Chapter 279 — Lingshan, Stop Fooling Around

Qiu Lingshan was truly furious now. In all her years, no one had ever called her a "tigress"—and Wei Zhao had called her a tiger several times already, and now this new nickname "tigress" had popped out on top of it. How could Qiu Lingshan not be angry?

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

Wei Zhao only smiled and didn't dodge. Girls, after all, were bound to have a bit of a temper. Holding to the principle that a good man does not fight a woman, he let her have her way—after all, he really had called her an ugly nickname. In truth, he had only ever thought it to himself before; just now he had no idea how it had slipped out.

"Bang—" Qiu Lingshan's fist landed square 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 fooling around. Hurry up and help me move the shark."

Lingshan?!

Wei Zhao had called her Lingshan? Qiu Lingshan was struck dumb for a moment. Such an intimate form of address, coming from a man's mouth—the old Qiu Lingshan would have exploded on the spot. But now... Qiu Lingshan truly had no idea what to do with herself!

Qiu Lingshan knew perfectly well the force behind that punch. She had gathered every ounce of her pent-up resentment into her fist, and after she threw it, she had even felt a twinge of regret. Even if Wei Zhao was a skilled fighter of the Yellow Rank, taking a punch like that from her would still hurt badly. Yet when her fist struck Wei Zhao's body, it was like striking cotton—soft and yielding, with no sensation at all...

And as for Wei Zhao, he seemed not to have felt the force of the blow in the least—he had even told her to stop fooling around! But Qiu Lingshan knew the punch had been real enough; she just didn't know by what means Wei Zhao had dissolved it!

Qiu Lingshan was deeply shaken. Just what was this man's background? Her fist had landed on him, and he seemed to feel nothing at all?

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

When Qiu Lingshan's fist landed on Wei Zhao, naturally they could not tell whether she had put any force into it. But from Wei Zhao's relaxed expression and tone, her punch might as well have been the playful swat exchanged between lovers, the little tap of a woman acting coy—and Wei Zhao's words had confirmed it exactly. He had said: All right, Lingshan, stop fooling around!

Fooling around? That meant Qiu Lingshan's punch really had been 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? That was it—it suddenly came back to Liu Wangli: the man at the center of that rumor at the hospital, wasn't his name Wei Zhao?

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

In truth, Wei Zhao had only been teasing Qiu Lingshan out of a bit of mischievousness and hadn't thought much of it—but seeing the looks on Liu Wangli's and Shen Yushu's faces, he knew they had really let their imaginations run away with them...

Watching Wei Zhao carry the shark onto the motorboat, Qiu Lingshan was reluctant, but she said nothing more. Having come off the worse in several encounters with Wei Zhao, she had learned her lesson: if she couldn't afford to provoke him, surely she could afford to steer clear?

That punch also forced Qiu Lingshan to take Wei Zhao seriously. It seemed his capture of the black panther had been no accident after all!

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

"No." Wei Zhao did not lie to Shen Yushu. There was no need to, with something like this.

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

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

"Really, nothing," Wei Zhao said. "Why? Do you wish we did?"

"Ah, there are some things you don't know. My brother courted her for years, but she acted so high and mighty, ignoring him completely—and then she humiliated him, saying he couldn't even beat her, that he was no man!" Shen Yushu grew angry as she said it. "I thought you'd finally handled that sly fox for good, Arrow Brand, and taught her what 'formidable' really means!"

"..." Wei Zhao stared at her, speechless. "How did she become a sly fox?"

"She was in the hospital... wasn't she with you..." Even though Shen Yushu was usually quite outspoken, when it came to this, she still could not help feeling a little embarrassed.

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

"So that's how it was..." Shen Yushu nodded in understanding, thinking to herself that she had misjudged Qiu Lingshan—she had assumed the woman had ripened and was starting to heat up. Still, the fact that she was afraid of Arrow Brand was undeniable! Mm, so she wasn't Arrow Brand's woman, but Arrow Brand still had the potential to conquer her—not bad, that counted as venting some anger. Shen Yushu consoled herself.

Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu were whispering away behind her, and Qiu Lingshan heard every word clearly. Thank goodness Liu Wangli was driving the boat; the only one close to the two of them was herself. If anyone else had overheard, she would probably have died of shame!

Hearing Shen Yushu actually call her a shameless fox, Qiu Lingshan wanted to strangle the girl. How on earth had she become a shameless fox? She had never had a single scandal to her name, all right... uh... wait, no! Wasn't Shen Yushu's next sentence precisely a scandal about her?

The business between her and Wei Zhao at the hospital had spread through the whole police station, so that for those few days her colleagues kept giving her strange looks!

Qiu Lingshan knew perfectly well what they were thinking! They probably all figured that a violent woman like her would actually do that kind of thing for a man—simply 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, which took Qiu Lingshan somewhat by surprise.

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

Qiu Lingshan shook her head and had to admit that Wei Zhao was indeed very strong, but if it came to a fair one-on-one fight, she believed she would not lose to him.