Chapter 2022 — Replace
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Upstairs, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were taking a shower together.
"Yaoyao, do you think that Wang Xinyan could become Brother Arrow's first wife?" Shen Yushu asked.
"How would I know?" Gu Mengyao shook her head.
"If she becomes the first wife, won't she push us around? Yaoyao, we have to think of something!" Shen Yushu said, a little anxious.
"Then what do you suggest?" Gu Mengyao frowned. "The problem is, Tang Zhi is already gone from Wei Zhao's heart, and his union with Feng Xiaoxiao came entirely out of sympathy for her at first; affection grew over time, and Feng Xiaoxiao lets him go looking for other women, which leaves Wei Zhao with no sense of guilt at all. What can we do? Even if we stopped him from being with Wang Xinyan, he would just be with someone else! Besides, could we really stop him? Back then, with Yunyun, did we manage to stop him?"
"Well..." Shen Yushu thought for a moment, then said, "That's true, but there are plenty of candidates. I think Han Jingyi and Sister Shihan are both quite nice, and even Sister Yiyi would do—she's a star after all, and she's a bit older than us, so her being a big sister would work..."
"Han Jingyi? She's guileless enough, a bit silly, but Wang Xinyan's temperament is probably quite good too—not the competitive sort, a rather quiet girl," Gu Mengyao said. "As for our two star sisters, I say let it go. How could women like that possibly share their love with anyone else? That was just joking around earlier; they wouldn't really move in here."
"That's true..." Shen Yushu nodded. "So were we just overthinking it?"
"We were overthinking it from the start. The initiative in this matter really rests with Wei Zhao. All we can do is keep an eye out and help where we can, as long as we live up to what we promised Yunyun..." As she said this, Gu Mengyao felt somewhat conflicted...
Sometimes Gu Mengyao wondered whether she herself wanted to take Tang Zhi's place. And before Tang Zhi had parted from them, her words, both spoken and implied, had actually hinted at exactly that. But Gu Mengyao always felt that if she did take her place, wouldn't that be a bit too... as if she were taking advantage of another's misfortune? So a young lady with such a thin skin as hers could never bring herself to do such a thing...
The night passed without a word—or rather, without a word from Wei Zhao.
When the young lady, Xiaoshu, Xu Shilan, and Cheng Yiyi got up, they all had dark circles under their eyes; clearly they had talked all night and hadn't slept well.
Still, Cheng Yiyi's relationship with the young lady and Xiaoshu had clearly improved a good deal.
"What time is your flight? If there's nothing else, I won't see you off," Wei Zhao said. "I still have to go to school today."
"Mm, no need. Brother Feng is coming to pick us up in a bit," Cheng Yiyi said. "Those robbers saw how formidable you are—they probably won't dare come back!"
"Right, there's been no sign of them these past two days. Clearly they've given up," Xu Shilan agreed with a nod.
"By the way, what exactly happened yesterday?" Wei Zhao asked as he ate breakfast. "Yesterday it seemed like your headache flared up as soon as you saw that woman in the black trench coat?"
"Exactly! Last night when we got back, we talked about all sorts of other things. If Wei Zhao hadn't brought it up, I really would have forgotten to ask!" the young lady said, nodding. "Sister Shihan, what was going on yesterday?"
"It's nothing, really. My headaches... Wei Zhao is right, they're probably caused by some psychological scars from my childhood," Xu Shilan said with a bitter smile. "But I don't want to bring those things up, and I've never told anyone... So yesterday must have been a coincidence..."
Wei Zhao nodded. He had examined Xu Shilan's headaches before and knew she wasn't ill—the symptoms resembled neurosis but were caused by psychological issues. Even he didn't know the specific cause, so how could an outsider?