My Senior Sisters Are Not Human! - Chapter 162 - Chapter 162
Xuanqing Empire, Sheng’an City, North District, Finance Ministry Building.
Since taking on the role of Chief Financial Officer, Su Yuxi, who had been working intensively, put down her pen and stretched lazily. Despite staying up late every day, there was little sign of fatigue on her face.
Although there was no sign of anything happening, Lichun had advised her more than once, but clearly, it was of no use. She could only secretly try to help Su Yuxi adjust her health.
After stretching and loosening her neck, Su Yuxi immediately picked up her phone. During her self-imposed ten-minute break, she watched the video of her brother waking up this morning, and then…
“Shameless!”
Watching Xia Yushuang’s every move in the video, Su Yuxi sneered. Even though she already knew that this vixen had stolen kisses from her brother while he slept many times, every time she watched, she couldn’t help but curse in her heart.
Initially, she thought Xia Yushuang had almost forgotten about her brother. After all, they hadn’t seen each other in ten years. Besides, when she asked Xia Yushuang to look after her brother, her tone was distant and normal, like a stranger. Hence, she didn’t suspect much. But now, in hindsight, she had been pretending all along!
After her brother entered Sky University, she removed the disguise. On the night of their first meeting after ten years, she despicably stole her brother’s kiss.
Fortunately, it wasn’t his first kiss.
Thinking about this, Su Yuxi felt a bit proud. Xia Yushuang must have thought she took her brother’s first kiss, but unfortunately… she didn’t!
“No matter how many women there are, they can’t take my brother’s first kiss.”
Muttering softly, Su Yuxi thought of the second woman who entered her brother’s house, looking displeased. “As a teacher, why don’t you teach properly? Why flirt with my brother? It’s unethical!”
“And my brother still hasn’t told me anything about Tia Yufei… I’m mad!”
Exiting the video, Su Yuxi opened her private photo album and looked at various pictures of her brother, both solo and together with her. She huffed, “Stinky brother, so clueless. He doesn’t take knowing other women seriously. He even gave me a hug pillow, thinking of me as a grown-up, but in the end, I’m just ‘little sister,’ not ‘girl.’”
“Stupid brother, when will you finally get a clue…”
Knock, knock, knock.
“Come in.”
Su Yuxi immediately closed the album, sat upright, and changed her expression from that of a young girl to that of a strict Financial Officer.
The empire’s finances were in chaos, and in this position, gentleness couldn’t get the job done.
Xia Zhi led in a middle-aged man in his early thirties. After inviting him to sit across from Su Yuxi’s desk, the man didn’t sit down right away but instead respectfully addressed her, “Princess, Your Highness.”
Those who addressed Su Yuxi as “Your Highness” here instead of “Chief” were elites transferred from the Northern Region Chang’an Kingdom, and Zhou Ze was one of them.
“Please sit.”
Zhou Ze sat politely on the chair. “Your Highness, you’ve only been in office for a few days, but you’ve already taken down several high-ranking financial officials from both the cabinet and local governments with swift and decisive actions. The Queen is very impressed with you.”
“What about my father?”
“His Majesty was tending to his flowers at the time.”
Su Yuxi nodded, then listened as Zhou Ze continued, “Several staunch high-ranking officials were obediently taken away for investigation… Your methods caught the Cabinet completely off guard.”
“Both humans and non-humans have weaknesses—money, allure, family… As long as you handle them well, they won’t be able to make waves.”
Zhou Ze glanced at Su Yuxi, wondering what the Princess’s weakness might be.
“The empire’s financial problems are even bigger than expected.” Su Yuxi pushed a report across the desk. “These are the financial statements from the last two quarters. All thirteen provinces have inflated their numbers.”
As Zhou Ze quickly browsed through the report, Su Yuxi gave him his orders. “I brought you here to handle the economy of Yunlan City.”
Zhou Ze was taken aback. “Yunlan City has the strongest economy in the empire, and it hasn’t been skimping on taxes.”
“It hasn’t, but…” Su Yuxi handed him another document. “The embassies of the non-human nations are mostly located in Yunlan City. The locals have been colluding with them, shorting a lot of national assets. I want you to investigate how much has been taken overseas. If necessary, you can create some chaos in Yunlan City’s economy. Chang’an’s funds are at your disposal.”
Zhou Ze immediately stood up. “Understood, I will fulfill the Princess’s mission.”
“Your current position is Deputy Minister of Finance, have at it,” Su Yuxi calmly said. “If possible, make the foreign countries spit out what they’ve swallowed.”
“Understood.”
Su Yuxi nodded. Zhou Ze was an expert in economic matters, making him the perfect choice to tackle the tough situation in Yunlan City. The best outcome would be gaining control over Yunlan City’s finances, which would make it easier to carry out further operations.
In any situation, without money, nothing can be accomplished.
With money, ideals can take form.
After Zhou Ze left, Su Yuxi instructed Xia Zhi, “Assign Lidong, Xiaoxue, and Daxue to protect Zhou Ze.”
“As you command.”
Su Yuxi exhaled. With the “Cold Cicada” organization established by her brother in her hands, she could grasp much intelligence beforehand. This allowed her to quickly take down a batch of corrupt officials. But the next steps wouldn’t be as easy. The wily cabinet members were not mindless pawns to be easily manipulated.
“The local princes and noble families are closer to the imperial family. We can leverage them against the cabinet first.”
Setting her phone aside, she opened a webpage, reviewing the intelligence she had gathered over the years on the various nobles. “Prince Xiang’s wealth rivals that of an entire province, and his fief is close to the capital. Let’s start with him.”
“So many high-ranking officials have fallen; the Cabinet is bound to retaliate… The Northern Territories are united like a solid wall; they can’t touch that…,” Su Yuxi’s eyes narrowed as she recalled the Mid-Autumn Banquet where Yuxiang, the envoy from the Blissful Demon Nation was present. “They might target my brother.”
Even though “Cold Cicada” investigated, they didn’t discover who leaked information about her brother in the Sky City. She wasn’t concerned about his safety but wanted to cut down whoever betrayed them.
“My brother isn’t in danger, the main issue is within the empire…”
Su Yuxi bent down to start working on documents. In work mode, she resembled an emotionless machine, her mind racing, completely detached from the outside world.
…
“It’s two o’clock.”
Jiang Shengyue stretched after checking her phone. She glanced at the students fishing across the lake, then turned to look at Su Yuchen. Just as she was about to walk over to wake him up, she found him already sitting up, his pitch-black eyes showing no signs of drowsiness at all, as if the fatigue before was just an act.
“How did you wake up so quickly… I was just about to…”
Before she finished speaking, Jiang Shengyue turned around. Her gentle gaze instantly turned cold as she looked at five students in school uniforms on the other side of the lake. The school would never allow students to carry the kind of heavy firepower magical weapons that were now emitting a deadly glow.
The power wasn’t too strong, only about the level of third or fourth-tier magic- in Jiang Shengyue’s eyes.
But this level of magic could still harm freshmen.
Swoosh~~~
From the magical tracers, several larger rounds split into countless bullets, whistling through the air like a storm.
With just a downward press of her hand, a flame three stories high extinguished all the heavy firepower. Through the layers of exploding light and fog, Jiang Shengyue saw Su Yuchen lifting the five students one by one like they were helpless chicks, slamming their faces into the ground.
Jiang Shengyue gave Su Yuchen a thoughtful look. She hadn’t noticed when he moved over there, and… he was more ruthless than she had imagined.
Jiang Shengyue bit her lip, her mind full of the image of Su Yuchen lifting them like little chicks… If he grabbed her by the nape like that… Ugh, what am I thinking?
She quickly walked over, just in time to see Su Yuchen toss the fifth student aside like garbage. The five students were sprawled out on the ground, eyes vacant, looking like they’d been completely broken.
Seeing Jiang Shengyue approaching, Su Yuchen smiled. “Five hired guns, each getting five million.”
“For such a small amount, they dared to bring heavy firepower into Sky University to commit a crime… too audacious, isn’t it?” Jiang Shengyue said in surprise, guessing that Su Yuchen had used mental magic to search their memories.
Sky University was the top institution for training mages. Only someone either extremely reckless or incredibly foolish would dare to commit a crime on campus for a mere five million… The five lying on the ground were clearly the latter.
“They owed a lot in campus loans,” Su Yuchen shrugged. “They were after me. They only held back because they saw you, Sister Yue, facing this way. When you turned around, they thought they might as well take the risk.”
“Sister Yue, your reputation precedes you,” Su Yuchen praised. No girl dislikes compliments, and Jiang Shengyue hummed lightly in response, “Of course, the Verbal Arts Department is part of the Martial Arts Division. My department has consistently ranked in the top three and even occasionally takes first place.”
“That’s really impressive,” Su Yuchen sincerely complimented. After all, in the same year as Jiang Shengyue, there was a Demon Lord-level succubus who served as the disciplinary committee president. To have ranked first under Sylvia’s watch was indeed a remarkable achievement.
“Mm-hmm.” Jiang Shengyue proudly lifted her chin, then curiously sized up Su Yuchen. “You’re quite something too, junior. To make them take such a risk to assassinate you on campus.”
“It’s nothing… I just didn’t expect anyone to dare attempt an assassination on campus.” Su Yuchen glanced at the five people on the ground. He found out through soul search that the person who hired them was not a student. Although he saw the employer’s face clearly, he did not recognize him.
It was definitely someone from the East, and it was undoubtedly related to Yuxi’s efforts to clean up corruption.
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when he killed the Demon Lord, he knew his whereabouts had been leaked. But after that night, there had been no movement from the other side, and his identity hadn’t been exposed online… which surprised him.
Even though his identity was compromised, making all his actions vulnerable, the mastermind shouldn’t be foolish enough not to realize this.
‘Could the Cold Cicada be erasing this information online? No… even if it’s erased online, the mastermind could still convey my identity to their associates, yet the Yae siblings know nothing about me.’
Su Yuchen frowned slightly. He had a vague feeling that someone was manipulating this information, but if they were doing it to protect him, then maybe they were an ally, not an enemy?
Seeing that Su Yuchen wasn’t in the mood to discuss his identity further, Jiang Shengyue didn’t push the issue, as she was also keeping some secrets from him regarding her own identity.
Looking at the five people on the ground, she sasked, “How should we handle this?”
She pointed to the surveillance cameras around the area. “The whole thing was probably caught on tape.”
“If it’s all on tape, then we might as well go all the way.” Su Yuchen’s eyes narrowed slightly. “Erase their existence from the world.”
He moved to take action, but Jiang Shengyue stopped him, looking at him with a smile. “How about leaving it to me?”
“Hmm?” Su Yuchen looked at her. “Sister Yue, how do you plan to handle this?”
“I’ll make sure you’re not implicated at all. Do you trust me?”
“Of course, I trust you,” Su Yuchen replied without hesitation.
Jiang Shengyue’s smile grew brighter. She patted his shoulder and whispered softly, “Then leave it to me. I promise there won’t be a single clue linking this back to you.”
Su Yuchen also smiled. “I’ll leave it to Sister Yue.”
Jiang Shengyue snapped her fingers. “Okay!”
Watching her confident demeanor, Su Yuchen was curious about how she would handle the situation. But he knew it probably involved her own secrets, so he didn’t press her. If she wanted to share, she would do so on her own.
“You should hurry to class,” Jiang Shengyue didn’t want to delay. “Leave this to me.”
“Hmm…” Su Yuchen hesitated for a moment, then looked at Jiang Shengyue and asked, “Sister Yue.”
“Yes?”
“Are you free this week?”
“What, are you asking me out?” Jiang Shengyue looked at Su Yuchen with a teasing smile, feeling her heart race a little faster.
“Yes,” Su Yuchen replied frankly. “I’d like to invite you on a date.”
Though she had already guessed as much, hearing Su Yuchen say it aloud still made Jiang Shengyue clench her fists in excitement. Suddenly, those student assassins didn’t seem so bad—after all, they gave her junior a reason to ask her out.
Jiang Shengyue blinked, her cheeks slightly flushed as she coyly replied, “You know, asking me out isn’t easy~”
Su Yuchen smiled and asked directly, “Then what do I have to do to meet your conditions?”
“Hmm… let me think,” Jiang Shengyue, hands behind her back, paced back and forth a few times before looking at him. She raised her right hand and twirled a strand of wine-red-highlighted hair, a bit shy but direct as she said, “Can you have lunch with me every day this week?”
“That’s no problem at all, especially since your cooking is so delicious, Sister Yue.”
“Then it’s a deal,” Jiang Shengyue beamed with joy. “Miss even one day, and you can forget about asking me out.”
“I’ll definitely clear my schedule. No sudden emergencies will keep me away.”
“Mm…” Jiang Shengyue nodded, satisfied, but now a bit too shy to look directly at Su Yuchen. “You should go, while no one’s around…”
“I’ll leave then.”
“Bye~”
“Goodbye.”
As Su Yuchen turned and walked away, he couldn’t help but feel a little helpless. He had originally planned to stick to the principle of “not taking the initiative,” but the sense of care and safety he felt from Jiang Shengyue’s “senpai presence” was too strong. He hesitated, but in the end, he couldn’t resist the urge to ask her out.
“Why are senior sisters always so amazing…”
Murmuring softly, Su Yuchen resumed his usual expression. As for the potential consequences of taking the initiative, he’d deal with those later. He had no regrets about asking Jiang Shengyue out.
Watching Su Yuchen disappear from view, Jiang Shengyue couldn’t hold back a small fist pump. “Yes!”
Great success!
The feeling of being in love was truly fantastic.
Humming a tune, Jiang Shengyue took out her phone from the pocket of her school skirt and sent a message to her younger sister. The surveillance at Sky University was managed by the Discipline Committee, so letting Xiyu handle this matter was completely fine.
As for the five guys lying on the ground, it would be easy to alter their memories and completely remove Su Yuchen from the incident. How to explain things to the school authorities later would be Xiyu’s problem.
After all, Xiyu had been the Disciplinary Committee President for two years straight, handling such matters was second nature to her.
Having arranged everything, Jiang Shengyue glanced at the five guys on the ground, her mood gradually calming as she began to ponder, “The attack at Hidden Heart Lake before, was it also aimed at him…”
At first, she thought the attack was targeted at her and was even worried that her clan had found her and Xiyu, planning to escape with her sister. But after Xiyu investigated and found out it wasn’t aimed at them, she had felt relieved and didn’t think much more about it.
Now, it seemed the previous attack was also aimed at Su Yuchen.
“That cunning junior, because I said ‘you got dragged into this because of me’ last time, he just went along with it and pinned the blame on me… hmph, I’ll have to make him repay me for that.”
Saying so, Jiang Shengyue’s tone was full of amusement. After waiting for a while in the same place, she saw several members of the Discipline Committee approaching. Leading them was Roxanne Catherine, one of the vice president of the Discipline Committee.
Jiang Shengyue knew Roxanne was one of Xiyu’s trusted aides, as her sister had her under control.
“Shengyue, causing trouble again, I see,” Roxanne teased with a smile.
“I haven’t caused an assassination attempt before, have I?” Jiang Shengyue shrugged.
“Wasn’t it the same last time?” Roxanne gestured for her subordinates to take the five people away and chatted with Jiang Shengyue. Although they were not in the same department, they were somewhat familiar with each other.
‘Junior, I’m taking the blame for you this time, so you better thank me properly.’
Clearing her throat, Jiang Shengyue said, “That’s right… But how did you guys even let them bring heavy weaponry onto campus? The President is going to give you a scolding for this.”
Roxanne, feeling a bit troubled, spread her hands, “How were we supposed to know? Nothing like this ever happened before, but ever since this year’s freshman intake, it’s been one thing after another.”
Jiang Shengyue was taken aback and subconsciously said, “That’s misfortune…”
“Hmm?”
“I mean, it’s unfortunate for you guys.”
“Sigh.” Roxanne sighed. “It’s okay, as long as the boss is there to cover for us, we should be fine.”
Jiang Shengyue just nodded in agreement when Roxanne grinned and said, “Come along with us, victim.”
“Lead the way.”