Chapter 1286 — The Mysterious Fan
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Wei Zhao turned his head, meaning to tell Feng Xiaoxiao beside him, but when he saw that she was on her feet waving a glow stick, her face alight with excitement, he could not bring himself to disturb her. So he turned to look at Tang Zhi on his other side. Tang Zhi had stood up too and was singing along with the Young Miss, though she was not as absorbed in it as Feng Xiaoxiao.
Wei Zhao tugged at Tang Zhi's hand. She quickly lowered her head and asked, "What is it?"
"I have something to take care of — I'm going out to make a call. Just letting you know," Wei Zhao said, brandishing the phone in his hand.
"All right!" Tang Zhi nodded.
Wei Zhao rose and left the VIP seats, walking quickly out of the gymnasium and heading for the restroom down the corridor.
But when he reached the door of the first-floor restroom, he heard voices inside — a man's voice, and one that seemed rather familiar.
"Young Master Bing, I didn't get to see Xu Shilan, but her manager turned down my proposal... Yes, she said she wanted to pay for treatment, but I told her there was no room for discussion... Don't worry, Young Master Bing, I'm right here at the concert. If she has an episode later, I'll go make my case again. This illness — if she doesn't go to the Medicine King, no one else can cure her, and she'll surely fall into Young Master Bing's arms..."
It was Su Jiaonang's voice! Standing at the restroom door, Wei Zhao cocked his ear for a while and recognized this old acquaintance's voice. From the sound of it, he was on the phone with Zhao Qibing. As for what the two of them were discussing, Wei Zhao had more or less caught the gist.
It seemed the superstar Xu Shilan had some illness and had gone to the Medicine King for treatment. Zhao Qibing had probably made some casting-couch demand of her, and she had refused. She wanted to pay for treatment, but Zhao Qibing would not agree, and so the two were locked in a standoff.
Of course, such matters had nothing to do with Wei Zhao. Whether Zhao Qibing went philandering or dallying, so long as he did not provoke Wei Zhao, Wei Zhao would pay him no mind. Since he had shifted his ambitions toward playing with a star, there was nothing Wei Zhao could do to interfere.
In affairs like this, one strikes and the other submits. If that Xu Shilan wanted her illness cured, then being toyed with by Zhao Qibing was only natural.
After listening a while, Wei Zhao no longer wished to keep listening — but this restroom he no longer intended to enter either. He could have forcefully driven Su Jiaonang out, but this restroom was clearly the one closest to the gymnasium hall, and Su Jiaonang was inside now; who might come in next was anyone's guess.
Wei Zhao felt that his conversation with Old Man Wei ought to be confidential, so he was unwilling for anyone to overhear it — nor could anyone be allowed to. He decided to find a restroom farther away.
After a quick circuit of the first-floor corridor, he found there were only two restrooms, and the other one was likewise near the mouth of another passage.