Chapter 989 — Any Regrets? Wei Zhao Looked at Tang Yun, Then at Feng Xiaoxiao, and a Flicker of Suspicion Crossed His Face: 'What Is the Matter with You Two? Are You Speaking in Some Secret Code?'

"No, nothing! Haha — Sister Tang Yun and I took to each other at first sight and became good friends!" Feng Xiaoxiao said, a little smugly. "Isn't that right, Sister Tang Yun?"

"Right!" Tang Yun said through clenched teeth.

Wei Zhao frowned. He said nothing more, and bent his head to his wontons.

Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were seated at a table not far from Wei Zhao.

Gu Mengyao withdrew her gaze and said mildly, "Eat, Xiaoshu."

"Sister Yaoyao, how come that Feng Xiaoxiao is sitting with Brother Arrowbrand?" Shen Yushu looked at the nearby table, puzzled. "Isn't she Tang Yun's rival in love?"

"Who knows?" Gu Mengyao shook her head, though she felt some puzzlement herself. But ever since the time Wei Zhao had risked his life to save her, her whole outlook had shifted. She knew that in Wei Zhao's heart Tang Yun's place was already beyond replacing, and she no longer wished to set herself against Tang Yun, for that could only drive her own position into a more passive corner.

"Oh, Sister Yaoyao, do you think Tang Yun got scared, and found a little wife for Brother Arrowbrand to counter the two of us?" Shen Yushu conjectured darkly.

"Then why don't you go and ask her?" Gu Mengyao said, frowning.

"On second thought, forget it..." Shen Yushu shook her head.

The three of them — Wei Zhao, Tang Yun and Feng Xiaoxiao — bent over their wontons. Though Wei Zhao and Tang Yun were willing enough to talk with Feng Xiaoxiao, the relations between them had plainly not been harmonious before, and common ground was hardly going to appear all at once; so after a hurried meal, they went back to their classes.

As they walked out of the cafeteria, Feng Xiaoxiao saw that Wei Zhao meant to take Tang Yun's hand. Quick as a flash she seized the initiative, catching Tang Yun's hand first, and said, "Wei Zhao, go on ahead — I want a few words with Sister Tang Yun!"

Wei Zhao frowned. "What do you want to say? Say it in front of me."

"If it is behind your back, then of course it is not for your ears!" Feng Xiaoxiao said.

"Yunyun, don't believe a word she says." Wei Zhao said it deliberately: if he said nothing at all and simply let Feng Xiaoxiao walk off with Tang Yun, that would not be his usual way, and Feng Xiaoxiao would surely grow suspicious.

"Oh..." Tang Yun nodded.

And so Wei Zhao walked in front, while Feng Xiaoxiao led Tang Yun by the hand behind him.

"Sister Tang Yun, do you have any regrets?" Feng Xiaoxiao asked.

"Regrets about what? I am not the one who lost anything," Tang Yun said.

"Hmph, hmph!" Feng Xiaoxiao thought to herself: Keep putting on a brave face. When the day comes that Wei Zhao and I are a settled fact, you will simply have to swallow the pain and accept it.

"What are you hmphing about? A little wife, that is all — won't you still have to do as I say in the end?" Tang Yun said.

"Fine, I will do as you say, then!" Feng Xiaoxiao thought Tang Yun was dying for face and making herself suffer for it.

Each nursing her own designs, the two of them chatted and laughed all the way back to class, and Wei Zhao and Feng Xiaoxiao went into the classroom as well.

Feng Xiaoxiao was delighted. She had never expected Tang Yun to be so easy to fool — a few words from her, and Tang Yun had been talked right into the snare!

"What did you say to Tang Yun earlier?" Wei Zhao asked Feng Xiaoxiao once they were back at their seats.

In truth, Wei Zhao was genuinely curious about what exactly Tang Yun had said to Feng Xiaoxiao. He knew Tang Yun must have said something to please her; it was only that he and Tang Yun had not yet compared notes, so he had no idea of the details. The moment they were back in the classroom, therefore, he tossed out the question.

"Tang Yun said she wants to find you a little wife!" Feng Xiaoxiao did not conceal it. She felt she had to let Wei Zhao know Tang Yun's intention, otherwise Tang Yun might agree on her side while Wei Zhao refused on his, and then it would all come to nothing.

"Gah?" Wei Zhao was startled. "Find me a little wife? Really?"

"Of course it is real!" Feng Xiaoxiao nodded.

"It wouldn't happen to be you she has in mind, would it?" Wei Zhao shot back.

"How did you guess?" Feng Xiaoxiao blinked.

"..." Wei Zhao paid her no heed. He turned around and took out his textbook...

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The head of the Yu family, Yu Dansen, was by now a formidable man of the early Earth Rank. He had entered the hidden Yu family to cultivate, single-mindedly pursuing the Way of Heaven in hopes of stepping into the Heaven Rank.

Yet Yu Dansen had come out of the Yu family of the mundane world, after all, and every so often he still telephoned them; but if the Yu family wished to reach him, they could not. In deep cultivation there are no years — a stretch that might pass as ten-odd days, or as several months — and it must not be interrupted.

Today Yu Dansen had just come out of seclusion. He vaguely sensed the signs of a breakthrough, from the early Earth Rank to the peak of the early Earth Rank; so the moment he emerged, he hurried to telephone Yu Shuixing, wanting to share the good news and let him and Yu Bide rejoice as well.

These last days Yu Shuixing had been at his wit's end. For years the Yu family had swept across the mundane world — who did not read the Yu family's face before acting? Nearly every great clan knew that Yu Dansen was a formidable man of the Earth Rank who had entered the hidden Yu family, and for a time the Yu family had quietly become first among the great clans.

All these years the Yu family had indeed carried on as the first of the great clans, convening the grand clan assemblies, hosting the auctions — riding high and unrivaled.

And yet all of it had been smashed by a man who appeared out of nowhere.

Wei Zhao — just what background do you have?

Teeth clenched, Yu Shuixing stared at a dossier on Wei Zhao lying before him. It recorded every deed Wei Zhao had done since coming to Songshan City. Not one of them was anything but absolute arrogance.

Zhao Qibing of the hidden clans had had his legs broken twice by Wei Zhao, and his tower toppled twice as well. And yet the hidden Zhao family had swallowed it all and made no move... There must be something behind this. Yu Shuixing regretted that he had not considered such things before; he had simply assumed Wei Zhao was without power, and let the Xiao family and Zhao Qibing go make trouble for him.

And so, in a moment of impulse, a great calamity had finally been brewed.

Yu Shuixing blamed himself, and in his heart he loathed Wei Zhao utterly. Now Yu Bide was dead and Yu Kun a cripple — with what face could he meet his elder brother Yu Dansen? In those days his brother had placed the position of family head in his hands and gone off alone into the hidden Yu family; his own bold words were still vivid before his eyes — he had pledged to make the Yu family ever more glorious and to hold firm its seat as the first of the great clans.

Yet how little time had passed? Such a catastrophe had befallen the Yu family. What was he to do now?

The Yu family had marched out in fury and come back with one dead and one wounded; by now they must have become the laughingstock of the other great clans.

In these few days Yu Shuixing had aged greatly, his eye sockets sunken deep. From the day the terrible news of Yu Bide's death arrived, he had not had a single good night's sleep. The moment he closed his eyes, he saw Yu Bide lying cold upon the mortuary cart.

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