Chapter 265 — A Change of Impression
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In front of Gu Mengyao and his rival, no matter how much pain he was in, he was unwilling to lose face.
"I'm his friend," Su Taizao told the paramedics. "No need for the stretcher. I'll support him."
With Su Taizao's help, An Liwen made his way out of the restaurant, while the owner ordered the waiters to quickly clean up the pile of filth An Liwen had thrown up.
Even so, many of the diners in the restaurant chose to leave. After all, the scene just now had been truly disgusting.
Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had lost their appetites too. Just as they were about to call Wei Zhao to leave, they looked up to find him sitting at the table, eating and drinking with gusto. Gu Mengyao was momentarily speechless. Hadn't that scene just now disgusted him?
In fact, to Wei Zhao it was nothing disgusting at all. He had seen far worse. When it was time to eat, one still had to eat.
It was the restaurant owner who felt a little embarrassed instead. He refunded all the money Wei Zhao had paid for his meal. Wei Zhao had rid him of a huge headache, and besides, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu could not bring themselves to eat any more, which made the owner feel rather bad.
Seeing how heartily Wei Zhao ate, Gu Mengyao, to her own surprise, did not scold him, but simply sat quietly to one side and waited for him to finish. This man was growing harder and harder for her to read — there seemed to be nothing he could do, and yet there seemed to be nothing he could not do.
He seemed a rogue and a lecher, and yet at the same time a man of unyielding principle.
Gu Mengyao was not actually foolish; otherwise she could never have held her place among the top ten of her year at the First High School, where talent crowded thick as trees in a forest. When Daddy had first assigned Wei Zhao to her side, she had resisted it, fumed over it, and even found it somewhat baffling — what on earth had Daddy been thinking, bringing in a migrant laborer?
But after these weeks of contact, Gu Mengyao had come to understand that Wei Zhao truly was a man of ability. She was reluctant to admit it, yet little by little she had accepted the fact.
"You two aren't eating anymore? If you're not, I'll finish them all?" Wei Zhao asked, eyeing the two other fast-food boxes on the table.
"Go ahead and eat them all," Gu Mengyao said with a nod.
Wei Zhao demolished the other two boxes like a whirlwind sweeping away the clouds.
"Wow, Brother Shield, you're amazing!" Shen Yushu stared in astonishment at the three boxes, scraped clean.
"Let's go bungee jumping once you're done," Gu Mengyao said. Clearly the earlier incident had not dampened her mood — it had merely dulled her appetite. An Liwen had struck her as utterly unfamiliar this time, and especially after he had shown such hostility toward Wei Zhao, a vague distaste had risen in her heart for no reason at all. The image of the boy next door had come crashing down.
"Ha... all right." Wei Zhao walked toward the restaurant entrance with Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, but just before they reached the door, he cast a meaningful glance at a young man whose face was swollen up like a steamed bun, gave a faint smile, and turned away.
"Brother Cosmos, they're going bungee jumping!" Little Ma said, his cheeks puffed out from the swelling where Shen Yushu had pinched him, so that even his speech came out a little slurred...