Chapter 112 — Could He Be an Illegitimate Son [Begging for Monthly Tickets, Fourth Bonus Update]
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"Yaoyao, your imagination really is too powerful... Chewing Gum Guy is about the same age as you and me, isn't he? If he were an illegitimate son, it would have to be from around the time Uncle Gu met your mother. But back then... was it possible? Was there even the opportunity?" Shen Yushu shook her head, speechless.
"Uh... so I was wrong? But apart from that, what other explanation is there?" Gu Mengyao gave up on her idea too — it really was too far-fetched.
"Yaoyao, I think Uncle Gu is choosing a son-in-law. He's treating Chewing Gum Guy like a son-in-law..." Shen Yushu gave a sly little smile and said teasingly. But for some reason, saying those words left her with a faint discomfort in her heart.
"Choosing a son-in-law?" Gu Mengyao's mouth fell open in astonishment, and she stared at Shen Yushu blankly. "Xiaoshu... are you serious?"
"Serious or not, I don't know. It's only my guess." Shen Yushu shrugged. "It just feels a bit like that to me. Maybe it's not so at all..."
"How could that be? I'm only eighteen... and already... No, impossible, absolutely impossible..." Gu Mengyao shook her head again and again, her face red. "Xiaoshu, what do you think?"
"What do I think? I think you and Chewing Gum Guy are quite a match." Shen Yushu smiled. "He can drive, he can cook, and he can fight. That's not bad at all..."
"I don't want him!" Gu Mengyao refused instinctively, yet deep in her heart that strange, restless feeling stirred and surged... Did Daddy really want him to be my boyfriend? Could it be that he is not merely pretending to be a shield?
If that were so... he could at least protect her. That scene at the bank had already given Gu Mengyao a deep sense of security and dependence on Wei Zhao... But the young lady's little pride and self-regard only made her find Wei Zhao all the more detestable.
If that were really so, then he was still out there dallying with other girls — how could Daddy possibly take a liking to a man like that? Surely she and Xiaoshu had misunderstood. Perhaps her father had some other deeper intention...
Torn between hope and doubt, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu reached the underground parking garage and got into Uncle Qing's Bentley. Only then did Gu Mengyao give a long, quiet sigh. "Xiaoshu, tell me, how likely is that guess from before?"
"It could be zero percent, or it could be fifty percent, or more likely it's a hundred percent..." Shen Yushu had recovered her composure and said with a grin. "But I feel that depends on which one you're hoping for, Yaoyao."
"Me? What would I be hoping for? He's got a thing for Qiu Lingshan, and then there's that pretty girl we ran into on the commercial street yesterday. What do any of them have to do with me?" Gu Mengyao was running Wei Zhao down, yet her tone carried a faint sour note.
"Heh heh..." Shen Yushu gave a little laugh, but inwardly she sighed. Could it be that Sister Yao has fallen for him too?
After Uncle Qing finished inspecting the car, he climbed in, and Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu dropped their conversation as well. Gu Mengyao's expression flickered between petulance and delight, and no one could tell what she was thinking...
Shen Yushu pursed her lips and thought to herself: Sister Yao has surely come down with spring fever. If only I had known, I never would have told her...