Chapter 2047 — Utter Astonishment

Had Wei Zhao known how much was going through He Meiyue's mind, he would have been astonished that a girl could be so calculating. Of course, how calculating she was had little to do with Wei Zhao, because he did not like her in the least.

Zhang Duopan and Fan Ganhe had both been injured, so the moment they left the tiger park the two of them hurried off to see a doctor, while Wei Zhao and the others went nowhere else and headed straight back to school.

In the school parking lot, Wang Xinyan got out of the car and was about to head back to her dormitory when the young mistress gave her a wink: "If you have any ideas, tell me in advance."

"Ah..." Wang Xinyan's face flushed scarlet at once. Not daring to look at the young mistress, she lowered her head and walked quickly away.

Wei Zhao was rather baffled. What riddle were these two playing at? What did she mean, "have any ideas"? What ideas could Wang Xinyan possibly have?

So on the way home, Wei Zhao asked curiously, "Yaoyao, what did you say to Wang Xinyan just now?"

"Nothing much. We just got to know each other a little better, and I told her to come visit us at home when she has time," Gu Mengyao said lightly.

"Visit us?" Wei Zhao found this odd. Had the young mistress and Xiaoshu not always been rather unfriendly toward Wang Xinyan? Why the sudden change?

How could Wei Zhao know that Gu Mengyao had simply come around? Since Wei Zhao was going to take a first wife, it was naturally better if she came from among people they knew. If he brought home some domineering stranger, she and Shen Yushu might not exactly suffer for it, but it would certainly sour their mood.

Gu Mengyao did not answer, but changed the subject: "By the way, Wei Zhao, that thing the lion gave you and Xiaoshu earlier—what exactly is it? It doesn't look like much of a treasure."

"I don't know either, but it's definitely something good," Wei Zhao said. "There's powerful energy contained in it. I'll find an expert to take a look when I get the chance."

"Huh? So it really is something good?" Shen Yushu had only been making a casual demand of the lion at the time, never imagining it would actually bring her a fine treasure as tribute, so she was quite astonished: "Could it be an energy sphere?"

"An energy sphere?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. "I don't know, but this energy is different from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Even if it is an energy sphere, it's no ordinary one."

"Then it really was a stroke of luck!" Gu Mengyao said. "This trip to the tiger park wasn't very interesting to begin with, but since you got something good out of it, it wasn't a wasted trip."

"Yeah, you could call it an unexpected delight. I was only there to keep Bai Weituo company. He's Chief Bai's grandson, and Chief Bai has been good to me, so by any reasonable measure I ought to give him a hand," Wei Zhao said. "Once he's won He Meiyue over, I'll stop involving myself."

"Brother Stand-in, Xiaoshu thinks that He Meiyue is no good!" Shen Yushu said.

"Xiaoshu, don't say things like that." Gu Mengyao frowned. She and He Meiyue were hardly good friends, but she bore her no ill will either, and it was always a little unseemly for Shen Yushu to slander someone outright.

"Xiaoshu isn't talking nonsense!" Shen Yushu said. "Xiaoshu just feels that this He Meiyue is awfully calculating!"

"But still not as much as you, right?" Gu Mengyao said.

"Uh... that's not it either..." Shen Yushu, flustered, promptly shut her mouth.

"Ha, what He Meiyue is like has little to do with us. As long as Bai Weituo likes her, that's enough. So long as she doesn't do anything bad to Bai Weituo, there's no need for us to interfere." Wei Zhao shrugged and smiled. "Besides, a girl being a little calculating isn't such a bad thing, right, Xiaoshu?"

"Oh? How does Xiaoshu know..." Shen Yushu wore the look of someone who had just lost a game.

Wei Zhao drove the car back to the villa, but as they drew near, he saw Han Jingyi next door standing in her villa's courtyard looking this way and that. When she spotted Wei Zhao's car, she at once came running over in great excitement.

Han Jingyi's behavior struck Wei Zhao, Shen Yushu, and Gu Mengyao as rather strange. What was this girl doing standing in the villa courtyard in such cold weather? Though it had not yet reached the bitter freeze of deep winter, the weather in November was still very cold, and if Han Jingyi stood alone in the courtyard long enough, she was bound to catch a chill.

"Han Jingyi, what are you doing?" Wei Zhao got out of the car and asked, rather puzzled.

"Brother Wei Zhao, you're back! Jingjing was waiting for the car!" Han Jingyi said.

"Waiting for the car?" Wei Zhao was at a loss for words. "Waiting for my car? You want to go out?"

"No, I was waiting for your car to come back. I have something to talk to you about," Han Jingyi said.

"...Then there's no need to stand in the courtyard waiting, is there? Aren't you afraid of catching cold?" Wei Zhao truly did not know what to say to Han Jingyi's behavior.

"Jingjing isn't afraid of catching cold. Brother Wei Zhao is very good at curing colds, and it feels very comfortable too. Last time Jingjing produced a lot of water, it was so nice," Han Jingyi said.

"Pfft... cough, cough..." Wei Zhao choked and sputtered at Han Jingyi's words. Why did it feel like there was so much ambiguity in what she said?

"Oh?" Shen Yushu, too, was looking at Wei Zhao with a strange light in her eyes. "Brother Stand-in, didn't you say last time that you didn't touch her? Then how could she feel comfortable, and produce water too?"

Gu Mengyao was not as brazen as Shen Yushu, who would ask anything that came to mind, but she too frowned, looking at Wei Zhao with some bewilderment. She had just been thinking of accepting Wang Xinyan—why did it seem now that the one Wei Zhao had his eye on was Han Jingyi?

"Acupuncture. She worked up a sweat and then took a bath, so she felt refreshed," Wei Zhao explained, sweating a little.

"..." Shen Yushu and Gu Mengyao were both left speechless. With the way Han Jingyi talked, it was hard not to let one's thoughts wander.

"Brother Wei Zhao, what's wrong with them? Why are they looking at Jingjing with such strange eyes? Has Jingjing got flowers growing on her face?" Han Jingyi asked, puzzled.

"No... Never mind that. First tell me what you were waiting here for," Wei Zhao said, not wishing to continue the previous topic.

"Right, right, Jingjing almost forgot the important thing!" Han Jingyi lowered her voice. "Brother Wei Zhao, Jingjing has refined the dan fire!"

"Ga?" At Han Jingyi's words, Wei Zhao nearly dropped his jaw in astonishment! Dan fire? It had only been a few days—Han Jingyi had actually condensed the dan fire already?

"What is it, Brother Wei Zhao? Is Jingjing very stupid, taking so many days just to condense the dan fire..." Han Jingyi looked at Wei Zhao with an air of innocence and grievance. "But Jingjing has been working very hard! It was only after Jingjing calculated and scientifically optimized the mental method for condensing dan fire that she was able to condense it today. Otherwise Jingjing reckoned it would have taken much longer!"

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