Chapter 989 — Any Regrets?
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"Nothing, haha — Tang Zhi and I hit it off at first sight and have become good friends!" Feng Xiaoxiao said with a touch of smugness. "Right, Tang Zhi?"
"Right!" Tang Zhi said through gritted teeth.
Wei Zhao frowned, said nothing more, and bent his head to his wontons.
Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were at a table not far from Wei Zhao.
Gu Mengyao withdrew her gaze and said mildly, "Eat, Xiaoshu."
"Yao Yao, why is that Feng Xiaoxiao sitting with Chewing Gum Bro?" Shen Yushu asked, looking over at them in some bewilderment. "Aren't she and Tang Zhi love rivals?"
"Who knows?" Gu Mengyao shook her head, though she too was puzzled. But ever since the time Wei Zhao had risked himself to save her, her frame of mind had changed a great deal. She knew that in Wei Zhao's heart Tang Zhi's place was beyond replacement, and she no longer wished to set herself against Tang Zhi — that could only leave her own position more passive still.
"Oh, Yao Yao, do you think Tang Zhi got scared and found Chewing Gum Bro a little wife to check us?" Shen Yushu speculated, her mind running dark.
"Then why don't you go and ask?" Gu Mengyao said with a frown.
"On second thought, never mind..." Shen Yushu shook her head.
Wei Zhao, Tang Zhi, and Feng Xiaoxiao bent over their wontons. Wei Zhao and Tang Zhi would have liked to talk more with Feng Xiaoxiao, but the relations among them had plainly not been harmonious before, and there was no chance of finding common ground all at once; so after a hurried meal they went back to class.
As they were leaving the canteen, Feng Xiaoxiao saw that Wei Zhao meant to take Tang Zhi's hand. Quick as a thought, she darted a step ahead, seized Tang Zhi's hand herself, and said, "Wei Zhao, you go on ahead — I want a few words with Tang Zhi."
Wei Zhao frowned. "What do you want to say? Say it in front of me."
"Behind your back, of course it is something you are not to hear!" Feng Xiaoxiao said.
"Yunyun, don't believe a word she says," Wei Zhao said deliberately. If he said nothing at all and simply let Feng Xiaoxiao walk off with Tang Zhi, that would not be his usual way, and there was no guaranteeing Feng Xiaoxiao would not grow suspicious.
"Oh..." Tang Zhi nodded.
So Wei Zhao walked on ahead, while Feng Xiaoxiao, holding Tang Zhi's hand, followed behind.
"Tang Zhi, do you have any regrets?" Feng Xiaoxiao asked.
"Regrets about what? I am not the one who lost out," Tang Zhi said.
"Hmph, hmph!" Feng Xiaoxiao thought to herself: keep talking big — when the day comes that Wei Zhao and I are a settled fact, you will just have to swallow it and bear the pain.
"What are you hmph-ing about? A little wife is still a little wife — won't you have to do as I say from now on?" Tang Zhi said.
"Fine, fine, do as you say!" Feng Xiaoxiao thought Tang Zhi was suffering for the sake of saving face.
Each harboring her own secret designs, the two of them chatted and laughed their way back to the classroom, and Wei Zhao and Feng Xiaoxiao went in as well.
Feng Xiaoxiao was delighted. She had not expected Tang Zhi to be so easy to fool — a few words from her, and Tang Zhi had been led right into the trap!
"What were you saying to Tang Zhi earlier?" Wei Zhao asked Feng Xiaoxiao once they were back at their seats.
In truth, Wei Zhao was rather curious as to just what Tang Zhi had said to Feng Xiaoxiao! He knew Tang Zhi must have said something that pleased her, but since he and Tang Zhi had not yet had a chance to talk, he did not know the particulars, and so, once back in the classroom, he casually asked.
"Tang Zhi says she wants to find you a little wife!" Feng Xiaoxiao did not hide it. She felt she had to tell Wei Zhao what Tang Zhi meant, otherwise it would be useless for Tang Zhi to agree on her side while Wei Zhao refused on his.
"Huh?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. "Find me a little wife? Really?"
"Of course it is!" Feng Xiaoxiao nodded.
"It is not you she means, is it?" Wei Zhao asked in return.