Chapter 579 — Spy Shu 007
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"Wei Zhao, this is Liu Xinlan." Liu Xinlan drew a deep breath, her tone unfriendly. Though Tang Zhi was watching her at that moment, Liu Xinlan simply could not hold her temper in check. Tang Zhi was her good friend, after all, so no matter how formidable this faithless man might be, she was going to stand up for Tang Zhi. That was simply the kind of person Liu Xinlan was.
If Young Master Bing and his men had not run off so fast earlier, Liu Xinlan would have grabbed a cleaver and gone after them. Reckless and hot-tempered as she was, she was also fiercely loyal.
"Liu Xinlan? What is it?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback, unable to fathom why Liu Xinlan would be looking for him at this hour.
"Something has happened to Tang Zhi. She is at the First People's Hospital. Her forehead was injured — eight stitches. Barring the unexpected, she's disfigured..." Liu Xinlan was about to ask whether Wei Zhao, that faithless wretch, still cared about Tang Zhi at all, but he cut her off mid-sentence.
"What? Tang Zhi is hurt? Wait for me — I'm on my way!" Without letting Liu Xinlan finish, Wei Zhao seized the phone and bolted out of the classroom.
Tang Zhi was, in the truest sense, Wei Zhao's first girlfriend. He was not a man given to honeyed words, but in his heart he had long since claimed Tang Zhi as his own woman. That she had been injured made his chest tighten: "Is there anything else wrong with her? How bad are the wounds? Which ward are you in?"
Wei Zhao's barrage of questions left Liu Xinlan momentarily stunned. Before placing the call, she had prepared several contingencies — but every one of them had been built on the assumption that Wei Zhao would be cold, evasive, or at best reluctant. Never had she imagined he would be so frantic. She had not even finished explaining what had happened, and already he was coming.
Yet this, too, set her heart at ease. So this Wei Zhao was not so detestable after all. At least he truly worried about Tang Zhi — unlike that Kang Jingming, who had treated Xiaofen as nothing but a plaything and never gave her genuine feeling.
And so, in Liu Xinlan's eyes, Wei Zhao became forgivable. After all, the marriages of many rich young men were not theirs to command. They might have found true love, but under the threats and pressure of their families they had no choice but to give it up and take the partner chosen for them.
In Liu Xinlan's view, that Feng Xiaoxiao's family background was probably extraordinary as well, enough to be of help to Wei Zhao. That was why he had been forced to stay with her — and, under her pressure, to abandon Tang Zhi.
"Ward 512, the Second Inpatient Building," Liu Xinlan told him. "There are no other injuries. It's only the disfigurement..."
"I understand." Wei Zhao let out a breath of relief, though tension still gripped him. How on earth had it come to this?
After hanging up, Liu Xinlan saw Tang Zhi staring at her without blinking, and she knew that Tang Zhi still could not let go of Wei Zhao — that she was desperate, now, to learn where he stood.