At that moment Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, and Wei Zhao had just gotten back to the villa, having just seen Tang Yun and Feng Xiaoxiao home. None of the three had locked the villa door yet; the neighborhood was safe, and nothing went missing even in broad daylight.

So Gou Huli had walked into the courtyard with perfect ease.

"Little lion, give me a couple of roars right here!" Gou Huli ordered her lion.

"Roar—" The lion had been professionally trained, so whatever Gou Huli said, it more or less understood.

Shen Yushu and Gu Mengyao were sitting in the living room looking through the photos from this outing on an iPad 2, thrilled to bits.

"Wow, this picture of Arrow Bro grilling shrimp is so handsome, so handsome!" Shen Yushu shrieked, holding the iPad 2 up high.

"..." Gu Mengyao rolled her eyes. "Xiaoshu, you've screamed that a dozen times today... my ears are going to grow calluses!"

"But he really is handsome! Sister Yaoyao, don't you think so too?" Shen Yushu said.

"Not really." Gu Mengyao said flatly. "I'm not Tang Yun or Feng Xiaoxiao. Why should I care so much about Wei Zhao?"

"Oh." Seeing how cool Gu Mengyao was, Shen Yushu said no more and went back to the photos.

But before she had gotten through more than a few, the sound of a lion's roar rose from the villa's entrance. Shen Yushu had paid the first few no mind, but as the roaring went on and on, she raised her head in puzzlement and stopped what she was doing. "Sister Yaoyao, did you hear that strange noise?"

"What noise?" Gu Mengyao hadn't noticed; her attention wasn't on that at all... Earlier Xiaoshu had gone on and on about how handsome Wei Zhao was, and when Gu Mengyao took a closer look, she found it was true. Wei Zhao was not one of those pretty-boy types, but the kind of young man who was masculine and carried himself with real presence, and that happened to suit Gu Mengyao's taste exactly. She had no liking for boys who were too pretty, and yet a boy who was only brawn and no brains would not do either... In short, Gu Mengyao's standards for a partner were very complicated, and Wei Zhao happened to satisfy every one of them...

So Gu Mengyao was all tangled up inside, and before she had come back to her senses, naturally she had not heard any strange sounds from the villa's courtyard.

"That woo-ow, woo-ow kind of sound!" Shen Yushu imitated the lion with a couple of cries.

"Huh?" Gu Mengyao blinked. "What kind of a cry is that?"

"Just that one, Sister Yaoyao, listen carefully!" Shen Yushu pointed toward the outside of the villa.

"Hm? There does seem to be a strange sound." Gu Mengyao listened carefully to the stirrings in the courtyard, and sure enough, there was the very sound Shen Yushu had just imitated. And truth be told, it really did sound quite a lot like Shen Yushu's imitation!

"Wait for me, Sister Yaoyao, I'll go out and take a look!" With that, Shen Yushu called toward Wei Zhao's room, "Arrow Bro, come out and protect me!"

"Wei Zhao is taking a shower..." Gu Mengyao said.

Earlier, when Wei Zhao had gone back to his room, he had said he wanted to wash up first. Now that Shen Yushu was calling him, of course he could not come out.

And so Shen Yushu, leading General Mighty along, marched out the door with her chest puffed out to inspect the situation. The moment she stepped outside, she saw Gou Huli standing in the courtyard playing with her lion!

"Damn! What are you doing, you old hag?" Shen Yushu's eyes went wide as she stared at Gou Huli in disbelief. "Are you performing a circus here?"

"Gah? You little punk!" Gou Huli was caught off guard. She had never imagined that bringing a lion here to throw her weight around would be taken by Shen Yushu for the act of a circus clown, and she flew into a rage. "Who's the old hag cursing?"

Having said this, Gou Huli looked at Shen Yushu with no small smugness. This was Yang Guo's trump card from the Jin Yong novels. She had never expected that Gou Huli would get to use it, and wield it so deftly at that! Once the words were out, she waited eagerly for Shen Yushu to fall into the trap.

"The old hag standing right in front of me is cursing me!" Shen Yushu answered with an innocent air. "You old hag, you're the little punk, you're the old punk!"

"Gah!" At Shen Yushu's words, Gou Huli was so furious that smoke all but poured from her seven orifices. The little wretch had not answered the way she had pictured at all; instead she had flung the insult right back at her. That being so, if she cursed her as a little punk again, would that not amount to admitting that she herself was the old hag?

At that thought, Gou Huli gave a cold snort. "Clever tongue! I won't waste words on you! Little lion, come teach this girl a lesson!"

"Ao-wu-roar—!" The lion in Gou Huli's grasp bellowed at Shen Yushu.

"A lion?" Shen Yushu blinked, not frightened in the least. She studied the lion in Gou Huli's grip with some curiosity and asked, "This is really a lion?"

"Hmph! So what if it is? What, scared?" Gou Huli said smugly. In front of Shen Yushu, she had no qualms about admitting the beast in her hands was a lion.

"It's great fun, thank you! Old hag, you've brought me such a fun pet." Shen Yushu said cheerfully. "My house just happens to be short a good compound guard. This one will do!"

"Are you sick in the head, girl? I came today to teach you a lesson. You think I'm here delivering you a lion? Is there something wrong with your IQ?" Gou Huli shouted. "Lion, get her! Start by eating this girl's dog!"

In broad daylight, with so many eyes on them, Gou Huli still did not quite dare let the lion eat Shen Yushu. She knew Shen Yushu's standing, after all, that she was of the Chen family, and though the Xiao family was arrogant these days, it could not go too far out in the open. But eating one of her pet dogs, that would be no problem at all!

As for what happened in the dark, if the lion could bite Shen Yushu to death, Gou Huli would be delighted!

"Roar—" The lion roared at General Mighty and advanced on it step by step.

"Damn! Why are you so long-winded, you old hag? General Mighty, go tame this lion for me. I need a compound guard!" Shen Yushu commanded General Mighty.

"Woof, woof!" General Mighty answered, and without a trace of fear it went to meet the lion.

"Uh—" Before this, General Mighty had been lying there, and the lion had paid it no mind. But now the dangerous aura General Mighty gave off made the lion's hair stand on end! An animal's sixth sense is the keenest of all; they can feel what is a danger to them and what is not!

And this dog before it made the lion sense enormous danger! Though it was the king of the grasslands, in the face of a dog so full of killing intent, the lion still shrank back a little.

After two steps, the lion did not dare to go any farther, and instead kept a wary eye on General Mighty.

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