Chapter 51: The Outburst of Conflict with Long Qinxin
Lu Zhiyin slept in her wheelchair for a long time. She was woken by someone shaking her.
When she regained consciousness, it was already dark. The only light source in the hallway was the flashlight from a phone.
“…Mmm…”
Lu Zhiyin’s eyes were uncomfortable from the dazzling white light, and some tears of an involuntary nature flowed from the corners of her eyes.
She clenched her fists, feeling a stiffness in her palms. The blood between her fingers and in her palms had dried, feeling strange.
She shifted her body and slowly sat up straight, blinking continuously until she gradually adapted to the sudden bright light.
“Mmm… Good evening…”
Reaching her line of sight was Long Qinxin, her eyes full of anger.
Lu Zhiyin did not feel embarrassed. She nodded calmly.
“…”
Long Qinxin’s body trembled. She was tired and very angry.
When she left her parents and searched repeatedly at school, but never saw any sign of Lu Zhiyin, heaven knew how panicked she was.
Not only at school, she had searched the entire surrounding area. When she returned to the apartment building, the hallway on the first floor was still filled with the smell of blood, and the steps still had uncleansed bloodstains.
Upon seeing those cold bloodstains, Long Qinxin almost thought something had happened to Lu Zhiyin. This blood belonged to the person she loved most. Long Qinxin was on the verge of despair.
After going upstairs in a daze, and then miraculously finding Lu Zhiyin sleeping peacefully, Long Qinxin’s first emotion was not joy, but anger.
Because she was worried about Lu Zhiyin, she had searched almost all the places Lu Zhiyin could have been and had fallen into despair over Lu Zhiyin’s safety. In the end, she found Lu Zhiyin sleeping soundly at her doorstep?
Long Qinxin found it difficult to remain calm about the matter.
Setting aside the fact that Lu Zhiyin had not kept her promise, how did she get upstairs? And who did she hook up with? Long Qinxin did not believe that Lu Zhiyin, a disabled person, could have moved her wheelchair upstairs by herself.
“Huuu…”
Exhaling a long breath, Long Qinxin did not want to lose her temper outside their door. She took out her key, unlocked the door, and pushed Lu Zhiyin inside.
She turned on the living room light, and the bright light dispelled the darkness. The room had not changed; it was exactly the same as when they had left in the morning.
“Do you have anything you want to say to me?”
Long Qinxin sat on the coffee table, her hands gripping the edge of the table, her eyes staring coldly at Lu Zhiyin’s face.
The girl’s hair still had dried blood on the edges. Her long, gray-white hair was tinged with red, making it somewhat alluring.
The girl in front of her was not the same as the one she had seen before.
“No.”
Lu Zhiyin lowered her head.
She had nothing to say and intended to answer truthfully whatever Long Qinxin asked. There was no longer any need to play coy with Long Qinxin.
“…”
Long Qinxin’s anger was fueled by Lu Zhiyin’s indifferent attitude. She pulled Lu Zhiyin from her wheelchair, choked her, and pressed the person she loved onto the sofa.
“Whose blood was in the stairwell? Who helped you upstairs? Why didn’t you wait for me at school? Didn’t you say you would keep your promise? Do you know how worried I was about you?”
Long Qinxin questioned her word by word, becoming somewhat hysterical.
“…”
Lu Zhiyin touched Long Qinxin’s hair and then grabbed Long Qinxin’s wrist.
She began to answer Long Qinxin’s questions.
“The blood belongs to me and someone else you don’t know. I killed someone. Qin An helped me upstairs because I was going to kill someone, so I couldn’t wait for you at school. As for promises… aren’t those things meant to be broken?”
“You!”
The information in Lu Zhiyin’s words was too much for Long Qinxin, causing her brain to short-circuit for a moment. She released Lu Zhiyin and paced around the living room.
Lu Zhiyin’s contempt for promises made Long Qinxin uneasy.
She began to suspect that Lu Zhiyin had been lying to her all along.
When did Lu Zhiyin get in touch with Qin An? It was probably during the time she was busy taking care of her parents. And she went to take care of her parents because Lu Zhiyin had urged her to.
Did Lu Zhiyin approach Qin An on her own? Why? Why would a victim of bullying actively seek out a bully? Long Qinxin naturally thought of Qin An’s background.
Qin An’s father was a Judicial Officer, and Lu Zhiyin seemed to be close to Leng Qing Qiu, who had been sent to prison.
If Lu Zhiyin wanted to get Leng Qing Qiu out, then everything could be connected.
She was trying to use Qin An to pull backroom dealings to save that scumbag Leng Qing Qiu.
“You… you want to get Leng Qing Qiu out of prison?”
Long Qinxin clenched her fists. The insecurity that had been lurking in her heart seemed to have become a reality.
Lu Zhiyin had been lying to her all along.
“You…”
“Yes, just as you guessed.”
Lu Zhiyin interrupted Long Qinxin’s words. She touched her neck without looking at Long Qinxin.
“Why… why did you lie to me? What am I lacking compared to that guy Leng Qing Qiu?”
Suppressed emotions surged into her heart. Long Qinxin pushed away the coffee table, grabbed Lu Zhiyin’s collar, and lifted the girl up.
“…”
Lu Zhiyin remained silent, just looking at Long Qinxin.
Compared to Leng Qing Qiu, Long Qinxin was undoubtedly better, but that did not mean Lu Zhiyin had to choose between the two.
Lu Zhiyin detested them, all of them.
“You… Say something, tell me, why aren’t you speaking?”
Pushing Lu Zhiyin onto the sofa, Long Qinxin questioned her repeatedly, her voice tinged with tears.
The only response she received was from Lu Zhiyin’s ash-like eyes.
What was her first impression of Lu Zhiyin in the past? She couldn’t remember clearly anymore. Lu Zhiyin’s initial image was becoming blurred.
Gradually, in Long Qinxin’s eyes, the person in front of her was just a scoundrel who had repeatedly deceived her.
Her heart felt a wave of exhaustion.
She was tired, very, very tired.
She viciously slapped Lu Zhiyin and then threw her onto the ground.
“…”
Still remaining silent, Lu Zhiyin maintained her composure.
She had anticipated that Long Qinxin would hit her, so she could endure the pain.
Her left cheek stung intensely, but this slap actually made Lu Zhiyin feel much more relaxed.
This slap was what she deserved.
“…”
Lu Zhiyin, like a dead fish, made Long Qinxin feel as if she had punched cotton, completely unable to vent her dissatisfaction.
She went to the kitchen and filled a small bucket with half water, then returned to the living room and poured the entire bucket of water onto Lu Zhiyin.
“You like lying to me, you like pretending to be mute, heh heh… You don’t have to go to school anymore, and you don’t have to eat. You can just stay here. When you’re willing to beg me for mercy, I’ll come back to see you.”
Long Qinxin disliked the stranger Lu Zhiyin in front of her. She didn’t want to face the Lu Zhiyin who remained silent most of the time.
Therefore, Long Qinxin fled.
She thought that if she just acted tough, Lu Zhiyin would definitely soften up. Lu Zhiyin was a bully who picked on the weak. It was precisely because she had been too good to her that Lu Zhiyin dared to deceive her repeatedly. As long as she acted a little tougher, Lu Zhiyin would surely return to her soft and docile self.
With such a fantasy, Long Qinxin fled back to her villa in the affluent area.
