Chapter 264 — Puked All Over

Truth be told, Shen Yushu did not like An Liwen. There was always something dark and brooding about the man — and worse still, the fellow was courting her best friend, Sister Yaoyao, which only deepened her poor opinion of him...

After all, she and Sister Yaoyao were going to marry the same man. If Sister Yaoyao married An Liwen, wouldn't that mean she would have to marry An Liwen too? Shen Yushu had no desire to marry An Liwen, so the sooner he died the better — Sister Yaoyao could hardly marry a dead man.

Of course, Shen Yushu did not think Sister Yaoyao would be foolish enough to marry a wretch like An Liwen. But the two of them had practically grown up together, and An Liwen was plainly interested in her. What if Uncle Chu took a sudden notion and gave Sister Yaoyao away in marriage?

So when she saw that An Liwen was about to die, Shen Yushu was instantly delighted — though she innocently shifted the blame onto Su Taizao.

"Xiaoshu! Don't talk nonsense!" Gu Mengyao did not know whether to laugh or cry. Her best friend always managed to do something absurd at the most critical moments. Gu Mengyao knew exactly what Shen Yushu was thinking, and she herself had never liked An Liwen either. Her feelings for him were purely those of a younger sister for an elder brother, with nothing else mixed in.

Still, it would not do to let An Liwen die right in front of her. Quite apart from the ties between their two families, and even setting aside whether Daddy would blame her afterward — honestly speaking, when they were small, An Liwen had treated her very well, always indulging her spoiled little temper. Gu Mengyao had no elder brother of her own, so she had come to regard Chen Yuxuan and An Liwen as her brothers...

"I'm not talking nonsense! Brother Jianwen was killed by Brother Taizao!" Shen Yushu said with perfect seriousness. "I know — Brother Taizao must still hold a grudge against Brother Jianwen, so he wanted him dead. Otherwise, when Arrowhead Bro wanted to save him, why did he stop him?"

Shen Yushu was the type who loved nothing more than stirring up trouble. It had plainly been Wei Zhao who was reluctant to save the man, and Su Taizao had merely let slip a threatening remark he should never have made — yet now it had become Su Taizao trying to kill An Liwen.

"Xiaoshu, what nonsense are you spouting? Why would I hold a grudge against Brother An?" Su Taizao knew Shen Yushu's temperament, and he also knew he could not afford to offend this little miss. Unhappy as he was, he could only defend himself.

"Because Brother An stole your girlfriend!" Shen Yushu said with a giggle.

"..." Su Taizao's face darkened. Shen Yushu had hit the mark, and his expression turned a little ugly. Still, he quickly regained control of himself. "That was back in our school days. I forgot all about it long ago — grudge doesn't even come into it..."

"Brother Taizao, Xiaoshu, stop talking about all that!" Gu Mengyao looked anxiously at An Liwen on the ground, whose breathing was growing more and more labored, then turned to Wei Zhao. "Wei Zhao, save him, will you?"

"Is this part of my job?" Wei Zhao asked.

"Um..." Gu Mengyao hesitated. "Consider it my personal request..."

"All right, then!" Wei Zhao did not care to meddle, but since Gu Mengyao had asked him, he could hardly refuse.

Had Gu Mengyao declared this to be her job and something that simply had to be done, Wei Zhao might have resisted a little. But since she called it a personal request, he had no choice but to save the man.

Wei Zhao went over to An Liwen with a marked lack of enthusiasm, lifted his eyelids to take a look, then said to Su Taizao, "Hey, come over and hold him up for me!"

"Okay..." Su Taizao had no idea what Wei Zhao did for a living, but since Wei Zhao could accurately name the cause of An Liwen's attack, and Gu Mengyao was so insistent that he treat him, he could only pin his hopes on Wei Zhao now.

More than ten minutes had passed already, and still there was no sound of an ambulance. It seemed just as Wei Zhao had said — the ambulance might never arrive before An Liwen kicked the bucket.

Su Taizao propped An Liwen up, and Wei Zhao casually pressed on several acupoints along his back. Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu stood in front of An Liwen — Gu Mengyao's face tense with worry, Shen Yushu's brimming with curiosity.

"Stand farther back!" Wei Zhao glanced up at Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu and said to them.

"Huh? Oh..." Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had no idea what was going on, but since Wei Zhao had given the order, they both stepped aside.

"What about me?" Su Taizao did not know whether Wei Zhao wanted him to move away too.

"If you let go, won't he just fall to the ground?" Wei Zhao rolled his eyes. "You don't find him disgusting, do you?"

"No, of course not..." Su Taizao blinked, somewhat baffled. He thought Wei Zhao was asking whether he minded holding An Liwen like this.

"Whoa—"

The words had scarcely left Su Taizao's mouth when An Liwen's jaw dropped wide and everything he had eaten came spewing out, spraying everywhere in a great messy arc. The tragedy was that Su Taizao, who stood before him holding him up, caught the full brunt of it — his head and face were plastered with An Liwen's filth...

Su Taizao's expression froze. He wanted to let go and bolt, but he forced himself to endure it.

"Brother Su..." The effeminate-looking man was clearly the type to play Su Taizao's lackey. Seeing Su Taizao covered in vomit, he hurriedly fished out a tissue and handed it over...

Nauseated as he was, Su Taizao still waved it off — because he had seen An Liwen's eyeballs moving, which meant An Liwen was about to wake up...

Naturally, Su Taizao could hardly stand there wiping his face while An Liwen came to: "Brother An, how are you feeling?"

"Taizao... I'm much better..." Weak as An Liwen was, he could still manage a complete sentence.

Wei Zhao released his hold and stood up, not even glancing at An Liwen: "He won't die. A stomach pump in a bit and he'll be about right."

A complicated look flickered across An Liwen's face. Wei Zhao had saved him — of that he was perfectly clear. He had only been in agony before, not unconscious, and as Wei Zhao's rival in love, An Liwen felt thoroughly wretched about it.

If Wei Zhao had not saved him, he might well be dead by now. Yet to bow his head to Wei Zhao and give up Gu Mengyao was utterly beyond him. After hesitating for a long while, he forced out a few feeble words to Wei Zhao: "Mr. Lin, thank you... What happened today, I will remember. One day I will repay it!"

"No need. I don't want anything from you." Wei Zhao waved a hand, utterly uninterested in any repayment from An Liwen.

Wei Zhao had not saved him for the sake of repayment — only out of regard for Gu Mengyao.