I Am The Third Party (GL) - Chapter 24
I took Wei Ling’s arm, took out a pair of pink cotton mops with plush balls from the shoe cabinet and put them at her feet, “Change your shoes.”
The young lady stood there with her hands on her hips, and I straightened up to look at her. She looked at me with mockery in her eyes, and made a tut-tut sound, lifting the leather boots on her feet, “Change your shoes? I’m really giving you face.”
“It’s okay if you don’t want to change them. I’ll mop them again later.”
Wei Ling laughed, “Hey, this is not your house, is there any need to be so concerned?”
I found it a little funny. Loving hygiene is a virtue, okay? I said, “Whether I care about it or not, I live here, and cleaning is to make the living environment more comfortable.”
“You still live here? Okay, you’re amazing.” Wei Ling bent down, opened the shoe cabinet, and reached out to pick at the heels of her shoes, “Forget about changing shoes, it’s too troublesome. Do you have shoe covers?”
“Yes,”
I pointed to the bottom drawer. “In the drawer.”
Wei Ling, wearing a pair of blue shoe covers, walked into the living room and flopped gracefully in the middle of the sofa. She crossed her legs, glanced around, and asked, “How long have you lived here?”
How long? Three months, two of which I haven’t seen the owner of this house.
I live alone in this house of about 100 square meters. It’s beautifully decorated, with water, electricity, and wireless internet, and it’s close to my workplace.
And I don’t have to pay any fees. I can come and go as I please. Aside from being alone in the room and talking to myself, everything else is fantastic. No one else could ask for it.
It seems this Miss Wei is definitely envious of me. What? Want a piece of the action?
“Moved in in October.” I didn’t bother to calculate it with her.
Wei Ling was shocked. “Fvck! That beast Qi Xi let you live at his house for over three months!”
She actually counted on her fingers: index, middle, ring. When she got to the fourth finger, she hesitated and put her little finger away.
“If you’re going to be her nanny, she’ll let you stay for three months.” I poured her a glass of water. “Have a drink.”
She took the glass but didn’t drink, holding it to warm her hands. “I’m her nanny, hehe… What’s your name?”
Wei Ling’s voice suddenly dropped. I snapped back to reality and saw her brows slightly furrowed, the corners of her mouth slightly drooping. She stared at me through half-closed eyes, a gaze that made me uncomfortable.
My toes clawed at my slippers, my hands clutched the corners of my clothes, and a sweat began to form on my back. I mentally rehearsed the scene of being tied up and dragged to the trunk of a car by Miss Wei Ling, then knocked unconscious and waking up to find myself in a cement construction site in an abandoned building, with two or three burly thugs with scars on their faces grinning cruelly and shaking their fists at me…
While she wasn’t noticing what I was doing, I swiped my phone and secretly dialed 911.
“Qiao Xianyu.”
Wei Ling stared at me in silence for a moment. Steam rose from the glass in her hand, creating a smoky atmosphere. Her rosy lips, misted with water, looked even more rosy. What
a beautiful person! Tsk, tsk, but her words were unpleasant.
“I called Qi Xi’s cell phone, and customer service said it was out of service.”
Wei Ling held her phone out in front of me. I checked the contact information and pointed to a string of numbers. “Look, this is 1x304218xxx. The middle six digits are in the wrong order.”
She waited for a moment, but I didn’t respond. I looked at her, my neck hunched, and she gasped, raising her eyelids and rolling her eyes at me. I snorted softly. Qi Xi didn’t tell you the correct number, so why should I?
“Didn’t you call her before?” I remembered that time in the cafe at HKUST. Qi Xi was talking to someone on the phone, a little angry. Later, we ran into Wei Ling at the restaurant. That had to be her.
Wei Ling sighed. “The number she gave me before was correct, but she changed it later. I blocked her several times before she told me this. It was fine when I called her right then, but it’s no longer in service when I get home.”
I silently calculated how much a new number would cost… What a waste!
“Forget it,” Wei Ling patted the sofa dejectedly. She reached for her handbag and fished out a folded yellow envelope from a hidden pocket.
She asked, “Qiao Xianyu, huh? Can you contact Qi Xi?” “
Huh?”
I nodded blankly, glancing at the envelope. Oh my god, is this young lady asking me to convey her admiration? She’s not even a middle school student, is she? And she’s so shy. I mean, you two have already slept together, why do you even need to resort to this? Do you still want to get on the bus first and buy the ticket later? But Qi Xi’s attitude was so clear last time. They even started fighting, and Miss Wei, you’re still so clingy. Aren’t you being too…?
How would I know if I can contact Qi Xi?
Her attitude had been clear, so obvious. How could I contact her? After that day, I didn’t dare initiate conversation with her. She disappeared without a word, and I haven’t contacted her since. I don’t know if she changed her number or if she’s still willing to answer my calls.
If possible, I’d love to contact her, but I can’t think of a suitable excuse.
My thoughts were swirling when Wei Ling opened her mouth and said, “Can you get in touch? I need your help with something.”
But wasn’t this another perfect excuse?
After a long journey
, I found myself staring at Wei Ling, who seemed to have no way out. “I haven’t contacted her in a long time, but I can try.”
Wei Ling paused, then continued, “I don’t trust you, but you’re my only way to contact her now. I can’t let anyone in our group know about this. You’re irrelevant to anyone. Harming anyone is a threat, saving anyone is a loss. I’ll give you the information, and the decision is yours.”
Their group? Wei Ling was in Group 17?
Qi Xi was once the central throne of Group 17. She claims some groups followed her, while others tried to drag her down.
Now Qi Xi is crippled, her brother wants her life, and the thrones of the other groups, seeking to curry favor with Qi Xi, are also trying to harm her for their own benefit.
Since Wei Ling is from Group 17, does that mean she wants Qi Xi’s life too?
I glanced at the fruit bowl under the coffee table. There was a fruit knife inside. If Wei Ling is, then I…
“Tell Qi Xi that there’s an anonymous payment coming in. The proceeds from Sanding Boxing are laundered very roughly through AT Bank, and the source account is hers. The detectives have already traced the sudden increase in deposits in the bank, and they’re trying to find the source.”
Wei Ling handed me the frayed envelope.
“The idea came from the Wuyang Group,” she added.
I frantically wrote down the key information in my hand, finding a pen. There was a lot I didn’t understand, and I didn’t know the exact words, but whatever. The pronunciation was the same, and Qi Xi would definitely understand.
I felt a little excited. Could this help Qi Xi?
I knew the more I knew about these things, the more dangerous they became. Words I didn’t understand, even from a literal sense, were not clean.
Reason told me I couldn’t continue like this. This was a trap, a black hole, a drug. Once involved, there was no escape.
But I was slowly drifting closer to Qi Xi.
She and I belonged to completely different worlds, like we were looking at Earth from another planet. She was at the North Pole, I was at the South Pole, one at each end. She was upright, I was upside down, separated by two poles, never to intersect. That
we had met at all, that we had known each other for four months and eight days from that unexpected night, was a miracle.
If it was a miracle, why should I give up?
It’s truly remarkable that a weak, timid, heartless, worthless person like me has this burning passion, this determination to forge ahead without fear of danger. I must complete this great feat before this burning passion dies down. If I give up again, won’t I be hiding under my covers in the dead of night regretting it forever?
“Anything else?”
I wrote down the words “Five Goats Group” and looked up to ask Wei Ling. I must have looked so silly, but Wei Ling actually smiled at me, giggling.
She pointed at the envelope and said, “Inside the envelope are all the bank’s operation records. Give it to her. It’s only a few days away. Tell her to chop them up quickly.”
“Hmm…” I replied and wrote down the words “Inside the envelope are the bank’s operation records.” Wei Ling leaned over to take a look, and her laughter grew even more pronounced. She tapped the tiny, compressed “Five Sheep” characters on my palm and laughed out loud, “Haha, five sheep. Qi Xi’s grandson would be so angry he’d vomit bl00d seeing that, haha, haha…”
My ears twitched and I asked, “Qi Xi? Is he also from the Qi family? Isn’t brother Qi Xi’s name Qi Xi?”
Wei Ling looked at me with wide eyes. “Qi Xi is her second brother, but he’s not a biological child of the Qi family. She even told you all this?”
“Uh…”
I rolled my eyes and shrank back.
“You’re such a weirdo.” I watched Wei Ling roll her eyes at me and sighed helplessly.
This person must be sick. I’ve only just met her for the second time, and she’s already calling me a weirdo.
“Qiao Xianyu, I really hate you.”
My heart shuddered, and I turned to look at her.
Wei Ling didn’t put on blush today, and her face was a little pale. “There’s something you probably don’t know. Qi Xi started playing with women at the age of seventeen, and he only did 19. It’s his rule not to bring anyone home. Everyone in the circle knows it.”
She spread her index and middle fingers at me and made a yeah gesture, but I knew it wasn’t yeah, it was “two.”
“There are only two people who have stayed with her at night without sleeping with her, one is Yan Sinan, and the other is you.”
I lowered my head. “Yan Sinan is her fiancée, and I am her nanny.”
“Oh,” Wei Ling snorted coldly, the irony was self-evident. “That green tea b1tch? Come on. How clean do you think she is? She won’t let you touch her. She’s still a fiancée, do you really think that’s an engagement? Ha, only Qi Xi treats her like a treasure.”
I thought, Wei Ling was probably just sour grapes because she couldn’t get her hands on them. She just said she hated me, but now she’s firing at Qi Xi. Who knows what she’ll say about me behind my back…
“Qi Xi was sent to the Yan family when he was seven years old. At that time, Old Man Yan was still the head of the Mu Yu Group. His son should have succeeded to the throne, but later the throne was given to that b1tch. Qi Xi played an indispensable role in this. Yan Sinan is two years older than Qi Xi and is thirty years old this year. She is lucky enough to have a baby face. You can’t tell, right? Before Qi Xi left the house and went to the Yan family, Yan Sinan was always sticking with Qi Chen. That little b1tch chased Qi Chen and called him brother every day. It was so disgusting. Who knows if she still had contact with Qi Chen later, and how many treacherous things she did. Qi Xi is probably no worse than her in this situation now.” “
Miss, the eldest young master called to urge you to go home!”
The bodyguard’s voice was so loud that it was so loud even when shouting through the door.
Wei Ling’s voice rose even higher, yelling at the door, “What are you yelling about? He’s the one who listens to me!”
The bodyguard yelled, “I swear to serve the young lady until death!”
Wei Ling walked over to open the door and said to the bald man, “If you make another mistake, I’ll skin you alive.”
I followed and called out to Wei Ling, “Wei Ling, wait a moment.”
She had already taken off her shoe covers and dropped them by the door. She turned around, her large, watery eyes gleaming with a hint of doubt as she waited quietly for me to speak.
I was stunned by her captivating eyes and asked, “Why did she treat you like that?”
Wei Ling smiled suddenly at my words
. She was so beautiful when she smiled, her lower lip pouting slightly when the corners of her mouth turned up, a soft, pink hue. In the end, she didn’t answer my question, only saying, “By the way, remember to tell Qi Xi something. Secret news: Lumikki’s Finnish head is here, and the currently designated largest partner in City A is Qi International. She might be interested in Lumikki.”
With that, she walked away, surrounded by bodyguards, out of sight.