Chapter 2492 — Back Again
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Not at all!" Yu Xiaoke shook her head emphatically. "What you look like doesn't really matter. What I like is the person who protected me so carefully in that ancient tomb! And besides, even if your looks aren't especially striking, in my eyes you're the most perfect!"
Wei Zhao was momentarily taken aback, not having expected Yu Xiaoke to boldly bare her heart again. As for what to say to that—he had no idea...
"I... I'll go take a shower, then. That horrid little tart may be gone, but you've still got me..." Yu Xiaoke said boldly to Wei Zhao.
"That... Xiaoke, there's no need, you've misunderstood..." Wei Zhao was startled. Though his heart stirred somewhat, how could he let anything happen with Yu Xiaoke in a place like this? He hastily waved a hand to stop her. "The shower was my own suggestion—the whole point was to create an opportunity for her, to let her steal that blue crystal."
"What? You... let her steal it on purpose?" Yu Xiaoke's eyes went wide, and she was badly startled, unable to understand why Wei Zhao would do such a thing.
"Xiaoke, sit down first. I'll explain the details to you," Wei Zhao said with a bitter smile. "The truth is, she's a pitiful person too—she has her own convictions, enough to swallow her pride and endure humiliation."
"Oh?" Hearing Wei Zhao speak so highly of Yang Qiqi, Yu Xiaoke felt a little unhappy—but she obediently sat down all the same.
"The truth of the matter is this: what she stole was in fact her own to begin with. I merely took it from someone else's hands..." With that, Wei Zhao recounted to Yu Xiaoke what had happened earlier at the gate of the cultivators' market.
"Ah, so that's how it was!" Yu Xiaoke understood once she heard his account—the item really did belong to Yang Qiqi! Yet she still felt somewhat indignant. "Even if it's hers, she was too incompetent and let it be snatched away. You took it back from the ones who stole it, so it's yours now. What right does she have to steal it back?"
"That was exactly how I saw it at first—I thought she was repaying kindness with ingratitude. I helped her win back a Lesser Qi-Gathering Pill; she ought to have been content with that, since otherwise she'd have gotten nothing at all," Wei Zhao said with a nod. "So when she came throwing herself at me, I went along with it and deliberately toyed with her a little. It was only later, in the restaurant, when I overheard a phone call of hers, that I changed my view..."
Wei Zhao then told Yu Xiaoke about the call—how Yang Qiqi had taken it in order to save someone's life. When Yu Xiaoke heard this, she could not help but fall silent. Indeed, if what Wei Zhao said was true, then in some respects Yang Qiqi was very much like herself...