Chapter 2461 — Back at the Resort

"I'm fine, Teacher Bai. Sorry to trouble you," Wei Zhao said with a smile.

"I'm fine too..." Wang Xinyan nodded.

"Good. I've sorted out the rooms. Wei Zhao, you're sharing with Bai Weituo, and Wang Xinyan, you're with Han Jingyi. Here are your key cards." Bai Lingtou handed the cards to Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan.

Kang Jinglong knew his behavior today had angered Bai Lingtou badly. Though the man had not called him out openly, he slunk upstairs with You Panhu all the same. He was rooming with You Panhu anyway, so he did not need a key card from Bai Lingtou.

"Head back for now. Dinner soon, and there are activities arranged for tonight. Take this time to rest up," Bai Lingtou instructed Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan.

"Yes, will do." Wei Zhao nodded, and he and Wang Xinyan took the elevator upstairs together.

"Wei Zhao... could you not make things so tense with Kang Jinglong..." Inside the elevator, Wang Xinyan was silent for a long while before she finally spoke.

"Oh?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback, not quite understanding why Wang Xinyan would suddenly say such a thing. But since she had said it, she must have her concerns. What puzzled him, though, was that Wang Xinyan clearly disliked Kang Jinglong—after today's affair, she even looked at him with disgust. So why plead on his behalf now?

Wei Zhao was no fool, though. On second thought, if Wang Xinyan was not speaking up for Kang Jinglong, then she must be considering things from his side. In other words, her request that he not make things too tense with Kang Jinglong was probably out of concern for him. But why?

Kang Jinglong was no cultivator, and the backing behind him was nothing more than the Hidden You family. Today Wei Zhao had struck down two of the Hidden You family's fine fighters without fear—so why would he fear offending them?

At that thought, Wei Zhao ventured, "On the road today, those two robbers who showed up later were probably sent by You Panhu. One was an early-stage Heaven-rank expert, the other at the peak of late-stage Earth-rank. One's dead, one's wounded—my grudge with the You family is already set. Barring the unexpected, there's no chance of burying it."

"What! Those two were from the Hidden You family?" Wang Xinyan was startled. "And a Heaven-rank expert, too?"

"But my guess is those two were meant to help Kang Jinglong play the hero and save the beauty. It's just that Kang Jinglong had rotten luck and ran into real robbers..." Wei Zhao said with a chuckle.

Wang Xinyan was sharp as ice and snow. From Wei Zhao's words she immediately pieced together the whole sequence of events, and understood just why Kang Jinglong had suddenly stepped forward to defend her! It made sense—when the man laid eyes on that giant soft-shelled turtle, he had turned pale as dirt and even said he would stay out of her and Wei Zhao's affairs. Nothing about that looked like the sort who had the guts to play hero. So there had been something else going on all along.

She gave a faint sigh. Glad as she was for Wei Zhao, she could not help worrying. He might be able to defeat an early-stage Heaven-rank expert at the peak of mid-stage Earth-rank, but that was only enough to overawe the level of the hidden families. Against the ancient level, it truly would not measure up.

You Panhu was fawning over Kang Jinglong like this now, and Wang Xinyan had seen it all with her own eyes. Wei Zhao simply had not thought about it deeply, but Wang Xinyan, who understood the workings behind it, knew full well that You Panhu's flattery of Kang Jinglong must be because of Kang Jingming.

"Kang Jinglong and I are classmates, after all, and he... is my nominal fiancé. Before we graduate, I don't want to make things difficult for my family..." Wang Xinyan said quietly. But she had already laid out the situation clearly enough, and she trusted Wei Zhao would understand.

"All right." Wei Zhao said no more. What he had learned today was already far more than before, and he understood the value of proceeding step by step and probing from the side.

Upstairs, Wei Zhao found his room by the key card. The moment he opened the door, he saw He Meiyue was there too. The two of them were watching TV and eating fruit—quite the romantic scene.

"Should I leave?" Wei Zhao said with a smile.

"Brother Lin, Meiyue and I were waiting for you..." Bai Weituo said, a little embarrassed. "Jingjing told us earlier that you jumped off the cable car—gave us quite a fright."

"Ha, I'm fine. You two go ahead and enjoy yourselves—I'll step out for a bit?" Wei Zhao said.

Without waiting for Bai Weituo to respond, Wei Zhao pushed the door open and left, leaving the opportunity to him and He Meiyue. Then he turned and headed for Wang Xinyan's room, intending to check on Han Jingyi.

He knocked, and Han Jingyi's voice came from inside: "Who is it?"

"Jingjing, it's me," Wei Zhao said.

"Oh." Hearing Wei Zhao's voice, Han Jingyi opened the door, let him in, and then quickly shut it again behind him.

Wei Zhao was a little puzzled by her behavior. Was there any need to be as careful as if guarding against a thief? This was a resort—it wasn't as if robbers were going to break down the door and loot the place.

But the moment Wei Zhao looked up and took in the scene in the room, he froze. Wang Xinyan was in the middle of changing clothes, her bra just taken off. Her fair, jade-like body and the two beautiful big rabbits on her chest leaped into Wei Zhao's view, leaving him dumbstruck!

Wang Xinyan was stunned at that moment too. It had never occurred to her that Han Jingyi would actually go and open the door under such circumstances! She had just gotten back and was about to change into fresh underclothes for a shower. Earlier, the giant soft-shelled turtle had frightened her into a cold sweat, and girls do love their cleanliness—so naturally she had stripped off her underclothes the moment she returned to the room.

When someone knocked, Han Jingyi went to ask who it was, and Wang Xinyan had thought nothing of it. She was changing; Han Jingyi was no fool—how could she possibly open the door for just anyone? But what Wang Xinyan never expected was that Han Jingyi really did open it!

The person who came in was Wei Zhao. Whether Han Jingyi was being clever or foolish, Wang Xinyan was left speechless!

"I... I didn't see anything. I didn't see your chest." Wei Zhao covered his eyes with his hands—but did not close them, and through the gaps between his fingers he could still see Wang Xinyan's body.

"..." How could Wang Xinyan not see what Wei Zhao was doing? Annoyed and angry, yet not knowing whether to laugh or cry, she simply dropped the hand she had meant to cover her chest with and scolded, "Still looking? Fine, look away—it's not as if you haven't seen it before!"

At that, Wei Zhao grew embarrassed. He shut his eyes, feeling he had gone a bit too far. Wang Xinyan had not even agreed to be his girlfriend yet, so this was rather improper. He hurriedly turned his back.

Wang Xinyan did not know what to say. What she had said was out of pique anyway, and now that Wei Zhao had turned around, she felt a little shy again. She gave up on the shower, quickly changed into a fresh set of underclothes and put her clothes on, and it was at that moment that Wei Zhao turned back around.