Chapter 60: Their Persistent Pursuit (1)
It was night, Leng Qing Qiu and Long Qinxin, covered in dust, got off the private car.
“Huff… We’ve finally arrived.”
Having arrived at the target city, Leng Qing Qiu stood beside the platform.
She and Long Qinxin had followed the bus route in Long Qinxin’s private car and had finally stopped here.
According to Long Qinxin, this was the stop where the passengers on the bus got off.
“Where… is she?”
Long Qinxin jumped off the car, scanning the surrounding tall buildings and brightly lit shops.
Cars continuously passed by on the wide asphalt road beside them, the sound of their tires rotating and rubbing against the ground a constant presence.
Looking into the distance, Long Qinxin could see an overpass spanning the road, with people flowing across it.
Despite it being late at night, the city was still bustling with people.
Compared to the city where Long Qinxin settled, this place was much more prosperous and much larger.
Long Qinxin felt a little lost; even knowing Lu Zhiyin was in this city, finding her felt like searching for a needle in a haystack.
“I don’t know.”
Leng Qing Qiu shrugged.
If she had known Lu Zhiyin’s exact location, she would have come alone.
“However, they will definitely need to find a place to stay, so let’s search in nearby inns, hotels, and guesthouses. If we can’t find her, she might have already left this city.”
Leng Qing Qiu pouted and looked at Long Qinxin beside her, finding her more and more displeasing.
“Hmph… I went to look for you immediately. If you hadn’t locked me out for so long, I would have caught up with her already.”
With a cold snort, Leng Qing Qiu began to wander around, asking passersby for information about inns and hotels.
Before long, Leng Qing Qiu arrived at the inn closest to the station.
At the inn’s front desk, the female boss was calculating the day’s profits and losses with a calculator.
“Boss.”
Pushing aside the semi-transparent plastic curtain, Leng Qing Qiu walked to the counter and gently tapped on the wooden counter.
“Yes? Do you need a room? We’re already full. Sorry.”
Looking up at Leng Qing Qiu, the female boss put down her calculator and smiled apologetically.
“No, I’m looking for someone.”
After a moment’s hesitation, Leng Qing Qiu tried her best to make her tone nicer.
She couldn’t take out her dissatisfaction with Long Qinxin on someone else.
“Looking for someone?”
The female boss was slightly taken aback.
“Yes, my relative has some problems and was tricked by two scammers.”
Leng Qing Qiu pointed to her head.
“She left our original city with those two scammers without telling me and came here. I’m very worried about her, could you please tell me if a girl with dusty white hair has been here?”
Leng Qing Qiu easily spun a lie. After all, she couldn’t tell the female boss in front of her that she was Lu Zhiyin’s enemy.
“A girl with dusty white hair…”
The female boss touched her chin.
“Well? Do you remember her? Her name is Lu Shiyu.”
Looking at the pensive female boss, Leng Qing Qiu felt a surge of excitement.
It seemed she was about to find out Lu Zhiyin’s whereabouts.
“Oh, yes, I’ve seen someone like that. And there were two girls with her. They didn’t look like scammers.”
Clapping her hands, the female boss recalled the appearances of Zhu and Ouyang Qing. Those two seemed to care deeply for the white-haired young girl? They didn’t look like scammers at all.
“Heh, scammers are always good at disguising themselves. Boss, please tell me Shiyu’s whereabouts.”
Leng Qing Qiu took out a stack of banknotes from her bag.
There were small and large denominations, about a thousand yuan in total, which was all the money she had on her. In her hurry to find Lu Zhiyin, she hadn’t had time to withdraw cash.
Handing over all the money meant she might have to go hungry and cold for the next few days, or she would have to borrow money from Long Qinxin, whom she found repulsive. However, to find Lu Zhiyin, all of that was deemed insignificant.
“…Hmm, now that you mention it, they do seem a bit like scammers.”
Taking Leng Qing Qiu’s money, the female boss counted it briefly before putting it in the drawer.
“Let’s go, I’ll take you to find your relative.”
She led Leng Qing Qiu away from the inn’s lobby and into a long corridor, with bedrooms for guests on either side.
“That room is where the white-haired young girl is staying. She’s sharing it with one of the scammers you mentioned. You can go find her.”
Tossing a key to Leng Qing Qiu, the female boss returned to the lobby.
…
“Huff…”
Standing in front of the room, Leng Qing Qiu took a deep breath.
She knocked on the door.
“Who is it?”
Zhu’s voice came from the gap in the door.
Leng Qing Qiu pursed her lips. She remembered the owner of this voice; Lu Zhiyin seemed to rely on her a lot.
Inside the room, Lu Zhiyin, who was bare-chested, sat up and looked at the closed door.
“It’s so late, who could it be? Ouyang Qing? Or the boss?”
“I don’t know.”
Patting Lu Zhiyin’s head, Zhu didn’t intend to open the door.
“If there’s anything, we can talk about it tomorrow. We’re going to sleep.”
Shouting towards the bedroom door, Zhu got out of bed and picked up the blanket.
Outside the door, Leng Qing Qiu was getting angry, especially after hearing that Lu Zhiyin and Zhu would sleep together.
What was the reason for her anger? Probably jealousy.
“…”
In silence, Leng Qing Qiu clenched the key in her hand, inserted it into the lock, and opened the door.
Her movements were so fast that Lu Zhiyin and Zhu inside the room had no time to react before the lock clicked open.
Leng Qing Qiu’s eyes landed on Lu Zhiyin’s bare upper body.
“………?”
After a brief moment of stunned silence, Lu Zhiyin hurriedly covered her sensitive areas, and Zhu clumsily helped Lu Zhiyin pull the blanket up.
“What are you doing… Zhiyin?”
Looking at the pale-faced Lu Zhiyin, Leng Qing Qiu swayed slightly.
She instinctively thought that Lu Zhiyin and Zhu had done something.
“You… you’re a scoundrel. What are you doing here?”
Gritting her teeth so hard they could have shattered, Lu Zhiyin grabbed a pillow and fiercely threw it at Leng Qing Qiu.
Leng Qing Qiu forgot to dodge, and the pillow hit her in the face before rolling onto the ground.
“Leng Qing Qiu, why are you here!”
Grit ting her teeth, each word seemed to be squeezed out from between them.
Lu Zhiyin couldn’t comprehend why, why Leng Qing Qiu still pursued her relentlessly even after she had fled to another city.
“Junior…”
Glancing at the ashen-faced Lu Zhiyin, Zhu quickly walked to the bedroom door, blocking Lu Zhiyin behind her.
“Move aside. Leng Qing Qiu.”
Her vision obscured by Zhu, Leng Qing Qiu’s tone turned hostile, her face as dark as the bottom of a pot.
“Classmate Leng Qing Qiu, please stop bothering her. Junior Lu Zhiyin… really dislikes you. You should know that. You’ve done so many bad things to her, how could she possibly forgive you? Why do you insist on sticking around so shamelessly.”
Zhu sighed.
“Please leave, otherwise, I’m calling the police.”
Taking out her phone, Zhu made a gesture as if to dial.
“Hmph… Zhu, is it? I’ve got your name.”
Clenching her fists, Leng Qing Qiu wanted to make a move, but considering they were in an inn, Leng Qing Qiu turned and left, and Zhu took the opportunity to close the door.
