Chapter 207 — The Black Panther Escapes
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Still, the feel of it really was rather nice. Even that brief brush against her wrist had been enough to set his heart racing...
Meeting Shen Yushu's murderous glare, Wei Zhao gave a dry cough and stopped pressing his advantage. Bracing himself, he wrenched at the bars until the two railings bent out of shape and spread far wider apart.
"There we go." Wei Zhao let go and stepped aside.
"Huh?" Shen Yushu gave it a try, and slipped out easily between the bars. "It's that simple?"
"That simple," Wei Zhao said with a nod.
"If it was that simple, why did you grab me and pull just now?" Shen Yushu was fuming. "My chest—it hurts like mad!"
"Ahem... Xiaoshu!" Gu Mengyao shot her a glare. "Don't talk nonsense."
Shen Yushu colored slightly, but she did not much care. "Arrow Bro, you did that on purpose, didn't you?"
"Yaoyao told me to do it," Wei Zhao said, looking rather innocent. "I thought her way was the best one."
"Wei Zhao, don't you go stirring up trouble!" Gu Mengyao would have none of it. "What do you mean, my way was the best? How was I supposed to know you could pull the iron bars apart?"
"Heh..." Wei Zhao smiled. "If there's nothing else, I'll put the bars back. Next time, don't try squeezing through. Though if it's Yaoyao squeezing through, she should be fine!"
With that, Wei Zhao bent the two spread bars back into their original shape.
"Wei Zhao! What do you mean by that? Are you saying your granny here has small breasts?" That one remark was all it took to set Gu Mengyao off like a firecracker.
"I didn't say that." Wei Zhao broke out in a cold sweat. One careless word from him had provoked such a reaction from Gu Mengyao. "If there's nothing else, I'll be going..."
"You get back here!" Seeing Wei Zhao make his escape, Gu Mengyao was beside herself with fury.
"Yaoyao, actually there are advantages to small breasts too—you don't get stuck..." Shen Yushu offered weakly, watching Gu Mengyao in her rage.
"Xiaoshu!!!" Gu Mengyao glared at her, face dark. Is that any way to comfort someone? Get stuck? There were plenty of big-breasted girls out there, and she had never seen a one of them get stuck—only a blockhead like you could manage that.
"Yaoyao, don't be angry. Big or small, Zhong Yongliang likes you all the same anyway," Shen Yushu said earnestly.
"Xiaoshu, are you doing this on purpose? Whether he likes them or not, what does that have to do with me?" Gu Mengyao was about to go mad.
"That's true too—it only counts if Arrow Bro likes them!" Shen Yushu nodded.
"..." Gu Mengyao was utterly speechless. She could not even be bothered to get angry with Shen Yushu anymore. With a best friend like this, getting angry at her would be the death of her sooner or later. But then her eyes flickered as something came to mind. "Xiaoshu, you lost at hide-and-seek, didn't you?"
"Huh? I..." At Gu Mengyao's reminder, Shen Yushu suddenly remembered the wager from before, and her vision went black. What did it mean to be hoist by one's own petard, to lift a rock only to drop it on one's own foot? Shen Yushu cursed her own quick mouth—of all things, why had she gone and played for stakes?
"Yaoyao, I got stuck, didn't I? If I hadn't, you'd never have found me," Shen Yushu quibbled.
"Nonsense. Even if you hadn't been stuck, I'd have found you," Gu Mengyao said. "Xiaoshu, you can't go back on your word! Otherwise, I'll never play with you again!"
"Oh..." Faced with Gu Mengyao's threat, Shen Yushu deflated a little. "Fine then. I'll go..."
"When are you going to do it?" Gu Mengyao knew Shen Yushu's mischievous nature all too well. If Xiaoshu said she would go but named no time, the thing would likely be dragged out indefinitely.
"Dinner... how about at dinner?" Shen Yushu wanted time to prepare. "Yao Yao, you have to give me some time to get ready."
"Fine then, dinner it is!" Gu Mengyao nodded. "No welching, though!"