The Senior Student (female) Is Not Human - Chapter 48

Chapter 48: The Necklace (For Táng Nǔ Lā’s Deepwater Bonus)

“Do you like being treated like this…”

Xie Shiwei’s brave attempt was suddenly interrupted by the alarm reminding her of class.

She walked into the classroom with a look of lingering regret.

“Uh, student, did you come into the wrong classroom? This is the Chinese as a Foreign Language major… Xie, Xie Shiwei?”

The classmate who spoke to her from the back row sounded particularly astonished.

“You’re Xie Shiwei? Did you get plastic surgery over the New Year holiday?”

The exaggerated voice drew the attention of the entire class.

Xie Shiwei immediately became flustered under their stares, tightly clasping her ten fingers together.

“Wow, so pretty. Oh my god, I declare, a new campus goddess has been born.”

Her roommate, Fan Hui, also walked over with an exaggerated expression.

This was the person who had asked her to outline the key points, invited her back to the dorm, and bragged about getting the latest Zhou family skincare products.

Xie Shiwei looked at her face and didn’t find anything abnormal, letting out a huge sigh of relief.

Fortunately, she wasn’t disfigured.

Otherwise, the best plastic surgery hospital and dermatology clinic in the country aren’t in this city…

Eh? Wait a minute? Why was she so knowledgeable about disfigurement-related matters? It was as if she had once deeply worried about this for someone close to her.

Xie Shiwei was still lost in thought when she heard someone interrupt Fan Hui:

“A new campus goddess? That’s hilarious. Did Jiang Xi-yao agree? Don’t you read the group chats? Several groups have exploded—Jiang Xi-yao is back.”

Xie Shiwei tilted her head in confusion but quickly felt relieved.

It was only natural for her beautiful girlfriend to cause a stir and discussion upon returning to school from the hospital.

However, the magnitude of the attention surpassed Xie Shiwei’s imagination.

Because she quickly heard Fan Hui exclaim in astonishment: “Didn’t she die?”

A classmate immediately refuted:

“Hah, don’t you read the local news? The Zhou family hospital has been in the news lately for deliberately deceiving people into donating bl00d, intentionally ruining people’s faces for experiments… Le Qiong was harmed to death by them. I couldn’t even look at the censored pictures. I heard the person went mad.”

“The rumor from the Art Academy is that Jiang Xi-yao was also carried in with a face covered in bl00d, but those doctors found her too beautiful, didn’t have the heart to harm her, and secretly hid her and sent her out.”

“Now that the Zhou family is under investigation, they can’t retaliate against her, so she strutted back to class.”

“Anyway, as long as Jiang Xi-yao is around, anyone who dares to challenge her title of campus belle will have a miserable end. Just look at Le Qiong.”

After the classmate finished speaking, she gave Xie Shiwei a knowing glance, with a hint of schadenfreude in her eyes.

Xie Shiwei: “…?”

Wait, why would she compete with her girlfriend for the title of campus belle?

She slowly formed a mental question mark.

Besides, that Le Qiong person was harmed by the hospital, right? What did that have to do with her girlfriend?

Just as Xie Shiwei was about to defend her, she heard Fan Hui say unhappily: “Tsk, she really has a long life. No wonder the old saying goes, ‘Vile people live a thousand years.’ It’s true.”

Xie Shiwei looked at her in disbelief: “What did you say?!”

Fan Hui, however, patted her shoulder, acting like her best friend.

“I endured my own issues, but since you’re going to compete with her for the campus belle title, I absolutely support you. Let me tell you, Jiang Xi-yao is popular only because she likes to seduce those loud, brainless men.”

“I was blind before and got a boyfriend, and she saw him passing by and used every trick to steal him away. If you’re going to oppose her, the first step is to keep your romantic partner hidden. You absolutely cannot let Jiang Xi-yao see anyone too outstanding.”

“She really enjoys breaking up other couples. She loves proving that she’s more charming than all other women. So the first step in defeating you will be stealing your partner.”

Xie Shiwei saw the twisted anger on Fan Hui’s face when she mentioned Jiang Xi-yao.

Her eyes seemed to be spitting fire.

Xie Shiwei instinctively took a small step back, then heard the support of other girls in the class.

“Yes, yes, yes. Also, you have to be careful when you walk. She likes to order her lackeys around to do her dirty work. They’ll cut up your clothes or scratch your face. You need to be careful.”

“I heard about that too! If you have a big event one day, and you put on nice makeup and dress up, she’ll deliberately appear on the same stage or in the same photo to completely overshadow you. You have to keep your big plans secret!”

The girls in the class contributed one after another, building up Xie Shiwei’s path to becoming the campus belle.

Xie Shiwei: “???”

She had never felt such intense enthusiasm from her classmates.

The extreme division was that their enthusiasm for her was built upon their hostility toward her girlfriend—

It was as if her intention to compete for the campus belle title had made her their natural ally.

The words “She is my girlfriend,” which were at the tip of Xie Shiwei’s tongue, somehow wouldn’t come out.

She had a bad feeling.

If she dared to utter those words, the classmates who were now so warm and generous to her would immediately turn against her. Even worse, something far more terrifying would occur.

And that terrifying price would be a hundred times worse than the campus bullying she had previously experienced.

Xie Shiwei couldn’t declare her relationship with Jiang Xi-yao at the best moment and sat down in a seat with a heavy heart.

She recalled the reason Jiang Xi-yao gave for their secret relationship.

It turned out… she was even more despicable than her girlfriend had said.

She wasn’t just poor, stingy, and unreasonable; during their relationship, she also exhibited terrible, domineering possessiveness, saying she didn’t want her girlfriend talking to others or being seen interacting with her. The fundamental reason was simply that Xie Shiwei was a coward!

She wanted to monopolize such a beautiful girlfriend but was also unwilling to lose these social connections. So, she secretly hid her girlfriend while enjoying the feeling of joining others in criticizing her!

The more Xie Shiwei thought about it, the more she felt that her pre-amnesia self was truly shameless, despicable, and petty!

She immediately took out her phone to apologize to her girlfriend:

“I just got to class and heard some things. I feel like I’ve really treated you horribly.”

“I’m awful. I don’t deserve to be with you at all. Wuwuwu, you were really terribly deceived by the old me. Jiang Xi-yao, you could actually have a much better partner. Why did you fall for me, qaq?”

“Do you want to reconsider this relationship?”

Xie Shiwei typed with a feigned sense of rationality, but her head was bowed, and tears were silently plopping down.

…

At the same time.

Jiang Xi-yao was sitting outside the Art Academy building, listening to the familiar stream of greetings and affections.

The display of charm that she usually enjoyed was now filled with anxiety.

【Haha, damn Zhou Ji-ming, flaunting your wealth like that before! Without the Zhou family, let’s see what trash like you will use to fight me for Jiang Xi-yao? She’s definitely mine!】

【I managed to snatch this with my fast hands. It’s the limited-edition cake from Jiang Xi-yao’s favorite shop. She eats my cake, so she should agree to my date, right?】

The greedy, covetous sounds, combined with the words they spoke, flooded Jiang Xi-yao’s mind.

“Shut up, shut up, shut up! What kind of lowlife dares to yap in front of me? If you can’t learn to be quiet, go eat a mute pill!”

So loud, too loud. Why was it so loud—

Jiang Xi-yao had never considered her prey to be so noisy. They were making it hard for her to hear Xie Shiwei’s inner voice.

That little coward, hearing what those people in her class said, she wouldn’t start suspecting things, would she?

Just as she thought this, her phone vibrated.

Jiang Xi-yao picked it up, and the first sentence made the corners of her lips curl up.

She was about to unreservedly accept Xie Shiwei’s guilt, but when she saw the rest, a storm began to brew in her dark eyes.

What did she mean? What did she mean by reconsidering the relationship?

That dead cream puff, she wasn’t bored of the game yet, but this one was bored first, huh?

Using “don’t deserve” as an excuse…

The force of Jiang Xi-yao’s angry typing almost cracked the phone screen:

“If you feel guilty, treat me better. Xie Shiwei, what do you mean by that last sentence? You kiss me and sleep with me, and then you don’t want to be responsible? Xie Shiwei, who else have you set your sights on that you dare to try to dump me here?”

Even after sending the message, Jiang Xi-yao wasn’t satisfied: “Wait there. I’m coming to find you now.”

“Huh? Why is she leaving right after coming back? When did this woman’s patience get so bad? But she really has changed a lot since she came back this time. She actually rode on the back of a little beat-up scooter earlier. Is that some kind of special limited edition?”

As she caught this inner voice, Jiang Xi-yao’s steps suddenly halted.

“What kind of limited edition is none of your business! Don’t you go piss in a puddle and look at your own miserable face. Do you think you’re worthy of imagining riding on the back of her scooter? Even if you chopped off your own pathetic flesh, she wouldn’t look at you!”

The boy, whose mouth was tightly shut, was startled by her sudden outburst.

How strange.

He hadn’t said anything, so why had she gotten angry? And how did Jiang Xi-yao know he was muttering about the scooter? Did she have telepathy, haha?

Jiang Xi-yao’s eyes froze.

She realized she had lost her composure because of Xie Shiwei’s words, failing to distinguish between the inner voice and actual speech.

In the moment of her contemplation, Xie Shiwei was also shocked by her response.

“…Who else have you set your sights on…”

That word “else” looked terrifyingly bad.

So, the former Xie Shiwei was not only stingy and wicked but also a jerk! Good heavens, how could she, a person who had never dated before, behave so completely differently from what she imagined when she was in a relationship?

Xie Shiwei’s heart ached for her girlfriend. What had she put her through?

Could the greatest suffering Jiang Xi-yao had ever endured be the agony of love given by her?

Xie Shiwei looked at the message she had sent again.

…It did seem like she was doing something to push the other person away while claiming it was for their own good.

Ahhh, she was definitely a scumbag!

So, as soon as class ended, Xie Shiwei postponed her trip to the library to study and sincerely sent her girlfriend a voice message:

“I’m so sorry, I said the wrong thing. How about I apologize to you? Or should I come find you?”

“Where are you right now? What do you like to eat? I’ll buy it to coax you and promise you in person that I won’t say anything that makes you sad or upset again, okay?”

“Girlfriend~ Where are you? Oh, right, you called me Cream Puff before. What did I used to call you? Xi-xi? That sounds funny, hehe. Yao-yao? …Ah, definitely not that! Jiang-jiang? How’s that?”

She walked alone toward the Art Academy.

Their department only started accepting undergraduates this year, and the inexperienced faculty scheduled their final exam week the latest, with their professional course ending even later than other departments.

Like now.

Some majors had already finished their exams and gone home for the New Year holiday, but her major had just finished its last class and was frantically studying for the first upcoming exam.

The already expansive campus was missing more than half its students. Even the main avenue was deserted.

Xie Shiwei stopped by a bush, head bowed, talking into her phone.

As the message zipped away, she heard a very faint vibration nearby.

Xie Shiwei couldn’t help but freeze, her heart growing uneasy: Was someone following her?

…

Behind the bush.

A mobile phone lay near a manhole cover, its edges set in a luxurious, finely inlaid diamond phone case.

When the phone vibrated, a long, thin, white strip, like a paper worm, poked out from the crack of the manhole cover.

Jiang Xi-yao had actually arrived at Xie Shiwei’s college before her class ended, but upon entering the lobby, she spotted a man in black acting suspiciously, peering through the windows of every classroom.

He was a bored vagrant who had slipped into the school, originally just looking for an empty classroom to find a solitary female student to harass and take advantage of. Unfortunately, in this exquisite building, students always tended to sit together in groups.

He changed his target, deciding to find a pretty girl to follow home—

He turned around and saw a face of unparalleled beauty that he would never forget.

And that woman, beautiful enough to make any man lose his mind, silently extended an index finger toward him and crooked it.

He instantly lost his soul, following her like a dog.

He had only intended to take advantage of her, but when he came to his senses, he was using his belt to strangle her snowy white neck. The girl quickly stopped breathing under his force, and he dragged the corpse, unsure what to do with it.

Just ahead on the road was a manhole cover that a maintenance worker hadn’t managed to push back into place.

…

Right now.

Xie Shiwei, separated from the manhole cover by only a clump of bushes, felt a creeping fear and initially wanted to run, but she was too concerned about the slight movement she had just heard.

Two voices appeared in her head.

One warned: “Some scammers like to trick overly sympathetic single women. For example, they secretly meow in the bushes at night. When you think it’s a kitten and bend over to follow, they jump up to scare you!”

The other worried: “What if it’s an epileptic person, or an elderly person, who accidentally fainted outside and is just waiting for you to call emergency services? You could be the only person passing by who can save them right now.”

Xie Shiwei was torn.

Finally, she took a bottle of pepper spray out of her backpack with one hand, and with the other, she gripped the emergency alarm on her backpack’s keychain. She put away her phone and cautiously walked toward the back of the bush.

At the same time.

That long, thin, white paper strip, like a worm, that had emerged from the manhole cover finally drifted in front of the illuminated phone.

At the top of the slender white paper was a pair of clearly defined black and white eyes.

Before those eyes could even clearly read the content, they first sensed the rapidly approaching aura belonging to the fragmented part of Xie Shiwei’s body!

The girl’s foot landed silently on the grass. The moment she turned to bypass the bush—

“Ngh!”

A muffled groan escaped her throat.

A strange sensation suddenly erupted from the area where those two br3ast patches were!

Xie Shiwei’s legs immediately went weak, and she nearly fell to her knees. She looked down in disbelief. Her beautiful green dress still hugged her body’s curves, with no visible abnormalities.

But.

Xie Shiwei could feel that those two silicone objects…

Were they pressing her? Kneading her? Or vibrating her?

No, none of the above!

They were sucking her.

Realizing this, Xie Shiwei could barely walk. She could only sit on a stone stool by the roadside, trying to relieve the sensation by clamping her legs together. It didn’t work. Instead, because she was so intently focused on the feeling, her body grew hotter.

She had to reach for her phone, wanting to ask her girlfriend what this was.

But a message had already popped up:

“Just sweet talk won’t convince me. I don’t believe you. I’m going to punish you.”

“Let’s punish you for fifteen minutes, okay? Stand still obediently and don’t try to touch yourself when I’m not looking, oh.”

“After fifteen minutes, send me your location. I’ll come find you. And check your panties, by the way.”

Xie Shiwei sat on the stone stool, blushing fiercely, not daring to move.

She didn’t have the strength to get up and walk away, nor the strength to type a long protest to Jiang Xi-yao. She only looked around nervously, terrified that someone would pass by and notice her strange state.

She placed her backpack strategically on her lap, loosely holding it.

If only she had known, she wouldn’t have rushed out of the college so quickly…

【Wuwu! Out here! So embarrassing! What new material did my girlfriend use? I’ve never seen anything like this… Is it going to electrocute me too? How many settings does it have? I’m so scared, wuwu, but so stimulating!】

【The time is so long. Ahhh, why is someone walking by right now? Don’t look at me, don’t look at me, please don’t look at me—】

Xie Shiwei tried hard to keep her head down.

However, she forgot that her outfit and appearance today were too eye-catching. The boy unconsciously stared at her several times, even tempted to approach.

Xie Shiwei, nervously, unconsciously rummaged through her backpack, pulling out a pile of books and exam papers.

At the same time, physiological tears dripped down one by one.

The boy, who had already taken two steps closer, shook his head and walked away: “Another one who was made to cry by the final exams…”

Xie Shiwei let out a quiet sigh of relief.

The moment he left, a pair of slightly cool hands silently covered her eyes from behind.

The moment she jumped up in surprise, a voice filled with a playful smile flowed into her ear:

“Do you like being rewarded this way, girlfriend?”

Hearing the voice and smelling the familiar fragrance, Xie Shiwei’s tightly clenched nerves suddenly relaxed. With the sudden high and low, her body trembled like a falling leaf, and her lips, open to answer, couldn’t utter a single word for a long time.

“How did you get there even when you’re outside?”

Jiang Xi-yao released her hands, her dark eyes looking into hers from above:

“Are you soaked?”

Xie Shiwei’s gaze was unfocused, but her wide pupils reflected that face.

Black, glossy hair, snowy skin, sexy red lips, and a tempting red mole.

And the dark green, beautiful long dress that matched her own color scheme.

However, a long mark, somewhere between red and pink, stretched across that snowy neck.

…What was that? Why hadn’t she noticed it when they left the house?

Xie Shiwei’s eyes were still clouded with tears, making it hard to see the mark clearly. She only felt a dangerous, eerie sense emanating from it, and she spoke out blankly:

“Did you put on a new necklace?”