Chapter 3252 — News of the Auction
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When she was alone at home with Wei Zhao, she no longer made a fuss or kicked up a row. She would sit quietly in her room with a book, or watch television in the living room, and she did not put on any of those silly, foolish antics—because she no longer had to perform for Wei Zhao's benefit, nor did she need to hide from him the loneliness and bewilderment in her heart.
Gu Mengyao had gone, and perhaps she too would soon be gone. What the road ahead would look like, what her life would become—Shen Yushu did not know.
After the so-called Cloud-Tier Isle Plan was carried out, whether she would still have a chance to live, whether she would ever again stand together with Wei Zhao, Gu Mengyao, Feng Xiaoxiao, and Tang Zhi—of this Shen Yushu had not the slightest certainty. Even a prophet had her off days...
The wheel of fate was not hers to hold. Even Arrow Brand, whom she thought so highly of, was but a tiny piece in this grand design. The Cloud-Tier Isle Plan, the gathering and coming-to-know of the Inheritors before the Inheritance—it all seemed to be one vast game of chess.
Who the players behind this game were, who the two locked in contest—Shen Yushu did not know. She and Wei Zhao might both be pieces on the board. Or perhaps Wei Zhao was the one piece that could turn the whole board on its head. Everything, all of it, was unknowable.
Whenever such thoughts came to her, Shen Yushu could not bring herself to be happy. That hour was drawing near!
Wang Xinyan moved into the villa without a hitch. Xu Shilan had heard of Wang Xinyan's existence from Shen Yushu before, and knew that Wang Xinyan was the girlfriend Wei Zhao had acknowledged long ago, so she did not have much of a mind to compete for his affection. Though Xu Shilan's own heart had quietly yielded to him, before Wang Xinyan she truly did not dare make any disrespectful move.
It was plain to see that Wei Zhao set great store by Wang Xinyan, but just what the reason was, Xu Shilan could not begin to guess.
That night, Wang Xinyan still went upstairs to sleep with Xiaoshu. Wei Zhao would have liked to hold Wang Xinyan as he slept—she was the one girl with whom he was truly intimate—but he feared that in the midst of cultivation he might unconsciously drain something out of her and do her harm, so he had no choice but to let it go.
What Wei Zhao had not expected, however, was that on the very second day after Wang Xinyan moved into the villa, he received a call from Yang Qiqi!
"Brother Wei Zhao, I've made inquiries for you. On the twentieth of this month, a piece of blue crystal is to be auctioned at the Christon Auction House over here. I've already obtained the bidding qualification—when are you coming over?" Now that Yang Qiqi and Wei Zhao had recognized each other for who they were, she spoke to him with far more intimacy.
In the past, Yang Qiqi had helped Wei Zhao investigate the whereabouts of the blue crystal purely out of gratitude, but now she treated it as her own affair—so the moment she had news, she called Wei Zhao at once.
"A lead at last? Wonderful!" Wei Zhao had in truth always cared a great deal about the matter of the jade pendant's storage space. Apart from cultivation, the only craft he had any real skill in was artifact forging. He did not know alchemy, and artifact repair was beyond him—so he might as well set himself honestly to refining the jade pendant's space!
Besides, the space within the jade pendant was really rather small now. Wei Zhao had packed in about as much of the valuables he carried on his person as it would hold, and the smaller odds and ends had simply found no room at all!
Surely Wei Zhao had to leave himself some spare capacity for emergencies?
"Mm. When will you come over?" Yang Qiqi's words to Wei Zhao were full of tenderness. The little girl who once ground her teeth at the very mention of Wei Zhao had vanished without a trace.