Chapter 346 — An Uninvited Guest

"That won't be necessary — I have some personal business today." Brother Wen waved his hand. "Don't follow me."

"Yes, Brother Wen! Shall I get the car ready for you?" the tattooed man asked carefully.

"Mm. Bring the Ferrari around for me." Brother Wen ordered.

That evening, an uninvited guest arrived at Gu Mengyao's villa.

The doorbell at the villa's gate rang. At that moment, upstairs in the main house, Gu Mengyao was giving Shen Yushu a stern lecture, voicing her strong displeasure at the girl's habit of running around the house stark naked. "Little Shu, you're already nineteen. You can't keep doing this! Do you understand?"

"I know, Sister Yaoyao..." Shen Yushu nodded with a cheeky grin.

"Look at you — every time I scold you, you just grin like that. In the end, aren't you just giving that big bad Wei Zhao an advantage?" Gu Mengyao shot her a glare. "Watch out that he doesn't sneak some scandalous photos of you. Then see what you'll do!"

"Oh... Sister Yaoyao, someone's ringing the villa doorbell downstairs. Shall we go down and take a look?" Shen Yushu was already changing the subject again.

"Look at what? Wei Zhao's here to run errands and answer the door — what's the rush?" Gu Mengyao was dismissive.

"Oh... it must be Uncle Qing delivering food. I'm starving — let's go downstairs!" Shen Yushu clutched her belly, looking as though she might faint. "I'm dying of hunger."

Gu Mengyao shook her head and had no choice but to drag Shen Yushu downstairs.

When Wei Zhao heard the villa's doorbell ring, he stepped out of his room to answer it. But when he reached the courtyard, he froze — because the visitor was neither Uncle Qing nor anyone else he knew. It was An Liwen, the very man they had encountered at the amusement park that day!

"An Liwen?" Wei Zhao was mildly taken aback. How had the man tracked him down here?

And when An Liwen saw that the person answering the door was none other than Wei Zhao, a barely perceptible shadow passed through his eyes. The man was actually inside Gu Mengyao's home? A sickening premonition crept over him. Had Wei Zhao and Gu Mengyao already progressed to the point of living together? And living in her villa, no less?

Did Gu Pengzhan know any of this? But on the surface, An Liwen's face remained wreathed in a warm smile. He would not let the turmoil inside him show. "Oh? If it isn't Mr. Wei Zhaolin! What a coincidence — you're here too?"

"I live here." Wei Zhao glanced at him and replied flatly. How could Wei Zhao miss the probing tone in that question? What a coincidence, indeed!

Sure enough, An Liwen's expression stiffened. Though he had already harbored an ugly suspicion, some part of him had clung to hope. Now there was no room for doubt — Wei Zhao lived here!

An Liwen clenched his fists. He had been abroad for only three years, and someone had already beaten him to the punch? One of the Four Young Masters of Songshan — had his girl been poached just like that?

"Hehe, so Mr. Lin is already living with Yaoyao." An Liwen felt his heart bleeding... Even if he managed to defeat Wei Zhao in the end, the woman he carried home as his bride would already be secondhand goods.

"Are you here to conduct a household census?" Wei Zhao frowned. Why did this man talk so much nonsense? "What do you want?"

"It's like this — that day, you and Yaoyao saved my life. I came specifically to thank you in person." An Liwen forced down the displeasure churning inside him, then lifted the gifts in his hands with a smile and said to Wei Zhao, "See, I even brought presents... Shall you let me in first?"

Wei Zhao sneered inwardly. Come to thank him in person? A minute ago the man probably hadn't even known Wei Zhao lived here — what thanks was there to give? If you're here to hit on a girl, just say so. Why so hypocritical? Still, Wei Zhao didn't expose him. Whatever this man was here for was really none of his business. He opened the courtyard gate and let An Liwen in.

"I wonder if Mr. Gu is home?" Once inside, An Liwen ventured another probing question.

"Who exactly are you here to see?" Wei Zhao looked at An Liwen with contempt. "Uncle Chu doesn't live here. If you want him, go to his company!"

"Oh? He doesn't live here anymore..." An Liwen had genuinely wanted to ask where Gu Pengzhan was — before he went abroad, Gu Pengzhan had been living with Gu Mengyao.

Wei Zhao paid him no mind either, stepping into the villa first and leaving An Liwen to follow along behind. As for the gifts in his hands, Wei Zhao had no interest in taking them — who knew who they were even meant for?

By then Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had already come downstairs. Seeing An Liwen behind Wei Zhao, they were rather surprised as well.

"Jianwen, what brings you here?" Gu Mengyao did not much care for An Liwen. The An Liwen of this moment no longer carried the feel of the boy-next-door brother from childhood; there was an indescribable gloom about him that made her uncomfortable.

"Ha ha, last time at the restaurant in the amusement park, I was so grateful to you and Mr. Lin, so I made a special trip to thank you in person!" An Liwen, grinning, set the gifts in his hands down on the coffee table in the villa's living room.

They were all foreign nutritional supplements, a jumble of this and that, though by no means did they look like things meant for young people. Wei Zhao guessed that perhaps these were bought specifically to call on Gu Pengzhan — except that Gu Pengzhan no longer lived here.

"Jianwen, since when did you become so insincere? You never used to do things like this." Gu Mengyao spoke blandly. She felt the distance between herself and An Liwen growing ever wider, the old sibling affection gone for good. "Or is it that if I fell ill, you would just stand by and do nothing?"

"Ha ha, then that makes me vulgar, doesn't it!" An Liwen too felt he had been a little thoughtless — without even finding out where Gu Pengzhan was living now, he had recklessly come charging to the door. These things truly were not suitable gifts for Gu Mengyao, but he had already carried them here, and taking them back would be even more improper. "Still, these are all things I brought back from abroad — just something new to try."

"Ooh! Yao-yao, these things must be worth a lot, right? How about we sell them?" Shen Yushu eyed the pile of foreign gifts on the coffee table with curiosity...

"Xiaoshu!" Gu Mengyao shot her a look. Even if you don't like An Liwen, you can't be this rude to his face, can you?

The corners of An Liwen's mouth twitched twice. With Shen Yushu he was utterly helpless — he could not afford to provoke her, and she was Gu Mengyao's closest friend besides, so he dared not offend her either.

"Hee hee..." Shen Yushu laughed, paid An Liwen no further attention, and turned on the television to watch it on her own. The atmosphere in the villa abruptly turned a little chilly.

"You two talk. I'm going back to my room." Wei Zhao stood up and headed for his own room. Wasting words on this An Liwen was a waste of time!

Watching Wei Zhao rise and walk toward the room on the ground floor, An Liwen's eyes flickered with a strange light. "Mr. Lin lives downstairs?"