The Mad Beauty Professor Forced Me to Mark Her - Chapter 4

Qi Si threw away the breakfast trash bag. The instant she heard Su Moxiao’s voice, she felt the awkwardness of being caught red-handed rummaging through a garbage bin. She turned back and met Su Moxiao’s smiling eyes, unable to help feeling a little dazed.

“I thought I’d mistaken you for someone else, but it really is you.” Su Moxiao was wearing a floral dress entirely different in style from what she had worn in class yesterday. Her hair was tied up in a bun, and she smoothed the bangs at her forehead, smiling neither warmly nor coldly. “Qi Si, why are you here? Is that your car?”

Her gaze moved toward the beautiful Maserati Qi Si had driven over.

It was hard to imagine how flashy it would be if someone drove a car like that around campus.

“Mm?” Qi Si lifted her eyes to look at her and said flatly, “This is the first time you’ve spoken to me since graduation, isn’t it?”

Su Moxiao smiled as if she did not care and shook her head. “I thought that after graduation, we’d each go our own way, so there was no need to stay in contact.”

Strictly speaking, it should have been “after the breakup.”

The reason she used such vague wording as “after graduation” was perhaps… because she did not want to acknowledge that they had once dated.

Qi Si asked instinctively, “Why?”

Even if it was just the end of an ordinary friendship, shouldn’t the reason be explained responsibly?

Su Moxiao looked at her in surprise, her tone full of sympathy. “As expected, you still haven’t let go.”

Qi Si laughed.

Her lack of sleep made her skin look very pale, but the light in her eyes was enough to make a person’s heart sway.

Su Moxiao admitted that she did have some beauty. Otherwise, Su Moxiao would never have wronged herself by dating her back then. But what use was beauty alone? Qi Si’s family background was far too ordinary. Su Moxiao even suspected that the Maserati had been stolen, that Qi Si had driven it here only to save face while trying to get back together with her.

But Qi Si was actually laughing.

“What are you laughing at?” Su Moxiao was not very satisfied with her lack of eagerness to fight for her.

Qi Si said, “Was that bootlicker yesterday sent by you to make trouble for me?”

“I didn’t expect you to come to my class, and even sit in the first row.” Su Moxiao frowned at her, as though she truly cared. “Qi Si, what happened in high school has been over for a long time. Now we’re both adults. You can look at those friends you had in the past. Which one of them isn’t heading toward a bright future? Then look at yourself. You’re still stuck in the same place. Don’t you feel ashamed?”

“So you called someone over to drive me away and stop me from attending your class?”

“That was their business. I can’t control them. Even celebrities can’t demand that their fans act according to their rules. Zhou Weihang was worried you’d harass me, so he went to tell you those things. Didn’t you also attack him?”

Qi Si said, “Which stupid bastard started it first?”

“I don’t know.” Su Moxiao’s tone had nothing to do with her. “I didn’t see it clearly at the time either.”

“So, you’re afraid I’ll harass you?”

“It’s not as serious as harassment. It’s just that the past is already in the past. If it gets dug up again, I’ll feel very hurt.” Su Moxiao paused for a moment, and her tone softened. “Qi Si, I hope you can understand me. I’m under a lot of pressure every day from studying and research right now. I don’t want to be troubled by this kind of thing anymore.”

Qi Si silently looked at her.

That silence made Su Moxiao think she had backed down. After all, weakness and compromise had always been Qi Si’s usual style.

Su Moxiao’s expression relaxed considerably, and she forced out a smile. “How have you been recently? I heard you were abroad for the past year. Some people also said something happened to your family. Is that true?”

Qi Si said, “What could have happened? Does it have anything to do with you?”

Su Moxiao pressed her lips together and said, “I just wanted to show concern for an old classmate.”

Another silence followed. Seeing that there was not much time left, Su Moxiao smiled and suggested, “Are you going to class? Give me a ride since we’re heading the same way.”

The corner of Qi Si’s lips curved slightly. She stared at Su Moxiao for a long while.

A young lady from a rich family—how was she even more vain than Qi Si had imagined?

“Aren’t you afraid people will misunderstand? Why are you still asking me to drive you?”

“Drop me off in the underground parking lot. No one will see.” Su Moxiao blinked. “Forget it if you don’t want to.”

Qi Si continued staring at her with a smile. That smile made Su Moxiao’s scalp prickle. Although Su Moxiao tried her best to act natural, Qi Si’s gaze seemed to see straight through her at a glance.

She suddenly felt that Qi Si had not been standing still over the past year or two either. Her eyes were not the same as they had been in high school. The current her was clearer, calmer, and no longer as simple and easy to manipulate as before.

Sure enough, Qi Si rejected her directly. “I really don’t want to. This is my friend’s car. Without her permission, I can’t casually give someone a ride.”

“It’s such a short distance…” Su Moxiao’s face flushed hot. She frowned and said, “What’s wrong with giving me a ride?”

“It’s so close. What’s wrong with walking there?” Qi Si checked the time on her phone and said lightly, “Don’t you have to recite English at seven, read literature at seven-thirty, and attend class at eight? Why are you still wasting time here with me?”

Half the heat faded from the goddess’s face, leaving her complexion blue and white. She gripped the strap of her bag, her chest rising and falling, and gritted out, “Qi Si!”

Qi Si had originally wanted to keep mocking her hypocrisy in showing off her schedule, but remembering the old friendship they had shared as deskmates, she still shut her mouth. She turned her face away, her gaze drifting toward the breakfast shop signs not far away.

Maybe all of Su Moxiao’s kindness toward her in high school had been false, but to the lonely teenager she had been back then, it had still been precious.

She heard Su Moxiao say, “You really won’t drive me?”

“Mm.”

Su Moxiao let out a light scoff and sneered. “Fine. Don’t blame me for not giving you a chance.”

Then let it be like this. Qi Si was already tired of being tangled up with the past.

In the corner of her eye, Su Moxiao’s figure gradually receded until it disappeared completely. Only then did Qi Si return to the car and park it again in a paid roadside parking space before taking a long detour back to the dorm.

There were four beds in her dormitory. Aside from her, one roommate rented a place off campus, while the other two were still sound asleep in their beds. The room was not exactly too messy, but Qi Si’s desk and chair were both covered with other people’s belongings. The unoccupied bed of the roommate who did not live in the dorm was in the same state.

Qi Si stacked the clothes from her desk and chair onto the empty bed, tidied up briefly, then went to the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face.

In the mirror, her face was pale, her eyelids puffy, and her hair fell over her shoulders, still carrying the lingering scent of rose liquor.

“Fuck! What’s going on!” The roommate in Bed Four woke from her dream in shock. “Did an Omega sneak into our dorm? It smells so fucking good!”

“Why are you yelling so early in the morning? Have you never seen an Omega before? So what if it’s an Omega? You think your grandma can’t handle it? …Holy shit! Holy shit! Who is that?!”

Qi Si was in the bathroom brushing her teeth with a toothbrush in hand. The door was shoved open with a bang, and two disheveled female Alphas grabbed her and sniffed all over her body, exclaiming, “Qi Si, did you go out and pick up a girl? What kind of top-tier Omega scent is this?!”

With the toothbrush in her mouth and her mouth full of foam, Qi Si said, “No. I worked at the bar last night. Maybe I got someone else’s scent on me.”

“Damn, there’s this kind of premium Omega in a bar? This pheromone is so intoxicating.” The scantily dressed, muscular roommate sniffed Qi Si up and down like a dog. “Good grief, how did you hold back?”

The other short-haired roommate pinched her nose with one hand while rummaging around the desk for suppressants with the other. “No, I can’t hold back anymore…”

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

“This is basically divine-grade!”

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

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

Although she had never gone to the hospital for an examination, Qi Si had never experienced a rut to this day, so she reasonably suspected that she was sexually dysfunctional.

The two roommates’ expressions changed. After being shocked for quite a while, they said sympathetically, “Such a pretty Alpha, and yet she’s actually this pitiful!”

“Don’t worry. We’ll help keep your secret.”

Qi Si said, “Okay. Thank you.”

The two roommates looked at one another in silence, used the toilet, drank some water, then climbed back into their upper bunks to sleep.

They were not in the same major as Qi Si, so their schedules almost never overlapped.

Qi Si continued using the bathroom. When she wanted to tie up her hair, she realized her hair tie was missing. She searched around, then recalled the older Omega woman at the bar last night tugging at her ponytail… But her hair tie couldn’t have been taken by her, right?

Impossible. How could that pretty older sister covet one of her hair ties?

After showering and changing into a loose striped shirt, Qi Si sat in her chair and checked her phone.

Even a workaholic had her own schedule. Unlike the goddess’s study plan that was precise down to the minute, Qi Si’s schedule was very crude. Aside from class, it was all work, along with the debt repayment dates marked in red.

Today was Thursday, a day packed full of classes.

Qi Si ran into the four female Alphas from the neighboring dorm again. The dorm leader’s name was Shen Yixuan, and she had a very strong sense of collective honor. The moment she saw Qi Si, she wanted to drag her into their little dorm group.

Their classes happened to overlap, so after class, Qi Si even followed them to the cafeteria for food, listening to them gossip about the university and talk about their respective club activities. Qi Si felt a little unreal, as if she too were a hopeful freshman who had integrated into this vibrant group.

“What about you? What club do you plan to join? Do you have any life plans? Graduate school, civil service exams, or going abroad?” Afraid of neglecting Qi Si, Shen Yixuan insisted on catching her and asking.

Only a few pieces of fatty meat with bits of hair on them remained on Qi Si’s tray, picked out and left aside. She had been listening to the others chat, but in fact, she had finished eating a long time ago and was waiting for them. Hearing the question, she thought for a while and said, “I want to learn something that can make money.”

As the most promising freshmen of a top-tier university, their dreams should have been to become scientists, engineers, diplomats, politicians, elite lawyers, doctors, and so on. Yet Qi Si had said the two most shabby words: make money.

It was practically an insult to the reputation of a prestigious university.

The pink-haired girl dropped her chopsticks and sneered.

Shen Yixuan was also put in a difficult position and could not make any comment.

“If you want to make money, you actually shouldn’t study medicine. If you study medicine, you may have to wait until after finishing a doctorate to see any returns. At least ten years. Without financial support from your family, you basically can’t last until then. If you want to make money, you might as well study computer science. Learn one or two algorithms, and you can start taking orders.” Ji Min narrowed her eyes and smiled as she spoke to Qi Si.

She was the least noticeable member of Dorm 601. She wore a pair of round-framed glasses and liked to smile with her eyes narrowed. Her voice was very soft when she spoke, but she always managed to point out the key issue.

“Exactly.” Shen Yixuan hugged Ji Min and gave a thumbs-up. “You must watch a lot of Li Xuefeng’s livestreams. That was way too on point!”

Ji Min adjusted her glasses and lowered her head without saying anything.

Qi Si said, “Thank you.”

Shen Yixuan generously patted Qi Si’s shoulder. “No need to thank me. If you have any difficulties in the future, come discuss them with us. Big Sis will cover you.”

The result of being “covered” was that Qi Si handed over a sum of money that very night.

She heard that the class group was discussing buying Teacher’s Day gifts for the teachers. Aside from their homeroom teacher, the list also included teachers who had not even taught them yet. Divided among every student, the cost came to 275 yuan each. They rounded it up and collected 300 yuan, with the rest going toward class funds.

Qi Si’s heart was dripping blood, especially when she heard them say they would also prepare a gift for Su Moxiao.

“Senior Moxiao taught us before, so she counts as our teacher too. Of course we can’t leave her out. We just don’t know what kind of gift would be suitable for her! The group argued for ages and still didn’t reach a conclusion. Hey, Yuan Lü, do you have any suggestions?” The one who said this was the pink-haired girl.

After hearing the budget they mentioned, Qi Si thought for a moment and said, “I think she likes one of LEGO’s preserved flower sets.”

“For real-for real? How do you know that?”

“I’ll look it up… The price is actually pretty suitable, and it looks nice too. How about we buy this, assemble it, and give it to her?”

Qi Si did not offer any other opinions. She was not interested in their topic, so she turned around and opened a copy of Introduction to Computer Science that she had borrowed from the library.

Ji Min’s words were very worth considering. With her current debt-ridden situation, studying medicine could not be considered a very good choice, and working at a bar was not a long-term solution either. If she wanted to change her current predicament, perhaps she really should switch tracks.

Of course, she could not make a decision immediately. Changing majors required waiting until the end of the first academic year before applying. Borrowing the book ahead of time was only because she wanted to understand the discipline and determine whether she was interested enough to invest energy into studying it.

Although she had some talent when it came to studying, she was not some world-shocking genius. If she could master all the knowledge of this specialized field through self-study alone, then what would be the point of attending university?

The moment she opened the book, a turning point in her fate quietly began.