Chapter 64: Belated Concern
“Ah… Achoo…”
Blowing in the cold wind in the corridor, the school uniform clinging tightly to her body felt chilly.
Lu Zhiyin felt she was probably sick again.
She didn’t know if this illness was for better or worse.
If she were sick, she wouldn’t have to come to school for a while and wouldn’t have to see Qin An. This time, she wouldn’t have to stay at Leng Qing Qiu’s house either; she could stay alone in her own room.
Thinking with a hazy mind, Lu Zhiyin felt that the main reason she was bullied was her poverty.
If she were rich, perhaps everyone would look up to her? At least she wouldn’t be given disdainful glances by teachers in the classroom.
After paying back the money she owed Long Qinxin, she could also be a little more assertive.
While blowing in the cold wind, Lu Zhiyin thought about many things. It wasn’t until the dismissal bell rang and students gradually came out of the classrooms, adding the sound of students playing to the sound of rain in the corridor, that Lu Zhiyin gradually came back to her senses.
Her head felt a little dizzy.
She remembered her appointment with Long Qinxin, so she waited quietly outside the classroom, not returning to her room.
The invigilator who had previously prevented her from entering the classroom came out with a large stack of test papers, cast a disdainful glance at Lu Zhiyin with contempt, and then left. She was probably going to the office.
“Ah… Achoo…”
Sneezing again, without the spare thought to care about the invigilator’s malice, Lu Zhiyin just sat in her wheelchair, hugging herself.
Her vision, blurred by the rain, swept over the crowd passing by in the corridor as she waited for the girl with black hair.
Before Long Qinxin arrived, another acquaintance appeared.
“Zhiyin, are you alright?”
A familiar voice, soft caring words, but this voice only made Lu Zhiyin feel somewhat hypocritical.
This was Leng Qing Qiu’s voice.
“…”
Speechless, Lu Zhiyin slowly raised her head. She glanced at Leng Qing Qiu, said nothing, and lowered her head again.
Although she had to cover for Leng Qing Qiu in front of Long Qinxin, Lu Zhiyin couldn’t help but feel angry. Her current state was truly not good, and she didn’t have the extra energy to deal with Leng Qing Qiu.
At school, she probably wouldn’t do anything to her, right?
Thinking this, Lu Zhiyin lowered her head. Her hands didn’t know what to do, so they were just fidgeting on her legs.
Her fingers were a little pale, like her cheeks, a sickly white that clearly showed her weakness.
Leng Qing Qiu wasn’t an idiot either. She naturally saw that her childhood friend was not herself. It seemed she had been tormented badly by Qin An…
“…I’m sorry, you know, I can’t afford to offend Qin An.”
Leng Qing Qiu opened her mouth. She knew her act of abandoning Lu Zhiyin was not very honorable, so she apologized and tried to make an excuse for her retreat.
After her words fell, Lu Zhiyin looked up at Leng Qing Qiu again.
Lu Zhiyin didn’t know Qin An’s family background, so she just thought that the so-called “can’t afford to offend” was a joke. There was only “unwilling to offend,” not “can’t afford to offend.”
From her perspective, Qin An was just a bullying scummy school bully, while Leng Qing Qiu was a great demon who had killed people and seen blood.
Of course, this could only be blamed on Lu Zhiyin’s carelessness when playing games in her previous life.
“…”
Remaining silent, there were many things she wanted to say, but they were all stifled in her throat.
“…So, after she left, why were you unwilling to come out and see me?”
Didn’t she realize someone was missing from her side? Oh… she was just her toy right now, so that seemed normal.
Thinking this, Lu Zhiyin felt increasingly wronged.
“That Qin An… she pushed me into a basin of water, trying to drown me. After the abuse, she also kicked over my wheelchair. I could only crawl in the puddle on the ground by myself.”
Narrating her experience as calmly as possible, Lu Zhiyin didn’t know what her purpose was in saying these things. Was it to evoke pity? Perhaps.
She hadn’t experienced such things in her previous life. Now she probably just wanted to share her sufferings with someone. Many things feel a little better when spoken.
She didn’t think Leng Qing Qiu would sympathize with her, so evoking pity was a baseless argument, right?
Making no move, Lu Zhiyin continued to sit quietly, waiting for Long Qinxin.
After hearing Lu Zhiyin’s account, Leng Qing Qiu did feel something. That Qin An was as ruthless as ever.
However, Leng Qing Qiu noticed a discrepancy. She said her wheelchair was kicked over, so how did she get back into it? Leng Qing Qiu didn’t think her childhood friend could right her wheelchair by herself.
“Zhiyin, who helped you right your wheelchair?”
She blurted out the question instinctively. After speaking, Leng Qing Qiu realized what she had said.
Her focus shouldn’t be on this, apparently.
For a moment, she thought Lu Zhiyin would get angry and scold her, or even hit her, for her inappropriate question, but she quickly realized that with her childhood friend’s timid nature, she wouldn’t do that.
Perhaps it was because of her guilty conscience that she started to become a little incoherent.
Touching her chin, Leng Qing Qiu looked at the white-haired girl before her.
Her clothes were soaked, darkened by the water. Her white hair was scattered over her body, some strands sticking to her face, adding to her pale face, making her look pitiful, and of course, also cute?
“It was me.”
Just as Leng Qing Qiu was about to reach for the handles of Lu Zhiyin’s wheelchair, someone much shorter than her appeared in her sight.
It was Long Qinxin, that annoying short person.
Looking at Long Qinxin, Leng Qing Qiu’s eyes grew cold, her gaze filled with hostility.
“As a friend of Zhiyin, you didn’t stand up when she was threatened, and afterwards you come to ask questions, pretending to be concerned. Don’t you think that’s hypocritical?”
Long Qinxin seemed to have gained courage. She dared to provoke others directly.
Her classmates were mostly surprised by her change.
Let alone these classmates, even Long Qinxin herself was a little surprised.
Courage… did this kind of thing come from Lu Zhiyin?
She looked at the white-haired girl who was lowering her head.
“…”
Leng Qing Qiu was silent. Long Qinxin’s words made her temporarily at a loss. She was indeed a little hypocritical.
Soon, she recovered from her low mood. So what if she was hypocritical? At least Lu Zhiyin was hers now, and it wasn’t Long Qinxin’s place, an outsider, to interfere.
Thinking this, she wordlessly grasped Lu Zhiyin’s wheelchair and, pushing her, intended to return to the classroom.
“I don’t know if I’m hypocritical, but I do know that you’re not even her friend.”
Before entering the classroom, Leng Qing Qiu smiled provocatively.
She didn’t care about Lu Zhiyin’s condition. She just wanted to maintain her dignity in front of the other students?
“Hey, put her down, she’s still wet.”
Watching Leng Qing Qiu push Lu Zhiyin away, Long Qinxin became a little anxious. She took a few steps forward, trying to grab Leng Qing Qiu’s hand, but was easily pushed off balance by Leng Qing Qiu, causing her to fall to the ground.
This sound brought Lu Zhiyin back to her senses.
She slowly turned her head, saw Long Qinxin lying on the ground, was stunned for a moment, and then her face showed some apology.
Long Qinxin pursed her lips, Lu Zhiyin’s apologetic face flashing in her mind.
Why? Even though Lu Zhiyin didn’t push her, she seemed to feel sorry.
She’s really… so gentle…
Clenching her fists, Long Qinxin stood up stubbornly. She looked at Lu Zhiyin and Leng Qing Qiu inside the classroom.
“Absolutely, absolutely will not give her to that scumbag.”
Muttering to herself, Long Qinxin left the corridor and walked towards the teaching building.
She was going to get the clothes her driver had delivered. No matter what, Lu Zhiyin needed a dry set of clothes.
Long Qinxin didn’t think that hypocritical person Leng Qing Qiu would offer any help to Lu Zhiyin.
