Chapter 280 — We're Friends!
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At his words, Gu Mengyao suddenly felt a strange emptiness in her heart. Wei Zhao had protected her, she supposed, because she was his employer—and it was on that same account that she had wanted to thank him for protecting Shen Yushu, since Wei Zhao's job was to protect her alone, not Shen Yushu.
But one simple sentence from Wei Zhao made it clear: he had protected Shen Yushu not because of any connection to her, but because he and Shen Yushu were friends!
He and Shen Yushu were friends—and with her... At that thought, Gu Mengyao felt a pang of loss. "Then what am I?"
"Heh, if you weren't, I wouldn't have saved An Liwen today. I can't stand the sight of that thing." Wei Zhao smiled. He had not expected Gu Mengyao's thoughts to run so fine.
Only then did Gu Mengyao recall that when she had begged Wei Zhao for help today, he had indeed been reluctant—but when she called it a personal request, he had acted... Yes, a personal request, which naturally meant a friendship...
Without realizing it, Gu Mengyao had suddenly begun to care about this man whom she had once so thoroughly despised.
In the villa, Gu Mengyao sat on the sofa chatting with Shen Yushu, holding her hand. She had meant to comfort Shen Yushu—in Gu Mengyao's view, Shen Yushu must have been frightened half to death after falling into the sea. But Gu Mengyao had miscalculated!
Shen Yushu was not frightened at all. Instead, she chattered on and on, telling Gu Mengyao how she had built castles out of sand on the beach, how she had started a fire by rubbing sticks together, how she had roasted shark meat...
It was no different from a holiday in the wild, and it made Gu Mengyao positively envious. She even found herself wondering why it had not been she who fell into the sea. Had she known Wei Zhao was so capable, what would she have been afraid of? She would have jumped in with him—and eaten and drunk well besides.
"Oh, but Yaoyao, I have to tell you some bad news!" Shen Yushu suddenly thought of the matter with Qiu Lingshan.
"Bad news? What bad news?" Gu Mengyao was still lost in the lovely picture Shen Yushu had painted—the sunlit beach, playing idly with the sand, the fragrance of roasting shark meat drifting from the fire nearby. What a delightful life of camping out in the wild!
"Qiu Lingshan is not Brand-Name Bro's woman. Brand-Name Bro and her—there is nothing between them!" Shen Yushu sounded a little disappointed. "I had wanted to make her a bedchamber maid and trample on her properly. But in the end, she is not even..."
"Not Wei Zhao's woman? Well, if she is not, then she is not... But what does that have to do with a bedchamber maid?" What Gu Mengyao was thinking was that it was all the better. How could this be bad news? What annoyed her most was him fooling around with women out there!
"Oh, Yaoyao, think about it. Uncle Chu wants to take Brand-Name Bro as his son-in-law, does he not?" Shen Yushu explained to Gu Mengyao. "Then you would be Brand-Name Bro's first wife, and I—well, since we agreed on it long ago—I would be Brand-Name Bro's second wife. As for that Qiu Lingshan, if she wants to be with Brand-Name Bro, she can only be a bedchamber maid, a rank beneath even my place as second wife. Would she not then be someone I could trample on at will?"