Chapter 65 — Do You Like Him
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"Just teasing you, haha." Seeing that she had failed to get a rise out of Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu lost interest and did not press further. "I just can't stand Qiu Lingshan. She wants to touch one of ours? Not a chance."
"Right... Wei Zhao may be my follower, but he's still one of mine," Gu Mengyao said. For some reason, hearing Shen Yushu's explanation, she actually felt relieved.
This feeling, coming from nowhere, left her quite bewildered, but Gu Mengyao did not think much about it.
Though Zhong Yongliang had put on a calm front before Gao Xiaofu and Zhang Naipao, in truth he was more frightened than anyone — not of Wei Zhao's revenge, but of Brother Black Panther naming him once he was in the lockup.
If that happened, he would become the mastermind behind the whole affair. Who knew whether it would drag him in? And once it did, his father would certainly punish him severely — might even transfer him to another school over it.
Catching sight of Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu laughing and talking not far off, Zhong Yongliang grew all the more irritated. He was, after all, something of a celebrity at school, and yet he did not even have a girlfriend — it was positively laughable. Meanwhile Zou Ruoming, no less a campus tyrant than he, had already been through more girlfriends than anyone could count. Word was he was now setting his sights on Tang Zhi, the school's so-called commoner beauty.
To be honest, Zhong Yongliang had only started noticing Tang Zhi after hearing recently that Zou Ruoming meant to pursue her. She was a girl of clear, refined beauty; though she wore the school uniform, it could not hide the soft loveliness of her looks. Still, set beside little princesses like Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, she came up a notch short.
Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu came from prominent families, chauffeured to and from school in luxury cars, while Tang Zhi, of comparatively ordinary origins, did not stand out so conspicuously. Were one to judge by looks alone, Tang Zhi was in no way inferior to Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu; her figure, indeed, was slightly the better of Gu Mengyao's.
Yet Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu occupied a lofty, untouchable station, carrying themselves each day with an air that warned strangers to keep their distance. Zhong Yongliang, for his part, was not afraid that some other fly might get there first, for in this school he was the only one who dared to court Gu Mengyao.
So Zhong Yongliang was in no hurry; he had patience enough to win Gu Mengyao over. But Wei Zhao's arrival shattered his original plan, and in a fit of rage he had summoned Brother Black Panther to the school without a thought for the consequences — and what he never anticipated was that Brother Black Panther would, with even less regard for consequences, draw a gun.
In that instant the whole nature of the affair changed: from thugs making trouble at a school to members of a gang committing armed violence on school grounds. Zhong Yongliang was terrified that Brother Black Panther, unable to hold out, would give him up as well — and then, never mind courting Gu Mengyao, whether he could even go on studying at the school would be another matter entirely.
Returning from Gu Pengzhan's place, Wei Zhao glanced at the time on his phone: it was already past eleven in the morning. If he went to school now, there would be no classes; and he was somewhat worried about Yang Huaijun's injury. He had come away in such haste that he had brought no books on traditional Chinese medicine. After a moment's hesitation, Wei Zhao flagged down a taxi and said to the driver, "Take me to the biggest bookstore in this city."
"Young man, the biggest bookstores in this city are Xinhua Bookstore and Xuehai Bookstore — they're about the same size. But what sort of books are you looking to buy?" the taxi driver asked after hearing him out.