Chapter 901 — The Kind of Girl Wei Zhao Likes: If She and Xiaoshu Fell Ill, Would Wei Zhao Worry?

Tang Yun nodded, took the drink, opened it and sipped. The three of them sat in the living room staring at one another, at a loss for what to say, and the silence turned a little awkward.

The awkwardness held for a while, and Shen Yushu, finding it dull, began hunting for a topic of conversation.

Not that she was unworried about Wei Zhao and had the heart for other things — it was that Shen Yushu was Brother Arrow's most devoted follower. She was sure nothing could possibly happen to Brother Arrow. She had faith in Wei Zhao!

"Say — why don't we all discuss what kind of girl Brother Arrow likes?" Shen Yushu looked at Gu Mengyao, then at Tang Yun, and spoke.

"Xiaoshu, what is there to discuss about that?" Gu Mengyao frowned. Tang Yun was sitting right here, and she was Wei Zhao's girlfriend. Talk about what kind of girl Wei Zhao likes?

"Let's just talk about it, it's not as if there's anything else to do, right?" Shen Yushu blinked. "I'll go first, then. I think Brother Arrow definitely likes girls who are pretty, gentle, and from a good family. What do you two think?"

"How should I know?" Gu Mengyao said, a little helplessly, when Shen Yushu's eyes turned on her.

"Tang Yun, what about you?" Shen Yushu turned to Tang Yun again. In truth, the question had been aimed at Tang Yun all along. In all her measuring back and forth with Tang Yun, Shen Yushu had discovered that Sister Yao Yao's only edge was her family background — so she wielded that to strike at her rival... though Shen Yushu knew that Brother Arrow set no store by such things...

"I'm not joining in. You two discuss it yourselves..." Shen Yushu had struck exactly upon the sore spot in her heart, and Tang Yun's face darkened.

"Oh, and Brother Arrow definitely wouldn't like a mopey, standoffish girl — a clam like Tang Yun!" Shen Yushu muttered to herself.

"That's impossible!" At her words Tang Yun flared up at once, glaring at Shen Yushu. "You're talking nonsense. Wei Zhao likes me just the way I am — otherwise why would he make me his girlfriend?"

"Because he had no other choice! In our whole school, apart from you, there isn't another school beauty who likes Brother Arrow, so you were the only one left for him to pick!" Shen Yushu explained with great solemnity.

"Aren't you two school beauties as well? Then why didn't Wei Zhao choose either of you?" Tang Yun was angry, and could not help retorting.

"He did choose us. Sister Yao Yao is the first wife, and I'm the second." Shen Yushu thrust out her chest, fully convinced of her own righteousness.

"Don't go thinking that because your chest is big, whatever you say is holy writ. You're simply making it up!" Tang Yun sniffed.

"What's this? Envious that mine is bigger than yours?" Shen Yushu said.

"What would I be envious of? I'm not envious in the least. Something that big is a burden — walk a little too far and it would wear you to death..." Tang Yun curled her lip.

"That's enough, Xiaoshu. Stop making trouble!" Gu Mengyao had no wish to make an enemy of Tang Yun, but she knew too that Xiaoshu meant well by her, so she could hardly scold her. She could only tell her to stop, and then said to Tang Yun: "Tang Yun, that's just the way Xiaoshu is. Don't take it to heart."

"Oh... it's all right, I know." Tang Yun was a little surprised that Gu Mengyao should speak up in her defense, though she truly had no wish to squabble with Shen Yushu at a time like this.

Before anyone knew it, it was the middle of the night. Gu Pengzhan did come home. The company had scraped together a hundred and fifty million on short notice; though it was one of the nation's top five hundred enterprises, the drain had still cost it dear. Fortunately fifty million in working capital remained, and if matters were arranged with care, they could ride out the hard patch for a while — though some expansion plans would have to be put on hold.

All of it, of course, was thanks to the hundred million Wei Zhao had borrowed from Liu Tianyi. Without that money, the Gu Group's days would have been desperately hard.

"How is Xiaoyi?" Gu Pengzhan saw a light burning in the villa and let himself in with his key — only to pause in surprise at the sight of Tang Yun on the sofa. It was the first time he had ever laid eyes on her. "And this is...?"

At the sight of Gu Pengzhan — the legendary chairman of the Gu Group, a director of the school — Tang Yun felt her nerves rise. When she had first enrolled, she had seen Gu Pengzhan speak only from the rostrum, and back then she had been one face among thousands in the audience. But now, meeting him at such close range, she could not help feeling tense.

Still, Tang Yun had met her share of important people by now — Fatty Lai, Guan Xuemin, even Liu Tianyi were all acquaintances of hers — so though she was nervous, she was not ill at ease. She rose politely and introduced herself: "Hello, Uncle Gu. My name is Tang Yun. I'm Wei Zhao's girlfriend, and a student at No. 1 Middle School. I saw you at the opening ceremony."

"Oh, so you're Tang Yun. Hello, hello!" Gu Pengzhan had heard of Tang Yun from Uncle Qing, but had never met her. Seeing her now, his eyes lit up — what a lovely, delicate girl, no less pretty than his own daughter. No wonder Xiaoyi had fallen for her.

"Wei Zhao is still unconscious, and we didn't dare disturb him, so we've been waiting here in the living room..." Gu Mengyao told her father.

"I see..." Gu Pengzhan sighed. "And Li Fu? How is he? Is he all right?"

"Uncle Qing is much as before, I'm afraid... Until Wei Zhao wakes, I wouldn't dare act rashly." Gu Mengyao shook her head again. Wei Zhao and Uncle Qing had both collapsed — two of the handful of people closest to her in all her life. Her spirits had sunk very low.

"Mm... It seems we can only wait for Wei Zhao to wake up," Gu Pengzhan said. "None of you have eaten tonight? Aren't you hungry?"

It came back to him that it was always Uncle Qing who brought his daughter her meals, and when Uncle Qing did not come, Wei Zhao took over the cooking. Now both Wei Zhao and Uncle Qing lay abed — his daughter had likely not eaten a thing.

"No, I haven't... I don't want to..." Gu Mengyao shook her head and looked at Tang Yun and Shen Yushu. "What about you two?"

Tang Yun and Shen Yushu had no appetite either. They had drunk a little of that nutritional drink earlier, and girls eat little; skipping a meal could pass for dieting.

"Have some instant noodles. Xiaoyi is a doctor himself — if he didn't tell you to take him to the hospital, it's because he has his own way," Gu Pengzhan consoled them. "As it happens, I haven't eaten either. I'm rather hungry myself."

"All right, then I'll go get it ready." Hearing her daddy say so, the young miss rose to prepare the instant noodles. She herself still had little appetite, but since Daddy wanted to eat, then everyone might as well have a little.

There were plenty of instant noodles in the house. Gu Mengyao took four cups of different flavors from the cupboard in the dining room, then turned on the hot water on the dispenser and quietly waited for it to boil.

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