Chapter 1310 — A Touch of Melancholy
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"Xiaohan, you look lovely today!" Feng Xiaoxiao had long since grown familiar with Xu Shilan, and she said so the moment they met.
"You look lovely today too!" Xu Shilan laughed. "Don't just stand there in the doorway — come in, come in!"
The others welcomed Xu Shilan inside, and Feng Xiaoxiao introduced Shen Yushu, Tang Zhi, and Gu Mengyao to her one by one. "They're all good friends of mine — besties, that kind of thing!"
Naturally, Feng Xiaoxiao did not mention that Tang Zhi was Wei Zhao's girlfriend. This business of a wife and a second wife was not something that needed to be aired before an outsider; for the time being, Tang Zhi's identity was simply that of Wei Zhao's good friend. Anything more would have been far too complicated and strange.
Wei Zhao nodded to Xu Shilan and took out a bag of painkillers he had prepared long in advance. "Here, these should last you a while."
"Ah? You hand them to me the moment I arrive — you're not trying to send me packing, are you?" Xu Shilan took the medicine and said it in jest.
"Only afraid I'd forget later." Wei Zhao said flatly. "There's takeout in the kitchen. If you're hungry, go eat. If there's nothing else, you all enjoy yourselves — I'm going back to my room."
Wei Zhao had no wish to join in the merrymaking with Xu Shilan. With a little celebrity like her, he honestly could not think of a single thing to do.
Feng Xiaoxiao and the others could at least gossip, prying into a few of Xu Shilan's private matters — but Wei Zhao had no interest in Xu Shilan's private affairs whatsoever. In his eyes, Xu Shilan was little different from a stranger, and who on earth takes an interest in a stranger's personal business?
Watching Wei Zhao's indifferent manner, Xu Shilan could not help rolling her eyes. Here she felt not the least bit like a celebrity — and yet precisely because of that, she shed her usual guardedness and tension, as though she had come home, able to let herself go body and soul.
She answered nearly every question Gu Mengyao, Tang Zhi, and Shen Yushu put to her; after all, there was little for Xu Shilan to hide. Apart from a troublesome headache, none of it amounted to anything serious.
"Xiaohan, do you have a boyfriend?" Even the young mistress had turned a little gossipy — after all, this was the very thing her fans cared about most.
And Xu Shilan's boyfriend was the prime target of the media's digging. Fans had paired her off at random before, but every time it turned out to be a misunderstanding — Xu Shilan had always been single.
Single though she was, plenty of fans refused to believe it. They were certain that Xu Shilan kept an invisible boyfriend behind the scenes, and that no one had simply found him out yet.
"Not yet — hehe, this one's really true, I'm not lying!" Xu Shilan laughed. She had guessed they would ask about this.
"So you're still a virgin?" Shen Yushu's questions had always been blunt.
"Uh... yes..." Xu Shilan flushed red and sighed inwardly: Wei Zhao's friends truly were no ordinary bunch!
"Oh, so you really are the pure jade maiden after all!" Shen Yushu liked Xu Shilan all the more.
Listening to the girls' gossip, Wei Zhao could only shake his head and retreat to his room.
That evening, besides the seafood he had brought back from the restaurant, Wei Zhao cooked several more of his signature dishes. He had said what he said — a pile of seafood was plenty — but Xu Shilan was a guest, after all, and he did not want the young mistress and the others to lose face.
Tasting Wei Zhao's cooking, Xu Shilan clicked her tongue in wonder. Never in her wildest dreams had she imagined that Wei Zhao could cook — and cook so well that he was more professional than her own housekeeper.
"Your skill in the kitchen is really something. Your friends are lucky," Xu Shilan said admiringly.