Chapter 182 — A Wake-Up Call
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"Uh... all right." Wei Zhao looked at the two star-chasers, each talking over the other, and nodded. It was a trifling matter, buying a disc; Wei Zhao thought nothing of it.
"Ha, Sister Yao Yao, you're so clever. Now that we've got Arrowhead Bro to run errands, the two of us don't have to walk so far!" Shen Yushu had been grumbling a little that the bookstore was a good distance away, about a kilometer, and it was awkward to trouble Uncle Qing to come at noon. Seeing Gu Mengyao hand the whole thing straight to Wei Zhao, she was instantly delighted.
"I'm paying him to come here, not to chase girls. Of course I'll put him to work!" Gu Mengyao pursed her lips and shot Wei Zhao a glare.
"Heh." Wei Zhao gave a wry smile. Him, chasing girls? That was hardly any business of hers, surely? So long as he did not steal the young lady away... A follower had to have a love life too...
When Uncle Qing's car drove into the shantytown, Wei Zhao deliberately looked out the window and saw Tang Zhi standing safe and sound on the platform waiting for the bus. Wei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed the little rogue had not pestered Tang Zhi today...
Gao Ruoming was furious! Yes, furious beyond all measure! Wei Zhao and Tang Zhi had actually ended up together?
The news that Wei Zhao had confessed his feelings to Tang Zhi and that Tang Zhi had shyly accepted had naturally reached Gao Ruoming as well. A campus is only so big; how could the second of the campus's Four Young Devils fail to hear what everyone else knew?
Originally Gao Ruoming had planned it all out neatly: he would force Tang Zhi's hand there at her mother's place, creating the false impression that Tang Zhi was his, Gao Ruoming's, girlfriend, and let the whole school know it as fact. Backed into a corner, Tang Zhi might then have agreed to go out with him!
But plans cannot keep pace with change. Gao Ruoming had never expected Wei Zhao to come crashing in out of nowhere like a Cheng Yaojin, wrecking his scheme and, what was more, slapping him across the face and making him a laughingstock!
This left Gao Ruoming deeply humiliated and hating Wei Zhao into the bargain. He meant to have his elder brother, Gao Ruoguang, step forward and teach Wei Zhao a lesson. But because of what had just happened with Brother Black Panther, Gao Ruoming did not dare to have his brother come to the school and rough someone up so openly. He could only wait for a fitting chance, or for this whole business to blow over.
After all, even Brother Black Panther had been hauled into the station and was said to be facing a prison term. Though the affair had been hushed up by Zhong Yongliang's father and Zhong Yongliang himself had not been implicated, the fact that Zhong Yongliang's father, Zhong Fabai, for all his clout, had been unable to spring the man proved just how big this thing had grown!
In truth, Songshan No. 1 High School was no ordinary high school, but a private institution with powerful backers! Qie Ruoming could well imagine that if Zhong Yongliang's uncle had not been one of the school's board members, anyone else caught up in this affair would have been expelled long ago.
So Qie Ruoming could only grit his teeth and endure it for now. But before that opportunity ever came, yesterday's rumor, which had swept through the school like wildfire, struck him like a blow to the head and left him dazed!
Tang Zhi had actually accepted Wei Zhao's confession? What the hell, was there some mistake? That brat Wei Zhao did not look like he was any better than himself, equally arrogant, equally a spoiled rich kid, equally notorious. So how had Tang Zhi taken a fancy to him?