Peerless Beauty – Chapter 97
by Little PandaTouch You
Can I?
Eyebrows, tip of the nose, then, lingering on the soft lips.
Not quite a kiss, just a pressing of lips against lips.
Carrying the fresh fragrance and cool moisture after bathing.
After pressing for a few seconds, Lu Yinxi sat up, gently caressing Jian Qing’s long hair, exploring more details.
Jian Qing didn’t hide anything from her, resting her head on her lap, eyes closed to relax, saying whatever she had done.
Lu Yinxi leaned against the sofa, listening quietly.
From now on, Jian Qing and Lan Zhou would not end up in a life-or-death opposition, but they also couldn’t become familiar friends, perhaps never interacting for the rest of their lives.
It was already a good outcome.
Fortunately, fortunately, she had never given up on changing, never gone with the flow, never been manipulated by fate, trying bit by bit, quantitative changes eventually led to qualitative changes.
Or perhaps, she couldn’t change any fate, what she could change was only the person in her arms.
Using her true heart to exchange for Jian Qing’s true heart, using this relationship to force Jian Qing to weigh revenge against letting go.
Jian Qing chose to let go.
Only then did Lu Yinxi understand that an ordinary and stable life was not only her own desire, but also Jian Qing’s longing.
She had always yearned for such a life, but good fortune had never favored her, giving her a broken family instead.
Lu Yinxi leaned down again, kissing her lips, a touch light as a dragonfly skimming water.
Jian Qing opened her eyes, quietly looking at her, her gaze shifting.
Lu Yinxi also looked at her, her chest filled with soft love.
Loving her deeply, cherishing her.
Yet too shy to express it, fearing she might think her frivolous.
They had seen much of life and death, but sometimes, they still couldn’t express love openly.
It should be said aloud.
Lu Yinxi repeatedly gathered courage, finally pecking Jian Qing’s lip corner again, confessing: “I love you so much.”
Her voice was very soft, her eyes still flickering with shyness.
No flowery words, no moving metaphors, simple and sincere, heartwarming and straightforward expression.
Jian Qing still quietly looked at Lu Yinxi, her gaze gradually softening, like warm sunlight on a winter’s day, a faint smile appearing on her lips.
Lu Yinxi kissed her again, emphasizing: “Love you very much.”
Jian Qing brought up old accounts: “Back then, you cursed me in your heart every other day.”
Recalling those times, Lu Yinxi lightly snorted: “Who told you to always bully me then, and give me cold looks.”
Cold eyes, cold face, terribly fierce.
With a faint smile on her lips, Jian Qing asked Lu Yinxi: “On a love scale from 0 to 10, which level do you love me?”
Her most familiar numerical grading method.
“Level 9.”
The person in her arms was somewhat surprised: “Not level 10?”
“Afraid you’ll get proud.” Lu Yinxi chuckled, reaching out to tug her ear, “Wiggle your ears.”
Jian Qing didn’t hear anything nice, so she didn’t move, closing her eyes pretending to doze.
“Come on, wiggle them.” Lu Yinxi softened her tone, her breath brushing Jian Qing’s ear, “It’s very cute.”
Jian Qing remained silent, but twitched her ears, moving them back and forth.
Lu Yinxi tugged at her ears, laughing out loud with joy.
Warm fingertips moved from her ears, along her jaw, lingering on her collarbone.
Lu Yinxi tapped her collarbone, looking at her, hesitating to speak: “Iβ¦ I⦔
“If you have something to say, say it.”
“Iβ¦ can I, touch you?” She asked weakly.
The only two times, it was Jian Qing who took the initiative, she passively received.
Although it felt good, but⦠but she also wanted to touch the person in her arms.
Jian Qing heard the implication, opened her eyes, and asked knowingly: “Aren’t you touching me now?”
Her fingers were lingering on her collarbone.
Lu Yinxi’s face turned red with embarrassment: “You, you know what I mean.”
Jian Qing buried her face in her belly, her voice breathy with laughter: “I don’t know, what do you mean?”
Lu Yinxi, disregarding the burning sensation on her face, gave up and softly scolded her: “The thing you did to me in the evening!”
Jian Qing couldn’t help but chuckle: “It’s late, we can’t, I have a lecture tomorrow, need to give a report.”
Rejected, Lu Yinxi didn’t give up, making an appointment with her: “Thenβ¦ then let’s go to the room to rest, you come back early tomorrow night, after work you can’t linger outside for too long without reason.”
Jian Qing smiled and softly replied “Okay.”
Early the next morning, after Jian Qing left, Lu Yinxi called to contact Lan Zhou.
Lan Zhou didn’t answer the phone for a long time, nor did she reply to messages.
The last person to contact her last night was Jian Qing. Lu Yinxi worried something might have happened to her, so she directly took a taxi to the hotel to see her.
She kept calling her phone all the way.
As she was about to reach the hotel, the call finally went through.
The voice on the other end of the phone sounded a bit hoarse and weak.
“Sister Lan Zhou, what’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell?”
“I got caught in the rain yesterday, might have caught a cold⦔
“I’m on my way to the hotel, I’ll bring some medicine for you. Open the door for me when I get there.”
Lu Yinxi bought cold medicine at a roadside pharmacy, and just in case, also bought a thermometer and some fever-reducing medicine.
Arriving at Lan Zhou’s hotel suite, she saw Lan Zhou’s assistant carrying breakfast, also waiting outside the door.
Lan Zhou, wearing pajamas and looking tired, came out to open the door for them.
Lu Yinxi reached out to feel her forehead.
Indeed, it was a bit hot.
Lan Zhou asked her assistant to boil water, while Lu Yinxi took out the thermometer to measure Lan Zhou’s underarm temperature.
With her head feeling heavy and dizzy, Lan Zhou was pale and listless, holding the cold thermometer under her arm, reminiscing: “Now they’re all electronic, it’s been a long time since I’ve used this kindβ¦ seems like I only used this as a child. When I was little, when the younger brothers and sisters in the orphanage got sick, I would go to take their temperature and feed them medicine. They were restless and couldn’t hold the thermometer steady, so I had to hold them in my arms, hugging their arms, only then would they stay still⦔
She was used to taking care of others, being considerate of others.
Lu Yinxi said: “Hospitals still use this kind of thermometer now. Electronic forehead thermometers are convenient, but they’re easily affected by external factors. If it shows above 37.3Β°, they still need to use a thermometer to check again, to confirm if it’s really a fever.”
Lan Zhou said: “You talk like a doctor.”
Lu Yinxi smiled, half-jokingly said: “I could have become a doctor originally.”
“Why did it become impossible?”
“Not quite suitable, I guess.”
Lan Zhou also smiled, not saying anything more.
Five minutes later, Lu Yinxi took out the thermometer, checking the temperature: “37.6Β°C, low-grade fever, no need to use fever-reducing medicine. Do you have a headache?”
She put away the fever-reducing medicine, leaving some cold medicine for cough relief and sore throat.
Lan Zhou only felt that her breath was hot, shaking her head: “No, just feeling a bit unwell, I’ll drink more warm water.”
“Let’s try physical cooling then, does the hotel have ice packs? I’ll go get one for you.”
“They do, don’t go, I’ll call and have someone bring it up.”
After eating a little breakfast and drinking lots of warm water, Lan Zhou lay back down on the bed to rest with an ice pack on her forehead.
Lu Yinxi sat by the bed to keep her company.
“You must have been scared last night.”
In the middle of the night, Jian Qing had taken her to the anatomy building to see her father’s remains.
The rainy campus, the dim anatomy building, the underground workshop filled with human specimensβ¦ Recalling last night’s scene, Lan Zhou’s face turned pale: “She said she could take me to see my biological father, I didn’t expect, didn’t expect to see a corpse. However, she probably didn’t mean to, those studying medicine must be used to it.”
Lu Yinxi thought to herself, she did it on purpose. Even medical students don’t go to the anatomy building at midnight, let alone to the specimen preparation workshop. What they see and interact with are usually completed cadaver teachers.
“Did she tell you about your father?”
Lan Zhou shook her head: “Not much, just one sentence, saying he was a human trafficker when he was younger, causing her sister to be abducted. When I came back last night, I had someone look up some information. I guess he got what he deserved. The grace of nurture is greater than the grace of birth. I don’t have any feelings for him, but he was my biological father after all. Donating his remains could be considered a good deed. I plan to buy a plot for him, erect a cenotaph, to repay the debt of birth. If Dr. Jian still has any grievances or resentment, I’ll bear it for him; if apologies or compensation are needed, I’ll apologize and compensate on his behalf⦔
Lu Yinxi said: “Don’t be afraid, she won’t trouble you in the future.”
Jian Qing always kept her promises.
Lan Zhou hesitated for a moment, then asked: “Can we still be friends in the future?”
Lu Yinxi lowered her head, saying softly: “Lan Zhou, I like her, the kind of like between a man and a woman.”
An unexpected coming out.
Lan Zhou was dumbfounded, removing the ice pack from her forehead, exclaiming in astonishment: “Aren’t youβ¦ aren’t you cousins?”
“That’s just a cover, we’re already together.”
“But you’re still so youngβ¦ Is she treating you seriously? Does she have a family? A husband and children? Do her parents agree?”
Lu Yinxi’s biological age was just over 20, Lan Zhou had always seen her as a little sister. Her first reaction wasn’t that same-sex relationships were unethical, but worry that she might be deceived by an older person.
Feeling genuinely cared for, Lu Yinxi smiled slightly, saying: “Don’t worry, she’s very good, not deceiving or toying with my feelings.”
Lan Zhou looked at her, silent for a few seconds, putting the ice pack back on her forehead, sighing: “Then I understand, you telling me this means you’ve chosen her. We can’t be friends in the future, right?”
Lu Yinxi didn’t respond, standing up and saying: “Sister Lan Zhou, you’ll be very happy in the future, you’ll have a husband who loves you very much, a wonderful family, and you’ll gain many sincere friends.”
She was the protagonist of this world, she would have the most perfect ending.
Lan Zhou looked up at her, smiling bitterly: “Your blessing sounds strange, like a prophecy. If we can’t be friends, you can consider me a senior. If you need any help in the future, you can come to me.”
Lu Yinxi nodded and said goodbye: “Thank you. I’ll leave now, Sister Lan Zhou. Thank you for taking care of me during this time, goodbye.”
“Goodbye.”
Lu Yinxi walked out of the hotel.
Flashes of scenes involving Lan Zhou passed through her mind.
She had to admit, she had a certain fondness for Lan Zhou.
Of course, it was just pure fondness, not romantic attraction.
Lan Zhou possessed many admirable qualities, cheerful and kind, open-minded.
After initially approaching her with a purpose, Lu Yinxi was willing to sincerely befriend such a person.
However, from now on, if she were to become close friends with Lan Zhou again, she feared it would be like a fishbone stuck in Jian Qing’s throat.
Jian Qing no longer harbored hatred towards Lan Zhou, but she also wouldn’t want anyone close to her to have even the slightest connection with Lan Zhou.
Becoming strangers, never interacting again, was the best outcome.
After returning from the hotel, Lu Yinxi didn’t go home, but instead bought a notebook and a pen, and went to the area near the library of the school across the street.
Nearby was the academic report hall, where the Jiangzhou University Oncology Center Comprehensive Laboratory was holding an academic lecture today.
Although held on campus, it was a lecture for medical and nursing staff from various hospitals, not for students.
Lu Yinxi looked young, and when she reached the entrance, she was stopped and questioned by the staff.
Lu Yinxi waved the notebook in her hand, pretending to be younger, and said: “Teacher, I’m a sixth-year student in the eight-year clinical program. I previously did a rotation internship in oncology, and Dr. Jian Qing was my supervisor. I don’t have a shift today, so I came to learn.”
Teachers naturally welcome students who take the initiative to learn.
Lu Yinxi sat in the last row.
Some scholars from Singapore, Malaysia, and international colleges were present, and the experts on the podium uniformly reported in English.
Lu Yinxi couldn’t understand much.
Jiangzhou University often held various lectures, and Lu Yinxi occasionally chose to attend some in humanities and social sciences, but for medical ones, she basically only listened to those related to oncology.
There were tea and lecture schedule sheets on the table. Lu Yinxi picked one up to look at it. Jian Qing’s report session had already passed, but she was one of the moderators for the morning.
After the expert on the stage finished, she stood at the side of the stage, giving some concluding remarks and thanks, introducing the name, hospital department, identity, and main topic of the next expert, then inviting the expert to the stage.
The audience applauded in welcome. Lu Yinxi gazed from afar at Dr. Jian in her formal attire, looking very serious, and couldn’t help but smile.
Who would have thought that this refined and beautiful young scholar was picking lychees in the rain on campus last night?
As she watched Jian Qing, smiling secretly, Jian Qing’s keen sixth sense came into play. She glanced back a few times and discovered Lu Yinxi’s presence in the crowd.
Seeing her look over, Lu Yinxi waved slightly to signal her.
Jian Qing looked at her for a few seconds, maintaining her composure, then took out her phone, typed a few words, and sent them to Lu Yinxi.
Lu Yinxi received the message, opened it to look, and her face turned slightly red.
γMiss Lu, are you going to follow me all day for last night’s promise?γ
Nonsense!
She just missed her a little and came to see her, how could she make it sound so lustful?
Lu Yinxi typed back: γDr. Jian, don’t judge others by yourself, my thoughts are pure!γ
Jian Qing read the message, didn’t reply, looked back once more, smiled faintly, then returned her gaze to the podium.
At noon, as the host, Jian Qing and the people from the oncology lab needed to accompany the visiting experts for lunch, unable to attend to Lu Yinxi. Lu Yinxi went to the school cafeteria to have lunch by herself.
In the evening, after seeing off the experts one by one, it was nearly eight o’clock.
Jian Qing first went to the supermarket for a round, bought fruits and snacks that Lu Yinxi loved, then returned home.
Opening the door, she was greeted by a fragrance of flowers.
The living room had warm-toned lights on, and a path of colorful flower petals led to the bedroom. The walls were hung with star pendants emitting a soft yellow glow.
Jian Qing, not being very romantic, walked to the wall and inspected the star pendants for any potential safety hazards.
Looking closer, she realized that many photos were pasted on the wall.
There were photos of her with Lu Yinxi, and her solo photos – back views, side profiles, at school, hospital, parkβ¦
When were so many photos taken?
Jian Qing scanned through them one by one.
Lu Yinxi, hearing Jian Qing return, ran in barefoot from the balcony outside, pitter-patter, pulled her into the bedroom, pointing at a black dress on the bed: “I bought this for you, wear it for me tonight, go take a shower.”
Jian Qing picked up the black dress, holding it against herself.
It wasn’t skimpy, just a normal dress, without any erotic implications.
“Where are the shoes?” she asked Lu Yinxi.
Lu Yinxi was stunned.
She hadn’t bought shoes.
Jian Qing flicked her forehead: “Am I supposed to wear a dress and slippers to have dinner with you?”
“Then go barefoot, don’t wear shoes.” Lu Yinxi pointed at the flower petals on the floor, “Look, I’ve paved the way for you.”
A very dreamy and romantic idea.
Jian Qing’s eyes showed a hint of disdain, pulling Lu Yinxi into the bathroom with her: “Troublesome, I won’t wear it.”
Entering the bathroom, she turned on the water, filling the bathtub.
Lu Yinxi stood in the bathroom, at a loss.
Jian Qing, with her back to Lu Yinxi, casually removed her shirt as if no one was there.
Lu Yinxi saw the bewitching flower on her shoulder blade, her cheeks suddenly burning red.
Jian Qing spoke softly: “Little one, are you standing still, waiting for the teacher to instruct you?”
Mocked by her againβ¦
This person’s mouth is quite mean.
Lu Yinxi softly humphed, leaning against the wall pitifully, reaching out to scratch the wall, silently pondering what to do.
As she scratched, she saw a bathrobe hanging behind the door, with a bathrobe belt.
An idea struck her, she walked over and took down the belt.
Jian Qing stepped into the bathtub, lying down comfortably, closing her eyes.
Lu Yinxi leaned down, kissing the tip of her ear: “You can’t move tonight, only I can move.”
Jian Qing made a sound of agreement, her fair cheeks tinged with a faint red from the steam.
Lu Yinxi reached out, using the white belt to blindfold her eyes, tying a knot behind her head.
With the soft fabric covering her eyes, she was stunned, instinctively raising her head towards Lu Yinxi’s direction, water droplets sliding down her slender neck.
“Don’t, don’t move.” Lu Yinxi’s voice trembled slightly with nervousness, gazing at Jian Qing’s high bridge of nose and rosy thin lips, suddenly burying her face in her neck, licking that water droplet.
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