Chapter 1035 — I Miss You

What were these people running for, anyway? Where had they run to? What was their purpose? The whole string of questions gave Qiu Lingshan quite a headache!

On the surface nothing had happened yet, and her fretting like this looked like trouble borrowed for nothing, but Qiu Lingshan was someone who hated evil with a passion, and whenever she saw something unreasonable she could not help looking at it with suspicious eyes.

"Whew..." Qiu Lingshan set the files at hand aside and rubbed her aching temples. Being a leader was clearly no easy job, not nearly as simple as being a foot soldier in the old days. Everything needed her attention, and all she wanted was for peaceful Songshan City to suffer no more mishaps.

She hoped this was only her being oversensitive, nothing but coincidence.

And what had Wei Zhao been up to? For some time now Wei Zhao had lost contact with her. She wanted to call and ask about his whereabouts, yet she had no reason. In the past she always sought him out to help crack cases, but without a pretext she really did not know what to say!

Qiu Lingshan was well aware of the series of incidents that had shaken Songshan City a few days before. In her position, no major event in Songshan could escape her notice!

The Yu family, the Xiao family, and the hidden Zhao family had all gone to Gu Pengzhan's residence to force his hand. Qiu Lingshan knew about that too, but there was nothing she could do. She herself came from an aristocratic family, and she knew that at the level of those houses, the methods and rules of the secular world no longer held any binding power over them!

She had dearly wanted to help, but thinking of her own strength at the late Huang stage, she knew she would be of no use if she went, nothing but a burden, so she had to abandon the idea! Still, hearing that Wei Zhao had lost all his power and been driven into a corner, she could not help worrying about him!

For some reason she could not explain, Qiu Lingshan always harbored an indescribable feeling toward Wei Zhao. He was the first man who had ever dared to shout at her to her face. The young masters of other prominent families showered her with flattery and praise whenever they met her, yet Wei Zhao had cursed her as a brain-dead chick!

That infuriated her, and at the same time stirred some inexplicable emotion in her heart! Angry, yet unable to fight back, and not daring to fight back, she had no choice but to endure it in helpless resignation, and gradually she had come to enjoy this feeling of being conquered!

At times Qiu Lingshan even wondered whether she had a touch of masochism in her? But then she shook her head at once. The truth was she had wanted to resist, all right? She simply had no way to resist, so she could only swallow her pride for the moment. It was only habit becoming second nature, that was all!

Thinking of Wei Zhao unsettled her. She hastily tidied the documents on her desk and glanced at the wall clock. It was already past nine at night.

Qiu Lingshan yawned, switched off the office lights, locked the door, and turned into the inner room of her office.

She was single, and because of the special nature of her work, when she worked too late at night she often simply slept in the lounge inside her office.

After washing her face and brushing her teeth, Qiu Lingshan lay down on the bed, tossing and turning and unable to sleep, wanting to call Wei Zhao.

She checked the time. It was already ten, and she feared Wei Zhao might be asleep.

Yet as if possessed, Qiu Lingshan still picked up her phone and dialed Wei Zhao's number.

Wei Zhao was naturally not asleep. He had just returned empty-handed from Uncle Qing, taken a shower, and was toweling himself dry when Qiu Lingshan's call came in.

"Hello?" Wei Zhao answered the call.

"It's me..." Qiu Lingshan said hesitantly and carefully.

"Oh, is something the matter?" Wei Zhao asked. Usually when Qiu Lingshan called him it was never good news. Either she could not catch some criminal, or she had some trouble she wanted him to help solve.

"No... nothing." Qiu Lingshan felt awkward. She had dialed Wei Zhao on impulse without knowing why, but now that the call had actually gone through, she had no idea what to say.

"Nothing? Then why are you calling?" Wei Zhao was puzzled. As he saw it, whenever Qiu Lingshan sought him out there was bound to be trouble, and he had helped with all he could, so her hemming and hawing made him wonder if something serious had happened. So he said, "Do you need my help with some trouble?"

"No... not really..." A few days ago Qiu Lingshan had been very bold, but boldness lasted only a moment. Not having contacted Wei Zhao for several days made it hard for her to bring herself to speak.

"Then I'll hang up?" Wei Zhao found it baffling. If you have something to say, say it. If not, why call at all?

"Don't hang up..." Qiu Lingshan hesitated, and seeing Wei Zhao about to hang up, she suddenly grew bolder. She had already come in with a nothing-left-to-lose attitude, so in her excitement she stopped caring about anything. "I... I miss you!"

"Huh?" Wei Zhao froze. "What did you say?"

"I... this little silly girl misses you!" This time Qiu Lingshan was neither coy nor reserved, and said it boldly outright.

Wei Zhao frowned. Toward Qiu Lingshan, he could not say he felt much affection. Admiration he certainly had, but it was admiration for her figure, and he did not much like her personality. Although she had changed a great deal lately, he had never once thought of her in romantic terms!

In his eyes, he and Qiu Lingshan were simply not people from the same world, and she would never understand his life, so he had deliberately kept a certain distance from her! That was also why, in the basement of An Jianwen's kidney-harvesting syndicate headquarters, he had stopped short in the face of her naked temptation!

To say he had felt nothing would be a lie. Wei Zhao was a physiologically normal man, only he was a man with rather good self-control. If he acted on impulse alone, he could never have lived to this day.

Now, Qiu Lingshan's hint seemed to have grown rather obvious, which gave Wei Zhao a headache. He decided to find a chance to have a proper talk with her!

Wei Zhao did not believe Qiu Lingshan had truly fallen in love with him. With her forceful personality, he could roughly guess why she was developing feelings for him! Suitors like Chen Yutian obeyed her every wish, while Wei Zhao, who went completely against the grain, had struck her as refreshingly new all at once!

Unable to resist yet unable to beat him, she could only accept it! And after accepting it for a long time, she naturally came to feel that a man with his temperament suited her, and her so-called declaration about choosing a mate, that her man had to be stronger than her, had become another reason for her leaning toward Wei Zhao!

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