Chapter 2390 — Wang Xinyan's Decision, Part One

In fact, this time it had been Shen Yushu herself who proposed making Wang Xinyan Wei Zhao's primary wife. Was she truly unhappy because of this? Even Gu Mengyao found it a little hard to believe.

To say Gu Mengyao was unhappy might have some truth to it, but to say Xiao Shu was unhappy seemed rather impossible. Her thinking from the very beginning had been that so long as she could be with Wei Zhao—whether she had status or not, whether she was an official girlfriend or not, even if every other woman were the primary wife and she herself merely a secondary one—she would be satisfied.

So Gu Mengyao was puzzled: why did Xiao Shu seem to have changed character today? Could it be that she no longer wished to be a secondary wife, and her true nature had burst forth?

"Ah? You... how did you know?" Shen Yushu was startled and spoke without thinking, but then at once realized she had let something slip. She hurried to explain, "No, no, I... I just used my brain too much and feel a little dizzy..."

"Xiao Shu!" Gu Mengyao looked at Shen Yushu sternly.

"Ah... all right, it's because of Arrow-Brand Bro," Shen Yushu said somewhat helplessly. "Actually, I'm worried about Wang Xinyan..."

"Xiao Shu, you don't want Wang Xinyan to be Wei Zhao's girlfriend?" Hearing Shen Yushu admit it, Gu Mengyao asked in a rather odd tone.

"No!" Shen Yushu shook her head. "I never said I didn't want that!"

"Oh?" Seeing Shen Yushu's innocent expression, which did not look feigned, Gu Mengyao grew even more confused. It seemed she had misread the situation—Shen Yushu did not appear to be unhappy or troubled because Wang Xinyan was rising in status, but because of something else entirely?

So Gu Mengyao asked, puzzled, "Then what are you worried about?"

"I'm worried she'll turn down Arrow-Brand Bro's confession. Xiao Shu hopes she'll become Arrow-Brand Bro's primary wife, so that in the future she'll have Yao-yao to keep her company," Shen Yushu said. "Xinyan is a lovely person. Once she moves into the villa, she should get along very happily with Yao-yao..."

"Move into the villa?" Gu Mengyao was slightly taken aback. "You want her to move into the villa? What do you mean, get along happily? What on earth are you talking about?"

"Nothing. Xiao Shu means... if someday Xiao Shu dies, there should be someone to keep Yao-yao company..." Shen Yushu said after a moment's hesitation.

"Dies? Why would you die when you're perfectly fine? Why bring up such things?" Gu Mengyao looked at Shen Yushu in bewilderment and glared at her. "What has gotten into you today?"

"Nothing at all. Xiao Shu is just sighing over things. People are born, grow old, get sick, and die, and there are accidents and disasters too. If one of these times Xiao Shu were to die, she wouldn't be able to keep Yao-yao company anymore..." Shen Yushu said. "So in the future, let Xinyan keep Yao-yao company instead."

"What kind of nonsense is this!" Gu Mengyao understood Shen Yushu's words less and less. She touched Shen Yushu's forehead and said in puzzlement, "She doesn't have a fever either?"

"No, Xiao Shu already said it's just a casual sigh, just in case!" Shen Yushu had gone back to her usual grinning self. "Xiao Shu is only speaking of a what-if. So if we're looking, we need to find a sister who gets along well with Yao-yao. If Xiao Shu dies and there's no one to help Yao-yao, what if Yao-yao gets taken advantage of? And Xinyan is a good person, kind and gentle, she wouldn't bully Yao-yao, and in the future she'd surely yield the position of primary wife to Yao-yao too!"

"..." Hearing this, Gu Mengyao's face flushed slightly, and she was somewhat at a loss. "Xiao Shu, what on earth are you saying? What are you trying to express?"

"Nothing really. I think we should draw up a plan for Arrow-Brand Bro to win the beauty, so that he can successfully court Xinyan. What do you think?" Shen Yushu said.

"A plan to win the beauty?" Gu Mengyao was stunned. She looked at Xiao Shu for a long while, confirming that she was probably not talking nonsense, before saying, "You mean we should give Wei Zhao a hand?"

"Yes. Only when Wei Zhao and Xinyan are together can he forget..." Shen Yushu blinked. "Otherwise, Xiao Shu will never feel at ease..."

Shen Yushu left her sentence half-finished, never making clear just what she was uneasy about—was it Gu Mengyao she was uneasy about, or Wei Zhao?

"Then... what do you plan to do?" Gu Mengyao asked after a moment's hesitation. She was rather supportive of Shen Yushu's proposal. If she did not like Wang Xinyan, she would never have invited her to visit the house. The plan had been shelved because of the kidnapping incident, but that did not stop Gu Mengyao from leaning toward having Wang Xinyan become Wei Zhao's primary wife.

"Let's go upstairs and study it, and work out a detailed plan!" With that, Shen Yushu took Gu Mengyao by the hand and headed upstairs...

After leaving Wei Zhao's villa, Wang Xinyan hailed a taxi and returned to school. Wu Chengtian followed at a distance, watching her enter the dormitory building before leaving with Old Master Pi and the others in relief.

Wang Xinyan's heart was in turmoil. She had never expected Wei Zhao to confess to her at a moment like this. She was not ready—more precisely, her own affairs were not yet settled...

She had turned him down. Would he be unhappy? It suddenly occurred to Wang Xinyan that running off like this might be a kind of hurt to Wei Zhao. Should she... call him and explain?

Tell him... her own difficulties? That she had a fiancé and had not yet broken off the engagement? Wei Zhao surely knew about this, yet he had still confessed to her—was he trying to put her in an awkward position? Wang Xinyan had been a good child, obedient since childhood, so when it came to marriage, though she had been rather unwilling at first, she had reluctantly agreed under her family's intervention.

After all, she had no one she liked. Kang Jinglong seemed on the surface to be decent enough—a doctoral graduate in medicine—and the Kang family was a medical dynasty! But during a meal in Yanjing, when she saw how Kang Jinglong fawned over Wu Chengtian, Wang Xinyan felt that Kang Jinglong was not as good as the rumors made him out to be—somewhat hypocritical and sinister—and she had even less fondness for him in her heart.

Only because of family reasons had she not said much.

But now things were different. Wang Xinyan had someone she liked, and she no longer wished to be bound by fate; she did not want to marry Kang Jinglong! For the first time in her life, Wang Xinyan felt a spirit of rebellion, a desire to overturn her family's decision. She even felt an urgent impulse—once back in her dormitory, to call her parents and cancel the engagement with the Kang family!