Senior Sister, Shut Up!

October 21st, Tuesday.

Two days had passed since the basketball and debate finals on Sunday.

The temperature suddenly dropped, and before autumn had a chance to greet everyone, it was kicked away by the irritable winter.

Two days ago, everyone had still been wearing short-sleeved shirts and racing across the basketball court. But by Tuesday, they had switched to long sleeves and jackets.

Some students, afraid of the cold, even put on down jackets and scarves, looking like they were preparing for winter.

“Achoo—”

Early in the morning, Jiang Miao groggily woke up, casually tossed his blanket aside, and immediately pulled it back over himself. Shivering, he fumbled for his clothes under the blanket.

“It’s so cold…” He felt a bit stuffy in his nose. After getting dressed in bed, he stayed under the blanket for a while to conserve warmth.

After a while, the dorm room door was pushed open. Wang Xin entered, holding the steaming breakfast he had just bought, and placed it on the desks of his two roommates. “Get up. Breakfast is on the table. Eat and go to class.”

Jiang Miao sluggishly crawled out of bed and limped to the bathroom to wash his face and brush his teeth.

The dormitory had one downside: there was no hot water. After washing his face with cold water, he sneezed several times.

After brushing his teeth and washing his face, he came out of the bathroom and sat down at his desk to eat breakfast while massaging his knee.

He had fallen during the basketball game on Sunday and spent twenty minutes icing his knee in the health center, which helped relieve a lot of the pain.

At the time, he thought it wasn’t a big deal. But after he woke up in the morning, his knee was swollen, burning, and throbbing with pain again.

Although it didn’t bother him much when he wasn’t moving, it did affect his walking a little.

“Brother Jiang~ Help me get my breakfast~” Xun Liang’s voice called out from under his blanket.

“Get it yourself.” Jiang Miao bit into the meat bun that Wang Xin had bought and sipped the soy milk. “Hurry up and get up. Don’t be late.”

“Your Highness the Prince~ Help your sleeping beauty get breakfast~” Xun Liang called out dramatically to Wang Xin.

Wang Xin couldn’t take it anymore and handed the breakfast up. Xun Liang, like a groundhog emerging from its hole, stretched out a hand, grabbed the breakfast, and quickly shrank back under the bed curtain.

“I love you!”

“Eat quickly,” Wang Xin said flatly.

“Old Wang, if the professor takes attendance, remember to cover for me~” Xun Liang said from under his blanket with a chuckle.

“Aren’t you going?” Wang Xin asked.

“Ah! My blanket has sealed me!” Xun Liang shouted. “I won’t be free until at least noon!”

“I can sign in for you, but if the professor calls your name, you’re on your own,” Wang Xin said calmly.

“Okay~ Take my books and save me a seat~” Xun Liang said, clearly experienced. “If the professor calls my name, just say I’m in the restroom and call me. I’ll rush over immediately!”

“Impressive.” Jiang Miao gave him a thumbs up. “I’ll remember this. Next time your sister visits, I’ll make sure to tell her.”

“???” Xun Liang stared at him in confusion. “Can we still be brothers?!”

“Aren’t you a sleeping beauty? At most, we’re siblings.”

“Get lost!”

As Jiang Miao and Xun Liang bickered, Wang Xin took out a book to read.

After they finished fooling around, Wang Xin asked Xun Liang, “Didn’t you buy an electric scooter over the weekend? Can I borrow it? I’ll drive Jiang Miao over later.”

“The key is on my desk,” Xun Liang replied. After finishing breakfast, he retreated back under his blanket, his voice muffled.

“You’re still the most thoughtful, Old Wang.” Jiang Miao finished his breakfast and sighed. “How would I survive without you?”

“Then you two should get together and leave Senior Sister to me,” Xun Liang teased.

“Get lost,” Jiang Miao retorted. “Senior Sister is mine.”

“Ugh~” Xun Liang shuddered, goosebumps rising on his arms. “Tsk, tsk, I wonder who said he had nothing to do with Senior Sister before.”

“Who was it?” Jiang Miao looked confused as he packed his backpack. “I don’t know him.”

“Brother Jiang, you traitor!” Xun Liang shouted, acting as if the heavens were unfair. “You’re the only one in the room who’s no longer single!”

Jiang Miao: “???”

“Brother Shang has Ding Ning, Old Wang has Song Huanhuan, and you have your sister. Isn’t that everyone?”

“Fuck!” Xun Liang cursed and buried himself under the blanket, no longer wanting to talk.

When Wang Xin heard what Jiang Miao said, he paused briefly in his reading, pressed his lips together, and was momentarily lost in the memory of Sunday night.

“Let’s go to class.” Wang Xin put the book back on the shelf, grabbed his backpack, and headed for the door.

“Coming.” Jiang Miao put his backpack on and followed him out. Just as he was about to close the door, he shouted back in the room, “Dog, look after the house! Don’t chew anything!”

Before Xun Liang could respond, Jiang Miao had already closed the door with a grin.

As they headed downstairs, Wang Xin saw Jiang Miao carefully making his way down the stairs, so he said, “I’ll go grab the scooter in the underground parking garage. Take your time.”

“Okay.”

As Jiang Miao watched Wang Xin walk downstairs, he leaned on the handrail and continued down while pulling out his phone to check his book’s data.

New Subscriptions Yesterday: 12,900

Average Subscriptions: 3,900

Highest Subscriptions: 6,800

Normally, with two chapters updated daily, new subscriptions would be about twice the average subscriptions.

Recently, Jiang Miao had been pushing himself to write 10,000 words a day, plus the bonus chapters for his father-in-law’s Silver Alliance Leader tip, so he had been releasing more than usual.

So even now, his daily new subscriptions were multiple times higher than the average.

Especially during the National Day holiday, when his father-in-law dropped the Silver Alliance leader tip and the editor gave him a Featured New Arrivals recommendation, his daily new subscriptions were between 20,000 and 30,000.

His average subscriptions quickly surged from just over 3,000 to nearly 4,000.

Readers might not have a full understanding of this subscription count.

Simply put, with a chapter length of 1,500 words, a subscription count of 3,000 was about 100 yuan in royalties.

So 12,000 new subscriptions would amount to around 400 yuan.

If there were 30,000 new subscriptions, it would mean approximately 1,000 yuan a day.

With over 20 days of October already passed, Jiang Miao had released more than 60 chapters. Multiplied by the average subscription count, this came to a total of about 240,000 subscriptions.

Converted into royalties, it came to around 8,000 yuan.

With 10 days left in the month, it was practically guaranteed that his royalties would surpass 10,000 yuan.

This kept Jiang Miao in high spirits every day.

Aside from the 20-plus chapters he still owed the Silver Alliance Leader, he had few worries.

Oh, right, his father-in-law occasionally showed up in the comment section, trying to get familiar with him. Sometimes, he’d asked questions, which meant Jiang Miao had to rush to Senior Sister for answers.

Yesterday, he had cautiously asked his father-in-law on WeChat how far he had read. To his relief, he said he was too busy and had only read the beginning.

If his father-in-law had read certain chapters, it might be easy for him to pick up on some clues.

If he were exposed, he felt like he couldn’t live on Earth anymore.

[Zhouzhou Loves Congee]: Did you go to class yet?

As Jiang Miao slowly went downstairs, Senior Sister sent him a message.

[Miaomiao is Deep in Thought]: I’m going downstairs, heading to class.

When he finished replying, he had reached the first floor and stepped outside to wait for Wang Xin to bring the electric scooter over.

Senior Sister sent him another message.

[Zhouzhou Loves Congee]: That’s good. Want me to give you a ride?

[Miaomiao is Deep in Thought]: Huh?

Jiang Miao stared at his phone, momentarily stunned. When he looked up, he saw Su Huaizhou ride a scooter over and stop in front of him with a bright smile lighting up her exquisite face.

“Hop on.” She patted the back seat and winked at him. “I’ve been waiting for you.”

“Uh…” He hesitated for a moment and glanced back at the building.

The next moment, he saw Wang Xin riding Xun Liang’s new electric scooter, slowly coming from the entrance.

The large black scooter stopped at the doorway and faced the smaller, weaker scooter.

Wang Xin looked at Senior Sister at the door, then at Jiang Miao, instantly understanding everything.

He nodded at Jiang Miao, his expression neither happy nor sad, and silently drove off.

Jiang Miao: “…”

He wanted to stop him, but the words wouldn’t come out. All he could do was watch Wang Xin’s solitary figure fade into the distance.

Then he happily sat on the seat behind Senior Sister and casually wrapped his arms around her soft waist.

It wasn’t that he wasn’t firm enough. It was just that Old Wang was too good at reading the atmosphere.

Before he could even pretend to decline, Wang Xin had already turned and left without saying anything.

What more could one ask for when someone went this far for them?!

“Ah, so someone was giving you a ride.” Su Huaizhou turned her head and looked at Junior Brother with a faint smile. “Does this count as being overly attentive for nothing?”

“How is that possible?” Jiang Miao hugged Senior Sister tightly and shook his head repeatedly. “Old Wang giving me a ride is the friendship between roommates. I’ll return the favor next time.”

“What about me?”

“Senior Sister, in our case, it’s not just friendship.” Jiang Miao hugged her tighter. “I’ll have to devote my body to you.”

“Dream on.” Su Huaizhou spat at him and finally started the scooter, heading towards the school.

…

After the temperature dropped, Su Huaizhou had changed out of her usual loose T-shirt and cropped pants and opted for a black long-sleeved shirt, thermal pants, and a white coat, making her entire figure look bundled up.

If it weren’t for Jiang Miao holding her tightly around her waist, her impressive chest wouldn’t have even been noticeable.

On the way, there were many people going to their morning classes. Especially as it neared class time, a crowd gathered at the school gate, waiting for the traffic lights.

It looked like waves of zombies waiting to enter.

At this moment, the pair of Jiang Miao and Su Huaizhou was quite a sight.

There were many students riding electric scooters to class, so this wasn’t anything unusual.

It was rare for a boy and a girl to ride a scooter to class, but it wasn’t that special.

However, a girl riding a small scooter with a guy on the back? Now that was something special.

Not to mention, they were a couple with stunning looks.

So while the surrounding people were waiting for the traffic light, their gazes were drawn to Su Huaizhou and Jiang Miao.

“Senior Sister… why aren’t we taking the south gate?” Jiang Miao said, speechless.

“Ah~ I forgot~” Su Huaizhou smiled slyly, enjoying the attention, wishing everyone knew that Junior Brother Jiang Miao was her beloved boyfriend.

But the next moment, some nearby girls started whispering.

“Is it them?”

“It really looks like it. It seems it’s them.”

“Wow! I can’t believe we’d run into them here!”

“Where’s that video from?”

“The debate competition on Sunday. The senior sister forcefully kissed him on stage when she was presenting the award~”

“Haha! I didn’t expect to see them in person!”

As soon as Su Huaizhou heard the conversation, her body stiffened, and her hands gripping the handlebar lost some of their strength.

From the sound of it, someone actually recorded it?!

“Ahem… Senior Sister,” Jiang Miao reminded. “The light’s green.”

“I know.” She quickly twisted the throttle and sped away from this embarrassing spot.

As they accelerated past the school gate, Jiang Miao smiled and said, “Senior Sister, it seems the story of you forcefully kissing has spread.”

“What forceful kiss?!” Su Huaizhou’s face was burning under the winter sunlight as she argued, “That was just a reward for you! Don’t talk nonsense!”

“What about the other times?”

“Um, isn’t it because of what you said? Something about kissing you four times for getting four votes…” Her voice grew softer and softer, eventually turning into a quiet buzz like a mosquito’s.

“But you kissed me more than four times,” Jiang Miao whispered. “I remember you being pretty proactive later on.”

Screech!

The scooter suddenly stopped in the middle of the road.

Su Huaizhou puffed out her cheeks, her face bright red. It was unknown whether it was because of the sunlight or something else.

But the embarrassment was real.

“You really want to get off and walk, don’t you?” She turned around and glared at him fiercely. “Say another word, and I won’t give you a ride anymore.”

Jiang Miao obediently shut up.

But in his mind, he was still savoring the memory of kissing Senior Sister by the lake the previous night.

She had melted in his arms, soft as a puddle of mud, allowing him to control the embrace.

The sensation was truly addictive.

Even the readers had commented that the recent chapters had become a bit more exciting.

Well, of course.

After all, it was based on his own personal experience.

But so far, aside from his community manager, Huiyue, none of the other readers knew he was no longer single.

It was mainly because no one would believe him even if he said it.

Those damn dogs who joked about him being single all day long didn’t know that the author had already quietly gotten rid of his single dog status.

Every time Jiang Miao saw them teasing Peach Jam about being a single dog, he would shake his head and sigh.

One of the loudest in the group chat was a guy with the handle ‘Qiuqiu’s Licking Dog’. He was clearly a dirty reader who couldn’t get a goddess in real life.

He constantly shouted in the group: “Peach Jam, more updates!” “Peach Jam, 10k words a day!” “Peach Jam, you single dog!” He was very active.

Jiang Miao couldn’t be bothered to pay him any attention. Wasn’t it far better to happily hug Senior Sister?

“We’re here.” Su Huaizhou stopped the scooter at the entrance of a building.

There were four regular teaching buildings on the west side of the School of Business. Jiang Miao’s class this morning was in Building B, and Su Huaizhou’s was in Building C.

But Su Huaizhou found a parking spot near Building B, got off the scooter, and went with Jiang Miao.

“You have two classes on Tuesday morning, right?” Su Huaizhou asked. “I’m in class until 11:30. I’ll pick you up then.”

Jiang Miao felt a bit touched. He hadn’t expected Senior Sister to take such good care of him.

But then she smiled mischievously at him. Leaning close to his ear, she whispered, “The debate team’s interviews are during the afternoon break. You haven’t forgotten, have you, Junior Brother?”

Jiang Miao: “…”

“Senior Sister, we agreed that after I join the team, things will stay the same as before. I won’t go on stage unless there’s no one else.”

“Okay.” Su Huaizhou nodded. “Don’t worry.”

“Alright.” He sighed in relief. He wasn’t as opposed to joining the debate team as before.

After participating in a debate himself, he found it wasn’t too bad.

“Then I’ll head upstairs,” Jiang Miao said and turned to go.

But Senior Sister suddenly grabbed his wrist.

When he turned back, her face was already right in front of his.

Her sweet lips, like a little bee gathering nectar, lightly bit his.

It hurt a little.

But it was very sweet.

“It isn’t for material this time.” Su Huaizhou didn’t look away. Although her face was blushing and her teardrop mole was charming, her expression was serious.

Jiang Miao stared at her face in a daze, then slowly smiled, stepped forward, and gently hugged her.

Ignoring the surprised gazes around them, he lowered his head and softly pressed his lips to Senior Sister’s delicate ones.

The morning light, accompanied by the slight chill in the breeze, slipped into their collars.

But their chests burned with warmth.

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