Chapter 1873 — It's Over
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Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were delighted. Since Xiaoxiao's departure, Xu Shilan had not come to the Gu villa again; they exchanged the occasional text, but Xu Shilan was busy, busy every day, and truly had little time to chat with them.
Sometimes a message from her would go unanswered for ages—days, even—but even so, the two of them felt a great superiority over other fans: any text they sent, Xu Shilan would surely answer once she saw it.
A few days before Xu Shilan came to Songshan City, Gu Mengyao had already warned her not to bring up the matter of Tang Zhi again. Xu Shilan found it strange, but she agreed all the same.
Still, when Xu Shilan heard that Feng Xiaoxiao was not dead but had been taken as a disciple by some great sect, she was overjoyed. She was very fond of the girl; it felt as though the two of them were bound by fate—not sisters, yet closer than sisters.
With Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, by contrast, though she knew them well, she had never felt that same closeness she felt with Feng Xiaoxiao.
It was a strange thing, the affinity between people; Xu Shilan herself could not quite explain it.
Only, the time Xu Shilan could spend at the Gu villa was limited. Her every day was packed tight by her management company; even this half day was stolen from a busy schedule.
What surprised her—and did not much surprise her—was that Wei Zhao remained as cold as ever. He nodded to her, then went back to his room to do heaven knows what, leaving her to sing karaoke in the living room with Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu.
By any reckoning, she had done him a great favor, and today she had taken a risk to speak up for him at the launch—he ought, at the very least, to have been a little warmer. But recalling how Wei Zhao had always been, Xu Shilan knew this was simply how he was: he had never once treated her as any kind of star.
In his eyes she was nothing but a pretty girl, and pretty girls had never been in short supply around him...
At the thought, Xu Shilan felt a little dejected. The man was infuriating.
Xu Shilan spent the night at Gu Mengyao's home. Early the next morning she was picked up by her manager's car, and Wei Zhao and the others were about to set out for Donghai City.
The university applications had long since been submitted. All three had chosen Donghai Engineering University: Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu picked the economics department. Gu Mengyao genuinely wanted to learn something about business, so that one day she could help her father... or Wei Zhao.
Shen Yushu, for her part, had no strong opinions of her own; whatever Gu Mengyao studied, she studied.
Wei Zhao had applied for a very obscure major: the pharmaceutical program in the botany department of the school of biology.
That program dealt with things related to medicinal materials—obscure even among the obscure. Anyone who truly wanted to study plants would not apply to such a specialized pharmaceutical program, and anyone set on studying pharmacy would apply to a dedicated medical university.
But for such a program to exist in a science and engineering institute, there was surely a reason. When Wei Zhao filled in his application, his thinking was simply that it suited his interests and would let him stay near the young lady and little Shu. As for whether he would actually learn anything, he did not much care.