"Not yet..." Qiu Lingshan would never speak of Wei Zhao. That was her own private affair! Besides, Wei Zhao already had a girlfriend, so she could only count as the other woman at best... probably the fourth or fifth one at that, and it would be shameful even to say it aloud!

"Oh... not yet..." Hearing his granddaughter's words, Song Xiangwen felt relieved, and yet still a little disappointed!

His granddaughter was all grown up, yet still had no man she fancied. He had once thought the Chen boy might end up together with Qiu Lingshan. Although Song Xiangwen did not think highly of Chen Yutian, Chen Yutian was after all a man of the noble houses, so Song Xiangwen had never openly opposed it!

But things were no longer what they had been! Back then Qiu Lingshan had been only a mid Yellow Stage fighter, while Chen Yutian was at the early Yellow Stage, so the gap between them was not great, and Song Xiangwen could still accept it. Now, however, Qiu Lingshan was already a fighter of late Yellow Stage strength, and the gap with the early Yellow Stage was rather wide, so naturally Song Xiangwen was no longer willing to marry his granddaughter to Chen Yutian!

To call Song Xiangwen snobbish was in fact only natural. The hope of the Song family now seemed to rest upon Qiu Lingshan, yet no matter how her strength rose, in the end she would still marry out and become a woman of another house!

Thus Qiu Lingshan's strength could only become a bargaining chip for a marriage alliance between the Song family and the other houses! The stronger Qiu Lingshan was, the stronger the son-in-law they would naturally seek, and the greater the aid he could lend the Song family in time!

As long as the Song family could hold on until Qiu Lingshan's younger brother grew up, their standing could be preserved!

So Song Xiangwen wanted Qiu Lingshan to find a rather powerful man, one who could also look after her younger brother!

As things stood, Qiu Lingshan had no boyfriend, and Song Xiangwen felt some worry in his heart. He knew Qiu Lingshan's standards for choosing a partner well. If this went on, he feared only that Yu family scion who had never shown his face might possibly surpass Qiu Lingshan!

Among the noble houses, none of the younger generation was a match for Qiu Lingshan any longer!

"Grandpa, I broke through again! I am now at the peak of the late Yellow Stage!" Seeing her grandfather could not guess, Qiu Lingshan had to say it herself.

"Oh... you broke through again... What? Shanshan, what did you say? You say you broke through again? How is that possible?" Hearing Qiu Lingshan's words, Song Xiangwen stared with eyes wide in amazement! How could it be? If he remembered rightly, Qiu Lingshan's last breakthrough had happened only a few days ago!

Even that breakthrough a few days ago had left Song Xiangwen stunned for quite a while! He had never expected his granddaughter, so young, to already be a late Yellow Stage fighter, when he himself was only at the peak of the late Yellow Stage!

"Grandpa, you heard no wrong. I really have broken through the barrier once more, and now stand at the peak of the late Yellow Stage... moreover, at the Great Perfection of the peak of the late Yellow Stage, only one step away from the Profound Stage..." As Qiu Lingshan spoke, her heart felt both sweet and wistful!

A barrier that so many sought through bitter cultivation yet found out of reach had been forcibly broken through by Wei Zhao with such ease!

To Qiu Lingshan, Wei Zhao felt ever more mysterious, ever more powerful! As far as she knew, among the noble houses there were hardly any who could forcibly raise another person's strength, and even if there were, none could lift someone a whole level and still stand up talking as if nothing were the matter!

"What... you are already at the Great Perfection of the peak of the late Yellow Stage?" Hearing his granddaughter's words, Song Xiangwen was astounded beyond measure! He himself had yet to reach the Great Perfection of the peak of the late Yellow Stage, yet Qiu Lingshan already had?

"Grandpa, you need not doubt it. On a matter like this, I would never joke!" Qiu Lingshan said firmly.

"True... Shanshan, you never joke with Grandpa!" Song Xiangwen nodded and said with some excitement, "Shanshan, I never imagined you would become the pride of our Song family..."

"Grandpa, rest assured, I will surely work hard!" Qiu Lingshan said after a moment's hesitation. In her heart, though, she knew very well that no effort of her own could match the effect of Wei Zhao forcibly raising her!

"Mm... I know that too, but you are a girl, and in the end you must still marry. Yet with your strength, finding a scion of the noble houses even stronger than you will be difficult!" Song Xiangwen said with no small worry.

"Grandpa, I have said it before. My future husband must be stronger than me, a true man who stands tall and holds up the sky! On this point, I will absolutely never change!" Qiu Lingshan said decisively.

"This... very well, since you feel this way, I will not press you, but I will keep an eye out for you!" Song Xiangwen nodded, thinking to himself that this was also a good thing. If the man Qiu Lingshan found was even stronger than she was, that would be a good thing for the Song family as well.

"Grandpa... there is no need..." Qiu Lingshan said with a reddened face. In truth she already had someone she fancied, only her ties with him were rather tangled, and she did not yet wish to speak of it openly.

Given how dominant Wei Zhao was, Qiu Lingshan believed she could never meddle with Wei Zhao or change anything about him!

She could never make Wei Zhao abandon Tang Yun and the others to love her alone! To Qiu Lingshan, that was an impossible thing, something she did not even dare dream of! It was good enough if Wei Zhao did not bully her, let alone her making demands of Wei Zhao?

But for the eldest granddaughter of the Song family to be someone's third or fourth woman... if word of that got out, would she not become a laughingstock? Unless, of course, Wei Zhao possessed absolute power, enough to shut those people up while turning them to envy her, Qiu Lingshan, for being able to be Wei Zhao's third or fourth woman when others wished for the place and Wei Zhao would not even have them!

Wei Zhao... can you do it? Qiu Lingshan felt a flicker of anticipation.

She was not some shameless woman without pride. That she could set aside her dignity before Wei Zhao was because that was only a matter between the two of them, like flirtation between lovers. Since no outsider could see, it did not matter what happened.

But before outsiders, that would not do. Qiu Lingshan had her pride too, and she was a strong and deeply proud woman!

To Song Xiangwen, Qiu Lingshan's words sounded like coquetry! So he chuckled and said, "It is all right, I will keep a lookout for you... and see if there are any fine young talents!"

"All right, Grandpa, let us leave it there. I need a shower. I just broke through, and my body is soaked with sweat." Qiu Lingshan did not want to go on with this topic.

"Then go, hurry. With good news, you must tell Grandpa first thing!" Song Xiangwen hung up the phone cheerfully.

He was very happy. His granddaughter was his pride! Yet, like the heads of the other great families, Song Xiangwen suffered badly from favoring sons over daughters. He believed the family estate must be inherited by a son, and must not fall into the hands of an outsider!

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