Chapter 25: Ouyang Qing Refuses to Help Her
“Hoo…”
Leaving the library, Lu Zhiyin took a deep breath and cheered herself up.
She patted her chest, intending to tackle the problem at hand.
To live a splendid life, she had to deal with the obsessed Leng Qing Qiu, Long Qinxin who was always following her, and the deity who played with her destiny.
Long Qinxin… well, she didn’t know what she was thinking, but at least she hadn’t done anything extreme. As for Ouyang Qing, being a deity, she couldn’t resist. All she could do was wait for her to lose interest in herself.
After much calculation, Leng Qing Qiu was the only problem she could solve.
She couldn’t be threatened by Leng Qing Qiu anymore, nor controlled by that lunatic.
Lu Zhiyin didn’t intend to seek help from Zhu, nor did she plan to use her looks to approach Long Qinxin and Qin An, allowing those two powerful and wealthy individuals to deal with Leng Qing Qiu.
After a short period of thought, Lu Zhiyin came up with suitable candidates for help.
A deity, undoubtedly, Ouyang Qing was the easiest person to solve Leng Qing Qiu’s problem. With a wave of her hand, all difficulties would disappear.
The hard part was how to get Ouyang Qing to help her.
Pondering this question, Lu Zhiyin returned to her dormitory. She took out some of the money she had saved… it wasn’t much, but it was enough to buy a gift that looked good.
Well, it only looked good; the quality was not guaranteed.
With some scattered bank notes, Lu Zhiyin left the school. She went to a nearby supermarket and bought a box of macarons and a nearly life-sized pink plush bear.
The image of Ouyang Qing’s expression when she ate the steamed buns with white sugar filling last time flashed in her mind.
Lu Zhiyin thought that person probably liked sweets.
As for the doll… Since Ouyang Qing always carried the turtle doll, Lu Zhiyin naturally assumed she would like this one too.
“To get help from a deity, perhaps the price doesn’t have to be that heavy?”
Whether it was health, lifespan, or anything else, Lu Zhiyin found it difficult to bear. Compared to those things she couldn’t give up, spending some money wasn’t so unbearable.
Carrying the purchased items back to the dormitory, Lu Zhiyin put everything down.
She hurried out of the dormitory again, starting to search the entire school for Ouyang Qing.
With a new life goal, Lu Zhiyin became fervent about escaping Leng Qing Qiu’s control.
After checking the sports ground, the cafeteria, and all the classrooms, Lu Zhiyin still couldn’t find Ouyang Qing.
“Ha… ha… hoo…”
Panting heavily, Lu Zhiyin leaned on the stair railing, laboriously climbing the ladder. After searching almost the entire school without seeing Ouyang Qing, she decided to check the rooftop.
…
“Ouyang Qing.”
After exhausting her strength, Lu Zhiyin arrived at the rooftop of the teaching building. She could see the back of a figure sitting on the edge of the rooftop from afar.
A section of the railing was missing, creating a gap, and Ouyang Qing was sitting in that gap.
She looked down at the school’s sports ground from a high vantage point, watching people of all kinds walk by beneath her feet.
“…hoo…”
Taking a deep breath, Lu Zhiyin slowly approached Ouyang Qing, while pondering how to ask for help.
Ouyang Qing sensed Lu Zhiyin’s approach.
“What do you want?”
Without turning her head, Ouyang Qing didn’t feel as exhilarated and satisfied as she had imagined after playing a trick on Lu Zhiyin last night.
The toy could no longer make her happy. Was she tired of it, or was the way she played with it wrong?
Ouyang Qing didn’t know. She just felt a little empty. How would she and her toy get along in the future? She wasn’t sure.
She had come to the rooftop early in the morning to watch her creations move below. She also saw Zhu holding Lu Zhiyin’s hand as they left.
Despite her own toy accompanying another toy, Ouyang Qing couldn’t feel happy at all.
“…Uh…”
Ouyang Qing’s indifferent words left Lu Zhiyin speechless for a moment. She hadn’t expected Ouyang Qing to speak in such a tone.
The nightmare-like experience of last night actually made Lu Zhiyin a little afraid of Ouyang Qing.
“…Um, I want to ask you for a favor.”
After a little mental preparation, Lu Zhiyin walked forward.
She didn’t touch Ouyang Qing. She knew Ouyang Qing looked down on her and was unwilling to interact with her.
“You know that asking me for help comes with a price, right?”
Turning around, Ouyang Qing looked at Lu Zhiyin.
Her golden eyes held no usual teasing, only a profound silence.
It was precisely this silence that made Lu Zhiyin’s blood run cold.
“…”
Lu Zhiyin remained silent and nodded.
Ouyang Qing glanced at her.
“Tell me first, what do you want?”
“…Uh… let’s go back to the dormitory first, we can talk there.”
Looking around, Lu Zhiyin felt that discussing matters here might lead to big problems.
The vast rooftop was unsettling.
“…Tsk. It’s all the same wherever we are, but going back is fine too.”
Ouyang Qing walked past Lu Zhiyin.
“…Mm…”
Lu Zhiyin let out a soft hum and followed behind Ouyang Qing. For some reason, Ouyang Qing seemed overly strange today.
She didn’t look happy, but why was that? Lu Zhiyin didn’t understand. She was the one being toyed with last night, so why was Ouyang Qing upset?
Didn’t she like tormenting herself? Hadn’t she achieved her goal?
With a chaotic mind, Lu Zhiyin followed Ouyang Qing hesitantly.
Back at the dormitory building, Ouyang Qing pushed open the door to the dormitory. Her peripheral vision caught sight of the things on Lu Zhiyin’s bed.
A pink gift box she didn’t recognize, and a large doll.
Ouyang Qing glanced back at Lu Zhiyin.
At this moment, her toy was tightly clenching her hands, head lowered, looking docile, as if she wasn’t the same person who had neglected her a little while ago.
Ouyang Qing easily associated Lu Zhiyin’s docility with her own actions the night before. She had to think that her behavior last night had worked.
Sitting on her own bed, Ouyang Qing pointed at the things on Lu Zhiyin’s bed.
“You aren’t planning to use these things as the price for me help, are you?”
Ouyang Qing pointed at the things on the bed.
“…”
Lu Zhiyin fell silent.
“…Mm.”
After two minutes, Lu Zhiyin nodded.
“Tell me first what you want my help with.”
Ouyang Qing didn’t immediately respond.
“Ugh… I’m being harassed by Leng Qing Qiu. I need your help, whether it’s to send her to prison or make her forget about me. Anything is fine, as long as she stops bothering me.”
Clasping her hands together, Lu Zhiyin sincerely bowed.
Ouyang Qing said nothing, merely looking at Lu Zhiyin calmly.
“This is quite simple, but you don’t think these things can impress me, do you?”
Ouyang Qing looked at the things on the bed.
“Please don’t forget, this world was created by me, and everything in this world is my possession. Bribing me with my own things? That’s a bit too comical.”
Ouyang Qing shook her head, and Lu Zhiyin’s heart sank to the bottom.
Indeed, as Ouyang Qing said, everything in this world was created by her. In that case, besides the things she couldn’t give up, what else could she give Ouyang Qing?
Nothing.
Lu Zhiyin returned to her bed in a daze. It seemed she had to solve the Leng Qing Qiu problem herself.
