The Mad Beauty Professor Forced Me to Mark Her - Chapter 1

CP: Qi Si * Lin Ye (Qi Si, pronounced qisi, sounds like “qisi,” so she is sometimes also called Cheese)

September’s lingering summer heat was still in full force. Qi Si had only just stepped out of the dorm when sweat already covered her, but even so, she had no intention of tying up her long, loose hair.

She slung her bag over one shoulder and walked for a while with her back slightly hunched. When she passed the supermarket by the residential area and saw ice-cold bottled water in the freezer, she stopped to buy one.

Inside the supermarket, the voices of a few girls drifted over.

“Have you heard? This afternoon’s class is being taught by Senior Moxiao. The beautiful senior who gave a speech at the opening ceremony!”

“Holy crap, how is she that amazing? She’s only a sophomore and she’s already a substitute teacher?”

“Right? I heard she got A+ in every subject her freshman year. She can already apply for the national scholarship this year.”

“I’m so jealous… When will I ever be that amazing? And I heard Senior Muxiao… is an Omega?”

When they reached a more private topic, the girls lowered their voices, exchanging words mixed with cheerful laughter.

Three meters away, Qi Si finished paying, drank half the bottle of water with great satisfaction, and had just screwed the cap back on when one of them suddenly called out to her.

“Hey, you up ahead. You’re from Dorm 602, right?” A tall girl in a tank top and camouflage pants came out holding a Coke. She kicked a pebble by her foot with an arrogant air and looked at Qi Si down her nose.

Behind her followed three girls who had just finished paying. Judging by their appearances, they seemed to be a group of Alpha girls, possibly from the same dorm.

Qi Si might have seen them before, but she had no impression of them.

She had never been good at recognizing people.

“I knew it.” The girl in camouflage pants narrowed her eyes as she looked her over. “You’re the one who took leave during military training?”

“I think her name is Yuan Lü!” the girl with dyed pink hair declared, raising her head with such confidence her voice almost cracked.

Qi Si: “…”

“Hey, Yuan Lü, why did you take leave from military training?” The camouflage-pants girl squeezed the can in her hand, splashing out some Coke. The corners of her mouth pulled upward, making her look fierce. She raised her index finger and pointed at Qi Si. “Everyone living in Dorm 602 should be an Alpha, right? As an Alpha, if you don’t attend military training, aren’t you embarrassing all of us Alphas?”

“She’s so fair. Is she really an Alpha?” the girl wrapped in a sun-protective jacket said with a frown.

“She’s fair because she didn’t attend military training. Damn it!” The pink-haired girl shouted at Qi Si through gritted teeth, “Yuan Lü! Say something. Our dorm leader is asking you a question!”

Expressionless, Qi Si took out her phone from her pants pocket to check the time. Without lifting her head, she said, “Sorry, I’m in a hurry to get to class.”

“Is it Basic Medicine?” The camouflage-pants girl strode over and put one hand on Qi Si’s shoulder. She was about the same height as Qi Si, but her aura was far more wild and overbearing.

By comparison, Qi Si looked like a well-behaved child who had lost her way.

Walking with her head lowered, Qi Si thought for a moment before saying, “…I think so.”

She had only remembered the classroom address and had forgotten what class it was, much less who the teacher was.

…Don’t tell me she had the same class as them? And the substitute teacher was Su Moxiao?

The moment that thought occurred to her, Qi Si’s mind went blank for an instant.

“You can’t even confirm the name of the course. Are you here to be funny?” The camouflage-pants girl deliberately leaned her weight against Qi Si, laughing as though asserting dominance. “Perfect. We’re taking that class too. Since we’re going the same way, let’s go together!”

Qi Si was pressed down until her back bent. Then, as if remembering something, she suddenly stopped to tie her shoelace, ducking her upper body out from under the camouflage-pants girl’s arm and nearly making the other girl lose her balance and fall.

“What the hell!” The camouflage-pants girl failed to take advantage of her and turned back to glare, only to meet a beautiful face and a pair of gentle, calm eyes.

Most of the time, Qi Si walked with her head lowered, making people unconsciously form the impression that she was gloomy and strange. But when she lifted her head, her soft black hair parted on both sides of her forehead. Her bare face was so pretty that there was nothing to criticize. When she calmly looked someone in the eye, it was impossible for anyone to get angry at her.

The camouflage-pants girl raised a brow in surprise. With a “good-tempered” air, she reached out and pulled Qi Si to her feet, drawing amazed clicks of the tongue from the roommates following behind her.

Qi Si carried her bag and looked around for the teaching building according to her own pace. The camouflage-pants girl still had not given up on chatting her up and asked in an overly familiar tone, “Hey, you look strong and healthy. Why didn’t you attend military training?”

“She doesn’t want to say it, but you keep chasing after her to ask.” The pink-haired girl rolled her eyes. “Isn’t she just a weak Alpha? What’s so hard to admit about that?”

The camouflage-pants girl looked Qi Si up and down, her brows furrowing despite herself—what a load of crap. With a frame and figure so perfect that even she was jealous, how could Qi Si possibly be a weak Alpha?

“Enough, stop dawdling. We’ll be late for class soon,” the girl in the sun-protective jacket complained. “If we’re late, we can only sit in the first row. I don’t want to stand out!”

“But Senior Moxiao is teaching today. Wouldn’t the first row be even better?” the fourth, unremarkable girl said in a clear, pleasant voice.

The girls looked at one another. Then the pink-haired girl screamed out their shared thought, “Oh no! For Senior Muxiao’s class, the first row must already be full of those stinky male Alphas!”

“Definitely!”

“Knowing their stupid-ass behavior!”

“Fuck!!!”

Qi Si was still trying to tell the south building from the north building when a powerful force suddenly yanked her forward. The camouflage-pants girl dragged her into a wild sprint, while the others also seemed injected with adrenaline, showing off the strength of a hundred-meter dash.

When they arrived at the classroom, the wall clock showed 1:22 p.m. Sixty percent of the seats were already filled, and there happened to be five empty seats left in the first row. Without another word, the female Alphas dragged Qi Si in and squeezed into them.

Qi Si: “…?”

A group of distinctive female Alphas suddenly appearing in the classroom naturally drew quite a bit of attention. The camouflage-pants girl looked around, watching the entire group closely like the alpha of a wolf pack. To her right sat a group of even burlier male Alphas overflowing with hormones. To her left, in order, sat Qi Si, the pink-haired girl, the sun-protection-jacket girl, and the unremarkable girl.

Since military training began at the start of school, the rivalry between male Alphas and female Alphas had never stopped. In terms of speed and agility, male Alphas really could not compare with female Alphas. Moreover, female Alphas were often more united than male Alphas, making them a highly influential group on campus. So when the camouflage-pants girl brought her companions to sit beside the male Alphas, the arrogance of those people immediately died down.

Unfortunately, Qi Si had been dragged in just to make up numbers. From the moment she sat down, she seemed to sense unfriendly gazes from the crowd. She turned back to look but did not find anyone familiar. All she heard were the girls quietly exclaiming.

“They haven’t seen you before and think you’re really pretty,” the camouflage-pants girl said smugly. She placed great importance on collective honor. If Qi Si was popular among Omegas and Betas, then that was also giving face to the female Alpha group.

The pink-haired girl suddenly said, “Her character setting is just mysterious. If there was someone like this in my class, someone who never showed up, didn’t even come to military training, even if he were a Beta, I’d still be interested.”

The others all turned to glance at Qi Si and were just about to express their opinions when a burst of cheers suddenly erupted in the classroom. Everyone’s attention was drawn over at once.

Su Moxiao walked in carrying a laptop bag. She wore a Korean-style polo shirt paired with a gray short skirt, revealing long, fair legs. With a pair of expensive platform shoes, the casual and simple outfit looked goddess-like on her, while also giving her a very approachable air. When she smiled and waved in response to the students’ greetings, someone let out an excited duck-like squeal.

In a place no one noticed, Qi Si’s gaze followed her. It paused briefly on that familiar figure, then calmly returned to her book.

Su Moxiao carried her bag to the lectern, adjusted the microphone, and began with a smile. “Hello, everyone. Today, I’ll be teaching this class in Professor Lin’s place.”

The moment she spoke, a group of people below squealed and bounced their legs excitedly. The boys in the middle rows responded in unison, “Hello, Senior!”

Su Moxiao smiled and looked up in response.

Unwilling to be overshadowed, the camouflage-pants girl waved at the lectern and said openly, “Hello, Senior Moxiao!”

Su Moxiao’s gaze moved over, and her smile stiffened on her face without warning.

Camouflage-pants girl: “?”

On the lectern, Su Moxiao’s gaze looked as if it had been burned by a flame. She almost immediately withdrew it. Her face paled by several shades, and she lowered her head, flipping through the teaching notes uncomfortably.

The class was in an uproar. People below began whispering among themselves. The camouflage-pants girl covered her head, wishing she could burrow into the ground, and whispered, “…Did I scare her?”

The pink-haired girl was also shocked. “It seems like it. Maybe you shouldn’t have called her by name?”

“Heavens, I was so offensive!”

Beside them, Qi Si looked at her as though wanting to say something but stopped herself, slowly beginning to think.

She had grown her hair long and considered herself not particularly conspicuous. She had not expected Su Moxiao to recognize her at a glance, much less make that kind of face at her.

Back when Su Moxiao brought up the breakup, Qi Si had not even had the chance to ask for the reason clearly. But she was not the type to cling endlessly either. Over the following year or so, she went to many places. Long periods of solitude allowed her to find certain clues in her memories and piece together the full picture.

In short, Su Moxiao probably did not like her.

Taking the initiative to approach her, becoming her deskmate, bringing her breakfast and snacks, and dating her had probably all been done under the instructions of Su Moxiao’s parents.

Qi Si clearly remembered one morning in her second year of high school, when she had collected the homework books and brought them to the office. The homeroom teacher had been speaking with a woman. That woman had smiled and asked her, “You’re Qi Si, the one who’s often ranked first in the grade?”

Qi Si had face memory impairment, commonly known as face blindness. Later, after trying hard to recall it, she finally confirmed that the woman was Su Moxiao’s mother. She had heard the woman was a certain leader in the city education bureau.

Not long after that day, the class seats were rearranged, and Qi Si and Su Moxiao became deskmates. On their first day as deskmates, Su Moxiao prepared a gift for Qi Si—the Star Wars LEGO figure C-3PO, taken separately from the Millennium Falcon set.

Giving the Millennium Falcon directly would have been too expensive for high school students, but a little figure was just right. It was inconspicuous, easy to keep, and impossible to buy on its own. To the sixteen-year-old Qi Si, it was an irresistible gift.

Qi Si boarded at school throughout her three years of high school and rarely went home to reunite with her family. The resources available to her were extremely limited. As her deskmate, Su Moxiao lived near the school and brought Qi Si all kinds of fruit and delicious meals every day, prepared small gifts from time to time, and proposed dating at just the right moment.

And the only thing Qi Si could do was patiently tutor her, explain problems to her every day without ever getting tired of it, and teach her all kinds of problem-solving techniques.

Back then, Su Moxiao’s goal had been very clear. She wanted to apply to University A’s medical school. As one of the top medical schools in the country, its required score was more than ten points higher than the admission cutoff for the nation’s top universities. For Su Moxiao, who had ranked around one or two hundred in the grade at the time, that was almost impossible.

But with Qi Si tutoring her without asking for anything in return, Su Moxiao improved rapidly and miraculously got into University A.

After the college entrance exam scores came out, Qi Si also applied to University A’s medical school. She had no particular life goals and was merely following along blindly.

After being left hanging by Su Moxiao for more than a month, Qi Si sent messages for the umpteenth time and received no reply. What finally came was a breakup notice.

It seemed everyone had predicted this outcome.

Qi Si’s roommate stood up for her. “Sure enough, Su Moxiao never intended to be serious with you from the start!”

Those who had a crush on Su Moxiao mocked her coldly. “I knew it. Someone like you was never worthy of a goddess!”

Even the homeroom teacher said mildly, “You kids are still too young!”

Young… was that a sin?

The class bell rang with a long ding. Qi Si looked toward the person at the lectern. For the entire forty minutes that followed, the other party’s gaze never met hers again.

During roll call, she also deliberately skipped over Qi Si.

During the break, Qi Si walked out of the classroom and was shoved hard by someone.

She steadied herself, turned back, and narrowed her eyes.

The male Alpha was covered in muscle and snapped irritably, “Qi Si, what are you trying to do? Moxiao is substituting for the first time. What are you showing up here for?”

Since he could accurately call out the name “Qi Si,” he must have been someone she knew before.

Qi Si tested, “You’re… Chen Ce?”

A vein throbbed on the male Alpha’s forehead. He swung a fist at Qi Si.

Qi Si dodged sideways while grabbing the wrist of the hand he had swung. She raised her eyes, her gaze calm, and said in an indifferent tone, “Hey, hey. Even if I got your name wrong, there’s no need to get that angry, right?”

The commotion between them drew a crowd of onlookers. The male Alpha suppressed his anger and lowered his voice as he said to Qi Si, “Get lost! I don’t want to argue with you about that, but from now on, you’re not allowed to appear in front of Su Moxiao again. Got it?”

Through the window, Qi Si glanced at the person on the lectern who was focused on organizing the course materials. She had not been affected by the commotion outside at all.

Qi Si slowly let out a breath. The stray hairs on her forehead shifted slightly. Her expression remained calm, but the hand gripping his wrist tightened just a little. The male Alpha’s face twisted in pain.

Out of the corner of her eye, Su Moxiao’s figure still stood at the lectern. Qi Si’s voice carried a chill.

“I paid tuition to come here and attend class. If she doesn’t want me here, then tell her to come say it to me herself instead of sending a bootlicking dog to bark at me.”