Chapter 136 — The Young Couple
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"Young lovebirds?" Tang Zhi nearly lost her footing and fell to the ground. She and Wei Zhao... were young lovebirds? The crucial point was that this had come out of Wang Zhifeng's mouth.
"All right, I'll walk you in!" Wang Zhifeng said no more, for they had reached the door of the Senior Three, Class Nine classroom, and he knocked.
Tang Zhi was somewhat speechless. The stern impression the dean had always given, compared with today—it was truly different... far too different... Was this really the same Director Wang who flew into a rage whenever he caught a boy and girl being the least bit intimate on the school field? When the homeroom teacher of Senior Three, Class Nine saw that it was the dean himself knocking, she hurried over to open the door. "Director Wang, is something the matter?"
"Oh, nothing. I brought Tang Zhi here," Wang Zhifeng said, indicating Tang Zhi. "She's a good student, very good indeed! Yes... with good students, we teachers ought to be a bit more lenient, give them some space of their own, and not meddle too much in their personal affairs!"
Wang Zhifeng was dropping a hint for Tang Zhi's homeroom teacher. He had to; if she found out about Tang Zhi and Wei Zhao and stuck her oar in, and the boy got desperate and dragged him into it... So Wang Zhifeng made himself very clear.
"Ah? All right..." Tang Zhi's homeroom teacher was slightly taken aback at his words. What was the relationship between Tang Zhi and Director Wang, that he would speak up for her like this? Because of Tang Zhi's excellent grades, the homeroom teacher had always treated her well, but a special word from the dean was something else altogether...
"Mm, nothing else. I'll be going." Wang Zhifeng nodded, and at the last turned to Tang Zhi. "If anything comes up, call me directly!"
"Oh... goodbye, Director Wang..." Tang Zhi's mind was a muddle, filled entirely with that "young couple" remark Wang Zhifeng had made earlier...
Damn it, Wei Zhao couldn't have said something to Director Wang, could he? Was that why Director Wang had misunderstood? But what background did Wei Zhao actually have? Why would Director Wang side with him like that?
What had happened that morning had raised a question of the utmost importance in Tang Zhi's mind. Zou Ruoming and Zhong Yongliang were not without connections either, yet she had never seen Wang Zhifeng treat them kindly. When they came before Wang Zhifeng, were they not like mice before a cat?
But Wei Zhao was different... Just then, Tang Zhi found herself beginning to doubt her earlier conjecture. Was it really only because Wei Zhao had connections? That did not seem to be it either... Could there be some other, unknown side to Wei Zhao?
Back at her seat, Tang Zhi took out her textbook, yet could not focus on it no matter how she tried. In her heart and in her mind, over and over, played the scene of Wei Zhao shielding her on the bus that morning and Wang Zhifeng's strange words...
Why was she so unlucky... On the very eve of graduation, she had run into a creature like this... Was she truly unable to escape his grasp?
Tang Zhi felt somewhat dejected and gave a faint sigh... The most speechless part was that even her mother had been bewitched by this person... Ah! A major matter suddenly struck Tang Zhi!
Her mother had told her to go ask Wei Zhao for the formula today! That morning, flustered and panicked as she was, she had actually forgotten all about it! And when they got off the bus, Wei Zhao's words had muddled her even further, so she had not even taken the chance to ask him for the formula along the way!
What a tragedy. Did she really have to go to his classroom and look for him again?