Chapter 80: Pretending to Sleep
Under the dark sky, lightning flashed from time to time. The car windows were covered with raindrops, making it difficult to see outside clearly.
All that could be known was that the occasional trees were pressed even lower.
Before leaving the residential area, a relatively thin tree outside the car window was broken by the wind. As it fell, its branches and leaves still flailed wildly, as if dissatisfied with its fate.
The trunk fell into the accumulated water, floating on the surface, and was quickly left far behind by the car.
“This is truly a rare, once-in-a-few-years extremely bad weather…”
With her upper body resting on the car window, Long Qinxin looked at the blurry scenery outside. When was the last time there had been such heavy rain? She couldn’t remember, only knowing that the last time there was such heavy rain, she was not yet seven years old, and now she was eighteen.
“Mmm…”
Lu Zhiyin responded softly, hesitating for a moment. She hugged Long Qinxin from behind her back, then quickly released her as before.
“Thank you for coming to find me, classmate Long Qinxin. If it weren’t for you, I probably wouldn’t know how to deal with this heavy rain.”
Thanking Long Qinxin, Lu Zhiyin looked out the other car window.
She had been trying to increase her favorability, and of course, she was also grateful. She wasn’t so ungrateful that she could ignore someone’s kindness.
She didn’t dare to look at Long Qinxin’s face. Although she was starting to change herself, she still couldn’t bring herself to deceive people easily.
“…Mmm…”
Still resting on the car window, Long Qinxin made no move, but her heart began to pound.
Classmate Zhiyin… did she hug me again just now? So warm, so… like it?
Startled by the strange thought that suddenly popped into her mind, Long Qinxin’s face felt hot, and she didn’t dare to look at Lu Zhiyin.
“Um… you don’t have to thank me, we’re friends, my only friend…”
Her words were a little stammering. When Leng Qing Qiu was not around, Long Qinxin was still that Long Qinxin, unable to summon any courage.
“…Mmm, friends for life.”
Lu Zhiyin, saying words that could please Long Qinxin, reached out a hand to Long Qinxin and tentatively touched her fingers.
After a brief contact, Lu Zhiyin gradually became bolder. She took Long Qinxin’s hand, slowly turned around, and looked at the girl’s petite figure. Lu Zhiyin narrowed her eyes.
She slowly moved closer to Long Qinxin and leaned against her.
“Classmate Long Qinxin, can I sleep for a little while?”
“Ah… yes, you can.”
Her mood growing more flustered, Long Qinxin agreed to Lu Zhiyin’s request without thinking, letting her lean on her.
Fortunately, Lu Zhiyin wasn’t heavy, so she didn’t burden Long Qinxin.
Actually, Lu Zhiyin wasn’t tired and didn’t need to sleep. She just wanted to get closer to Long Qinxin.
She didn’t even close her eyes, because Long Qinxin would never look back anyway.
Leaning on Long Qinxin, Lu Zhiyin could almost feel her body temperature. Her heart felt strange. Even though she had been hugged many times recently, and she had been held even closer than this, Lu Zhiyin had never felt this way before.
Perhaps it was because of the difference between destiny and passivity.
Quietly looking at the seat in front of her through the stray hairs on her forehead, and at the windshield wipers swaying intermittently at the front of the car.
After leaning quietly for a while, Long Qinxin beside Lu Zhiyin moved her body.
Lu Zhiyin closed her eyes at the opportune moment, and then she felt a hand touch the hair on her forehead.
“…”
Without a word, Long Qinxin carefully brushed aside the hair on Lu Zhiyin’s forehead, revealing the girl’s peaceful sleeping face.
Her delicate face was very calm. It seemed she wasn’t having nightmares.
Supporting Lu Zhiyin’s shoulder, Long Qinxin carefully turned her body and then placed the girl’s head on her lap.
The girl beside her trembled, making Long Qinxin’s heart clench, afraid that her small movements would be discovered.
Fortunately, the girl did not make any further movements.
“Hoo…”
Long Qinxin breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at the girl sleeping soundly on her lap, still a little flustered.
She and Lu Zhiyin had only just become friends. She didn’t know if her actions would be disliked.
She felt a little regretful. What if she resented her when she woke up?
Long Qinxin began to regret her rash actions.
In fact, her original intention was just to make her friend sleep more comfortably.
Because she had been isolated for a long time, and suddenly had a only friend, she began to pour all her gentleness onto this only friend. Some minor flaws in her personality also made her overthink.
Feeling somewhat helpless, Long Qinxin looked at the girl on her lap and closed her eyes.
“Qinxin… classmate… mmm…”
As if sensing Long Qinxin’s unease, the girl on her lap moved her hands, whether intentionally or unintentionally, grabbing Long Qinxin’s left hand resting by her leg, and gently rubbing her cheek against it, murmuring softly in her sleep, her voice very faint and soft, making Long Qinxin almost sink into it.
Thus, Long Qinxin’s heart beat faster, but she was no longer worried about being disliked by Lu Zhiyin.
“…”
She remained silent, gently stroking Lu Zhiyin’s hair.
Was she… being relied on? Her heart was a little thrilled.
Unlike Long Qinxin, Lu Zhiyin, who was pretending to sleep on her lap, felt guilty again.
She… shouldn’t have deceived such a nice young girl… why? Why did that so-called deity dislike her tormenting the protagonist in the game, and want to personally throw her into this place to deceive a female lead like Long Qinxin?
At least everyone and everything in the game were code, but the person in front of her now was a real person.
Lu Zhiyin couldn’t understand this question. She only felt that the deity was an idiot and hated the deity even more.
A feeling called anger rose in her heart. Lu Zhiyin continued to lie quietly on Long Qinxin’s lap. She had been lying there for an unknown amount of time. As the car’s speed slowly decreased and finally stopped, they had finally arrived at their destination.
“Classmate Zhiyin… wake up.”
Long Qinxin nudged her shoulder.
“Mmm… mmm… how long did I sleep?”
Lu Zhiyin cooperated by pretending to have just woken up. She slowly sat up and rubbed her eyes.
Long Qinxin was completely lost in her admiration for Lu Zhiyin and did not notice the flaws in Lu Zhiyin’s feigned demeanor.
Although she tried her best to pretend, she was ultimately not professional enough to portray the appearance of extreme fatigue and sleepiness.
Putting down her hand, Lu Zhiyin looked out the window. A tall building stood quietly by the roadside.
The magnificent hotel, above the main entrance, the four gilded characters of “Queen Hotel” were so conspicuous.
There were high steps in front of the hotel. Although the accumulated water was already very deep, it had not yet submerged the steps.
But it was affected here too. The two tall, neatly trimmed unknown trees in front of the hotel were swaying continuously in the wind, not much different from the unkempt green plants by the roadside.
