Chapter 280 — We're Friends!
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
At his words, Gu Mengyao suddenly felt a hollow emptiness in her heart. Wei Zhao protected her, she supposed, because she was his employer — and it was on that account that she had wanted to thank him for protecting Shen Yushu, since his job was to protect her alone, not Shen Yushu.
But with one simple sentence, Wei Zhao had made it clear: he had protected Shen Yushu not because of any connection to her, but because he and Shen Yushu were friends!
He and Shen Yushu were friends, and as for her... At the thought, Gu Mengyao felt a pang of loss. "Then what am I?"
"Heh, if we weren't, I wouldn't have saved An Jianwen today. I can't stand the sight of that creature." Wei Zhao smiled. He had not expected Gu Mengyao's thoughts to run so fine.
Only then did Gu Mengyao recall that when she had begged him for help today, Wei Zhao had indeed been reluctant — but she had called it a personal request, and he had acted all the same... Yes, a personal request; that made it a matter between friends...
Without her quite noticing, Gu Mengyao had begun to care about this man she had once so thoroughly detested.
In the villa, Gu Mengyao sat on the sofa holding Shen Yushu's hand, chatting. She had meant to comfort her; in Gu Mengyao's view, Shen Yushu must have been frightened half to death after falling into the sea. But she had miscalculated!
Shen Yushu was not frightened in the least. On the contrary, she chattered on and on about how she had built sandcastles on the beach, how she had rubbed sticks together to make fire, how she had roasted shark meat...
It was no different from a holiday in the wild, and Gu Mengyao found herself envying her. She even wondered why it hadn't been she who fell into the sea. Had she known Wei Zhao was this capable, what would she have had to fear? She would have jumped in with him — and eaten and drunk like royalty besides.
"Ah, but Yao-yao, I have to tell you some bad news!" Shen Yushu suddenly thought of the matter of Qiu Lingshan.
"Bad news? What bad news?" Gu Mengyao was still lost in the lovely picture Shen Yushu had painted: a sunlit beach, playing idly in the sand, the smell of roasting shark meat drifting from the fire nearby — what a delightful life of campfire cooking!
"Qiu Lingshan isn't Brother Arrow's woman. Brother Arrow and her — there's nothing between them!" Shen Yushu sounded disappointed. "I was hoping to make her a chamber maid and put her properly in her place, but it turns out she isn't..."
"Not Wei Zhao's woman? Well, if she isn't, she isn't... But what does that have to do with a chamber maid?" Gu Mengyao thought it was all for the better — how could that be bad news? What she hated most was him philandering about outside!
"Oh, Yao-yao, think about it. Uncle Chu wants to take Brother Arrow as a son-in-law, doesn't he?" Shen Yushu began to explain. "That makes you Brother Arrow's first wife. And me — well, we agreed on this long ago — I'm Brother Arrow's second wife. If that Qiu Lingshan wants to be with Brother Arrow, she can only be a chamber maid, lower even than me, his second wife. So can't I step on her whenever I like?"
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