Chapter 61 — The Girl He Could Never Forget All His Life
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Without even turning his head, Wei Zhao casually caught his arm. "If you can."
Yang Huaijun knew the gap between himself and Wei Zhao was no small thing. He let the strength drain from his arm in something like dejection, and at the same moment Wei Zhao released him, opened the door, and walked out of the office.
Though Wei Zhao's expression showed no change, his thoughts drifted involuntarily back to those years of raging war... to the girl who had crossed his fate, only to part from it.
Over these past two years, Wei Zhao had often woken with a start from his nighttime cultivation, drenched in sweat each time — something that had never happened to him since he began practicing the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. Yet those melancholy eyes lingered like a demon in his heart, repeating endlessly, filling his nights.
Every time that sorrowful, resentful look from their parting rose before him, Wei Zhao would start awake from his cultivation before he could stop himself. It was a nightmare that recurred without end...
Had he truly forgotten her? Clearly not. She was a girl whom any man could see once and never forget for the rest of his life... Yet Wei Zhao understood just as clearly that her dazzling radiance did not belong to him.
If the seventeen-year-old Wei Zhao had still possessed a trace of defiance, the Wei Zhao of the present understood the cruelty of reality far better. Going to find her would only bring trouble to her and to those around her. Their families were not of equal standing, their stations worlds apart; a nobody courting a princess—that was the stuff of novels, sheer nonsense.
From the moment Wei Zhao was led away by the police, Chief Chen's telephone at the station had not stopped ringing. The first call was from Ding Binggong, principal of No. 1 High School. Chief Chen still treated Ding Binggong's call with considerable caution, promising that he would definitely investigate the matter thoroughly.
But the people who called afterward were of ever greater consequence. First came Uncle Qing, who was at Gu Pengzhan's side; after that, Gu Pengzhan himself telephoned to inquire about the matter.
With no other recourse, Chief Chen could only dial Qiu Lingshan's number, hoping to urge her to handle the case as quickly as possible and to be absolutely fair and impartial, so that no one could find fault and make an issue of it.
But the word from Qiu Lingshan was that Wei Zhao had been taken away by Yang Huaijun, who had just returned. Chief Chen had no choice but to dial Yang Huaijun's number as well.
"What? He has already been released?" Chief Chen was somewhat taken aback. Wasn't Yang Huaijun handling this a little too fast?
"Yes. It was an underworld gang that came to the school to stir up trouble in the first place; Wei Zhao had nothing to do with it. After I looked into the situation, I told him to go back." Yang Huaijun had recovered his usual brisk, efficient tone as he made his report.
"As long as there's no trouble, that's what matters." Chief Chen let out a breath of relief. This time he would be able to answer to Ding Binggong and Gu Pengzhan.
When Qiu Lingshan learned that Yang Huaijun had released Wei Zhao, she too was stunned for a good while. But she knew in her heart that Wei Zhao bore no real responsibility, because she had just gotten the whole story out of two of Brother Black Panther's underlings: it had been Brother Black Panther who went looking for trouble first, and only then had Wei Zhao struck him.