Chapter 2013 — The Freshman Gala, Part Three
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Wei Zhao gently took Xu Shilan's hand, and the students below the stage erupted all over again! They had never imagined that Xu Shilan would hold hands with a boy right there on stage—it was simply electrifying!
Though no one actually believed there was anything going on between them, for Xu Shilan this still counted as no small breakthrough, and so a chorus of whoops and shrieks burst out from the audience...
After taking Xu Shilan's hand, Wei Zhao drew her lightly into his arms, and in that very instant he swiftly pressed his fingers to several of her acupoints...
Waves of soothing sensation flowed from Wei Zhao's hand, and Xu Shilan felt herself relax at once...
"Sister Yaoyao, do you think Sister Shihan is pretending to have a headache just to seduce Brother Band-Aid?" Shen Yushu gave free rein to her suspicious nature. "Yesterday she already seemed to have a bit of a thing for Brother Band-Aid."
"I don't think so, surely?" Gu Mengyao frowned, then said, "Sister Shihan isn't that kind of person. This time it must be genuine. Weren't there a man in black wandering around below the stage earlier? Could it be that the man in black is what set off Sister Shihan's headache?"
"That's possible too... Wow, they're actually hugging each other!" Shen Yushu pointed at the stage and cried out in surprise.
"What?" Seeing that Wei Zhao and Xu Shilan really were embracing, Gu Mengyao felt a flicker of doubt as well. Xu Shilan had never had a single rumor attached to her name—still less could she possibly let a man get that close to her—and yet this time...
"Hmph, hmph, there's definitely something going on between them. Tonight I absolutely have to get to the bottom of it!" Shen Yushu declared.
"..." Gu Mengyao said nothing, but she too was beginning to have her doubts.
Wei Zhao cured Xu Shilan's headache, and by then Xu Shilan had just finished singing the passage about love; what came next was the tense wait for the final exams, so Wei Zhao returned to his former seat and sat down...
This little "improvisation" was taken by their classmates below the stage as something rehearsed in advance; they cheered themselves hoarse with excitement, each wishing that the boy performing up there could be him... Of course, the students on stage were just as puzzled—what kind of act were Wei Zhao and Xu Shilan even putting on?
Surely that hadn't been rehearsed, had it?
But up on stage there was no good way to ask, so for the moment they simply had to stay baffled.
At last the song ended, and the great curtain slowly descended. The performance was over. Xu Shilan let out a breath of relief—this show had ended with a narrow escape after all.
"Brother Lin, just now you and Xu Shilan..." Once offstage, in the backstage dressing room, Bai Weituo asked impatiently.
Since Xu Shilan had a separate changing room together with Wang Xinyan and Han Jingyi, Bai Weituo had no qualms about speaking freely over here.
"Nothing much. Xu Shilan was feeling a little unwell just now, so I treated her a bit," Wei Zhao said simply. "Didn't you notice?"
"Ah! Now that you mention it, she did seem a little off..." Bai Weituo's memory was jogged, and he did recall the earlier situation—Xu Shilan really had seemed not quite right, which was why Wei Zhao had gone over to help treat her.
"So that's it. And here I thought you were having an affair with the big star!" Zhao Shengji said, sounding rather disappointed.
"What affair? Our leader and Wang Xinyan are the couple. How could he go fooling around with Ming Da under **'s nose? What are your eyes even for?" Song Xiaodao, however, believed what Wei Zhao said.
As for the rest of the class, since they weren't well acquainted with Wei Zhao and had heard what ** said, they naturally stopped being curious; one after another they changed clothes and prepared to leave the stage and go watch the other departments' performances...