Chapter 203 — Whoever Loses Has to Confess
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"You really think he's invincible, do you?" Gu Mengyao curled her lip. "All he's good for is teaching Zhong Yongliang and his lot a lesson. Up against someone truly formidable, what use is one man?"
"I think Arrowbrand Bro is pretty amazing..." Shen Yushu begged to differ. "Didn't he come back safe and sound that day?"
"He's just quick on his feet," Gu Mengyao said. "Xiaoshu, do you like him?"
"Like him? What are you talking about? Uncle Chu was thinking of taking him as a son-in-law." Shen Yushu's cheeks flushed faintly. "All right, all right, Yao Yao, let's not talk about him anymore."
"You were the one who brought him up," Gu Mengyao said, skewering her without mercy.
"Hee hee..." Shen Yushu blinked. "How about the two of us play hide-and-seek?"
"Hide-and-seek?" Gu Mengyao looked at her, puzzled. "How would we play hide-and-seek? Here in the villa? It's so tiny — where could you hide that I wouldn't find you?"
"There's still the garage and the courtyard, aren't there?" Shen Yushu was not one to sit idle. "We each hide once, and each of us gets ten minutes to find the other. Whoever fails to find the other loses."
"Mm, a time limit would make it more fun." Gu Mengyao recalled the hide-and-seek games the two of them had played as children, and a pang of nostalgia came over her.
"Hee hee, right?" Shen Yushu brightened at Gu Mengyao's agreement. "Let's set a stake too — that way we'll really enjoy ourselves. Otherwise it won't be exciting."
"A stake? What kind of stake did you have in mind?" Gu Mengyao asked. "Forget betting money — I'm not interested."
Small wonder. Neither of them lacked money; a bet of a hundred or two hundred yuan as a stake was worse than no bet at all — it simply stirred no interest.
"How tacky is betting money?" Shen Yushu shook her head. "Let's play for something with a bit of punch!"
"What kind of stake has punch?" This time Gu Mengyao was a little intrigued. Senior year of high school was dull and flavorless; in years past they had always found time for a trip, but in their senior year they had not gone away even once.
Every day was little more than the two points of school and home, monotonous to the extreme.
"The loser has to confess to Arrowbrand Bro tonight — how about that?" Shen Yushu looked at Gu Mengyao with a mischievous glint and made her proposal.
"Huh?" Gu Mengyao could not react for a moment, and only after a long pause managed: "Xiaoshu, how can you be so wicked? Aren't you afraid you'll be the loser?"
"Hee hee, how do you know I'm bound to lose? But I'm not sure to win either, so we both have a fifty-fifty chance — that's what makes it exciting!" Shen Yushu said.
"But isn't this going a bit too far?" Gu Mengyao hesitated. It was true, as Shen Yushu said, that playing this way would be far more thrilling — but wasn't it a little too thrilling? What if she were the one who lost?
Confess to Wei Zhao herself? Why not just kill her and be done with it!
"Yao Yao, think about it — your chances of winning are great. This is your family's villa; you know it better than I do, right?" Shen Yushu coaxed.
"Then... all right..." Gu Mengyao thought it over, and it did seem so: this was her own home, so the advantage ought to be hers. With that thought, she agreed.