Chapter 3050 — Little Shu's Secret, Part Two
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Once Fire Burn Cloud had finally been seen off, Wei Zhao called out to Shen Yushu, who was already heading for the stairs: "Little Shu, in such a hurry to sleep? Is there nothing you want to explain to me?" "Ah... oh... Little Shu is going upstairs to take a bath..." Shen Yushu stammered. "Upstairs to bathe? Didn't you just take a bath?" Wei Zhao asked, glancing at her hair, which was still damp. "Ah... well... actually I'm going to help Sister Yaoyao scrub her back!" Shen Yushu's eyes darted about. "Sister Yaoyao hasn't bathed yet, so I'm going to help!" "No need, I can manage on my own. You sit right here!" Gu Mengyao shoved Shen Yushu back and went upstairs herself. She knew Wei Zhao meant to talk to Little Shu about Fire Burn Cloud. Curious as Gu Mengyao was, she had already asked Little Shu about it once and gotten nothing, so it would have to be Wei Zhao who pried it out of her. "Um... Arrow-Brand Bro... leaving Little Shu here alone and sending Sister Yaoyao away—are you... going to confess your feelings to Little Shu?" Shen Yushu gazed at Wei Zhao with tender eyes. "Pfft..." Wei Zhao was at a loss for words. "Little Shu, the way you're looking at me, anyone would think I was the one confessing to you—when it's plainly you confessing to me!" "Oh, good, good—Arrow-Brand Bro, Little Shu confesses to you..." Shen Yushu seized on his words and ran with them. "What do you think of Little Shu, hmm? Would I do for your little wife?" "That's enough, Little Shu!" Wei Zhao's expression turned serious. He looked at her and said, "Little Shu, in most situations you play your part very well—you could call yourself a regular master of disguise. But we know each other far too well. If you tried to lie to my face, I'm afraid you'd be the one feeling guilty first, wouldn't you?" "All right... Arrow-Brand Bro, you're really something. Since you already know, why say it?" Shen Yushu dropped her earlier air of innocent naivety and blinked her big, liquid eyes at Wei Zhao, looking rather put out. "Little Shu, why do you hate Fire Burn Cloud? There must be some reason." Wei Zhao fixed his eyes on Little Shu and asked, word by word: "There is no love without cause in this world, and no hate without cause either. You had never met him before—so why would you hate him?" In truth, this was also why Wei Zhao had not brought up the journey to the Hakkunamata Desert again, even after Fire Burn Cloud left the villa. It was because he could not work out just what the grudge between Little Shu and Fire Burn Cloud actually was. "Actually... I'm not entirely sure myself..." Just as Wei Zhao was about to press further, Little Shu spoke first: "Arrow-Brand Bro, do you remember—I once had a betrothal, didn't I?" "A betrothal?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback. "Yes, a betrothal between me and an ancient sect." Shen Yushu nodded. "Eh?" Wei Zhao thought it over. There did seem to have been something of the sort! But it was rather a long time ago—from before Wei Zhao had unified the secular great families. On the eve of the Great Family Assembly back then, the Kang family had sought promotion to great-family status, and one of the existing great families was to be struck off. At the time, no one thought much of the secular Chen family either—but there had been a rumor going around that Shen Yushu, just after her birth, had been betrothed to an ancient sect. And so those who wished to move against the Chen family did not dare act rashly. At the time, Wei Zhao had heard the rumor but had not paid it much mind. On the eve of a Great Family Assembly, after all, every family built up its own momentum, and inventing a few lies was only to be expected. But now that Little Shu brought it up again, Wei Zhao recalled it: "Which ancient sect?" "I'm not sure either, but it should be Fireflame Mountain..." Shen Yushu lowered her head, her mood sinking. "I don't know whether this Fire Burn Cloud is the one, but I don't want anything more to do with the Fireflame Mountain