Chapter 4355 — Two Beautiful Girls
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Wei Zhao was a wondrous person: the more one learned of him, the less one could see through him. And the more curious one grew, the more it seemed he harbored stories that could never be fully told—stories that held one spellbound.
"All right. The first time I saw Wei Zhao was on a train—oh, a train is a kind of transport in the mortal world. I didn't know him then, but he left a deep impression on me!" As Wang Xinyan spoke, the corners of her mouth curved unconsciously into a lovely arc. Recalling that scene now, a warmth rose unbidden in her heart, brimming with memory.
"Why?" Huang Xiaotao could not help asking out of curiosity.
"Because on the train at the time, three men saw that Wei Zhao was dressed shabbily and looked so harmless, and decided he would be easy to cheat. So they set up a scam together, pretending to be quarreling over a prize won from a drink, and then proposed that if Wei Zhao gave them sixty thousand, they would give him the winning pull-tab worth eighty thousand—when in fact the pull-tab was completely fake," Wang Xinyan said with a smile.
"Ah, there are swindlers like that in the mortal world too? Someone fond of small gains really would fall for it—but Wei Zhao is not that sort of person. He definitely wouldn't pay them any mind," Huang Xiaotao said with absolute certainty. Even priceless treasures like the infant ginseng and the Star Ink Milk had not made Wei Zhao lose his head, let alone a paltry sum of mortal money.
"You guessed wrong! Wei Zhao actually agreed to them at the time. I even secretly tried to warn him, but he acted as though he hadn't noticed at all, and really did hand the money to those three men," Wang Xinyan said with a faint smile.
"What? No way!" Huang Xiaotao was instantly dumbfounded.
"It's true. Only, after Wei Zhao gave them the money, he took it back from them without anyone being the wiser—and three thousand extra besides. Those three men were kept in the dark by Wei Zhao the whole time; perhaps even now they still can't figure out how, when they had clearly succeeded, they ended up without a single cent on them," Wang Xinyan laughed.
Every time she thought of this, she could not help smiling. And to think she had once worried herself sick over Wei Zhao—never guessing that his skill gave him boldness, and that he had been toying with those three swindlers from beginning to end.
"Hehe, serves them right for being played by Wei Zhao. I knew Wei Zhao wouldn't fall for their tricks. Sister Xinyan, your first meeting with Wei Zhao was really so much fun!" Huang Xiaotao laughed until she could not straighten up. She was by nature somewhat shy, but perhaps because she and Wang Xinyan shared the same interests, when the two were alone together she had become far livelier and more cheerful than before.
"Yes. Looking back now, it all feels truly incredible. Sometimes when fate arrives, it changes a person's destiny in an instant." Wang Xinyan sighed with feeling. "I was just an ordinary girl; I never dreamed I could cultivate, much less that I would come to Cloud Terrace Island. It really is like a dream..."
"It's the same for me. If I hadn't met Wei Zhao back then, I don't know what I would be now—perhaps I would have died long ago in the Hu Cai Tian Wu Mountains, perhaps I would still be struggling alone, sunk in the agony of my ruined face," Huang Xiaotao likewise sighed.
Both girls had had the trajectory of their original fates abruptly altered because they met Wei Zhao; in that respect, the two were indeed rather alike.
"Yan'er, Xiaotao." A woman's voice suddenly sounded from behind them—it was the master of them both, the Divine Nun of the Eastern Sea. (To be continued)