I Am The Third Party (GL) - Chapter 31

Even if she didn’t say it, I could probably guess the relationship between Teuvo and her father. The moon-white earrings must have held immense significance for both of them, yet they separated. One gave them to his wife, his wife gave them to their daughter, and their daughter… The other chose to forever forget the earrings in a place once filled with happiness and laughter, buried until neither of them had forgotten them, and then, both of them passed away.

Perhaps, this was a kind of relief for them.

So what did it mean for her to give these earrings to me now?

Ever since that kiss last night, I’ve been playing dumb, even though I really, really wanted to ask her: Qi Xi, what about Yan Sinan? You loved her so much, how could you do this? You’re betraying her, you know that?

No, Qi Xi had so many lovers. If we were to talk about betrayal, she would have betrayed Yan Sinan thousands of times, even though Yan Sinan didn’t care. But so what? Yan Sinan said, “You’re cheating on me, you’re betraying me. No matter how much you make a fuss, aren’t you just trying to get me to look at you more?” Yes, no matter how much Qi Xi was messing around outside, didn’t Yan Sinan still have her completely under his control? Forget about anything else, just the leg Yan Sinan had broken for Qi Xi—hadn’t Qi Xi said she still owed him enough? Haha…

After all this fuss, in the end, I was the only one struggling from beginning to end. In the dead of night, hiding in Qi Xi’s arms, I asked myself sadly: Qiao Xianyu, Qi Xi loves to toy with other people’s feelings and doesn’t dare to face his own. What about you? Do you want to toy with your own feelings too? You clearly know the right choice, but why don’t you dare to make it?

Qiao Xianyu, what do you want?

To seduce someone else’s lover? Or to offer yourself up to be toyed with?

But now that things have come to this, I think all this is useless! Since last night, I’ve happily handed over the power to hurt me to Qi Xi. There’s no turning back. At the start of the game, I chose to continue, and now there’s no turning back. That idiot Qi Xi called me back from afar and gasped twice. On New Year’s Eve, I abandoned my family and ran to her. It’s come to this, what right do I have to talk about retreat? It

doesn’t matter if there’s no way out. My sister Xian has two principles in life: First, you can suffer in life, but you must never regret. Second, it’s important to know your place, to know when to advance and when to retreat. Too much is as bad as too little.

The first principle was already put into practice when I hugged Qi Xi’s neck and kissed her. As for the second…

I carefully brought the moon-white palm of my hand to my lips, my lips gently touching its cool, smooth surface. The tip of my tongue brushed against my lips, leaving a faint salty taste. Then I took Qi Xi’s hand and placed it in hers, closing her fingers together and holding hers tightly with both of mine. I love her hands, their distinct knuckles, their broad, strong physique.

“Thank you, I’m so happy. But I can’t take someone else’s things.”

This earring carries something like a promise, and a hidden emotion. It’s just a dead object, but it has many similarities with me. I can’t help but smile bitterly in my heart. Is it the stone that is loyal, or is it the human that is stubborn?

I looked at the obscurity in Qi Xi’s bright eyes, his black eyeballs flickering with white spots, and asked me in a gentle and earnest voice, “Why don’t you want it? This is what I gave you, how can it be said to be someone else’s?”

I couldn’t help but laugh in my heart. How could she say that Yuebai is hers so confidently? Her mother gave Yuebai to her, and she said it was hers, but this one…

forget it.

I picked up the envelope and two pieces of paper that fell on the ground, and used my phone to light up to see. One was a torn half photo, and the other was ordinary red-barred letter paper.

“What is this…?”

It was supposed to be a group photo, torn in the middle. In it, a man with a stern expression, wearing a black windbreaker, one foot planted on a massive rock, a black gun pressed to his ear. He stared at the camera, his lips curled up, his eyes narrow and narrow. Qi Xi’s arrogant and domineering face bore a striking resemblance to the man in the photo.

I smiled faintly, understanding.

“This is a photo of my dad,” Qi Xi muttered, snatching the half-broken photo from my hand.

I patted her face, “You really look like your dad, exactly like him. What’s the matter with your family photo in the house in Taoyuan Community? At that time, I said that you don’t look like the couple in the family photo. Do you look like your grandparents? You said yes, liar.”

Qi Xi quickly hugged my arm and shook it flatteringly, “It was different then. But I didn’t lie to you. That is indeed my family photo, me and my adoptive parents. I left the Qi family’s old house when I was seven years old and followed Uncle Yan. Uncle Yan hired the childless couple to take care of me. They are also my parents.” She

has biological parents but cannot live with them. She is forced to fight each other with a group of brothers and sisters who she has only seen a few times. Her father lives a dissolute life. Her mother… Well, I don’t know about her mother, so I’ll skip it. Her eldest brother is cruel and ruthless. Her fiancée is hard to guess and she is always eager to get her. She is hunted by enemies and lovers all day long. Hey – Qi Xi, your life is really not easy.

I kissed her cheek graciously and smiled, “Your dad is so handsome, and you’re so handsome too.”

Qi Xi pouted and glared at me unhappily. She looked both cute and funny, like a pufferfish. “Don’t you think I’m more handsome than my dad?”

I laughed and pulled her pouty lips. “You’re prettier than your dad, and your dad is more handsome than you.”

“Ah—” She twisted my waist and I cried out in pain. “You said you were pretty and you twisted me. You’re a monster.”

But I forgot that Qi Xi was that shameless bastard, and I also forgot her many bad pasts. It was impossible to expect her to admit her mistakes and stay quiet for a while. The more you taught her a lesson, the more she would become more arrogant. To vent her dissatisfaction, this problem student actually put her paw on my chest and lowered her head to bite my ear. The tingling touch turned into a thin electric current that ran through me. I trembled and fell into her arms, limp.

For the first time, I felt so weak and powerless, as if every bone and sinew in my body had been drained away. My only support was Qi Xi. I could only cling to her. I appeared reluctant, but inside, I was smug and overjoyed. What a shameless

woman I was… a woman who had achieved success, yet still acted pretentiously! I even cursed myself for being shameless.

To avoid this awkward situation, I hurriedly picked up the letter from the ground and read it. A little dust had fallen on the paper, and I shook it off. Qi Xi, holding my fingertips and resting her chin on my shoulder, also came over to read. She actually read the words on the paper word by word: “Snow is a desolate land, love is the arrival of the spring breeze, people are pure white, and hope is the arrival of the bluebird.”

The white light of the phone illuminated the dust floating in the darkness. The tiny particles, usually unnoticed, now seemed like fairies who had strayed into the mortal world, dreamlike and ethereal. Qi Xi lowered her head to meet my gaze, and in her eyes, I could read a melancholy as clear as a mountain spring, so close, yet so far away.

I felt a chill on the tip of my nose and looked at the paper. “The handwriting is so ugly and crooked. There’s more to it later, why don’t you read it?”

“Little fairy.”

Qi Xi suddenly grabbed my hand and stared at me blankly, her lower lip trembling and her shoulders shaking slightly. I could see that she was very excited and a little scared. I reached out and gently stroked her chest, “What’s wrong?”

“Little fairy, look at this below. It says ‘Snow Wind and White Bird’. My dad likes to wear black clothes. Back then, the people in Group 17 gave him the nickname ‘White Bird’ to mock him, and the snow wind refers to Teuvo. I heard my dad mention it. Look at the first sentence again, ‘Snow is a desolate place’. Don’t you think of someone?”