Chapter 3466 — Guan Xin's Blind Date
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Guan Xiaopeng had chosen the Xiyuan Hall for the meeting with a purpose in mind—so that they would cherish this destined encounter.
"I'm already on my way. I'll be there soon," Wei Zhao said. "I'll have a surprise for you in a bit!"
"Mm... I've got a surprise for you too!" Guan Xin's getup today was truly a bit over the top—even she barely recognized herself!
The surprise Wei Zhao meant was that she would discover her blind date was none other than Wei Zhao himself. And Guan Xin's surprise was that she thought her own disguise had come off spectacularly well.
Wei Zhao and Shen Yutang had not come together; the two had split up. Shen Yutang had arrived in Songshan City the night before and was staying at the Starlight Splendor as well—she need only come downstairs.
So it was that not long after Guan Xiaopeng arrived, Shen Yutang came into the private room.
"Sister-in-law Yuxi, how do you do! It's been years, and you're as lovely as ever! No wonder Brother Yang was so smitten back in the day!" Guan Xiaopeng rose hurriedly and greeted Shen Yutang like an old friend.
Shen Yutang flushed slightly. She knew Guan Xiaopeng was only being polite. That she was lovely was true enough, but as for Yang Zhao being smitten—that was hardly the case. Back then, it was she who had pursued Yang Zhao!
Thinking back on those days, Shen Yutang felt a little embarrassed too. She shot Guan Xiaopeng a glare and said, "There are younger ones present—mind what you say!"
"All right, all right, I'll say no more..." At Shen Yutang's mention of the younger one, Guan Xiaopeng remembered that Guan Xin was still in the washroom. She had been in there so long—why had she not come out? Suddenly anxious, he called toward the washroom, "Xinxin, how are you doing in there? Auntie Shen is here—hurry out!"
"Dad, I'm coming out... I'm just having a cigarette in the washroom!" Guan Xin said from inside. "My craving hit me, and I was afraid of smoking Auntie Shen out!"
As she spoke, Guan Xin took from her bag a prop cigarette she had bought online. It was made to look exactly like the real thing; a pull on it produced clouds of smoke, yet it contained not a trace of tobacco—it was, at bottom, a television prop.
"What?!" Guan Xiaopeng's expression changed at once, and he froze. Smoking? Guan Xin, smoking? When had she ever smoked? From childhood to now, Guan Xin had been a model child, never touching tobacco or drink. Could it be that in this recent spell of studying medical knowledge, she had taken up smoking?
No, that couldn't be right either. That man was a highly respected professor at a university in Donghai—how could he possibly have taught Guan Xin to smoke?
Shen Yutang was taken aback as well. All she had known of Guan Xin had come one-sidedly, through Guan Xiaopeng. But today, on arriving, she heard that Guan Xin was smoking—which truly shocked Shen Yutang to the core!
She stared incredulously toward the washroom. So far as she could recall, Wei Zhao did not seem to smoke either, did he? If Guan Xin smoked, that would indeed make things difficult—would Wei Zhao dislike her for it? But had he not said they had known each other before? RS