Chapter 40: So, what is the price?
“Mmm… mmm…”
When Leng Qing Qiu returned home, the first thing she saw was a girl lying on her side on the bed, curled up in a small ball, making muffled groans.
“…”
Leng Qing Qiu said nothing, she just stared coldly at Lu Zhi Yin in front of her.
The pepper spray had blinded Leng Qing Qiu for a short time, and she stumbled blindly on the street for a long time until her vision recovered.
Why did Long Qin Xin prepare pepper spray in advance? Why couldn’t her knife penetrate her body? Why did she react so quickly, as if prepared?
Without even thinking, all of this was related to Lu Zhi Yin.
“Hoo… hoo…”
Anger simmered in her heart. She didn’t understand why Lu Zhi Yin insisted on Long Qin Xin living! The words Lu Zhi Yin had said to her last night about always accompanying her were probably all false.
Leng Qing Qiu thought that Long Qin Xin was much more important to this person than she was.
“…Hmph… Haha…”
Laughing in anger, Leng Qing Qiu ignored Lu Zhi Yin on the bed for the moment. She clenched her fists and went to look through Lu Zhi Yin’s phone.
In Lu Zhi Yin’s Qiuqiu chat records, Leng Qing Qiu saw how she had warned Long Qin Xin.
Casually throwing the phone onto the sofa, Leng Qing Qiu walked into the kitchen.
She washed the spray from her face repeatedly with cold water, and the words Lu Zhi Yin had spoken to her last night replayed in her mind.
All lies, Leng Qing Qiu knew that what she had done to Lu Zhi Yin could not be forgiven, but she still believed Lu Zhi Yin’s lies.
Despite having deceived countless people and seen through countless lies, why was she still deceived by Lu Zhi Yin?
Leng Qing Qiu touched her chest.
She had probably been lonely for too long.
Narrowing her eyes, Leng Qing Qiu returned to the living room and looked at the bloody piles of flesh and the bloodstains all over the ground, a complex emotion arose in her heart.
“…”
Silently, she began to clean up the remains in the room.
She put a pot on to boil water, threw the meat pieces into the pot to stew, then found a snake-skin bag and put the cooked remains in it.
The aroma of meat, which she hadn’t smelled in a while, filled the room.
Leng Qing Qiu stood in the kitchen, staring blankly at the steaming pressure cooker, the scene of dismembering and stewing the white-haired girl flashing through her mind.
This thought lingered in her mind for a long time, until the pressure cooker began to whistle, and Leng Qing Qiu snapped back to reality.
She clenched her fists again.
“…”
She would not kill Lu Zhi Yin, at least not now.
She thought she really needed someone to accompany her.
She couldn’t kill her, but there were many ways to torment people. Didn’t Lu Zhi Yin like to see Long Qin Xin? Then let her crawl to see that detestable woman.
Leng Qing Qiu quickly came up with a way to torment Lu Zhi Yin, but she was in no hurry. Instead, she first focused on dealing with the accumulated body parts in the house.
Time ticked by, and there were indeed many body parts in the living room. By the time Leng Qing Qiu had cooked them all and put them into snake-skin bags, and also cleaned up the bloodstains in the living room, the sun had completely set.
“…”
Throwing the last bag of meat pieces next to the trash can in the kitchen, Leng Qing Qiu washed her hands.
She walked into the bedroom without a word.
In the bedroom, Lu Zhi Yin was still sleeping soundly, her forehead slightly furrowed, as if having a nightmare.
Leng Qing Qiu thought that she was indeed about to experience a nightmare.
…
“Ah… hiss…”
Lu Zhi Yin woke up in pain.
She clutched her forehead and slowly opened her eyes, seeing Leng Qing Qiu standing straight beside the bed.
Lu Zhi Yin didn’t say much, just stared blankly at the tall girl in front of her.
The girl’s eyes were a little red, and there was some unwashed red paint on her face. Her eyes were also dimmer than usual.
Turning her head silently, Lu Zhi Yin saw what Leng Qing Qiu had used to wake her up.
Her phone.
Leng Qing Qiu had gently thrown her phone at Lu Zhi Yin’s temple, and then it fell to the ground, a thin crack extending from the corner of the screen.
Of course, what was more eye-catching than these cracks was the content of the phone.
It was what Lu Zhi Yin had said to remind Long Qin Xin.
“…”
Looking up, Lu Zhi Yin silently looked at Leng Qing Qiu’s expression again.
Her expression was very calm. Based on past experience, she should be brewing anger at this moment.
If nothing else went wrong, Long Qin Xin should have survived.
Lu Zhi Yin breathed a sigh of relief, briefly forgetting the pain in her forehead and the cracked phone on the floor.
“You like Long Qin Xin very much.”
Without waiting for any questions, the blunt words came out of Leng Qing Qiu’s mouth, startling Lu Zhi Yin from her brief happiness.
She grabbed Lu Zhi Yin’s hair and pulled it upwards.
“Mmm…”
With a muffled groan, the girl’s face showed an expression of pain, completely opposite to the calmness of last night.
As Leng Qing Qiu pulled Lu Zhi Yin up, the quilt slipped off the girl’s smooth shoulder, revealing her bare upper body.
The white bandage on her waist was particularly conspicuous; it was she who had wrapped it around the girl with her own hands last night.
At this moment, Leng Qing Qiu felt only disappointment towards Lu Zhi Yin. Why disappointment? She herself didn’t quite know.
“Get dressed yourself.”
Throwing the long skirt that she had taken off the girl last night onto the ground, Leng Qing Qiu also pushed Lu Zhi Yin onto the cold ceramic tiles.
She stood there, indifferently watching the bare-chested girl, without any pity.
“…Mm…”
With a soft “mm,” Lu Zhi Yin, who was now fully awake, obediently put on her clothes.
Long Qin Xin successfully escaped from Lu Zhi Yin’s clutches, so, what was the price?
It was predictable that Leng Qing Qiu’s anger would not be easily vented.
Slowly putting on her skirt, Lu Zhi Yin slumped onto the cold ceramic tiles. She raised her head and extended her hand to Leng Qing Qiu.
“You’re very angry, right? It’s okay, you can do whatever you want to me, as long as you don’t hurt innocent people anymore.”
She closed her eyes slightly, and speaking these words exhausted almost all her courage.
She was in terrible pain. The reason she said this was simply because she would be beaten anyway, so instead of being beaten for nothing, she might as well try to gain some favor.
Well… I hope this ridiculous behavior can win a little bit of favor…
“…Ridiculous.”
Looking at the girl who had fallen into a daze after extending her hand, Leng Qing Qiu muttered softly to herself. She shook her head and took Lu Zhi Yin’s hand.
Then, she dragged the girl outside.
Being dragged without any gentleness, Lu Zhi Yin’s arm was almost dislocated. Fortunately, the floor inside was tiled, so her body wouldn’t be too uncomfortable from friction.
And what came next would not be so easy to endure.
“You like Long Qin Xin, don’t you? Then crawl. Crawl to her house, and I won’t bother her or you anymore.”
Kicking Lu Zhi Yin’s forearm with her foot, causing Lu Zhi Yin to fall onto her face, prostrate on the rough road outside, Leng Qing Qiu watched the extremely pathetic girl with cold eyes.
Author’s Note: The bonus chapter reward ends today. A total of 45 bonus chapters are required, and 10 have been added. The remaining 35 chapters will be paid back later, no excuses. That’s all.
