Chapter 115 — No Philandering [Seventh Update, Begging for Monthly Tickets]

"All right, I'll rush right over..." Qiu Lingshan's heart sank. Finding the ringleader of the suspects should have been something to celebrate, but she could not feel happy at all, because what they had found was not a living man, but a corpse.

This meant there was still something hidden behind the case. The bald man had probably been silenced.

If that was so, the case would become even more complicated, and finding the real culprit behind it all would be all but impossible... Still, headache or not, Qiu Lingshan quickly led her people to the scene...

...

"Sister Yaoyao, what's wrong with you?" Shen Yushu had also noticed that Gu Mengyao seemed in low spirits, her face gloomy all along. At first she had thought Gu Mengyao was just playing the good girl with Uncle Chu around, but after a while Shen Yushu realized that was not it at all.

"It's nothing..." Gu Mengyao shook her head. Though she was annoyed inside at Wei Zhao's lecherous behavior, she could hardly show jealousy before her own best friend, could she?

"Oh, I think yesterday's fried mushrooms were tastier than today's dishes. What do you think?" Shen Yushu nodded, then suddenly asked.

"..." Gu Mengyao was speechless, but Shen Yushu made her laugh despite herself. "Xiao Shu, you are fated to eat at roadside stalls all your life... When you marry someday, your husband will save a fortune..."

"Hee hee, if I marry, won't you marry too? Besides, that would be saving money for you..." Shen Yushu said with a mischievous look at Gu Mengyao, giggling.

"For me... huh?" Gu Mengyao suddenly blushed as she understood what Shen Yushu meant, and could not help swatting her. "Why are you still bringing up that childhood stuff?"

"Hee hee, childhood stuff counts too, we hooked pinkies on it." As Shen Yushu said this, her own face flushed slightly. She glanced at Wei Zhao out of the corner of her eye. Could Uncle Chu really be thinking that, planning to take Wei Zhao as his son-in-law?

"I'm not talking to you anymore." Gu Mengyao's expression turned a little unnatural as she turned her head away...

What Shen Yushu called their childhood business was a little secret between the two of them, never told to anyone else, but after they grew up they would still occasionally tease each other about it.

Six or seven years ago, when they were in middle school, the two of them had watched a soap opera about a pair of best friends who had been close since childhood and, so they could stay together every day in the future, married the same man...

So Shen Yushu had said, all silly and earnest, "Sister Yaoyao, when you marry, I'll marry right along with you, so we'll never be separated..."

Gu Mengyao thought that sounded wonderful and nodded in agreement, and so the two of them hooked fingers and swore never to change for a hundred years... As they grew older they realized how absurd it had been, yet they still joked about it...

Especially after Shen Yushu grew up and no longer wanted to call Gu Mengyao sister, since they were classmates in the same class and calling her sister felt a bit like playing cute... But Gu Mengyao used that old pact to blackmail Shen Yushu: after you marry over, I'll be the first wife and you'll be the second, so of course you have to call me sister, and if you don't, I'll tell everyone about it...

Left with no choice, Shen Yushu had kept calling Gu Mengyao sister all these years, but it had grown natural with use, and since she was a few months younger than Gu Mengyao anyway, calling her sister was no great loss.

Of course, apart from Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu themselves, no one else knew about it.

Wei Zhao listened, baffled, as the two girls traded cryptic remarks, and shook his head without asking, because he knew that even if he asked, he would get no answer.

Wei Zhao sat to one side with his eyes half closed, seeming to rest, though in truth he was doing something else.

"Old Jiao, about the jade pendant's warning earlier, you..." Wei Zhao did not know whether the pendant's warning had anything to do with Old Jiao. Back in the pendant space, he had forgotten to ask about it.

"A warning?" Jiao Yazi was clearly taken aback. "What warning? I didn't feel anything?"

"You didn't feel it?" Wei Zhao was surprised in turn. "Just now, in the instant before the chandelier fell, I felt the pendant send me a kind of danger signal, the same signal that warns me every time I am about to run into danger..."

"To tell the truth, I felt nothing." Jiao Yazi thought it over; nothing unusual had happened before...

"Then... is this an ability of the pendant itself?" Wei Zhao knew Old Jiao could not be lying; if he said he felt nothing, then he truly felt nothing.

"Possibly. As I told you, this pendant was left behind by the Grand-Uncle Master. I don't know what other powers it has. You will have to discover them yourself, or open the stone door in the cave, and there may be new discoveries beyond..." Jiao Yazi explained.

"All right," Wei Zhao said helplessly. It seemed Old Jiao did not know the wonders of this pendant either; the cultivation space was perhaps only one of its functions.

The car stopped at the entrance of the villa and drove off after dropping Wei Zhao, Gu Mengyao, and Shen Yushu. Clearly Gu Pengzhan still had to go back to deal with the chandelier incident.

"Wei Zhao." Gu Mengyao suddenly turned toward him and looked at him.

"Hmm?" Wei Zhao looked at the young miss in confusion.

"While you are on the job, you are not allowed to go philandering outside." Gu Mengyao mustered her courage. She had been turning this over in her mind the whole ride, and once out of the car, she laid it out to Wei Zhao in one breath.

"Huh? I haven't, have I?" Wei Zhao froze. Was the young miss unhappy that he had been hitting on girls during work hours?

"If you have, change it; if not, take it as a warning." Gu Mengyao snorted. Naturally she could hardly mention Qiu Lingshan and that tall girl outright.

"Oh... all right." Wei Zhao nodded. "Then when I'm off duty, that's allowed, right?"

"My daddy hired you at a high price to be my shield twenty-four hours a day and to take my orders. You never have time off." With that, Gu Mengyao turned and walked off, pulling Shen Yushu with her.

"Uh... damn it." Wei Zhao gave a bitter smile. "Even the slave owners of the old society didn't play it like this, did they? Am I some indentured laborer? This chick..."

"Sister Yaoyao, just now... you looked so cool when you blew up." Shen Yushu looked at Gu Mengyao, a little excited.

"If I don't teach him a lesson, he won't know up from down. Just because Daddy thinks highly of him doesn't mean he can do whatever he wants and mess around with women. How will we fool Zhong Yongliang then?" Gu Mengyao herself did not quite know what she was trying to explain.

"But Sister Yaoyao, Zhong Yongliang still doesn't seem to know that Brother Shield is your boyfriend. At school you don't even talk to Brother Shield, and you even had Zhong Yongliang teach Brother Shield a lesson..." Shen Yushu looked at Gu Mengyao with a half smile. "Hee hee, how about I tell Little Liangzi tomorrow at school that Brother Shield is your boyfriend? And that you two are even living together... That would save him from bothering you again. He seems pretty scared of Brother Shield now. If he heard the news, he'd probably be scared out of his wits..."

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