Chapter 208 — The Eldest Miss Brings a Man Home?
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 2
Before dinner, Shen Yushu tried several times to slip away unnoticed from under Gu Mengyao's watchful eye, but every time she made to sneak off, Gu Mengyao caught her: "Shen Yushu, where do you think you're going?"
"Uh... Sister Yaoyao, I'm going to the bathroom." Shen Yushu said weakly.
"There's one in the room. Why go outside?" Gu Mengyao pointed at the washroom in the room.
"Oh... I forgot. I thought I was still at school!" Shen Yushu rose with a helpless look and headed for the bathroom.
"Hand over your phone." But Gu Mengyao did not let her go.
"Ah... oh." Shen Yushu surrendered her phone again, her last hope thoroughly extinguished. It seemed that tonight she would have no choice but to confess...
Tonight's dinner was not delivered by Uncle Qing, but by an assistant from Gu Pengzhan's company. Uncle Qing had telephoned Gu Mengyao earlier to tell her that he would be accompanying Mr. Gu to another city that evening for a business event, and that the one bringing her meal would be an assistant from the company instead.
Gu Mengyao didn't think much of it. Such things had happened often enough before, and she knew this assistant as well, so she agreed without a second thought.
At six that evening the villa's doorbell rang. Wei Zhao went to answer it, expecting Uncle Qing with dinner, but instead he found a man he did not recognize.
"Who are you looking for?" Wei Zhao did not open the outer iron gate; he asked through the bars.
"Huh?" The man was startled too. He looked up at the house number on the gate. He hadn't come to the wrong place, had he? Wasn't this the eldest miss's home? So why had a man come walking out of it?
Only Gu Pengzhan and Uncle Qing knew that Wei Zhao was living here; no one else at the company had been told. No wonder the assistant was bewildered.
"Excuse me, is this Miss Gu Mengyao's home? I'm looking for her..." The man, now certain he had not come to the wrong place, asked cautiously.
"Oh, you're looking for Yaoyao. What is it about?" Wei Zhao eyed the man with suspicion, but when he saw the lunch box in his hands, he guessed what the man had come for.
Since Uncle Qing had gone with Gu Pengzhan to the neighboring city for a business event, he naturally could not deliver Gu Mengyao's dinner tonight, and sending someone else in his place was only to be expected.
"You're here to deliver the meal?" Wei Zhao asked before the man could speak.
"Ah, yes!" The man nodded, his curiosity about Wei Zhao's identity growing by the moment. Just who was this man who had turned up at the eldest miss's home? And he had addressed the eldest miss with such familiarity, calling her "Yaoyao" outright — he couldn't be the eldest miss's boyfriend, could he? Taking advantage of Mr. Gu's absence to bring him home for a good time, and now he, of all people, had walked right into it!
At the thought, a wave of sorrow washed over the man. He had thought this was his big chance to shine — being sent on the boss's private business meant you were one of the trusted few; others would have killed for the opportunity!
Yet he had to be this unlucky, running smack into the eldest miss's boyfriend. Now that he knew about her little romance, could anything ever go well for him again? The eldest miss would be furious, and a few bad words from her in front of Mr. Gu...
At the thought of a future that had been so bright turning so bleak, another wave of sorrow washed over the man.
Why was he so unlucky?
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