Chapter 774 — Darling, Save Me
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"Huh?" Wei Zhao's eyes widened. These men were going to have their way with my wife? With Tang Zhi? But in the next instant Wei Zhao understood: Yu Xiaoke had surely been cornered by these men and, in desperation, wanted his help — yet fearing he wouldn't give it, she had first nailed down his identity as her man, thereby shifting the conflict onto him!
It seemed this female thief was no fool!
Wei Zhao's impression of Yu Xiaoke was neither good nor bad. At least she was pretty and rather alluring, which was easy on his eyes. So when Yu Xiaoke ran into trouble, Wei Zhao's attitude was entirely one of could-help-could-not — it all depended on his mood.
"You're Yu Xiaoke's man?" Black Bird's single bird-like eye sized Wei Zhao up and down, as though he had not taken him seriously in the least.
Wei Zhao ignored Black Bird and walked toward Yu Xiaoke, frowning as he went: "Didn't I tell you to go home and train a few more years before coming out again? Well? Stealing from people and getting caught red-handed, were you?"
Wei Zhao had assumed Yu Xiaoke was surrounded because she had stolen something from Blackbird Ge. In fact, Wei Zhao's guess was both right and wrong. Yu Xiaoke had indeed stolen plenty of money from these gangs of thieves, but it was nothing more than thieves robbing thieves. Though Blackbird Ge loathed Yu Xiaoke, if that were all there was to it, he would have done no more than catch her and extort a sum of money — he would never have wanted to bed her!
As things stood, though, Yu Xiaoke had kicked one of Blackbird Ge's balls to a pulp, and that had planted the notion in him of keeping her as his captive concubine. In his view, if he did not bed Yu Xiaoke, how could he ever make it up to his exploded ball?
"I'm talking to you — are you fucking deaf? Did I tell you to come over here?" Blackbird Ge reached out to block Wei Zhao, but failed to stop him. In the blink of an eye, Wei Zhao was somehow already at Yu Xiaoke's side!
"No, it's not that! They're all thieves — quick, help me chase them off!" Yu Xiaoke said to Wei Zhao in a low voice.
"Thieves? Aren't you one too?" Wei Zhao shot back.
"It's not the same! I'm a good thief, they're bad thieves!" Yu Xiaoke was on the verge of tears from sheer panic. "Please, just help me this once, would you? Otherwise I'm done for!"
"Thieves come in good and bad now?" Wei Zhao couldn't help but laugh at that. Yu Xiaoke's explanation was rather amusing. "Besides, what are you to me?"
"Of course thieves come in good and bad! I'm a good thief, while they act purely out of selfish greed — I'm not like them!" Yu Xiaoke explained. "Look, I've stolen so much money, yet what I'm wearing is nothing but a twenty-yuan bargain from a street stall!"
"Oh, so you're a little cheapskate — you steal money and still wear twenty-yuan clothes?" Wei Zhao glanced at what Yu Xiaoke was wearing. It really was shabby, a notch worse than even Tang Zhi's clothes. Clearly she hadn't been lying.
"Right? So hurry up and help me — I can't beat them!" Yu Xiaoke said, entirely without shame.