Chapter 3226 — What Did You Say? "Really? I've really been upgraded? I'm a peak late Earth-rank expert?" Though the old director had long felt her strength rise to the peak of the late Earth rank, hearing Wei Zhao say it aloud still left her feeling as though she were dreaming.
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Indeed, Xu Shilan was a normal girl. Wei Zhao had time and again played the hero to rescue her, and on top of that he had helped her find her mother. Though it had all come about through a tangle of coincidences, Wei Zhao had healed her mother's injuries and raised her mother's strength—Xu Shilan could not help but be grateful.
Except that Xu Shilan noticed Wei Zhao seemed somewhat special toward Yu Xiaoke. Could it be that Wei Zhao liked Yu Xiaoke? At this thought, Xu Shilan could not help but shrink back a little. Wei Zhao had other girlfriends, and she could overlook that—but Yu Xiaoke was her mother's disciple, and was she really to compete with her mother's disciple for a man?
Xu Shilan gave a slight shake of her head and temporarily pressed the feelings in her heart down, then began talking with the old director about everything that had happened in the years since they had been parted...
Wei Zhao led Yu Xiaoke out of the orphanage. On the way, Yu Xiaoke was rather silent. Wei Zhao knew what was on her mind and could not help finding it a little amusing. "Shall we drive there, or walk?"
"Either's fine..." Yu Xiaoke was somewhat distracted. As she saw it, her relationship with Wei Zhao would probably only grow more tangled from here on out, would it not? She had accepted more and more gifts from him, and as for the hint she had given Wei Zhao just now, she had no idea whether he had taken it seriously.
"Then let's walk. Treat it as a stroll," Wei Zhao said. It had been a long time since he had wandered the streets so leisurely as he did today.
As time passed, it had been nearly a year since he came to Songshan and Donghai. During that time, Wei Zhao had been busy with cultivation and company affairs, and it had been a long while since he had idled about the streets.
Returning to Songshan City once more, Wei Zhao felt a deep swell of emotion and could not help recalling the scenes of his first meetings with Wang Xinyan, Gu Mengyao, and Shen Yushu...
Wei Zhao walked in front, and Yu Xiaoke followed behind like a wronged child. After a while, Yu Xiaoke still did not hear Wei Zhao say anything, and she had no idea what he meant by it. Her mood had been uneasy to begin with, and now Wei Zhao had to go and fall silent, which left Yu Xiaoke truly unable to wait any longer.
"Hey... Wei Zhao, if you want me... to be your lover, just say it straight out, and I'll agree..." Yu Xiaoke hesitated for a long while before forcing out these words. "I know that in your eyes I might be a bad girl—I take so much money from you and never give you a clear answer, as if I treat you like some rich fool. But really... in my heart, I'm truly grateful to you. The reason I never agreed is that there's someone I like in my heart. But you saved my master, and you've done so much for the orphanage with all your heart. However bad I am, I can't keep dragging this out..."
It had taken great resolve for Yu Xiaoke to say these words. After all, she too felt her behavior toward Wei Zhao was truly unfair, so after much thought she had decided to accept her fate. As for her love with the male thief, it could only carry on in the next life. For the orphanage, for the old director, she could give up herself.
"What did you say?" Wei Zhao had been lost in thought and rather distracted, so he had not caught clearly what Yu Xiaoke said. He turned his head and asked.