Chapter 1078 — You've Got It Wrong: Watching Wei Zhao leave so briskly, Qiu Lingshan suddenly hesitated.

Was what Wei Zhao had said earlier true or not? The more carefully Qiu Lingshan thought it over, the more absurd it seemed. For one thing, what Wei Zhao had said sounded utterly unreliable. From all her dealings with him these past weeks, Qiu Lingshan had the feeling that Wei Zhao simply was not that sort of person.

Could it be that Wei Zhao did not like her, and had said those things on purpose so that she would stop pestering him from now on? At that thought, Qiu Lingshan felt it was very likely.

Every time she troubled Wei Zhao to help her hunt for clues to a case, he agreed in the end, but never willingly, and each time he seemed a little impatient. Might Wei Zhao be seizing on this occasion to deliberately put distance between them, spouting nonsense for that very purpose?

"Wait..." At that thought, Qiu Lingshan no longer wanted to let Wei Zhao leave just like that.

"Is there something else?" Wei Zhao turned and asked.

"You... you really did that with General Weiwu and Uncle Qing?" Qiu Lingshan looked into Wei Zhao's eyes, searching for the real answer.

"Did what?" Wei Zhao countered.

"You know... **," Qiu Lingshan said, gritting her teeth.

"**?" Wei Zhao's eyes went wide, and he looked at Qiu Lingshan with a baffled expression. "Me and General Weiwu and Uncle Qing **? Your brain-dead streak is acting up again, isn't it? How did you even come up with that? Your mind is far too convoluted. Have you been reading too much slash fiction?"

"I... what slash fiction? Weren't you the one who said it? Your first time you gave to yourself, the second was with General Weiwu, the third with Uncle Qing..." Qiu Lingshan was so angry her teeth ground together. She thought: how could Wei Zhao deny it the very next moment? And he called her brain-dead again. What rotten luck she had. She had only just been promoted to little silly girl, and before she had held the title a few days she was demoted back to brain-dead girl.

"That's right. The first time I used that method to raise strength, I was raising my own. The second time I was helping General Weiwu raise his, and the third time I was helping Uncle Qing. Is there a problem?" Wei Zhao retorted. "Where did your mind wander off to? Why is your thinking so convoluted?"

"Huh? You meant raising strength..." Qiu Lingshan's face went red at once. Had she really gotten it wrong? But raising strength, wasn't that done by that method? Last time, hadn't she raised hers exactly that way? So, still somewhat unconvinced, Qiu Lingshan said, "Then how do you plan to help me raise my strength?"

"Take off your clothes." Wei Zhao glanced at Qiu Lingshan and said mildly. The plan to tease little Miss Song was not over yet.

"Huh? Take off my clothes?" Qiu Lingshan was stunned again.

If Wei Zhao had asked her to take off her clothes before, she would have been delighted; she would have happily stripped everything off.

But now... Wei Zhao had just said so many frightening things, and though the truth seemed not to be what she had imagined, he was asking her to undress again, and Qiu Lingshan hesitated once more. Could it be that when Wei Zhao upgraded Uncle Qing, Uncle Qing had taken his clothes off too?

"Are you going to do this or not? My time is limited. If not, I'll be going." Wei Zhao frowned and said mildly.

"I'll do it..." Qiu Lingshan felt rather wronged and gritted her teeth, but in the next instant she worked out another question.

She thought: perhaps Wei Zhao had been testing her earlier. Otherwise, if Wei Zhao really had that kind of relationship with Uncle Qing and General Weiwu, would Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu still let him keep living in the villa? Wouldn't they have kicked him out on the spot?

Besides, Wei Zhao had a beautiful girlfriend, Tang Yun. If there really were something wrong with Wei Zhao's orientation, then what was Tang Yun? She could not be just for fun, could she? In that case he might as well have taken up with Kang **, Zhong Yongliang, and the like...

Of course, there was one possibility: that Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, and Tang Yun all knew nothing about these things. But how could that be? Nothing stays hidden forever. Since Wei Zhao could so easily tell her these things, there was no question of keeping them secret at all.

So Qiu Lingshan thought: could it be that Wei Zhao was deliberately testing her, deliberately painting himself as so despicable, so that she would stop making trouble for him in the future?

At that thought, Qiu Lingshan let it go, and reached out to undo her belt...

Qiu Lingshan was a person who liked cleanliness, so the first thing she did when she got home was take off her outer trousers, then sit on the sofa and slowly remove her other clothes, so as not to dirty the sofa.

So Qiu Lingshan, without thinking, also started to take off her outer trousers.

"What are you doing?" Seeing Qiu Lingshan go straight for her trousers, Wei Zhao could not help but find it funny, and stopped teasing her. Tease her any more and something really might happen. After all, Wei Zhao had come to Qiu Lingshan's place truly intending to help her raise her strength, not to do anything else.

"Didn't you tell me to take off my clothes..." Qiu Lingshan looked at Wei Zhao, puzzled.

"I told you to take off your clothes, but I didn't tell you to take off your trousers," Wei Zhao corrected.

"Huh?" Qiu Lingshan was stunned again. Clothes... trousers, was there a difference? If you really split hairs, of course there was, but in ordinary speech, didn't they both mean the same thing?

Qiu Lingshan felt rather gloomy. Could Wei Zhao really have some peculiar fetish, only interested in the upper half and with no interest in the lower?

But after all her earlier suspicions and the way Wei Zhao had played her, Qiu Lingshan was not about to voice an opinion so readily this time. Clothes off, then. She had gone a little numb to it. So long as she could raise her strength, nothing else mattered.

Qiu Lingshan's what-the-hell attitude began to work its mischief again, and so she stopped caring once more.

Having taken off her outer garment, Qiu Lingshan began unbuttoning her shirt, but Wei Zhao stopped her.

"That's enough. Just take off the outer garment." Much as Wei Zhao would have liked to keep appreciating Qiu Lingshan's inner substance, he dismissed the idea.

Some things had to stop while they were ahead. Little Miss Song's troubles were far too many; cracking her cases was much harder than fulfilling Feng Xiaoxiao's wishes. And Wei Zhao did not want to incur any more romantic debts for no reason.

As things stood, he already had enough trouble. Tang Yun and Feng Xiaoxiao could be considered his confirmed wives, primary and secondary.

As for the eldest young miss and little Shu, he did not know their true feelings. Little Shu showed hers more plainly, but she often lied. The eldest young miss rarely deceived anyone, but she seldom expressed anything at all.

And then there was Sun Jingyan, half a mistress besides. So for the time being Wei Zhao did not much want to provoke Qiu Lingshan.

Fastest updates; for pop-up-free reading, please.