Chapter 248 — Docking Your Salary: Gu Mengyao Was Furious! Absolutely Furious! Was Wei Zhao Not Trouble Enough for One Lifetime? Holding Tang Yun's Hand and Openly Declaring in School That Tang Yun Was His Woman? Had He Forgotten She Was the Young Miss? Did He Not Know He Was Her Sidekick and Her Shield?
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"I don't care whether she pays you or not, so long as you don't let these women come knocking at my door!" In her heart, Gu Mengyao was reluctant to let Wei Zhao go to Sun Jingyan, yet she could find no reason to stop him, and she could not say what she was angry about. On reflection, perhaps it was because she feared those women would turn up and ruin her plans? Yes, that had to be it. As long as he didn't bring them onto campus, he could do whatever he pleased!
With that, Gu Mengyao hung up, leaving Wei Zhao shaking his head at the phone. Was that permission or a refusal? Was his salary still being docked or not?
Wei Zhao headed to the snack street behind the school, where he unexpectedly ran into Tang Yun. After class she had come to help her mother out; with Kang XX and Liu Xinwen over at the hospital, Tang Yun's help wasn't needed there anymore.
Seeing Wei Zhao come up after her, Tang Yun jumped in fright, so flustered with shyness that she scarcely knew what to do — yet deep in her heart there was a flicker of delight.
Today's business had spread through practically the whole school, and yet for some reason, this time Tang Yun was not nearly as angry as she had been when the "love letter incident" broke out.
That last time it had only been a rumor; this time there was truth behind it. That was probably why, Tang Yun thought... but was that really it?
Tang Yun shook her head. There was no longer any rejection of Wei Zhao in her heart; on the contrary, when she was with him there was always an inexplicable excitement and flutter. Had she really fallen in love this early?
"You... what are you doing here..." Tang Yun lowered her head, not daring to look at Wei Zhao.
"I'm here waiting for a friend. She wants my help with something." Wei Zhao paused there. "I came by on the way to see you."
At the first half of Wei Zhao's sentence, Tang Yun had felt a faint pang of disappointment — so he hadn't come specially to see her after all. But the second half made her heart feel as though it had tasted honey, sweetness spreading through it thread by thread...
"Oh..." Tang Yun blushed, her heart a muddle. Had she really fallen this easily? No, she mustn't...
"Your family's business is doing well — if it's too much, you should hire another pair of hands," Wei Zhao said, glancing at Mother Tang's barbecue stall, already ringed in by students.
"Yes... Mama said the same thing today. If it stays this busy, we'll have to hire someone." Tang Yun was grateful to Wei Zhao; without him, their business would never have caught on like this. And yet, thinking of her relationship with him, was this some roundabout way of repaying him? She did not dare follow the thought further, and her heart grew more and more tangled. "I... I'd better go help my mother first..."
With that, Tang Yun turned and ran off without another word to Wei Zhao.
Watching her retreating figure, Wei Zhao lost himself for a fleeting instant... This kind of life truly was good.
Only, the moment he closed his eyes, that pair of resentful, reproachful eyes stabbed fiercely into his heart once more...
Back then, was it the recklessness of youth? Or... a lack of confidence in his own origins? Or... those days of flying bullets, with no telling which day would be the last?
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