Chapter 4753 — Buying a Walkie-Talkie
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"What do you mean, 'not'? Sister Huo, you're still wearing the clothes from the secular world that our little junior brother gave you—so you've clearly admitted it yourself. It's settled, then, happily so!" Shangguan Lan'er said, her face full of teasing mischief.
"Ah? I..." Huo Yudie had just put on this denim sportswear today, and had secretly been quite pleased with it. Now she was instantly struck speechless. How had she admitted anything? Admitted what, exactly?
"Lan'er, don't get so smug. You talk as though it's none of your business—don't tell me you don't want to be our sister too?" Ning Xuefei stepped in to smooth things over, and her one sentence left Shangguan Lan'er speechless as well. Together with Han Jingyi, she pulled Huo Yudie over to stand before Wei Zhao.
"You've come," Wei Zhao greeted her with a beaming smile.
"Yes, I've come." Huo Yudie's face flushed with shyness, and she dared not meet Wei Zhao's eyes. For some reason, this time, whenever Wei Zhao came a little closer, her heart pounded madly, as if it would leap right out of her chest, leaving her breathless.
"Come sit. These girls were just talking about you—pestering me with questions about the West Island trial. I was unconscious for most of it, so how would I know that much? You may as well tell them yourself," Wei Zhao said, naturally taking Huo Yudie's hand and seating her beside him.
"Ah!" Huo Yudie let out a small cry as if jolted by electricity. She had clearly not expected Wei Zhao to take her hand in front of Ning Xuefei and the others, and she immediately ducked her head even lower in embarrassment. Her heart raced wildly, yet at the same time she was slowly filled with sweetness.
"That's right, Sister Huo, you tell us!" Ning Xuefei and the other two exchanged smiles and crowded over eagerly, clustering around Huo Yudie with great interest.
Huo Yudie was quite overwhelmed by such easy familiarity, and the tension in her heart melted away. She had been worrying just moments ago about how to get along with these girls, but now it seemed she had been overthinking everything.
Whether it was Ning Xuefei, Han Jingyi, or Shangguan Lan'er, they were all kindhearted girls. The sordid things she had imagined earlier—being excluded, being targeted—would never have occurred to them. Huo Yudie could not help feeling a little ashamed; she had been judging noble hearts by the measure of a petty one.
With her worries gone, Huo Yudie soon became fast friends with the girls, laughing and chatting merrily. Though she was somewhat older than Ning Xuefei and the others, her nature was simple and pure, and their time together was warm and pleasant.
Friendships between young girls can sometimes be very strange. In but a short while, Huo Yudie and Ning Xuefei and the rest had become close friends who wished they had met sooner, growing more agreeable with every word, brimming with shared topics. Now it was Wei Zhao's turn to feel bored—surrounded by these young girls, he was utterly an outsider who could not get a word in!
Of course, Wei Zhao was in fact rather gratified by this outcome. Kindhearted as the girls were, they each had a clever, perceptive mind. Huo Yudie had said nothing, and everyone else had said nothing, yet each knew clearly what the others were thinking. They simply chose not to say it aloud.
Over the next few days, Huo Yudie became completely inseparable from the girls—she even moved in, and the four of them laid out a big communal bed in Ning Xuefei's room. They all slept together at night, though Wei Zhao of course had no place in that arrangement. Even though Ning Xuefei was nominally his fiancée, he could not enter the women's quarters—especially not with four of them squeezed in there at once!