Chapter 88 — Keep Pretending, Please Vote for Support

"Here is a hundred yuan, no need for change..." Zou Ruoming pulled out a hundred yuan and slapped it down in front of Mother Tang. He did not want to stay a minute longer, with Wei Zhao watching him he felt uneasy all over.

"How can I take that..." Mother Tang wanted to give him change, but Zou Ruoming gave a wry smile and waved his hand, then turned around and walked off without looking back.

At first, Mother Tang had assumed the money for this meal was lost for good. The group had ordered fifty or sixty yuan worth of food and drunk beer besides, and she made only a hundred or so yuan in a whole day at the stall. To lose more than half of it at once hurt, but she had not dared to press Zou Ruoming for payment and could only count herself unlucky.

She had never expected that one word from Wei Zhao would make Zou Ruoming pay up obediently, and even overpay by dozens of yuan without wanting change. She felt deeply grateful to Wei Zhao, thinking how could the gap be so wide between these rich young masters from the same school? Look at Wei Zhao, gentle and refined in appearance, while Zou Ruoming might as well have the word bully written on his own face!

Yet the bully had taken a slap from the refined young man and had not even dared to make a sound before slinking away! Thinking of this, she looked at Wei Zhao with much kinder eyes. Seeing Tang Yun still standing there, glaring at Wei Zhao and Kang Xiaobo as if lost in thought, she said with displeasure, "Yun'er, what are you doing? Why are you not helping greet your classmates?"

Tang Yun had never expected Wei Zhao and Kang Xiaobo to plant themselves so boldly at her family barbecue stall to eat. In her eyes, Kang Xiaobo jumping out to stand up to Zou Ruoming earlier was most likely at Wei Zhao's orders, and his aim was probably the same as Zou Ruoming's, with herself as the goal. Apart from that, Tang Yun could think of nothing else that would catch the attention of these rich young masters.

Although Wei Zhao did not show himself as openly as Zou Ruoming, but looked gentle and refined instead and did not try to cozy up to her, Tang Yun found Wei Zhao even more hypocritical. He had just beaten Zou Ruoming and the broad-faced fatty without mercy, and now he sat here like a good student. Who was he acting for? Especially when she saw her mother seemed to have taken quite a liking to Wei Zhao and even called her to serve them, Tang Yun grew even angrier, thinking, so he helped you get back a hundred yuan and you fall for it so easily?

Tang Yun was like a little hedgehog. What she had been through over the years had long made her lock her heart tight. Whenever a boy came near her, Tang Yun raised her guard on principle.

Still, since her mother had called her, however unwilling Tang Yun was, she could only answer, fetch two bottles of beer from the stall, turn back and set them on Wei Zhao and Kang Xiaobo's table, then return to her mother's side without even glancing at them.

"The opener..." Kang Xiaobo saw Tang Yun had brought only the beer and no opener, and seeing she looked unhappy, he could only smile wryly and ask carefully.

"Yun'er, what is the matter with you? Open the beer for your classmate?" Mother Tang did not understand what had come over Tang Yun. She had been fine just now, and suddenly she had turned cold. Facing Zou Ruoming, you bowed your head in grievance, and facing Wei Zhao, who looks so gentle, you give him attitude?

If Tang Yun knew her mother thought this way, she would explode on the spot! Him, gentle and refined? He just sent the broad-faced fatty flying with one slap. Is that what you call refined?

"No need." Wei Zhao smiled. He did not know how he had offended this pretty girl. He could see Tang Yun's bad attitude, but he did not mind, taking it only for a little girl's temper.

As he spoke, Wei Zhao picked up a beer bottle, flicked his thumb lightly at the cap, and the beer popped open. He served Kang Xiaobo's bottle the same way.

"You! It is lucky your classmate is easy to talk to! If it were Zou Ruoming from before, he would have smashed the stall!" Mother Tang looked helplessly at her daughter. "Do you not want me to do business anymore? If not, go back to school. I do not need you here!"

"I..." Tang Yun was scolded by her mother for no reason and felt wronged beyond words. What do you mean my classmate is easy to talk to? How is he easy to talk to? Can one of the four campus bullies be easy to talk to? You think he looks gentle, but do you not know he is putting on an act? He wants to chase your daughter!

"All right, the tofu rolls are done. Take them over quickly." Mother Tang handed the two grilled dried-tofu rolls in her hand to Tang Yun.

"Oh..." Tang Yun took the dried-tofu rolls with a huff, shuffled slowly toward Wei Zhao, and the calmer his face looked the more hateful she found it. When she reached his side, she found courage from she knew not where and, pretending it was an accident, stomped hard on the back of Wei Zhao's foot!

Hmph, so you like to act refined? You want to please my mother? No chance. I will not let you have your way. Since you want to play the gentleman before me to please me, fine, I will stomp you to death and see whether you lose your temper or not!

Stomped for no reason by Tang Yun, Wei Zhao looked up in surprise at her sullen face. Although the force meant hardly any pain to Wei Zhao, stepped on for no cause, he had to say something in his own defense, did he not?

"You..." Wei Zhao had just opened his mouth when Tang Yun felt a small thrill of triumph inside, thinking, go on pretending, keep it up, and I will deal with you the same way again, yet on her face she showed an apologetic smile. "Sorry, I stepped on you by accident."

"Oh... it is nothing..." Seeing Tang Yun had already admitted her fault, Wei Zhao could say no more and shook his head with a wry smile.

After apologizing, however, Tang Yun did not lift her foot at once, but pressed down hard twice more before taking it away, a sly smile flashing in her eyes. She set down the dried-tofu rolls and ran off quickly.

"..." Wei Zhao was speechless. Tang Yun had clearly done it on purpose! These girls! Wei Zhao really did not know what to say. Did he really look like such a pushover?

Before it had been Shen Yushu and Gu Mengyao, but Shen Yushu was clever and mischievous and had seized his 'weak spot,' so that could be forgiven. And Gu Mengyao's father was his employer, so Wei Zhao could say nothing... But now Tang Yun had come to step on him of her own accord...

Forget it, he was too lazy to bicker with her. If this got out, he would be laughed to death. The mighty "Eagle" bullied by a few women...

"Boss, Tang Yun seems to have it in for you. Did you provoke her?" Kang Xiaobo had also sensed something off, as if Tang Yun was targeting Wei Zhao.

"How would I know? Today is the first time I have ever met her!" Wei Zhao shook his head.

"Could you have offended her before without noticing?" Hearing Wei Zhao's words, Kang Xiaobo felt that was indeed the case. He had transferred here only a few days ago, and today was his first meeting with Tang Yun, so how could there be any grudge? Still, Kang Xiaobo feared Wei Zhao might have crossed Tang Yun sometime without meaning to.

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