Chapter 2046 — Sophistry
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That posture was that of a victor looking down on a weakling!
Zhang Duopan's face flushed red, then went white, then red again. The lion's behavior had confirmed Shen Yushu's words: this lion feared Wei Zhao but not him!
The moment he got out of the car, he was attacked, while Wei Zhao had been standing there for ages, and the lion did nothing but fawn on him. This state of affairs nearly drove Zhang Duopan **—what a damn rotten deal; this lion could actually tell who was the more formidable?
Yet Zhang Duopan could see nothing special about Wei Zhao or Shen Yushu at all!
Still, Zhang Duopan had no intention of honoring the earlier wager. He gave a hollow laugh and then said, "My backside is killing me—the injury seems really serious, I can't even walk steadily, I can't get out of the car. Uncle Yan, let's go, I need to get to the hospital!"
"Zhang Duopan, do your earlier words still count? Will you stay away from He Meiyue from now on?" Bai Weituo asked.
"My earlier words? I would dare to get out too—it's just that my backside hurts and I can't walk, that's all. So it doesn't count as my loss; I'm simply in a hurry to get to the hospital!" Zhang Duopan said. "Bai Weituo, you wouldn't make things hard for a sick man, would you?"
"..." Bai Weituo shot Zhang Duopan a look of contempt. This creature was plainly using an excuse to avoid honoring the wager. But Bai Weituo had come to understand Zhang Duopan's repeated breaking of promises to a certain degree: the fellow was thick-skinned and always found an excuse to renege, and Bai Weituo no longer wished to say anything more.
Wei Zhao smiled coldly and got into the car with Shen Yushu. As for what became of Zhang Duopan and Fan Ganhe, Wei Zhao no longer cared to bother. What preoccupied him now was that white bead—he wanted to get back and study just what it was!
Still, if not for Shen Yushu's lucky hit, this thing would likely have lain buried with the lion king forever.
So when Zhang Duopan proposed to leave, Wei Zhao said nothing more about it.
As he got into the car, Wei Zhao happened to see the eldest young lady saying something to Wang Xinyan... This scene left Wei Zhao somewhat puzzled. Weren't the two of them not all that close? Could it be that over the course of this trip, they had grown close?
After hearing Gu Mengyao's words, Wang Xinyan smiled faintly, and the two seemed quite congenial. This rather surprised Wei Zhao, but he did not deliberately eavesdrop on what they were saying. Everyone has their own secrets—just as when Wei Zhao was at the villa, he would not deliberately eavesdrop on the conversations between Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu.
Earlier, when Wei Zhao had seen the eldest young lady sitting beside Wang Xinyan, he had assumed that among the people in this car, she had no other particularly close friends—apart from Xiaoshu, Wang Xinyan was the only woman she knew—and so had simply sat down beside her. But now it looked more like it had been premeditated?
The car slowly started moving. Though Uncle Yan was full of doubts as to why the lion would not bite Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu but insisted on biting Zhang Duopan and Fan Ganhe, seeing Zhang Duopan in such a sorry state, he was too embarrassed to ask more. Since Zhang Duopan had not held him accountable, Uncle Yan naturally would not go looking for trouble himself!
Better that than having President Su later blame him for poor hospitality!
Zhang Duopan and Fan Ganhe were seething inside. They could endure physical pain, but the pain in their hearts was driving them to the brink of collapse! They found it strange and deeply unfair—by what right did the lion not only refrain from biting Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu but even present them with a worthless bead?