Chapter 1913 — Let Everything Follow Fate, for to Wei Zhao It Was a Meaningless Word—Tang? Tang What?

"Yeah, we saw your phone was off, so we drove back first." Seeing Wei Zhao come back together with Yang Huaijun, Gu Mengyao felt herself relax—and she could not have said why that lightness came over her.

Could it be that she truly did not want him to be with Wang Xinyan? But yesterday Xiaoxiao had said she would allow Wei Zhao to take a primary wife—so what if the one he wanted was Wang Xinyan?

"Right, I'll be off then!" Seeing there was nothing more for him to do, Yang Huaijun waved a hand and made for his car.

"Mm, see you around." Wei Zhao nodded.

Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu watched the Audi A6 drive away and breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness Xiao Shu had reacted so quickly; otherwise, if the talk had really turned to Tang Yun, they would not have known how to explain it.

Most of the people around Wei Zhao had been briefed, but Yang Huaijun had been working a case in Donghai all this time and had never returned to Songshan City, so he had been overlooked. Gu Mengyao decided that she would call him the moment they got back and warn him not to let a single word slip.

"Wei Zhao, let's eat together—Granny Sun has the food ready," Gu Mengyao said, though her expression had softened considerably.

"You drove the car back first—you weren't angry, were you?" Wei Zhao looked at Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, but he could find nothing unusual in their faces, as though the two of them had not been angry in the least.

"No. We were a little tired, so we drove back first. Anyway, you're in good health—it makes no difference if you don't have a car." Gu Mengyao cobbled together a reason on the spot. "Next time you go out, you'd best say something, so we don't worry. We waited for you at school for a while."

"All right, I did lose track of time today." Wei Zhao nodded and glanced at Gu Mengyao. Was this concern for him? But the young lady always wore that same expression; there was no reading her true thoughts.

Gu Mengyao said nothing more, and they went into the villa together. Granny Sun, knowing they had returned, had already begun carrying the dishes to the table.

Granny Sun had originally agreed to eat only after Wei Zhao and the others had finished, but after Wei Zhao and Gu Mengyao insisted several times, she had started eating with them. After all, there were only four people in the house, and the table was not crowded; there was no need to eat separately.

Besides, through those hard years Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had always eaten together with Granny Sun, and they were used to it. When Granny Sun suddenly became the housekeeper and had to eat apart, they found it strange and uncomfortable.

"Granny Sun, have you ever thought about finding a companion?" Wei Zhao suddenly recalled the phone call Uncle Qing had made to him earlier, and asked casually.

"Ah?" Granny Sun was startled, and looked at Wei Zhao in puzzlement. "Mr. Lin, are you saying... you want me to remarry?"

"Yes. You're getting on in years, and later on you'll have no one to rely on. You ought to find a companion," Wei Zhao said.

"This... Mr. Lin, you... you want me to leave?" Granny Sun did not quite grasp what Wei Zhao meant; she thought he was trying to send her away.

"Wei Zhao, what do you mean by that?" Gu Mengyao was equally baffled by Wei Zhao's abrupt question, and shot him a glare, telling him to stop talking nonsense. If it came to driving Granny Sun away, she would be the first to object. If not for Granny Sun taking them in during those hard times, she and Xiao Shu—and even Wei Zhao—would long since have been found by Yu Liu and left with no place to die.

"Granny Sun, you've misunderstood... What I mean is, as it happens, I know someone who is also single, about your age. I mentioned the matter to him a while ago. I'd like the two of you to meet; if it works out, you can spend your lives together and at least have a companion!" Wei Zhao said.

"Ah—" Granny Sun's face flushed at once. She had never expected that to be what Wei Zhao meant. "I... at my age, I haven't thought about such things in years. I've grown used to being alone all this while. Besides, I'm the housekeeper here now, and an ordinary person would be hard to find—after all, Mr. Lin, you have certain secrets that can't be told to outsiders..."

Granny Sun was referring to the fact that Wei Zhao was a cultivator and was being hunted by the Yu family and others. Naturally, such things could not be told to ordinary people, so when she heard Wei Zhao's suggestion, she turned him down outright.

"This person isn't an outsider either. In a way... he's something like our housekeeper in Songshan City..." Wei Zhao said with a smile. "He's one of us!"

"Ah! Wei Zhao, you mean Uncle Qing!" Only then did Gu Mengyao understand what Wei Zhao was getting at, and her eyes lit up. She looked at Granny Sun, then thought of Uncle Qing... Indeed, Uncle Qing had always been single—and he and Granny Sun really would make a fine couple...

"Yes, yes! Granny Sun, you and Uncle Qing are both single—you'd make a perfect pair!" Shen Yushu, delighted, chimed in her agreement.

"This..." Hearing that the man was the housekeeper from Songshan City, and single as well, Granny Sun lost some of her earlier resistance. But she had long since stopped thinking about such things, and now, being asked out of the blue to find a man, she felt somewhat out of her depth. "Mr. Lin, I know you mean well, but... I can't even remember whether I ever had a husband or children, or what became of them... and I've stopped considering such questions..."

"Haha, then just meet him first. Let everything follow fate—at least you'll get to know each other," Wei Zhao said with a smile.

"Then... I'll do as you say, Mr. Lin." Granny Sun said this, but she held little hope. She had grown used to being alone all these years and had adapted to it; she simply did not want to waste Wei Zhao's goodwill, and so she agreed.

On the morning of the eleventh, Wei Zhao drove Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu to the Economics Department building, then parked the car back in the lot. Seeing that it was about time, he skipped the dormitory and went straight to the Biology Department building.

Sure enough, Bai Weituo, Song Xiaodao, and Zhao Shengji were all already seated in the classroom, still in the third row as before. Wang Xinyan was likewise in her old seat by the window, and the seat beside her was still empty.

"Brother Lin, over here!" Bai Weituo grinned, waved at Wei Zhao, and pointed to the seat beside Wang Xinyan.

Wang Xinyan's face grew a little warm. She did not know why she had taken this seat again, or why she had again left the seat beside her for Wei Zhao. As far as she was concerned, Wei Zhao probably would not come to sit here again—yet she had left it open all the same. Otherwise she could simply have sat on the right and left two empty seats on her left, and then Wei Zhao would have had no way to sit beside her.

Wei Zhao smiled faintly and sat down quite naturally beside Wang Xinyan. Toward Wang Xinyan, Wei Zhao felt a fondness he could not put into words—perhaps because she was the first girl he had come to know after arriving in Songshan City!

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