Chapter 888: Contract
Bang!
Only when the sound of the door closing reached his ears did Mimosa come back to his senses.
Looking at the lady whose gaze had turned toward him, Mimosa was utterly at a loss. Then, instinctively, our Mimosa followed his survival instincts and chose a place he considered safe: behind Qin Ran.
"You are very kind to your servant!"
Mimosa's appearance stopped the thief from going any further.
Perhaps she did not mind exchanging her body for a little help, but that did not mean she would not mind certain people watching.
Especially lowly servants.
Indeed, in her eyes, Mimosa was just such a lowly servant.
Yet Qin Ran's expression had not changed even after that servant interrupted them, which stirred a trace of suspicion in her.
Qin Ran, who had been watching her all along, keenly detected that suspicion.
He immediately burst into laughter.
"Of course!"
"Because he has something that earns my kindness-his cooking is the best I've ever encountered, bar none!"
Qin Ran chose to admit it without hesitation.
And he bluntly explained the reason for his kindness.
She did not dispute the reason Qin Ran gave.
As someone with a functioning sense of smell, she had acknowledged Mimosa's cooking skills the moment she caught that earlier aroma.
It was also then that she had begun to question Qin Ran's identity.
How could an ordinary traveling merchant have a cook so skilled, even if he was staying at an unremarkable inn?
Not even the cooks who prepared meals for the chief priests in the temple possessed such skill.
As she speculated about Qin Ran's identity, she spoke without betraying anything.
"You really are a calculating man."
"That's right."
"I'm a merchant who cares only about profit."
"So I hope you also have something