TSFLIP Chapter 1133

Qi Wei knew that if he did not provide a good explanation, she would never let the matter go. He sighed and gently stroked the top of her head.

“After I was injured that day, members of the Qi family took me back. I’m the stain on the Qi family’s reputation, someone who can’t be exposed to the public, so they locked me up. It wasn’t until recently, when the old master of the Qi family suddenly passed away and the entire family fell into chaos, that I found an opportunity to come and see you.”

“The old master of the Qi family suddenly died… that really wasn’t your doing, was it?” Feng Guang was no longer the same person she had once been. She knew exactly what kind of person Qi Wei was. He was certainly not the type to sit around waiting for his fate, nor was he the kindhearted man who valued family ties above all else.

Qi Wei smiled faintly. “The old master of the Qi family was already quite old.”

In other words, he had lived long enough. The man Qi Wei was referring to was his father in name.

Years ago, it had been that very father who had personally sent him to Diamond Island.

Feng Guang stared at him for a long time. So long, in fact, that Qi Wei thought she was about to condemn him for being so ruthless. Instead, she merely let out a deep sigh and said slowly, “I don’t care what you’ve done in the past, but from now on, you need to restrain yourself. I don’t want Xiaoxiao to find out about the things you did before.”

“Xiaoxiao is a lot like you, Feng Guang.” Qi Wei curled his lips into a smile. “So there are many things she’s destined never to know.”

“Qi Wei… are you saying, in a roundabout way, that Xiaoxiao is as stupid as I am?”

“Not stupid. Simple.” Qi Wei kissed her lips in an attempt to soothe her irritation. “Feng Guang is so simple, like a blank sheet of paper. That’s why… I can never resist the urge to stain it black.”

At the beginning, he had almost wanted to destroy everything beautiful about her. He had wanted to turn her into someone just like himself. Yet in the end, he could not deny that it was he who had gradually been changed by her.

Three years ago, on that shoreline, when Feng Guang had reached out her hand and invited him into her world, he had suddenly found himself willing to abandon everything and go with her.

He had always been alone, with no one but himself. For her sake, he had even been willing to try becoming what others would call a normal person, if only to earn the right to stand by her side.

Suddenly, Feng Guang realized that she had already grown accustomed to this side of him.

Qi Wei had always been this kind of person. To achieve his goals, he would stop at nothing. From anyone else’s perspective, he was the quintessential villain.

But she was not anyone else.

She was the person who could stand beside him.

The day she chose to compromise was the day she had prepared herself to accept everything about him.

“Qi Wei…” She rubbed her head lightly against his chest and asked with lingering fear, “You’re not going to disappear again all of a sudden, are you?”

He kissed the top of her head. “From now on, I’ll stay by your side every day, Feng Guang.”

Nestled in his arms, she finally let out a relieved breath. During these past three years, she had thought more than once that she was willing to stop caring about everything else, willing to overlook everything, as long as he could return to her side. She would have been willing to make even greater compromises.

There was only one thing she still could not give up—her freedom.

But as long as that remained intact, she was willing to love this man.

“Qi Wei… let’s go back. Xiaoxiao is still waiting for us.”

“Alright, let’s go back.”

The glow of the setting sun bathed the two of them, stretching their embracing shadows across the ground.

Looking at Feng Guang’s face, made even more beautiful in the evening light, Qi Wei lifted her chin. A kiss fell upon her lips, and he whispered, “Before we go see that little tagalong, let me properly savor the taste of Feng Guang again.”

Feng Guang paused. She was just about to protest that Xiaoxiao was not a tagalong when his tongue slipped past her lips, and she quickly lost herself in the gentle, lingering kiss.

 

THE END…………………………