Chapter 45: First Attempt to Conquer Suffers a Waterloo
After looking at the memorial portraits of Leng Qingqiu’s parents, Lu Zhiyin played a game while thinking about things related to Leng Qingqiu.
As far as she could tell, Leng Qingqiu hadn’t shown much sadness. However, judging by how meticulously she had maintained the portraits and placed the enemy’s hand in front of her parents, she must have loved her parents a lot, right?
Having lived alone for a long time, Leng Qingqiu seemed cold on the outside, but perhaps soft on the inside? Would she also feel sad alone when everyone else was asleep?
Was she lacking love? Would showering her with meticulous care and maternal forgiveness be a good way to enter her heart?
Lu Zhiyin wasn’t sure if her thoughts were entirely meaningless, but she wanted to try. What if it worked?
She put herself in Leng Qingqiu’s shoes, imagining how someone could win her over if she had lost her family.
The answer was pretty much in line with what she had thought. Of course, besides care and gentleness, there was also a need for occasional guidance, comfort, and timely listening to her grievances.
“It’s over…”
As she was thinking, her hands had made the opponent’s crystal explode again, winning the match.
Currently, she was close to reaching the King promotion match. In her previous life, this rank was no different from bots, but in this world, it was already enough to get on the rank list.
Perhaps the game’s ranks would inflate later, and players’ skills would improve, but at least for now, Lu Zhiyin could easily dominate everyone.
After adding “Boosting Services Available” after her game nickname, Lu Zhiyin exited the game.
Considering the time, Leng Qingqiu should be back soon.
If Leng Qingqiu’s mother were still alive, perhaps she would have prepared dinner before Leng Qingqiu returned home? Then, she would probably wait for Leng Qingqiu to open the door and say a heartwarming “Welcome home.”
“Hmm… I can’t stir-fry, so I’ll just cook the rice first.”
Looking at her legs, Lu Zhiyin felt a bit helpless.
She shook her head, went to the kitchen to put the rice on, then returned to the living room and controlled her wheelchair to wait quietly by the door.
Leng Qingqiu said not to go out, so she wouldn’t go out.
Fortunately, she didn’t have to wait long before she heard the sound of a key being inserted into the lock.
As the door opened, the tall Leng Qingqiu appeared before her eyes.
“Ah… Welcome home!”
Trying hard to appear enthusiastic, Lu Zhiyin was naturally not good at communicating with people, and her words sounded a bit awkward.
“Mhm.”
Unlike what she had expected, Leng Qingqiu’s reaction was very indifferent. She had just been annoyed by Long Qinxin and didn’t pay much attention to Lu Zhiyin’s presence.
Lu Zhiyin didn’t feel much about it. She didn’t believe in conquering someone overnight. Such things had to be done step by step, slowly.
With that thought, Lu Zhiyin walked back to the coffee table.
Leng Qingqiu followed behind her, casually tossed her bag aside, and sat down too.
“Um, the rice is cooking. My legs are inconvenient, so I can’t stir-fry. I’m sorry.”
Looking at Leng Qingqiu, Lu Zhiyin apologized in a low voice.
“Mhm.”
Still distracted, Leng Qingqiu leaned back on the sofa and closed her eyes slightly.
After being repeatedly ignored, Lu Zhiyin felt a bit awkward.
However, she was more concerned about what was wrong with Leng Qingqiu. Listening was also a way of conquering, after all.
With that thought, she tugged at Leng Qingqiu’s clothes.
“Um, did something happen to you?”
She asked cautiously, afraid that her words might provoke Leng Qingqiu.
“No, I just met someone I don’t like.”
Leaning on her forehead, Leng Qingqiu didn’t really want to tell her childhood friend about her dislike for Long Qinxin.
“Ugh…”
A strange sound came from her mouth. This was probably Lu Zhiyin’s third setback today? And these three setbacks occurred within three minutes.
Indeed, reality was completely different from her ideals.
Feeling too embarrassed to speak to Leng Qingqiu again, Lu Zhiyin took out her phone.
She began to rack her brain, thinking about how to make an unhappy person happy.
Opening Qiuqiu on her phone, Lu Zhiyin opened the chat window with Leng Qingqiu.
“Don’t be angry. Anger only hurts yourself. If you dislike someone, maybe try ignoring them?”
Her fingers moved quickly, and Lu Zhiyin typed out a long string of text.
At the same time, she added a cute head-patting emoticon at the end.
“…”
With a ringtone, Leng Qingqiu also took out her phone. She saw the message Lu Zhiyin had sent her and replied with just three dots.
Perhaps ordinary people would feel a little warm upon receiving such comfort, but Leng Qingqiu was naturally not ordinary.
She didn’t like Lu Zhiyin’s comfort, nor did she like the emoticons Lu Zhiyin sent.
What seemed cute to others looked like mockery to Leng Qingqiu.
Leng Qingqiu felt strange.
“Gulp…”
Another strange sound came from her. Lu Zhiyin began to feel a bit wronged.
She had no idea what was wrong with Leng Qingqiu, why she had suddenly become so indifferent.
Didn’t she want to get closer last night?
The more she thought about it, the more confused she became, so Lu Zhiyin finally decided to stop thinking.
She went to the bathroom to get her clothes. Since they were hung in the bathroom, even though they had been air-drying for several hours, they were still damp.
Placing the clothes on her legs, Lu Zhiyin returned to the coffee table.
“Um, where are my keys? I want to go home. I’ll wash the clothes you lent me before returning them.”
She nudged Leng Qingqiu again, looking at Leng Qingqiu’s backpack not far away.
This sentence finally made Leng Qingqiu a little more alert.
She didn’t want Lu Zhiyin to leave so soon, but it didn’t seem right to tell her directly that she hadn’t brought them back.
After a moment of thought, Leng Qingqiu decided to trick her for a while. Anyway, she planned to show Lu Zhiyin something exciting tonight. Once Lu Zhiyin’s attention was occupied by other things, she would mention forgetting the keys, and she figured Lu Zhiyin wouldn’t have the energy to blame her.
In reality, Leng Qingqiu didn’t need to think so much, because Lu Zhiyin would never blame her. Whether it was the Lu Zhiyin from before or the current Lu Zhiyin, she could have just said she forgot her keys.
“Let’s talk about it later. The rice is already cooking, so let’s eat before you go home.”
Moving the school uniform from Lu Zhiyin’s legs aside, Leng Qingqiu stood up.
“I’ll go prepare the dishes first. Zhiyin, you should rest for a while.”
Without giving Lu Zhiyin a chance to refuse, Leng Qingqiu went into the kitchen on her own.
Before entering the kitchen, Leng Qingqiu noticed that the door to the bedroom where she kept her parents’ ashes had been opened.
Without a doubt, Lu Zhiyin must have opened it.
