Chapter 160 — The Waiting One

Gu Mengyao was still caught in her anxious uncertainty when she heard someone speaking beside her. She turned her head and saw a very refined-looking man.

A man described as refined meant he was virtually flawless - and not the creamy, soft pretty-boy type. This man had a good build, tall and well-proportioned, with strong, handsome features that gave an impression of cleanliness and excellent taste.

He wore a casual suit, the buttons left naturally undone, lending him an air of carefree ease, a cool kind of charm...

This sort of man could absolutely be called a heartbreaker. But Gu Mengyao had no interest in him whatsoever - her mind was already in turmoil, and now another complication had wandered in. She still had no idea how to deal with the previous "duck..." When her eyes darted about, she pointed at the pretty boy from before and said, "Can't you see there's a man here now?" Gu Mengyao's intention was to get the two of them riled up against each other, but to her surprise, the moment the pretty boy caught sight of the refined man, he shot to his feet as though terrified, turned, and walked away without a single word.

"This..." Gu Mengyao was nearly speechless. What kind of person was this? What a spineless coward! And he came out working as a duck?

"Hehe, ladies, he has already given up his seat," the refined man said with a faint smile, settling into the chair the pretty boy had vacated and raising the glass of red wine in his hand. "Let us have a drink together..."

Gu Mengyao was no fool. The fact that the pretty boy had so readily yielded his seat to this refined man meant the refined man was probably a regular at this bar, and the pretty boy knew him. The refined man clearly carried some clout, otherwise the pretty boy would not have slunk away so meekly.

She turned to look at Shen Yushu and found that Shen Yushu was looking at her too. It seemed they had arrived at the same conclusion: this refined man was not someone to tangle with. It was their first time at a bar and neither wanted to invite trouble. If word got back to Gu Pengzhan, they would certainly get an earful.

"Sorry, we drove here," Gu Mengyao said coldly, having no desire to exchange pleasantries with the refined man. If he had any sense of propriety, he would get up and leave now.

"Oh? I didn't notice..." The refined man seemed entirely unfazed by her displeasure. "That man who just left - if I'm not mistaken, he's one of the male escorts here, isn't he?"

Seeing that Shen Yushu still said nothing, Gu Mengyao could only snort on her own. This girl could only act wild back home; out in the world, the moment things looked dangerous, she went silent. Gu Mengyao was absolutely furious.

"I imagine the two of you are here looking for a thrill..." The refined man dropped his earlier civility, his words growing frankly suggestive. "Let us speak plainly. Rather than spending money to chase excitement, why not... hehe, I think I can satisfy your needs." "What did you say?" Color flooded Gu Mengyao's face in an instant. What was he implying? She was still a virgin, damn it! Thrill her ass. She shifted sideways in her seat, suddenly feeling that coming to this bar had been a mistake.

"No need to play innocent - why pretend with me..." The refined man reached out without the slightest hesitation and tried to lay a hand on Gu Mengyao's lovely bare shoulder, clearly intent on stealing a kiss.

Gu Mengyao panicked and dodged quickly. Shen Yushu had not expected the refined man to get physical so directly either. She turned to look for Wei Zhao - but where was Wei Zhao?

"Smack." Before the refined man's hand could touch Gu Mengyao, it was caught mid-air and deflected aside.

"That's right, no need to pretend. Who sent you? Let the person behind you come out..." Wei Zhao gripped the refined man's arm, his voice cold.

Although the refined man had polished looks, he was no soft pretty boy - quite the opposite. He was one of Li Cihua's most capable men, and blood was on his hands. Wei Zhao could sense this from his aura, though an ordinary person might never detect it.

This was also why Wei Zhao had intercepted the refined man the instant he made his move. Who knew whether this man meant Gu Mengyao any harm?

The refined man's scalp prickled with alarm. Though he had been speaking boldly to Gu Mengyao, the corner of his eye had been fixed on Wei Zhao's table the entire time. He had only reached out so brazenly after seeing that Wei Zhao appeared to have no intention of intervening. But in the very next instant, Wei Zhao had materialized behind him and seized his hand...

As the saying goes, one move tells you everything. The refined man was no amateur himself, yet Wei Zhao's speed had allowed him to appear at his back without being detected at all. A cold sweat broke over the refined man instantly.

Fast. That was his only impression. He himself had reached the early stage of the Yellow Realm - already far stronger than an ordinary person, strong enough to match a regular special forces soldier. But the refined man could feel that Wei Zhao's power surpassed his own.

If his guess was correct, Wei Zhao must be at least at the mid-stage of the Yellow Realm. Of course, this was merely the refined man's own estimate.

Wei Zhao appeared to be sitting there doing nothing at all, but in truth, his alertness had been heightened from the very beginning.

When they left the villa complex and turned the corner at the street, a black Buick had slipped into pursuit from a distance behind them. The Buick's tailing technique was impressive, but it could not fool Wei Zhao. Such surveillance might pass in an ordinary city, but on a battlefield, it would be a death sentence.

Naturally, as long as the Buick did not make any other aggressive moves, Wei Zhao couldn't be bothered with it.

It seemed this Buick must have been parked at the street corner the whole time, waiting for a chance to tail them.

The villa district had twenty-four-hour surveillance cameras, so they had no choice but to park at the corner just outside the district.

After Shen Yushu parked the car in front of the Geili Fuyun Bar, the Buick merely circled once past the entrance without stopping, then quickly drove away.

This was enough to rouse Wei Zhao's suspicions. If these people had come to tail Gu Mengyao, then even if they did not enter the bar, they ought to have parked nearby and waited for their next move.

But they had not done so. Naturally, Wei Zhao did not believe these people had nothing better to do than follow them halfway and then turn back on a whim. The only possibility was that they had people inside the bar, and there was no need to keep tailing.

And yet this was quite a coincidence — that the bar Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had chosen should happen to have their people in it!

So after entering the bar, Wei Zhao remained constantly on guard. He did not believe the other side would let such an opportunity slip by without using it to stir up some trouble.

As Wei Zhao had expected, from the moment the pretty boy appeared and he saw what the man did, Wei Zhao was entirely certain: this was the very person he had been waiting for — one of the other side's people.