I Am The Third Party (GL) - Chapter 4

Qi Xi tutted, slumped back in his chair, and squinted at the girl.

I glanced at the angry little beauty. Oh, surprisingly, she wasn’t the one from this morning.

Compared to the one from this morning, this one was even more charming and charming, her large, watery almond-shaped eyes flickering, her cheeks flushed, and her pink dress and light yellow shawl immediately made me look shorter…

“Qi Niuxi, you said there was no one else around, right? Then who was that slutty b1tch from the University of Science and Technology a few days ago?” The girl’s almond-shaped eyes glared at me, her gaze piercing my forehead. “Oh, we barely even got over the last one, and here comes another.”

The girl crossed her arms, her eyes darting up and down my body, and she snorted coldly, “Your Majesty, your eyes are getting more and more lopsided. What’s the matter? Are you tired of all the meat? Would you like some vegetables? With such a flat figure, you should go for AA, it’s rare.”

…

What’s wrong with AA? AA is still br3asts, right? They can also perform the most basic breastfeeding functions.

Besides, whether I have a good figure or not is none of your business.

I looked up at Qi Xi. She was still leaning back in her chair, her brow furrowed, staring at the girl silently.

“How dare you tell me to disappear, my majesty? Do you still think you’re the young master of the Qi family? Do you think the Qi family is still the same Qi family? Calling you king is a sign of respect. You really think you’re serious. You’re just a stray dog, who are you trying to show off to?”

Qi family? Young master? King?

What the hell is going on? A time-travel drama, a European version of a TV show…

“If you want to break up, then so be it. I don’t care. But I’m telling you, don’t put on airs in front of me. If a fight really breaks out, you think you can win on your own?”

The girl, one hand on her hip, looked down at Qi Xi with her head held high, looking like she couldn’t stop eating.

Her demeanor gave me a strange sense of shame, and I couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.

But I was a little scared by the two burly men following the girl.

After a brief silence, a clear sneer rang out in the stillness.

“Heh.” Qi Xi chuckled, lifted his long bangs from his forehead, grinned, and his two sharp canine teeth reflected a cold white light under the incandescent light. “Ha, haven’t you been fucked enough?”

I was stunned on the spot and turned my neck to look at the girl. As expected, the girl’s cheeks flushed red, her fists clenched, and her eyes were staring at Qi Xi with eyes that seemed to be popping out!

“If you have the guts, say it again!” The girl raised her hand to slap her.

But just as she was about to fight, Qi Xi twisted her arm behind her and pinned her to the ground.

The girl’s screams scared the two bodyguards behind her, and the burly man was about to attack.

Qi Xi exerted force, and the girl’s arm creaked, and she screamed again. The two bodyguards immediately stopped and dared not move forward.

“I said, you deserve it.” Qi Xi leaned over, his mouth close to the girl’s ear, and patted her face.

The small restaurant erupted in an uproar. Everyone looked over, and the owner’s face darkened.

Some kind-hearted people tried to mediate, but I stopped them all.

I stared at Qi Xi silently, my eyes lowered.

Chaos reigned all around, a rumbling cacophony of shouting and wailing.

To me, everything seemed still, the only thing moving was Qi Xi.

She smiled, she spoke.

Her lips moved, opening and closing.

I finally understood why Qi Xi had asked me to find a quiet place when we called earlier.

I suddenly felt inexplicably excited.

I found I really enjoyed watching Qi Xi’s arrogant demeanor.

He was just so arrogant, so cool, so domineering.

Don’t argue. Since you’ve offended me, don’t blame me for being rude.

There’s a saying, “Youth is burning.

” Burning… That’s probably what it felt like.

“Boss, could you please pack up the two servings of rice bowls with hot peppers and shredded pork that I just ordered?”

I stood up and walked towards the boss, taking out two hundred yuan and giving it to him.

The boss looked very grumpy and wanted to argue with me.

But he frowned at Qi Xi and said nothing. He took the money and put the rice bowls into the lunch box and gave it to me.

I heard Qi Xi say to the girl, “Wei Ling, if you don’t want the whole world to know that you were fucked by a woman, just be honest.”

I raised the lunch box in my hand and took a deep sniff of the aroma of the hot peppers.

Qi Xi came up from behind me and put a hand on my shoulder, “I’m sorry, I embarrassed you.”

I shrugged and looked up at her, and found that she was really tall.

As expected, I knew that having too much contact with her would definitely not be a good thing. It would only increase more and more psychological trauma.

Now, in addition to having small br3asts, I also have the psychological trauma of being “shorty”.

“It’s okay. I’ve lived for so many years, after all, and I’ve seen a lot. Well, at least I won’t discriminate against you… Society is much more open now than it was before. Yeah… there will still be challenges, but as long as you work hard, it’ll be fine. I wish you happiness.”

I carefully composed my words, fearing that if I said the wrong thing, her explosive temper would kill me.

Qi Xi suddenly stopped and looked at me intently, which made me uneasy.

Why was it so cold in October?

“Discrimination against me for what?” she asked.

“Huh?”

She didn’t get angry, but waited quietly for my answer.

In that moment, I understood what it meant to be caught in a dilemma.

“Um… don’t you like… girls?”

Qi Xi pursed her lips and walked forward. “Yeah.”

I hurried to catch up with her. “That’s right… I didn’t mean anything else, it’s just that society these days really treats people like that…”

“Do you have someone you like?”

“Huh?” I hadn’t expected her to jump to this question. “No.”

“Have you ever liked men?”

Have you ever liked men? I’ve had feelings for a few, but I wouldn’t say I love them.

“No.”

“Have you ever liked a woman?”

“No!”

“Then how do you know, you don’t like women?”

She looked at me, her eyes so calm, as if they were in the clouds.

My mind went blank: I don’t know.

She took the plastic bag from my hand, “Let’s eat first. Come with me.”

“Oh.”

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When I came to my senses, I was already sitting on the sofa in Qi Xi’s living room watching the LCD TV.

We ate eight yuan portions of shredded pork and chili pepper rice from ceramic bowls.

Qi Xi’s house was in Taoyuan Community, two stops away from HKUST. Real estate there wasn’t expensive, but it wasn’t cheap either. I

hadn’t guessed she was a salaried worker.

I’d assumed she’d be like most other thugs, living in a shabby concrete house and waiting on the boss’s orders.

On the coffee table sat a crystal photo frame. I glanced at it casually. “Family photo?”

She snorted.

I picked up the frame. “You don’t look much like your parents. You’re much prettier than them. You look like your grandparents, right? Maybe it’s inherited from the previous generation?”

“Maybe.”

“Oh.”

Seeing she wasn’t interested in talking any more, I shut up.

Gradually, a faint smell of rust drifted into the living room. I sniffed, searching for the source, and found Qi Xi’s right arm was wet. When I scratched it, it was all bl00d.

It suddenly hit me that she’d been chased last night, and her hand was still injured. How many people had she offended? What had happened?

She pried my hand apart and said, “It’s okay, I just broke it.”

“It’s okay, bullshit, take it off.”

My mother, a former surgical nurse and now a professional lactation consultant, said: The body is the most important thing for a person. Even small injuries and cuts must be taken care of. If you treat your cells well, the cells will treat you well.

“Take it off?” Qi Xi raised an eyebrow.

Oh my God, what are you thinking, big sister?

I was too lazy to talk nonsense with her and pulled her jacket down. She didn’t resist and cooperated obediently.

Qi Xi was only wearing a pure cotton vest under her jacket, with her arms exposed.

I asked her if she had a first aid kit, and she said it was in the bedroom cabinet. I took out the box and used tweezers to hold the sterilized cotton to wipe the bl00d off her, and sprayed some medicine on her.

“Let it air out so that your new cells can breathe oxygen.”

I threw the bloody cotton into the trash can, looked up and saw Qi Xi smiling at me.

It was the first time I saw a soft expression on her face, and I laughed along, almost foolishly. “Eat more light food, less salt, and get some protein.”

I felt the atmosphere was awkward, a bit overwhelmed, so I bandaged her with gauze, wrapping it around and around.

When I was done, I went to her refrigerator again, clearing out a pile of rotting, withered vegetable leaves and two rotten eggs. The air freshener was expired… “

Qi

Xi.”

I closed my eyes and let out a long breath.

“What’s wrong?”

She came out, wearing a long cotton and linen gown, and leaned against the kitchen door, watching me holding the refrigerator door with a forced smile, with interest.

“Give it to me.” I held out my hand.

She looked at my hand spread out in front of her and smiled. “What?”

I urged impatiently, “A banknote, a Mao Zedong note, quick!”

“Oh.” She fished a green note from her trouser pocket and patted my palm.

I took one look and slapped the piece of money in her face, snarling, “Red!”

Qi Xi grabbed my hand and the dollar, squeezing it gently. Damn it!

A dog can’t change its nature, a scoundrel can’t change his ways. I just witnessed her glorious love life, how could he have forgotten this woman’s sinful past?

“I paid two hundred dollars at the restaurant,”

I said, not wanting to reason with her.

“Oh.” She pulled five red bills from her pocket and shoved them into my hand.

I kept two, gave her eighty-four dollars in change, and returned the remaining three. “One hundred is mine, I’ll buy you something for one hundred, and keep the rest.”

“Buy me something?”

“Wait here for me, don’t leave, or I’ll take the hundred. I can’t stand you.”

I changed my shoes and headed downstairs. On my way there, I remembered there was a Carrefour near the neighborhood—it was quite large, so I followed the chain of stores, searching for the supermarket, and found it quickly.

My mom says that if you see bl00d, you need zinc, protein, and vitamins.

I had no idea what Qi Xi liked to eat or what he avoided. I figured, after being injured, what right did he have to be picky? He’d just eat whatever I was given!

So I bought a fish, black fungus, kelp, tomatoes, weighed a pound of tangerines, picked up five eggs, and finally grabbed a large bag of pure milk and Hotan dates.

Standing in the elevator, looking at the commercials with my overflowing shopping bags, I felt incredibly naive, meddling in the affairs of a woman with unidentified origins.

Oh well, whatever, I’ve done it anyway.

My mom says you should be kind, and my dad says you should learn to be grateful.

But I think my grandfather’s words are the best: A person should combine kindness and generosity.

The world is a cycle of cause and effect, the visible and the invisible coexisting as a whole, and loss and gain are an invisible balance.

Sometimes, people tend to lend a hand to those who have sought their help before, perhaps because they feel they are needed and care about them, and so they feel more comfortable trusting their hearts.

As I was thinking, I arrived at Qi Xi’s door. I shouted, “I’m back! Open the door.”

But…

Qi Xi’s nonchalant voice rang out from the other side: “You’re back! Who are you?” “Fvck

you

!” “Qiao Xianyu!”

“Qiao Xianyu? Who? I don’t know

you.” “I don’t know your sister. “

The plastic bag in my hand hurt.

“Sister, if you want to change your name, just call yourself Qiao Xianyu. Okay, open the door! Hurry!”

“I do know someone with the word ‘xian’ in their name, but it’s not Qiao Xianyu.”

How could I know who else she knew with the word ‘xian’ in her name?

Wait, something suddenly occurred to me…

I held my breath, and, forget it, I

threw my pride away. I shouted, “Open the door! I’m a fairy!” The door suddenly opened, and a hand reached out, pulling me into the house. I stumbled into a soft embrace, looking up to see Qi Xi’s smirk, the look of triumph.

“Hey, be careful of broken eggs!”

I pushed her away, carried the things into the kitchen, sorted the cooked and raw food, and put them into the refrigerator one by one.

I saw Qi Xi out of the corner of my eye. She was watching me work leisurely with her chin in her hand.

I suddenly felt powerless, as if I was raising a waste.

“You can cook, right? I also bought fish. And milk. Drink it every day these days, and the wound will heal faster. Remember to change the bandage every day.”

“I can’t.”

What did she say?

I turned around and glared at her.

She glared back at me indifferently, her eyes dark, which made me a little dazed.

I remembered the “blue hole” introduced in “National Geographic”. People stand on the edge of a deep pit on the seabed. If they take another step forward, they will fall down and keep falling, forever and ever.

“Forget it if you can’t. Take good care of yourself. Remember what you promised me. We’re even. I’ll put the rest of the money on the stereo. I’m leaving. Bye.”

I said calmly, walking past her.

The next moment, my hand felt warm. Qi Xi grabbed me and pulled me towards her.

“Come to my house tonight and cook for me, okay?”

She was tall, her back to the lamp. Warm light poured from her head, landing on the ground and spreading to my feet.

Her shadow and the soft light of the lamp trapped me in her expectant plea.

In a trance, I saw a tiny figure that looked exactly like me, standing on the endless sea. Before them was a bottomless blue hole, and seagulls circled overhead.

The figure took a step forward and plummeted.

The current swirled into a vortex, spiraling back. For some

reason, I raised my hand, stroked the strands of hair by her ear, and said in a daze, “Okay.”