Chapter 147 — News Travels Fast Around Campus
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"Yunyun, honestly now — do you like Wei Zhao or not?" Her laughter finished, Liu Xinlan put on a perfectly serious expression.
"I... how would I like him? Isn't he the one pestering me?" Tang Zhi pursed her lips, somewhat vexed.
"Is that the truth?" Liu Xinlan said. "Yunyun, let me tell you, you must be careful, don't let yourself be fooled. Xiaofen is a lesson to us all. Sure, you're a little prettier than most, but you've got nothing else to fall back on. Don't be taken in, or you'll regret it when it's too late."
"Wenwen, do you still not believe me... It's that villain Wei Zhao who keeps pestering me... How could I ever accept his confession?" Tang Zhi said. "You... who did you hear it from?"
"Oh, then that's good..." Liu Xinlan nodded. "Who did I hear it from... that's really hard to say. Everyone's saying it, and I don't know who started it, but now the rumor's getting more and more outrageous. They all say you and Wei Zhao are already together..."
"Ugh." Tang Zhi gave a bitter smile and stamped her foot, a little vexed. "What am I supposed to do? Wenwen, tell me, what am I supposed to do?"
"How about I go and talk to him? How can he act like that? You're afraid of him, but I'm not." Liu Xinlan was famously fierce; her mother was a regular termagant too, and Liu Xinlan had inherited her mother's fine tradition from an early age. At twelve she had gone with her mother to sell vegetables in the market, and could scare off protection-racket thugs with a cleaver in hand...
"Forget it... You don't know. He's formidable — he does whatever he pleases, and he beat up both Zhong Yongliang and Zou Ruoming, and neither of them dared say a word... Don't you go." Tang Zhi did not want anything to happen to Liu Xinlan. This was not the sort of thing that mere fierceness could handle.
"Ugh..." Liu Xinlan had heard a few things about Wei Zhao's exploits. Young Master Lin was no longer merely a matter of deep connections — he was utterly unrestrained and tyrannical. Of the four great campus villains, he had beaten two within a few days of transferring in, and nothing had come of it...
Liu Xinlan privately judged that she was no match for him, and that going would gain her nothing but trouble, so she said indignantly: "The way I see it, this is almost certainly Wei Zhao's doing — he's the one spreading it."
"Huh?" Tang Zhi was startled and looked at Liu Xinlan in some confusion.
"Don't you get it? He failed to win you over, so he seized the chance to stir things up, to make your relationship an established fact. By then everyone will know you're his girlfriend, and you'll have no choice but to accept your fate." Liu Xinlan's conjecture was malicious.
"I don't think he would... He... shouldn't be that kind of person, should he?" Tang Zhi frowned. From the impression Wei Zhao had left her these past few days, he was detestable, yes, but she did not think he was the sort to spread rumors behind someone's back. In her view, Wei Zhao deliberately disguised himself as a courteous gentleman; even after she had seen through him, he would not stoop to such despicable tricks, for that would only make her detest him all the more.
"Why wouldn't he? Huh? Yunyun, why are you still speaking up for him? 'He shouldn't be that kind of person'? What, have you actually started to fall for him?" Liu Xinlan sensed something off in Tang Zhi's words, as if she were somewhat defending Wei Zhao.
Could this girl really have developed some feelings for Wei Zhao? At the thought, Liu Xinlan's face turned grave, and an ominous notion welled up from the bottom of her heart... Could it be that Yunyun's heart was about to fall?
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