Chapter 2665 — Coming to Play the Advocate?
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Yu Dake did not notice her helpless expression; he was animatedly recounting how he had been injured at the Hidden World Clan Summit and Wei Zhao had stepped in to save him, gratitude for Wei Zhao brimming in his every word. "Xiaoke, Mr. Lin is a truly good man—good men like that are rare these days. Not only did he help heal my injuries, he's been running himself ragged over your orphanage. He is simply a great benefactor to us both! As the saying goes, a drop of kindness should be repaid with a spring. So you and I must keep this debt of gratitude in our hearts all our lives. Whatever Mr. Lin asks of us, we must do our utmost—whatever we can do, we must do it..."
Listening to her brother, Yu Xiaoke's mind became a tangled skein. She bowed her head in silence, not knowing how to answer him.
Yes—Wei Zhao had saved her brother, and given the orphanage such tremendous support. He owed her nothing; rather, she and her brother both owed him. But even so, that was no reason to give herself to him in gratitude, was it?
If there were some other way to repay him, Yu Xiaoke would certainly have nodded without hesitation. But now... watching her brother praise Wei Zhao so effusively before her, she felt irritated, and her aversion toward Wei Zhao surged up once more.
Was there anything he couldn't say to her face? Did he have to drag her brother in to play the advocate? To have her brother praise him endlessly in front of her—and then she would fall for him? What angered Yu Xiaoke most was that Wei Zhao clearly ought to like her, and yet he still would not admit it!
She had some understanding of Wei Zhao's character—he was not a particularly warm-hearted man. Was he a fool, then, endlessly pouring aid into her and the orphanage? Most of his company's profits were being funneled into the orphanage, and still he rushed about every day raising funds for it. Yu Xiaoke simply could not believe that Wei Zhao was helping her out of pure goodwill, because that was not realistic.
"Hah..." Yu Xiaoke did not want to hear any more, so she lifted her head and changed the subject. "Brother, have you started a family?"
"Me? Of course not." Yu Dake shook his head. "Just now, when I was telling you about the Hidden World Clan Summit, you didn't seem very puzzled? You know about cultivators and the hidden clans?"
"I know. A while ago there was a man named Zhao Qibing who set fire to the orphanage—he's from the hidden Zhao family, isn't he?" Yu Xiaoke said. "As for cultivators, well, I suppose I count as one too, though only an expert of the outer school—I haven't even set foot on the Yellow Rank. And my master, the old director of the orphanage, is a Yellow Rank expert of the inner school!"