Chapter 167 — Two Unlucky Experts
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Wei Zhao turned and walked over to Shen Yushu's Beetle, got in, started the engine, and drove off toward the villa district.
This was a stretch of national highway in poor condition, with no streetlights at night, so few cars ever passed through. Wei Zhao had not seen a single vehicle in all this time, and he was not worried about anyone discovering him.
When Wei Zhao got back to the villas, the lights were blazing inside. He did not put the car back in Shen Yushu's garage, but parked it in the courtyard of Gu Mengyao's villa.
It just so happened that Wei Zhao had no car to drive, so for the time being he would borrow the little girl Shen Yushu's car. He doubted she would object.
Perhaps because someone had heard the sound of the car pulling into the villa's courtyard, the front door swung open—though the one who opened it was neither Gu Mengyao nor Shen Yushu, but Uncle Qing.
"Mr. Lin, you're back," Uncle Qing said with a nod to Wei Zhao.
"Uncle Qing, you're still here?" Wei Zhao was somewhat surprised. Dealing with those two Yellow-rank experts had taken him all the way out to the national highway, easily close to an hour, and yet Uncle Qing had still not gone home.
Ordinarily, after Uncle Qing drove Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu to the villa, he would simply leave.
"Mr. Gu is here as well. Please come in quickly, Mr. Lin," Uncle Qing said to Wei Zhao.
"Oh? Uncle Chu is here too?" What surprised Wei Zhao even more was that Gu Pengzhan would actually come to the villa so late at night.
Wei Zhao followed Uncle Qing inside, and there he saw Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu sitting on the large sofa with their heads lowered, the very picture of well-behaved children, while on the small sofa to one side Gu Pengzhan was lecturing them with a dark face. Only when he caught sight of Wei Zhao did a trace of a smile squeeze onto his face: "Xiaoyi, you're back. Come, sit down."
Gu Mengyao glanced at Wei Zhao with a look of grievance. Shen Yushu had been right—Daddy's attitude toward him was unbelievably good, so good it was practically excessive; he was never like this with her. When she came home, she got a thorough scolding, yet when Wei Zhao came home, Daddy was all smiles.
If she did not know her father's character so well, she would truly have thought Wei Zhao was his illegitimate son.
If not for Wei Zhao, would she have been in such a bad mood that she went drinking? Besides... she had not taken a single sip.
And yet the treatment she and Wei Zhao received was as different as heaven and earth. She really could not fathom what Daddy was thinking, being so good to such a flippant, shameless womanizer. If she were to tell him about how this man flirted with other women at school and in bars, she wondered whether Daddy would still treat him this way.
Of course, Gu Mengyao only thought about it. These words she could not bring herself to say, nor would she have the nerve to say them.
"Xiaoyi, you've had a hard time. We owe tonight's affair to you," Gu Pengzhan said to Wei Zhao with a smile.
"It was nothing, Uncle Chu." Wei Zhao smiled. "Truthfully, I didn't do much."
"These two girls just won't listen. Old Chen entrusted his daughter to me, and I've failed to look after her properly—running off with Yaoyao to stir up trouble..." Gu Pengzhan said. "If not for you, I really don't know what might have happened."
"Ha, Uncle Chu, tonight's business really isn't Miss Gu's fault, nor Xiaoshu's." Looking at the aggrieved Gu Mengyao and the indifferent Shen Yushu, Wei Zhao explained to Gu Pengzhan.