After Becoming Roommates with an Obnoxious Wealthy Heiress - Chapter 44.3

Afterward, Yuan Mei said a sentence that almost made Qin Shuyue break down.

Yuan Mei’s eyes were filled with admiration for Zhu Lingyi, completely like the fanatical love of a fan for an idol.

“Zhu Lingyi is my idol!”

A loud “thud” came from the back seat.

Yuan Mei stepped on the brake and looked back at Qin Shuyue, “What’s wrong? Is my driving too fast? I’m sorry, I just got too excited when I mentioned Zhu Lingyi.”

Qin Shuyue was simply overwhelmed with embarrassment; she had fallen off the back seat onto her butt.

“I heard she even has a roommate?”

Qin Shuyue really wanted to ask her: Are you really not a sasaeng fan of Zhu Lingyi? Why do you know even this so clearly?

Qin Shuyue choked with embarrassment, rubbed her nose, and said softly, “I’m not familiar with Miss Zhu. We don’t usually attend classes together. I’m not clear about Miss Zhu’s roommate?”

“I originally wanted to ask you to help me get an autograph from Zhu Lingyi.” Yuan Mei sighed with some regret, “I thought an excellent student like you would be well-acquainted with Little President Zhu.”

She added, “Little President Zhu appreciates talented people the most~”

Looking at the destination they were about to arrive at, Qin Shuyue really didn’t want the entire trip to be about talking about Zhu Lingyi.

To be honest, she had an inexplicable resistance to any topic related to Zhu Lingyi.

It was truly heaven helping her; just as she was thinking this, Yuan Mei’s phone rang. It was projected onto the car via Bluetooth, and the ringtone echoed throughout the vehicle.

There was a speaker right next to the door by Qin Shuyue’s back seat.

It was a very passionate piece of music.

Yuan Mei looked down at the car screen, which displayed an incoming call from “Stinky Pig.”

She pressed the green call button.

“Hello, baby?”

The other end of the phone first sounded with a gentle male voice, full of affectionate tenderness.

Yuan Mei smiled and said, “What’s up?”

“Why aren’t you back yet? The little princess is about to starve to death!”

Yuan Mei suppressed a laugh, “I know, wait for me for another twenty minutes. I’m taking Xiao Qin back to school.”

The other end of the phone paused for a moment. Knowing Yuan Mei was driving Qin Shuyue back, the voice also smoothed out a lot, “Qin Shuyue? It’s so late, why is she…”

“Alright.” Yuan Mei looked at the red light with only 10 seconds left across from it was Qin Shuyue’s school—and said to the phone, “Let’s not talk for now; I’ll get Xiao Qin back first.”

Then the man on the other end of the phone engaged in more flirting and sweet talk with Yuan Mei, making Yuan Mei’s eyes curve with smiles, just like a couple in the honeymoon phase.

Qin Shuyue lowered her eyes and listened to the back-and-forth conversation on the phone, and for some reason, a trace of bitterness rose in her heart.

Her father had once treated her mother this way too.

But all of that had changed long ago.

Yuan Mei crossed the green light and parked the car steadily at her school gate, “We’re here.”

She handed the canvas bag from the passenger seat to Qin Shuyue, “Hold onto it tightly~”

There was still a lingering flush of pink on both of Yuan Mei’s cheeks.

“Mm.” Qin Shuyue gave a very quick glance and then quickly lowered her head again.

After taking the canvas bag, she said softly to Yuan Mei, “Thank you, Boss Yuan.”

Then she opened the car door and stepped out.

Walking along the path in the school, a light breeze blew. Qin Shuyue looked around at the deserted environment, and a sense of desolation rose in her heart.

It was ten minutes past midnight.

When Qin Shuyue arrived in front of Heqing Garden, she let out a long, heavy sigh in her heart.

“How should I deal with this?”

Qin Shuyue asked herself softly.

She didn’t know.

Would Zhu Lingyi kick her out?

Fear of the unknown filled her uneasy heart.

She walked tentatively into the elevator and pressed the floor button.

Qin Shuyue’s eyes stared unblinkingly at the floor display in the upper right corner of the elevator.

The elevator seemed to ascend particularly fast today.

Watching the elevator land steadily on the sixth floor, there was a “ding,” and the familiar notification sound rang in her ears.

Her adrenaline “whooshed” upward, and her whole body shivered as she stepped out of the elevator.

Qin Shuyue didn’t even know why she had become like this.

She really wanted to escape like before escape, escape to a corner she deemed safe and curl up.

But she had nowhere to escape and no path to avoid it.

Unknowingly, her hand was already on the doorknob.

Sweat soaked her palm, and the fingerprint recognition failed two or three times.

She lowered her hand again.

It was very strange.

This feeling was very strange.

In these few years from her second year of high school to her second year of university, no matter how she was targeted or isolated, her heart had never felt this kind of emotion.

But now…

She had a feeling she couldn’t quite describe.

While she was pondering, the door was opened by the maid, just like last time.

Qin Shuyue really felt as if every trajectory of her behavior was being monitored by Zhu Lingyi at all times, who then sat in front of the monitor to watch her be a joke.

Showing the same ugly face as Song Jiajia and the others.

The maid stood behind the door somewhat hesitantly, her gaze constantly darting toward a certain direction on the sofa.

Qin Shuyue naturally noticed the maid’s gaze as well.

She didn’t even need to look up to know who was sitting on the sofa.

It was 12:32 AM.

At this time, Zhu Lingyi was actually sitting on the sofa reading a book with great leisure and elegance. It was hard for Qin Shuyue not to be conceited enough to think that she was waiting for her.

She also knew what she was about to face.

She looked up at the maid and offered a harmless smile, “Excuse me, may I come in?”

The maid looked back, and then she stepped to the side, saying respectfully, “Please come in.”

Qin Shuyue didn’t need to close the door; the moment her feet stepped over the threshold, the maid immediately closed the door.

Then, with her head lowered, she left the area like the wind.

A different time, the same place, the same position.

Qin Shuyue stood behind the door; Zhu Lingyi sat composedly on the sofa with a gold-wire frame perched on her nose. Her lips took a slight sip of water, and she held a book in her other hand.

“You’re back.”

Her tone was as calm as water, not as aggressive as the last time.

Qin Shuyue walked obediently to her side, and like last time, she took the glass she had finished and went to refill it with water.

But this time, Zhu Lingyi did not let Qin Shuyue feed her; instead, she used her eyes to signal her to put the glass back on the table.

Qin Shuyue understood her gaze. She nervously pursed her lips, and with a “clack,” she placed the water glass back on the coffee table.

“You really enjoy testing my patience with you, don’t you?”

Zhu Lingyi scanned a page of the book nonchalantly. The slight sound of the flipping page undoubtedly became the frantic and ear-piercing beeping in the final countdown of a time bomb.

Her tone remained composed, yet it constantly fried Qin Shuyue’s heart like boiling oil.

She could even hear the sound of her own heart jumping wildly up and down in her chest; every throb undoubtedly added to Qin Shuyue’s heavy breathing.

She tried her best to calm her heart.

However, Zhu Lingyi suddenly gripped Qin Shuyue’s chin.

Her tone was flat, “I want you to kneel.”

“Kneel before me.”

Qin Shuyue’s pupils shrank abruptly, and her whole body almost froze in place.

“Is this how you repay your savior?”

Zhu Lingyi asked again.

Qin Shuyue’s fists clenched tightly.

Kneeling to her.

What a humiliation.

Qin Shuyue sneered in her heart.

She recalled every word Yuan Mei had used to praise Zhu Lingyi in the car; they all seemed like vegetable jars that had been soaked in a cesspool, making her unable to stop retching.

Humiliating her.

Using it as entertainment.

No wonder no one would be her roommate.

Qin Shuyue gritted her molars, bent her knees, and knelt on the cold carpet. She had no choice but to compromise with her, yet she kept her back straight and her head held high, looking like a scholar-official who would rather die than submit, acting righteous and determined to face death.

But Zhu Lingyi’s gaze turned cold, inch by inch.

“Disobeying me time and time again do you still think you aren’t in the wrong at all?”

What kind of decent person sets a curfew!

She had returned quietly and never made a sound to disturb her; why couldn’t she just show some mercy and let her off! Why did she have to grasp her pigtail so tightly and never let go?

Sometimes Qin Shuyue also found it bizarre.

For people like Song Jiajia, it might be novel once or twice, and very interesting. But as she gradually ignored them, they would also lose interest.

Zhu Lingyi, however, was different.

Even when she clearly didn’t pay attention, she still insisted on nitpicking her faults.

Was it all her fault? Was she not at fault at all?

A person like her, who relied on a distinguished family background and overwhelming power, would have people praise her even if she did something wrong, and then turn around and bite back.

Qin Shuyue was truly puzzled.

“Zhu Lingyi, can you just let me go?”

This was the first time she had used this attitude toward Zhu Lingyi.

If Zhu Lingyi hadn’t pushed her into a corner with no way to retreat time and time again, she wouldn’t have wanted to sour the relationship.

“Let you go?”

“State your conditions.”

Qin Shuyue shook her head somewhat impatiently, shaking off Zhu Lingyi’s hand that was gripping her chin, and gave it a look of loathing.

Zhu Lingyi, however, slowly withdrew her hand.

She spread her arms and half-lay on the sofa, looking full of majesty.

“Thirty million.”

She gracefully reached out her hand to indicate a number, but her gaze was piercingly cold.

“I’ve said it before. You broke my vase; either stay here or pay thirty million.” Zhu Lingyi raised an eyebrow slightly, victory within her grasp, and waved her hand nonchalantly.

The gaze she cast at her seemed to be asking: Wasn’t the choice that day exactly like this? Now that you regret it and want to flee, fine, I’ll give you another chance—how will you choose then?

Qin Shuyue bit her lower lip.

Where did she have any money left?

How could she earn that much money in a lifetime?

She would never be able to pay it back in her life.

Qin Shuyue lowered her eyes in resignation.

Even if Zhu Lingyi gave her another chance, did she even have the qualification to choose the second path?

Zhu Lingyi had calculated perfectly that she could only compromise with her.

But Qin Shuyue didn’t understand what it was about her that she was holding onto so tightly.

“You asked me to kneel, and I knelt. What else do you want me to do?”

Qin Shuyue asked her coldly, a rare sharpness flickering in her eyes.

Zhu Lingyi stared intently at the sharpness in her eyes and crossed her legs more tightly.

“I haven’t thought of it yet.” Zhu Lingyi smiled, “But back to the topic. You had better explain to me personally why you came back so late.”

“I had business.”

Qin Shuyue replied simply.

Zhu Lingyi narrowed her eyes and asked immediately after, “What business?”

Qin Shuyue looked up stubbornly at Zhu Lingyi.

As she looked, Qin Shuyue suddenly laughed, “Miss Zhu has hands that reach the heavens; is there anything you want to know that you can’t check yourself?”

“I have no need to waste time and resources on you.”

Hearing this, Qin Shuyue gave a light sneer and turned her head away.

“I want to hear you say it personally.”

Zhu Lingyi leaned down and reached out to turn Qin Shuyue’s face toward her.

“Don’t touch me!”

Qin Shuyue growled at her in disgust.

“Tch.” Zhu Lingyi frowned unpleasantly, “Naughty. Not naughty at all.”

“You, like this…”

“Are truly annoying.”

“Did I say I wanted you to like me? Miss Zhu, don’t be too conceited.”

If it weren’t for the fact that Qin Shuyue had an extremely good upbringing, she would have even wanted to spit right in the face of this annoying person who was inches away from her.

“So fierce.”

The hand pinching her jaw released its strength, yet a smile very strangely curled on Zhu Lingyi’s lips.

Qin Shuyue was truly about to be speechless.

Was she that funny?

Was she just a complete joke in her eyes?

This kind of arrogant and domineering aura caused a deep loathing to rise in Qin Shuyue’s heart.

“Is it really that hard for you to say it out loud?”

Zhu Lingyi asked.

“To earn money.” Qin Shuyue suppressed her anger; she wanted to finish answering early so she could go back to sleep, as she still had to work in the cafeteria tomorrow, “I need to earn money, I’m very short of money, okay?”

It was as if she were asking: I’ve answered everything you wanted to know; please, Great Master, have mercy and let this lowly one go!

And another sentence was to follow: It’s really so f***ing annoying!

“Do you know that your physical condition is already at a point where you cannot continue to overwork yourself, hmm?”

“What does it have to do with you?” Qin Shuyue retorted, “It’s better if I die; just see if there are any valuable parts left on my body heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys take them all and sell them. Use the money to pay back your thirty million.”

Zhu Lingyi truly felt that this little girl might be too arrogant tonight, as if she had been possessed by someone else.

A trace of helplessness appeared in her eyes, “Body parts cannot be traded; it’s against the law.”

This wasn’t okay, and that wasn’t okay; Qin Shuyue said angrily, “Then what on earth do you want me to do!”

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