Chapter 904 — Laying My Cards on the Table with the Young Mistress
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Not just yet. I had a cup of instant noodles earlier, so I'm not hungry." Wei Zhao rose and said, "Yunyun, why don't you go home and take a look first? You've been out for three days — your aunt and uncle must be worried sick about you."
At Wei Zhao's words, Tang Zhi was slightly taken aback, a little disappointed. Was Wei Zhao chasing her away? And besides — under ordinary circumstances, Wei Zhao rarely called her "Yunyun" so intimately in front of others. Tang Zhi felt something was not quite right.
Nor was Tang Zhi wrong to think so. Wei Zhao had only just woken up, and she had wanted to spend a little more time close to him, to talk with him. Yet Wei Zhao was telling her to go home... Tang Zhi felt somewhat aggrieved, and a little envious of the young mistress and Shen Yushu besides.
"All right..." Tang Zhi nodded obediently nonetheless.
"I'll ask you out for dinner a bit later. Why don't you head back first and let your uncle and aunt know you're safe?" Wei Zhao had sensed Tang Zhi's disappointment too, and knew she had misunderstood. But some things he could not explain now, with all three girls present, so this was all he could say.
Hearing that Wei Zhao still meant to ask her out later, Tang Zhi brightened at once. She nodded and said, "Okay, I'll wait for your call..."
Wei Zhao's strange behavior left Gu Mengyao rather puzzled as well. Only after Tang Zhi had gone did the young mistress frown and say, "Why did you send Tang Zhi away? I wanted to take you all out for a bite, to celebrate your recovery..."
Three days of constant company had bred a subtle bond between the young mistress and Tang Zhi.
"No rush about the meal." Wei Zhao shook his head, and his expression abruptly turned grave. "Yaoyao, Xiaoshu, there's something very important I need to tell you both!"
"What is it?" Gu Mengyao was taken aback. She had not expected Wei Zhao to speak to her in such a solemn tone, and it threw her off. "If there's something, just say it..."
"Yeah, Brother Arrowhead, your face is scary!" Shen Yushu was equally unused to his tone.
"Heh..." Wei Zhao smiled bitterly. "Then I'll tell it straight. My injuries may be healed, but my strength is gone..."
"Your strength is gone? What do you mean?" Gu Mengyao was briefly stunned, not quite grasping his words.
"Put simply, I'm no different from an ordinary person now..." Wei Zhao said, feigning ease. "That last move I used when I fought Ma Zhu — the so-called ultimate technique — was never an ultimate technique at all. I used it meaning to take him with me. I lived, but that move was one of mutual destruction, wounding both sides. I crippled Ma Zhu, but I came off no better — my strength plummeted..."
"What! You've become an ordinary person?" Gu Mengyao was startled, her face changing. With that explanation, she understood. "Then what will it take to recover?"