Volume 3, Chapter 417 – Chi Xiyan, I Wasn’t Lying

Master Chen looked toward Chi Xiyan, who sat in the front row, and asked, “Chi Xiyan, are you willing to serve as the academy’s Study Hall Monitor?”

“Chi Xiyan…?”

It took two calls from Master Chen before Chi Xiyan finally woke from her shock.

At this moment, her mind was filled with disbelief.

Her? Study Hall Monitor? Was this real?

Here, she was no longer the eldest daughter of the Chi family.

After everything that had happened before, she already understood her current situation clearly.

Her peers mocked her and humiliated her, treated her like a bad omen, regarded her as worthless as weeds.

Perhaps even less than weeds. At the very least, no one would bother going out of their way to trample a blade of grass.

Under these circumstances, how could she possibly be elected Study Hall Monitor when a candidate had already been decided?

Was this really possible?

The Study Hall Monitor position was extremely special. Over the next few years, every student in this class would fall under her authority.

These students’ cultivation progress and daily attendance would all be reported to the academy through her. Even the future distribution of pills and requests for texts would pass through her hands.

Everyone admitted into the academy had been selected from among the various branch families of the Chi clan, chosen as prodigies who would one day become pillars of the family.

Setting up such a position as Study Hall Monitor was also something the Chi family had intentionally arranged, with the purpose of training qualified administrators for the family’s future.

How could such a position possibly fall to Chi Xiyan?

How could these classmates, who were so full of hostility toward her, unanimously choose to nominate her for Study Hall Monitor?

Thirty seven votes, unanimous approval. That meant everyone, including Chi Ning, the original candidate for Study Hall Monitor, had voted for her name.

What exactly was going on?

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Chi Xiyan turned her head to look at Chi Ning, the former Study Hall Monitor candidate, seated some distance away.

The young man noticed her gaze as well. His hand gripped the edge of his desk, his eyes filled with resentment and anger. After glaring at Chi Xiyan fiercely twice, he turned his eyes back toward Master Chen, no longer looking at her.

Chi Xiyan was taken aback. This young man was clearly unwilling.

It seemed this was not some malicious scheme.

If so, then there was only one possibility left.

Chi Xiyan’s gaze sharpened slightly as she turned to look at Chi Muxue, seated right beside her.

And at that very moment, nine year old Chi Muxue was also gazing at Chi Xiyan with those large, watery eyes.

Her brows curved gently as she smiled sweetly.

Chi Xiyan felt as though she could see her own dazed reflection in those watery eyes.

She paused for a moment, then said, “So this is the surprise you mentioned.”

Chi Muxue only smiled, offering no explanation.

Chi Xiyan was not truly a nine year old girl again, and seeing Chi Ning’s reaction, she could already guess why these students had all nominated her together.

It was because of Chi Muxue.

The Chi family’s eldest daughter, only nine years old, Chi Muxue.

As the eldest daughter of the Chi family’s direct bloodline, she had no need to attend classes with the branch family disciples at all.

Not to mention that she was already a Fourth Realm sword cultivator, a level of cultivation that would make her a pillar of strength even among some smaller families and minor powers outside.

Her personally coming here today to accompany Chi Xiyan to class and recommend a new candidate for Study Hall Monitor to Master Chen had already made her stance clear to these students.

The academy’s Study Hall Monitor had to be Chi Xiyan. No one else.

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“In that case, from now on, Chi Xiyan will serve as the academy’s Study Hall Monitor.”

With Master Chen’s quiet announcement, Chi Xiyan’s appointment as Study Hall Monitor was settled.

Chi Muxue raised her small hand and led the applause.

After she clapped three times, enthusiastic applause broke out across the entire classroom.

Master Chen looked at these young boys and girls, still so innocent, his eyes filled with gratification.

…

After class ended.

Chi Xiyan pulled Chi Muxue behind the academy building.

This was a place rarely visited by anyone, where no one would overhear their conversation.

Chi Xiyan held onto Chi Muxue’s small hand and asked directly, “Why?”

Chi Muxue blinked innocently and asked back, “Little Xiyan, what are you asking about?”

Chi Xiyan’s expression paused slightly.

By now, she was completely certain of one thing.

This girl in front of her, though only nine years old, could absolutely not be treated as an ordinary nine year old child.

She was a Fourth Realm sword cultivator, a pill master who had returned from completing her studies at Medical Immortal Valley, and the sole direct descendant of the Chi family bloodline.

Though she was only nine, Chi Xiyan could already glimpse in her the shadow of someone who commanded others from a position of power.

A master at manipulating people’s hearts.

If Chi Xiyan really were nothing more than a nine year old girl right now, perhaps she truly would have become devoted to her without reservation.

Chi Xiyan lowered her eyes slightly and asked again, “Why choose me.”

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“If you just wanted someone obedient and capable as your subordinate, you would have had a much better candidate.”

“For instance… that Chi Ning…”

Chi Xiyan still remembered Chi Ning’s circumstances. The branch of the family he came from had fallen completely into decline, and his talent was rather ordinary, but he had worked harder than anyone else, which was how he had earned his current standing.

In reality, the Study Hall Monitor of the Chi family academy during those years had indeed been Chi Ning.

But Chi Muxue’s arrival had changed all of that.

“Little Xiyan, why would I choose someone I don’t like?”

Chi Xiyan was startled. “Eh?”

“I don’t like Chi Ning. I don’t like anyone in that class.” Chi Muxue looked into Chi Xiyan’s eyes. “Xiyan… you’re the only one I like.”

Chi Xiyan’s heart gave a sudden jolt.

But looking into those innocent eyes, she knew this girl couldn’t possibly mean it the way she’d first taken it.

“Don’t joke around, Young Miss Chi.” Chi Xiyan said, “I don’t want to be your plaything.”

Two rescues, each one arriving at exactly the right moment.

And then there was the rat on her bed yesterday, along with just now, the matter of the Study Hall Monitor election…

Every single thing Chi Xiyan had experienced since waking up here was riddled with coincidence.

It was as if all of it had been a carefully arranged trap, tempting on the surface, but full of danger underneath.

Chi Xiyan couldn’t help but think too much into it.

“A plaything?” Chi Muxue’s large eyes remained as innocent as ever. “Xiyan is my little sister… not a plaything.”

“Muxue…” Chi Xiyan bit her lower lip lightly. “Don’t treat me like a child. And don’t put on that innocent act.”

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She gripped Chi Muxue’s hand tightly. “I’m not a child who can be fooled with a couple of pieces of candy.”

“So don’t use that kind of approach on me.”

Especially not while using this identity of Chi Muxue’s…

Hearing her words, something in Chi Muxue’s gaze finally shifted.

“Little Xiyan, I wasn’t lying.”

“I don’t like Chi Ning, and I don’t like any of those people in the academy.”

“I dealt with them before… they think too much, they’re far too calculating, and the forces behind them are hopelessly tangled.”

“They all share the surname Chi, yet their minds are full of nothing but scheming… I don’t like that.”

“But Xiyan is different.” Young Chi Muxue lowered her head slightly.

“Being with Xiyan feels relaxed. I don’t have to think about all that scheming.”

“I can tell that Xiyan is the same as me. We both share the surname Chi, yet here, we’re both outsiders.”

“You don’t like it here. You have no attachment to this place at all.”

“Am I right?”

“…” Chi Xiyan felt a tightness in her chest.

This girl’s gaze seemed to carry some inexplicable, piercing quality.

She kept her expression composed and said, “Once you understand what I’ve been through, you should know that anyone in my position would feel the same way I do.”

“No…” Chi Muxue shook her small head. “If it were anyone else here, they wouldn’t treat me the way you do, and they wouldn’t have pulled me back here to say these things.”

“Because to them, I’m nothing more than their chance to climb out of the mud.”