Chapter 903 — Come Home and Take Shelter
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Gu Mengyao woke and hurriedly rose to take over the watch from Tang Zhi and Shen Yushu. In truth she had not slept long — only an hour or two — for how could she sleep soundly with Wei Zhao's safety weighing on her mind?
She stumbled downstairs, yet saw neither Shen Yushu nor Tang Zhi on the sofa, and her heart lurched. Then she caught the faint sound of voices from Wei Zhao's room. Could it be...
Her drowsiness vanished in an instant. She ran to Wei Zhao's room and saw him lying in bed, smiling, chatting with Tang Zhi and Xiaoshu. Her heart settled at once; she was overjoyed — Wei Zhao had finally woken up!
"Yaoyao, you go and sleep too. Look at you, hair all over the place — anyone can tell you haven't slept well." It was the first time Wei Zhao had seen the young mistress so unkempt, her hair in careless disarray, with not a shred of poise left to her.
His words brought a flush to Gu Mengyao's cheeks. Only then did she remember that she had just risen, so of course her hair was a mess, whereas Shen Yushu and Tang Zhi had been up a long while and had already combed their hair and washed their faces. She alone had come running here in such a state...
"Ah... I..." A shyness showed on her face, at odds with her usual cold young-mistress manner, but it flickered away in an instant and she recovered her customary calm. Tang Zhi was here; she had to keep her feelings in check. "It's good that you're awake. Do you need to rest a while longer?"
"Yes, I'll rest a bit more. You all go and rest too," Wei Zhao said.
The three girls each had something on her mind. Gu Mengyao wanted to say a few words of thanks; Shen Yushu wanted to ask her Brother Arrowhead what that ultimate move of his was, the one so outrageously awesome; and Tang Zhi wanted to ask whether there was anything Wei Zhao needed her to do — she wanted to stay by his side and look after him.
Yet at that moment none of them could find the words, and so they withdrew from the room together...
"Phew..." Wei Zhao let out a breath. It was not that he did not want to see the three girls, nor that he truly wanted rest. On one hand he wanted them to go and sleep, but above all, he had not yet decided what to say to them.
About the present, about the future — Wei Zhao did not know where to turn. Having lost his strength, he could be found by his enemies at any moment, could die at any moment, and might even bring trouble and danger down upon the young mistress...
Without his strength he could hardly take a single step. Thank goodness his enemies did not yet know his condition; otherwise they would likely already be beating down his door. At that thought, Wei Zhao could not help a bitter smile.
He wanted to take out his phone and call the old man at home, to ask whether there was any remedy. But when his hand reached his pocket, he was startled to realize that the phone had been destroyed by his own energy bomb.
Tang Zhi, Gu Mengyao, and Shen Yushu really were exhausted. Each of them had Wei Zhao on her mind, and over these three days and nights they had scarcely slept. So the moment they stepped out of his room and their hearts eased, drowsiness swept over them at once.
Earlier, Tang Zhi had also rested in the upstairs bedroom belonging to Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu. The young mistress did not mind; she had let Tang Zhi sleep right in her and Shen Yushu's bed.
The young mistress did not know why she had suddenly grown less averse to Tang Zhi. If she accepted Wei Zhao, did she have to accept his women as well? In any case, Gu Mengyao's resistance to Tang Zhi was no longer so strong — though whether that was a good thing or a bad thing, she could not say.
But before, it had been Tang Zhi alone sleeping in the upstairs bedroom. Now that all three needed to sleep, how could they possibly share one bed?
Tang Zhi sensed the awkwardness of the three of them sleeping together, and so spoke up first: "How about I sleep on the sofa downstairs?"