Chapter 25 — Best Frenemies
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Hey, brother, still playing innocent with me?" Kang Xiaobo patted Wei Zhao on the shoulder. "At our age, it's normal to have thoughts about pretty girls. But looking is fine, and fantasizing in your head is fine too — actually going after them, though, and you'll just come away with a bloody nose."
Hearing this, Wei Zhao smiled bitterly. So the kid was a wolf in sheep's clothing — he looked so refined, with his glasses, but underneath he was a closet lecher.
Seeing that Wei Zhao said nothing, Kang Xiaobo thought he was unconvinced, so he went on: "Listen, brother, don't take it hard. The truth is, these days good grades aren't everything. Sure, that's one part of it, but what girls like most is a handsome, dashing guy — and most important of all, a pocket full of cash. Us? Forget about it."
"Heh, that theory of yours is pretty interesting." Wei Zhao laughed. Inwardly he disagreed: for girls like Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, money had long since lost all meaning. Otherwise, with a family like Zhong Yongliang's, how could he possibly have failed to win her over?
"Of course. But theory alone is useless — the top few at our school have their standards set sky-high." Kang Xiaobo shook his head.
"Top-tier? Who are they?" Wei Zhao was getting a little gossipy himself. He had nothing better to do anyway, and since Kang Xiaobo was making friendly overtures, having one more friend at school was no bad thing.
"Ha, come on, brother, don't tell me you haven't noticed? Right in our class — two of the spots are taken." Kang Xiaobo looked rather pleased with himself here. The beauties had nothing to do with him, but they were in his class, and that alone was enough to make others envy him. Not for any other reason — just for the eye candy.
"You don't mean Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, do you?" Those were the only two girls' names Wei Zhao knew. Besides, when he had first seen Gu Mengyao's file, he had learned that she was the school beauty, and her good friend Shen Yushu was naturally one in ten thousand as well.
"Holy crap, no way, brother — you've only been here one morning and you've already got their names?" Kang Xiaobo's mouth dropped into an "O" and his face filled with astonishment.
Seeing that expression, Wei Zhao understood that he had definitely been misunderstood. But there was no way to explain the odd, unclassifiable relationship between him and Gu Mengyao, so he had no choice but to accept the title of pervert in silence.
"You don't have to make that face. Actually, I'd bet eighty percent of the boys in our class dream about those two." Kang Xiaobo smiled and pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, which looked a little faded. "But the only one who dares to pursue them is Zhong Yongliang."
"Zhong Yongliang's family is very rich, I take it?" Wei Zhao knew that the feud between him and Zhong Yongliang was now set. As long as he kept working as Gu Mengyao's bodyguard, that feud could never be resolved — unless Zhong Yongliang gave up on pursuing Gu Mengyao himself.
So Wei Zhao meant to learn a thing or two about Zhong Yongliang from Kang Xiaobo.
"What, you don't know?" Kang Xiaobo was startled, then laughed. "Right, you're from the mountains — I forgot. Zhong Yongliang's family is loaded. His father, Zhong Sanguo, owns the Katy Grand Hotel, and he has several other businesses in the city too — Echo KTV, Kaka Disco, all of them belong to their family."
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