Chapter 20: Invite Long Qinxin into the House
Controlling the wheelchair to the door, Lu Zhiyin stopped behind the door, motionless. Due to her height, she couldn’t see through the peephole.
The urgent knocking continued non-stop. Through the crack in the door, Lu Zhiyin could see the soles of sports shoes.
Judging by the shoe soles, the shoe size shouldn’t be large. The person outside should be a female?
Making this judgment, Lu Zhiyin was still a bit worried, as women could also pose a threat.
She squinted her eyes. After a few more minutes, the knocking continued. Seeing that she couldn’t fool anyone, Lu Zhiyin finally spoke.
“What is it? Are you looking for Leng Qing Qiu?”
She spoke hesitantly, her voice not loud or sharp, not to cause displeasure.
“…Huu…”
Hearing Lu Zhiyin’s reply, Long Qinxin let out a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, her friend was really here.
If Leng Qing Qiu had hidden Lu Zhiyin elsewhere, Long Qinxin would truly be helpless.
“It’s me, classmate Zhiyin, can you open the door?”
Her tone was somewhat gentle, and Long Qinxin believed Lu Zhiyin would open the door for her.
“…Classmate Qin Xin?”
Hearing Long Qinxin’s voice outside the door, Lu Zhiyin instinctively placed her hand on the doorknob. Before opening the door, she suddenly hesitated again.
Leng Qing Qiu’s house contained a lot of evidence of her crimes. If Long Qinxin saw it… only one of them would likely survive between Long Qinxin and Leng Qing Qiu.
Long Qinxin hated Leng Qing Qiu, so if she knew about Leng Qing Qiu’s crimes, she would definitely send Leng Qing Qiu to prison.
Given Leng Qing Qiu’s number of killings and their severity, a death sentence was practically a certainty.
And if Leng Qing Qiu knew that Long Qinxin had discovered this evidence, Leng Qing Qiu would definitely find a way to kill Long Qinxin.
Among the two female leads, Lu Zhiyin did not want anything to happen to Long Qinxin. Although she disliked Leng Qing Qiu and wanted her brought to justice, she hadn’t succeeded in winning her over yet, so she couldn’t let her go to prison.
Lu Zhiyin thought, she couldn’t let Long Qinxin into the house.
As she was thinking this, outside the house, Long Qinxin’s heart grew cold.
Since she recognized me, why is she still not opening the door?
Taking out the old phone she carried when she left the house, Long Qinxin checked the time.
About fifteen minutes had passed since she started knocking.
“…Classmate Zhiyin… do you really hate me…?”
Her voice was very soft, like floating willow catkins, as if it could be dispersed by the wind at any moment.
Long Qinxin remembered what Leng Qing Qiu had said to her earlier.
“Ah… no, no such thing.”
Inside the house, startled by Long Qinxin’s voice, Lu Zhiyin hurriedly shook her head.
“Then why won’t you let me in… yesterday… I waited for you for a long time…”
Her voice was filled with fatigue and confusion, but not resentment. Listening to the girl’s words, Lu Zhiyin’s heart ached.
She looked around the house again. The doors to the bedroom and storage room were tightly locked. The living room and kitchen seemed to have nothing shameful.
“…Are you ignoring me? Then I’m leaving…”
Long Qinxin’s dispirited voice came through. It was predictable that if she let Long Qinxin leave like this, her favorability would plummet.
In a moment of panic, Lu Zhiyin gritted her teeth and opened the door.
The cold air from the street rushed in, and at the same time, Long Qinxin’s back came into Lu Zhiyin’s view.
After hesitating for two seconds, Lu Zhiyin simply controlled her wheelchair to move forward two meters, went outside, and hugged Long Qinxin from behind.
“No, I’m not ignoring you. I just have a cold and feel a bit dizzy, so my thinking is a bit slow.”
Making up a clumsy excuse, Lu Zhiyin tried to rub her face against Long Qinxin’s back.
“…Mm…”
Feeling the touch behind her, Long Qinxin was a little flustered, and after the fluster, she felt relieved.
Her only friend didn’t dislike her, which was undoubtedly something to be happy about.
Turning around, Long Qinxin hugged Lu Zhiyin.
After a long hug, Long Qinxin reluctantly let go of Lu Zhiyin.
Only then did she have the chance to look at the girl in front of her.
The girl’s hair was messy, and it was even stained with goji berries and dried rice grains?
Her school uniform also had some ugly brown stains and was wrinkled in some areas.
The girl’s beautiful white long hair had also changed color a bit. Long Qinxin tentatively sniffed the girl in front of her.
A somewhat strange smell entered her nostrils, masking the faint scent the girl originally had.
Long Qinxin frowned slightly.
“…Ah, ah… well, I accidentally spilled food on myself and forgot to clean it up. Sorry…”
In a panic, Lu Zhiyin backed her wheelchair away, patted her clothes, and randomly tidied her hair with her fingers, brushing off the rice grains.
“Ha, it’s okay.”
Seeing Lu Zhiyin’s flustered appearance, Long Qinxin smiled.
She wouldn’t dislike Lu Zhiyin.
Walking around Lu Zhiyin into the house, the dried bloodstain in the living room was particularly conspicuous.
Long Qinxin’s heart sank.
As she expected, Leng Qing Qiu had done something to Lu Zhiyin.
“Ah… that’s because I accidentally fell and it landed on broken ceramic pieces. It’s nothing.”
Noticing Long Qinxin’s gaze, Lu Zhiyin quickly explained.
While explaining, she entered the house and closed the door casually.
“…”
Long Qinxin didn’t reply. Instead, she paced around the living room on her own.
She stopped by the coffee table and looked at the blood-stained broken ceramic pieces on the ground and the broom that was carelessly discarded.
She wouldn’t believe Lu Zhiyin’s story.
“Um, sit on the sofa for a bit. I’ll go get you a glass of water.”
Touching her head, Lu Zhiyin controlled her wheelchair towards the kitchen.
Before she could reach the kitchen door, Long Qinxin stood up and blocked her.
“It’s okay… I’m not thirsty.”
Looking at Lu Zhiyin, who looked guilty, Long Qinxin pondered for a moment, then squatted down, cradled Lu Zhiyin’s hand, and squeezed her palm.
“Mmm…”
Lu Zhiyin’s face immediately contorted.
Long Qinxin then turned Lu Zhiyin’s hand over and meticulously examined the gruesome wounds.
“These were also caused by accidentally pressing them on the ceramic pieces…”
Before Long Qinxin could ask, Lu Zhiyin had already learned to answer preemptively.
“…Then why aren’t they bandaged?”
Looking at Lu Zhiyin in front of her, Long Qinxin asked softly, but her voice was remarkably firm.
Looking at the girl in front of her, Long Qinxin hesitated for a moment, then boldly lifted Lu Zhiyin’s top.
“This was also caused by ceramic pieces?”
She touched the bloodstain that ran across Lu Zhiyin’s waist and abdomen.
“…”
This time, Lu Zhiyin really didn’t know how to play dumb anymore.
“They were all done by Leng Qing Qiu, that bastard… Why lie?”
Long Qinxin hugged Lu Zhiyin.
She felt she had done too many bold things today. She wouldn’t have dared to lift Lu Zhiyin’s clothes or hug her before.
