Chapter 624 — The Shocked Chen Yuxuan
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"Where's that so-called Brother Shield? Did he come along?" Chen Yuxuan was not by nature an impulsive man, but at this moment he could not keep from stepping forward. His sister had been taken from him—how could he not be anxious? And Shen Yushu had made it plain that now that she had Brother Shield, she no longer needed her own flesh-and-blood brother!
How could that leave Chen Yuxuan anything but torn and furious?
"Oh, you're looking for Brother Shield?" Shen Yushu seemed not to notice the bristling, saber-rattling expression on Chen Yuxuan's face. "He's in back!"
Chen Yuxuan nodded and strode boldly to the doorway of the private room. When Wei Zhao stepped through the door, he stretched out his hand. "So you're this Brother Shield? Let me introduce myself—I'm Xiaoshu's brother, Chen Yuxuan!"
Chen Yuxuan meant to make this Brother Shield lose face. He himself had already reached the early Yellow rank in strength, and ordinary men were no match for him; he wanted to show his sister that her brother would always be the strongest!
"Heh..." Wei Zhao looked at Chen Yuxuan, and a rather odd expression crossed his face, but he extended his hand all the same.
"Ga?" Chen Yuxuan's eyes suddenly went wide, fixed dead upon Wei Zhao! He could scarcely believe his own eyes, and he pointed at Wei Zhao, his voice trembling with excitement. "You... you... teacher..."
"Allow me to introduce myself—I'm the very Shield Brother you mentioned," Wei Zhao said, cutting Chen Yuxuan off with a smile. "I'm Yaoyao's and Xiaoshu's errand boy."
"Huh?" Chen Yuxuan was thrown into even deeper confusion. Errand boy to Gu Mengyao and his sister? What on earth was going on here? How had he become an errand boy? Just how much face did Gu Mengyao and his sister have, to get someone like him to run errands for them?
But one look at Wei Zhao's gesture and Chen Yuxuan understood: Wei Zhao did not want his identity spoken aloud, and this self-introduction was his way of telling Chen Yuxuan that for now he was simply Gu Mengyao's and Shen Yushu's errand boy.
Chen Yuxuan found it rather unbelievable, but since Wei Zhao did not wish to reveal himself, he would not breathe a word of it either. He merely seized Wei Zhao's hand in his excitement. "How do you do, how do you do! My name is Chen Yuxuan, Shen Yushu's elder brother. Heh heh, ha ha..."
An Liwen and Su Taizao, however, both frowned. What was the matter with Chen Yuxuan? Before Wei Zhao arrived, had he not declared that he would teach a lesson to this fellow who had stolen his sister's heart? Why had his attitude turned around so completely?
Shen Yushu had not been afraid of her brother bullying Wei Zhao; on the contrary, she had wanted her brother to come off the worse for once and snap out of his pining after that fox Qiu Lingshan. Yet who would have thought her brother would take this sort of attitude—as though he and Wei Zhao were bosom friends meeting far too late?
"Since you're Shen Yushu's elder brother, I'll just call you Brother Yutian," Wei Zhao said. He was younger than Chen Yuxuan anyway, so addressing him as Brother Yutian cost him nothing.
Chen Yuxuan, however, was rather overwhelmed by the honor. He was about to decline when he caught Wei Zhao's sharp glance and hastily nodded. "Very well, then I'll presume on our seniority and call you brother!"
Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu stared wide-eyed as well. Was Chen Yuxuan really so easygoing a man? And even if Wei Zhao was their errand boy and bodyguard, and Chen Yuxuan was grateful to him for protecting them every day, was there any need for such warmth?
The two exchanged a glance, and in each other's eyes they saw a flicker of puzzlement.
Chen Yuxuan too realized he had been too excited. He shook his head inwardly. He was still too young, still far from steady!