My Psycho-Beautiful Professor Forced Me to Mark Her - Chapter 5

Qi Si was throwing away her breakfast trash bag. The moment she heard Su Mo Xiao’s voice, she felt as awkward as if she had been caught rummaging through a trash can. She turned around, and facing Su Mo Xiao’s smiling eyes, she felt a little lost.

“I thought I had the wrong person, but it’s really you.” Su Mo Xiao, wearing a floral dress in a completely different style from her class outfit yesterday, had her hair in a bun. She brushed a strand of hair from her forehead and smiled nonchalantly. “Qi Si, why are you here, and is that your car?”

Her eyes glanced at the beautiful Maserati Qi Si had driven.

She couldn’t imagine how attention-grabbing it would be to drive a car like that around school.

“Hmm?” Qi Si looked up at her and said indifferently, “This must be the first time you’ve spoken to me since graduation, right?”

Su Mo Xiao smiled nonchalantly, shaking her head and saying, “I thought that after graduation, we would go our separate ways, and there would be no need to stay in touch.”

To be precise, it should have been “after we broke up.”

The use of the vague phrase “after graduation” was perhaps because… she didn’t want to acknowledge their past relationship?

Qi Si subconsciously asked, “Why?”

Even if it was just a regular breakup between friends, she should have been responsible enough to explain the reason.

Su Mo Xiao looked at her in surprise and said with a tone full of sympathy, “You still can’t let it go, can you?”

Qi Si laughed.

Lack of sleep made her skin look very pale, but the light in her eyes was enough to stir one’s soul.

Su Mo Xiao admitted that Qi Si was indeed good-looking; otherwise, she wouldn’t have stooped to date her. But what was the point of just having a good face? Qi Si’s family was so ordinary. Su Mo Xiao even suspected that the Maserati was stolen and that she was using it to look good and get back with her.

But Qi Si was laughing.

“What are you laughing at?” Su Mo Xiao was not happy with her less-than-eager attitude.

Qi Si: “Was that lackey yesterday sent by you to mess with me?”

“I didn’t expect you to come to my class, and to sit in the front row, no less,” Su Mo Xiao frowned at her, as if genuinely concerned. “Qi Si, what happened in high school is in the past. Now you and I are adults. You can look at your old friends; which one isn’t moving toward a bright future? Look at yourself—you’re still stuck in the same place. Don’t you feel ashamed?”

“So you called people to drive me away and not let me attend your class?”

“That’s their business. I can’t control them. Even a celebrity can’t force their fans to follow their rules. Zhou Weihang was worried you would harass me, so that’s why he said those things to you. Didn’t you also lay hands on him?”

Qi Si: “Which idiot threw the first punch?”

“I don’t know,” Su Mo Xiao said, as if it had nothing to do with her. “I couldn’t see clearly either.”

“So, you’re afraid I’ll harass you?”

“It’s not as serious as harassment. It’s just that the past is the past. If it’s brought up again, I’ll feel very hurt.” Su Mo Xiao paused, her tone softening a bit. “Qi Si, I hope you can understand me. I have a lot of pressure from my studies and research every day, and I don’t want to be bothered by things like this anymore.”

Qi Si watched her in silence.

This silence made Su Mo Xiao think she had backed down. After all, weakness and giving in were Qi Si’s usual style.

Su Mo Xiao’s expression relaxed a little. She forced a smile and said, “How have you been lately? I heard you were abroad for the past year, and someone also said your family had an accident. Is that true?”

Qi Si: “What kind of accident? Does it concern you?”

Su Mo Xiao pursed her lips and said, “I just wanted to show some concern for an old friend.”

After another moment of silence, Su Mo Xiao, seeing that time was short, smiled and suggested, “Are you going to class? Can you give me a ride since it’s on the way?”

Qi Si’s lips curved upward. She stared at Su Mo Xiao for a long time.

A rich girl from a wealthy family was more vain than she had imagined.

“Aren’t you afraid of people misunderstanding? Why would you still ask me for a ride?”

“We can go to the underground parking garage. No one will see,” Su Mo Xiao said with a blink. “It’s fine if you don’t want to.”

Qi Si continued to smile at her, and the smile made Su Mo Xiao feel uneasy. Although Su Mo Xiao tried her best to look natural, Qi Si’s eyes seemed to see right through her.

She suddenly felt that Qi Si hadn’t been standing still for the past year or two. Her eyes were different from those in high school. Now, she was more insightful and composed, not as naive and easy to manipulate as she used to be.

As expected, Qi Si directly rejected her: “I really don’t want to. This is my friend’s car, and I can’t give anyone a ride without her permission.”

“It’s such a short distance…” Su Mo Xiao’s face flushed with warmth, and she frowned. “What’s wrong with giving me a ride?”

“If it’s that short, what’s wrong with you walking?” Qi Si checked the time on her phone and said coolly, “Don’t you have to memorize English at 7 AM, read literature at 7:30 AM, and go to class at 8 AM? Why are you wasting time here with me?”

Half the blush on the goddess’s face faded, leaving her looking pale and red in patches. She squeezed her bag strap, her chest heaving, and gritted her teeth, “Qi Si!”

Qi Si had wanted to continue her subtle verbal jabs at the hypocrisy of Su Mo Xiao’s public schedule, but in consideration of their past as deskmates, she bit her tongue. She turned her face away, her gaze wandering over the breakfast signs not far away.

Perhaps Su Mo Xiao’s kindness to her in high school was all fake, but it was precious to the lonely teenager she used to be.

She heard Su Mo Xiao say, “You’re really not going to give me a ride?”

“Mm.”

Su Mo Xiao scoffed and said with a cold laugh, “Fine. Don’t say I didn’t give you a chance.”

That’s enough. Qi Si was tired of being tangled in the past.

In her peripheral vision, Su Mo Xiao’s figure gradually walked away until it disappeared completely. Only then did Qi Si get back in the car, parking it in a paid parking spot by the roadside. Then, she took a longer route back to the dorm.

Her dorm had four beds. Besides her, one roommate rented an apartment outside, and the other two were still sound asleep in their beds. The room wasn’t too messy, but Qi Si’s desk and chair were covered with other people’s things, and the same was true for the bed of the roommate who didn’t live in the dorm.

Qi Si piled the clothes from her desk and chair onto the empty bed, tidied up a little, and went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face.

In the mirror, her face was pale, her eyelids were swollen, and her hair was loose on her shoulders, still carrying the lingering scent of rose liquor.

“Holy shit! What’s going on!” The roommate on bed 4 woke up in a start. “Did an Omega get into our dorm? It smells so damn good!”

“What are you yelling about so early in the morning! Haven’t you ever smelled an Omega before? And what if it is an Omega, is your grandma not tough enough? …Whoa! Whoa! Who is this?!”

Qi Si was in the bathroom, brushing her teeth with a toothbrush in her mouth. The door was pushed open with a “thud,” and two disheveled female Alphas grabbed her, sniffing her intensely. They exclaimed, “Qi Si, did you go out on a date? What is this top-tier Omega scent!”

Qi Si, with her toothbrush in her mouth, said with a mouthful of foam, “No. I was working at the bar last night. I might have gotten someone else’s scent on me.”

“I swear, there are top-tier Omegas like this in the bar? This pheromone is so intoxicating,” a muscular roommate wearing a skimpy tank top sniffed Qi Si up and down like a dog. “Oh my god, how can you hold yourself back?”

Another short-haired roommate pinched her nose with one hand and searched for an inhibitor on the desk with the other: “I can’t take it anymore… I can’t hold back…”

Qi Si spat out the foam and asked in disbelief, “Is it that exaggerated?”

“This is a fucking fairy-level scent!”

“Qi Si, you’re not a fake Alpha, are you? You don’t even smell this?!”

“I do smell it,” Qi Si said hesitantly. “But I might be… sexually impotent…”

Although she hadn’t been to the hospital to get checked, Qi Si had never experienced a heat cycle, so she reasonably suspected she was sexually impotent.

The two roommates’ expressions changed. They were shocked for a while, then said sympathetically, “Such a beautiful Alpha, I can’t believe she’s so pathetic!”

“Don’t worry, we’ll keep your secret.”

Qi Si: “Okay, thank you.”

The two roommates looked at each other without a word. They used the bathroom and drank some water before climbing back into their beds to sleep.

Their majors were different from Qi Si’s, so their schedules almost never overlapped.

Qi Si continued to use the bathroom. When she was about to tie her hair, she realized she had lost her hair tie. She looked around, and she remembered the older Omega woman pulling her ponytail at the bar last night… It couldn’t be that she took the hair tie, right?

Impossible. Why would that beautiful lady be so greedy for a hair tie?

After a shower, she changed into a loose, striped shirt and sat in her chair, looking at her phone.

The workaholic also had her own schedule. Unlike the goddess’s study plan, which was accurate to the minute, Qi Si’s schedule was very simple: classes and work, with the dates for paying her bills highlighted in red.

Today was Thursday, a day packed with classes.

Qi Si ran into the four female Alphas from the next dorm again. The dorm leader’s name was Shen Yixuan. She had a strong sense of group honor, and as soon as she saw Qi Si, she wanted to pull her into their little dorm group.

Their classes happened to overlap. After class, Qi Si went with them to the cafeteria to get food and listened to them chat about university gossip and their club activities. Qi Si felt a sense of unreality, as if she were also a hopeful freshman, fitting in with this vibrant group.

“What about you? What club are you planning to join? Do you have any life plans? Grad school or a government job? Or are you going to go abroad?” Shen Yixuan, afraid of leaving Qi Si out, insisted on asking her.

Qi Si’s tray only had a few pieces of fatty meat left, which she had picked out. She had been listening to the others talk and was already done eating, waiting for them. Hearing the question, she thought for a moment and said, “I want to learn how to make money.”

As the most promising freshmen at a top-tier university, their dreams should be to become scientists, engineers, diplomats, politicians, elite lawyers, doctors, and so on. Yet, Qi Si said the two most humble words: “make money.”

It was an insult to the reputation of a prestigious school.

The pink-haired girl dropped her chopsticks and sneered.

Shen Yixuan also looked troubled and found it hard to comment.

“If you want to make money, you really shouldn’t study medicine. To get a return on a medical degree, you might have to wait until you finish your Ph.D., which is at least ten years. Without financial support from your family, you won’t be able to hold on until then. If you want to make money, you should study computer science instead. You can pick up a few algorithms and start taking on projects,” Ji Min said to Qi Si with a smile.

She was the most inconspicuous member of dorm 601. She wore a pair of round glasses, liked to squint when she smiled, and spoke softly, but she always got to the point.

“You’re right,” Shen Yixuan hugged Ji Min and gave her a thumbs-up. “You must have watched a lot of Li Xuefeng’s streams. That’s so on point!”

Ji Min adjusted her glasses and lowered her head, not saying anything.

Qi Si: “Thank you.”

Shen Yixuan patted Qi Si’s shoulder generously. “You’re welcome. If you have any problems in the future, come to us. I’ve got your back.”

The result of being “covered” was that Qi Si had to pay a sum of money that very evening.

She heard that the class group was discussing buying gifts for the teachers for Teacher’s Day. Besides the homeroom teachers, those who hadn’t even taught them were also on the list. The cost was to be split among all students, which came out to 275 yuan per person. They rounded it up to 300 yuan, with the rest going into the class fund.

Qi Si’s heart was bleeding, especially when she heard them say they were also going to get a gift for Su Mo Xiao.

“Senior Mo Xiao taught us a class, so she’s also our teacher. Of course, we can’t leave her out. We just don’t know what kind of gift is suitable for her! The group has been arguing for half a day with no result. Hey Yuan Lǚ, do you have any suggestions?” The pink-haired girl said this.

Hearing them talk about the budget, Qi Si thought for a moment and said, “She seems to like a LEGO set of the “Immortal Flower.””

“Really? How do you know that?”

“I’ll check it out… The price is pretty good, and it’s also very pretty. Maybe we’ll just buy this and build it for her?”

Qi Si didn’t offer any other opinions. She wasn’t interested in their topic. She turned around and opened a book she had borrowed from the library, Introduction to Computer Science.

Ji Min’s words were very insightful. In her current situation of being heavily in debt, studying medicine was not a good choice. Working at a bar was not a long-term solution. To change her current predicament, she might really need to change her major.

Of course, she couldn’t make a decision right away. A major change could only be applied for after the first year. Borrowing a book in advance was just to understand the subject and to decide if she was interested in putting in the effort to study it.

Although she had some talent for studying, she wasn’t some shocking genius. If she could master all the knowledge of this major just by self-studying, what would be the point of going to college?

The moment she opened the book, the turning point of her fate began.