Chapter 1437 — Keep Your Word: Though Now Is a Time of Need, Wei Zhao Must Use Wu Chengtian to Protect Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, and Tang Zhi, and Only by Doing His Utmost Can He Ensure Their Safety
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The young miss's cheeks flushed slightly at Gu Pengzhan's words. She wanted to protest, yet did not want to protest; inwardly, she was of two minds...
Gu Mengyao had thought before about what would become of Wei Zhao once she and Xiaoshu went off to university. In her view, whether she willed it or not, this bond would probably end there. Wei Zhao was plainly no ordinary bodyguard, and she understood all too well that letting him serve as theirs was a waste of his talents. So she could hardly cling to him brazenly and make him protect her for the rest of her life, could she?
No feast under heaven lasts forever. Wei Zhao had already tendered his resignation once before; as things stood now, he was staying on only as a friend, with no obligation left to protect her, and there was neither a subordinate-and-superior nor an employer-and-employee relationship between them. So in Gu Mengyao's view, once she and Xiaoshu went to university and moved into the dormitories, there was naturally no way she could go on tying Wei Zhao down.
That wouldn't be realistic either. Wei Zhao had a life of his own, and a girlfriend of his own. Were every one of Tang Zhi's dates from now on to drag her and Xiaoshu along? What would that make them? Or would it really come to what Xiaoshu had said—all of them marrying Wei Zhao?
Though Gu Mengyao was not all that resistant to the idea deep down, she still felt it wasn't quite right; besides, she clearly didn't even like Wei Zhao all that much—she had simply grown used to having him near. It was Xiaoshu who really liked him!
"Wonderful, wonderful!" At Gu Pengzhan's words, Shen Yushu immediately clapped her hands and cheered, sweeping away the very words Wei Zhao had been about to speak.
"That... doesn't seem quite right... I'm afraid I wouldn't make it in time for the exams either..." Wei Zhao considered for a moment and said, "Besides, when Yaoyao and Xiaoshu go to university, they won't be staying in this city, will they?"
"That's no problem. Yaoyao and Xiaoshu are sitting the college entrance exams only to prove what they can do. You needn't sit them—I have my means of seeing to it; you'd simply be enrolled as a self-funded student, which doesn't sound quite so impressive, that's all." Gu Pengzhan said. "If it worries you, then have Tang Zhi apply to the same university as theirs."
Gu Pengzhan, it seemed, had read straight through Wei Zhao's thoughts, and said as much.
"Brother Arrow, you don't keep your word! Are you trying to go back on it?" Shen Yushu gave Wei Zhao no time to think, challenging him outright.
"Oh?" Wei Zhao started. "How am I going back on my word?"
"You promised me before—whoever changes is the Mighty General!" Shen Yushu said.
Hearing Shen Yushu's words, Wei Zhao was suddenly struck back to that scene when he had lost every scrap of his strength and tried to resign and leave...
"Then it's a deal! If your strength comes back—even higher than before—you have to stay in this villa forever and ever, keeping me and Sister Yaoyao company!"
"It's a deal!"
"Pinky swear!"
"Heh, very well!"
"Pinky swear, cross my heart—a hundred years without changing! Whoever changes is the Mighty General!"
It seemed he really had promised Shen Yushu that, once his strength recovered—or exceeded what it had been before—he would stay here forever keeping them company, and they had even sealed it with a pinky swear! At the thought, Wei Zhao couldn't help but smile ruefully: "Did you work this out in advance? Did you know I would get my strength back?"