Chapter 147 — News Travels Fast Around Campus
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"Did you hear? Wei Zhao, one of the new Four Great Young Tyrants, wrote Tang Zhi a love letter."
"Did you hear? Wei Zhao, one of the new Four Great Young Tyrants — Wei Zhao is courting Tang Zhi."
"Did you hear? Wei Zhao, one of the new Four Great Young Tyrants — Wei Zhao and Tang Zhi are going out."
"Did you hear? Wei Zhao, one of the new Four Great Young Tyrants — that Zou Ruoming, another of the Four Great Young Tyrants, went and harassed his girlfriend Tang Zhi, and Wei Zhao beat his face to a pulp..."
The two protagonists themselves — Young Master Lin and the The Blossom Guardian Tang — still had no idea that rumors about them had already spread through the entire school...
Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had watched Wei Zhao run out empty-handed and come back empty-handed, and they had no idea what he had actually given Tang Zhi. They hadn't even seen him take anything out with him, had they?
She wanted to ask, but was too embarrassed to, so Gu Mengyao could only give up and look at Shen Yushu. That girl was no good — she had no sense of loyalty to speak of. Sending her to ask would be worse than asking herself; she'd sell you out the moment you turned your back.
After the last small period ended, during the break before the big evening self-study session.
Tang Zhi walked hand in hand with a girl in glasses on the sports field. This was Tang Zhi's close friend at school, Liu Xinlan, from Class Ten, Senior Three. The two families lived very close to each other, and they both knew that rather pitiful girl, Xiaofen.
Liu Xinlan was not much to look at, though, so naturally she never drew the attention of the little hoodlums and street toughs, still less the favor of any young gentlemen. Ordinarily, she had a rather peaceful time of it.
"Yunyun, you're not really with Wei Zhao, are you..." Liu Xinlan asked in a low voice.
"Me? As if." Tang Zhi had not expected her close friend to say such a thing, and her face flushed at once. "What nonsense are you talking?" she spat. "How could there possibly be anything between him and me?"
"No way? Yunyun, you didn't know? It's already all over our class — they say Wei Zhao handed you a love letter today, and you accepted it all shy and flustered, and in your panic you nearly knocked over our homeroom teacher, Teacher Song," Liu Xinlan said.
"What?" Tang Zhi had never imagined that Wei Zhao giving her a barbecue recipe would be spotted by someone with an eye for gossip, and then twisted into such a shape. Truly, tongues are a fearsome thing.
"What, you really didn't know?" Seeing how baffled Tang Zhi looked, Liu Xinlan was puzzled too. Could Tang Zhi really not know?
"Wenwen, tell me, what on earth is going on?" Tang Zhi grew a little frantic and shook Liu Xinlan's hand. "How do I not know a thing about this?"
"It was this afternoon. Someone saw Wei Zhao give you a love letter and confess his feelings to you, and then you accepted shyly and went back to class..." Liu Xinlan summarized a relatively reliable and credible version and told it to Tang Zhi.
"Huh?" Tang Zhi's eyes went wide. "He gave me a love letter? Confessed to me?"
"That's right, that's what everyone's saying..." Liu Xinlan thought to herself that there were even more fantastical versions she hadn't mentioned. If she told those, Tang Zhi would see just how outrageous it had gotten.
"Wenwen, don't you believe me? How could I possibly get into a romance this early?" Tang Zhi was at her wit's end, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
"Hee, who knows? You're eighteen already — who's to say your heart isn't stirring?" Liu Xinlan laughed. "Besides, you're about to graduate from senior year and go off to university any day now. Maybe you just can't hold back anymore?"
"I'll pound you to death." Tang Zhi, flushed crimson with embarrassment at Liu Xinlan's teasing, reached out and swung at her, and Liu Xinlan dodged away with a giggle.