Chapter 144 — The Little Spy on His Tail
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Gu Mengyao was truly speechless. "Then go yourself—but whatever you do, don't say I told you to."
"Oh, then I'm off. Don't worry, Yao-yao jie, I would never sell you out," Shen Yushu said solemnly.
"That's more like it... Eh?" Gu Mengyao started, then realized she had been talked into a corner by Shen Yushu. "What do you mean, sell me out? You're the one who wants to go—what does that have to do with me? You rotten girl!"
As she spoke, Gu Mengyao reached out to grab Shen Yushu and give her a lesson.
Shen Yushu giggled and darted quickly away, so that Gu Mengyao's hand caught nothing.
Wei Zhao had not gone more than a few steps before he felt as though someone were following him. It was a strange, elusive sensation—one might call it an aura, or the sixth sense.
The so-called sixth sense is a curious thing. When someone is watching you or staring at your back, you have no eyes behind you, yet if that person's gaze is unfriendly, an involuntary chill rises in you—what some would call killing intent.
Even without killing intent, being watched brings a certain discomfort, an unease at being spied upon. In truth this too is a kind of aura sensing.
The thing is mysterious, intangible and insubstantial, yet many people, when spied on or stared at, can indeed sense it keenly—and Wei Zhao was one of them.
Wei Zhao paid it no mind. This person bore him no killing intent, which proved he was no enemy; above all, the jade pendant had given no warning, so for the time being Wei Zhao could afford to ignore him.
Arriving at the door of Class Nine, Senior Year Three, Wei Zhao caught the reflection in the glass of the open classroom door and saw who was behind him. It was Shen Yushu. He smiled faintly. A curious little thing, to be sure—but let her be.
He walked on a few more steps to the vicinity of Tang Zhi's seat and rapped on the window facing the corridor. The window was shut tight at the moment, the curtain drawn within, so he could not tell whether Tang Zhi was inside; he was only trying his luck. Still, since he had come the moment class ended, Tang Zhi ought not to have left the room.
Hearing someone knock on the window beside her, Tang Zhi pulled back the curtain in some surprise and glanced outside. Seeing that it was Wei Zhao, she panicked at once and, by sheer reflex, dropped the curtain back into place...
But no sooner had she done so than she realized Wei Zhao might have come looking for her because a classmate had told him she had been searching for him that morning. She hurriedly drew the curtain back and opened the window.
"You... you came?" Tang Zhi was rather put out that Wei Zhao had been absent from school all morning, making her run back and forth for nothing.
"Ha, I had a few things to take care of this morning. After we parted at the school gate, I left." Wei Zhao smiled.
"What you went to do... you don't need to explain it to me..." Wei Zhao's words carried a certain ambiguity that made Tang Zhi shy. Parted at the school gate... it almost sounded as though the two of them had come to school together. So Tang Zhi hastily waved her hands, trying to draw a clear line between herself and Wei Zhao.
"All right. I heard you came looking for me this morning. Was there something you wanted?" Wei Zhao did not press the matter further, but turned to business.
Was there something she wanted? Looking at Wei Zhao's innocent expression, Tang Zhi felt like biting him. The man was simply hateful. Wasn't it you who said you would make up the formula for my mother? Have you changed your mind now and don't want to give it to me, or are you deliberately playing me for a fool?