The Senior Student (female) Is Not Human - Chapter 38

Chapter 38: The Sofa

[Word Duck Double Deep Water Chapter] “………”

The tickle on her eyelashes gradually brought Xie Shiwei’s sleepy consciousness back.

Oh no! How long did she sleep? What if her colleagues thought she left and locked the wine cellar?!

The girl suddenly opened her eyes. Through the crooked, dizzying lenses of her glasses, she was dazzled by the scene in front of her.

Dazzling golden light streaming in from outside was imprinted on her retina first.

Then, in the golden halo, a seductive face was resting its chin on its hand, smiling as it looked at her.

Xie Shiwei closed her eyes tightly.

She thought it was a hallucination from thinking of her too much and even tried to slap her face to wake up.

But the woman, who had been bored enough to count her eyelashes three times, spoke lazily with a laugh:

“Are you a pig, Xie Shiwei? You sleep so much? Open your eyes quickly. See if I’m not even prettier?”

Jiang Xiyao’s face was full of smugness.

Because she was so fragmented, she could absorb more malice over a larger area. Coupled with the madness of the people in the restaurant last night after drinking, this area had become her personal paradise to frolic in.

The more malice she consumed, the more beautiful and alluring she became, and the stronger her control over her other fragments would be. That’s why these past few days, while recovering the winery fragments, she also decided to add a little surprise to the Zhou family’s skincare products.

—In short, with how radiant she looked today, Xie Shiwei would definitely be more obsessed with her, right?

Jiang Xiyao anticipated happily.

But what she faced was a calm glance after the girl opened her eyes, which was then immediately and resolutely turned away.

Next, Xie Shiwei acted as if she hadn’t seen her or heard her words. After straightening her glasses, she silently stood up and tried to walk around her to leave.

Jiang Xiyao froze. Was this custard bun blind? Or deaf?

She reached out without hesitation and grabbed the girl’s wrist: “Xie Shiwei, are you ignoring me?”

The next moment.

Her palm was instantly shaken off without a second thought.

Jiang Xiyao stared at her empty palm, stunned.

No one had ever refused her touch. No one could resist the exquisite feel of her skin. To be shaken off so completely left Jiang Xiyao’s mind blank.

Meanwhile, Xie Shiwei, who had been unusually bold and determined to ignore her, walked angrily to the wine cellar door, only to find it was indeed locked from the outside.

She twisted the knob hard for a while, but it didn’t budge, which made her laugh bitterly.

The only way out of the cellar was the window that hadn’t been locked earlier. This meant she would have to walk back, feeling utterly defeated, and climb through the window in a very awkward and embarrassing posture right in front of Jiang Xiyao…

She was almost used to her bad luck, but at this moment, Xie Shiwei felt an extreme, stifled anger. She stood behind the door, and tears inexplicably began to fall.

Plink, plink…

Only two drops managed to hit the ground. The rest of the tears were caught by a hand that reached over, cupped her face, and then licked away entirely with a cool tongue.

“A bit bitter than before.” After the rigorous culinary critique, Jiang Xiyao examined her expression and asked: “Are you angry, Xie Shiwei?”

“Who provoked you?” She was still smiling, but her dark eyes showed a hint of coldness: “Should I kill him for you?”

Xie Shiwei choked up in anger.

She didn’t know where she found the courage, but she answered directly: “Who else but you?”

After speaking, she paused under Jiang Xiyao’s slightly astonished gaze, and simply used the momentum of having already started to vent all her emotions:

“Even friends shouldn’t stand someone up like this, right? Didn’t you say you’d only be gone for one night? Aren’t you still being chased by that black-hearted hospital?”

“You don’t answer calls or reply to messages. Did you forget because you were having too much fun outside, did you find a new friend to stay with, or did something happen? Just make a sound, tell me… Do you know I would worr—” Worry about you.

As Xie Shiwei spoke, she realized her words were completely illogical.

If something had suddenly happened to Jiang Xiyao, how could she reply to her message?

However.

Since she was able to appear unharmed now, it must be because she was playing around outside and forgot the time, right? She wondered what she got tired of playing with this time that she came back for a change of pace.

Thinking of this, Xie Shiwei’s face grew even gloomier, as if brewing a bigger storm.

Jiang Xiyao heard her thoughts clearly. She rubbed her cheeks with her palm, smiling more charmingly:

“Ah~ So you’re angry because you were worried something happened to me?”

She hadn’t seen Xie Shiwei this angry and flared up before.

Facing others, even if she was fuming, she tried hard to endure it, like a punching bag. But in front of her, she had turned into a fire-breathing dragon—

But, she was still so cute.

So Jiang Xiyao declared: “In the future, you can only be angry at me, okay? Throwing a tantrum is fine, swearing is fine, all these emotions are reserved for me. Did you hear me?”

She enjoyed this special, unique attention Xie Shiwei gave her.

She also wanted to possess more of Xie Shiwei. Even if it was just emotions, good or bad, no matter what, it should be given only to her.

Xie Shiwei: “…”

The familiar sense of powerlessness welled up.

She wasn’t used to venting her emotions to others, and with Jiang Xiyao’s interruption, she was left hanging. It eventually turned into a weak, pale question: “Do you even know what I’m saying?”

She always felt that Jiang Sister’s thought process was completely different from that of an ordinary person.

“I know.” The mouth that could spit out three hundred unique and vicious insults at others was as sweet as honey in front of Xie Shiwei.

After licking the tears from the corner of her eye, Jiang Xiyao leaned bonelessly toward her neck, her tone sweet as she answered:

“I don’t have friends like that, you know. Besides you, I don’t trust anyone.”

“So as soon as I woke up, I came looking for you.”

Xie Shiwei was still trying to figure out why her phrase “don’t have friends” sounded so arrogant. Hearing the second half, she was surprised: “Woke up? Where were you before?”

Jiang Xiyao complained to her vividly.

“It was that poor, smelly manager who was coveting my beauty. He secretly kidnapped me in his car and locked me up in a broken-down house in the suburbs. It took me a lot of effort to escape and find you.”

Xie Shiwei was startled and urgently said:

“Did you report it to the police? File a complaint against him for illegal detention! Are you okay? Are you hurt?”

Jiang Xiyao’s fluttering eyelashes were smug: “What could a useless fellow like that do to me?”

After speaking.

She proactively pulled Xie Shiwei’s hand, guiding her fingers into her collar: “Do you want to check?”

The monster, which had known no shame since its birth, had walked the most filthy and depraved parts of the human world for years. When deliberately seducing, just a look was enough to make people surrender.

Jiang Xiyao’s breathing was light and heavy, dusting the girl’s carotid artery. She wanted her scent to permeate her entire body along with the rushing speed of her bloodstream.

“I can take all my clothes off for you to see, you know.”

But Xie Shiwei’s mind was completely focused on the fact that the black-hearted hospital, which lied about bl00d donation and dared to perform illegal organ transplants, was now lurking in the dark, watching her Sister, and now there was a stalker engaging in illegal detention as well?

She couldn’t even look at the sunlight outside the window without suspecting someone was hiding in the tree shadows, and she had no mind to listen to Jiang Xiyao.

She even unconsciously tightened her grip on the beauty’s collar.

Then she emphasized: “Let’s report it to the police, okay? We should at least try. Whether it’s the black-hearted hospital or that perverted manager, let’s turn them over to the police first? If that doesn’t work, I’ll take you to my friend’s house. If that doesn’t work, we’ll go abroad…”

Jiang Xiyao’s face was sour.

If there were no mirrors here, she would have to check where her pieces had been mismatched today. Why did this custard bun, who usually jumped to the high-speed lane at the slightest provocation, become so serious as if she had taken the wrong medicine today?

Like a pufferfish constantly being inflated, she puffed out her cheeks.

But under Xie Shiwei’s serious and anxious gaze, she let out a “Tsk” of unwilling resignation after a long moment, answering:

“Whatever you want. Anything is fine.”

She didn’t like relying on human power to punish those extremely wicked prey.

Jiang Xiyao could fully rely on her own methods to toy with them, terrify them, watch them live in madness, neither human nor ghost, pay the price of a ruined life for their extreme malice toward her, and then die in agony.

Although she hated being killed by those ugly things, her skin had been associated with death since its birth—

She felt extreme pleasure in death.

However, it seemed that if she didn’t agree with Xie Shiwei, this girl would keep frowning. This poor little thing, who couldn’t maintain her beauty forever like she could, shouldn’t be frightened into ugliness by those monsters.

Thus.

While the girl quickly climbed out the cellar window and found a spot with good signal to call the police, Jiang Xiyao, who was propping her chin on her hand and leaning against the window to watch her out of boredom, mercifully added:

“You can report this restaurant too, you know. There are hallucinogens in the wine. It was very lively out there last night. Maybe someone was murdered?”

Xie Shiwei was worried about losing her new job and offending the boss when she heard the first part.

Hearing the second part, she immediately and honestly explained everything to the police.

No wonder she thought the wine looked strange. Could the supplier have secretly added poppy shells?

While waiting for the police to arrive to seal the restaurant and winery, arrest the perverted stalker, and record the hospital case, Xie Shiwei was still filled with righteous indignation. Until she saw a pair of extended arms, illuminated golden by the sunlight and almost transparent.

“Xie~ Shi~ Wei~”

Jiang Xiyao always drew out her name: “When are you going to carry me out?”

The girl, who finally felt some sense of security after reporting the crime, looked at the height of the cellar window. Lifting her was fine, but carrying her…

“I’ll go find a brick to step on.”

The black-haired beauty, whose patience only lasted until the call was finished, immediately sank her face, her eyes coldly glaring at her: “Are you implying I’m heavy?”

“…” Xie Shiwei’s expression was helpless: “I’m afraid I don’t have enough arm strength from lack of exercise and might drop you.”

But until she tentatively wrapped her palms around the woman’s slender waist, then bent down and wrapped her arms under her knees, lifting her up—

Xie Shiwei couldn’t help but feel a moment of bewilderment.

—Why does Sister Jiang in my arms feel as light as paper?

When she realized it, she had already used excessive force and quickly placed the person on the ground outside. Xie Shiwei stared blankly at her own arms.

Did she really gain so much strength from carrying hotpots at the hotpot restaurant every day? It didn’t feel this effortless when she lifted her on the sofa last time.

Jiang Xiyao lowered her lashes, entering her field of vision. The red mole on her lips was as prominent as its owner:

“As long as you want to hold me, you can always pick me up.”

Because she will always cooperate with this slow-witted idiot. She will always maintain a weight that is just right for her to lift easily. Even if Xie Shiwei’s strength becomes very, very small in the future, it won’t matter.

Xie Shiwei stared at her in a daze.

[Hold… Does that mean I can top Sister whenever I want, as long as I want to be the 1?]

[Ah, I knew it! Sister really does prefer to be the reclining 0! With a face like a ‘Pillow Princess,’ the reason she ran away so quickly without checking me out that day was because she couldn’t keep up the act, right? She couldn’t stand the same number, right?]

[Actually, Sister just found being an S too tiring and being an M would fight back, so she rushed out claiming she knew someone, right? And then she unluckily ran into a stalker—]

Jiang Xiyao let out a “Tsk.”

When she was supposed to be serious, she let her mind wander like a noisy train. Now she was getting excited again.

She likes to be checked, does she? She’ll let her know who the 1 is right now.

She had just reached out when she heard the approaching police siren, and with it, the sound of the girl’s inner thoughts, magnified and becoming even more exaggerated by this righteous aura, causing Jiang Xiyao to sway on the spot.

[I knew it! Sister sleeps with me every night, and my legs are all wet, but she’s completely dry. That’s because she’s not interested in me! She’s a pure 0! We have a sisterly relationship! Peeking at me was just to see the reaction a 0 is supposed to have!]

[Checking me was just out of curiosity to see how far other girls could get turned on! Because a true S, a true 1, a true lesbian wouldn’t have zero physiological reaction to someone they like and are interested in!]

[It’s over, the case is solved. Now she really is just friends and a good闺闺 (bestie) with Sister…]

Jiang Xiyao: “Hiss.”

Amidst this deafening rumor, she couldn’t help but snap: “Xie Shiwei, stop thinking.”

At that moment, the girl was curiously following the police toward the main entrance of the restaurant.

She found that the closing of the door last night was merely to shut the main door, letting the people inside hack at each other, causing a bloody mess. Xie Shiwei was caught off guard by the sight of the scattered remains on the floor. Her legs went weak, and she fell backward, her mind blank.

When she was caught by the familiar embrace, the last pair of displeased black eyes reflected in her vision made her instinctively wonder:

…Pig’s brain? What pig’s brain? Why is Sister suddenly cursing her?

However, this subtle confusion was quickly suppressed deep into her memory along with the extremely shocking, bloody scene.

After an unknown amount of time, Xie Shiwei was woken up by the hurried footsteps of the police:

“The illegally operating winery in the south city suburbs has been sealed. The owner is suspected to be mentally unstable. He did some crazy things when he was arrested. Remember to do a good job of calming the public and prevent them from spreading rumors about ‘human flesh in the wine’.”

“Oh my god, that’s terrifying. He was actually chopping his own thigh meat to add to the wine…”

“The winery and the Zhou family’s cellar seem to be in the same area. Have the Food Safety Authority check for any potential hazards.”

“Huh? The Zhou family? I heard from the inspection department that they received samples sent in by many people claiming that the new product from their group’s beauty line has excessive heavy metals. Many rich women were disfigured, with pieces of flesh falling off their faces.”

“Wow, and the enthusiastic young student who reported the black-hearted hospital earlier, was that also the Zhou family’s?”

Xie Shiwei slowly opened her eyes.

She saw the female police officer who had taken her statement earlier walk over beaming and hand her a glass of water. The corridor outside the restricted investigation area, where people weren’t supposed to stay, was inexplicably left for her and Jiang Xiyao to stay all afternoon.

The female officer smiled and poured a glass of water for both of them, looking at her warmly: “Thank you for the tip. We need a little time for the investigation, but thankfully, the stalker is under control. Don’t worry.”

“Please keep an eye on your phone and bank account for the next few months. The information you provided was very helpful. We’ve applied for a Good Samaritan reward for you.”

Xie Shiwei hadn’t expected to hear about a bonus as soon as she opened her eyes.

Her eyes couldn’t help but light up, then light up again.

Finally, she asked with reserved modesty: “May I ask approximately how much it is?”

Before the female officer could finish saying the number “up to 100,000,” Xie Shiwei’s face was cupped by another pair of hands and turned to the right, facing a pair of deep black eyes: “How much longer are you going to stare at other people?”

The female officer knowingly turned and left.

Ah, young same-s3x couples in modern society are so open, showing affection even at the police station.

Xie Shiwei had just been blushing because of Jiang Xiyao’s ill-timed, highly possessive remark, but she quickly fell into contemplation because of the blank memory that had suddenly appeared at the police station.

…What did she see this time?

Jiang Xiyao found that whether the girl’s mind was running like a noisy train or if she was constantly worried and frowning, scared of something, she was always annoyed.

So she leaned in closer, her breath falling on the girl’s lips as she spoke:

“Xie Shiwei, your dark circles are so heavy. Is it because you haven’t been sleeping well these past two days without me?”

Xie Shiwei was jolted back to her senses.

Sister really wants to be her best friend, right? And the mean-spirited kind? Even Chuchu wouldn’t say something so excessive as her dark circles are heavy—

Her romantic thoughts faded by a third in front of the co-numbered Pillow Princess.

Perhaps it was also because no matter how much she suffered from insomnia lately, she couldn’t quickly achieve release and get a good night’s sleep through her usual methods. Xie Shiwei was disheartened and shifted her gaze away, her heart calm as still water.

Without the climax, coupled with the exhaustion from recent studying and work, she really didn’t have the energy to rise up and be the 1 for Sister’s beautiful face. It was better to look away.

So she replied casually: “Maybe the bed is uncomfortable.”

Jiang Xiyao paused: “Would sleeping on me tonight make it better?”

Xie Shiwei immediately thought of the empty feeling in her back when she slept these past few days.

She didn’t want to develop the habit of having someone sleep next to her. Otherwise, if Jiang Xiyao suddenly left and disappeared again like this time, wouldn’t her insomnia get even worse?

The girl laughed nonchalantly and said with a smile: “Buying a suitable bed seems more reliable, doesn’t it?”

Jiang Xiyao heard her inner thoughts and worries clearly.

But strangely, she didn’t utter any rebuttal.

—For her, who relied on malice to maintain the beauty of this skin, the environment around the always benevolent Xie Shiwei was a vacuum for humans. Jiang Xiyao couldn’t stay by her side all the time, not even for a minute.

Otherwise, on the day her skin lost its luster and cracked open like ugly earth, this timid girl would surely run away in fear, wouldn’t she?

Finally, Jiang Xiyao answered lightly: “Alright. Then I’ll take you to the furniture store to buy a new one.”

Xie Shiwei’s eyes dimmed slightly at the answer.

That’s right.

Even if they were just good friends, there was no reason to stay together all the time. As long as Sister would say hello next time she suddenly disappeared, she would be content.

After all, Jiang Xiyao was a self-willed and extremely capricious person. Moreover, she was already so beautiful and was still willing to treat her as a trusted friend and bestie. That was good enough.

So, on the way out of the police station and to the furniture store, Xie Shiwei quickly comforted herself.

She even stepped into the furniture store and soon saw a particularly soft single sofa at the central display and experience area on the first floor: “This looks so good. Do you want to try sitting on it?”

Xie Shiwei glanced at the staggering nearly six-figure price tag next to it, feeling that Jiang Xiyao’s temperament was very suitable for trying out this sofa.

Moreover, the area was crowded with people competing for a chance to try it. The plump man on the lazy sofa, after securing a spot, refused to give up the opportunity even when he got too comfortable and rolled off. He immediately climbed back on.

Seeing him climb back on, Xie Shiwei quickly retracted her words. Jiang Xiyao, with her extreme obsession with cleanliness, could absolutely not tolerate anything that others had touched.

A sales representative happened to walk over, smiling, and said to them:

“This is our new product experience. We only accept reservations, though. Would the two of you like to queue up to try it?”

As he invited them, his intense gaze naturally fell solely on the stunning and captivating Jiang Xiyao.

Jiang Xiyao looked at the lazy sofa expressionlessly.

After a while, she turned to look at Xie Shiwei beside her. As long as she stayed by this girl’s side, would the fragments she lost earlier come knocking one after another?

But the reason she didn’t pick up the fragments even when she occasionally ran into them was precisely this—they were too dirty.

Anything that a smelly dead pig had touched was simply too dirty.

So Jiang Xiyao disdainfully looked away: “A piece of junk. Even after ten thousand sanitizations, it’s not worthy of my experience.”

The crowd queuing up, whose attention was caught by the strange, supposedly new-type material, couldn’t help but turn their heads when they heard this arrogant voice, wanting to see who was so cocky.

However, when their eyes landed on the extraordinarily beautiful black-haired woman, they all forgot their previous contempt and dissatisfaction, and flocked toward her:

“This lady is absolutely right! You clearly know a lot about these materials! Do you have any better recommendations?”

“Haha, I agree with you! Oh, ordinary people just like to follow the crowd blindly. It’s nothing special, really. I saw a more advanced massage pod on the second floor, though. Beautiful lady, would you like to go check it out together?”

The once-crowded experience area instantly became empty.

Xie Shiwei, who had been pushed out of the crowd, exchanged glances with the dazed sales representative.

She habitually turned to walk toward the secondhand consignment area outside to quickly pick a regular, hard bed and leave, but she was suddenly stopped by a female salesperson who was also on duty:

“Would you like to try it? You looked like you really liked this sofa just now. Please don’t worry, this material can withstand repeated alcohol sanitization. I will wipe it completely clean for you.”

Xie Shiwei scratched her nose: “But… even if I try it, I can’t afford it.”

The female salesperson smiled at her: “Not being able to afford it is only for now. You’re still in college, aren’t you? Just experience it for now. When you want to buy it later, it will still be here waiting for you to take it home.”

Xie Shiwei was convinced by the female salesperson’s perfect persuasion.

When she realized what she was doing, she had already ignored Jiang Xiyao’s resentful glare from the crowd—as if complaining that she had run off without her—and plopped herself into the soft sofa—

In an instant.

A cool, delicate embrace wrapped around her from behind.

Xie Shiwei inexplicably shivered.

S-So strange.

Why did sinking into this sofa feel exactly like Jiang Xiyao hugging her from behind while sleeping at night?

The female salesperson was still smiling, leaning in close beside her: “How is it? Isn’t the material of this product very skin-friendly? And the softness is just right? We also treated it with a special soothing essential oil. It’s very suitable for relaxing the mind.”

If she hadn’t mentioned it.

But once she did, Xie Shiwei suddenly realized.

She had been less sensitive to other smells because she was constantly surrounded by that strange aroma when she was next to Jiang Xiyao. Now that she was far away, her tired sense of smell recovered, and she smelled a faint fragrance.

A scent…

Why did it smell the same as Sister’s scent?

Was it because her body loved Sister so much that it was going crazy, seeing the same scent everywhere, or was Sister’s scent too overbearing, drifting over from such a distance and covering up this essential oil fragrance?

Xie Shiwei was feeling inexplicably uneasy while lying there.

Under the salesperson’s expectant gaze, she really wanted to escape this embracing sofa and get up to discuss her feelings. But when she pushed off with her foot, she felt a resistance trying to keep her.

“Poof”

The soft sofa, which was wrapped around her body and arms, pulled her back down, even holding her tighter than before.

It was as if there was a living will that was unhappy with her leaving and wanted to keep her by any means necessary. The soft sofa surged toward her from all sides, constantly compressing her vision.

Xie Shiwei: “!”

She frantically stretched out her arms, her eyes wide with the fear of being suffocated at any moment.

However, the female salesperson who should have been with her heard the commotion nearby, turned to look, and the next second, let out a terrified shriek: “Ah—!”

The surging sofa fell into a state of stillness in an instant.

Xie Shiwei struggled to roll out, sliding onto the ground. She looked up toward the crowd and saw a mad, disheveled figure screaming and rushing toward Jiang Xiyao:

“How dare you! How dare you show your face! I want you to be as ugly as me! I’m going to slash your face!”

A flash of silver light suddenly cut through the air.

Viciously slashing toward that perfectly flawless, beautiful face.

A thread of bl00d arced through the air.

Jiang Xiyao had originally intended to dodge, but when she clearly saw the pitted, hideous, and concentrated acid-like face under the hair, she recognized who this person was from the underlying bone structure.

So strangely, she chose not to dodge. Instead, she actively moved closer, her black eyes filled with intense malice, and she spoke to Le Qiong in a boastful tone:

“So it’s you, you ugly monster.”

“You’re so ugly. You’re really so ugly. You can’t appear in front of Xie Shiwei like this. You’ll scare her.”

“Of course, I’m different. No matter how jealous you are, I can recover my beauty instantly.”

If it were any other character, she might consider whether or not to destroy the opponent.

But only Le Qiong, this presumptuous, reckless person who dared to fight her for Xie Shiwei’s love letter—she would absolutely, absolutely not forgive her!

As she spoke, the woman holding the knife rushed out again, letting out a collapsing scream!

She swung the knife even faster: “I’m going to slash you, slash you, so you can never recover—!”

As the crisscrossing, hideous slashes fell with bl00d, Jiang Xiyao let out a joyful, satisfied laugh.

When Xie Shiwei saw the scene of bl00d splattering, her eyes turned white, her legs went weak, and her mind uncontrollably spun into dizziness. But her knee hit the ground with a loud thud!

“Thud!”

The sudden, intense pain actually brought her back to consciousness.

Xie Shiwei trembled as she reached for her phone. She was afraid her voice alone wouldn’t be enough, and she hoarsely called out to the salesperson: “Quick! Call the police! Call 911!”

The female salesperson snapped out of her dazed state and quickly followed her instructions.

Bl00d was dripping all over the floor.

Xie Shiwei didn’t have the strength to stand up, so she just leaned against the sofa. Her hands trembled, pressing the wrong keys several times before deleting and redialing. Her other hand was fiercely digging into the bruised, purplish injury on her knee to maintain consciousness.

“Can’t, can’t faint. Stay, stay awake…”

The more anxious and scared she was, the more the tears flowed against her will.

It wasn’t until the nearby patrolling police quickly arrived and controlled the suspect.

The black-haired beauty, whose face was covered in cuts and now bore terrifying, instantly disfiguring wounds, walked over, and with a clean palm that hadn’t touched bl00d.

She gently removed Xie Shiwei’s glasses and covered her eyes.

“There, there, don’t be afraid. I’m okay. Just go ahead and faint, good girl.”

Faint.

When you wake up, you will still see my perfect, beautiful, most alluring face.

Jiang Xiyao had even planned it all out. This time, even if Le Qiong went insane and was locked up in a mental hospital, living in a daze and forgetting everything, she would still heal her face and go to the woman to brag fiercely.

After all, she was the most petty and most resentful existence, and Le Qiong was her most, most disliked prey.

She narrowed her eyes, happily planning everything that would happen after the girl fainted.

But she didn’t see it.

The hand below, which was fiercely digging into the swollen, blue-purple spot on her knee, had veins popping out from the force.

Then.

Xie Shiwei’s other hand, which had been clutching her phone but was ultimately useless, unable to dial the emergency or police number first, suddenly let go, allowing the phone to fall to the ground.

The next second, it sweatily grabbed Jiang Xiyao’s sleeve.

The scent of rich, sickening iron rust was overwhelming at her nose, and the person constantly emitting this smell was right in front of her. But Xie Shiwei maintained a cruel state of wakefulness, tears flowing down her face.

She quietly asked her:

“Are you, okay?”

Jiang Xiyao’s thoughts paused. She looked down in astonishment at the girl in her arms. With her palm covering half her face, the visible part—her fragile lower jaw—was covered in a mixture of tears and cold sweat, and her lips were pale.

Isn’t Xie Shiwei afraid of bl00d and terrified of gruesome scenes? She must have seen her terrifying face just now, right? Why didn’t she faint and get amnesia this time?

Jiang Xiyao hesitated and replied: “I’m fine?”

Hearing her voice.

The person who had been precariously holding on was instantly injected with a new burst of strength.

Xie Shiwei continuously told herself that Sister was alive, Sister was strong, and Sister only had her by her side. So she couldn’t be useless again like she was with her grandparents. She had to accompany Sister to the hospital—

The pain from her knee, which she was practically digging into, helped Xie Shiwei to reluctantly pull up the corners of her mouth.

She tried her best to give Jiang Xiyao a comforting smile.

“Don’t be afraid. Don’t be scared. Don’t cry. It will get into the wound! I’m here with you. It will be okay. Everything will be okay…”

She was clearly shaking with fear.

She was the one constantly shedding tears, wetting the other person’s palm.

But this timid girl was trying her best to comfort herself?

Jiang Xiyao, who had never heard this kind of soft coaxing before, stared motionless at the girl in her arms with an expression she herself couldn’t decipher.

However, the person being stared at noticed nothing. She just waited and waited, but the ambulance hadn’t arrived yet. So, the fingers hooked around Jiang Xiyao’s sleeve curled, and her tone became cautious as she asked:

“…Does it hurt?”

“Jiang Xiyao, are you in a lot of pain?”