Chapter 61: The Clinging Ones (2)
After closing and locking the bedroom door, Zhu put away her phone.
She wouldn’t actually call the police. She was still afraid that Leng Qing Qiu would do something desperate and release Lu Zhiyin’s nude photos and inappropriate videos to the public, which would ruin her junior.
She returned to the bed and sat on a stool.
“…”
Lu Zhiyin remained silent, her complexion still poor.
“Senior…”
Burying her head in the quilt, Lu Zhiyin’s voice was muffled.
“I’m here.”
Zhu gently patted Lu Zhiyin’s shoulder through the white quilt.
She could understand Lu Zhiyin’s feelings. She had heard Lu Zhiyin talk about what had happened to her, how she had been abused by strangers with inexplicable malice. It was already good that Lu Zhiyin could still communicate with her.
“Why aren’t you calling the police…”
Lu Zhiyin closed her eyes in the quilt.
“…I don’t want you to be ruined.”
Zhu was silent for a moment, then replied.
“I don’t want to see you being derided by all sorts of people, I don’t want to see you being belittled as a prostitute by those who don’t know the truth, and I don’t want you to live under the shadow of your privacy being leaked. Therefore, I cannot let Leng Qing Qiu unleash her fury.”
As she spoke, Zhu climbed onto the bed.
“Perhaps we haven’t found a safe way to eliminate Leng Qing Qiu’s videos and photos yet, but we will find one. She will pay the price for her sins, believe me. When she can no longer threaten you, I will help you contact the police.”
Zhu gently hugged Lu Zhiyin through the quilt.
“Junior Zhiyin. I hope you can live a happier life from now on. I hope you can smile more. Do you know? You look very beautiful when you smile.”
As she spoke, Zhu recalled the girls laughing playfully on the beach today.
She thought that a girl’s life should be like that, not filled with deep-seated hatred, threats, oppression, and discrimination.
“Thank you… thank you so much.”
Feeling the strength of Zhu’s embrace, Lu Zhiyin’s nose pricked with emotion. She thanked her in a muffled voice.
…
Outside the bedroom door, Leng Qing Qiu did not go far.
She stopped a few meters away.
“…Zhu…”
Clenching her fists, Leng Qing Qiu closed her eyes.
It wasn’t just that creepy blonde girl who was preventing her from approaching Lu Zhiyin.
“Trouble… troublesome…”
Sighing, Leng Qing Qiu leaned against the wall.
With Zhu around, she probably couldn’t openly take Lu Zhiyin away.
While Leng Qing Qiu was worrying, Long Qinxin came from the lobby to this corridor.
“Where is Zhiyin?”
The first thing she noticed was Leng Qing Qiu leaning against the wall, clearly in a bad mood. Long Qinxin asked for Lu Zhiyin’s exact location.
“Over there, in that room. However, she’s unlikely to want to see you.”
Leng Qing Qiu pointed to the room where Lu Zhiyin and Zhu were not far away.
“…Mm…”
Long Qinxin nodded.
She walked closer to the room and knocked on the door.
“Zhiyin, are you in there? Can you see me? I want to talk to you, I want to apologize…”
Just one door away from Lu Zhiyin, Long Qinxin felt complicated.
She didn’t know how to talk to Lu Zhiyin, and she was afraid.
She was afraid to meet Lu Zhiyin, yet she wanted to confront her. This conflicting emotion tormented her.
“…Get lost. I don’t want to see you, and I don’t need your apology. Stop bothering me.”
Inside the room, just as she had sent Leng Qing Qiu away, Long Qinxin arrived.
Lu Zhiyin couldn’t suppress the anger and resentment in her heart.
She poked her head out of the quilt and yelled at the door.
Zhu just watched quietly; she could tolerate Lu Zhiyin’s outburst.
“…”
Outside the room, after hearing Lu Zhiyin’s rejection, Long Qinxin left the doorway dejectedly and returned to Leng Qing Qiu.
“Now… what should we do?”
Long Qinxin detested Leng Qing Qiu, considering her a lunatic. However, in reality, wasn’t she also a lunatic?
Long Qinxin had to admit that the lunatic beside her, whom she despised, was smarter and bolder than her.
“Let’s talk outside.”
Glancing at the few travelers eating sparsely in the hotel lobby, Leng Qing Qiu walked out of the hotel.
After hesitating for a moment, Long Qinxin chose to follow.
Her intuition told her that what Leng Qing Qiu was about to say would be terrible.
…
“You mean you want to break her legs again? What a joke, are you crazy?”
The reality was as Long Qinxin had predicted. What Leng Qing Qiu wanted to do was terrible, very terrible.
She intended to break Lu Zhiyin’s legs and confine her.
Long Qinxin had also tried to confine Lu Zhiyin. She understood very well how much Lu Zhiyin hated being imprisoned. She still remembered Lu Zhiyin’s determination when she attempted suicide.
Of course, the more important point was the idea of breaking Lu Zhiyin’s legs. Long Qinxin knew that if she really did that, she would never have even the slightest chance of being forgiven.
“Heh… I’m already quite like a madwoman, aren’t I? Besides, my proposal isn’t crazy.”
Leng Qing Qiu leaned against the wall of the public toilet.
She looked at Long Qinxin quietly, believing that Long Qinxin would agree with her.
“Tsk… I’m afraid I can’t agree with your view. I love Zhiyin, and I won’t hurt her.”
Long Qinxin turned around.
“You’ve already hurt her.”
Leng Qing Qiu’s tone was flat, but her words struck a chord with Long Qinxin.
“I…”
Her footsteps faltered, her legs felt as if they were made of lead, and Long Qinxin couldn’t move forward.
She tried to retort, but couldn’t say anything coherent, only shaking her head with a pale face.
“Do you really think she will ever forgive you? You threatened her, you took her first time. You are a rapist.”
Leng Qing Qiu grabbed Long Qinxin’s collar and pushed her against the wall.
“We are all the same, we can never be forgiven, and we can never gain her love. You should know this clearly.”
Leng Qing Qiu narrowed her eyes.
“You still want to be with her, don’t you? You still don’t want to let go, right? Like me, you are very selfish. Even knowing you will cause Zhiyin pain, you will still inevitably approach her and annoy her.”
“Long Qinxin, wake up. The only way to get her back is to ruin her and then imprison her.”
Letting go of her hands, Leng Qing Qiu wiped her palms with disgust. She despised Long Qinxin, and this would never change.
“Cooperate with me. This is your only chance. You can’t win back Zhiyin on your own. You are a coward. Alone, you are destined to fail. You want to possess Zhiyin, but you don’t dare to be the villain. Do you really scorn my plan, yet why don’t you leave immediately and just stand there?”
As she spoke, Leng Qing Qiu’s eyes showed more contempt.
“I… I…”
Long Qinxin stammered; she couldn’t refute the words of the lunatic in front of her.
“Sigh…”
After a long pause, she took a deep breath, trying to calm herself.
“Whatever you do, I will assist you to the best of my ability. But… after it’s done, Zhiyin will have to live on my territory.”
Long Qinxin finally chose to continue cooperating with Leng Qing Qiu.
“Okay, it’s a deal.”
Leng Qing Qiu readily agreed to Long Qinxin’s condition.
However, she had no intention of fulfilling the agreement.
Once Lu Zhiyin was retrieved, she would take Lu Zhiyin and flee far away. As for Long Qinxin? She wouldn’t care about her enemy’s feelings.
