone. “Lin Yin will leave the kitchen soon. I’ll find an excuse to make her walk around the residential complex with me. Anning, empty all the potassium cyanide from that bottle and replace it with sugar.”

“Meng Yifan, go out and buy a pinhole camera. Install it in the kitchen.”

“Brother Tian, go buy several knives…”

If Lin Yin truly poisoned us, we would die on the spot. Then Lin Jinhua would come, and perhaps Du Yunting would appear too.

Those two wanted us dead. There was no chance I would let the matter go.

Even if it meant prison, I would hack that fucking bastard Du Yunting to pieces!

Before long, Lin Yin finished washing the dishes and left the kitchen.

She was about to sit and rest when I asked her to walk around outside with me, saying I was bored in the house.

“Sure!” She agreed eagerly and reached for her handbag.

I quickly took her hand and smiled. “We’re only walking around the complex. You don’t need your bag.”

With that, I pulled her away.

This time, Lin Yin did not blush. She froze and instinctively glanced back at her bag.

No one else was in the living room. Although she seemed worried about something, she did not pay it much mind.

Only after we left the villa did she blush again.

I quickly released her hand.

She clasped her hands before her and lowered her head. “Chen Mo, you’re two years older than me. Don’t you have a girlfriend?”

I nodded. “I did. I’ve only had one girlfriend in my life. Her name was Fang Man.”

Lin Yin paused. “Then the two of you… aren’t together anymore?”

I said, “She died.”

“What?” Startled, Lin Yin looked up at me.

“Someone murdered her.” I sighed, bitterness filling my heart. “What I hate most in this world is anyone who takes another person’s life for selfish gain. Everyone was raised by parents. Anyone who doesn’t respect human life doesn’t deserve to be called human.”

Lin Yin suddenly lowered her head again and remained silent for a long time.

Eventually, she asked, “Then do you think… I’m a good person?”

“Of course you are,” I answered earnestly. “You’re kind and sincere, just like Fang Man.”

She looked up at me again. “In your heart… am I really that good?”

I met her gaze. “Everyone has a good side and a bad side. No one is perfect, and everyone makes mistakes. Some mistakes can be made, but others must never be.”

“I think you’re already good enough. Everyone else thinks you’re wonderful too.”

Lin Yin lowered her head again. I did not know what she was thinking, and she said nothing more.