Chapter 208 — The Eldest Miss Brings a Man Home?
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"There's one in the room. Why go outside?" Gu Mengyao pointed at the bathroom inside the room.
"Oh... I forgot. I thought we were still at school!" Shen Yushu got up with a look of helpless resignation and headed for the bathroom.
"Hand over your phone." Gu Mengyao didn't let her go.
"Ah... oh." Shen Yushu surrendered her phone again, her last hope thoroughly extinguished. It seemed tonight she would have no choice but to confess...
Tonight's dinner was not delivered by Uncle Qing, but by an assistant from Gu Pengzhan's company. Uncle Qing had already called Gu Mengyao to tell her that he would be accompanying Mr. Gu to a business event in another city that evening, and that the company assistant would be bringing the meal instead.
Gu Mengyao didn't think much of it — such things happened often enough before, and she knew the assistant, so she agreed without a second thought.
At six that evening, the villa's doorbell rang. Wei Zhao went to answer it, expecting Uncle Qing with dinner, but instead found a man he didn't recognize.
"Who are you looking for?" Wei Zhao asked through the iron gate outside the villa, not opening it.
"Huh?" The man was taken aback too. He looked up at the house number on the villa gate — he hadn't come to the wrong place, had he? Wasn't this the young lady's home? So why had a man come out of it?
Only Gu Pengzhan and Qing Bo knew that Wei Zhao was living here; no one else at the company had been told, so it was no wonder this assistant was confused.
"Excuse me, is this Miss Gu Mengyao's residence? I'm looking for her..." Having satisfied himself that he had the right address, the man asked cautiously.
"Oh, you're looking for Yaoyao. What's this about?" Wei Zhao eyed the man suspiciously, though when he caught sight of the lunchbox in his hand, he guessed what the fellow had come for.
Since Qing Bo had accompanied Gu Pengzhan to the neighboring city for a business event, he naturally couldn't come deliver Gu Mengyao's dinner in the evening; sending someone else in his place was only to be expected.
"You're here to deliver a meal?" Wei Zhao asked before the man could speak.
"Ah, yes!" The man nodded, his curiosity about Wei Zhao's identity growing by the moment. Just who was this man who had turned up at the young lady's house? And the familiar way he spoke of her — calling her "Yaoyao" outright — he couldn't be the young lady's boyfriend, could he? While Mr. Gu was away from home, she had brought him back to carry on, and now he, of all people, had stumbled onto them!
At that thought, the man felt a pang of sorrow. He had assumed this was his big chance to shine — handling a personal errand for a company leader was a job entrusted only to trusted people; plenty of others would have given anything for the opportunity!
But he had to go and be this unlucky, running straight into the young lady's boyfriend, and now he had learned about her secret romance. Could things possibly end well for him? When the young lady got angry, she would badmouth him in front of Mr. Gu...
His future, once so bright, had turned bleak in an instant, and the man was overcome with grief.
How could he be so unlucky?