Chapter 3183 — Qiu Lingshan's Suitor
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
The resources of the Overseas Cultivators' Association were abundant indeed, and Tang Yuqi was a core member of that association, so he still had no small store of them on hand.
Tang Yuqi had learned from others that Qiu Lingshan's standard in a partner was that he must be stronger than she, must surpass her—which was why he had hurried so to advance, to open up an absolute gap between himself and Qiu Lingshan.
Qiu Lingshan was of the early Earth Rank; to open an absolute gap between them, only the early Heaven Rank would do.
"Not today. I still have work to do." Qiu Lingshan did not even look up from the case files in her hands.
"I broke through to the Heaven Rank just yesterday. As a colleague and a friend, won't you help me celebrate?" Tang Yuqi said.
"You broke through?" Qiu Lingshan was slightly taken aback, and a little astonished. Lately Tang Yuqi had been breaking through again and again—he had actually become a Heaven Rank expert? Wasn't that a bit too fast?
"That's right. So, shall we celebrate?" Tang Yuqi asked with a smile.
"I really do have things to do today. We'll see about the time once I'm done." Even so, Qiu Lingshan was unwilling to go out alone with Tang Yuqi again. Ever since she had seen through his purpose, she had stopped going to dinner with him alone; there was already someone in her heart, and she could never accept Tang Yuqi.
"Is that so? Then I'll wait for you," Tang Yuqi said, naturally unwilling to give up. "Is there anything you need my help with?"
"These cases are a backlog from before. Lately the victims' families have been coming to ask about progress, so I want to go through them again and see if there are any leads," Qiu Lingshan said. "If you've nothing else to do, I'll split them with you—take a look through them with me!"
"Ah… all right…" Tang Yuqi's face fell into a black scowl. Many of these backlogged cases were years old; to take them up now—never mind so many of them, finding a thread in even one would be hard beyond hard. If he were to sort out leads and clues for all of them, how long would that take? How could such a thing be finished in a single evening?
But since Qiu Lingshan had spoken, Tang Yuqi had no choice. In any case, so long as he could be with her, doing a little more work hardly mattered. At that thought, Tang Yuqi picked up several case files and began to leaf through them…
Time flew, and in the blink of an eye it was seven in the evening. Seeing that Qiu Lingshan was still reading case files and showed no sign of going to eat, Tang Yuqi finally could not hold back any longer. He set down the files in his hands and walked over. "Lingshan, it's already seven. Man is iron and food is steel—you can't go without eating! How about we go eat first and come back to the files after? You can't skip meals even for work, can you?"