Chapter 198 — Tang Zhi's Secret Worry
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"I'm not talking about him — I mean you!" Tang Zhi raised her head and looked at Wei Zhao. "That night, what I asked you! Are you or aren't you going to be my boyfriend?"
Wei Zhao hadn't expected Tang Zhi to still be wrestling with this matter, but he nodded all the same. Since he had already spoken to the old man at home and intended to stay here for the long term, there was no need to look left and right, hesitate and worry.
"So do you just want to have some fun, or do you actually want to be with me?" Tang Zhi frowned, looking straight at Wei Zhao, enunciating every word: "Wei Zhao, if you just want to have some fun, then please stay away from me, stay away from my mother, stay away from my whole family, all right? I'm not Xiao Fen. She was young and naive back then, but I'm already eighteen. I won't fall for your tricks!"
"Uh..." Wei Zhao was momentarily at a loss for words. He hadn't expected Tang Zhi to ask such a thing. "What am I playing at? Do I look like I have that much idle energy to spare? Do I look like someone who's just playing around?"
"Fine then! If you're not just playing around and you really want to be with me, then stop pestering me for the time being, would you? Let me get into university without distractions. I don't want to lose focus at a time like this!" On Tang Zhi's delicate features there was a trace of stubbornness. "When that time comes, if you still want to be friends with me, then... I'll agree!"
Today's showdown with Wei Zhao had actually been the result of several days' deliberation. Tang Zhi herself didn't know what exactly she felt toward Wei Zhao; she only knew that he had helped her family immensely, and that she owed him far too many favors.
But naturally Tang Zhi wouldn't start dating Wei Zhao just to repay a debt. It had to be admitted that in her heart she was growing less and less repelled by this man who had suddenly barged into her family's life. And it was precisely this that stirred a certain inner panic in her — which was why she put on that cold, indifferent face whenever she faced Wei Zhao.
Tang Zhi was afraid. She was afraid of falling too deep. Although she refused to admit that she had any tendency toward early romance, the loathing she had once felt for Wei Zhao had genuinely grown smaller and smaller, replaced by a sense of gratitude and an inexplicable flutter of the heart...
Especially ever since Liu Xinlan had asked her about her and Wei Zhao, Tang Zhi's mind had not been at peace. Even in her dreams at night she had somehow dreamed of Wei Zhao... And the most infuriating part was that she had dreamed of kissing him...
The dream had been somewhat inexplicable, not quite real, with a gauzy, phantasmal quality about it; Wei Zhao's face in the dream had not been very clear either. But when Tang Zhi woke with a start, she knew — that person had been Wei Zhao...
She had actually had an erotic dream, and the object of her very first such dream had been none other than Wei Zhao. Tang Zhi naturally knew that erotic dreams during adolescence were a perfectly normal phenomenon, and that the person appearing in such dreams was usually someone one already had feelings for in real life. That was what she had read in the health education textbook.
But precisely because of this, Tang Zhi felt a rising panic. She was a little scared now — scared that she really might slowly develop feelings for Wei Zhao, and end up with him...
Yet her reason told Tang Zhi that this was a dangerous thing. She absolutely must not let herself sink too deep, or the consequences might be no different from Xiao Fen's.