Chapter 16 — Caught Red-Handed
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"Yes, you. Hurry up, this young lady is hungry." Shen Yushu waved her hand impatiently.
Wei Zhao was rather resigned. Why was Shen Yushu giving him orders too? The one he was supposed to be waiting on was Gu Mengyao, wasn't it? So he said, "Miss Chen, I was sent by Mr. Gu to accompany Miss Gu in her studies. I'm not a nanny..."
"What's the difference? In the old society, a study companion was a pageboy, a servant of the household, only a tiny cut above the rank-and-file retainers. Whatever the young lady tells you to do, you do." Shen Yushu glared and spoke with perfect assurance.
"But... I'm Gu Mengyao's pageboy..." Though Wei Zhao was long used to cooking, surely there had to be some proper order to things? True, this Gu Mengyao smiled in a flirtatious, thoroughly captivating way, but Wei Zhao was no fool. If Gu Mengyao were to wake up in a bit and see him cooking for Shen Yushu, wouldn't she find some fault with him?
"What's the difference? Yaoyao and I are good friends; what I say is what she says..." Seeing that Wei Zhao still would not budge after she had spoken, Shen Yushu grew annoyed. She had rather liked this Wei Zhao at first, but who would have thought him so slow on the uptake? If it were any other man hoping to wait on her, she would not even bother; and here this fellow was, putting on airs. She gave a cold humph and said, "Fine. Go turn on the water dispenser for me. I'll just have instant noodles myself."
"Oh." That much was a mere trifle—the water dispenser stood right beside Wei Zhao, at the edge of the windowsill, so he reached out and flipped the switch.
While the water was heating, Shen Yushu casually picked up the remote from the sofa and pressed the power button. Every morning at this hour, the entertainment channel ran a special of music videos by the big star Xu Shilan; whenever Shen Yushu had the time, she would watch it.
"Wait—" Wei Zhao was seized with alarm, but it was already too late to stop it. The television screen flickered, and up came the channel he had just been watching; by now that girl called Hamazaki-something had finished her foreplay and was locked in furious combat with a muscular man...
"Ah—ah—" Shen Yushu let out a shriek and clapped a hand over her mouth, her eyes gone wide, fixing Wei Zhao with a look that could kill...
"Uh..." At that moment Wei Zhao wished he could die. What kind of game was this? Was there any way to toy with a man more cruelly? He had barely taken a few looks before he was caught red-handed — was there anyone more unlucky? If he had at least gotten a good eyeful, he might have accepted it, but what was this supposed to be?
"It wasn't me..." Wei Zhao meant to tough it out and deny it, and so he said instinctively.
"Wei Zhao, you actually watch such filthy stuff!" Shen Yushu was about to explode with rage. This Wei Zhao was truly despicable — no wonder he had gotten up so early in the morning; he had crept into the living room to watch this in secret.
"I told you, it wasn't me..." Wei Zhao said innocently. He had only stumbled onto this channel by accident in the first place. If you do not want people to see it, then do not leave the channel sitting there — putting it there is practically inviting people to watch, is it not?
"Who would believe that? If it wasn't you, then was it me and Yaoyao watching? Last night we left the TV off on the children's channel," Shen Yushu said sternly and with certainty. "Besides, we were afraid that when we changed channels we might accidentally land on this one, so we put a password on it. If you do not enter the password, how did you get in?"
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