Chapter 19: Long Qinxin Visits
After agreeing with the villainous five, Long Qinxin continued to stand at the school gate, this time waiting for Lu Zhiyin.
Time ticked by, and more students arrived at school, but Lu Zhiyin was nowhere to be seen.
Long Qinxin wasn’t anxious nor worried about missing Lu Zhiyin.
After all, a wheelchair and the person pushing it were quite conspicuous in the crowd.
It wasn’t until she saw Leng Qing Qiu in the crowd that she became dejected.
The reason was that she only saw Leng Qing Qiu, not a trace of Lu Zhiyin.
“…”
Clenching her fists, her mind went blank for a moment. Long Qinxin couldn’t control herself. She pushed through the bothersome crowd and blocked Leng Qing Qiu’s path.
“Where is Zhiyin classmate?”
Before Leng Qing Qiu could speak, Long Qinxin asked first.
Despite disliking the person in front of her, her upbringing prevented her from grabbing Leng Qing Qiu’s collar.
This also allowed Leng Qing Qiu to save face, and she didn’t attack Long Qinxin.
“She took a leave of absence.”
Touching her collar, Leng Qing Qiu looked coldly at the girl in front of her, who was much shorter than her.
“Took… took a leave of absence? Is she sick again? Or injured?”
Clenching her fists and looking at Leng Qing Qiu, Long Qinxin’s mind became more chaotic.
“No.”
Shaking her head, Leng Qing Qiu looked at Long Qinxin, who was looking down with a worried expression.
A faintly smiling expression appeared on Leng Qing Qiu’s lips.
Although she was smiling, her mood was not good at all. Long Qinxin’s relationship with her childhood friend was indeed a bit too close.
“She is not sick, nor injured. She simply doesn’t want to come.”
Shaking her head, Leng Qing Qiu began to walk forward slowly.
“She dislikes you and doesn’t want to see you, so she’s temporarily not planning to come to school.”
She said this as she walked.
“Your parents are monsters that hide in the dark, and you are their daughter, a little monster. Being with you will only make others think you are a monster’s friend. She is already a bit eccentric due to her physical condition, and your appearance will only make her feel worse.”
“Please stop bothering my girlfriend, okay?”
As she finished speaking, Leng Qing Qiu gently shoved Long Qinxin.
The black-haired girl tilted to one side due to her push, and passersby pushed her further to the other side one after another.
Long Qinxin only stabilized herself on the street after the crowd had entered the school gate.
“…”
She remained silent, without a word.
She didn’t believe Leng Qing Qiu’s words, but a vague fear always lingered in her heart.
She was afraid that Lu Zhiyin truly disliked her.
The word “monster” struck a raw nerve for Long Qinxin. Turning around, she gazed at the school gate and, after a moment of thought, decided not to return to school.
She was going to find Lu Zhiyin.
She thought that Lu Zhiyin was probably just imprisoned by Leng Qing Qiu, and her mind was confused. For Leng Qing Qiu, any malicious thought seemed not improper.
After standing outside the school gate for a long time, Leng Qinxin began to walk towards Lu Zhiyin’s home along the path she remembered, until the school bell rang for the end of class.
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“Mmm… mmm…”
Meanwhile, at Leng Qing Qiu’s home, Lu Zhiyin slowly regained consciousness.
Her head ached terribly, and her body felt numb and sore.
This was probably the worst night she had spent since coming to this world. Although she didn’t have a nightmare, waking up felt no different from a nightmare.
“…Hiss…”
Slowly stretching her body, Lu Zhiyin supported her forehead and slowly sat up.
She moved her injured hand from her leg.
There was a bloody handprint on her blue and white school pants, and her own palm was covered in dried blood.
Of course, what was even more striking was the exposed pink flesh in her pitted palm.
These wounds had not scabbed over yet, which was somewhat unsettling to look at.
“What time… is it now…?”
Sitting dazedly below the coffee table for a while, Lu Zhiyin managed to crawl out from under it with some difficulty.
Sitting on the floor in the center of the living room, she looked around confusedly. Her dried blood stuck to the tiles near the center of the living room. There was no smell of blood.
Beside the coffee table, the blood-stained ceramic shards were still the same as last night.
Through the window, Lu Zhiyin realized it was probably morning.
Leng Qing Qiu had likely gone to school.
“…”
Silently, Lu Zhiyin looked elsewhere.
The bedroom door was tightly shut, and without a key, Lu Zhiyin couldn’t even enter the bedroom to get her phone.
Her wheelchair was placed near the storage room, several meters away from her.
Fortunately, the wheelchair had not been overturned, so Lu Zhiyin still had a chance to climb back into it.
Gently touching her palm, Lu Zhiyin began to crawl towards the wheelchair beside the storage room.
Once she finally got back into the wheelchair, she had to start thinking about other troublesome matters.
The bloodstains on the ground needed to be wiped up, the blood-stained ceramic shards needed to be cleaned, and the breakfast problem had not been solved either.
“…Sigh…”
Sighing, Lu Zhiyin, whose body was still full of fatigue, had no choice but to begin a busy day.
After Lu Zhiyin woke up, Long Qinxin had already run to the outside of the house where Lu Zhiyin used to live.
“Huff… huff… huff…”
With her hands on her knees, Long Qinxin was panting heavily.
She had run all the way from the school gate without stopping, so it was inevitable that she was a bit tired.
After a brief rest of about ten seconds, Long Qinxin raised her head, and what greeted her eyes was the slightly ajar door.
Having a bad premonition, Long Qinxin stood up straight. She walked slowly to the door and gently pushed it open.
What met her eyes next was an extremely messy living room. It was clear that no one lived there anymore.
Long Qinxin tried pressing the light switch, but the lights in the living room didn’t respond at all.
“There’s no electricity anymore either?”
Muttering to herself, Long Qinxin decided not to go further into the house.
She thought that Lu Zhiyin should be at Leng Qing Qiu’s house by now.
Leaving Lu Zhiyin’s messy house, Long Qinxin looked across the street at Leng Qing Qiu’s home.
She crossed the road and arrived at the door.
Raising her hand, she hesitated for a moment.
Should she really knock? Was Lu Zhiyin really inside? Or, even if she was inside, would she open the door for her?
In a short time, many questions flashed through Long Qinxin’s mind.
However, she finally knocked on the door.
The rapid knocking of “Knock, knock, knock” echoed.
Inside the house, Lu Zhiyin was awkwardly controlling the wheelchair with one hand and struggling to hold a broom to clean the ceramic shards on the ground with the other.
Hearing the rapid knocking, she felt confused.
Logically, Leng Qing Qiu shouldn’t be back at this time, should she?
Considering that this was ultimately a galgame world, Lu Zhiyin didn’t reply immediately. Perhaps it was someone knocking on the wrong door?
Thinking this, Lu Zhiyin put down the broom and walked slowly towards the door.
