Ch122 - Original Xiao Qiu Side Story in a Parallel World

Translator: Mogumoguchan

Editor: lolimelon 

The dark sky was covered in thick clouds. 

It was the time for the night self-study session. The road beside the sports stadium was quiet and deserted. Streetlights lit up one by one on time, and the bright light pierced through the darkness. 

If anyone paid attention, they would see a person standing beside the dark forest with his hands in his pockets. 

The streetlights around him gave him several shadows of different lengths. That person just stood there motionless, quiet as a statue.  

He scowled and remained still. He had been standing there for a long time. 

“Xiao Qiu.” When he heard someone call him, Xiao Qiu finally reacted. He turned his head around expressionlessly to meet a scarred face. 

It was not a pleasant-looking face. In fact, it was a little scary. 

He scowled, looked away, and did not answer. 

Chen Gou felt a little uneasy when he saw how Xiao Qiu reacted. He was even more aloof than he was when he rejected him yesterday. The large boy actually looked a little dejected, and he stood where he was with a sad expression. 

Chen Gou had already stopped moving when he was around three meters away. He acted cautiously around Xiao Qiu as if he did not dare get too close to him. 

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His terminal showed that he had traveled one year into the past, before everything happened.  

But when he tried recalling the details, he felt pinpricks of pain in his head, as if he was stabbed by needles, making it hard for him to think. He must have knocked on his head. 

‘Oh well, since I returned to the past, I can still mend some mistakes.’

He grew up in an orphanage, and in his previous life, he wanted to climb up the social ladder and did his best to gain the favor of those older than he was so that he could get engaged to Ji Xinglan. But Ji Xinglan did not like him at all. 

Not only did he not like him, but he also could not even bother meeting him. It was as if he treated him as air.  

He did not actually like Ji Xinglan, nor care whether Ji Xinglan liked him, yet he insisted on trying to get Ji Xinglan’s favor. In fact, he rejected the confession of someone who truly liked him for Ji Xinglan. 

After returning to the past, he found his previous actions not worth it and regretted them. 

To most alphas, love was just a mating session spurred on by pheromones. But when he went through his estrus period and went into Ji Xinglan’s room, Ji Xinglan remained unmoved and chased him out. Because of it, Xiao Qiu found that things were harder than he imagined. 

From the moment he saw Ji Xinglan, he could sense that his heart was dead and was a pile of dead ashes that could no longer be resurrected. He had no idea what horrifying thing he endured that led to this.  

Even though he managed to move in with Ji Xinglan after ruthlessly pestering him, Ji Xinglan just stayed in the study and would not allow anyone inside. 

Out of curiosity, he snuck in once when there was no one at home and wanted to see what secrets Ji Xinglan hid in his study. Could he be hiding a lover inside, and that was why he stayed inside all the time?

But when he went in, he saw no lover. He just saw a portrait. 

He knew the person in the portrait.  

Yan Qiu was pretty famous in school, and plenty of omegas liked him. Xiao Qiu also heard about Yan Qiu dying in an accident. 

When he remembered the funeral, Xiao Qiu frowned. Why would an alpha have another alpha’s portrait in his study? Because they were good friends?

But right when he returned to the past, he found his answer. 

He saw Ji Xinglan and Yan Qiu walking out of the bathroom with their fingers laced together, and they even kissed. That was not something friends did with each other.  

The shock made him want to go over and take a closer look, but they heard his footsteps and soon ran into the forest hand in hand. 

Xiao Qiu sighed. He finally understood what was going on. 

He felt that he needed some time alone to think. He ignored Chen Gou watching him tentatively and quietly walked to the lake. 

With his hands in his pockets, he strolled leisurely. Chen Gou just followed him like a shadow but did not get closer.  

The wind blew across the lake, causing some ripples to form. When it blew on his face, he found the breeze comfortable. 

This was the second day he rejected Chen Gou. 

“Why do you keep following me?” After walking for an unknown amount of time, he finally stopped and turned his head around a little. 

When Chen Gou saw that he finally stopped, he tentatively walked over and extended his hands. In his hands was a bouquet of white wildflowers. He picked them from the lawn by the side just now.  

The flowers were small but beautiful. When he held them in his rough hands, they trembled, making them look small and out of place in his hands. 

He might be a brute, but he had an odd sense of gentleness toward Xiao Qiu. 

Xiao Qiu thought about it before he reached out to take the flowers. 

There was no need to force this. After all, everything seemed to be predestined.  

“Stop! Which class do you belong to?!”

At that moment, Mr. Yang suddenly jumped out of a shrub with a torchlight in hand. He had been waiting here for a long time to catch couples. “You’re dating, and you even destroyed public property!”

Mogumoguchan: Ey, Xiao Qiu also got his happy ending. Congrats. 

lolimelon: gotta love mr. yang’s classic camping ^^’