Chapter 916 — Gu Pengzhan's Terms of Retention
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"Uncle Gu, I know you think highly of me, and I'm grateful for it," Wei Zhao said. "But a matter of marriage still requires the consent of the people involved. I don't believe Yaoyao likes me. If she agreed under your suggestion, out of gratitude to me, she'd be going against her own heart, and that would be unfair to her. And unfair to Tang Zhi as well..."
Wei Zhao truly did not believe the young miss liked him. Gratitude, certainly; as for that jealousy toward Tang Zhi, it was all Shen Yushu's stirring up. In Wei Zhao's eyes, the young miss's feelings for him had more to do with being saved by him, and with the sense of security that living together had given her.
Gu Mengyao's tears welled up in an instant.
Who says I don't like him? I do, I do!
Gu Mengyao wanted to rush into the room and make everything clear to Wei Zhao, but she could not summon the courage.
Wei Zhao's attitude had already said everything: he would not give up Tang Zhi. So what was left for her to say? Would that not be inviting humiliation? Was she to beg Wei Zhao to let her be his little wife, and Shen Yushu his littler one?
The young miss could not bring herself to do such a thing, or even to speak of it.
"I think Yaoyao and Tang Zhi get along well enough?" Gu Pengzhan had not expected Wei Zhao to refuse so firmly... Though he did not much favor his daughter competing with another girl for a man; in his view, a good man ought to be devoted, just as he himself was.
Yet for the sake of that promise to his father, and for his daughter's own happiness, a note of compromise crept into Gu Pengzhan's words.
In other words, if neither Tang Zhi nor Gu Mengyao minded, then neither would he.
Wei Zhao was stunned. He truly could not fathom what he had done to deserve such regard from Gu Pengzhan. From the very day he arrived, Gu Pengzhan had treated him with the greatest courtesy, nothing at all like the relationship between an employer and the man he hired...
Yes, Wei Zhao found it very strange. He did not know what secret lay hidden here. The old man would not tell him, and Gu Pengzhan was evasive as well, but Wei Zhao was certain there was something in it he did not know.
"Uncle Gu, you mean..." Wei Zhao looked at Gu Pengzhan in disbelief.