Chapter 26 — The Commoner School Beauty
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Ha, but brother, if you really want to chase someone, there's still one other candidate," Kang Xiaofeng said in a low, mysterious voice.
"What candidate?" Wei Zhao asked offhandedly. Not that he cared about such things — he mainly wanted to learn more about the school through Kang Xiaofeng's chatter.
"Tang Zhi, from Class Nine, Senior Three." Kang Xiaofeng cleared his throat. "Our school's school beauty of the poor. She's very pretty, but her family's circumstances are like ours — nothing to speak of. She wears the school uniform every day and doesn't dress up, but even so she can't hide her beauty."
"Tang Zhi?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. The name was lovely enough, though he had no idea whether the girl was truly as beautiful as Kang Xiaofeng claimed.
"Of course, next to little princesses like Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, Tang Zhi doesn't stand out so much." Kang Xiaofeng's tone quickened and grew excited at the mention of Tang Zhi. "But by comparison, she's much closer to our level."
In a school like No. 1 Middle School, there were children of the wealthy and children of the poor alike. Imperceptibly, they had split into two factions. The rich young masters who had bought their way in gathered together, chasing beauties and playing at life all day long. After graduation, with the help of their money and family connections, they could get into the university of their dreams or even study abroad.
But the poor students studied ceaselessly, striving hard, if they hoped to test into their ideal university. Most of the poor students held the idle rich second generation in contempt, and those rich second generation in turn looked down on the bookworms who did nothing but study.
Still, it was hardly absolute. Among the rich second generation there were those who studied hard, and among the poor students there were those who fought and brawled and ran with the wrong crowd. But birds of a feather flock together, and the few lackeys around Zhong Yongliang were all rich second generation and official second generation whose families were much like his own.
So in Kang Xiaofeng's eyes, chasing Gu Mengyao or Shen Yushu was a dream beyond reach. Tang Zhi, the commoner school beauty, was someone they could actually hope to touch.
Looking at Kang Xiaofeng's somewhat hopeful smile, Wei Zhao sighed softly to himself. School was not the simple, innocent place he had imagined; it was full of interests and entanglements.
"You like her?" Wei Zhao asked with a smile.
"There's nothing to be ashamed of in that, I promise you. Plenty of the boys at this school — Tang Zhi is the girl of their dreams." Kang Xiaofeng spoke with certainty. "Brother, wait till you see her. Then you'll know I'm not lying."
Go after the commoner school beauty? It was a tempting suggestion... but in the end Wei Zhao shook his head. His identity now was that of a study companion, a book boy. Abandon the Young Miss to go chasing a girl? Even if Gu Pengzhan held his tongue, Old Man Wei would never let him off so easily. A man shouldn't be too much of a bastard about things; better to keep his head down.
Besides, the situation was hardly clear yet. He still hadn't worked out what Gu Pengzhan meant by all this. Surely the man wasn't expecting him to use his position to steal the Young Miss away? Hmm... now that he thought about it, that was quite likely... He and the Young Miss shared neither blood nor family ties; the only way he could give her love was that one. So if he went off courting some commoner school beauty and Gu Pengzhan got wind of it, what if the man fired him?
That would be what they called a thirty-thousand-a-month salary, the treatment of white-collar high society!