Chapter 190 — A Fragile Heart
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"Not today—it's getting late. Saturday, then; we'll come knocking right on time." Wei Zhao's phone had already buzzed twice; it was probably a text from Gu Mengyao or Shen Yushu, so he needed to hurry back.
"Well, all right then." Seeing Wei Zhao insist, Mother Tang had to let him go for now. "Yun'er, see your classmate out!"
"Oh..." Tang Zhi nodded reluctantly, but this time she did not refuse; head still lowered, saying nothing, she walked up to Wei Zhao.
"Heh." Wei Zhao gave a faint smile and turned to leave with Kang Xiaofeng. Tang Zhi followed along, neither ahead nor behind, and who knew what she was thinking.
"All right, if you don't want to see me out, you needn't. Go on back," Wei Zhao said, looking at Tang Zhi with some amusement.
"I never said that." Tang Zhi gave a soft huff. "Thanks for today." "I just happened to be passing by, that's all. If it had been anyone else, I might have stepped in too..." Wei Zhao had used the word "might," and in fact, if it had been anyone else, he might well have done nothing at all.
If he stuck his nose into every little thing, he might as well not stay here at all—he could just go be Ultraman or Spider-Man.
Of course Tang Zhi did not believe that Wei Zhao had just happened to be passing by. She figured that if not for her, a young master like him would never have bothered with such matters. But the more she owed Wei Zhao, the more uneasy she felt...
"Do you really want to go out with me?" Tang Zhi suddenly raised her head and looked at Wei Zhao.
"Huh?" Tang Zhi's reaction caught Wei Zhao off guard. He was rather surprised that she would ask such a thing out of the blue.
In truth, it had taken a great deal of courage for Tang Zhi to ask. Wei Zhao had barged into her family's life just like that—it was impossible for her to have no thoughts about it. She wanted to confirm just what his intentions really were.
Still, when Tang Zhi asked the question, she looked self-assured on the surface, but in reality she was terribly flustered. For a girl to ask such a thing made her face burn—thankfully it was night, and Wei Zhao probably could not tell.
Tang Zhi was so nervous that she took Wei Zhao's silence as an admission that her question was on the mark.
"Do your parents know? Would they agree?" Before Wei Zhao could truly answer, Tang Zhi pressed on.
To be honest, Tang Zhi was nervous too. She had seen with her own eyes everything Wei Zhao had done for her family, and now she herself did not know what she really felt about him—there was dislike, and yet also a peculiar something else...
"My parents?" Wei Zhao froze again. Who were his parents? Even he did not know. Old Man Wei said he was an orphan... Tang Zhi mistook Wei Zhao's daze for hesitation. Her fragile young heart tightened ever so slightly, and the feelings that had just begun to stir were wiped away in an instant. So in the end, he was only playing around—he had never intended to tell his parents about her, never intended to spend his life with her. Then what was she still agonizing over?