The Senior Student (female) Is Not Human - Chapter 53

Chapter 53: New Year’s Goods (Bonus Chapter)

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The evil dog, having received its reward, knew neither satiety nor restraint.

When Jiang Xi-yao heard the girl’s shame-laden “I like it,” she suddenly wanted to know how far she could push the boundaries.

Or rather.

She wanted to further probe Xie Shiwei’s limits of endurance.

So, upon seeing tears clinging precariously to those clear eyes, Jiang Xi-yao’s bite did not ease; instead, it sank deeper.

She seemed intent on leaving her own indelible mark on that fragile body.

Xie Shiwei had initially only meant to cover her mouth to stifle the sounds, but now she had no choice but to bite the back of her hand, using the sharp pain in one spot to divert the aching soreness and swelling in another.

【Aaaaaah—No, no, that hurts too much this time!】

Her pink mouth was blocked.

But her inner scream was still heard loud and clear by Jiang Xi-yao.

The dark-haired beauty slowly lifted her head. The moment a tear dropped from the corner of the girl’s eye, she extended a crimson tongue and firmly caught the transparent liquid.

The scarlet tongue moved like a supple snake, tracing upwards from the girl’s jawline, meticulously licking away all the moisture.

Even after all her tears had fallen, Xie Shiwei still felt that cool, slick surface of the tongue repeatedly brushing her eye socket.

The greedy demeanor made Xie Shiwei instinctively suspect it was eager to lift her eyelid and lick her tear ducts.

An aura of ambiguous intimacy mixed with a frightening scent of danger.

And from that close distance, Jiang Xi-yao smiled and asked: “And that just now, did you like it?”

As she spoke.

Her slender palm deftly pulled down the zipper on the side of Xie Shiwei’s skirt.

During the past week and more, even though Xie Shiwei forbade her from intruding, every day before school, the girl would still silently take the new clothes Jiang Xi-yao hung outside the study and change into them inside the room.

It was precisely because she was still willing to be tainted by Jiang Xi-yao’s scent, from the inside out, that the impatient monster was able to grudgingly endure the cold shoulder these past few days.

Now.

Jiang Xi-yao’s fingertip effortlessly brushed aside the fabric, which was excellent for breathability and absorption.

This was a fine piece of work meant to ensure Xie Shiwei’s dignity was maintained outside, no matter what she thought or how exaggerated her reactions were. It even saved her the cost of many nighttime protection garments.

However, once this intimate camouflage was exposed, Xie Shiwei’s most genuine reactions could no longer be hidden.

Jiang Xi-yao’s palm replaced the fabric, pressing closely against her, and she meaningfully reminded her:

“Think carefully about your answer.”

“If your answer differs from your body’s reaction, causing me confusion and making me misunderstand your true intentions—then I will find it difficult to discern the truth of your words in the future, and I won’t know whether to obey them or not.”

Xie Shiwei let out a very faint “woo.”

She hadn’t heard the rest of that dog training video.

Yet, hearing Jiang Xi-yao’s words now, feeling the lingering pain in her body, and the gentle, slow embrace the other woman offered, Xie Shiwei instinctively grasped a principle for managing the savage beast.

—Her instructions must always be consistent.

For things she liked both psychologically and physically, she could only ever answer “I like it.” No matter how shameful or helpless she felt at that moment, as long as one of her mind or body was pleased, she could not say no.

The moment she reached this conclusion.

She couldn’t quite imagine what her body would ultimately become in Jiang Xi-yao’s hands.

Xie Shiwei thought vaguely: between them, who was really training whom?

Jiang Xi-yao chuckled, urging: “Tell me, baby. Like it, or dislike it?”

Feeling the cool, delicate palm pressing against her, which was gradually becoming warm, Xie Shiwei couldn’t help but raise both hands to embrace Jiang Xi-yao’s neck.

The girl seemed to be trying to use her frail body as a cage, briefly restraining the ferocious beast from continuing its mischief.

“…I like it,” Xie Shiwei buried her head in her girlfriend’s shoulder, her voice tiny but firm in answering the question: “I like it, but can I have a moment to recover?”

Jiang Xi-yao narrowed her eyes, pleased to receive this voluntary embrace.

Like a black swan lowering its proud head, she slowly pressed the side of her neck, where the human carotid artery is located, against Xie Shiwei’s.

As they embraced, neck to neck.

Jiang Xi-yao, the monster whose heart was not in her chest—even her pulse sounded false and hollow—yet listening to the rhythm of Xie Shiwei’s pulse, the red mole on her cheek, which was always faintly uncomfortable, slowly quieted down.

In fact.

With Xie Shiwei simply fitting herself into her embrace, Jiang Xi-yao felt a sense of being slowly filled up.

…So satisfying. She thought.

The monster’s agitation was easily soothed by a hug. Jiang Xi-yao, in a good mood, promised:

“Alright.”

She said: “I will listen to you, Girlfriend.”

As long as Xie Shiwei stayed by her side like this, forever, whether she watched those questionable videos or genuinely found an iron chain to secure a fierce dog, Jiang Xi-yao would willingly offer her neck.

She might even personally instruct Xie Shiwei on how to fasten the chain tighter.

…

In short, the small couple’s first quarrel was successfully navigated.

When Xie Shiwei finally lay back in that cool, rich embrace that night, she was already yawning and heavy with sleepiness.

She then realized that her nerves had been constantly tense during those few days of studying in the study room.

Jiang Xi-yao still remembered her cruel, heartless act of sleeping separately. While slowly rubbing the neglected parts of her skin to a symmetrical state, she warned her:

“Don’t abuse yourself for the sake of those worthless people again! Is that little sofa in the study even suitable for sleeping on! You idiot cream puff!”

Xie Shiwei was aroused by her biting and sucking actions.

“Mmm… it’s okay, my frame is smaller, and I’m a little shorter than you, so it was just right… Ah!”

The girl gasped, trying to hold Jiang Xi-yao’s head, looking for an excuse to beg for mercy:

“You, you, you can’t sleep there, right?”

Jiang Xi-yao let go of her mouth and replied self-righteously: “What does it matter? Whether it’s the sofa, the study—”

Halfway through, she suddenly changed her mind: “No, those are too far from you.”

Jiang Xi-yao’s dark eyes scanned the master bedroom: “Let me sleep on the floor, in the wardrobe, under the bed. In short, if you’re angry and don’t want to see me temporarily, you can even stuff me into the nightstand drawer!”

Xie Shiwei: “…”

How could a living person possibly fit into a drawer? Don’t tell such horror stories!

She reached up and covered Jiang Xi-yao’s mouth, her tone helpless: “Can’t we wish for something good? Like, there won’t be a next time. Okay, let’s talk about something cheerful. Are you going home for the New Year?”

She was still thinking about replying to the hot pot restaurant manager.

If Jiang Xi-yao didn’t leave and stayed in the city, they might be able to have New Year’s Eve dinner together.

Jiang Xi-yao heard her inner thoughts clearly and answered without hesitation: “I don’t have a home!”

Xie Shiwei: …What was with this proud sense of being an orphan?

She was speechless for two seconds, her emotions stalled. She had no choice but to return to the previous topic: “Then, should we spend the New Year together this year? I’ll turn down the part-time job, and we can go buy… New Year’s goods together in a few days?”

Xie Shiwei had initially thought that with her grandparents gone this year, she would have a lonely New Year. Although Zhong Chu-yao had hinted many times that she should spend the holiday there, Xie Shiwei always felt it was strange to stay at a friend’s house during the New Year.

Now things were better.

She had a new family member to keep her company.

Driven by this inexplicable sense of comfort, and following the memories of spending the New Year with her grandparents, Xie Shiwei worked hard to create enough sense of ceremony for her and Jiang Xi-yao’s first New Year together.

Buying New Year’s goods, new clothes, pasting couplets, planning the New Year’s Eve dinner menu—

Then their progress stalled at the first step.

Jiang Xi-yao looked at the New Year’s goods street market Xie Shiwei had chosen with disbelief. The road was wet and muddy from a recent rain, and the crowd was so dense they were shoulder-to-shoulder, making the entire street look gray and filthy.

Xie Shiwei gave a small “Uh,” and suggested: “How about you wait for me here?”

Jiang Xi-yao worriedly grabbed her hand:

“No. If my cute girlfriend walks here alone, small and helpless, she will definitely be groped by perverts, stalked by hooligans, and scammed by unscrupulous merchants…”

Her expression grew firmer as she spoke, even subtly revealing a warlike intent toward the street.

Xie Shiwei: “…” Please, wish me something good?

However, less than five minutes after walking onto the street, Xie Shiwei realized her previous thought was premature.

She genuinely saw many groping hands reach out and many lurking figures following them, but the targets of all these unsavory individuals were entirely her girlfriend.

In that instant, Xie Shiwei suddenly realized that since she started wearing the beautiful clothes Jiang Xi-yao gave her, she hadn’t encountered these awful incidents for a long time.

It wasn’t because the world had changed—

It was because Jiang Xi-yao, a far more conspicuous presence than her, was diverting all the trouble meant for her.

But now, Xie Shiwei watched Jiang Xi-yao effortlessly direct the eager men to form a human wall to keep the perverts away. At the same time, she was haggling with a vendor for two pots of kumquats Xie Shiwei liked.

“It’s your honor that a beautiful person like me stops at your stall. I haven’t charged you a spokesperson fee, so how dare you ask me for money?”

“This, and this. Give them to me.”

Then Jiang Xi-yao looked at Xie Shiwei: “What else do you want?”

Xie Shiwei retracted the reserved word “haggling”—her girlfriend was clearly just outright stealing!

The vendor’s face also turned to them with expectation.

Xie Shiwei was initially speechless, but looking at the exotic red mole on Jiang Xi-yao’s lips, she said distractedly:

“Red Begonia?”

The bright, delicate red begonia, blooming in bud, resembled her girlfriend’s temperament.

The vendor hesitated: “The begonias I brought today are sold out. How about I take you to the warehouse to choose? It’s not far, only about twenty minutes by car.”

Xie Shiwei immediately felt that this was unwise.

It was too unsafe for the two of them to ride in the vendor’s car.

Jiang Xi-yao wasn’t impressed with his flowers or his beat-up car anyway. However, the vendor’s assisting relative added:

“Our family contracts the largest flower fields on the whole street. Their goods are also wholesale from us.”

“We haven’t even brought out some of the new varieties yet. The warehouse has the most complete selection.”

Then, the relative volunteered to the vendor: “How about I drive them there?”

Jiang Xi-yao narrowed her eyes, staring at the middle-aged man for a few seconds, then suddenly burst into a smile: “Sure.”

She turned and instructed Xie Shiwei: “You go pick the flowers you like best later. They must be the freshest and the best.”

Xie Shiwei hesitated and whispered to her: “Riding in their car isn’t safe…”

Jiang Xi-yao looked confused: “Who said we’re riding in their car? The smell of that is disgusting. You are not allowed to touch it.”

—Her girlfriend only needed to have her scent on her.

Jiang Xi-yao called a premium ride-share and followed the vendor’s car.

Xie Shiwei sighed in relief. However, as the cars arrived between the fields, she looked out the window and saw a familiar figure.

…Fan Hui?

How was she here?

What surprised Xie Shiwei even more was that Fan Hui, who came from a good family, was carrying a hoe and digging at a patch of mud. Who knew what she was looking for.

She remembered Fan Hui wasn’t from this city. Why wasn’t she going home for the New Year holiday?

However, Xie Shiwei soon had no time to dwell on this.

Because after she and her girlfriend followed the man into the massive flower shed, she was browsing near the begonia pots when she turned around, and both her girlfriend and the man were gone!

“…Jiang-jiang?”

Xie Shiwei’s heart thumped. She subconsciously walked toward the door, calling out.

But there was no reply.

When she reached the warehouse door, she turned and came face-to-face with Fan Hui, who was dragging a hoe.

Xie Shiwei was so frightened she nearly screamed.

“Fan, Fan Hui?”

Her former roommate was soaked in sweat but stared at her relentlessly: “Xie, Shiwei?”

Fan Hui tilted her head, then suddenly asked her: “Where is Jiang Xi-yao? Is Jiang Xi-yao with you?”

Xie Shiwei nervously swallowed. She instinctively felt that her roommate’s state was dangerous. She shook her head: “I, I, I don’t know. Don’t ask me.”

Fan Hui said “Oh.”

Thinking of something, she suddenly chuckled and leaned in mysteriously:

“Do you know? My doll, my doll, a new one can be made! That person told me he planted the materials he found in the ground, and many, many new dolls can grow! Haha, I will have a new doll!”

Xie Shiwei stared at the hoe in her hand, afraid to look away, her fingertip hovering over the one-touch police alarm on her phone.

“Well, congratulations?”

Hearing this, the tired eyes ringed with dark circles suddenly showed anger:

“But it ran away! It ran away as soon as it grew! Do you know what it will grow into! It will grow into Jiang Xi-yao! Jiang Xi-yao is its raw material! She must be the one who stole it again!”

“I can smell it! I can smell Jiang Xi-yao! She is here! She must have been the one who stole my doll last time too! That b1tch!”

Xie Shiwei felt that her words were both horrifying and insane.

Forget it, she should just call the mental hospital.

But the immediate priority was to ensure her safety, so she cooperated with Fan Hui:

“…Why don’t you look for it again? Things in the ground don’t just grow legs and run. Why don’t you go back and dig for a while?”

Fan Hui stared at her intently for a moment, then actually dragged the hoe away.

Xie Shiwei found a safe, open area and quickly texted her counselor about Fan Hui’s condition. The counselor was already on their way and advised her to call the police immediately and stay safe.

Xie Shiwei acknowledged this repeatedly.

When she looked up again, she saw Fan Hui, far away in the field, dragging a huge black garbage bag, repeating the action of digging and burying something.

This time, Fan Hui’s expression looked even more frantic and dangerous than before.

The wind carried her voice from afar.

“…Hehe… Jiang… bury… grow materials… hehehe… doll… my doll…”

Xie Shiwei felt this was no place to linger. She wanted to quickly find her girlfriend, buy some candies and biscuits together, and go home. It didn’t matter if they couldn’t get begonias; it wasn’t important anyway.

But Xie Shiwei called out several times in front of the warehouse and heard no response from Jiang Xi-yao, nor did she see the strong man who had brought them. Furthermore, as she exited the warehouse, she saw his beat-up car drive away at full throttle.

…What was going on?

Xie Shiwei was at a complete loss.

Until she turned around and saw a figure in a large red bridal gown peek out from behind a tree at the entrance to the village. The beautiful face, with its clear black and white eyes, looked at her with the curiosity of a child.

Xie Shiwei nearly stopped breathing when she saw the red gown.

She thought she had stumbled into a folk ghost story.

Until she saw the familiar face in the bridal gown, Xie Shiwei rubbed her chest and ran over helplessly:

“Jiang Xi-yao! What is with your obsessive cleanliness at a time like this? You didn’t even tell me you were changing clothes! You nearly scared me to death, do you know that!”

If her girlfriend wasn’t so beautiful, Xie Shiwei would have been utterly terrified by this new outfit!

She walked over, reaching out to the person behind the tree, her expression a mix of anger and worry:

“Is this the time to play hide-and-seek with me? Still playing Red Light, Green Light, are we?”

“Come out!”

The figure behind the tree was still for a moment.

After a while, a snow-white hand slowly reached out from beneath the large red robe, demurely touching her palm.

Xie Shiwei only gave a light tug, not even needing to pull hard, and easily pulled the person out as if they were made of paper.

She thought it was because the woman was being overly cooperative, and her expression softened.

“You didn’t even say hello and just vanished. You really scared me, do you know that?”

The girl chattered on, completely unaware.

—From the moment she first saw her girlfriend, her girlfriend had not spoken a single word.