Chapter 68: The Fourth Female Lead
By the time Long Qinxin recovered from her joy, a considerable amount of time had passed. The already dim sky grew darker, and the students holding umbrellas downstairs became fewer and fewer.
She realized that she and Lu Zhiyin still needed to find the Principal.
“Ah… Sorry, classmate Zhiyin, I got too happy and forgot about our important business.”
Apologizing sheepishly, Long Qinxin pushed the wheelchair and quickened her pace towards the Principal’s office.
Soon, they arrived in front of the Principal’s office.
The wooden door, painted a glossy brown, looked smooth and not old, completely unlike the old iron doors of the student classrooms.
Looking through the peephole of the wooden door, they could see the Principal sitting at his desk, processing documents on his computer.
The Principal of this school was a typical middle-aged man with a potbelly. He wasn’t vulgar, but he was somewhat disgusting.
His hair was still quite thick, and he was dressed respectably in a suit that looked expensive.
Of course, Lu Zhiyin, having played the game, knew what kind of person this Principal was in private.
Outside the door, Lu Zhiyin hesitated; she didn’t dare to knock.
Long Qinxin found herself in the same predicament. Although she had finally shown some rare assertiveness for Lu Zhiyin in front of Leng Qing Qiu, her inherent timidity remained unchanged.
Thus, the two girls stood outside the office for quite a while.
“What are you two doing?”
A crisp girl’s voice cut through the barrier of rain and reached Lu Zhiyin’s ears.
Lu Zhiyin turned her head, and her eyes fell upon a tall girl with pink hair and black eyes.
She had a high ponytail, and a black bow at the back of her head was very conspicuous. She exuded energy.
She was, of course, wearing the blue and white school uniform. However, while the school uniform looked bulky and unattractive on most students, it appeared neat and tidy on this girl.
Lu Zhiyin was slightly stunned as she looked at the girl in front of her.
She recognized the girl; her name was Zhu. In the game, she was the fourth female lead, the librarian, and also the Principal’s daughter.
Her hobby was body painting, and she always carried markers of various colors. Lu Zhiyin didn’t know much more than that.
“Uh, ah… We, we were caught violating school rules, so we’re being detained after school.”
Although she didn’t know why Lu Zhiyin was spacing out, Long Qinxin summoned the courage to step forward and answer the girl’s question.
“Detained after school?”
After receiving the reply, Zhu Qing crossed her arms, touched her chin, and appeared to be deep in thought.
“It’s fine, you don’t have to be detained. You can go home now.”
She knew her father’s character and that he had behaved inappropriately towards some of the pretty girls at school.
Although, as the daughter of that man, Zhu Qing couldn’t bring herself to report him to the police, she still wanted to protect her classmates to the best of her ability.
Moreover, the two girls standing at her father’s office door right now were quite cute. Especially the white-haired one, who was in a wheelchair; she looked truly pitiful.
If she allowed these two to be taken advantage of by her father, she would feel very guilty.
“…Ah?”
Still a bit dazed, Lu Zhiyin let out a sound.
“What ‘ah’? Hurry up and go. It’s getting late, and the sky will be dark soon if you don’t leave.”
Leaning against the corridor railing, Zhu Qing looked at the overcast sky and urged Long Qinxin and Lu Zhiyin to leave.
“Okay, okay, we’re going now.”
Ultimately, it was Long Qinxin who responded to Zhu Qing. She pushed Lu Zhiyin’s wheelchair back to the classroom to get an umbrella, and then pushed Lu Zhiyin down the teaching building via the elevator.
After Lu Zhiyin and Long Qinxin left, Zhu Qing stopped leaning on the corridor railing and walked to her father’s office.
“That person… why does she feel a bit familiar?”
The image of the dazed disabled girl from earlier flashed in her mind. She felt as if she had seen her somewhere before.
“It must be my imagination.”
Thinking this, Zhu Qing knocked on the door.
“The door isn’t locked, come in.”
Soon, the middle-aged man inside spoke.
After the man’s voice fell, Zhu Qing pushed the door open and entered the room. She looked at the man sitting behind the desk.
“Father, it’s time to close shop and go home.”
After reminding the man about the end of his workday, Zhu Qing left the office. Frankly speaking, because of what her father had done, she felt a little disgusted with him and didn’t want to talk to him much, nor did she have much communication with him in daily life.
The middle-aged man sitting behind the desk looked up when he heard his daughter’s voice, but all he saw was an empty corridor and the open office door. The sound of a girl’s footsteps could be heard in the distance.
The man touched his head; he was used to this situation.
Although his daughter didn’t really like him, at least she still reminded him to go home, right?
Thinking this, the wicked middle-aged man got up from his chair, shut down his computer, and left the office.
Everyone, good or bad, has a weakness. This middle-aged man’s weakness was probably his daughter.
The father and daughter, with their slightly strange way of interacting, left the teaching building one after another and started their journey home.
At the same time, Long Qinxin pushed Lu Zhiyin to the bottom of the teaching building.
After exiting the elevator, they didn’t immediately step into the rain but paused under the eaves.
Long Qinxin looked at the heavy rain outside, then at the umbrella in her hand, and then at Lu Zhiyin’s wheelchair. She began to struggle.
She felt that she couldn’t hold an umbrella while pushing a wheelchair.
“Um, I’ll hold the umbrella. Classmate Long Qinxin, please push my wheelchair for me.”
Turning her head, Lu Zhiyin took the umbrella from Long Qinxin’s hand and struggled to open it.
The umbrella wasn’t very large, and the space was not generous.
If they were bothered by their posture, they might not be able to get through the rain safely.
“Um, classmate Long Qinxin, can you come closer to me?”
As she said this, Lu Zhiyin raised the umbrella as high as possible.
Upon hearing Lu Zhiyin’s request, Long Qinxin was stunned for a moment, and then happily moved closer.
She slightly bent down, gripped the handles of the wheelchair with both hands, and rested her chin on Lu Zhiyin’s shoulder.
This posture was a bit awkward, but Long Qinxin was enjoying it.
She twitched her nose and smelled a scent from Lu Zhiyin in the air. She couldn’t quite pinpoint the fragrance, but she was sure it smelled very good.
Of course, this so-called scent was most likely due to Long Qinxin’s biased perception of Lu Zhiyin.
“Okay, let’s go.”
Slightly tilting her head, her face brushed against Long Qinxin’s hair, which tickled her.
Lu Zhiyin thought that Leng Qing Qiu was probably waiting impatiently at the school gate, but she didn’t mention that so-called childhood friend in front of Long Qinxin.
Because she knew that Long Qinxin and Leng Qing Qiu had some friction.
She was slowly learning the skill of observing others’ expressions and understanding their intentions.
