Chapter 2031 — Wang Xinyan's Thoughts
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"It's fine—so long as you play along with me. Thanks, Dad!" Zhang Duopan was overjoyed. That one call had not only cleared away all his troubles, but made the trip to the Tiger Park look all the more promising...
"That's not the point. What you need to do, you little rascal, is get yourself a girlfriend and carry on the family line. That's the matter of the first importance. Have you got that?" said Zhang Jufeng.
"Got it. Don't worry, Dad—I'll get the job done!" Zhang Duopan said, beaming.
With the matter settled, Zhang Duopan's face was wreathed in smiles, and he had quite shaken off the shadow of yesterday's swindle.
That afternoon, Wei Zhao and Bai Weituo went together to the Biology Department's teaching building for class. Walking into the lecture hall, they saw You Panhu staring at their side with a look of eager expectation.
Wei Zhao smiled faintly, held up the materials in his hand, bared his teeth at You Panhu in a grin, then paid him no further attention and went to sit down beside Wang Xinyan.
"Damn it, what's with the swagger? So he thinks he's something special just because he got Bai Lingtou's true teachings?" You Panhu cursed in annoyance. "Just wait till I go home and fetch a fine treasure—you won't refuse to trade with me then! Hmph!"
"That's right, Young Master You. That Wei Zhao fellow has never seen anything of the world. Anything decent from our hidden You family would have him drooling. He won't dare not to trade!" Yellow-Hair nodded.
"Exactly. What's two or three days?" Purple-Hair chimed in.
Wei Zhao took his seat. Wang Xinyan raised her head and glanced at him, then said, "Wei Zhao, Meiyue was saying just now that she'd like to invite us to the Tiger Park this weekend... Are you free? If not, I'll just decline, and I won't go either..."
"Why wouldn't I go? Classes every day are tiring enough—a little relaxation over the weekend would do us good!" Wei Zhao laughed. "Or is it that you don't want to go with me?"
"I... I never said that... I'm just afraid... that Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu might not like us going out together, and it'd cause you trouble..." Wang Xinyan said, her cheeks flushing slightly.
"Together, then..." Wang Xinyan, for some reason she could not name, felt a sudden pang of disappointment, but she nodded all the same. "All right, I'll tell Meiyue tonight and have her pass it on to Zhang Duopan... But you should talk to Bai Weituo. Meiyue said she's afraid Zhang Duopan might be up to some nasty scheme again."
"Ha... Why doesn't she say so herself? Why have you relay it?" Wei Zhao asked with a smile.
"Meiyue... well, the truth is she's still not sure whether she can be with Bai Weituo, and she and Zhang Duopan were classmates in high school. If she just tipped Bai Weituo off like this, and Zhang Duopan found out, wouldn't it seem a bit like betraying an old classmate?" Wang Xinyan shook her head.
Wei Zhao frowned. He Meiyue really was indecisive to a fault, but this was Bai Weituo's business, and he could hardly say much about it. So he said, "Fine, I'll pass it on."
"Mm!" Wang Xinyan nodded and returned to her book...
Wang Xinyan did not know whether what she was doing now counted as playing with fire. Ever since the military training trip had ended, her relationship with Wei Zhao had grown inexplicably closer. She did not know how others would see it if things went on like this, but she herself knew that she had already come to rely on Wei Zhao, faintly, in some small way...
Every day in class, once she reached the lecture hall, she would only feel at ease after he had come and sat down beside her. Though they exchanged few words, Wang Xinyan felt it was a kind of tacit understanding.
But... whenever she thought of her betrothal, Wang Xinyan's heart sank, and a vague unease crept over her.