Chapter 26 — The Commoner Campus Beauty
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Wei Zhao nodded. So he was an entertainment tycoon. Men who made their fortunes from nightclubs and karaoke bars — not all of them, but a good many — had at least a touch of the underworld about them. Still, it was hard to hold that against them; after all, such places were a tangle of dragons and snakes, and plenty of troublemakers came looking for a fight. Without formidable backing, you could never keep such a business open.
"Seems his family has a lot of pull in this city." Wei Zhao was not afraid of Zhong Yongliang because of such things. In his eyes, whether a gang boss or a company president, none was as terrifying as his own old man.
If he ever crossed Old Man Wei, the man would beat him half to death, and he would have no room to fight back at all.
"What's his family worth?" Kang Xiaobo twisted his mouth in disdain. Clearly he had no use for Zhong Yongliang — indeed, he found him rather tiresome. "If you want to talk money, Gu Mengyao's family is the one with real money. Zhong Yongliang's family just has a few entertainment businesses in this city, but the Gu family is a genuine industrial conglomerate, with branch companies all over the country."
Wei Zhao had gotten a rough sense of Gu Pengzhan's strength. If the Gu Group was an aircraft carrier, then the Zhong family's holdings could only be called little sampans. It was only natural that Gu Mengyao looked down on an upstart like Zhong Yongliang.
"Seems you know quite a bit." Wei Zhao smiled.
Kang Xiaobo's face reddened, and he said a little awkwardly, "Who among the boys at our school doesn't know Gu Mengyao's background and family? Shen Yushu, though, is a bit more of a mystery."
"How so?" Wei Zhao was curious. He had never met Shen Yushu's family, but it was plain that she was driven to and from school every day by the Gu family's car and ate her meals at Gu Mengyao's house, which gave Wei Zhao the feeling that she was basking in Gu Mengyao's shine. But hearing Kang Xiaobo now, it seemed that was not the case.
"I hear Shen Yushu's grandfather was a founding elder from the days of Liberation, and her brother is a major general in the army. Back when we'd just started first year of high school, a boy leaned on his family's connections to court Shen Yushu, and when she turned him down, he tried some dirty tricks. When Shen Yushu's brother found out, he beat the kid so badly he was in the hospital for half a year. His family didn't dare make a peep, and afterward they even went to the Chen family to apologize." Kang Xiaobo spoke mysteriously. "From that you can see how formidable Shen Yushu's background is. But Shen Yushu never goes looking for trouble herself. Plenty of people have secret crushes on her — they just don't dare confess."
Wei Zhao thought to himself: And you call that not looking for trouble? She doesn't go looking for trouble, sure — she comes after me all day long. Not only does she have a hold over me, but just now, of all things, she got a look at my... What kind of mess is this?
Just thinking about it gave him a headache. Wei Zhao was not afraid that Shen Yushu's phantom brother would come after him; he knew something of Shen Yushu's character. The girl seemed far more open than Gu Mengyao, and she would not harp on such matters. Gu Mengyao, though... she probably hated him even more now. Sometimes Wei Zhao would rather have been Shen Yushu's study companion than Gu Mengyao's; this young lady was truly hard to serve.
"Wei Zhao, you're not falling for either of them, are you?" Seeing that Wei Zhao said nothing, Kang Xiaobo patted him on the shoulder.
Wei Zhao shook his head with a bitter smile. "How could I? I've never even thought about it." Wasn't that asking him to steal the young lady? It gave Wei Zhao a groundless sense of guilt, as if he were some ancient household servant sneaking around with the master's daughter...