Chapter 256 — Change Your Seat
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"So that's it. Ha, that Zhong Yongliang—serves him right for acting so cocky. Running into you, Boss, is just his bad luck!" Kang Xiaofeng let out a fierce breath of pent-up frustration, as though it had been his own hand that taught Zhong Yongliang a lesson.
"Weren't you the one who wanted to use the bathroom?" Wei Zhao asked.
"I just saw you come out and wanted to follow and stretch my legs. The whole business with Little Fen has me feeling pretty low," Kang Xiaofeng said.
"Then let's go—we'll take a walk." Wei Zhao nodded, and he and Kang Xiaofeng strolled idly along the corridor.
There weren't many idlers in the senior-year corridor. Apart from the students on duty, everyone was in the classroom studying. As for those whose families had connections or who simply had no chance of getting into university, they were all out on the sports field playing basketball or off campus at internet cafes playing games—none of them would be wandering the corridors.
When he reached the door of Class Five, Grade Twelve, he saw Tang Zhi coming out carrying a bucket, evidently headed for the restroom to change the water.
Kang Xiaofeng dashed over in a few quick strides. "Sis-in-law, let me get that." "Huh?" Tang Zhi started at the sight of him, and the bucket nearly slipped from her hands. "You... what did you call me?"
"Sis-in-law!" Kang Xiaofeng looked as though it were the most natural thing in the world. "Yesterday the boss declared his claim on you in front of all those people, and you didn't deny it, did you?"
"Don't you go calling me that!" Tang Zhi's cheeks flushed, and she handed him the bucket. "Go fetch the water, quick!"
"Oh, heh heh, right away!" Kang Xiaofeng took the bucket and scurried off toward the restroom. "Don't mind him, that's just how he is."
Wei Zhao planted both hands against the corridor wall, penning Tang Zhi in as he spoke.
"Mm, I know." Tang Zhi sounded a little shy. "You... don't do that, we're at school..."
Wei Zhao had done it without thinking, but her words made him realize just how suggestive the gesture looked, as if he were about to kiss her. Flustered, he quickly drew his hands back, though he could not resist asking, "And what about when we're not at school?"
"Oh, I'm not speaking to you..." Tang Zhi had no intention of discussing that with him. These past two days Wei Zhao had thrown her into utter confusion, and last night in particular she had barely slept, the image flashing before her eyes again and again: Wei Zhao seizing her hand and making her slap Bu Ruoming across the face... Did this mean she liked him? Tang Zhi did not know, but she could not stop herself from thinking about it...
"Ha." Wei Zhao chuckled and stopped teasing her. In his heart, Tang Zhi was different from Sun Jingyan. That cunning little fox, Sun Jingyan, he would never indulge; but toward Tang Zhi he felt only a careful, tender protectiveness, the kind one reserves for a young girl.
"Ah... look over there, something seems to have happened to Xiaobo." Flustered, Tang Zhi let her eyes wander left and right, afraid others might see her with Wei Zhao, and caught sight of Kang Xiaofeng getting into trouble.
Kang Xiaofeng had come trotting up to the restroom and was just about to go in when he collided head-on with a big, portly boy coming out...