The Senior Student (female) Is Not Human - Chapter 32
Chapter 32: Barbecue
“I can die for you countless times.”…
Xie Shiwei was woken up by hunger.
She felt like she could smell grilled squid.
When she opened her eyes, she realized the bathwater was already turning cool. She quickly got up to grab a towel to dry off. The moment she raised her hand, she paused.
…Why had the Buddha beads turned completely black?
Xie Shiwei glanced back at the tub water, where she hadn’t added anything, and her expression was subtle.
Did the tap water suddenly become unclean? Or did the quality of the Buddha beads once again fall below her minimum expectations, fine for showering but discoloring and cracking immediately when submerged in a bath?
Thinking of this, she nervously took off the beads and carefully dried them with the bath towel.
After putting on her bathrobe, she hurried into the room, intending to search on her phone for maintenance instructions for this type of Buddha bead. But the moment she stepped out, she was intercepted at the waist.
In Jiang Xiyao’s other hand was a complexly cut, sparkling whiskey glass. She looked down at Xie Shiwei:
“Why are you running so fast?”
[Aaaah, it’s embarrassing enough that I already lost several beads. Chu Chu said if I lost another one, I should tell her, but I don’t have the face to tell her now QAQ. But would Sister know how to maintain this kind of accessory?]
Jiang Xiyao suppressed the urge to roll her eyes.
She hadn’t expected to hear the custard bun’s inner voice again, and the first thing she was worried about was this wretched Buddha bead.
Jiang Xiyao huffily turned and started to walk away.
Then she heard a hesitant voice behind her: “…Sister, are you drinking?”
Xie Shiwei had once tried working part-time at a bar and had overheard the bartender introducing various expensive collections. She had also seen this kind of glass; in short, it was expensive, and breaking one would mean working for a month for nothing.
Jiang Xiyao suddenly stopped and flashed a malicious smile.
Before the girl could react, she suddenly twisted her wrist and brought the glass to her lips—
“Cough…!”
Xie Shiwei was so startled she choked, her face and ears turning red. She quickly tried to explain: “Sister, I can’t drink…”
Before she could finish the word “alcohol.”
She realized there was no alcoholic taste left on her tongue; to be precise, there was no other taste either.
She smacked her lips suspiciously: “No taste?” It’s not alcohol?
She instinctively glanced towards the bar and saw the case of Evian mineral water she had bought, now opened and sitting there.
Jiang Xiyao casually brought the glass to her lips, aligning with the spot where Xie Shiwei had drunk, and sipped from the rim with her red lips: “What do you mean, no taste? Isn’t it very sweet? Is your tongue broken? Let me see?”
Xie Shiwei watched all her movements, her face flushed as Jiang Xiyao clamped her jaw.
[See? How is she going to see? Is she going to hold my tongue with that hand and pull it out? Then wouldn’t those long fingers get all wet? And would I have to lick them clean for her afterward?]
The pressure of Jiang Xiyao’s thumb on her chin instinctively intensified due to the sudden increase in speed of the inner thoughts.
Then she heard Xie Shiwei let out an “Hiss.”
Before Jiang Xiyao could act on the idea, the phone in Xie Shiwei’s bathrobe vibrated. She quickly looked down and saw a message from the Zhou family, who had returned from their trip, arranging a tutoring session for tomorrow night.
Xie Shiwei fled, phone in hand, and rushed back to the room as if escaping.
Looking at her empty palm, Jiang Xiyao let out a “Tsk.”
Just as she was about to go and drag the girl back, she heard faint, scattered noises nearby in the next moment:
[Xie Shiwei, Xie Shiwei… Which building is she in! Damn it! She must have a second piece of skin for a love letter! Love letter, love letter, my love letter. The doctor said I only need to get a little more, and I’ll become more beautiful…]
Jiang Xiyao glanced toward the master bedroom.
Some idiot is constantly protecting herself from me but has brought a little tail back with her.
Putting the glass back on the bar, Jiang Xiyao sighed dramatically, feigning affection, and walked toward the door.
“Jiang, Jiang Xiyao! You are here! I knew you weren’t dead! You mon—”
In the underground parking lot, Le Qiong, who was trying to sneak onto the building’s elevator, saw the person step out after the “ding” sound and practically clawed her way forward!
Jiang Xiyao easily turned her head, dodging the attack, and didn’t forget to raise the toe of her high-heeled shoe.
Satisfied, she watched the person who was screaming like a rabid dog trip and crash violently into the wall.
She then slowly spoke:
“You pauper who’ll never afford four dishes in your life, yet dares to steal, I say, aren’t you getting a little too carried away? If you’ve had fake alcohol, eat a few more peanuts before coming to seek death in front of me.”
The person, who should have been knocked unconscious from hitting the wall, twitched slightly.
The girl in white turned her head and chuckled “Hehe.”
The bl00d mixed with her collapsed nose gushed down, only for the sound of “creak, creak” bone realignment to follow. The purplish bruises vanished, and even the bones seemed to have a life force, growing back.
“My face! My face! Hehe, you see my flawless face?” After showing off triumphantly, she somehow produced a knife and rushed at Jiang Xiyao: “Give me, give me more—!”
Jiang Xiyao didn’t dodge the blade. At the sound of a “Pfft,” she lazily raised her palm.
The fragments that were previously stitched into Le Qiong’s flesh suddenly pushed outward from her delicate skin!
The girl’s original white complexion instantly erupted into countless bubbles, like the boiling skin of a toad.
Just as she showed a look of terror because of this, Jiang Xiyao’s dark pupils mercilessly reflected Le Qiong’s terrifying, non-human face. A disgusted and scornful laugh rang out:
“Haha, so ugly. Where did this ugly monster come from?”
“Aaaaaaaaah—!”
A scream of collapse shrieked out.
…
In her room on the tenth floor, Xie Shiwei, after replying to the Zhou family’s message, suddenly shivered.
She didn’t know why, but she felt like she had heard Sister Le Qiong’s voice.
Thinking of the terrifying boy who had climbed into her house that day, she nervously stood behind the curtains, looking out the window with fear and curiosity.
Just as countless horror stories of jump scares were flashing through her mind, nearly scaring her into fainting, she suddenly heard a knocking on her room door.
“Xie~ Shi~ Wei~”
A lazy, drawn-out voice called her: “What are we having for dinner?”
She jumped and turned around. By the design-forward, warm floor lamp by the bed, which looked like half an eggshell, she saw the black-haired beauty leaning against the door.
In just this short time, Jiang Xiyao had changed into another silk dress and, in a particularly “young miss” fashion, was wrapped in a deep green cashmere shawl.
Xie Shiwei, seeing the beauty under the lamp, was stunned.
The inexplicable fear in her heart was instantly dispelled without a trace.
After a long while, she finally replied slowly: “Barbecue?”
Jiang Xiyao got her answer, searched on her phone. The beautiful phone case inlaid with rhinestones flashed under the light. After a moment, she frowned unhappily: “They dare to call themselves Michelin without barbecue?”
Xie Shiwei looked at her in astonishment: “We have barbecue downstairs.” Don’t make it difficult for the high-end restaurant!
The black-haired beauty lifted her chin: “Street food is filthy, Xie Shiwei. You are not allowed to eat it either.”
Xie Shiwei: “?”
Her expression was subtle: “I’m sorry, but my wallet only allows me to eat street food.”
Jiang Xiyao tilted her head: “You can eat something else with me. You don’t have to pay.”
She paused, then her tone became proud: “Some idiot will be fighting to pay the bill.”
Xie Shiwei heard her say “idiot” so naturally. She remained silent for a while before refusing: “No, dining and dashing is wrong.”
[More importantly, those people will probably fight fiercely to pay the bill, maybe even rush into the kitchen to grab cleavers and fight each other. I’m so unlucky that I’ll definitely be caught in the crossfire—]
[No! They’ll want to stab me just for daring to sit at the same table as Sister!]
Jiang Xiyao narrowed her eyes, hearing the girl’s calculations loud and clear.
After a moment, she suddenly spoke: “Xie Shiwei, do you really not want to eat out, or do you just not want to go out and eat with me?”
Her bottomless black eyes seemed to have the power to see into a person’s depths.
Xie Shiwei instinctively avoided her gaze. Between the dangerous “yes or no,” she chose to answer with “or”:
“I suddenly don’t want to go out to eat. Ah, I really want takeout.”
Takeout is safe! I just need to ask the delivery person to leave it outside the door, and then I can open the door to get it!
Xie Shiwei thought she was a genius!
So, her eyes sparkled as she looked at Jiang Xiyao: “Sister can order takeout from any restaurant she wants! I-I can pay for this meal!”
[Just endure it, Xie Shiwei. Think of it as spending money to ward off disaster. Sister will definitely not be able to stand staying here for long!]
A sudden spark of fire appeared in Jiang Xiyao’s pitch-black eyes.
This dead custard bun, trying to chase her away again!
Her beautiful face twisted instantly. On the verge of hearing the “pop, pop” sound of cracking, Jiang Xiyao took a deep breath and said with profound humiliation:
“Xie Shiwei.”
“From now on, if you encounter danger when you go out with me, you can use me as a shield.”
Jiang Xiyao never thought there would be a day when, just to stay in one place, she would have to humbly prove her usefulness and value!
But the words were out, and she didn’t want to take them back, as she didn’t want to see Xie Shiwei avoiding her like the plague all day long.
Xie Shiwei listened to the strange suggestion suddenly put forth, her face full of suspicion, thinking she was talking nonsense.
“Sister, what are you saying? Ah, haha, how could you say something like that? And who curses themselves to encounter danger when they go out? Quickly spit it out! It’s so unlucky! Heaven forbid, it was just child’s talk, child’s talk—”
Seeing her clasp her hands together and mutter those dreadful omens on her own behalf, Jiang Xiyao suddenly walked over from the door.
She raised both hands and cupped the girl’s soft cheeks, forcing this idiot, who was praying to every god and Buddha, to look only at her when she wished.
—Jiang Xiyao would only allow her to make a wish toward herself.
“I’m serious, Xie Shiwei.”
Jiang Xiyao said, enunciating every word. The images flashing through her mind were the deep night hiding in the closet during the Tang family’s funeral, the tent during the camping trip in the suburbs, and the scene in the underground garage just now.
Her soulful eyes possessed a unique allure. She stared at this human, the one she cared about most from the beginning, and made a vow that was almost a promise:
“If anyone tries to harm you, threaten you, or kill you again, let me die for you.”
“As long as you can live safely and soundly, I can die for you countless times.”
So, you cowardly person who is always, always so afraid of death.
Just stand by my side and call out to me in your heart. That’s all you need to do.
As long as you think of me, no matter how many times, no matter how far away, I am willing to take the fatal danger for you.
—A hundred times, a thousand times, even ten million times.