Chapter 9 Rainbow
Jiang Jinyue held his breath unconsciously and continued reading.
The posts had already piled up like a tower. Lu Qingmian flipped through them quickly, just taking a quick look, but Jiang Jinyue couldn't help but extract many dirty yet familiar words from them.
"Chen Keai looks like a woman, has a woman's name, and likes men just like women do. She should just get a sex change operation."
"So disgusting, I wouldn't even dare go to the bathroom if I ran into him in the men's room!"
The three words "Chen Keai" in the post gradually deformed and distorted, turning into the three words "Jiang Jinyue".
Jiang Jinyue knew that all this was an illusion and that he shouldn't watch any further, but his eyes were fixed on the phone screen.
Lu Qingmian quickly noticed that something was wrong with Jiang Jinyue and immediately put away his phone.
Jiang Jinyue still kept his head down, his eyes fixed on the empty ground, as if there were lines of dirty words displayed there.
"Jiang Jinyue." Lu Qingmian called him.
Jiang Jinyue's ears were buzzing and he could not hear anything.
"Jiang Jinyue!" Lu Qingmian spoke a little louder and simply grabbed Jiang Jinyue's shoulders tightly.
Jiang Jinyue looked up as if waking up from a dream, but was still holding her breath, until her cheeks flushed and her body swayed.
Lu Qingmian immediately let go, lowered his head to look into Jiang Jinyue's eyes, and slowed his voice: "Jiang Jinyue, open your mouth and breathe."
Jiang Jinyue's unfocused eyes slowly came back to life, and Lu Qingmian's face was reflected in them.
Lu Qingmian simply pinched Jiang Jinyue's cheeks and squeezed his tightly closed mouth open. A gasp was heard, and Jiang Jinyue took a step back and began to breathe heavily.
He knew that he had inexplicably lost his temper and caused trouble for others again. He barely caught his breath before he began to stammer an apology: "I'm sorry... I was distracted... I'm sorry..."
"What are you sorry for?" Lu Qingmian said in a slightly cold voice, "You didn't do anything wrong, why should you be sorry?"
Jiang Jinyue flapped his wings and looked up at Lu Qingmian.
Lu Qingmian's expression was not good-looking, his thin lips were stretched flat, his eyes were dark. He stared at Jiang Jinyue closely, and suddenly raised his hand to move closer.
Jiang Jinyue shrank back and subconsciously wanted to hide.
Lu Qingmian's hand only stopped at the top of Jiang Jinyue's head, and he gently patted her from a distance of one centimeter. "Jiang Jinyue, you listened and breathed well. You did a great job just now."
He looked serious, not joking at all.
Jiang Jinyue raised his head. He was only as tall as Lu Qingmian's chin, so he needed to look up to see Lu Qingmian's face. He could see clearly that there was no perfunctory expression on Lu Qingmian's face.
For the first time, Jiang Jinyue felt a desire to be touched.
If he hadn't touched PTSD, it would have been nice if Lu Qingmian could just pat him on the head.
The quarrel outside had stopped. The burly man Zhao Zhenlin took the elevator and left. Chen Keai also returned to the house after a loud slam of the door.
Lu Qingmian gathered the coat covering Jiang Jinyue's wings and said, "Wait here for me. I'll go to Room 903 to check."
As he spoke, he opened the door to the stairwell and was about to leave when Jiang Jinyue hooked his sleeve.
Jiang Jinyue lowered his head and hooked Lu Qingmian's sleeve with just one finger. His voice was very low and he seemed a little embarrassed.
"Or...don't go ask him."
Lu Qingmian: "Why?"
Jiang Jinyue didn't dare look Lu Qingmian in the eye. Lu Qingmian was clearly going to help him, but he changed his mind at the last minute. "He probably doesn't know... Even if he did know, I don't think he would tell anyone. He looks like he has a lot of troubles."
Lu Qingmian's voice was very calm: "Do you know him?"
Jiang Jinyue shook his head.
Lu Qingmian asked again: "Do you know him?"
Jiang Jinyue still shook his head.
Lu Qingmian's lips curled up in a sarcastic arc: "Then how dare you guarantee the character of a stranger?"
Jiang Jinyue loosened his fingers that were hooked on Lu Qingmian's sleeve. He opened his lips, but was interrupted by Lu Qingmian before he could say anything.
"Jiang Jinyue, don't say sorry. You haven't done anything wrong to anyone. Don't keep saying sorry."
Jiang Jinyue nodded dejectedly.
Before Lu Qingmian left the stairwell, he seemed to remember something. He bent down and picked up the feathers that Jiang Jinyue had dropped on the ground one by one, stuffed them into his pocket, and then walked straight to 903 and knocked on the door.
Seeing this, Jiang Jinyue blinked slowly and his heartbeat suddenly quickened.
He patted his chest and muttered softly, "My wings have grown, but why is my heartbeat still so irregular?"
On the other side of the corridor, Chen Keai inside the door probably thought that it was Zhao Zhenlin who had returned, so she opened the door without asking. After seeing Lu Qingmian standing at the door, her eyes suddenly widened, as if she had seen a ghost, and she raised her hand to close the door.
Lu Qingmian propped his foot against the door panel, a polite smile on his lips: "Hello, I'm the resident upstairs. I went out to take out the trash and forgot to bring my keys. Can I borrow your phone to make a call?"
Chen Keai was stunned for a moment, her expression changed, and she smiled and responded, "Do you want to call the locksmith company? I can do it for you."
As Chen Keai took out her cell phone from her pocket to make a call, Lu Qingmian said, "No need to unlock the door. Just call my family and ask them to come back and open the door for me."
Chen Keai still insisted: "The locksmith company should be quick."
Lu Qingmian refused to give in: "My family will be back sooner."
The smile on Chen Keai's face became increasingly stiff, and he became increasingly impatient. He simply put his phone in his pocket and said, "Handsome guy, you're so annoying. You're asking for so much help. I don't want to help you anymore. Go find someone else."
As Chen Keai was about to close the door, Lu Qingmian simply reached out and held the door tightly, and the smile on his face disappeared.
"You saw it, didn't you?"
Chen Keai's expression turned cold: "What did I see?"
Lu Qingmian sneered: "You even recorded it."
Chen Keai's Adam's apple rolled, and he simply admitted, "None of your business!"
Lu Qingmian made a direct request: "Delete the video."
Chen Keai smiled coldly: "Whether to delete it or not is my business, who do you think you are?"
Lu Qingmian's dark eyes swept over Chen Keai, a hint of sarcasm flashing in his eyes: "Chen Keai? You are the victim of a video being filmed, do you still want to be the perpetrator of the video?"
Chen Keai's expression froze on her face. She stopped talking and just stared at Lu Qingmian.
Lu Qingmian released his hand that was supporting the door panel, "I'll give you one day. If you don't delete the video..."
"So what if you don't delete it?" Chen Keai immediately grabbed the door handle and tried to close the door.
Lu Qingmian looked at him quietly with his dark eyes. Although there was no change in his expression, Chen Keai unconsciously took a step back.
"I will kill you."
After Lu Qingmian finished speaking, Chen Keai was stunned for a moment, then the corner of her mouth twitched, and she made a short and sarcastic "ha" sound, then slammed the door shut.
Jiang Jinyue hid in the stairwell and watched the whole time. After hearing Lu Qingmian's murder threat, he couldn't help but twitch his lips. For a moment, he thought he was watching some kind of second-year anime.
Lu Qingmian shrugged indifferently and walked back.
"Come on, I'll take you home."
Jiang Jinyue now has wings, so he definitely can't take the elevator and can only climb from the 9th floor to the 12th floor.
He followed Lu Qingmian closely and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Do you think Chen Keai will delete the video?"
Lu Qingmian glanced at Jiang Jinyue. "You don't seem worried at all that Chen Keai will upload the video everywhere?"
Jiang Jinyue had just been criticized by Lu Qingmian, so naturally, he didn't dare to guarantee Chen Keai. He just said, "But you threatened him that you would kill him, and he didn't seem afraid of you."
Lu Qingmian whispered, "Do you also think I'm trying to scare him?"
Jiang Jinyue walked beside Lu Qingmian, looking up at him, with a smile in his eyes and a small curve at the corners of his mouth. He looked at Lu Qingmian as if he was looking at a middle school boy.
He wanted to protect Lu Qingmian's middle school spirit, so he shook his head vigorously and said, "How could it be! I believe what you said."
Lu Qingmian's dark eyes swept over him and suddenly stopped.
Jiang Jinyue almost bumped into him.
Lu Qingmian stretched out his hand and pretended to pinch Jiang Jinyue's face.
Jiang Jinyue was really scared this time. When Lu Qingmian raised his hand, he covered his face with his hands, turned around and ran upstairs at a rapid speed. He ran so fast that the coat covering his wings was thrown to the ground.
Lu Qingmian did not chase after him and let Jiang Jinyue run upstairs quickly.
The stairwell became very quiet, the voice-activated lights went out, and everything sank into darkness.
In the darkness, Lu Qingmian stood quietly, his black eyes blending into the darkness, filled with world-weariness and hostility that almost overflowed.
Jiang Jinyue ran upstairs and saw that Lu Qingmian did not catch up with him, so he ran down again. The pair of wings on his back did not affect his running flexibility at all. He even flapped his wings twice while running, and his feet left the ground.
As Jiang Jinyue came back, the voice-controlled lights lit up layer by layer again.
Lu Qingmian watched the light approaching little by little, and subconsciously took a step back, like a monster accustomed to darkness subconsciously avoiding the light.
Along with the light came Jiang Jinyue, who suddenly flapped his white wings.
He simply flew down the stairs, but because the stairwell was narrow, his wings could not be fully extended, so he flew crookedly and stumbled, and occasionally jumped on his toes.
"Lu Qingmian!"
Jiang Jinyue spoke in a brisk tone, bringing the light back to the floor where Lu Qingmian was.
Lu Qingmian took a half step back and looked at Jiang Jinyue expressionlessly.
Jiang Jinyue didn't notice that Lu Qingmian's expression was unusually cold. He jumped down, but didn't estimate the distance well. His toes didn't touch the last step, and he fell down directly.
Lu Qingmian's deep black eyes reflected Jiang Jinyue's gradually enlarged figure, until Jiang Jinyue crashed into his arms.
The white wings stretched out trembling with fear, causing the feathers in the small stairwell to fly everywhere.
Jiang Jinyue leaned in Lu Qingmian's arms, smelling the sharp scent of pine snow, and pressed his hands tightly on Lu Qingmian's chest. The overly close physical contact instantly drained all of Jiang Jinyue's strength, his heartbeat became unbalanced for a second, and the golden finger that had been pretending to be dead suddenly came back to life.
"Provide the host with a random Mary Sue function~"
Lu Qingmian caught Jiang Jinyue who was rushing towards him. His vision was filled with flying white feathers. Those feathers were shining with holy light, which made his eyes, which were accustomed to darkness, squint slightly.
The next moment, a seven-colored rainbow appeared out of thin air behind Jiang Jinyue, and the seven-colored light dispelled the last trace of darkness in the stairwell.
Lu Qingmian cursed: "Fuck."
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