Chapter 112 — Could He Be an Illegitimate Son? [Begging for Monthly Tickets, Fourth Bonus Update]
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"Daddy seems to care about him more than he cares about me? And his attitude toward him is so... nice?" Gu Mengyao knitted her brows slightly...
"Exactly. Especially since Uncle Gu said before that you and Wei Zhao should get along well, that you two are the same age... Don't you think that attitude is a little ambiguous?" Shen Yushu reasoned. "If Wei Zhao were just some hired follower Uncle Gu brought in, would he have needed to say that? Look at how strict Uncle Gu has been all these years about you and your male classmates — how could Uncle Gu, for no reason at all, let a man live under the same roof as us?"
"You have a point..." Gu Mengyao nodded in deep agreement. True enough — she had been raised with strict discipline since childhood, sternly told that before eighteen she was not allowed to date, not allowed to go out with boys, not allowed to...
Granted, she was eighteen now, but wasn't this shift in attitude a bit too drastic? Gu Mengyao did not believe her father had suddenly turned so open-minded and enlightened as to put a grown man in her house.
When things are out of the ordinary, there must be something uncanny behind them. Had Shen Yushu not reminded her, Gu Mengyao, though puzzled, would not have thought much of it — after all, those caught in the middle of things are blind to them, and she had chalked Wei Zhao's presence here up entirely to his having fed her father some bewitching potion. But thinking it over carefully — just how shrewd a man was Daddy? Running the vast Gu Group as he did, could he really be fooled by a bumpkin like Wei Zhao? However she looked at it, it seemed impossible...
Which meant... Wei Zhao's coming to her side was in fact something her father approved of from the bottom of his heart... But what on earth could have led her father to make such a decision?
"And besides... Uncle Qing seems to treat Shield Guy with a great deal of respect too..." Shen Yushu hit the nail on the head. Whether Gu Pengzhan admired Wei Zhao or not was beside the point; the point was that Gu Pengzhan admired plenty of people — all those brilliant young talents in the company had been hired by him, and their attitude toward Uncle Qing was nothing short of reverent. After all, Uncle Qing was the old man at Gu Pengzhan's side; even the company's vice president had to address him respectfully as Brother Li... Yet toward Wei Zhao, Uncle Qing's manner seemed different from the way he treated those company employees — more like the way he treated her and Gu Mengyao...
"Right..." Gu Mengyao's brows drew tighter still, and she grew all the more suspicious about Wei Zhao's identity and about her daddy's purpose in placing him at her side...
"Yaoyao, anyway, I think that whether it's your daddy or Uncle Qing, their attitude toward Shield Guy is far too ambiguous... It isn't the way they treat a hired man... it's more like the way they treat... family..." Shen Yushu voiced her thoughts. The idea might frighten Gu Mengyao, but as her closest friend, she felt obliged to say it.
Listening to Shen Yushu's analysis... suddenly Gu Mengyao thought of a truly terrifying possibility — one that frightened even her.
"Xiaoshu... do you think Wei Zhao... could Wei Zhao be Daddy's illegitimate son?" Gu Mengyao stared wide-eyed at Shen Yushu, somewhat alarmed. "Otherwise, why would Daddy like him so much?"
"Huh??" This time Shen Yushu was dumbstruck too. She had never imagined Gu Mengyao could come up with such an outlandish explanation — Uncle Gu's illegitimate son? Shen Yushu felt a chill of revulsion... Still, the possibility was essentially nil; the two looked not the slightest bit alike. How could it be? Gu Mengyao was really something, to conjure up even that.
"What is it, Xiaoshu?" Gu Mengyao saw Shen Yushu standing there dumbstruck and at once felt she must have gone off track. "Am I wrong?"