Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 67 - 64: I Miss You (Extra for @Top Mo Fan, the Third Alliance Hierarch)

Chapter 67: Chapter 64: I Miss You (Extra for @Top Mo Fan, the Third Alliance Hierarch)

Yan Yan’s computer was already shutting down when

the system alerted her to a new email.

Yan Yan didn’t have time to cancel the shutdown, so she had to wait until the computer turned off and then hurriedly restarted it.

That guy, Qi Yi, finally remembered to send her an email.

Yan Yan made a face at her screen and stuck out her tongue.

Then she clicked to open her mailbox.

But the email Qi Yi sent today was a bit strange.

Mainly because it was too short, it contained only one sentence.

.........

Waiwai:

I miss you.

.........

No questions, no answers, no cause, no consequences.

He didn’t even respond to the sketch she’d sent or share his thoughts about it.

Yan Yan read the email again. Qi Yi’s email was weird in every way.

Picking up her phone, Yan Yan dialed Qi Yi’s number.

"Qi Yi, what’s wrong? What happened?" Yan Yan asked him with an unusual, especially gentle tone.

"Can’t I miss you without something happening? Must something happen for me to miss you?" Qi Yi cleared his throat.

"You can miss me anytime and anywhere, you can think of me while walking, while eating, even in your dreams," Yan Yan’s voice always brought a sense of inner peace to Qi Yi.

"You still know me so well, knowing that I’ll miss you even in my dreams," Qi Yi’s voice sounded a bit weary.

"And there’s even more understanding; if nothing had happened, even if you missed me, you wouldn’t have emailed me specifically to tell me," Yan Yan’s tone was still much gentler than usual.

"Is that so? This should be the first time in five years that I’ve received a call from you.

I’ve missed this feeling.

Hearing your voice, it’s as if the world has quieted down," Qi Yi really enjoyed the feeling Yan Yan gave him.

"Then I’ll call you often from now on. You sound a bit exhausted, were you kept up by fireworks and firecrackers all night yesterday?" Yan Yan asked with some concern.

"It’s okay on my side," Qi Yi wasn’t tired because he was kept awake.

"Have you just gotten up? Have you eaten?" Yan Yan asked with concern.

Since Qi Yi didn’t want to talk about what had happened, Yan Yan didn’t press him.

"Waiwai," Qi Yi called her by the nickname he had given her.

"Uh huh, I’m here," Yan Yan responded.

"My parents signed the divorce papers yesterday," Qi Yi decided to tell Yan Yan what had happened.

"What? They signed the divorce papers on New Year’s Eve?" Yan Yan found it hard to believe, but Qi Yi wouldn’t joke about such matters.

"Uh huh," Qi Yi responded.

"Weren’t your parents said to have had a good relationship?" Yan Yan felt that Qi Yi’s news was rather sudden.

"Who told you that?" Qi Yi asked Yan Yan.

"Your mom, she told me herself that your family was especially close. She also said that you were very obedient, the pride of the family, and it didn’t seem like she was exaggerating too much. However, it’s been quite a while, I’ve forgotten the specifics," Yan Yan thought about it and replied to Qi Yi’s question.

"My parents have been separated for ten years, since I started middle school," Qi Yi’s voice was a bit low, but his tone did not change much.

"Oh..." This was the first time Yan Yan had heard Qi Yi talk about his family matters, and she wasn’t sure what to say.

"Maybe, at the beginning, I didn’t think of it as a separation," Qi Yi said with a helpless smile.

"Oh, no wonder I’ve never heard you mention it," Yan Yan didn’t quite know what to say for a moment.

"Do you want to hear me talk about it?" Qi Yi asked Yan Yan.

"Yeah, I do. I’ve cleaned my ears," Yan Yan spoke slower than usual, feeling that perhaps this way, Qi Yi might feel a bit better.

"When I was in fourth grade, my parents began to argue frequently, and the atmosphere at home started to get particularly bad."

My school performance also became somewhat erratic.

By the time I was about to graduate from elementary school, they suddenly stopped quarreling so much.

My parents used to work at the same state-owned enterprise and our family’s financial situation was relatively average.

After they stopped fighting, my mom sat me down and told me that she and my dad had talked it over, and he had decided to quit his job and start a small business in Yiwu.

This way, they could buy a house for me to use when I got married.

Back then, as a primary school student, I didn’t understand what a marriage house was for.

At that time, I felt that as long as my parents stopped arguing, everything would be fine.

After my dad left, my grades improved a little.

Starting from my first year of junior high, my dad only came back during the Spring Festival.

My mom’s mood was constantly poor.

In my second year of junior high, during the Spring Festival, I asked my dad when he would come back to Wenzhou.

He said that if I got into Peking University, he would come back.

From that time on, the only time I saw a smile on my mom’s face was when I ranked first in my class.

To make my mom happy, I worked very hard in my studies and managed to be the top student in my school every year since junior high.

My mom’s spirits gradually improved a lot, and she supervised my studies tirelessly every day.

Slowly, I began to understand that when my dad said he would come back once I got into Peking University, he was actually just deceiving a child.

But my mom never saw it that way; she always believed what my dad said was serious.

Every time I shared my thoughts with my mom, she would fall apart.

She even said that if my dad were lying, he would have asked for a divorce.

My mom often showed me their marriage certificate as proof.

After that, I didn’t really talk to my mom about these issues much.

I just focused on studying hard to make my mom happy.

So, my relationship with my mom was actually quite harmonious all along.

As time went by, I slowly began to feel that it was incredibly tragic for my mom to live in such self-deception.

I thought that if I didn’t get into Peking University and made my mom upset, it might as well be a good thing if it also made her see the reality of her relationship with my dad.

It was around that time that you decided to break up with me.

I lost even more interest in studying.

Not long after, my dad called and said that he would come back to Wenzhou after my college entrance exams were over.

For a while, I thought maybe I was wrong.

Because, before I went to Peking University, my dad did come back outside of the Spring Festival period.

However, the day after my dad returned, he had another argument with my mom.

They thought I hadn’t heard them, but the truth is our house isn’t very soundproof.

My dad said he had wanted to divorce my mom a long time ago, but she kept insisting that it would affect the child’s grades and refused for many years.

My mom made a huge fuss, and in the end, my dad had no choice but to agree to wait until I was admitted to university.

It was only after hearing their argument that I realized my dad came back to Wenzhou to ask for a divorce.

After I went to Peking University, for some reason, they still didn’t get divorced.

This year when I came back home for the spring festival, as soon as my dad arrived, he asked me if I had found a job.

Once he knew there was no issue with my employment, he told my mom in front of me that they had been effectively separated for so many years and whether or not she agreed, he was determined to get a divorce.

My mom might still think that I don’t know anything and argued with my dad for several days, asking why he had to say these things in front of me.

My mom kept causing a scene, dragging it out until New Year’s Eve, before she finally signed the papers, and my dad walked out with the agreement in hand."

Qi Yi said all of this in a long spiel, emotionless, as if he were talking about someone else’s family.