Chapter 1226 — Brother-in-Law
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"Huh? Don't tell me you've got someone else in mind, Sis? And he's formidable too — quite a fighter?" Song Lingwei and Qiu Lingshan had been close since they were small, two hearts that beat as one. So the moment Qiu Lingshan opened her mouth, Song Lingwei grew suspicious.
"Mm..." Qiu Lingshan didn't deny it. This was something she couldn't tell Grandfather yet, but she could tell her little sister — and Little Rui kept her mouth shut tight; she wouldn't let it slip.
"Hehe, I knew it!" Song Lingwei said, a little excited. "Come on, tell me about my brother-in-law — how formidable is he? Is he as formidable as that Xie Yufeng?"
"Far more formidable than him!" At the thought of Wei Zhao, Qiu Lingshan's heart brimmed with sweetness. "What is Yufeng worth? He's got some strength, but who knows how many miracle pills it took to pile it up. A spoiled young gentleman from head to toe, silly and empty-headed, without a shred of backbone!"
"But when did the younger generation come to have so many formidable fighters? I may not be in the country, but as far as I know, among the clan children the only one who's broken through to the Profound Rank is the Yu family's, isn't it?" Here Song Lingwei's tone suddenly caught. "Wow, Sis — my brother-in-law isn't from one of the hidden families, is he?"
"He shouldn't be. He isn't from a clan family either." Turning over what she knew of Wei Zhao, Qiu Lingshan rejected Song Lingwei's guess. Wei Zhao was not from a clan family, and surely not from a hidden family either; Qiu Lingshan had never once heard of someone from a hidden family coming out to serve as a bodyguard to a girl of the mundane world.
"Cultivated it all by himself? A Profound Rank fighter?" Song Lingwei's eyes went wide.
"His origins are a little mysterious. Probably much like yours — he came out of some training camp or other..." Qiu Lingshan frowned. She had known Wei Zhao so long, and yet she didn't even know where he came from.
"Wow, my brother-in-law is that mysterious? Then I absolutely have to meet him! Sis, what's his strength, really?" Song Lingwei grew more curious by the moment.
"That... I'm not very clear either. But the fact that I could advance to the peak of the late Yellow Rank is all thanks to him!" Qiu Lingshan truly did not know Wei Zhao's strength. She had heard that he beat Ma Zhu — an external-school expert at the peak of the mid Profound Rank — half to death, so his strength could hardly be weak...
"What? Your strength was raised by my brother-in-law? Waah, waah, waah! Sis, have you two already dual-cultivated?" Song Lingwei shrieked, thoroughly gossipy. "You two have already done it! Sis, hurry up and tell me — doing that thing with my brother-in-law, is it enjoyable or not? What does it feel like?"
"Cough, cough..." Qiu Lingshan nearly flung the phone away! Flushed red, she coughed twice and said, "Little Rui, what nonsense are you spouting? You're just a child — how is your mind so filthy? What do you mean done it or not? There is absolutely nothing between him and me. Between us it is perfectly innocent!"
Say it she did, but inwardly Qiu Lingshan bore a little grievance: she had offered herself up on a platter, and Wei Zhao still wouldn't take her. The thought of it left her stifled — was she really so unappealing?
"Sis, I'm eighteen already, all right? I'm an adult!" Song Lingwei was rather displeased that her sister still treated her like a child. "Then if you two didn't dual-cultivate, how did you raise your strength?"
"Well... you may not believe it, but he used a method of transmitting energy — he sent his true qi into my body, and I broke through..." Every time Qiu Lingshan recalled it, it struck her as preposterous. Wei Zhao was simply too formidable — he could raise someone's strength even like that?
"What?" Song Lingwei was dumbstruck as well. "He expended his own true qi to raise your strength? Wow, Sis, my brother-in-law loves you so much! I'm so envious — how romantic!"