After leaving Zhu’s bedroom, Lu Zhiyin took Zhu to the door of Lu Zhiyin’s original bedroom.
“Ouyang Qing.”
She knocked on the bedroom door.
No one answered, and the bedroom door opened by itself.
Ouyang Qing was sitting in Lu Zhiyin’s bed, with a large bear doll lying beside her.
This was the gift Lu Zhiyin originally intended to give Ouyang Qing.
“…”
Without a word, Ouyang Qing just looked at Lu Zhiyin’s eyes, and they looked at each other in silence, both silent.
She didn’t know what to say to Lu Zhiyin now, or what she could say.
“Let’s go, let’s go on a trip.”
Finally, Lu Zhiyin spoke first.
“Mhm.”
Ouyang Qing stood up, and the school uniform she was wearing instantly turned into casual clothes, loose light blue trousers and a black hoodie.
“Is she coming too?”
Glancing at Zhu, Ouyang Qing asked Lu Zhiyin.
Now that the game was almost over, Ouyang Qing didn’t intend to conceal her identity anymore.
“…Mhm.”
Lu Zhiyin nodded, turned around, and left holding Zhu’s hand.
The cold attitude made Ouyang Qing falter again. She wanted to get angry, but finally suppressed her anger.
Touching the turtle doll on her waist, Ouyang Qing followed Lu Zhiyin and Zhu.
Like Lu Zhiyin, she didn’t have anything to pack.
…
Leaving the dormitory building, the three walked in silence.
Lu Zhiyin and Zhu walked in front, with Ouyang Qing following behind them, several meters away from the first two, as if they were not from the same group.
“Is this really okay?”
Zhu held Lu Zhiyin’s hand tightly, listening to the footsteps not far behind.
Zhu could understand why Lu Zhiyin disliked Ouyang Qing, and it was normal for Lu Zhiyin not to give her a good look. However, Zhu was a little worried that Ouyang Qing might do something bad to Lu Zhiyin.
A deity not bound by rules… it’s really scary to even think about it.
“…Probably.”
Lu Zhiyin knew what Zhu meant.
She looked back at Ouyang Qing, who was following leisurely behind her. The girl’s beautiful eyes were tinged with darkness.
Pursing her lips, Lu Zhiyin hugged Zhu’s arm.
“…”?
Tilting her head to glance at Lu Zhiyin, who was clinging to her, Zhu let her cling to her.
Ouyang Qing, following behind them, saw all of their intimacy.
She unconsciously squeezed the doll on her waist, feeling a bit sour.
Walking in silence, the three, two in front and one behind, left the school gate.
Leng Qing Qiu, who had been waiting at the school gate for a long time, saw her beloved childhood friend.
“Zhiyin.”
Her voice was excited, and she took a few steps forward. After getting closer, she noticed the hands Lu Zhiyin was using to hold Zhu’s arm.
Her pupils constricted, and Leng Qing Qiu’s originally joyful mood subsided.
“Zhiyin, you’re alive. I’m sorry… what happened a few days ago was my fault. I just didn’t know it was you. If I had known it was you in person, I wouldn’t have been so rough with you. Didn’t you say you would be with me before? When… can you come back to me?”
She said a long string of words in one breath. No matter how many times she had rehearsed in her heart, she was still a bit incoherent when she saw the person she longed for.
“…”
The familiar, disgusting voice sounded in her ears, and Lu Zhiyin’s body stiffened involuntarily.
Zhu noticed Lu Zhiyin’s strangeness.
She shielded Lu Zhiyin and moved a few steps away from Leng Qing Qiu, then turned to look at the disheveled Leng Qing Qiu.
Leng Qing Qiu had faint dark circles under her eyes, and her clothes were stained with some dirt.
Zhu frowned.
“Are you okay?”
Compared to Leng Qing Qiu, Zhu was more concerned about Lu Zhiyin.
She quickly moved her gaze away, patted Lu Zhiyin’s shoulder, and gently asked Lu Zhiyin about her condition.
“…”
Lu Zhiyin shook her head, staring intently at Leng Qing Qiu.
After a long time, she closed her eyes.
“You have the wrong person.”
Lu Zhiyin didn’t want to have anything to do with Leng Qing Qiu.
Leng Qing Qiu becoming a lunatic naturally had reasons related to her tragic background, but this did not mean that Lu Zhiyin would forgive someone who had persecuted her like that.
The pain of the past was still vivid.
“Leng Qing Qiu, I remember that’s your name.”
Lu Zhiyin’s tone was very calm.
“Don’t look for me again. Whatever you want to do with the video you have… just do it. I don’t care what you’ve been through, but don’t bother me.
With that, Lu Zhiyin turned away, her back to Leng Qing Qiu.
“Let’s go, Senior, just ignore her.”
She hugged Zhu’s arm tighter.
“Okay.”
Feeling the touch from her hand, Zhu felt a strange sense of satisfaction.
Perhaps she enjoyed being depended on by the girl beside her? Who knows.
She took Lu Zhiyin and prepared to leave.
“Don’t go… Zhiyin.”
Facing her childhood friend who was about to leave her again, Leng Qing Qiu panicked. She stepped forward and grabbed Lu Zhiyin’s shoulder.
“Take your dirty hands off, and get out of my sight. You’re blocking my way.”
Before Lu Zhiyin could speak, Ouyang Qing stepped forward first.
The girl’s icy voice made Leng Qing Qiu instinctively turn her head.
She saw Ouyang Qing, and also Ouyang Qing’s stunningly beautiful face.
The first thing she felt was not beauty, but immense fear, as if the person standing in front of her was a powerful figure she couldn’t afford to offend.
The back of her hand, which was holding Lu Zhiyin’s shoulder, felt a little hot. Was it due to nervousness?
Leng Qing Qiu didn’t know.
She instinctively obeyed Ouyang Qing’s words and instinctively withdrew her hand.
The burning sensation on the back of her hand disappeared.
After Leng Qing Qiu let go, Lu Zhiyin and Zhu continued forward proudly, while Ouyang Qing walked past Leng Qing Qiu as if it were nothing, following Lu Zhiyin’s pace.
“……?”
As if rooted to the spot by something, Leng Qing Qiu could only watch her beloved girl walk away.
“Leaving me… again…”
Leng Qing Qiu pursed her lips.
She couldn’t accept her childhood friend leaving; she was too lonely.
Without time to think about why she had no resistance in front of that strange girl, Leng Qing Qiu immediately chased after the distant Lu Zhiyin after regaining her mobility.
“This time, I definitely won’t let you leave me…”
Leng Qing Qiu no longer cared about what Long Qinxin said about Lu Zhiyin betraying her. She just wanted Lu Zhiyin to return to her side.
No matter what, she wanted Lu Zhiyin.
With this sole desire in her heart, Leng Qing Qiu ultimately failed to catch up with her childhood friend.
Lu Zhiyin, Zhu, and Ouyang Qing got on a bus at the bus stop. Leng Qing Qiu couldn’t catch up and could only stand by the platform watching the bus drive away.
She didn’t know where the bus was going, only that it was heading to another city.
A terrifying thought crossed her mind: her childhood friend was going to live in another city and never see her again.
Leng Qing Qiu was afraid of such an ending.
She wrote down the bus license plate. She was going to find her childhood friend.
Of course, Leng Qing Qiu couldn’t do this herself. She had some money, but not enough.
Leng Qing Qiu thought of the person she had always disliked.
Long Qinxin… If it were her, she would surely have the ability to contact the driver of that bus and find out Lu Zhiyin’s whereabouts, right?
“I will, I will definitely make you stay by my side…”
Her eyes were dark and unclear, Leng Qing Qiu thought, even if she found Lu Zhiyin, the current Lu Zhiyin would definitely flee from her again.
She had a dark idea: she wanted to break her childhood friend’s legs, so that her childhood friend would be as unable to live without her as before.
