Chapter 91: An Unexpected Person Appeared in the Classroom
The elevator slowly ascended, and soon, Lu Zhiyin and Leng Qing Qiu reached the designated floor.
Pushed out of the elevator by Leng Qing Qiu, Lu Zhiyin surveyed the somewhat quiet and dim corridor.
They had arrived as early as usual, with no other students in sight.
The corridor floor was covered with a thin layer of water, less than a centimeter deep, harmless.
Squinting her eyes, Lu Zhiyin relaxed her mood, gradually concealing the panic from the elevator ride.
She couldn’t let anyone discover her abnormality, couldn’t let anyone realize the truth that she didn’t belong to this world.
The cold morning wind blew on Lu Zhiyin’s face. When she opened her eyes again, Leng Qing Qiu had already pushed her to the classroom door.
The classroom lights were already on; it seemed they weren’t the earliest arrivals today.
“Zhiyin classmate!”
As Leng Qing Qiu pushed her to the doorway, a familiar, chirpy voice sounded.
Long Qinxin, someone who shouldn’t be here.
She was currently sitting in her seat and waving at Lu Zhiyin.
“…Hmm?”
Suspecting a mental issue, Lu Zhiyin turned her head to look at Leng Qing Qiu.
She noticed that Leng Qing Qiu’s brows were tightly furrowed, as if she had seen something very unpleasant.
Ah… it seems she hasn’t gone mad; Long Qinxin really is in her classroom.
“Long Qinxin classmate, good morning…”
Touching her forehead and glancing at Leng Qing Qiu again, Lu Zhiyin quietly greeted her after confirming Leng Qing Qiu wasn’t paying attention to her conversation.
Leng Qing Qiu was brought back by Lu Zhiyin’s voice. She glanced at Lu Zhiyin.
Leng Qing Qiu felt that her childhood friend’s address for that detestable person had become more intimate, making her inexplicably unhappy, but she didn’t say anything.
Pushing Lu Zhiyin back to her seat, Leng Qing Qiu took out a textbook from her bag and began previewing as usual.
Lu Zhiyin wasn’t as diligent as her, just quietly resting her face on the desk, somewhat lazily.
“Zhiyin classmate?”
Directly in front of Lu Zhiyin, Long Qinxin shifted her chair, turned around, and leaned over Lu Zhiyin, facing her.
It was at this moment that she noticed the bandage on Lu Zhiyin’s arm and couldn’t help but worry.
“What happened to you?”
She reached out, intending to touch Lu Zhiyin’s left forearm, but stopped, afraid of causing Lu Zhiyin pain.
“Mm… you mean this?”
Rising slightly, Lu Zhiyin pointed to her left forearm, which was wrapped in a bandage and hanging around her neck.
“Mm… Zhiyin classmate, did you encounter any trouble?”
As she spoke, Long Qinxin cast her gaze towards Leng Qing Qiu. Her intuition told her that Lu Zhiyin’s injury was related to that person.
“Ah… it’s nothing, I just happened to fall, and my hand was unluckily cut by a stone.”
Glancing at Leng Qing Qiu from the corner of her eye, Lu Zhiyin chose to lie.
Recently, she had been lying more and more frequently.
What was her dream self like? Honest, kind, intelligent, what else?
She couldn’t remember clearly. Although her past self was already far from this ideal self, it was clear that she was now moving away from her dreams.
“…”
Long Qinxin didn’t quite believe that Lu Zhiyin’s hand injury was from falling. She looked at Leng Qing Qiu a couple more times, then let it go.
Since Lu Zhiyin didn’t intend to say, she wouldn’t press further.
“Oh right, do you want some milk, Zhiyin?”
Long Qinxin fumbled in her backpack and took out a carton of pure milk.
She had originally intended to bring Lu Zhiyin a bento, but because today was a somewhat special day for her, she had left home too early and didn’t have much time to prepare a more elaborate gift.
“Thank you.”
Not intending to refuse Long Qinxin’s kindness, Lu Zhiyin accepted the pure milk and then continued to rest her head on the desk.
“By the way, why are you here, Qinxin classmate?”
After some small talk, Lu Zhiyin finally steered the conversation back on track.
“This…?”
When asked this question, Long Qinxin’s face quickly turned red. She didn’t know whether to say she had transferred classes because of Lu Zhiyin.
Would this seem too abrupt?
Whenever Lu Zhiyin’s opinion of her was involved, Long Qinxin would become hesitant. If possible, Lu Zhiyin really wanted to have a normal romance with such a cute person like Long Qinxin.
But there were no ifs.
“I… because you’re my only friend, Zhiyin classmate, so I asked the class teacher to transfer me…”
Her face flushed red, Long Qinxin ultimately couldn’t tell Lu Zhiyin everything. She only said the general reason.
Her loneliness, her fear, and her worries – she was afraid that revealing all her heavy emotions would scare Lu Zhiyin away.
“Is that so?”
Hearing Long Qinxin’s words, Lu Zhiyin became thoughtful.
Not knowing how to respond to Long Qinxin for the moment, Lu Zhiyin was left speechless. She simply poked the straw into the milk carton and brought one end to her mouth, drinking the milk with gulps.
The milk carton quickly deflated. After finishing the carton, Lu Zhiyin looked at Long Qinxin.
“It’s very delicious, thank you.”
With a smile, the girl’s grateful smile reflected in Long Qinxin’s eyes.
Even with her serious injuries, she still treated people with a smile. Long Qinxin found the white-haired girl in front of her increasingly perfect.
After all, she didn’t think she would be able to maintain such emotional stability when she was injured.
“Then I’ll bring you some tomorrow.”
Touching her face, Long Qinxin turned around and lay on the desk. Her heart had been struck by the girl’s smile, and she felt her whole body heating up.
“…”
After Long Qinxin turned around, Lu Zhiyin said nothing more. She just held the milk carton and drifted off into thought.
Beside her, Leng Qing Qiu appeared to be previewing but was actually listening to the conversation between Long Qinxin and Lu Zhiyin.
She was becoming increasingly unhappy.
Transferring classes for Lu Zhiyin? What did that mean? Were they that close?
Feeling an indescribable discomfort, Lu Zhiyin inexplicably wanted to do something to provoke Long Qinxin.
Thinking this, she picked up Lu Zhiyin and placed her in her arms, resting her chin on Lu Zhiyin’s shoulder.
“Zhiyin, are you that close to her?”
As she spoke, she pinched the soft flesh on Lu Zhiyin’s waist with one hand.
“Urgh… Mmm… We’re… we’re okay…”
Lu Zhiyin was taken aback. The pain in her waist made her let out a muffled groan. She didn’t understand why Leng Qing Qiu was acting like this suddenly, but she knew she couldn’t say her relationship with Long Qinxin was good, or Leng Qing Qiu would get angry.
Of course, she couldn’t say her relationship with Long Qinxin was bad either, or it would be difficult to explain to Long Qinxin.
Facing this dilemma, Lu Zhiyin could only endure the pain and play it down.
But Leng Qing Qiu wasn’t willing to let her off easily.
“Can you have lunch with me?”
Deliberately raising her voice, Leng Qing Qiu slipped her hand inside Lu Zhiyin’s school uniform, her fingers grasping a piece of tender skin, twisting it with some force.
“…Okay, okay…”
Barely maintaining her composure to avoid crying out in pain, Lu Zhiyin’s voice sounded somewhat strange due to the pain she was enduring.
Long Qinxin was attracted by the movement behind her. She turned her head and saw the white-haired girl being held in Leng Qing Qiu’s arms.
The girl’s face looked strange, as if she was enduring something. As her gaze moved down, Long Qinxin saw Leng Qing Qiu’s hand inside Lu Zhiyin’s clothes.
Her eyes darkened, and Long Qinxin began to overthink.
Request for Leave
Felt sick, requesting leave. Will make up for it tomorrow.
