Chapter 621 — I've Got Arrow Brand Bro

"All right, first things first — this concerns you!" Gu Pengzhan wasted no time on pleasantries. "Li Cihua came to see me today. Between the lines, he was fishing for information about your injuries and your background. I didn't tell him anything, but I don't know whether he read something into my vague answers. I have a feeling Zhao Qibing won't let this slide this time. He'll definitely want to move against you, so you'd better be prepared!"

"Asking around about me, is he?" Wei Zhao smiled faintly. "Let him. If they want to come after me, they're welcome to try!"

Wei Zhao was wary of the people around Zhao Qibing, but he was far from afraid of them! He'd been badly hurt in this clash, but he had the jade pendant's cultivation space! Wei Zhao refused to believe that old man Zhu had some similar treasure. Even if he stuffed himself with rare heavenly treasures, as Elder Jiao had said, he wouldn't recover without half a year to a year!

So Wei Zhao wasn't the least bit afraid of Zhao Qibing's revenge. Send as many skilled men as you like — I'll fight you to a mutual wreck, then run! I run back, recover overnight, and the next day I come looking for more of your best men! There's no way you've got an endless supply of them. Once all your fighters are laid up in bed, let's see if you're still smiling then!

With the jade pendant space, unless Wei Zhao ran into an especially formidable expert, he had nothing to fear at all!

"Be that as it may, you still need to be careful." Hearing Wei Zhao's words, Gu Pengzhan knew he had some confidence in himself, and he was less worried than before. "I don't want anything to happen to you either."

"Don't worry, Uncle Gu. If I can't win, I'll run..." Wei Zhao didn't think there was anything shameful about running from a fight he couldn't win. What was shameful about it? Fighting on stubbornly when you can't win — that's what's actually insane!

"Then I'm relieved." Gu Pengzhan nodded and went on. "The second thing — I'd like you to help me find out why Yao Yao went with Zhong Yongliang to that Twin Swallow Mountain place. Things were rushed before, so I didn't ask. I meant to ask yesterday, but then you had your incident, and I didn't want to bring up unpleasant matters, so I'm asking you to look into it for me..."

"That, I really don't know anything about," Wei Zhao said. "I'll find a chance to ask and give you a call?"

"No rush. Don't go out of your way to ask — do it when the opportunity comes." Gu Pengzhan didn't want to meddle too much in his daughter's private life. She was grown up now, and not so easily fooled besides. There had to be a reason she'd gone up the mountain with Zhong Yongliang.

"Fine, I'll ask when I get the chance." Wei Zhao nodded, also feeling that bringing the question up with Gu Mengyao out of the blue would be inappropriate.

After passing through the highway toll station, Chen Yuxuan still couldn't give up. He dialed Qiu Lingshan's number again.

Her tone, however, was cold: "Chen Yuxuan? You're back? What is it?"

Qiu Lingshan had saved this number in her phone yesterday, but clearly her relationship with Chen Yuxuan was nothing more than friendship.

"Nothing much. Just letting you know I'm back." Chen Yuxuan always felt stifled in front of Qiu Lingshan. Her forceful manner made him uncomfortable, yet he couldn't muster the will to resist her.

"Oh. I see," Qiu Lingshan said flatly. "Anything else? If not, I'm hanging up."

"Are you really not free tonight?" Chen Yuxuan hesitated, then asked anyway.

"No, I'm busy. Hanging up now!" And before Chen Yuxuan could say another word, Qiu Lingshan ended the call.

Chen Yuxuan put his phone away with a self-mocking smile and dialed An Liwen's number. "Second Brother, where are you?"

"Taizao and I got to the Starlight Grand Hotel a while ago — VIP Room One on the fifth floor! Little Shu and Yao Yao are coming tonight too," An Liwen said with a laugh.

"All right, I'll be there soon." Chen Yuxuan sighed. An Liwen was using him as a pretext to get close to Gu Mengyao — how could Chen Yuxuan not know that?

Still, wasn't it a little odd that his own sister had so few suitors? In the past, Chen Yuxuan had worried that someone might harass her and disrupt her studies and life. But now she was eighteen, about to start university, and still no one was pursuing her — wasn't that a bit abnormal?

Then he thought of his sister's disposition, and Chen Yuxuan broke into a sweat. With a personality like hers, probably very few men could keep up with her, could they? All day long it was either pranking people or pranking people — and when she wasn't doing that, she was off in her own silly little world. Back then, Wu Xiaocan had merely been bewitched by Shen Yushu's looks. If he'd known what her personality was really like, he probably wouldn't have dared make a move so easily!

If someone took Shen Yushu home — well, if his sister liked him, fine. But if she didn't, the poor guy would probably be toyed to death.

After thinking it over, Chen Yuxuan made another call — to Shen Yushu.

"Xiaoshu, where are you? Did you miss your big brother?" Chen Yuxuan sighed with feeling. Over a year away at the border, and he hadn't once returned to Songshan City; he had no idea how his little sister was doing. Back when he still lived in Songshan City, he had been her guardian angel. He wondered whether Shen Yushu still leaned on him the way she used to...

"Oh, Yaoyao and I were just about to head out!" Shen Yushu had been on the point of leaving when her brother's call came through. "I used to miss you. Not so much anymore. I've got Arrowbrand Bro now, so I don't need to miss you!"

"Arrowbrand Bro?" Chen Yuxuan was taken aback. "Who's Arrowbrand Bro?"

"Oh, he's Yaoyao's errand boy and bodyguard!" Shen Yushu was still sore at her brother for running off to special training, and even to the border to temper himself, all for the sake of a woman. So her manner toward Chen Yuxuan carried a lingering grudge, and given the chance to needle him now, she was hardly going to pass it up.

What was so great about that vixen Qiu Lingshan? She had her brother utterly bewitched, and she wouldn't even give him the time of day. Shen Yushu found it downright humiliating. Just look at how formidable Arrowbrand Bro was — he had Qiu Lingshan completely cowed, so cowed that she didn't dare cross him. Compared side by side, Arrowbrand Bro was clearly the more impressive one!

"What?" Chen Yuxuan was grinding his teeth in vexation. Where had this preposterous errand boy sprung from, stealing his thunder? His little sister had always worshipped him, and whenever she ran into trouble, he was the first person she thought of. How had it suddenly become Arrowbrand Bro?

It was humiliating enough that Chen Yuxuan hadn't managed to get Qiu Lingshan to come out with him, but now some so-called Arrowbrand Bro had appeared out of nowhere and usurped his place in his sister's heart. How could that not set Chen Yuxuan blazing with fury? He wished he could slap this Arrowbrand Bro clean out of sight.