Chapter 2669 — Whose Clothes?
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"All right, Mr. Lin, go on ahead," Yu Dake said, though his mind was still turning over what Wei Zhao had said earlier. What did he mean, it would be fine even if her body cheated with Male Thief? That he didn't care?
Did he really not care? Was it that he cared so much about Yu Xiaoke that such things no longer mattered to him, or that he did not care about Yu Xiaoke at all and meant to treat her as a plaything? The more Yu Dake thought, the more tangled he became—even more tangled than Yu Xiaoke herself!
Had Wei Zhao known how much this would torment him, he would never have teased him. Care or not care, Wei Zhao was not about to put a green hat on his own head—except that others did not know what Wei Zhao himself knew: was there really any difference between Wei Zhao and Male Thief?
Wei Zhao got out of the car and entered the villa he had not seen for so long. Gazing at the familiar scenes within, he was overcome with emotion. He went upstairs to the room belonging to Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu—a place that had once been forbidden ground to Wei Zhao, though at some point it had been opened to him, and now he came and went there as easily as walking on flat ground.
Fetching a suitcase, Wei Zhao packed the winter clothes of Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu into it. But the two of them had far too many clothes, so he could only select some according to his own judgment. Once their clothes were packed, he went downstairs and came to his own room.
Wei Zhao had few clothes indeed—only a padded leather jacket that Uncle Qing had bought for him when he first arrived. This was his first winter here, and he had bought nothing for himself, so it was a simple matter. He opened the wardrobe and took out the padded jacket, placing it on top of everything in the suitcase.
Only, as he pulled out the jacket, a somewhat tattered school uniform came out of the wardrobe with it!
"Huh?" Wei Zhao picked up the torn uniform in puzzlement, with not the faintest recollection of it. When had he ever thrown a tattered school uniform into his wardrobe? And why keep this ragged thing here instead of discarding it?
Yet when Wei Zhao picked it up and examined it closely, he discovered that this uniform was in fact a girl's uniform!
Could it be Yaoyao's or Xiaoshu's? But what would either of them mean by leaving a uniform here? Or had he put it there himself? Did he have some collector's habit for school uniforms? Wei Zhao was utterly baffled and could not for the life of him work out where this uniform had come from!
Since he could not recall its origin, Wei Zhao did not dare throw it away carelessly. He simply put it back in the wardrobe, intending to ask Yaoyao and Xiaoshu when he returned whether they knew where it had come from.
The uniform was put away, but a familiar scent lingered on his hands, coming from that uniform—though Wei Zhao felt it was not the scent of the young lady or Xiaoshu. Even if the two of them wore perfume, it would not be this scent.
As for Wang Xinyan... Wei Zhao reflected that back in high school he could hardly have had the chance to get his hands on Wang Xinyan's uniform, could he?
And Feng Xiaoxiao? She seemed never to have worn a uniform at all! Back then she had been one of the four great troublemakers of the campus, and she never wore a uniform to school.
He shook his head. Since he could not figure it out for the moment, Wei Zhao stopped trying. He finished packing his things, left the villa, loaded the suitcase into the trunk, got into the car, and headed back toward East Sea City.
Yu Dake left that very night after returning, going back to the Hidden Right Clan. He and Wei Zhao exchanged contact information, agreeing to get in touch when there was time. He was deeply sorry that he had been unable to help Yu Xiaoke, yet there was nothing to be done—on one side stood his benefactor, on the other his sister, and he could not force matters either way.