The Senior Student (female) Is Not Human - Chapter 51

Chapter 51: The Evil Seed

She was dating an evil seed…

Xie Shiwei didn’t pay any more attention to whether Zhou Ji-ming was taken to the hospital in time.

After discussing the final group assignment division with her roommates, she rushed to the bubble tea shop for her shift. Students had final exams, but part-time jobs didn’t.

The bubble tea shop where Xie Shiwei worked was small and had no seating area for dine-in customers. Thus, her girlfriend had to settle for sitting under a sun umbrella at the coffee shop across the street.

The two were separated by a street but could look up and see each other.

Xie Shiwei occasionally sighed at her girlfriend’s unsolvable charm. Whether at school or in the downtown area, Jiang Xi-yao effortlessly became the center of attention.

The people surrounding the dark-haired beauty started off with reserved and tentative expressions, which soon became cheerful and enthusiastic. Half an hour later, their gaze toward Jiang Xi-yao became fervent, while they looked at other competitors with hostility and resentment.

Xie Shiwei even noticed that they quickly began to unite, successfully pushing one of the competitors out of the core area near Jiang Xi-yao.

That person fell awkwardly to the ground.

Yet, her girlfriend didn’t spare them a single glance.

Xie Shiwei saw the look of resentment the person cast at them after getting up.

In that instant, she suddenly felt that perhaps this person was Jiang Xi-yao’s chosen target—

Because he would be the one to go mad for her first.

“Ding-dong~”

A customer entering the bubble tea shop interrupted Xie Shiwei’s thoughts.

She didn’t have time to consider why Jiang Xi-yao was deliberately inciting those people to go crazy for her.

“Hello, what can I get for you?” Xie Shiwei gave the customer a standard smile.

This was the most relaxed she would look for the next two hours.

“Ding-dong~ You have a new order~”

“Ding-dong, ding-dong~” “We’ll take two of your most expensive Fresh Orange Four Seasons Jasmine Tea.”

The takeaway ordering machine and in-person customer orders flooded Xie Shiwei’s workstation like snowflakes.

She peeled the fiftieth orange with a dazed expression.

【I hope I never find out who suddenly advertised this most unpopular and difficult-to-make drink at our shop! Ugh, I’m getting bloodthirsty from all these oranges! Haha, there’s no way out. There’s still a whole box of oranges waiting for me to slaughter…】

【I guess this is an early taste of being a Top in bed. I’ve been doing this for two hours straight, and my hands are exhausted qaq】

When the sound of her inner breakdown reached her.

Jiang Xi-yao, sitting under the sun umbrella, showed a moment of guilt.

…What the heck, wasn’t the most expensive drink supposed to have the highest commission? How could it be the hardest to make?

The next second, she unhesitatingly blamed the owner.

It was all the fault of that bubble tea shop owner for designing such a difficult drink! Damn him!

Jiang Xi-yao even selectively forgot about her promise to keep their relationship low-key. When Xie Shiwei finished her shift, she appeared at the corner where Xie Shiwei parked her scooter.

“You worked so hard, my girlfriend.” Jiang Xi-yao showed a look of distress, lifting the girl’s hands and gently massaging the sore muscles of her forearm:

“It’s all those fools’ fault. They should just transfer the money directly to you; why bother with bubble tea? How dare they make you work so hard to earn money? They have no consideration.”

Xie Shiwei: “…Don’t say such capitalist things, Jiang-jiang.”

Jiang Xi-yao paused.

Her dark eyes first lit up, then furrowed in a frown.

She recalled the names her prey used for her: initially polite “Student Jiang,” “Miss Jiang,” or “Ms. Jiang,” but as their negative emotions toward her grew, it would become “Jiang Xi-yao” and even “Xi-yao.”

The more intimate the title, the stronger the possessiveness it revealed.

This was why Jiang Xi-yao was previously very unhappy that Xie Shiwei always called her “Senior” or “Senior Jiang.”

Now Xie Shiwei was finally willing to give her a special title, but why only the surname reduplication?

Jiang Xi-yao asked directly: “Why not Yao-yao?”

She had, of course, seen the previous chat history.

“Xi-xi,” that silly name suitable for a cat or a dog, was fine to avoid. But why did Xie Shiwei choose the reduplication of her surname instead of her given name?

【Ah. Because ‘Yao-yao’ clashes with Chu-chu’s last name. Her ‘Yao’ (尧) is from her father’s surname. Her parents divorced early, and she doesn’t like that character, so I don’t like it either.】

The answer naturally surfaced in Xie Shiwei’s mind.

But she said aloud: “Because… Jiang-jiang is cuter? Like a Gingerbread Man! My grandparents said that giving nicknames that are a bit rough, like food names, brings good fortune? Because being able to eat is a blessing!”

Then Xie Shiwei convinced herself.

The more she said it, the cuter she found “Jiang-jiang!” Super cute!

Jiang Xi-yao’s expression twisted.

Hah—

Her name was one syllable away from a friend of Xie Shiwei’s, so Xie Shiwei avoided that character?

Shouldn’t that tactless friend be the one to change her name? If her name contains a disliked character, then she should just drop it! Besides, Jiang Xi-yao didn’t think that person was worthy of the sound anyway! What, didn’t she know the way to the police station?

Jiang Xi-yao fiercely added another count to the blacklist member “Zhong Chu-yao.”

“Ow…”

Then, Xie Shiwei let out a sound of pain.

Jiang Xi-yao only then realized she hadn’t controlled the force while massaging her girlfriend’s hand, leaving a faint blue bruise on her tender flesh.

Xie Shiwei looked at her nervously: “You don’t like it, do you? If you don’t like it, I’ll think of something else?”

Jiang Xi-yao answered without hesitation: “This one first!”

Who knew when this idiot Xie Shiwei would come up with a new one? Jiang Xi-yao always believed in enjoying the moment. Whatever special treatment Xie Shiwei gave her, she would take it.

After saying that, she glanced at the girl’s flushed arm and suggested: “Are you too tired to ride the scooter? How about I take you back?”

Xie Shiwei looked at her in astonishment: “You know how to ride an e-scooter?”

Jiang Xi-yao looked like the type who was born gazing up at a Rolls-Royce starlight headliner.

“Isn’t something this simple something you learn just by looking at it?” Jiang Xi-yao was utterly self-assured, even guaranteeing: “Don’t worry, I won’t let you fall off.”

Xie Shiwei: “…”

She replied weakly: “I’ll do it.”

Jiang Xi-yao was very unhappy with her lack of trust, but in the end, she still couldn’t bear to let Xie Shiwei’s hands suffer more. So, she paid for a taxi and called a designated driver to take Xie Shiwei’s scooter back.

Xie Shiwei felt uneasy in the car: “Isn’t this a bit too wasteful?”

Jiang Xi-yao looked at her strangely: “Isn’t money meant to be wasted? I have plenty of that stuff. Waste it as much as you like.”

She then casually shoved the luxury brand bag that someone had just gifted her into Xie Shiwei’s arms: “This matches your dress today. When you change into another outfit tomorrow, you can sell this bag.”

Xie Shiwei, suddenly sugar-babied, was too dumbfounded to speak.

She returned home in a daze, completely forgetting that she had intended to ask Jiang Xi-yao about her way of interacting with others.

Before bed, Xie Shiwei snuggled into that cool, delicate embrace, her sore arms still being massaged by Jiang Xi-yao with perfect pressure.

She thought vaguely:

It’s amazing. Jiang-jiang seems to have no experience waiting on people, so how is her control over massage and pressure points so precise?

It must be that art students have an innate understanding of human anatomy!

In any case, thanks to Jiang Xi-yao, Xie Shiwei walked into the exam room the next day fully revitalized.

…

Two hours later, after the papers were collected, the classmates gathered to compare answers.

“Hiss, that last major question was only covered once by the teacher in class, right? It was even hidden in the obscure corners of my notes. Oh my god, why did they test something so obscure?”

Xie Shiwei listened nearby.

Obscure? She remembered that when the teacher taught that section, she suddenly got interested and extended the lesson. The teacher herself seemed to really like that extended part, so it was normal to include it in the final exam, right?

At the very least, Xie Shiwei thought this knowledge point was definitely a major question on one of the two exam versions.

So, she specifically memorized it.

“Ah, forget it, no time to mourn the lost points on this one. Next up on the battlefield this afternoon is ‘Theories of Communication!’ Haha, and it’s mixed English and Chinese. If they make us translate The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, I’ll just die right there!”

Xie Shiwei hesitated for two seconds.

She whispered: “They won’t test that. The teacher previously assigned homework to translate Chapters 4 and 5. She wasn’t satisfied with the work we submitted, and this isn’t the English final anyway. She won’t put that on the test again.”

The classmate glanced at her: “Really? Why do I feel like it’s definitely going to be on the exam?”

Xie Shiwei smiled and didn’t reply.

Fan Hui suddenly spoke up at this moment:

“Doesn’t the teacher decide what’s tested? We’re just guessing here. We can only rely on luck, right? Hehe, I feel like my luck is going to be amazing. I’m definitely going to get the highest score in the class.”

The overly confident statement drew attention from everyone in the class.

Other roommates asked her: “Fan Hui, why are you suddenly so confident? You seem unlike yourself.”

Fan Hui chuckled twice, tossed the backpack off her shoulder, revealing a delicate doll.

“Look! A lucky charm I found at the scenic area yesterday!” She boasted proudly: “It’s a lucky doll hand-made by the owner! Seriously, just touching it last night made me feel so relaxed and comfortable. I was full of motivation to study!”

Xie Shiwei looked at the doll.

The most attractive part was, first, the doll’s black, shiny, realistic wig.

Even the most expensive dolls in shopping malls or the wigs made by expert wig-makers online couldn’t compare to this doll. Its hair completely lacked the coarseness of a wig.

It was as if… this black, beautiful hair was still growing on a real person’s scalp, constantly drawing nourishment.

The doll’s skin was also very realistic.

It wasn’t the dead white of fake material but a particularly fair color…

Like Jiang Xi-yao’s skin tone.

After her mind drew a comparison with her girlfriend, Xie Shiwei was astonished to find that although the doll’s eyes were painted red and its face, nose, and mouth were tiny, the hair color and skin texture were a perfect, miniaturized version of Jiang Xi-yao.

Even the aura the doll emitted was similar to Jiang Xi-yao’s—

“Wow! It looks so cute! Can I touch it?”

“Yes, yes. I wasn’t interested in dolls, but the one on your backpack makes me really want to touch it. Let me feel it? I want to get some good luck for the exam too.”

“Fan Hui, Fan Hui, where did you buy it? I want to buy one too! I really want it!”

The surrounding classmates eagerly crowded around Fan Hui.

But Fan Hui was stingy, showing an extremely strong possessiveness over the doll:

“No way. This is like a consecrated mala bead from a temple or a Pixiu charm invited home to guard the house. Of course, I can’t let others touch it. What if you take my good luck?”

“I can send you the address of the shop, and you can buy one yourselves. This doll is mine!”

As the classmates swarmed and jostled, Xie Shiwei already grabbed her backpack and walked out of the classroom.

She was past the age of being interested in dolls.

Maybe she had secretly envied girls who had many cute dolls when she was little, but her desire had been completely filled after her grandmother gave her a super huge polar bear for her birthday.

Why bother pinching a miniature doll? She had a much softer, larger girlfriend she could pinch.

Xie Shiwei walked toward the cafeteria.

She had messaged Jiang Xi-yao beforehand, saying she’d grab lunch at the school cafeteria to study for the afternoon exam, and that her girlfriend should enjoy a nice meal outside.

Jiang Xi-yao was predictably furious: “How can you eat at the cafeteria! Stir-fried strawberries with mooncakes, stir-fried celery with chocolate, dragon fruit egg fried rice! You’ll die if you eat those!”

Xie Shiwei: “…I’m touched that you specifically searched for the nightmare dishes found in university cafeterias. But, my Baby Jiang-jiang, our school cafeteria is the largest in Asia, and everything from the basement to the fifth floor is delicious. They don’t have those recipes, honest.”

Jiang Xi-yao, while demanding she say the nickname again, angrily asked what exactly was good to eat at the cafeteria!

Xie Shiwei, walking to the cafeteria, replied with a voice message, smiling:

“My dear Baby Jiang-jiang. The tomato and egg noodles in the basement are only 2.5 yuan and are delicious. The lotus leaf chicken rice on the first floor is good too, and the three-delicacy beef rice on the second floor, the mackerel dumplings and spicy dry pot mix on the third floor, and the small steamed dishes and pan-fried steak on the fourth floor…”

She rattled off a list of dishes, covering specialties from the north to the south.

After speaking, Xie Shiwei arrived at the cafeteria entrance.

As the exam week progressed, more and more cafeteria stalls closed for the holiday. Today, only the basement floor was open.

However, this floor was exceptionally lively.

Xie Shiwei immediately spotted the beautiful figure sitting by the window at the marble counter. The already tall person was perched on one of the high stools. Students throughout the entire floor were eating and looking up at her.

Jiang Xi-yao lifted her eyelids and saw a boy running over with a bowl of freshly bought tomato noodles:

“Student Jiang! Did you want to eat this?”

“Get that away from me. Who knows if hand-pulled noodles sold this cheaply can even—”

She stopped mid-sentence, her gaze casually sweeping past Xie Shiwei. Then she changed her mind: “Forget it, wasting food is a bad habit. Take this bowl of noodles and give it to someone else. Hmm, give it to that girl.”

Jiang Xi-yao pointed her finger at Xie Shiwei.

The boy, who looked completely honest, was stunned for two seconds. He gave a bewildered “Oh,” then turned and did as he was told.

“Student, here. Jiang Xi-yao rewarded this to you.”

Hearing this, Xie Shiwei saw the fresh bowl of noodles just made at the counter and laughed as she thanked him: “Okay, thank you.”

The next second, her phone vibrated.

The screen displayed a fiercely snarling emoji.

Jiang-jiang (Super Cute Girlfriend): “Why are you thanking him! What right does he have to talk to you! It’s a miracle for this cannon fodder to run errands for you! Why are you responding to this tactless person who wants to talk to you and seduce you!”

Xie Shiwei chuckled, ignoring her inexplicable possessiveness, and slowly typed:

“Did you want me to thank you? Then thank you, my girlfriend?”

Jiang-jiang (Super Cute Girlfriend): “What do you mean! Thank me for what! Why are you being polite with me? Are you treating me like a stranger? You damn cream puff, you are dead when you get home tonight!”

Xie Shiwei sighed dramatically.

In her peripheral vision, the person sitting by the window, furiously tapping her phone, instantly quieted down.

Her dark eyes glanced over, then glanced again after a moment.

【So cute.】

【Whether she looks like she has separation anxiety, or how she’s now suddenly scared of me being angry, she’s so cute. My girlfriend is the cutest in the whole world.】

Only when these two thoughts came through did Jiang Xi-yao regain sensation in her limbs.

She felt Xie Shiwei was getting worse.

Just as she rose from her seat, ready to walk over regardless of the attention, several figures suddenly cut in front of her.

“Xie Shiwei! Why were you walking so fast?”

Fan Hui naturally sat next to the girl: “Hey, those key points you highlighted were really useful. I forgot to thank you. Oh, right, while they’re not around, as a thank you, I’ll let you touch my lucky doll?”

“Just one touch, though.”

She put on a generous expression.

The more Xie Shiwei looked at the doll, the more it reminded her of Jiang Xi-yao.

But the doll was dangling from a keyring attached to the top of the backpack. She really didn’t have the courage to touch such a bizarre object.

So, she gave an awkward but polite smile: “Thank you, but no need.”

Fan Hui frowned at her.

“What do you mean? You don’t want to touch it? You look down on my things?”

Xie Shiwei was startled: “Ah? No…”

Fan Hui’s face immediately fell: “Fine. I thought you were a decent person, but it turns out you’re quite arrogant. Well, let me just say this right now—”

“I am very confident about this final exam. I should be able to get first place. You participate in few class activities, your peer evaluation scores are low, and your extracurricular practice scores are low. If you don’t get first place in the professional course, you won’t get the scholarship, right?”

“If you don’t score higher than me, don’t you dare say I stole your scholarship later.”

Xie Shiwei watched her dramatic change of expression, and it took her a while to open her mouth.

But she was interrupted by another voice raised in sarcasm:

“Well! Who is this big dreamer? Announcing herself as the first-place winner before the exam? What, are you the principal’s biological daughter? If you’re some royal or noble relative, hurry up and tell everyone your identity! The commoners can quickly drop out so they don’t accidentally offend you by scoring higher. Wouldn’t that be a huge mistake?”

Jiang Xi-yao’s thinly veiled sarcasm drew the attention of many students in the cafeteria.

Ordinary people are the majority, after all. Who could tolerate working hard only to be relegated to a background role?

A commotion immediately broke out in the cafeteria.

“I suggest rich people get their own test paper, hah.”

“If you’re the principal’s daughter, why are you taking the exam? Just donate a building to Harvard to get a diploma! Are you not too proud to fight us for a mere ten thousand yuan scholarship, Princess?”

“Seriously, I’m speechless, brothers. I accidentally inhaled the air that the distinguished young lady just breathed in the cafeteria. What should I do? Am I going to become rich now?”

Snide comments came from all directions.

Xie Shiwei heard Fan Hui scream, grab her backpack, and run out of the cafeteria.

…

Worse yet.

—During the afternoon exam, the doll on Fan Hui’s backpack was missing.

When Xie Shiwei left the exam room, she saw Fan Hui frantically stopping every student who was trying to leave:

“Did you steal it? Was it you? You didn’t even get to touch my doll at noon. You’re jealous of me, aren’t you? You wanted to hide my doll and take away my good luck so I would embarrass myself on the exam?”

One student couldn’t take it anymore and cursed angrily: “Are you sick, Fan Hui? Everyone relies on skill for the exam. Who relies on luck like you?”

Fan Hui ignored them, snatching their backpacks, rummaging through them wildly, and throwing them aside. Finally, she rushed toward Xie Shiwei.

“Was it you! Was it Xie Shiwei! You were afraid I’d compete with you for the scholarship, so you wanted to eliminate me as a rival, right? You pretended you didn’t want to touch my doll because you had already decided to steal it, right!”

Xie Shiwei listened to her tightly constructed scenario and felt she was well-suited to writing novels.

But at that moment, Xie Shiwei simply grabbed her backpack and asked:

“You can check my backpack. Call the police and tell them your suspicions. I will open my backpack for you to see under the witness of the police. If you are slandering me without evidence, I will require you to apologize to me publicly.”

Fan Hui’s frantic lunge paused before Xie Shiwei’s rational words.

After a moment, Fan Hui cried sadly: “Wuwuwu, my doll, my child. My life can’t go on without it… You thieves! You robbers! I will get revenge on you!”

Xie Shiwei sighed as she walked away with her backpack, feeling a strange sense that she was about to lose another roommate.

First, there was a murderer who hit people with a car, and now there was a mentally disturbed person whose mind exploded over an exam score.

She returned home. As she opened the door, she intended to share the story of the afternoon exam with Jiang Xi-yao.

But the door opened inward first.

The dark-haired beauty in a bathrobe smiled and spread her arms, hugging her waist and spinning her around. She asked enthusiastically: “Do you want dinner first, or do you want to eat me first?”

Xie Shiwei’s face instantly exploded in crimson.

【When you have a girlfriend to eat, who needs dinner? Let me eat, let me eat. I’m going to die under the peony blossom today and be a rogue ghost—】

Something suddenly bumped the head of the girl being held.

Xie Shiwei looked up and saw the doll that should have been hanging on Fan Hui’s backpack actually hanging over the top of her door, swinging like a small figure hanged.

Her heart instantly went cold, and she almost couldn’t breathe.

Jiang Xi-yao patted her back, pulling her into an embrace and scoffing:

“It’s just a doll. Baby, you are such a coward. Are you afraid of something like this?”

Xie Shiwei gripped the corner of her clothes, her face pale, and asked her: “How did this thing… get here?”

Jiang Xi-yao looked down at the person in her arms.

The image that surfaced in her mind was of her deliberately controlling that fragmented piece to return to her side this afternoon.

…She had to think of a reasonable reason that she could trick Xie Shiwei with.

Soon, the beautiful woman put on a self-satisfied expression, like a proud cat, pushing her head toward Xie Shiwei:

“It’s because that guy was spouting nonsense in front of you, saying those suicidal things. This is a lesson for her, ha. I really want to see her frantic, flustered, stomping-mad stupidity. It must be entertaining.”

“How was it, how was it? Wasn’t it satisfying to see her expression when she realized it was missing?”

Jiang Xi-yao’s dark eyes glittered with pride, eager to receive Xie Shiwei’s praise.

However—

She was only met with the girl’s tightly pursed, silent lips.

Xie Shiwei looked into those black eyes that revealed deep affection at all times.

They were eyes that could make anyone willingly sink into them, yet most of the charm they released seemed to carry a malice that took pleasure in toying with people’s hearts.

In this moment, Xie Shiwei realized with utter clarity.

Her girlfriend not only possessed the extreme charm to make people go mad for her but was also an expert at driving people to madness.

She was an evil seed by nature.

And she was dating such an evil seed.