Chapter 2654 — The Ice Palace and Bingtang
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But these matters she would never tell Feng Xiaoxiao. Though Feng Xiaoxiao was already a vice-palace master of the Ice Palace, she was only responsible for affairs within the palace. The Ice Palace's external contacts and intelligence gathering remained in Bingtang's hands; the information gathered through Steward Li was something Feng Xiaoxiao could not meddle in.
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That evening, after the movie, Wei Zhao left by car with Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, and Wang Xinyan. Zhong Yongliang had succeeded in taking Gu Mengyao out on one date, but their relationship had made no progress at all—and because of his loose tongue, it was even worse than before...
"Brother Liang, it's all because of that Tang Yuqi fellow. If not for him, we wouldn't have been so humiliated today!" Gao Xiaofu said indignantly.
"Tang Yuqi... never mind, leave him for now." Zhong Yongliang frowned. "I can see it clearly now. Shen Yushu is an ingrate—no kindness will ever fill her belly. However many favors I give her, she turns around and sells me out the next moment! The biggest obstacle to getting close to Yao Yao isn't Wei Zhao—it's her!"
"Oh? Then what do we do? Get rid of her?" Gao Xiaofu drew a finger across his throat. Over this period he had seen too much bloodshed in the Tomorrow-and-Tomorrow-and-Tomorrow Sect, and he had grown cold toward human life.
"Getting rid of her probably won't work. That would be rather difficult—Wei Zhao is no pushover, and if Shen Yushu died for no apparent reason, he would certainly suspect me!" Zhong Yongliang said. "But to keep the little wench from causing trouble during my match with Wei Zhao, and to make a little trouble for him as well, I plan to have the Hundred-Drunken Centipede bite Shen Yushu before the match and put her into a coma, so she can't stir up any chaos."
"Right, that's a good idea. It punishes the little wench and gives Wei Zhao some trouble at the same time—two birds with one stone." Gao Xiaofu agreed.
"Then it's settled!" With a few words, Zhong Yongliang laid out the plan. "Tomorrow morning, I'll go to the school's broadcast room and announce that I am challenging Wei Zhao!"
This time the school's charity gala had been a great success. The total amount raised exceeded a hundred million, and of course Zhong Yongliang and Zhao Qibing had accounted for the lion's share. The other bosses and social elites had not donated nearly so much—the most generous gave over ten million, while others gave a few million, a few hundred thousand, or a few tens of thousands; donations of a few thousand were also very common.
The sum raised amazed the school; it was far more than in previous years. Of course, this was thanks to Zhong Yongliang and Zhao Qibing. Though no one knew why the two had bid so high, it was enough that they were charitable. Since they did not say, no one would go digging for the reasons...