Chapter 4068 — The Woman Behind the Scenes
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Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback at that and could not help glancing at Shangguan Lan'er, assuming she spoke so because she was Lan'er's close friend—loving the house and its crow.
But Ning Xuefei only smiled faintly. Back on the Far North Island, she had known nothing of the matter between Shangguan Lan'er and Wei Zhao. Her words just now had actually referred to another dear friend of hers—Han Jingyi.
From their brief contact on the road just now, she was already certain that this was the very Wei Zhao Han Jingyi had been pining for all this time. Only, a bit of fun like this—she had no intention of puncturing the paper window just yet. Better to give them a grand surprise when the time came!
"All right, you two have no more secrets to keep from me now, surely. What is the story with this little attendant of yours? Out with it, honestly!" Shangguan Lan'er urged impatiently.
Wei Zhao and Ning Xuefei exchanged a glance, then, withholding nothing, took turns recounting the general course of what had happened on the Far North Island.
After hearing how the two of them had met, Shangguan Lan'er clicked her tongue in marvel for a good while, sighing that the world was truly too small—that even this could bring them together. But then her curiosity returned: "Then, little junior brother, how did you get injured back then? Is the Far North Island really that chaotic?"
"Right, that is just what I wanted to ask. Wei Zhao, you were badly hurt at the time!" Ning Xuefei chimed in curiously. She had her guesses, but they were only guesses.
Wei Zhao hesitated a moment. But then he reflected that neither of these women was an outsider; both were close to him and would not betray him. So he lowered his voice and admitted, "Miss Ning must have heard about what happened that night. Zheng Tianjie was killed when his pill furnace exploded during refinement. The truth is, that was my doing."
"What?" Both women were startled at once. Zheng Tianjie's status, even compared with theirs, was not much inferior, and his death had stirred up quite a storm at the time.
According to what the elders at home had said, if the Pill God Zhang Lifeng had not personally stepped forward to settle the matter once and for all, confirming that the man had died from carelessly blowing up his own furnace, Zheng Dongjue had even been prepared to send out the elite experts of the Central Island Pill Hall. Who would have thought that such a great affair had its source in Wei Zhao?
After a long moment of stunned silence, Shangguan Lan'er suddenly gushed with enthusiasm: "Little junior brother, you really are something! That Zheng Dongjue—I ran into him once when Grandfather took me to Central Island. He was handsy and no good at all. I heard he had harassed many girls on Central Island. Little junior brother, you have rid the people of a scourge!"
Ning Xuefei, however, asked in puzzlement, "Then why did you kill him? Oh, I know—it must be that he saw you had all these top-grade pills, the kind money cannot buy, and wanted to snatch them!"
Wei Zhao smiled and shook his head. "Not exactly. Miss Ning should remember the grudge between us; it was at the auction, when I bid against him, that I offended him."
As for the matter with Tianchan, he did not intend to share it with the two women—there was no need. The more people who knew, the more potential trouble it might bring Tianchan. Better to leave it unmentioned.
"Huh? I remember he was the one who won that item in the end, was he not? How petty and vicious—truly no good at all!" Ning Xuefei frowned. R1152