Chapter 1177 — Still Wanting to Level Up?
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"Fine. If Wei Zhao can join us, I'll be all the happier," Chen Yuxuan said after a moment's thought. He meant every word of it. Though he could no longer pose as her lover, some things, once let go, were truly let gone — once a decision was made, he had no regrets.
Still, fighting side by side with Wei Zhao had once been Chen Yuxuan's dream, and now that it was coming true he was naturally delighted. With Wei Zhao as his right-hand man, the difficulty of this assignment would drop accordingly.
"Good, then I'll speak to Wei Zhao..." Qiu Lingshan nodded. "I'll go into the inner room and call him... wait for me out here?"
"Don't worry, I won't eavesdrop," Chen Yuxuan said with a laugh, though there was a sour taste in his heart. But when a woman telephoned her beloved, there were things she naturally would not say in front of another man.
And so Qiu Lingshan stepped into the rest room inside the office and dialed Wei Zhao's number.
"What is it?" Wei Zhao picked up.
"...Your silly little girl misses you — can't she call you?" Qiu Lingshan was put out by Wei Zhao's businesslike tone.
"Miss me? Why don't you miss me when nothing's going on — every time you miss me, something's up." Wei Zhao gave a bitter smile. Nine times out of ten, Qiu Lingshan wanted something done again.
"Oh?" Qiu Lingshan was taken aback for a moment, then broke into a delighted smile. "So from now on I can call you even when nothing's going on? How wonderful! Usually I want to call but don't dare — I'm afraid you'll scold me, so I have to rack my brains for a task or an excuse just to get one call through..."
"Huh?" Wei Zhao's eyes went wide; for once he did not know how to answer. What Qiu Lingshan had just said was, quite simply, impossible to answer.
He certainly could not tell her, "Call me even when nothing's going on" — at that rate she would be phoning every few hours. But if he forbade her from calling, wasn't that the same as conceding that she should rack her brains for tasks and excuses just to call him?
Wei Zhao gave a dry laugh and had to change the subject. "So what's this call about? The leveling up?"
"Leveling up? I want it, I want it!" Qiu Lingshan narrowed her eyes, a mischievous notion rising in her heart, and said in a honeyed voice: "When are you going to give it to me? I want it so badly... please, good man..."
"Uh..." A few black lines appeared on Wei Zhao's forehead. What Qiu Lingshan presumably meant was that she wanted to level up, and when he was going to grant her the upgrade — but uttered in that tone of hers, it sounded like she was asking for *that* instead.