Chapter 2669 — Whose Clothes?
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Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had not yet gone to bed. Seeing Wei Zhao return, the young lady, who had been watching cartoons on the sofa, rose and came to meet him. Taking the large suitcase from his hands, she said, "Wei Zhao, you're back. Thank you for going to the trouble."
"Ha ha, it was no trouble," Wei Zhao said with a smile. "The leather jacket on top is mine; everything beneath it is clothes for you and Xiaoshu... Oh, yes, one thing—there's a torn girl's school uniform in my wardrobe. Is it either of yours?"
"Huh?" Gu Mengyao was taken aback, thoroughly bewildered. "What girl's school uniform?"
"The uniform from our First High School, only it's been torn to shreds—as if someone had deliberately kept it as a keepsake?" Wei Zhao said.
"A keepsake of yours?" Gu Mengyao grew even more puzzled, sizing Wei Zhao up and down. She did not think Wei Zhao had any such habit of collecting other people's uniforms.
"I don't know whether it was me. I have no memory of it..." Wei Zhao was simply curious. It was no great matter, really, only he felt a compulsion to get to the bottom of it and find out the truth.
"Then..." Chen Mengyao was about to say more when she looked up and saw that Shen Yushu had somehow slipped around behind Wei Zhao and was desperately winking at her. Gu Mengyao gave a start as a possibility occurred to her, and she hastily changed her tune: "Oh, that must be my uniform—I threw it in there before you moved into the villa!"
"Yours?" Wei Zhao looked at the suddenly enlightened Gu Mengyao with some doubt. "Yours... but if it was torn up, why didn't you throw it away?"
"Oh, it was a uniform I was rather fond of, so I kept it," Gu Mengyao said.
"You? Fond of a school uniform?" Wei Zhao found it even stranger. Since when was the young lady fond of school uniforms? And keeping it even after it was torn to rags? With Gu Pengzhan's position as chairman of First High School, she could have as many uniforms as she wanted—why would she keep a tattered one?
"Oh, Arrowbrand Bro, what's with you today? Why are you fixating on a school uniform? What's so astonishing about that?" Shen Yushu rushed out to stir up trouble. "Oh, Xiaoshu gets it—is Arrowbrand Bro planning to secretly take the uniform and jerk off with it, and just wants to confirm the target of his fantasies?"
"Pff..." Wei Zhao flushed at Shen Yushu's words, and at once recalled the time when he had first come to the villa and been "caught in the act" by Shen Yushu. He coughed twice and had to admit that he was being a little absurd today—what was the point of investigating a tattered school uniform?
Yet the uniform seemed to possess some magic, branded so deeply into Wei Zhao's mind that he could not help but want to get to the bottom of it! In truth, this was one drawback of the Forgetfulness Herb potion: although after drinking the potion blended with Tang Zhi's fresh blood Wei Zhao had forgotten Tang Zhi and all things connected with her, events could be forgotten while objects remained. If he happened to see an object from the past, he would feel a sense of déjà vu, throwing his memories into confusion.