Chapter 65 — Do You Like Him? (First Update Today, Please Recommend, Bookmark, and Give Me All Kinds of Support)

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Zou Ruoming was shaken just as badly. At the sight of Brother Black Panther, that ghastly wreck neither dead nor alive, neither man nor ghost, Zou Ruoming decided he would keep his distance from that monster Wei Zhao from now on. That thing was a lunatic, and Zou Ruoming had no wish to die young.

It was galling, of course. As the number two power in the school, to be afraid of a transfer student would cost him face if word got out. But Zou Ruoming told himself that he and Wei Zhao had always kept to their own sides of the river. As long as he did not go looking for trouble, it should not splash back on him.

At that thought, Zou Ruoming felt a secret glee. That Zhong Yongliang had nothing better to do than provoke some transfer student. He had not even checked the guy's background before picking a fight. He was simply tired of living.

"Hey, Yao Yao, do you think Wei Zhao will be all right? That Qiu Lingshan looked so overbearing, like she was deliberately out to make trouble for him," Shen Yushu whispered to Gu Mengyao, who was flipping through her English book.

"Who cares. It would be even better if they lock him up and sentence him, so he will stop pestering me." Gu Mengyao snorted. "Then my daddy can save on his salary too."

"You really do not care about him?" Shen Yushu looked at Gu Mengyao with a half smile.

"Xiao Shu, what is that look for?" Gu Mengyao frowned. "Why should I care about him? Enough about him. I still have to review my lessons."

"Oh, all right..." Shen Yushu smiled brightly and pointed at the English textbook in Gu Mengyao's hands, then said, "Sister Yao Yao, you are holding your English book upside down. You were staring at it for so long just now. That is really impressive."

"Ah!" Gu Mengyao flushed red. She glanced at the book in her hands, snapped it shut in a flustered hurry, shot a look at Shen Yushu beside her, then opened it again. Pouting, she said, "Fine, I just do not want him to get into trouble because of me. After all, this whole thing started with me. I am the one who told him to go after Zhong Yongliang. I already called Uncle Qing. He will take care of it."

"Hehe..." Shen Yushu smiled, but her expression was plainly full of doubt.

Gu Mengyao squirmed a little under Shen Yushu's smile. She shrank back, still uncomfortable, always feeling Shen Yushu's burning gaze fixed on her. Then, however, a thought struck her. "Speaking of which, classmate Xiao Shu, you seem even more worried about Wei Zhao than I am. Are you falling for him?"

"Me? Yes, I like him. So what?" Shen Yushu grinned at Gu Mengyao, not treating it as anything shameful at all. Hearing that Gu Mengyao had already contacted Uncle Qing, Shen Yushu breathed a sigh of relief. She knew well enough what Uncle Qing could do in Songshan City. She had been about to call her own grandfather...

"Huh?" Gu Mengyao's mouth fell open in shock as she stared at Shen Yushu in disbelief. "You... you like him?"

"Ha, I like him, so why are you getting so worked up? You can barely get your words out. Are you jealous?" Shen Yushu burst into giggles at the sight of her.

"What would I be jealous of? If you like him, then go chase him. I bet that kid will be so thrilled his snot will bubble with joy." Gu Mengyao put on a look of total indifference.

"Fine, then I will go after him. Just do not regret it later." Shen Yushu, however, spoke with a perfectly serious face.

"Who would regret it, haha..." Gu Mengyao shook her head as if she could not care less. Yet the moment the words left her mouth, her heart gave an uneasy twinge. She did not know why, but the feeling left her strangely unsettled.

"I was only teasing you, haha." Seeing she had failed to get a rise out of Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu found it boring and dropped it. "I just cannot stand Qiu Lingshan. If she wants to touch one of ours, no way."

"Exactly... Wei Zhao may be my follower, but he is still my man." For some reason, Gu Mengyao actually felt relieved when she heard Shen Yushu's explanation.

The groundless feeling left her utterly baffled, but Gu Mengyao did not dwell on it.

Although Zhong Yongliang had acted calm and composed in front of Gao Xiaofu and Zhang Naipao, in truth he was more frightened than anyone. It was not Wei Zhao's revenge he feared, but that Brother Black Panther would bite him out in the station.

If that happened, he would become the mastermind of the whole affair. Heaven knew whether it would drag him down. Once it touched him, his father would surely punish him severely, and he might even be forced to transfer schools.

Seeing Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu laughing and chatting not far away, Zhong Yongliang grew all the more irritated. He was something of a celebrity in school, yet he did not even have a girlfriend. It was laughable if word got out. Meanwhile Zou Ruoming, the other campus tyrant, had gone through more girlfriends than anyone could count. He heard Zou Ruoming was now pursuing some commoner school beauty named Tang Yun.

To be honest, Zhong Yongliang had only started noticing Tang Yun after hearing recently that Zou Ruoming meant to pursue her. She was a fresh, refined girl. Though she wore the school uniform, it could not hide her soft beauty. Still, beside little princesses like Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, she fell a little short.

Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu came from illustrious families, chauffeured to and from school in luxury cars, while Tang Yun, born to a far more ordinary family, was not nearly so dazzling. Otherwise, on looks alone, Tang Yun was in no way inferior to Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, and her figure was even slightly better than Gu Mengyao's.

But Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu stood high above the rest, wearing a keep-away expression every day. Zhong Yongliang was not afraid some other pest would beat him to it, because in this school he was the only one who dared pursue Gu Mengyao.

So Zhong Yongliang was in no hurry. He had patience enough to win Gu Mengyao over. Only Wei Zhao's arrival had shattered his original plan. In a fit of rage he had recklessly summoned Brother Black Panther to the school, and what he never expected was that Brother Black Panther would even more recklessly pull out a gun.

That changed the nature of everything in one stroke, turning a street thug causing trouble at school into an armed gang member committing violence on campus. Zhong Yongliang was terrified Brother Black Panther would crack and give him up. Then forget pursuing Gu Mengyao. Whether he could even stay in this school would be another question entirely.

When Wei Zhao came back from Gu Pengzhan's place, he checked the time on his phone. It was already past eleven at noon. Going to school now would mean no classes anyway. Worried about Yang Huaijun's injuries, and having come in a rush without bringing his books on traditional medicine, Wei Zhao hesitated, then flagged down a taxi and told the driver, "Take me to the biggest bookstore in the city."

"Young man, the biggest bookstores in this city are Xinhua Bookstore and Xuehai Bookstore. They are about the same size, but what kind of books are you looking to buy?" the taxi driver asked after hearing him.

"Oh? What is the difference between the two? I want medical books." Wei Zhao's books had always been brought back by the old man on his trips into town. He had never bought any himself.

"If you want literature or general books, Xinhua Bookstore is naturally your first choice. Their stock is more complete. But if you want academic books, then it is Xuehai Bookstore. That one serves students and researchers." The driver said, "Since you want medical books, I recommend Xuehai Bookstore."

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