Chapter 135 — Who's Pestering Whom? Could It Be That Once She Tongued-Lashed Him but Once, He Was Supposed to Be Cured? Give Up on Making a Move on Her?
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Still, that should be impossible. The key question was: how could Wei Zhao be on the bus? Didn't he have a private car and driver?
"You... did you get on this bus on purpose to ride with me?" Tang Zhi voiced the doubt in her heart.
"On purpose?" Wei Zhao smiled bitterly and rubbed his nose. "I got on first. How was I supposed to know you'd board in the shantytown? Can I predict the future?"
Heh, well now, funny she should say that. Wei Zhao unconsciously touched the jade pendant at his chest again. I really can predict... except the predictions aren't all that helpful. I never know the specific content, no helping it — can't read the signal, don't know what the hell this jade pendant means.
Hearing Wei Zhao's answer, Tang Zhi was slightly taken aback. True — she had boarded after him. How could he possibly have been sure she would get on? Even if he knew she took the No. 87 bus, it couldn't have been that much of a coincidence for them to end up on the same one. Besides, today she had been delayed a while because she had been trying to shake off that little thug...
Could that little thug have been sent by Wei Zhao, deliberately stalling for time, working with him to stage a whole hero-rescues-the-beauty act? The moment the thought surfaced, Tang Zhi found it laughable herself. From what she could tell, Wei Zhao was not that sort of idle, bored person. The man was arrogant; he should consider such tricks beneath him. And the little thug had been pestering her for a long time — back then Wei Zhao hadn't even transferred to this school yet. The possibility was practically nil!
"Oh..." Tang Zhi nodded, more or less accepting Wei Zhao's explanation: the two of them really had just run into each other by coincidence.
"Do you need something?" Wei Zhao saw Tang Zhi standing in front of him, showing no sign of leaving, and had no idea what she wanted.
Tang Zhi froze for a moment and looked at Wei Zhao in disbelief, mouth falling open in astonishment. "You're not going to pester me?"
Deep down, Tang Zhi was still a little afraid of Wei Zhao. On the bus, he had been shielding her the whole way; once off, she had no idea whether he would keep pestering her. Yet unexpectedly, Wei Zhao was asking whether she needed anything.
"What would I pester you for?" Wei Zhao was taken aback too, then smiled bitterly. "Say two more words and you'll be late..."
"Ah!" Tang Zhi glanced at her watch, stamped her foot in fury, shot Wei Zhao a hateful glare, and took off running toward the school... though her face burned with the flush of a sunset cloud. Just now, the way Wei Zhao put it, it was almost as if she were the one pestering him! Why had she lingered, if not out of fear?
Whatever faint goodwill toward Wei Zhao she had felt on the bus vanished without a trace, leaving only boundless annoyance.
Watching Tang Zhi's ponytail sway in the wind, Wei Zhao smiled faintly. Youth. How wonderful.
Tang Zhi ran panting to the school gate and nearly collided head-on with someone who was just coming out. She hurriedly skirted aside — and saw that the person emerging was Zou Ruoming!
"Mother of hell, who walks without eyes? Almost ran right into your daddy!" Zou Ruoming cursed on reflex. But as he finished, he made out Tang Zhi standing by the gate, a little flustered, and a grin instantly spread across his face. "Yun-yun! Sorry about that, I thought it was someone else. If I'd known it was you, I'd have welcomed you to bump right into me! How about it — shall we bump?"
Hearing Zou Ruoming's foul, flippant words, Tang Zhi's face darkened. "Zou Ruoming, don't talk nonsense."
"Hey, nonsense? I'm not talking nonsense at all!" Zou Ruoming leered all over his face. With crowds around during the day, he naturally wouldn't get too far out of line at school, but school-entry time had already passed and there was no one coming or going at the gate, so he could no longer hold himself back. "Yun-yun, made up your mind yet? Be my girl?"