Chapter 555 — Are We Going to Die?
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"We're about to die — what heart is there left to win back?" Gu Mengyao laughed. "Xiao Shu, do you regret it terribly? That you never let anything happen between you and Wei Zhao? And now we're going to die, and it's too late?"
"Not at all — there'll be chances later anyway... uh..." Shen Yushu suddenly realized she had let something slip and clamped her mouth shut.
"Xiao Shu, what are you saying?" Gu Mengyao was sharp as a tack; she caught the odd note in Shen Yushu's voice at once. "Is there something you're keeping from me?"
"Heh heh, well... before we came, I sent Arrow-Brand Bro a text telling him we'd gone to Twin Swallow Mountain. If he finds out we've gone missing, he'll definitely come rescue us!" Now that Gu Mengyao had seen through her, Shen Yushu saw no point in hiding it any longer. She stuck out her tongue and revealed her life-saving ace.
"Ah! You rotten little Xiao Shu, why didn't you say so earlier? Making me worry like that! You scared me to death!" Gu Mengyao leapt up in a fury and made a grab for Shen Yushu's neck. "I'll strangle you! You knew perfectly well we could get out, and still you put on that dying act and went on and on to me — what exactly was that supposed to mean?"
"If I hadn't said all that, would Yao Yao have told me you're in love with Arrow-Brand Bro?" Shen Yushu grinned slyly.
"As if anyone would love him!" Gu Mengyao was indignant. "I was only making things up to trick you just now. The truth is, I knew all along Wei Zhao would come for us! I said all that to trick you into admitting you like Wei Zhao!"
"Ooh, Yao Yao's angry and lashing out!" Shen Yushu waved both hands and fled, using the darkness to put Gu Mengyao off her trail. "Come on, come catch me! You can't, you can't!"
"I'll tear that mouth of yours to shreds!" Gu Mengyao could not see her, but she could follow the sound of her voice. The two of them played blind man's buff in the dark.
After a while, both were worn out, and Shen Yushu surrendered. "Yao Yao, enough, I give up. I like Arrow-Brand Bro, all right? Now let me off the hook..."
"Hmph hmph, so you admit it?" Gu Mengyao said smugly. "Just wait — the moment we're out of here, I'm telling Wei Zhao everything you said."
"So what? I've already confessed to him anyway — la la la..." Shen Yushu said, utterly unconcerned.
"..." Gu Mengyao truly had no answer to that. It was true: Shen Yushu had already confessed to Wei Zhao, and saying anything more would be pointless.
The two of them had romped about for ages, and on top of that they had eaten nothing that evening — nearly five hours now without a bite. Shen Yushu's stomach began to growl. "Yao Yao, I'm hungry. I'm thirsty. I want to eat..."
"Just bear with it a little. Didn't you text Wei Zhao? Once he gets it, he should come rescue us," Gu Mengyao said.
"Oh." Shen Yushu nodded, a little aggrieved. "But I'm so thirsty and so hungry right now!"
"Who told you to go so wild?" Gu Mengyao was hungry too, and thirsty, but she had no choice but to endure it. If she said the same thing, the two of them would only sit there starving to death together.
"Oh, right — Yao Yao, what was that bundle we found earlier? Could it be something to eat?" Shen Yushu asked suddenly.
"Maybe. But it might just as well be poison Zhong Yongliang left behind, so that the moment we eat it, it's the same as taking our own lives!" Gu Mengyao had indeed considered that the bundle might be food, but then she could not make sense of it: Zhong Yongliang had already locked them up, so why leave food behind?
If the idea had been to keep her and Shen Yushu alive, that did not hold up either, because there was food but no water! Everyone knew a person could go without eating, but without drinking, death came all the faster. So Gu Mengyao guessed it might well be poison, left there deliberately by Zhong Yongliang in the hope that they would take it and end themselves.