Qin Luo sucked in a breath when he heard that, then nodded. "Fair enough. You do owe her."
Xu Duoduo hadn't expected Lin Qianxing and Yuanyuan to have been abandoned as children too, and her heart ached.
Lin Qianxing tightened his grip on the apple, not daring to look up. "Yeah. Someone like me doesn't deserve to be liked. I really am a jinx, aren't I? I always bring misfortune to the people who genuinely care about me, so you should stop bothering with me so much too."
His eyes were red.
But Qin Luo said, "Hold on, you've got this all mixed up. What does any of that have to do with you being a jinx? Let me straighten it out for you. Tell me, did you start the fire?"
Lin Qianxing froze. "Of course not!!"
"There you go, then," Qin Luo said. "Did you beg Yuanyuan to save you? Or drag her over to save you? And afterward, how did she treat you? Did she hate you?"
Lin Qianxing shook his head repeatedly. In truth, he didn't know. He hadn't dared to see her. Yuanyuan had been adopted by a kind person back then, and she had been living in a care facility ever since.
After the Apocalypse.
Lin Qianxing had reunited with her at H City Base, and that was when he'd resolved to help her.
"There you go," Qin Luo said. "You don't need to carry such a heavy burden. Repaying kindness is a good thing, but from what I'm hearing, you're under an insane amount of pressure. If you get yourself killed, how are you going to repay her?"
Xu Duoduo added at just the right moment, "Yuanyuan didn't save you so you could go off and die again."
Lin Qianxing suddenly went rigid.
Xu