Chapter 989 — Any Regrets?

"Nothing, haha — Tang Zhi and I hit it off at first sight and have become good friends!" Feng Xiaoxiao said with a touch of smugness. "Right, Tang Zhi?"

"Right!" Tang Zhi said through gritted teeth.

Wei Zhao frowned, said nothing more, and bent his head to his wontons.

Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were at a table not far from Wei Zhao.

Gu Mengyao withdrew her gaze and said mildly, "Eat, Xiaoshu."

"Yao Yao, why is that Feng Xiaoxiao sitting with Chewing Gum Bro?" Shen Yushu asked, looking over at them in some bewilderment. "Aren't she and Tang Zhi love rivals?"

"Who knows?" Gu Mengyao shook her head, though she too was puzzled. But ever since the time Wei Zhao had risked himself to save her, her frame of mind had changed a great deal. She knew that in Wei Zhao's heart Tang Zhi's place was beyond replacement, and she no longer wished to set herself against Tang Zhi — that could only leave her own position more passive still.

"Oh, Yao Yao, do you think Tang Zhi got scared and found Chewing Gum Bro a little wife to check us?" Shen Yushu speculated, her mind running dark.

"Then why don't you go and ask?" Gu Mengyao said with a frown.

"On second thought, never mind..." Shen Yushu shook her head.

Wei Zhao, Tang Zhi, and Feng Xiaoxiao bent over their wontons. Wei Zhao and Tang Zhi would have liked to talk more with Feng Xiaoxiao, but the relations among them had plainly not been harmonious before, and there was no chance of finding common ground all at once; so after a hurried meal they went back to class.

As they were leaving the canteen, Feng Xiaoxiao saw that Wei Zhao meant to take Tang Zhi's hand. Quick as a thought, she darted a step ahead, seized Tang Zhi's hand herself, and said, "Wei Zhao, you go on ahead — I want a few words with Tang Zhi."

Wei Zhao frowned. "What do you want to say? Say it in front of me."

"Behind your back, of course it is something you are not to hear!" Feng Xiaoxiao said.

"Yunyun, don't believe a word she says," Wei Zhao said deliberately. If he said nothing at all and simply let Feng Xiaoxiao walk off with Tang Zhi, that would not be his usual way, and there was no guaranteeing Feng Xiaoxiao would not grow suspicious.

"Oh..." Tang Zhi nodded.

So Wei Zhao walked on ahead, while Feng Xiaoxiao, holding Tang Zhi's hand, followed behind.

"Tang Zhi, do you have any regrets?" Feng Xiaoxiao asked.

"Regrets about what? I am not the one who lost out," Tang Zhi said.

"Hmph, hmph!" Feng Xiaoxiao thought to herself: keep talking big — when the day comes that Wei Zhao and I are a settled fact, you will just have to swallow it and bear the pain.

"What are you hmph-ing about? A little wife is still a little wife — won't you have to do as I say from now on?" Tang Zhi said.

"Fine, fine, do as you say!" Feng Xiaoxiao thought Tang Zhi was suffering for the sake of saving face.

Each harboring her own secret designs, the two of them chatted and laughed their way back to the classroom, and Wei Zhao and Feng Xiaoxiao went in as well.

Feng Xiaoxiao was delighted. She had not expected Tang Zhi to be so easy to fool — a few words from her, and Tang Zhi had been led right into the trap!

"What were you saying to Tang Zhi earlier?" Wei Zhao asked Feng Xiaoxiao once they were back at their seats.

In truth, Wei Zhao was rather curious as to just what Tang Zhi had said to Feng Xiaoxiao! He knew Tang Zhi must have said something that pleased her, but since he and Tang Zhi had not yet had a chance to talk, he did not know the particulars, and so, once back in the classroom, he casually asked.

"Tang Zhi says she wants to find you a little wife!" Feng Xiaoxiao did not hide it. She felt she had to tell Wei Zhao what Tang Zhi meant, otherwise it would be useless for Tang Zhi to agree on her side while Wei Zhao refused on his.

"Huh?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. "Find me a little wife? Really?"

"Of course it is!" Feng Xiaoxiao nodded.

"It is not you she means, is it?" Wei Zhao asked in return.

"How did you guess?" Feng Xiaoxiao blinked.

"..." Wei Zhao paid her no mind, turned around, and took out his books...

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The head of the Yu family, Yu Dansen, was by now already a skilled hand of the early Earth Rank, having entered the mysterious Yu family to cultivate, single-mindedly pursuing the way of heaven and striving to step into the Heaven Rank!

Still, Yu Dansen was, after all, a man who had come out of the Yu family of the secular world, and every so often he would still telephone the Yu family; yet when the Yu family wished to find him, they could not, for when one devotes one's heart to cultivation, the years pass unnoticed — a flash might be a dozen days or a few months, and he could not be disturbed!

Today, Yu Dansen had just emerged from seclusion. He vaguely felt the signs of a breakthrough, from early Earth Rank to the peak strength of early Earth Rank, and so, the moment he came out, he hurriedly telephoned Yu Shuixing, wanting to tell him the good news and let him and Yu Bide rejoice as well!

These past two days, Yu Shuixing had been at his wit's end. The Yu family had run roughshod over the secular world for many years — who did not act according to the Yu family's moods? Nearly every great clan knew that Yu Dansen was a skilled hand of the Earth Rank who had entered the hidden Yu family, and so for a time the Yu family had quietly become the foremost of the great clans!

Over the years, the Yu family had likewise played the part of foremost clan, convening the grand assemblies of the great clans and holding auctions, riding high and mighty — unmatched for a time!

Yet all of it had been shattered by a man who appeared out of nowhere and broke every rule!

Wei Zhao, just what is your background?

Yu Shuixing gnashed his teeth as he stared at a file on Wei Zhao before him; the file recorded everything Wei Zhao had done since arriving in Songshan City! Every last deed reeked of absolute arrogance!

Zhao Qibing of the hidden clan had had his legs broken twice by Wei Zhao, and his mansion had been pushed down twice as well! And yet the hidden Zhao family had swallowed it all in silence... there must be something behind that! Yu Shuixing felt some regret that he had not considered these things before, thinking only that Wei Zhao had lost his strength, and so he had let the Xiao family and Zhao Qibing go make trouble for Wei Zhao!

And so, in the heat of the moment, disaster had finally been wrought!

Yu Shuixing blamed himself, and in his heart he hated Wei Zhao utterly! Now Yu Bide was dead, and Yu Kun was a cripple — what face did he have to meet his elder brother Yu Dansen? Back then, when his elder brother had placed the position of family head into his hands and gone alone into the hidden Yu family, his own grand boasts were still vivid before his eyes: he had vowed to make the Yu family ever more glorious and secure its place as the first clan of the great clans!

Yet how long had it been? Such a catastrophe had befallen the Yu family! What was he to do?

The Yu family had gone forth in a fury and returned with one dead and one wounded — by now they had surely become the laughingstock of the other great clans, had they not?

These past few days, Yu Shuixing had aged greatly in an instant, his eye sockets sunken deep; from the day the grievous news of Yu Bide had come, he had not had a single good night's sleep — the moment he closed his eyes, there was Yu Bide lying cold upon the mortuary cart!