Chapter 1042 — You Are So Cute

"Oh?" Wei Zhao was briefly taken aback.

"She said that when she got up this morning, she found there was barely any gas left in her car — not enough to reach school — so she wanted you to come pick her up..." Tang Zhi waved her phone and said, "Xiaoxiao just called me."

"Isn't there a gas station right by her front gate?" Wei Zhao found Feng Xiaoxiao's excuse a little hard to know whether to laugh or cry over.

"Is there?" Tang Zhi was taken aback too, then burst out laughing. "Honestly, Xiaoxiao — next time she should come up with a slightly more plausible excuse..."

"You knew all along she was lying?" Wei Zhao said with a smile.

"Mm... she admitted it..." Tang Zhi smiled as well. "You won't blame me for not being straight with you, will you?"

"Of course not." Wei Zhao shook his head. Given Tang Zhi's nature, with Feng Xiaoxiao already in such a state, she would naturally want to make her a little happier — so teaming up with her to pull one over on him was only to be expected.

With that, Wei Zhao swiftly drove the car toward Feng Xiaoxiao's residential compound.

Downstairs at her compound, Wei Zhao saw Feng Xiaoxiao, all done up and looking lovely, standing beaming at her doorway. Her petite figure, a schoolbag slung over her shoulder, brimmed with an indefinable youthful energy.

There was simply no connecting her with someone walking toward the end of her life. Had Wei Zhao not known full well about the strange condition inside her body, he would never have believed that Feng Xiaoxiao was really about to die.

Just then, the same smile she always wore on her face, Feng Xiaoxiao spotted Wei Zhao's car and came running over, overflowing with delight.

Tang Zhi and Feng Xiaoxiao settled into the back of the Beetle, leaving the passenger seat empty.

"Hehe, sorry about this — my car ran out of gas, so I had to make you come get me!" Feng Xiaoxiao said to Wei Zhao apologetically once she was in.

"Oh. All right," Wei Zhao said with a nod.

"All right?" Feng Xiaoxiao was baffled by Wei Zhao's reply. What did he mean by "all right"?

Tang Zhi covered her mouth and stifled a laugh.

Feng Xiaoxiao still had no idea what was going on.

Wei Zhao drove the car out of the compound gate, then turned into a small side street nearby. After a winding series of turns, he pulled into a gas station.

"My car's out of gas too. Just filling up," Wei Zhao said mildly, without calling her out on the lie she had told earlier.

But Feng Xiaoxiao's face flushed scarlet all at once. She might be a clever little thing who could lie without blinking — but that was when she was teasing other people. Now, facing Wei Zhao, she suddenly felt she wanted to sink into the ground.

Wei Zhao hadn't called her out directly, but wasn't the situation as good as an outright callout? Feng Xiaoxiao had never imagined that Wei Zhao would know there was a gas station near her home! It was well hidden, tucked away down a side street — unless you were a nearby resident or especially familiar with the area, you would never find it.

Yet Wei Zhao had found it — and now he meant to fill up here.

Wei Zhao got straight out and went to fetch the fuel nozzle. Inside the car, Feng Xiaoxiao pressed her burning cheeks, squirming restlessly. "Ahhh, what do I do, Sister Yunyun? Isn't it obvious he knows I lied to him?"

"Heh..." Tang Zhi gave her a teasing look. "So he knows. What of it?"

"Then he won't trust what I say anymore..." Feng Xiaoxiao said with a trace of worry.

"Heh, it's fine. He'd already guessed." Tang Zhi smiled.

"What? He'd guessed already!" Feng Xiaoxiao grew even more embarrassed. She hadn't expected Wei Zhao to have seen through her lie beforehand.

Wei Zhao finished fueling up and got back in the car. Without saying much, he started the engine and drove off in the direction of the school.

But the less Wei Zhao said, the more uneasy Feng Xiaoxiao felt! If he had scolded her a little, she would have felt more normal about it.

"So there's a gas station here! I never knew! I'll come fill up here tonight too." Feigning the air of someone who had only just discovered the place, Feng Xiaoxiao said, "Wei Zhao hubby, you're really something — you can even find a gas station on a little side street like this!"

"Oh, it's nothing much. I just pay attention, that's all," Wei Zhao said with a faint, ambiguous smile.

"Haha, I guess I just don't pay enough attention..." Feng Xiaoxiao said with a breezy laugh.

"Oh, I saw a gas station receipt in your car. It had this address on it, so I memorized it," Wei Zhao said.

"Huh?" Feng Xiaoxiao's eyes went wide and her mouth fell open. She was too stunned to speak; she sat bolt upright, her forehead nearly hitting the roof of the car! She stared at Wei Zhao blankly, feeling her face burn, overwhelmed by the urge to completely lose it!

"Ahhhh! I can't take it anymore! So humiliating!" Feng Xiaoxiao was about to go crazy. "Couldn't you just not call me out on it? Couldn't you just let me have this one? I-I-I-I... I'm going to kill myself..."

"You're quite cute," Wei Zhao said, unable to suppress a smile at the sight of Feng Xiaoxiao losing her mind.

"Oh? Really?" Feng Xiaoxiao was overjoyed the moment she heard Wei Zhao's words, her eyes curving into little crescent moons. "Really? Hahaha, Sister Yunyun, did you hear that? He said I'm cute!"

"Mm..." Tang Zhi smiled as well. She finally understood why Gu Mengyao had agreed to let Shen Yushu be a lesser wife — with a live wire like this for a lesser wife to keep her company, she certainly wouldn't be lonely. The days ahead were sure to be happy ones...

Without realizing it, Tang Zhi found that she had already accepted Feng Xiaoxiao's presence in her heart! If she could spend her whole life with her, that would be a wonderful thing — except it was nothing more than a lovely thought... Feng Xiaoxiao's fate was still destined to be a sorrowful one...

At this thought, Tang Zhi couldn't help but feel a pang of melancholy.

Feng Xiaoxiao, however, seemed utterly untouched by sorrow. The whole way she was cheerful and beaming, her eyes and the corners of her mouth curved like an emoji — happy beyond all measure.

Watching Feng Xiaoxiao as she was now, Wei Zhao found it hard to reconcile her with the sentimental Feng Xiaoxiao who had written that wish on her phone. In front of others, she was a little ray of sunshine, seemingly happy at any hour, and she made everyone around her happy too — yet behind closed doors, she was still a rather pitiful girl whose life hung by a thread...

Wei Zhao parked the car on the snack street behind the school. As she got out, Feng Xiaoxiao glanced once more at the Lamborghini by the wall not far away and burst out laughing again.

At school, Feng Xiaoxiao still kept up some propriety — after all, the combination of one man and two women was a bit too conspicuous. And now that she no longer had to compete with Tang Zhi for anything, she simply let Tang Zhi and Wei Zhao hold hands, while she walked at Tang Zhi's side, holding Tang Zhi's hand.RO