Chapter 142 — Back Again
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Still, that scoundrel really has some nerve, daring even to harass Gu Mengyao! I have never heard of anyone harassing Gu Mengyao before!
Seeing that half the break was already gone and class was about to start, Tang Zhi had no choice but to head back to her classroom first—she would come again after this period. Just now the three campus beauties standing together had drawn a great many sidelong glances. Tang Zhi did not want to stand there and invite suspicion, so she hurried back to her own classroom...
Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had gone to the end of the corridor to look at the scenery for a while. When the bell rang, the two turned back, and saw that Tang Zhi was no longer there.
"Sister Yaoyao, Tang Zhi's gone," Shen Yushu said.
"I saw her... Xiaoshu, what do you think she came looking for Wei Zhao about?" Gu Mengyao had been pondering this question the whole time she was looking at the scenery.
"My guess is, maybe she wanted to borrow money," Shen Yushu said carelessly, for how could she possibly know?
"Borrow money?" Gu Mengyao's eyes went wide. Tang Zhi looking for Wei Zhao to borrow money?
"I'm just guessing," Shen Yushu said with a sly grin.
"You're awful!" Gu Mengyao gave Shen Yushu a rap on the head. "Forget it, never mind. Let's go back."
"Or how about, when she comes again, I ask her for you?" Shen Yushu blinked. "Or I could go to her class and find her?"
"Don't you dare!" Gu Mengyao glared at Shen Yushu. "Xiaoshu, are you doing this on purpose?"
"Hee hee..." Shen Yushu smiled and said nothing.
And so Tang Zhi stood at the doorway of Class Five's classroom, secretly peeking inside. She poked her head in, found that she had attracted a great deal of attention, and bashfully shrank back at once.
At the time, everyone was speculating about what Tang Zhi had come for. Then, when the second period ended, Tang Zhi came again—and that was a little strange.
Shen Yushu looked up and just happened to catch Tang Zhi shrinking back. That struck her as rather odd. Could she be looking for Wei Zhao again? Glancing at Gu Mengyao beside her, who was absorbed in her book, Shen Yushu rose quietly to her feet and slipped out of the classroom.
"Hey!" Shen Yushu saw Tang Zhi standing to one side with her head lowered, looking flustered, and walked over, waving a hand in front of her face.
"Ah..." Tang Zhi jumped in fright. She looked up and saw that it was Shen Yushu. "W-what is it?"
"You're Tang Zhi, right? I'm Shen Yushu," Shen Yushu introduced herself, though Tang Zhi surely already knew her name. "You've come looking for Wei Zhao again, haven't you?"
"I..." Tang Zhi did not know why Shen Yushu was asking, nor whether she bore Wei Zhao any ill will, but she nodded all the same. "Mm..."
"Oh. Wei Zhao isn't here, he hasn't been since this morning..." Shen Yushu said. "If there's something you need, shall I pass it on for you? I'm the study committee member, you know. Helping classmates is my duty and responsibility."
"He, he didn't come?" Tang Zhi looked at Shen Yushu in astonishment. She couldn't be lying to her, could she? She had ridden the same bus to school with Wei Zhao this morning, and he had taken advantage of her the whole way—could all of that have been her imagination?
"He didn't come," Shen Yushu said with a nod. "If you don't believe me, you can look for yourself. He sits in the last seat of the second row. See, there's no one there now."
"Oh." Since Shen Yushu had put it that way, Tang Zhi no longer doubted that she was lying to her—especially after she said she was the study committee member. A class officer surely wouldn't lie to people casually, would she? Tang Zhi was the study committee member of Class Nine herself, and so she felt considerably closer to Shen Yushu.