Chapter 1139 — Embarrassed

"Very well, Tianli. Just mind yourself - do not offend Wei Zhao, and that will be enough!" Liu Zhenhu settled the matter once and for all. "Jingjing staying out of sight now may yet prove of great use later."

Liu Jinghan's cheeks flushed faintly; her grandfather's words told her he had seen straight through her heart. She had, after all, meant to approach Wei Zhao under another identity, for she was curious about the man and wanted to meet him privately and see what sort of person he really was.

Liu Jinghan could not work it out: how had this man lived until now? He had offended all three of the hidden clans - the Yu, the Zhao and the Pi - and yet here was Wei Zhao, alive and kicking, without a scratch on him!

He was the first man who had ever made Liu Jinghan curious. She was a clever girl and ordinarily never gave anyone a second thought, but Wei Zhao had genuinely piqued her interest. Of course, such interest did not mean she liked him - with Wei Zhao, Liu Jinghan was merely curious.

Liu Tianli had not understood his father's meaning; he had taken it for a ploy to keep their daughter in reserve as a trump card, to be played at the crucial hour. Liu Tianyi, though, was lost in thought. He looked at his niece - she had bloomed into a slender, graceful beauty, and would count as first-rate even among the great families...

Yet for all that Liu Tianyi had divined something of the matter, he ultimately said nothing. Certain things the old master would naturally orchestrate in his own good time; there was no need for him to speak out of turn.

The old master and Liu Jinghan, at times, saw more clearly than Liu Tianyi himself.

Wei Zhao hung up on Liu Tianyi and was about to call Fatty Lai to tell him the news when he turned around and saw Tang Yun come down the stairs wrapped in nothing but a towel!

"Yaoyao, where are my clothes?" Tang Yun had finished her bath upstairs only to find that neither Gu Mengyao nor Shen Yushu was there. Gu Mengyao had not laid anything out for her to change into, and Tang Yun could hardly go rifling through Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu's wardrobes, so she came downstairs. She had assumed Wei Zhao was outside moving things and that the villa was full of girls, so a towel would hardly matter - never dreaming that Wei Zhao was here too!

Tang Yun stood on the stairs with nothing on beneath the towel, so from Wei Zhao's vantage point below, the pale bloom of her most intimate self was laid bare. His breath came short before he could check it.

The most intimate he and Tang Yun had ever been was holding hands and pecking each other's cheeks; and now, catching sight of Tang Yun with not a stitch on, Wei Zhao's heart began to pound.

"Ah!" Coming down the stairs, Tang Yun spotted Wei Zhao as well. His expression was decidedly strange; she followed his gaze down to herself, and her face went scarlet. Panic seized her - she cried out, spun around and made for the stairs, but in her haste she stepped on her own towel and kicked it clean off, leaving Tang Yun standing there in nothing at all.

"Whoa, Sister Tang Yun is really something! Don't tell me she wants a five-way with us?" Shen Yushu's eyes went round, staring at Tang Yun's bare chest and then down at herself. "Hmm, still not as big as mine! But she's overtaken Sister Yaoyao!"

It had been embarrassing enough already; Shen Yushu's words made Tang Yun want to die of shame. She bent to pick up the towel - but the moment she folded forward, she froze. Bending over like this with her back to Wei Zhao, wouldn't her bottom be pointing straight at him? Wouldn't that leave him seeing everything?

At the thought Tang Yun blushed past all bearing, and her hand stilled above the towel. She wanted nothing so much as to bolt upstairs, anything to spare herself further mortification.

But the harder she tried to run, the more her panic undid her. Her foot came down on the towel again, her body lurched, and she went sliding down the staircase.

"Ahhh!" Tang Yun screamed. She had never thought herself so unlucky as to slip and fall like this! It would go badly with her - even if the fall broke no bone, it would leave her battered. She squeezed her eyes shut and dared not open them...

All of it happened in the space of a spark. Wei Zhao's heart had been racing and he was still thrumming with excitement, but the instant he saw Tang Yun tumble he reacted, sprinting over and bounding up the stairs to catch her.

"Wow, Brother Arrow, you're amazing! From now on I'll never worry about falling down the stairs again!" Shen Yushu clapped her hands in acclaim.

Gu Mengyao was rather lost for words, though what Shen Yushu said was plain fact. Before Wei Zhao had come, Shen Yushu had once been showering upstairs when a cartoon came on; Gu Mengyao called her down to watch, and Shen Yushu came barrelling down the stairs without even wiping the water from her body - whereupon she took a tremendous spill right on the steps. She landed so hard her bottom swelled, and she had to lie at home for several days before going back to school.

Tang Yun had been certain she was going down for certain, yet at the last moment Wei Zhao had caught her. Shame and delight washed over her at once - shame that she was still stark naked, and delight that it was Wei Zhao who had caught her!

Both Gu Mengyao and Feng Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief. They were about to set off, and neither wanted anything to happen to Tang Yun.

Gu Mengyao admired the depth of Tang Yun's love for Wei Zhao, and the grace with which she had welcomed Feng Xiaoxiao; she felt that making an enemy of Tang Yun would only reveal her own smallness, and so, by degrees, she had begun looking after Tang Yun as well.

As for Feng Xiaoxiao - ever since Tang Yun had taken her in, she had felt nothing but gratitude toward her, and naturally wanted nothing to befall her.

Shen Yushu, though, stole a glance at Tang Yun in Wei Zhao's arms and asked with a sly grin, "Sister Tang Yun, does it feel good having Brother Arrow grope your boobs?"

"Ah!" Tang Yun started, only now noticing that Wei Zhao's hand was pressed against her chest. She struggled on instinct, trying to make him let her go.

Only then did Wei Zhao realize that his hand was closed around something soft - something he had been too frantic to notice before. He felt a twinge of regret: had he known, he would have taken his time with it. Now, before he had felt anything at all, he had to let go.

Wei Zhao gave an awkward laugh, released her, and set Tang Yun down on the sofa. "Sorry about that - I wasn't thinking, in the heat of the moment... Yaoyao, get Yunyun something to wear; I'll turn around first..."

Wei Zhao would have very much liked to keep looking, but he knew it would not be proper. Tang Yun was his girlfriend, true, but their relationship had not yet reached that stage, so he turned his back after all.

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