Chapter 122: You All Came at Just the Right Time

Van turned his head at the sound, only to see that Mobius had somehow approached without him noticing, with an inexplicable smile hanging at the corner of her mouth.

Seeing the dangerous glint flashing in Mobius' eyes, Van immediately leaned back in a tactical retreat, sprang up, and opened up distance between them.

While muttering in his mouth, "Um... Mobius, considering your habit of forgetting to eat and sleep whenever you're doing experiments, I specially bought you some tea leaves and snacks today..."

As he spoke, Van quickly took out from the cabinet an exquisitely packaged box of tea and snacks printed with a cute little snake pattern.

On the sofa, seeing this, Mobius was stunned for a moment, then quickly recovered. However, Mobius did not reach out to take the little gift Van handed her. Instead, taking advantage of his unawareness, she suddenly pulled him down onto the sofa.

Before Van could speak, Mobius straddled his waist in one swift motion.

Feeling the dark green hair brushing across his face and the softness pressing against his body, Van instinctively gulped.

He had just wanted to say something when he felt a slender, cold finger press against his lips.

"These things you gave me... I quite like them~ but you know what I really want..."

As she spoke, Mobius' gaze slowly began to drift downward...

Bang!

The sound of a kitchen knife embedding into the chopping board made Van shudder.

He looked toward the direction of the sound, toward the kitchen.

There stood Raiden Mei at the kitchen entrance, head lowered, bangs covering her face, so no expression could be seen.

At the same time, she held another kitchen knife in her hand, water still dripping from it.

"You snake... what exactly are you trying to do?"

Although Raiden Mei's voice was calm and emotionless, it carried a chilling, bone-piercing coldness.

Yet, seeing Raiden Mei practically steaming with dark energy, Mobius not only didn't let go, but deliberately lowered her body's center of gravity, pressing herself completely onto Van.

"What, you need two knives just to chop one dish? Afraid one isn't enough?"

"Someone like you who never enters the kitchen wouldn't understand."

Raiden Mei lifted her head, a gentle smile on her face, "When a chef prepares two knives, it's when she's about to handle some particularly troublesome ingredients..."

As she said this, Raiden Mei seemed to remember something and smiled at Van, "Right, how about we have snake soup tonight?"

"That depends on whether you have the skill to make it."

Mobius sneered, "But you, why aren't you sticking with your always-by-your-side 'female friend' Kiana today?"

Raiden Mei's gaze sharpened, her tone cold, "Still better than someone who tries to hurt even their friends."

"Bringing along a 'ticking time bomb' that might explode at any moment, and you still have the nerve to criticize others?" Mobius shot back.

"Still better than a dissection maniac who tries to drag people into experiments all the time," Raiden Mei countered.

"Heh~ dependency disorder patient."

"Hmph~ antisocial personality."

Watching the two of them bicker and expose each other's flaws, Van helplessly covered his face with a couch pillow.

At that moment, the apartment door opened.

Himeko and Fu Hua walked in just like that.

The five people looked at each other, and the atmosphere suddenly became a bit awkward.

After a moment, Fu Hua pushed up her glasses and said calmly, "Looks like... we came at the wrong time?"

However, Van thought to himself, 'No, you all came at just the right time!!!'

Thinking this, Van was just about to greet them and invite everyone to sit down, to ease the tension. But he noticed that Fu Hua moved before he could, and started tidying up the living room.

After finishing that, Fu Hua swiftly tied on an apron printed with the red vermilion bird and walked into the kitchen.

Hearing the sounds of water running and dough kneading from the kitchen, Mobius was the first to react. She sneered at Raiden Mei, "Looks like someone's role as the kitchen lady is about to be stolen, huh?"

Raiden Mei snorted coldly, "So... what does that have to do with you?"

"Of course, it has nothing to do with me. I don't need to rely on winning a man's stomach to keep him."

Then Mobius smirked wickedly, "But no matter how fiercely we argue, it won't change the fact that Hua and Van already have a 'child' together~"

Although Mobius' words didn't visibly affect Raiden Mei's expression, the brief pause in her knife grip exposed her inner feelings.

"Such a clumsy provocation." Even as she said that, Raiden Mei still chose to leave the living room and went into the kitchen.

Seeing Fu Hua kneading dough busily, Raiden Mei smiled and asked, "Fu Hua, need any help? Though I know with your cooking skills, you can surely handle it alone, still, as they say, one more person means one more helping hand~"

Fu Hua paused her work, looked at Raiden Mei who stood beside her eager to help, and eventually nodded. "Thanks, then please help me chop the vegetables."

"Alright, leave it to me~"

Although compared to the earlier confrontation in the living room, the atmosphere between Fu Hua and Raiden Mei seemed harmonious. If observed closely, one could see that this harmony hid a tension not easily seen by others.

In the kitchen, the rhythmic sound of chopping and the dull sound of kneading dough mixed together.

Raiden Mei's chopping movements were smooth as flowing water, all the ingredients under her hands quickly turning into uniformly cut shapes.

Fu Hua's dough-kneading technique was steady and strong; in no time the scattered flour had turned into a clean white dough in her hands.

The two each performed their roles, yet there was an unspoken sense of competition between them.

The rhythm of Mei's chopping sped up more and more; the force of Fu Hua's kneading also grew heavier.

Though there were no verbal exchanges, the scene strangely evoked the image of a duel between masters in a martial arts movie.

Meanwhile, in the living room, Mobius leaned lazily on the sofa, her eyes burning as she stared at Van.

Seeing this, Himeko deliberately sat between them and smiled at Mobius.

"Dr. Mobius, isn't your lab busy recently? I heard there have been quite a few breakthroughs in the field of biotech lately~ If you slack off like this, your research might get snatched away by someone else~"

Sensing the hidden meaning in Himeko's words, Mobius chuckled lightly, "Thank you for the concern, Miss Himeko. But as they say in Shenzhou: 'a wall separates like a mountain.'"

"For Miss Himeko, maybe success is 99% hard work and 1% inspiration, but for me, it's quite the opposite~"

At this point, Mobius suddenly changed the subject, "By the way, Miss Himeko, as a teacher, is it really okay to show such blatant favoritism to Van? Don't you have other students who need home visits too?"

"No need for a doctor to worry about a teacher's job~" Himeko smiled even more brightly,."Didn't you just say 'a wall separates like a mountain'?"

"Yeah yeah, a teacher even drinks alcohol with her student~"

"Still better than some mad scientist who wants to drag people onto an operating table all the time~"

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