Chapter 3457 — Guan Xin's Betrothal
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Guan Xin seemed to be talking to herself, lost in recollection, and she recounted in detail the story of how she and Wei Zhao had first met. Some of the particulars Wei Zhao had forgotten; he had not expected Guan Xin to remember them so vividly.
If Guan Xin had not spoken of it today, Wei Zhao would never have known that, without his realizing it, he had come to matter so much to her.
Listening to Guan Xin pour out her heart, Wei Zhao was filled with emotion. He liked her too, but it was an ordinary sort of liking; he had not reached the point of being sick with love for her, as she apparently was for him.
Her sudden confession left Wei Zhao at a complete loss. Accept or not accept? Yet by the look of things, there was no way he could refuse.
Wei Zhao had always been passive in matters of the heart; his relationships with these girls had tended to fall into place naturally. Facing Guan Xin now, he could not say he disliked her, but becoming boyfriend and girlfriend still fell a little short of the mark.
"My master told me that I am to become a Wood-line inheritor, to accept the legacy and go open Cloud Terrace Isle. It's an extremely dangerous mission, and I was afraid that afterward I might never see you again. That's why I had to say all of this to you today!" Having finished, Guan Xin let out a long breath.
Guan Xin, a Wood-line inheritor? Wei Zhao had vaguely heard Leader Bai hint at something of the sort before, though he had never put it in so many words. Now that both of them had said it outright, the matter was likely true.
Who would have thought that the Wood-line inheritor would turn out to be Guan Xin? Did that not mean that, apart from Elder Tang of Snow Valley, every one of the remaining inheritors was connected to him? The thought gave Wei Zhao a sudden headache.
Was it coincidence? Or was there some design in the unseen? Or had his arrival in Songshan City from the very beginning been part of a scheme laid by interested parties? Wei Zhao could not be certain. That task which was supposed to keep him fed for a lifetime had brought him step by step to where he stood now—so did Old Man Wei know what was really going on?
Wei Zhao did not know, and no one had told him. But of one thing he was sure: he had to keep pressing stubbornly onward. Whether or not it was a scheme, a trap, he could not halt his advance.
"The Cloud Terrace Isle plan… actually, Xinxin, you should know too. The people around me—Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, Feng Xiaoxiao, and two you haven't met, Yuning and Xiao Jiu—they're all inheritors as well. So I have to be present through the whole plan. Otherwise, who knows what might go wrong, and I wouldn't rest easy. Since you're an inheritor too, then let's go together!" Wei Zhao consoled her with a smile.
"Ah, all these inheritors… you know them all?" Guan Xin's expression shifted, turning rather odd. Naturally she knew Feng Xiaoxiao was an inheritor, and that Tang Zhi was one as well, but she had never known that Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were too.
And Wei Zhao knew those two as well, this Yuning and Xiao Jiu. What was the relationship there? They must be close to him too, surely? So it was—everyone was an inheritor, everyone was connected to Wei Zhao. Guan Xin felt rather relieved instead.
At least she would not be some singular exception, isolated and alone.
Only, Wei Zhao probably still did not know about Tang Zhi. If he learned of it, he might be all the more astonished! Every single inheritor connected to him—what a coincidence that would be.
"Yes—except the inheritor from Snow Valley, whom I'm not especially close to… of course, I don't mean that kind of closeness. As for the other inheritors… more or less… you know how it is…" Wei Zhao said, somewhat embarrassed.
Snow Valley—did that not mean Tang Zhi? Guan Xin could not help laughing at herself. She was your first girlfriend, after all! A girlfriend in the truest sense!