Chapter 434 — Fifty Thousand Is Too Little
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"Wei Zhao, he's here for you—you deal with him." The moment Gu Mengyao saw Wei Zhao arrive, she breathed a sigh of relief, seized her chance to escape, and rose to head upstairs.
An Liwen gave a bitter smile. He had come for Wei Zhao, true, but he had also hoped to get a little closer to Gu Mengyao; now it was as though he had come solely to see Wei Zhao, and she had shown him not the slightest warmth.
An Liwen could not tell where he had gone wrong. He felt his relationship with Gu Mengyao growing worse and worse.
"Brother Lin, come, sit down!" An Liwen waved him over warmly. "A few days without seeing you, and I truly missed you!"
Wei Zhao was instantly overcome with disgust. Had An Liwen's tastes shifted after those pills last time? He walked over and sat on the sofa opposite, keeping a full meter of distance from the man. "Young Master An, what business do you have? Was the doll enjoyable last time?"
"This—" An Liwen's expression shifted at once. He had not expected Wei Zhao to be so brazenly ready to tear off all pretense today. But An Liwen had not come to break with him; he had come to curry favor! So he suppressed his anger and said, "Heh, Brother Wei Zhao jests. Last time was merely a joke. That inflatable doll was rather good, though—no different from the real thing. Would Brother Lin care to try it?"
"I'll pass. You enjoy it yourself." Wei Zhao shook his head, inwardly turning over what new trick the fellow was planning. If An Liwen truly did not care about what had happened before, Wei Zhao would not believe it; the man could not possibly be so magnanimous. Trouble out of the ordinary meant devils afoot—there had to be some scheme waiting behind this. Wei Zhao quietly raised his guard.
"Heh, fair enough. Brother Lin has a beautiful girlfriend and has no need of such things, haha! I hear she's the school beauty of No. 1 High School? As famous as little sister Yaoyao?" An Liwen said with a smile.
"What are you planning?" Wei Zhao's face darkened, his manner turning cold and grim at once. This creature wanted to move against Tang Zhi? Then let him wait for death. Should anyone set his sights on Tang Zhi, Wei Zhao would not let him off lightly. "I'm a poor man. I don't care to give things away, but I wouldn't mind giving you a coffin."
Hearing the threat, An Liwen felt a stir of anger, but at the thought of those two Yellow Rank experts under Li Cihua who had died so miserably, he was at once mollified. Compared to those two, he was less than nothing—dare to threaten Wei Zhao? That was the same as waiting for death.
"Brother Lin misunderstands me. I only meant to congratulate you on winning your fair lady—nothing more!" An Liwen hastened to explain, secretly counting himself lucky that he had gone to Li Cihua first instead of moving directly against Tang Zhi; otherwise he might well be finished himself by now.
"Oh." Wei Zhao nodded faintly, waiting for whatever An Liwen would say next, unsure what the man was really after.
"It's like this: you, brother, have already won your fair lady, but your elder brother here is still all alone!" An Liwen said. "You see, by Yaoyao's side, you're always the first to get news of her, aren't you?"
"And then?" Wei Zhao asked.
"I feel little sister Yaoyao has grown much colder toward me. Does she have a boyfriend, or a man she likes? Do you know?" An Liwen asked.
"How would I know?" Wei Zhao shook his head. "Why would I study such a thing for no reason?"
"True enough. Brother Wei Zhao, with a girlfriend of your own, has no worries of that sort, but your elder brother still has none. I've pursued Gu Mengyao for years without success—you're a well-fed man who doesn't know the hunger of the starving!" An Liwen lamented with great vehemence. "I wronged you before, but that was only because I thought you were Gu Mengyao's boyfriend. Now that it's been investigated and cleared up, there's no grudge between us at all—so we can very well be friends."