Chapter 22: No Title
A slightly salty and fishy taste permeated her tongue and spread throughout her mouth. As she felt the girl’s delicate and soft skin, Long Qinxin froze.
After a while, she got up from behind Lu Zhiyin.
“That… that… I’m sorry… I don’t know what I was thinking… Ah… Anyway, I’m really sorry!”
Long Qinxin apologized stammeringly, lowering her head.
She regretted her impulsive actions.
She didn’t know what was wrong with her, doing so many inappropriate things in one day.
“…”
Lu Zhiyin said nothing, only touched her neck. A warm liquid stained her fingertips. Feeling the weight on her body, Lu Zhiyin’s mind was still a little fuzzy.
She leaned her hands on the sofa, resting her back against the armrest, which gave her a slight sense of security.
Thinking on the bright side, it was just a bite, not something more, which was not bad, right?
Trying to comfort herself, Lu Zhiyin forced herself to ignore the ambiguous actions from just now.
Long Qinxin, sitting on her, fidgeted with her hands nervously. She secretly looked up to observe Lu Zhiyin’s face, trying to decipher the girl’s mood from her expression.
It seemed Lu Zhiyin wasn’t angry?
Drawing this conclusion from Lu Zhiyin’s expression, Long Qinxin still didn’t dare to look up openly, only daring to steal glances at her.
“…”
Lu Zhiyin looked at the bowed Long Qinxin with a somewhat complex gaze.
Now, the girl in front of her looked like a child who had made a mistake and was waiting for parental or teacher’s criticism.
Although the bite did hurt a little, Lu Zhiyin couldn’t bring herself to dislike Long Qinxin.
She gently stroked the small teeth marks on her neck and, after a moment of hesitation, Lu Zhiyin patted Long Qinxin’s head.
“It’s okay, it doesn’t hurt.”
She chose to forgive, even though Long Qinxin’s actions would cause her trouble later.
Lu Zhiyin knew very well how much trouble this teeth mark would bring her. If Leng Qing Qiu found out, she would be in big trouble.
But given the situation, what else could she do? Would blaming Long Qinxin make the existing marks disappear? Obviously not.
Instead of lowering the favorability of both female leads, it was better to lower it for just one.
Making this judgment, Lu Zhiyin began to think about how to cover the marks on her neck.
Fortunately, Long Qinxin bit at the base of her neck. As long as she zipped up the school uniform to the highest point, the teeth marks would be perfectly concealed.
But it was still troublesome because Lu Zhiyin wasn’t sure if Leng Qing Qiu would suddenly undress her on a whim. Leng Qing Qiu was quite capable of doing such things.
Feeling a bit worried, she even applied a little more force while stroking Long Qinxin’s head.
“Achoo…”
The cold wind blew on the exposed skin, which was bare because Long Qinxin had opened her school uniform, feeling a little chilly.
Lu Zhiyin sneezed.
“…”
Long Qinxin remained silent, raising her head. She looked at Lu Zhiyin, who was wiping her nose with her sleeve, and then at Lu Zhiyin’s exposed shoulder, feeling even more self-reproachful.
“I’m really sorry…”
Apologizing again, Long Qinxin took the initiative to tidy Lu Zhiyin’s clothes.
She put the school uniform back in order. As she withdrew her hand, she inadvertently touched the spot where she had left her teeth marks.
“…”
Pressing her lips together, Long Qinxin sat obediently beside Lu Zhiyin.
“You don’t have to apologize, it really doesn’t hurt.”
Shaking her head, Lu Zhiyin pushed herself up from the sofa. She sat on the edge of the sofa and squeezed Long Qinxin’s hand.
“Are you hungry, student Qinxin? Shall I find something for you to eat?”
Saying that, Lu Zhiyin reached for the wheelchair.
She avoided mentioning the incident of being bitten, partly to distract Long Qinxin, and partly because she herself was so hungry her stomach was sticking to her back.
Well, what Long Qinxin had done to Lu Zhiyin clearly crossed the line of friendship. Lu Zhiyin didn’t know how to face feelings that had crossed that boundary for the time being.
She needed some time to process the strange emotions in her heart.
“Mmm…”
Long Qinxin let out a soft hum, also feeling a bit awkward.
Her feelings for Lu Zhiyin seemed to have truly surpassed friendship.
Otherwise, why would she have done such a ridiculous thing? Long Qinxin didn’t consider herself a pervert with strange fetishes.
“Then I’ll go to the kitchen? You rest here.”
Climbing onto the wheelchair with some difficulty, Lu Zhiyin fled the living room.
After Lu Zhiyin left, Long Qinxin gently touched her chest.
“Student Zhiyin…”
She hadn’t known Lu Zhiyin for long, but it seemed that every time she saw Lu Zhiyin, her heart fluttered with a strange excitement.
The girl in the wheelchair was so gentle, and her voice was always soft, making her naturally approachable.
She was always soft and did not seem to argue with anyone. When she was angry, she mostly just held it in and did not resort to physical or verbal abuse.
In Long Qinxin’s eyes, Lu Zhiyin seemed to have only merits. Perhaps this was love is blind, but undoubtedly, Long Qinxin had probably truly fallen for Lu Zhiyin.
“Student Zhiyin…”
Long Qinxin murmured to herself, unsure of how to handle this feeling. Would Lu Zhiyin like her?
She was too afraid to reveal her feelings, fearing that Lu Zhiyin would distance herself.
Feeling a bit dejected, she lay prone on the coffee table in the living room, trying her best to figure out how to face her feelings.
“…What exactly are her thoughts?”
Closing her eyes, Long Qinxin recalled every moment spent with Lu Zhiyin.
It seemed that whenever she made an inappropriate request, Lu Zhiyin would always acquiesce. Even after doing something so excessive just now, Lu Zhiyin hadn’t reprimanded her.
Biting her lower lip, Long Qinxin thought, why not confess?
The bold idea startled her as soon as it surfaced.
How could she have such a bold thought?
But after thinking about it carefully, it seemed… not impossible?
However, confessions were something to be approached with extreme caution. If the confession failed, they might not even be able to remain friends.
She thought that, no matter what, before confessing, she needed to clarify one thing: whether Leng Qing Qiu’s previous statement about Lu Zhiyin being her girlfriend was true.
Sitting on the sofa, waiting anxiously, Lu Zhiyin finally came out of the kitchen with food after tens of minutes.
She brought out the heated chicken soup and two bowls of rice. In reality, Lu Zhiyin hadn’t done much, just reheated the leftover rice and soup from the previous night.
Most of her time was spent processing the strange emotions in her heart.
“Let’s eat.”
Handing the chopsticks to Long Qinxin, Lu Zhiyin kept her head down, not looking at Long Qinxin’s face.
Her behavior made Long Qinxin even more uneasy.
“Um… student Zhiyin, can I ask you a question?”
Hesitantly, Long Qinxin finally asked her question.
