Chapter 36: Long Qinxin, Pulled in Two Directions
As Long Qinxin came down from the stairs, Lu Zhiyin had already recovered.
She slowly sat up, propping herself up on the ground, looking at the monstrous figure with pale skin in front of her.
The rotten smell in the air seemed to come from the festering skin of the person in front of her. Lu Zhiyin suppressed the fear in her heart and carefully examined the person before her.
Looking at the outline of her pajamas, Lu Zhiyin could barely recognize that the person in front of her was a woman.
“You, you must be Qinxin’s mother?”
She swallowed, thinking about how to start the conversation.
“…”
The person in front of her said nothing, just trembled constantly, as if afraid.
Lu Zhiyin was at a loss for a moment.
Afraid of her? Why? She didn’t look aggressive.
She stared blankly at the pale figure in front of her. After a brief silence, she tried to speak again.
“Um, I’m Qinxin’s wife. We should be family, so there’s no need to be afraid of me.”
She waved at Long Qinxin’s mother.
Upon hearing that Lu Zhiyin was Long Qinxin’s wife, the pale figure in front of her seemed to be stimulated by something, suddenly raised her head, and stared at Lu Zhiyin with a pair of pitch-black eyes.
When Long Qinxin was not around, her mother and father could only feel loneliness living in this house. They once thought that Long Qinxin had also left them due to the accident that happened to them.
Before the chemical plant incident, Long Qinxin’s parents were the most dazzling rising stars in the family, but after that incident, they became monsters that everyone wanted to beat.
As if abandoned by the world, they even hated their own skin, hiding themselves in this small villa, unwilling to face the malicious eyes of the outside world.
They had been living in this villa for several years, tormented by their inferiority complex and fear of the outside world for several years. Maternal love seemed to have been buried by the various depressed emotions in their hearts, so much so that Long Qinxin’s mother felt anger rather than relief when she heard that Lu Zhiyin was Long Qinxin’s wife.
As the only daughter of her and her husband, and the only one who loved them, how could she not be angry that someone was going to take away her daughter’s love?
Anger and the fear of being forgotten in the future, of being completely forgotten, drove Long Qinxin’s mother to stand up.
She looked at Lu Zhiyin, who was slumped on the ground, stretched out her arms, and lunged at Lu Zhiyin, grabbing her by the neck.
Her fingernails, which had not been trimmed for a long time, scratched Lu Zhiyin’s delicate skin. The air, which was already filled with a foul smell, was now mixed with the smell of blood.
“Urgh… cough cough…”
Lu Zhiyin did not expect the woman, who had seemed timid, to suddenly attack. She was grabbed by the neck before she could react and fell backward.
The closer she got, the more clearly Lu Zhiyin could see the woman’s skin.
In some places, the wounds were extremely large, so large that she could see yellow fat.
The stinging pain and suffocation from her neck, combined with the stench lingering in her nose, made Lu Zhiyin feel nauseous.
She reached out to push Long Qinxin’s mother away. When her hands touched the woman’s thin shoulders, she couldn’t help but wonder if the person would feel pain with such festering skin.
The answer was undoubtedly yes. If she didn’t feel pain, the woman wouldn’t have almost lost her mind.
Her body, which had been tormented by illness for a long time, was too fragile, even weaker than Lu Zhiyin’s. The woman was easily pushed away by Lu Zhiyin.
“Ah… ah… ah…”
After being pushed away, the woman fell to the ground. She curled up again, hugging herself. Next to her, foul pus and blood dripped onto the clean ceramic tiles.
Looking at the woman covered in wounds, Lu Zhiyin had a strange premonition that the person in front of her was not long for this world.
This was not baseless. After all, the person in front of her, no matter how monstrous she looked, was still human.
“Mother… Zhiyin, you…”
Things happened too quickly, so much so that Long Qinxin didn’t have time to react. Her mother suddenly appeared, her wife suddenly fell to the ground, and her mother suddenly lunged at her wife and was pushed away by her wife.
Long Qinxin’s mind was in a mess.
She quickly walked between Lu Zhiyin and her mother.
Glancing at Lu Zhiyin, who was still covered in pus and blood, Long Qinxin pursed her lips. She finally chose to help her mother up first.
No matter what, her mother looked much more pathetic than Lu Zhiyin.
“Mom… are you okay? I’m sorry… I’m sorry I haven’t visited you lately.”
Looking at her mother’s festering skin, Long Qinxin realized that her mother’s skin disease had worsened to a very serious level.
If nothing unexpected happened, her father would not be any better.
Long Qinxin ignored the smell in the air. She hugged her mother, who was too frail from illness, and gently patted her back.
“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, I’m here, I’m here.”
She thought that Lu Zhiyin must have scared her mother. After getting the skin disease, her parents had always been timid.
“Daughter… daughter… it hurts… it hurts so much…”
Finally hugging her daughter after a long time and smelling her daughter’s scent, Long Qinxin’s mother finally felt at ease.
She hugged Long Qinxin tightly, sobbing, crying out in pain.
“It’s okay… it’s okay, I’ll call 120 and take you to the hospital immediately. Everything will be fine.”
“No… no, we can’t go to the hospital.”
When it came to leaving this place, Long Qinxin’s mother immediately showed resistance.
“…Ah, okay, okay, we won’t go to the hospital. I’ll buy medicine and treat you myself.”
Long Qinxin continued to indulge her mother, comforting the frightened woman.
“…”
Lu Zhiyin sat in place in silence, watching the mother and daughter hugging each other, feeling a little lost.
She touched her neck, and her fingertips were wet.
Fortunately, Long Qinxin’s mother did not have much strength, and the wound was not deep, just broken skin, and there was not much blood flowing out.
Looking at the blood on her fingertips, and then at the people hugging each other, Lu Zhiyin inexplicably felt like an outsider.
Ah… no, it wasn’t an illusion. She did seem to be an outsider.
She touched her nose and chose to space out.
While she was spacing out, Long Qinxin’s mother had hugged enough. She looked at Lu Zhiyin, who was spacing out, through Long Qinxin and gritted her teeth.
“Get her out, Qinxin.”
Pointing at Lu Zhiyin, who was sitting blankly on the ground, Long Qinxin’s mother’s eyes were filled with inexplicable hatred.
“…This… I…”
Long Qinxin seemed a little lost.
She looked at her thin mother in her arms, feeling a pang of heartache and unwilling to argue with her mother.
But she was also the one who insisted on bringing Lu Zhiyin here. Now, it was obviously difficult to drive Lu Zhiyin away.
Not to mention that Lu Zhiyin was the person she loved, even if Lu Zhiyin was a stranger, it would be difficult for her to speak.
Long Qinxin was in a dilemma.
