Chapter 2414 — Who She Really Is
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Xiaoshu was a supremely clever person. She might look foolish every day, but Wei Zhao knew that was only a disguise — peel it away, and she was not foolish in the least.
Yet since Shen Yushu would not say, that meant the trouble she had run into was troublesome enough — troublesome enough that even Wei Zhao could not solve it! Or rather, she did not want him to take the risk on her account.
But since Shen Yushu said she could handle it herself, Wei Zhao asked no more.
"It's very late, Xiaoshu. Go to sleep — you have school tomorrow," Wei Zhao said.
"Mm-hmm..." Shen Yushu picked up the sharp knife from the floor and quietly walked out of Wei Zhao's room. But at the door she stopped, turned back hesitantly, and asked, "Could you... not tell Sister Yaoyao?"
"Hm?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback by her question, but then he gave a faint, bitter smile. So she knew everything, then... Still, he nodded. "All right."
Neither of them said it outright, but they were both clever people and understood each other's meaning. Shen Yushu smiled faintly and withdrew from the room...
As for Wei Zhao, after Shen Yushu had gone, he could not fall asleep again... He had no mind even for cultivation, and tossed and turned in bed, pondering the events of the day.
Sure enough, it was nearly eight o'clock when Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu came rushing groggily down the stairs. Shen Yushu shouted as she ran, "I'm late, I'm late, how did we oversleep..."
Wei Zhao looked somewhat startled at the circles under Shen Yushu's eyes. With a doctor's eye he could tell at once that Shen Yushu truly had overslept and had only just woken up... Most likely she had stayed awake half the night, then overslept after going back — not at all like Gu Mengyao, who had taken the restful herb.
What puzzled Wei Zhao was this: could Shen Yushu really sleep? After everything that had happened yesterday, even he could not sleep — and yet she could? Had yesterday's business truly passed? Could she truly handle it?
But be that as it may, Xiaoshu had recovered her former self, no longer so glum and joyless as before. Perhaps she had thought something through. Wei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief, yet at the same time felt a faint unease in his heart.
"Up already? I've made breakfast. Eat something and hurry off to school," Wei Zhao said. "Han Jingyi came by earlier. I sent her on ahead — she didn't wait for you."
Today Wei Zhao, Gu Mengyao, and Shen Yushu were bound to be late. But in university courses, an occasional lateness would not draw too harsh a punishment from the teachers. Only Wei Zhao's little specialty was different — White Leader's methods were peculiar — though even that was useless against Wei Zhao.
Wei Zhao was one who had passed his special examination; he could arrive late or ask for leave at any time, unbound by the rules. That was also why Wei Zhao had let Han Jingyi go on ahead. And Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu should not have much trouble either — after all, the other departments were not managed with the same top-tier strictness as White Leader's.
"Okay, ooh, smells so good..." Xiaoshu came into the kitchen, saw the fried eggs and lean-pork congee Wei Zhao had prepared, and her mouth watered.
Gu Mengyao also noticed that Shen Yushu seemed to have regained her old liveliness, so she did not ask more about yesterday's matter, assuming she had simply been tired or had caught a cold.
After breakfast, the three of them set out for school.
Wei Zhao watched Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu head off toward the economics department, then walked into the biology building himself. Only when he entered the classroom did he feel a little nervous — not because White Leader was the teacher, but because he did not know how to face Wang Xinyan, whose confession he had turned down yesterday.
Would Wang Xinyan shun him and grow distant because of it? If so, the loss would outweigh the gain...