Shen Muzhi noticed a slight change in the man's expression and clearly sensed something was wrong. Based on his man's intuition, he knew that Alex definitely had ulterior motives towards his wife!
Although now wasn't the time to be jealous, she was still a little annoyed. She forcefully put her arm around Xiang Zhilan's shoulder, asserting her ownership over the man opposite her.
Xiang Zhilan glanced at the hand on her shoulder, feeling utterly helpless. She had no way to deal with Shen Muzhi's petty and jealous nature. She smiled at Alex.
“Lan, I already told you, you can just call me Zikai. I like my Chinese name.” Alex is a native-born Chinese American, but because three generations of his family have lived in the United States, his Chinese is really poor.
“Okay, Zikai.” Xiang Zhilan had actually forgotten that he also had a Chinese name, Xin Zikai. She smiled and readily agreed: “You must be tired after such a long flight. Let’s go get something to eat first, and then you can rest properly.”
"How is your friend doing?" Xin Zikai asked Xiang Zhilan as they walked out.
Xiang Zhilan briefly told him about Ni Sitian's situation. After getting into the car, she noticed that Xin Zikai's brows furrowed.
"What happened? Could it be that..." Xiang Zhilan's heart was pounding in her chest, afraid of hearing an ominous answer from Xin Zikai.
“No.” Xin Zikai shook his head and said in broken Chinese, “Actually, before coming here, I went to the Yunnan border. To be honest, the poison in AK501 was orchestrated by my former teacher.”
Xiang Zhilan was astonished; no wonder Xin Zikai had said he knew about this new type of poison.
"He was expelled from the research center a few years ago because of an academic misconduct, and was later poached by an organization for a high price. I only found out this year that he was actually developing these harmful poisons." Xin Zikai's research focuses on how to use toxins to save people, so it is heartbreaking to see his teacher developing poisons that harm people.
"Did you get the antidote from him?" Xiang Zhilan couldn't help but grab Xin Zikai's hand excitedly.
Shen Muzhi sat in the passenger seat, his brows furrowed, staring intently at Xiang Zhilan's hands, which were usually reluctant to touch him, but now they were actually grabbing another man's arm!
"The teacher died more than a month ago. The AK501 he developed was not preserved because of the earthquake. The injection your friend received may be the only successful AK501 poison left in the world." Xin Zikai had received a call from them, saying that they hoped he would come here to work in place of his teacher and offered very generous conditions. Unfortunately, he had no interest in harming people. His research on poisons was only to help people avoid being harmed more effectively and to use various toxins in nature to save more people.
"So that means there's no antidote at all?" Xiang Zhilan's face paled slightly upon hearing this.
Xin Zikai nodded and said, "Our teacher passed away before he could develop an antidote, so there is indeed no antidote available at the moment."
Upon hearing this, Shen Muzhi lost all interest in being jealous and his face darkened.
“However, just because we don’t have it now doesn’t mean we won’t have it in the future.” Xin Zikai smiled and said, “Actually, before my teacher died, he gave me the successful AK501 formula. I had already studied it for more than a month. This trip to Yunnan was just to find a sample to confirm it, but unfortunately, it was not preserved at all.”
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
