Chapter 2425 — Who Have You Come Looking For?
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"So that's how it is..." Wei Zhao nodded.
Bai Weituo, though, was surprised. He had assumed Qiu Lingshan was about Wei Zhao's age, but from the sound of it that was not the case. He gave her a curious look. "This sister is...?"
"Oh, I forgot to introduce everyone. This is my good friend Qiu Lingshan. She's currently the captain of the criminal investigation team at the East Sea City Police Bureau—if any of you run into trouble in the future, you can go to her." Wei Zhao said.
"Ah! So you're Captain Song?" Bai Weituo's eyes went wide. He had not expected Qiu Lingshan to be so formidable at such a young age—and more to the point, she seemed to be on very good terms with Wei Zhao. That settled it: in the future, if they ran into the likes of Li Biaohan shaking people down for protection money, they could go straight to Qiu Lingshan.
A flicker of something strange passed through He Meiyue's eyes, and her gaze toward Wei Zhao grew a shade different. She had always thought Wei Zhao capable, but she had never imagined his connections ran so wide.
Bai Weituo, Zhao Shengji, and the others were introducing themselves when a heavily made-up young street girl came running over. She looked Wei Zhao, Bai Weituo, Zhao Shengji, and the rest up and down, then abruptly threw her arms around Wei Zhao and cursed him in a voice thick with outrage: "Wei Zhao, you heartless bastard! You got me pregnant and then you just left me alone—I'm still a high school student, you know! If I hadn't found out you were a student around here and staked out this place every day, I'd never have tracked you down..."
At the sudden appearance of this girl, everyone's expression turned exceedingly strange. No one could make out what play she thought she was putting on.
Kang Jinglong and You Panhu, watching from where they sat—and Huang Mao, just back—smiled with great smugness, and Kang Jinglong in particular gave Huang Mao a thumbs-up! The job had been done beautifully. Whether or not Wei Zhao could defuse it, whether or not he could explain it away, a nail had been driven into Wang Xinyan's heart.
In matters like this, many people would rather believe it than not. What did they say—there's no smoke without fire? If Wei Zhao really had nothing to answer for, would the girl have come looking for him?
And even if Wei Zhao explained, it made no difference, because Huang Mao had said he had a follow-up. Even if Wei Zhao smoothed things over today, tomorrow Huang Mao would spread the word, embroidering the tale as it went, until it became a story of how Wei Zhao had been forced to hand the girl a sum of money before he could just barely get rid of her.
By then, with repetition making the lie seem true, even if Wang Xinyan did not believe it, under the weight of so many voices she would probably keep her distance.
But just as Kang Jinglong was gloating, Wei Zhao suddenly spoke.
"I say, Brother Lin, this one's looking for you, isn't she?" Wei Zhao's gaze went to Bai Weituo. "I have to say, you're a bit out of line. You've already got a girlfriend, and here you are asking me to introduce my girlfriend's roommate to you..."