Chapter 812 — The Thief Cries 'Stop Thief!'

"Ah!" Gu Mengyao let out another shriek, turning around and glaring at Shen Yushu with eyes wide with fury. "Xiao Shu, what are you doing?"

"Sorry, Sister Yaoyao, I wasn't paying attention..." Shen Yushu said cautiously.

"Wasn't paying attention, wasn't paying attention—why can't you be more careful next time?" Seeing Shen Yushu like this, Gu Mengyao couldn't bring herself to scold her any further, and simply shook her head. "Hurry up and get to work!"

"Oh..." Shen Yushu secretly breathed a sigh of relief at having escaped disaster once again.

Gu Mengyao, however, suspected that Shen Yushu had done it on purpose. That girl was sly and mischievous to the core; when they had played together as children, she was always pulling off clever little pranks. So this time, Gu Mengyao had learned to be more shrewd. She continued spraying down the house with her water gun, but her peripheral vision never once left Shen Yushu.

After a while, Gu Mengyao saw Shen Yushu sneak a furtive glance in her direction. Seeing no reaction from her, Shen Yushu flashed a mischievous grin, and then the water gun in her hand tilted toward Gu Mengyao.

Gu Mengyao fumed. Oh, Xiao Shu, so you actually dare to ambush me with this trick?

Gu Mengyao darted back in an instant, aimed her water gun at Shen Yushu, and squeezed the trigger. Water blasted over Shen Yushu's face and head, turning her into a drowned rat in a flash.

"Aah-oh-oh-aah!" Shen Yushu shrieked, dropping her water gun and flailing her hands to block the stream Gu Mengyao was firing at her. But how could bare hands possibly stop it? In the blink of an eye, she was soaked from head to toe.

Gu Mengyao couldn't bear to keep spraying her, afraid she might catch a cold, so she stopped and gave Shen Yushu an angry glare.

"Sister Yaoyao, why did you douse me with water... boo-hoo-hoo... I'm soaked through..." Shen Yushu wiped the water from her face, looking as if she had just walked out of a torrential rain.

"Xiao Shu, you still have the nerve to play the thief crying 'Stop thief!'? What were you up to just now?" Gu Mengyao looked at Shen Yushu's aggrieved expression, feeling both angry and amused.

"I wasn't doing anything! I was washing the house..." Shen Yushu said, looking at Gu Mengyao in confusion.

"You took your water gun and sprayed me when I wasn't looking—don't think I didn't see it!" Seeing that Shen Yushu refused to admit it, Gu Mengyao angrily reached out and pinched her cheek, tugging the skin up.

"Ow, ow, that hurts!" Shen Yushu yelped, looking embarrassed. "You caught me, Sister Yaoyao..."

"Hmph, didn't you say it wasn't on purpose?" Gu Mengyao realized Shen Yushu was still as mischievous as ever, a true child who would never grow up.

"I... I just thought it was fun..." Seeing her scheme exposed, Shen Yushu sheepishly stuck out her tongue. "Sister Yaoyao, I was only joking. You're not mad, are you?"

"Mad at you? My foot! If I got mad at you over every little thing, you'd have annoyed me to death long ago!" Gu Mengyao said in exasperation. "I think you should forget being called Prophecy Shu, Spy Shu, or Negotiator Shu, and just call yourself Trouble Shu. Now get back to washing the walls!"

"Oh, Sister Yaoyao, you know me so well! Why don't we play a water fight for a while? We haven't played in ages—it's been over ten years, hasn't it?" Shen Yushu said a little wistfully.

"Play?" In truth, Gu Mengyao was quite lonely usually, with nothing much to do for fun. She had very few pastimes. Apart from watching TV and playing video games at home with Xiao Shu, she rarely went out to any entertainment venues.

One reason was that she and Xiao Shu were both in their final year of high school, with little time for fun outside of studying. Another was that the entertainment places outside were a mixed crowd of all sorts, and the two of them truly didn't dare to go.

Now that Wei Zhao was around, there would be no problem, but when would they ever get the chance?

So Shen Yushu's suggestion of a water fight made Gu Mengyao rather tempted. "How do you want to play?"

"We keep washing the walls, and then secretly spray each other with water guns, to see who reacts faster?" Shen Yushu suggested after thinking for a moment.

"..." Gu Mengyao was speechless. Ambush games? She really was no match for Shen Yushu in that. But seeing Xiao Shu so eager, Gu Mengyao couldn't bear to refuse; the two of them truly had no other fun. So she nodded in agreement. "Fine, but let's get this straight first: one spray only, no spraying on and on."

"Great, great! Are we starting?" Shen Yushu nodded excitedly.

"Not yet. We'll start when I say start." Gu Mengyao wanted to seize the upper hand.

"Oh... okay." Shen Yushu went back to washing the villa's walls, but kept stealing glances at Gu Mengyao. Seeing her washing the wall with a dead-serious face, Shen Yushu grew anxious. Why haven't we started yet? Could Sister Yaoyao have forgotten about the water fight?

Shen Yushu was growing anxious and was just about to ask, when she heard Gu Mengyao say, "Start!"

Shen Yushu was stunned. Before she could react, Gu Mengyao's water gun sprayed her straight in the face. She let out a shriek: "Sister Yaoyao, you cheated!"

"Hmph, to deal with a Trouble Shu like you, I have to use unorthodox methods—otherwise how could I ever hit you?" Gu Mengyao said with total justification. "You're the one who wanted to play. Haven't you heard the saying, 'All's fair in war'?"

"Oh... fine then." Shen Yushu could only accept her bad luck. "Let's keep going."

And so Shen Yushu and Gu Mengyao went on playing with their water guns. Each won some and lost some, and the two of them had a thoroughly wonderful time.

Over on his side, Wei Zhao was mowing the lawn with the lawnmower, and from the corner of his eye he could see the Eldest Lady and Shen Yushu playing about. He didn't pay much attention, though. After all, the two had been cooped up in the house, and after so much pent-up pressure, they needed some way to blow off steam. Otherwise, the dreary life of senior year could suffocate anyone.

Wei Zhao had too many things on his plate every day to see anything wrong with it. But the Eldest Lady and Shen Yushu were different. If the two girls wanted to let off steam once in a while, Wei Zhao naturally wouldn't interfere. As for expecting them to do actual work, good enough was fine.

Besides, it was the outside of the villa. Whether it got washed clean or not, it was all the same.

After fooling around for a while, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu grew tired and started to lose interest, having had about enough of the game. Then Shen Yushu's eyes sparkled with a mischievous idea, and she said to Gu Mengyao, "Sister Yaoyao, how about we play a game of ambushing Shield Bro?"