Chapter 568 — Visiting Zhong Yongliang
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"Ahem, Xiao Shu, don't talk nonsense. Of course he's still a man—he's just missing a kidney..." Gu Mengyao stifled a laugh, but for once she actually played along with Shen Yushu's feigned ignorance, because in her heart she, too, loathed Zhong Yongliang.
"Oh, I see! Then he's not a complete man!" Shen Yushu nodded, struck by a flash of understanding.
The exchange between Shen Yushu and Gu Mengyao drew wave after wave of laughter from the classmates. What could they do? They might feel sorry for Zhong Yongliang, but Shen Yushu's words were simply too hilarious. Not a complete man? That had all sorts of implications.
Zhong Yongliang's face flushed crimson, yet he could offer no rebuttal. How could he? He really was down one kidney—really was incomplete... Shen Yushu wasn't wrong.
"Wow! Little Liangzi, isn't this an iPad 2? I've been reading online these past few days about a boy who sold his kidney to buy an iPad. That wouldn't be you, would it?" Shen Yushu stared at him in wide-eyed surprise.
"..."> Dark lines of exasperation streaked across Zhong Yongliang's face. He wanted to smash the iPad on the spot. My family is wealthy enough, thank you very much—do I need to sell a kidney? It was cut out of me, all right? He wanted to say, *How do you not already know how my kidney went missing?*
But he couldn't say it. To say so would amount to admitting he had kidnapped Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu. That was a confession he could not make. Admitting it would change everything into a different matter entirely. Zhong Yongliang was no fool, so he could only let Shen Yushu prattle on.
Just then Mr. Liu walked in. Shen Yushu promptly stopped her nonsense, standing to the side with a mischievous grin, holding Gu Mengyao's hand, her eyes full of curiosity.
"Xiao Shu, let's go. Being near him makes me uncomfortable." Gu Mengyao frowned, unwilling to stand close to Zhong Yongliang.
"All right, let's go." Shen Yushu nodded. "I just wanted to see what a person missing a kidney looks like. He seems pretty normal, actually."
"He always was pretty much normal." Gu Mengyao shook her head. The two of them walked out hand in hand, while Wei Zhao had not come forward at all—he had simply tagged along behind Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu.
As for Zhong Yongliang, most of them had never been close to him at all; they had come only out of sympathy, and now that the visit was over, they were ready to head back to school. After all, time was tight in their senior year, and many of them still had studying to do.
Gao Xiaofu had tagged along with the others, trembling with fear the whole way. He did not know the truth of how Zhong Yongliang had come to lose a kidney, but he had a faint suspicion that it must have something to do with the kidnapping of Gu Mengyao! He was terrified that he might be the next target.
So when everyone else had gone, Gao Xiaofu stayed behind and asked in a cautious whisper, "Brother Liang, what on earth is going on here? Who is it that's after you?"