chapter 69

There was only a picture sent by the unfamiliar number. Although the background in the picture was night, it was very clear.

In the picture, Tang Anru was snuggling up in Yang Bin’s embrace tightly. Yang Bin was also holding her in his arms with a face full of caring expression. He held her as if she were a precious treasure, and the posture they were in didn’t look like they were common good friends.

Apparently, she was secretly photographed!

Who snapped it? What was the other party’s intention? Was it a warning or blackmail?

Most importantly, was this picture sent to Qi Mingran?

Tang Anru stared at her phone fixedly and the joy disappeared on her face. At the same time, an exquisite and delicate face flashed through her mind.

Could it be … Qin Shu?

Thinking of this possibility, Tang Anru pursed her pink lips tightly. After a long while, she hid all her emotions and revealed a gentle smile in front of the mirror again. Then, she walked out as if nothing had happened.

At the same time, Qin Shu also received the same picture as Tang Anru did.

It was sent by the same number in the morning, sent from the group messages again, but Qin Shu still couldn’t find any personal information about the other party.

Interesting.

Qin Shu looked at the photo and slowly rose the corners of her lips.

This person sent her such an intimate photo of Tang Anru and Yang Bin. Why? Many people knew that she and Tang Anru were no longer the so-called bosom friends, they weren’t even friends of each other anymore. In the eyes of everyone, she definitely hated Tang Anru to the extreme.

In that case, the only reason why this photo was sent to her was because someone wanted to make use of her to punish Tang Anru

As long as Qin Shu made this photo public, Tang Anru’s image of a pure, self-respecting and reserved goddess she had showed to everyone would be greatly damaged.

Tang Anru had a boyfriend, but in the picture, she was hugging another man tightly at night. Even if this man was her good friend, it would inevitably make people think too much.

If Qin Shu sent the picture to Qi Mingran, it would be even more interesting.

Before, Qi Mingran disliked Qin Shu’s ignoring of the general interest and her indecent behaviors. He said she was not as pure and self-loving as Tang Anru, so he broke up with Qin Shu resolutely. And not long after, he was with Tang Anru.

Now if he saw this picture, he would be proven wrong recklessly!

However, the person who sent this photo to Qin Shu behind her back had made an incorrect calculation.

Although Qin Shu did not like Tang Anru, Qi Mingran, and Yang Bin, she did not want to get involved in these three people’s troubles, for fear that Ling Mohan would make use of the opportunity to accuse her of seducing Qi Mingran and Yang Bin and take advantage to “teach her a lesson”. That would be a huge trouble.

Thinking of Ling Mohan, Qin Shu felt a little distracted again. She couldn’t help but curse softly, “Bastard!”

If she hadn’t protected herself well last night, she would have been forced to have sex with the bastard.

She really wanted to put a lock on that thing of his and prevented him from acting like a hooligan again.

Suddenly, the phone rang and startled Qin Shu a lot. She lowered her head and saw that it was Ling Mohan calling.

“Hello, what can I do for you, Lord Colonel?” she asked lazily and picked up the glass of water.

“Let me f*ck you!”

“Cough, cough…”

Qin Shu was caught off guard when she heard such straightforward dirty words of violence. Her face reddened from choking on the water and she coughed incessantly. It took a while for her to calm down. “You must be insane!”

“Yes, only you can cure my insanity.” The man’s low, deep and seductive voice came from the other end of the phone, mixed with a faint smiling tone.

So he was calling to flirt with her!

Qin Shu sneered, then said in an incomparably gentle tone, “Alright, I have a small pair of scissors. With only one move, I guarantee that you will never forget it and will never get mad again.”

Ling Mohan’s face darkened. “How dare you!”

“There’s nothing I don’t dare to do,” Qin Shu said provocatively, then leisurely drank another mouthful of water. “Stop saying those dirty words, why are you calling me?”

The man on the other end of the phone went silent for two seconds and then said, “Turn on the video.”

Qin Shu was puzzled. “Why?”

Ling Mohan said confidently, “I want to see you.”

Qin Shu, “…”

Her cheeks heated up inexplicably again, and she muttered, “We see each other every day, what’s more there to see?”

They weren’t passionate lovers who would feel like three years had passed when they didn’t see each other for only one day. She didn’t understand what this bastard meant!

Even so, Qin Shu still turned on the video. And soon, Ling Mohan’s handsome and cold face appeared on the screen of her phone. At the same time, the waves of soldiers’ valiant roars of high morale came from the video.

Qin Shu couldn’t help but rise the corners of her mouth, but she pretended to say unhappily, “See? I’m still me. I won’t become anybody else.”

“Hmm.” Ling Mohan stared at her with a burning and focused gaze.

Even though they were on each other’s phone screen, Qin Shu could still feel the heat on Ling Mohan, as if even her phone were boiling hot. She said somewhat unnaturally, “I’ll hang up if you don’t have anything to say.”

“Don’t hang up.” Ling Mohan’s face became clouded. He hadn’t seen enough of Little Qin Shu’s face. “When do you get off work? I’ll pick you up.”

“No need. I have an appointment for dinner tonight. You won’t see me even if you come over.”

“Who is it? A man or a woman? Where will you have dinner?” Ling Mohan asked three questions in one breath like he was a policeman who was investigating her household registration. And he acted very dominantly.

Qin Shu disliked this attitude of his the most. It made her feel like she was a prisoner. He was too distrustful of her!

All of a sudden, the little joy hidden deep within her heart disappeared.

Qin Shu curled her red lips and said slowly, “What difference does it make whether it’s a man or a woman? We’ll just have a dinner anyway.”

Ling Mohan knew well of Qin Shu. Every time she revealed such an attractive smile, not a single word that she said would be true.

In other words, Little Qin Shu and that person wouldn’t just have a dinner, what else did she want to do?

Ling Mohan’s innate suspicious character and the experience he acquired from the dangerous military life made him develop a suspicious attitude towards everyone and everything around him, just like he was worried about Qin Shu now.

Moreover, Qin Shu had a record of lying, and her ability to speak nonsense almost deceived him!

If it weren’t for the fact that her ex-boyfriend Qi Mingran was involved, Ling Mohan would believe that Qin Shu and Ji Chen were married because they loved each other. So it wasn’t unreasonable for him to suspect Qin Shu now.

For so many years, Ling Mohan had met all kinds of women. They were either lively girls, gentle ladies, elegant, intellectual, or sexy women, but Little Qin Shu was the only one who had made him worry about her so much ever since she was young.

As for the other women, regardless of whether they were arranged by his superiors intentionally or unintentionally, or they were female spies who intended to seduce him, Ling Mohan was unwilling to spend the slightest bit of time on them other than what his mission might require.

If anyone knew that the Ling Mohan who was always ruthless was now actually guessing where Qin Shu would have dinner and whom she would go with, they would probably be shocked.

Ling Mohan frowned and asked unhappily, “Did Qi Mingran ask you out to dinner? Or there are some other men with evil intentions?”

“Why do you firmly believe that it was a man who asked me out to dinner?” Qin Shu was also unhappy.

“Because you’re beautiful.”

“…”

“They will definitely be attracted to you.”

Qin Shu stared at the man’s displeased face on the screen and suddenly couldn’t hold back and laughed.

But soon she raised the corners of her eyes, rolled her beautiful eyes around, opened her red lips slightly to bite her lower lips, and smiled sweetly. “Well, Colonel, will you be attracted to me?”

Ling Mohan suddenly narrowed his eyes and stared at Qin Shu’s bright red lips.

Her lips were plump, soft, and sweet to kiss. He just couldn’t get enough of kisses with her.

He had kissed her so many times, and he knew well how good her lips tasted.

The man’s gaze was sharp and deep. He moved his gaze down from her red lips and slowly swept across her fair neck. Through the slightly open collar of her shirt, he could vaguely see her exquisite collarbone.

Even though he couldn’t see her skin under her clothes, he still clearly remembered that there was a kiss mark he had personally left there.

Neither of them spoke.

It turned out that he really wasn’t attracted to her. The only one who could attract him was probably the lady of ice in the photo, right?

Qin Shu looked at Ling Mohan’s expressionless face with a stiff smile. She took the initiative to find a way to save herself from an awkward situation and shrugged. “Alright, I still have work to do. I’ll tell you the truth.”

She said in a relaxed tone as if nothing were on her mind, “It’s Su Xiaoya, not any other man.”

“OK.” Ling Mohan stared into Qin Shu’s eyes and confirmed that she wasn’t lying this time. Only then did he nod reluctantly to agree.

In fact, he had wanted to go back to have dinner Qin Shu cooked tonight. Since this plan wouldn’t work now, he should just stay in the army and have the three newly joined special forces soldiers do some extra training!

Behind him, the new special forces soldiers who were training intensely suddenly felt their backs run cold. They always felt that the cold colonel, their military instructor in front of them, would throw them into the hell-level training mode.

After hanging up the video call, Qin Shu always felt that something was wrong.

When she left the office, she recalled the video call with Ling Mohan and felt that what they were talking about was especially meaningless.

They weren’t young lovers in love who would hold their phones to chat about nonsense all day long. It was too strange for them to say those words.

Qin Shu patted her cheeks and left those unrealistic thoughts all behind. She called Su Xiaoya and asked her to come pick her up.

Recently, Su Xiaoya was busy with her work at the magazine and Qin Shu was recuperating.

The two of them only met and chatted for a while at the banquet last night, so they decided to arrange a good dinner and talk tonight.

“Hey, darling.” Su Xiaoya drove her colorful convertible sports car and stopped in front of Qin Shu with a sharp break. “How is it? Isn’t my drifting skill pretty good?”

“I’ll say yes as long as you are happy.” Qin Shu shrugged, pulled open the car door and sat into the car.

Su Xiaoya sighed and said with complaint, “It’s all Xia Lun’s fault, he didn’t teach me well.”

“Xia Lun?” Qin Shu raised her eyebrows. “Since when did you two get so familiar? He even taught you how to play with cars?”

“No, I’m not familiar with him. I just bumped into him two days ago when I was buying a car.” Su Xiaoya shook her head. “He knows my relationship with you, so he helped me pick out the car. Then I saw him play the drifting during the test drive. He was really skilled. Is he a pilot in the army? I feel like he can drive at the speed of an airplane!”

Qin Shu smiled. She could imagine how unrestrained Xia Lun looked when he was drifting.

That fellow was unrestrained and natural. Not to mention driving a car, he would probably be able to drive even tanks with different tricks.

Qin Shu glanced at Su Xiaoya and silently matched Xia Lun’s appearance with Su Xiaoya’s in her mind. It seemed that they were quite suitable for each other.

“Xia Lun is nice. If you really like drifting, let him teach you when he has time,” Qin Shu said and pretended that she was just mentioning him unintentionally. “Then you can treat him to a meal and thank him.”

Su Xiaoya pondered for two seconds and nodded. “Alright.”

Then the two of Qin Shu and Su Xiaoya went straight to the Guxuanzhai restaurant on the East Lincheng Road.

This was an antique private restaurant. Only twenty tables were available for appointment every day, and only VIPs were allowed to enter. Moreover, the guests had to reserve a seat half a month in advance. Ordinary people wouldn’t even find this place.

After Su Xiaoya parked the car, Qin Shu was about to get out when Su Xiaoya suddenly pulled her back. “Quick, quick, get down! Get down!”