My Mr. Mermaid

Untitled Part 77

Chapter 77 by ryuxenji

Tang Yi-Bai scurried back to the national team and worked like a dog; he did not have time to even leave the premises of the training base. Meanwhile, Yun Duo was also very busy lately. The news agency was always short-staffed and there was a lot of mobility within the new hires. As such, she was transferred to another team every so often to put out fires, and she still had to ensure her own work was completed well. One person doing the job of two people — it was exhausting.

It wasn't until two days before the Champions Tournament that she was able to relax a little and end work a little earlier to go meet Tang Yi-Bai.

She left her office and went to buy two cups of freshly squeezed juice, one cup of orange juice and one cup of pomegranate juice.

After that, she hailed a taxi while holding the two cups of juice.

Lin Zi happened to be driving by. He rolled down his car window and said, "Yun Duo, where are you going? I'll give you a ride if it's on the way."

Yun Duo shook her head. "Thanks, but I'm going to the swimming training base. It's not on your way so it's fine."

Lin Zi tilted his head and asked, "Going to see Tang Yi-Bai?"

Yun Duo ducked her head and smiled, shy and sweet like a flower bud about to bloom. Lin Zi's gaze shimmered slightly, and he smiled and said, "Let me give you a ride. I'm free anyway."

"Thank you then."

"No need for pleasantries. You're my boss!"

After Yun Duo got in, she placed both cups of juice in the cup holders. Lin Zi looked at the cups and asked, "For him?"

"Mhm."

"Yun Duo, you've never treated me to any food or drinks," he complained, an slightly disgruntled look on his face.

Yun Duo laughed. "Is that so? I'll treat you next time."

"No need for next time. Why not now? I want some snow pear juice."

"Huh? Oh, ok. Wait a moment, I'll go buy it for you."

Lin Zi was going to give her a ride, so she felt that it was perfectly justified for her to buy him a drink. She decisively got out of the car to go buy it.

Inside the car, Lin Zi watched her leave and when she was a distance away, he reached into his coat to take out a packet of white powder. He opened up the lids of both cups to see that one cup held a red liquid while the other was yellow.

Sang's voice rang out in his mind: "Brother, Yi-Bai actually likes to drink pomegranate juice! Haha, it's so odd for such a grown boy like him to like pomegranate juice, isn't it?" "Brother, I bought some pomegranate juice for him today. He was very happy. He even obediently ate all the medicine." ...

Lin Zi's expression was dark as he poured all of the white powder into the red pomegranate juice.

When Yun Duo returned with the snow pear juice, she did not notice anything strange. However, after she got out of the car, as she was heading towards the gates of the training base with the cups of juice, her old quirk reared its head again.

Pomegranates ripened in autumn and it was already spring now. For pomegranates to be preserved from then till now, how much preservatives had to be added to the fruit? It must be particularly bad for the body. What if Tang Yi-Bai got diarrhoea from the pomegranate juice? He was going to race in two days...

Boo hoo hoo, she had better not let him drink it. There was no room for error now with Tang Yi-Bai's diet — no mistakes could be made.

At the thought, Yun Duo threw away the pomegranate juice into the trash can by the side of the road. Sigh, it felt like a crime to waste food.