Chapter 2678 — Lost in Memory
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"Boss, I've got something important to report!" Uncle Zhu said urgently. "Over here, Zhao Qibing has set his plan in motion. Just now he took me to the hidden Yu family's residence and had Yuning seized and brought back. Now Zhao Qibing means to force himself on her, create a fait accompli, and leave the hidden Yu family with no choice but to swallow the insult and marry Yuning to him..."
"What?!" Hearing Uncle Zhu's words, Wei Zhao was both shocked and furious. Zhao Qibing had taken Yuning?
Wei Zhao's mind went blank with a thunderous roar, so that he did not take in a word of what Uncle Zhu said next. His thoughts had already drifted back to that moonlit night years ago—that Valentine's Day he had spent with Yuning in the cave...
Though in recent days Wei Zhao's strength had grown steadily, to the point where he faintly showed signs of rising above the hidden great families themselves, his feelings about that love he had once turned away from were deeply tangled. He did not know how to face it.
Could a love once missed truly be recovered? Wei Zhao had at one time fled from this question, and even before Yu Bing he had never given a straight answer. In truth, Wei Zhao knew this was a display of cowardice—he dared not face a love that had been refused by his own hand before it ever began.
In the end, Wei Zhao simply dared not face the past; he did not want to return to the life he had once lived. His present life was comfortable and at ease.
And yet, just when Wei Zhao had thought he might never cross paths with Yuning again in this lifetime, Zhu the Second's call changed the course his life had been set upon.
She was a girl he had once held deep affection for—a girl still engraved on his heart even now. If the playmates of childhood were sweethearts of youth, then Yuning was, in the truest sense, Wei Zhao's first love. At sixteen, first stirrings of love—only Wei Zhao had assumed this feeling would become a memory forever. But reality was forcing him to face it once more!
Zhao Qibing? Did that creature have the gall of a leopard? To actually do such a thing? That he did not know of Yuning's past connection with Wei Zhao was one thing—ignorance breeds recklessness, and Wei Zhao could understand that. But the wrath of the hidden Yu family was not something the hidden Zhao family could withstand, was it?
Still... suddenly Wei Zhao recalled what Zhu the Second had explained earlier. Zhao Qibing had certainly calculated well, hadn't he? To dream up such a trick—forcing himself on her, leaving the hidden Yu family to swallow the insult in silence?
Yet he had to admit Zhao Qibing's tactic was effective. After all, the hidden Yu family could not shamelessly expose the matter. Rather than mutually assured destruction, it would be better to sit down and talk calmly, and marry Yuning to Zhao Qibing.
"Boss, if Yuning marries Zhao Qibing, then Zhao Qibing will truly have secured the position of head of the hidden Zhao family. When that time comes, dealing with him will be all the harder—after all, the hidden Yu family will be at his back..."