Chapter 279 — Lingshan, Stop Making a Fuss

Qiu Lingshan was truly furious this time. She had grown up without anyone ever calling her a "tigress," and now Wei Zhao had called her a tiger several times over, and on top of that a nickname—"Tigress"—had popped out. How could Qiu Lingshan not be angry?

Consequences be damned; she drove a fist straight into Wei Zhao's back. Had it been an ordinary man, that punch would surely have knocked the breath clean out of him.

Wei Zhao smiled and did not dodge. Girls, after all, were entitled to a little temper. Holding to the principle that a good man does not fight a woman, Wei Zhao let her have her way—after all, he really had called her an unpleasant nickname. In truth he had only ever thought it to himself before; just now he did not know how it had slipped off his tongue.

"Bang..." Qiu Lingshan's fist landed on Wei Zhao's back. Liu Wangli shut his eyes. This man was probably done for. But then the unbelievable happened once again!

Wei Zhao turned his head with a smile: "All right, Lingshan, stop making a fuss. Hurry up and help me move the shark."

Lingshan?!

Wei Zhao called her Lingshan? Qiu Lingshan was momentarily stunned. Such an intimate form of address, coming from a man's mouth—had it been the old Qiu Lingshan, she would have exploded on the spot. But now... Qiu Lingshan truly did not know what to do!

She knew very well the force behind that punch. She had gathered every ounce of her resentment into that fist, and after throwing it she had even felt a little regret. Even if Wei Zhao was a skilled Yellow Rank fighter, taking a punch from her should have hurt badly. Yet when her fist landed on Wei Zhao, it was like striking cotton—soft and yielding, with no feeling at all...

And Wei Zhao? He seemed not to have felt the force of the blow at all, and even told her to stop making a fuss! But Qiu Lingshan knew the punch had been real enough—she simply did not know how Wei Zhao had dissolved it!

Qiu Lingshan was deeply alarmed. Just what was this man's background? She had punched him, and he seemed to feel nothing at all?

Qiu Lingshan was astonished; Liu Wangli and Shen Yushu were even more dumbfounded!

When Qiu Lingshan's fist landed on Wei Zhao, they naturally could not tell whether she had put force into it. But from Wei Zhao's relaxed expression and tone, that punch looked like nothing more than lovers' teasing—the sort of blow a woman throws when she is being coy. And Wei Zhao's words confirmed it exactly: All right, Lingshan, stop making a fuss!

A fuss? Then Qiu Lingshan's punch really had been thrown in play! Liu Wangli did not have the eye to tell whether Qiu Lingshan had used her full strength, and Shen Yushu understood it even less.

Could this man be Qiu Lingshan's legendary boyfriend? Yes—Liu Wangli suddenly remembered: the man in that hospital rumor about Qiu Lingshan, wasn't his name Wei Zhao?

Liu Wangli could not help admiring Wei Zhao again, conceding a word of respect in his heart. Qiu Lingshan might be the beauty of the police force, but she was also a violent tyrannosaurus. How many men could withstand a woman like that? If they quarreled, what if she beat him half to death?

Wei Zhao had in fact been teasing Qiu Lingshan out of a mischievous streak, without thinking much about it. But seeing the expressions on Liu Wangli's and Shen Yushu's faces, he knew they had really read too much into it...

Watching Wei Zhao carry the shark onto the motorboat, Qiu Lingshan, though unwilling, said nothing more. Having come off the worse against Wei Zhao several times, she had grown wiser: if she could not provoke him, could she not at least keep out of his way?

That punch also forced Qiu Lingshan to take Wei Zhao seriously. It seemed his capture of the Black Panther had been no accident!

"Arrow Brand, are you and Qiu Lingshan really together?" Shen Yushu followed Wei Zhao onto the motorboat and asked in a small voice, like a curious child.

"No." Wei Zhao did not lie to Shen Yushu. There was no need for that sort of thing.

"Arrow Brand, really? You two really have nothing going on?" Shen Yushu was a little disappointed. Over this time she had come to know Wei Zhao; he was the sort who owned up to what he did and acted as he pleased. If he really had that kind of relationship with Qiu Lingshan, he would not deny it.

Just as on the school field, when he had pulled Tang Yun along and slapped Zou Ruoming across the face, declaring to him that Tang Yun was his woman.

"Really, nothing." Wei Zhao said. "What, you were hoping there was?"

"Ah, there are things you don't know. My brother courted her for years, but she acted so high and mighty, ignored him, and even humiliated him, saying he couldn't even beat her and was no man!" Shen Yushu grew angry as she spoke. "I thought you'd handled that vixen, Arrow Brand, and taught her what 'formidable' really means!"

"..." Wei Zhao stared wide-eyed, speechless, at Shen Yushu. "How did she become a vixen?"

"In the hospital... she and you..." Even though Shen Yushu was usually quite outspoken, when it came to this she could not help feeling embarrassed.

"Actually, it wasn't what you imagine." Wei Zhao smiled bitterly. "That day I had a wound on my leg, and she only wanted to punish me a little, so she pressed on my wound..."

"So that's how it was..." Shen Yushu nodded in understanding, thinking that she had misjudged Qiu Lingshan—she had assumed the woman was fully ripe and starting to go into heat. But it was a fact that she was afraid of Arrow Brand! Mm, so she was not Arrow Brand's woman, but Arrow Brand still had the potential to conquer her. Not bad—that counted as venting some spleen. Shen Yushu consoled herself.

Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu were whispering away behind her, and Qiu Lingshan heard every word. Luckily Liu Wangli was steering the boat, and the only one close to the two of them was herself; otherwise, if anyone else had heard, she would have died of shame!

Hearing Shen Yushu actually call her a vixen, Qiu Lingshan wanted to strangle the girl. How had she become a vixen? She had never had a single rumor attached to her name... uh... no, wait! Shen Yushu's very next sentence—wasn't that exactly her rumor?

The business between her and Wei Zhao at the hospital had spread through the whole police station, and for those few days her colleagues had looked at her so strangely!

Of course Qiu Lingshan knew what they were thinking! They probably all thought that a violent woman like her would do that sort of thing for a man—utterly absurd, wasn't it?

She was just about to turn around and explain, to keep Wei Zhao from ruining her reputation, but Wei Zhao honestly explained their relationship to Shen Yushu. That was something Qiu Lingshan had not expected.

This fellow was actually rather upright—he had not taken the chance to slander her. It was only Shen Yushu's childish notions that left Qiu Lingshan at a loss for words. She had turned down her brother, so the girl wanted to take her revenge this way?

Qiu Lingshan shook her head. She had to admit Wei Zhao was indeed strong, but in a fair one-on-one fight, she believed she would not lose to him.

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