Chapter 144 — The Little Spy on His Tail
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Wei Zhao stared in astonishment at Gu Mengyao's reply. The earlier line, "You don't need to report to me where you go," came as no surprise—that was pure Gu Mengyao, nothing out of the ordinary at all.
But the sentence that followed—"Still, be careful about stirring up trouble with girls; they're already coming to your door looking for you"—was baffling. What did she mean, be careful about stirring up trouble with girls? Who was already coming to his door? Whom had he stirred up? Who had come looking for him?
Puzzled, Wei Zhao texted back: "Who came looking for me?"
Reading his reply, Gu Mengyao frowned. Was he playing dumb, or did he genuinely not know? Tang, the great The Blossom Guardian, had come looking for him—how could such a big thing happen unless they had arranged it beforehand?
Still, that was only her assumption. Looked at another way, if they had arranged it, Wei Zhao couldn't possibly have failed to tell Tang Zhi that he wouldn't be at school that morning—so the two of them really didn't seem to have planned it in advance.
So Gu Mengyao couldn't say much more. She could only reply: "Tang Zhi came looking for you several times. Do you even know she's looking for you? And who is Xiaohei?"
Only after her anger had passed did she remember to ask who this "Xiaohei" mentioned in his text was. Why did it sound like a dog's name?
Tang Zhi? Wei Zhao was taken aback. Tang Zhi had come looking for him? From the way she had been sulking that morning, it had seemed she would never speak to him again—and now she had sought him out of her own accord?
Wei Zhao frowned, unable to make sense of why Tang Zhi would come looking for him. He texted Gu Mengyao back: "Xiaohei? That's Black Panther. What did Tang Zhi want with me?"
Gu Mengyao couldn't help but be amused at Wei Zhao's message. Xiaohei... was Black Panther? She had heard a thing or two about Black Panther's reputation. Zhong Yongliang had once bragged in class until the heavens rang—how he ruled the skies above and the earth below, how he led the underworld, how he could take on ten men at once. And a man so formidable, kicked to the ground by Wei Zhao, his face ground out of shape under his heel...
Heh... Gu Mengyao smiled faintly. But then Wei Zhao's question—"What did Tang Zhi want with me?"—irked her. He didn't know himself?
"How should I know? You made the trouble, you sort it out." Gu Mengyao sent the reply, then slipped her phone into her desk and prepared for class.
"Yao-yao jie, what did Arrow Brand Bro say?" Shen Yushu asked once Gu Mengyao had put the phone away in her desk.
"You were sitting right there peeking out of the corner of your eye—did you think I wouldn't notice?" Gu Mengyao was speechless at Shen Yushu's pretending not to know.
"Hehe..." Shen Yushu looked a little embarrassed. "I thought you'd be able to figure something out..."
"What do you take me for, a fortune-teller or a psychic? Figure something out?" Gu Mengyao snorted. "Besides, why would I bother figuring him out?"
"Oh." Seeing that Gu Mengyao's tone had turned sharp, Shen Yushu said no more and obediently got ready for class.
After class, Wei Zhao left the classroom and headed for Class Nine of Senior Year Three, where Tang Zhi was. Tang Zhi had no phone, so he couldn't call or text her—he would have to go find her himself.
Watching Wei Zhao's retreating back as he left the classroom, Gu Mengyao knew full well he was going to look for Tang Zhi, and it left her rather displeased.
"Yao-yao jie, want me to tail him?" Shen Yushu was up to her bad ideas again.
"Give me a break." Gu Mengyao's vision went black and several dark lines popped above her head. "You, tail him? You don't know how formidable that kid is, do you? You think you could tail him? If he caught you, he'd think I sent you."
"Oh, then I'll just march over there fair and square and say I was curious myself." Shen Yushu spoke as if it were nothing.