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◎The Right to Refuse 2◎

Lin Guo watched helplessly as Tang Ruxing and Deng Qian slipped away right under his nose.

He couldn't possibly tell Mu and Qing what had happened, and Hua Zha wouldn't let him off the hook.

He sighed, inwardly cursing his bad luck. Every day had been unlucky since he encountered Hua Zha and Mu Heqing.

"I won't tell, even if you kill me."

He said it, and he really died.

"Then you come with me to see the swindler."

"I'm not going," Lin Guo refused outright.

Mu and Qing didn't press the matter further, as if they had given up on dwelling on it, and Lin Guo breathed a sigh of relief.

A minute later, the scare began.

Lin Guo didn't go to see Hua Zha with Mu Heqing, so she called Hua Zha over instead.

As soon as the bluff appeared, Mu and Qing went straight to the point, saying, "You lied to me."

His cunning and elegant smile froze on his face. He glanced at Lin Guo and said to Mu Heqing, "Heqing, we won't lie to you."

"Yes, but you'll hide things and twist the truth. You're deceiving me. Just tell me directly, have I changed?"

Hua Zha answered decisively: "No, in my opinion, you have never changed, just like Qing."

"But the attitudes I just encountered towards me, and my own feelings about them, were all too strange."

It was like two mismatched gears colliding.

Mu Heqing shook her head, realizing she had asked the wrong question. She should have asked why Lin Guo said she wasn't the person she used to be.

But the shrew interrupted her train of thought, and instead smiled and said, "He Qing, it seems your little boyfriend has run into Huai Lin. You told us not to touch him, but you didn't tell Huai Lin."

Huailin?

Mu and Qing hesitated for a moment. "Oh right," Fa Jiu said, "some disobedient guys have come."

How did Jiang Mu end up running into him? This is troublesome.

Hua Zha advised, "He Qing, you go first."

“But…” Mu Heqing gritted his teeth, “Hey, keep an eye on him, don’t let him make any moves before I get back!”

Lin Guo was startled: "What?"

Why is he still staying here?

Hua Zha, of course, wouldn't refuse. After Mu and Qing had walked away, he asked Lin Guo with a dark face, "Tell me what exactly happened?"

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"My name is Huai Lin, Huai as in doubt and Lin as in rain. I chose it myself."

Jiang Mu couldn't see Huai Lin's exact appearance, but could hear his voice and see a blurry black shadow.

“Do you hate others? Hate can be transformed into power. When I arrived in this city, the first person I met had immense hatred. He resented his boss, and I gave him power. You didn’t see him with that power, hahaha, that guy was a madman.”

Huai Lin's laughter made Jiang Mu's ears hurt.

"Your name is Jiang Mu, right? I will grant your wish. Come on, kill that guy first. He just rolled his eyes at you."

An ordinary-looking man was standing by the roadside. Jiang Mu had been standing there, blocking his way, and the man rolled his eyes at him.

“Right now, all you need to do is imagine the action and feel the aversion that naturally arises in your heart, and you will have power,” Huai Lin began her lesson.

As Jiang Muyi instructed, a small, transparent knife appeared in the air.

“Excellent!” Huai Lin praised. “Now, plunge this knife into his brain.”

The knife flew slowly toward the unsuspecting passerby, then suddenly changed direction just before hitting him.

"What are you doing?" Huai Lin asked.

Jiang Mu raised an eyebrow and said, "Someone I hate even more has appeared. Can we kill him?"

Huai Lin followed Jiang Mu's gaze and looked ahead.

"Ah, Yu Hai, you can try it too."

The transparent dagger made a tearing sound in the air. Yu Hai tilted his head, and the dagger disappeared after slicing through his feather earring.

He also noticed Jiang Mu and Huai Lin.

"Huai Lin, you escaped." He ignored Jiang Mu as always, except for trying to kill Jiang Mu once, after which he no longer cared about him.

Having received opposition from Mu and Qing, there was no need for him to target Jiang Mu any further.

Yu Hai moved the feather earrings back to their original position, his expression indifferent, as pale as frozen meat just taken out of the freezer.

"Of course you're having fun outside while we're locked up inside? Let me tell you, it's not just me, they've all come out. How long do you think Fa Jiuyi can keep this under control?"

Upon seeing Yu Hai, Huai Lin also revealed his figure. He was tall with dark, demonic eyes and ghostly hair that floated in mid-air. After each sentence, he would lick his lips with his scarlet tongue.

"Do whatever you want." Yu Hai didn't care at all.

“I really don’t understand that old guy Fa Jiuyi. He can release the Nightmare, but I can’t. You should leave. I want to have some fun with him.” Huai Lin pointed at Jiang Mu. “The first step is to kill everyone in this half of the city.”

"Oh? You're going to use him to kill everyone in this city?" Yu Hai asked, intrigued.

"What's wrong? Is it not possible?"

“Yes, yes, this is sure to be very interesting.” Yu Hai clapped his hands.

Jiang Mu smiled, interrupting their conversation, and asked, "Didn't you say you could help me kill the person I hate? I want to kill him first, is that not allowed?"

Huai Lin shook her head with her hands on her hips, "Then you'll die faster. You just saw it yourself, you can't beat him."

“Then you go ahead,” Jiang Mu said.

"You're treating me like your henchman? What grudge do you have against him?" Huai Lin wasn't one to get angry easily, and he softened his attitude in the face of Jiang Mu's provocation.

Jiang Mu walked between Yu Hai and Huai Lin.

"He once tried to kill me."

"Oh, you escaped from Yu Hai's clutches, that's impressive." Huai Lin said in surprise.

“Most importantly, he’s always standing between me and my girlfriend, and I hate him so much,” Jiang Mu said, emphasizing each word.

"What? Yu Hai, there's such a story? Hahaha, don't tell me you fell in love with a human here." Huai Lin slapped her thigh, mocking Yu Hai.

Yu Hai remained expressionless and said, "Why don't you ask who his girlfriend is?"

"Who is it?" Huai Lin's smile vanished, and he suddenly turned to stare at Jiang Mu, floating in the air as if he were floating in water.

"Looks like you know He Qing too." Jiang Mu's mood suddenly soured.

This is what you do when your girlfriend is attracted to too many strange things.

"Ahhhhh!" Huai Lin suddenly threw his head back and screamed wildly, grabbing his hair that was floating in the air, almost as if he had suddenly lost his mind.

Jiang Mu silently took a step back.

"Mu Heqing! Mu Heqing, how hateful! She disappeared after doing that to me! How hateful! How hateful! I'm going to kill everyone in this city!" Huai Lin shouted at the sky for a minute, then suddenly came to her senses. "She doesn't care now, what's the point of me killing her?"

Seeing Jiang Mu retreating, he asked, "And who are you now? Fa Jiuyi is really useless, managing to let one slip through. And why aren't you scared at all?"

Yu Hai appeared beside Huai Lin at some point and urged, "He Qing cares about him. If you kill him, He Qing will be very angry and sad. You will definitely be able to get revenge on what she did to you."

Huai Lin wasn't stupid. He sneered and retorted, "Why don't you kill him? He's still alive because none of you killed him. By the way, we were talking about killing you, why are you still laughing? Are you crazy?"

He stared wide-eyed at Jiang Mu, who was laughing happily.

"You all think that if I die, Qing will be very sad and heartbroken, right?" Jiang Mu's gloom vanished.

He's been overthinking things all along.

He always worries too much, but he overlooks something obvious: he is also someone Mu and Qing care about.

"You can stand it? I can't stand it anymore, he keeps laughing!" Huailin couldn't take it anymore.

He threw a punch directly at the target. With his strength, even if it wasn't Jiang Mu standing there, but an elephant, it would be killed.

Yu Hai crossed his arms and watched everything coldly. In his world, there was no such thing as a bystander. Since he hadn't done anything, if Jiang Mu died, it would be because he was useless.

"Are you really going to kill me?" Jiang Mu neither dodged nor avoided Huai Lin's punch, though of course, he couldn't dodge it either.

"Never mind." Seeing Jiang Mu's confident demeanor, Huai Lin withdrew her fist.

He has a large number of his kind flocking here, many of them unintelligent and brainless, so he doesn't need to be one of them.

"Your lifespan is but a fleeting moment, why should I bother with you?" Huai Lin reassured herself. "Anyway, Mu and Qing have plenty of time."

“This, I’m afraid…” Yu Hai hesitated.

Huai Lin was shocked. "No way, Mu Heqing is still like this man, with a life as short as a dog's? You guys are so useless."

Feathered remains silent.

Jiang Mu's eyes lit up, and he immediately knew what the two of them meant.

They actually wanted Mu and Qing to live forever?

It seems it didn't work out; Qing must have refused.

Yu Hai and Huai Lin stopped bothering Jiang Mu. On the way back, Jiang Mu thought to himself that these inhuman creatures were even more selfish than him. Not only did they forcefully change Mu and Qing's minds, but they also wanted her to stay with them forever.

They didn't care at all about Mu and Qing's true thoughts, which was probably why she wanted to stay away from them so much.

The car smoothly entered the garage. Jiang Mu took the elevator, and as soon as he approached the door, the door opened automatically, revealing Mu Heqing's anxious face.

"I'm so glad you're okay. I called you but you didn't answer." She hugged Jiang Mu.

The warmth of her body softened Jiang Mu's heart beyond belief; he had never imagined that he would become this kind of person.

"I'm sorry," he apologized.

“I should be the one apologizing, because it’s because of me that you’ve been in danger time and time again,” Mu Heqing said, knowing that Jiang Mu must have run into Huai Lin.

Jiang Mu pulled Mu and Qing into the house and said, "It's not your fault, it's their fault. You didn't want this either, but they kept bothering you."

Mu and Qing tried hard to leave No. 13 Middle School and integrate into normal society. She had been struggling all along, so how could it be her fault?

Even though he had heard Mu Heqing talk about it, he still couldn't imagine her life.

"Do you really like me, Qing?" Jiang Mu suddenly asked.

Mu and Qing were surprised; why would Jiang Mu ask such a question?

"All along, I've been the one forcibly entering your life, unilaterally declaring myself your boyfriend, but I don't think I've ever asked for your opinion." Jiang Mu smiled, but looked like she was about to cry.

Mu and Qing had a lot of power; if they used those guys, she could get anything she wanted in this world. But she didn't. She just lived an ordinary life, living a simple life.

Jiang Mu couldn't help but wonder if Mu Heqing truly loved him, or if she simply wanted to live an ordinary life and therefore needed a boyfriend.

“Before this, I might have hesitated, I might have had doubts,” Mu Heqing said. “But after you asked this question, I can tell you with certainty that Jiang Mu, I like you, and I like men who respect my opinions.”