"Brother Yang!"
Nazha's delicate, fair face turned as red as a monkey's bottom. She stared at Zhang Yang with wide eyes.
After spending more than a month together, and often coming over to mooch food, she'd become best friends with Liu Yifei, who was kind by nature. So when she heard Zhang Yang say he was leaving, she couldn't help feeling a little sad.
But Zhang Yang had actually said she was sad because she'd miss the food, and even exposed the fact that she'd put on weight. He might as well have been stroking a tigress's backside!
"How can you go around pointing out people's flaws like that?"
Liu Yifei gave Zhang Yang a token smack to show where she stood.
Come to think of it, she'd been eating quite a lot lately too. It seemed she'd developed a little belly.
Why couldn't those damned extra pounds go where they were supposed to?
"I was wrong." Zhang Yang lowered his head and nodded.
Both women looked a little surprised.
That kind of lightning-fast apology wasn't like the Zhang Yang they knew.
The next moment, though, came the familiar routine: "Sister K asked me to look after Nazha, but she let her figure go and gained several pounds. I've committed such a grave sin, an unforgivable sin, a sin beyond redemption. I'm guilty."
"Stop!" Nazha clenched her fists. "I only gained three pounds! Did you really have to make such a big deal out of it?"
"I was talking about myself." Zhang Yang lifted his head slightly, tears in his eyes.
Seeing that, Liu Yifei couldn't help commenting, "We know you're good at acting. You don't have to show off like this."
Chen Jiashang and the others had been highly impressed by Zhang Yang's dramatic acting lately, and believed he