Chapter 265 — A Change of Impression
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"Be that as it may, I still have to thank you! I, An Liwen, am not one to leave a debt of gratitude unpaid. I will repay this favor someday!" An Liwen paid no mind to Wei Zhao's words.
The two of them had been at each other's throats before; Wei Zhao's willingness to step in and save him now was entirely out of consideration for Gu Mengyao, and An Liwen knew that perfectly well.
He cast Gu Mengyao a grateful look. "Yaoyao, little sister, Jianwen-ge wasn't wrong to treat you well back then!"
As for Shen Yushu, An Liwen had nothing to say. The girl was simply like that — whoever rubbed her the wrong way got crushed without mercy. An Liwen had no idea how he had offended this little hellcat; she had always turned her nose up at him.
"It's nothing. As long as you're all right." Seeing that An Liwen's life was no longer in danger, Gu Mengyao breathed a sigh of relief. "But you should still do as Wei Zhao said and get your stomach pumped. That way there won't be any problems."
Without realizing it, Gu Mengyao had come to treat Wei Zhao as her encyclopedia. She did not know when it had begun, but his words had taken deep root in her.
"Of course..." An Liwen smiled. He said so aloud, yet his heart ached. Once upon a time, Gu Mengyao had obeyed him just like that, holding her big brother's every word as gospel, flying into a rage at anyone who dared argue with him. But the years had passed, and another man had appeared in her life...
An Liwen was not ready to accept it. He had thought that once he returned from his studies abroad, he could formally propose a relationship to Gu Mengyao. She was only just about to enter university, and by the Gu family's rules, there was no way she would be allowed to date so early. So An Liwen had returned to Songshan City brimming with confidence — he had not even bothered to ask around about Gu Mengyao's situation beforehand, nor had he rushed to visit her. Instead, he had first sought out Su Taizao, who had then been one of the Four Young Masters of Songshan, to catch up.
He had never expected that in the restaurant at the amusement park he would happen upon Gu Mengyao — only to find that her heart already belonged to another... and her man looked utterly ordinary. Just as An Liwen was beginning to wonder whether Gu Mengyao's taste had gone bad, whether she had deliberately picked a poor boy out of rebellion, the skill Wei Zhao displayed completely overturned An Liwen's judgment!
One glance at the soup he had drunk was enough to determine the cause of his illness; a few presses of massage on his back and he had been made to vomit out everything he had eaten. Was that the kind of thing an ordinary person could do?
And when he heard the exchange between Gu Mengyao and Wei Zhao, An Liwen became all the more certain that he had misjudged him — Wei Zhao was not nearly as simple as he appeared on the surface!
"Wei Zhao, could you save Jianwen-ge?" "Oh, I could. But I don't want to."
A few simple words had made it clear that Wei Zhao's abilities might extend even further — perhaps much further! For saving a life seemed to him no more than a lift of the hand!
An Liwen had no choice but to reassess the level of his rival. For the first time, this love rival made An Liwen feel that he must be taken seriously. Before, there had been only mockery, contempt, and confidence.
The sound of an ambulance siren rose. Even in an amusement park, an ambulance had a clear road, but the distance from the hospital to the park on the city's outskirts was no short stretch, so the ambulance only arrived after Wei Zhao had already brought An Liwen back to life.
Several paramedics hurried in. "Where's the patient?"
"Over here!" Su Taizao quickly waved them over. "Food allergy — he's already vomited it all up. He needs his stomach pumped!"
"All right. Are you a family member of the patient?" The paramedics moved to lift An Liwen onto the stretcher, but An Liwen waved his hand to show he could walk on his own.