1RomanceEB Chapter 52 Identity Crisis
Chapter 52 Identity Crisis
The atmosphere in Lin Yuyan's living room was unusually heavy.
Xie Lan and Liu Xiali sat obediently on one side of the sofa, their hands resting neatly on their knees. On the other side of the sofa, Su Chenjin, who had just returned from a parent-teacher meeting, held two report cards in her hands and was beginning to question her life.
Xie Lan's results... can no longer be described as "disastrous".
Su Chenjin could understand to some extent why the magical girls who had to spend time patrolling and fighting monsters every day had poor grades due to their distracted attention.
Xie Lan failing all subjects was already shocking. But Su Chenjin truly never imagined how she managed to score only single digits in math...
If you guess a few multiple-choice and true/false questions correctly, you can probably get a double-digit score, right?
As for Liu Xiali next to her, Su Chenjin also received her report card. Perhaps because she usually attends tutoring classes, Liu Xiali's grades were slightly better than Xie Lan's, but she still failed half of her subjects.
Of course, what made Su Chenjin feel most devastated was what happened to her after the parent-teacher conference.
After the parent-teacher meeting, Su Chenjin, who was Xie Lan's "parent," was called into the homeroom teacher's office alone and received an hour of ideological education.
The homeroom teacher not only severely criticized Xie Lan's hopeless grades, but also expressed strong indignation at the fact that Xie Lan's real parents did not attend the parent-teacher conference and instead found a "strange older sister" to take the blame.
Su Chenjin, who was being verbally abused, could only nod and smile apologetically the whole time.
Compared to the scolding she received in the office, the curious glances from parents at the parent-teacher meeting because of her petite stature... were completely insignificant!
So, back at Lin Yuyan's home, Su Chenjin, full of resentment, decided to give the two junior high school students a good interrogation.
"Xie Lan, do you remember our promise?"
Su Chenjin narrowed her azure eyes slightly, her voice and the aura emanating from her body becoming sharper. At this moment, she had shed her maid's disguise and revealed the imposing authority she once possessed as the Grand Commander of "The Place Where Stars Are".
"We made a promise... that after I attend your parent-teacher conference, I'll also keep an eye on your grades. Now that the grades are out, you better explain yourself! Don't think you can run away just because you attended the parent-teacher conference."
Only in this moment of oppressive aura did the two middle school students realize that the blue-haired girl in front of them, whom they had been calling "junior" repeatedly, exuded an aura that was indeed that of an adult.
Faced with this pressure, Xie Lan looked away guiltily, not daring to meet Su Chenjin's gaze.
Liu Xiali, who was sitting next to her, stiffly stood up from the sofa.
"Ahaha, um... Miss Su, it was Xie Lan who made the appointment with you, so it doesn't seem appropriate for me to stay here. I won't disturb you any longer, I'll be going now..."
As she spoke, Liu Xiali prepared to slip away.
"You can't leave."
Su Chenjin coldly uttered those words, instantly freezing her in place.
"You've been attending tutoring classes all this time, yet you still got such a bad grade. What a waste of time! Since you're already here, you can study and get tutoring with Xie Lan from now on. When you go back, tell your mom that you have to stay because you have an adult magical girl companion helping you with your homework."
"Well……"
Having failed to escape, Liu Xiali could only helplessly slump back onto the sofa.
But after being scolded like that, she was also holding back her anger. She couldn't help but raise her head somewhat resentfully, staring intently at Su Chenjin, and suddenly asked:
"Miss Su... since you insist on interfering in my affairs, then I'd like to ask you, what exactly is your relationship with that woman?"
Su Chenjin was taken aback by this sudden question.
"That woman? Which woman?"
Liu Xiali gritted her teeth and said loudly, "It's that woman who came to help me with the parent-teacher conference!"
"...Huh? Who helped you attend the parent-teacher conference?" Su Chenjin still didn't understand.
"That's the person you were chatting with on the way to the teaching building! We all saw her. You and that lady seem to know each other well, right?"
Upon hearing this, Su Chenjin was stunned, as if waking from a dream...
He Siyuan said she was helping "the daughter of a friend from the Demon Academy" attend a parent-teacher conference at school. That "daughter" is you?!
This is such a coincidence...
And... your mother works at the Magic Institute, which means she's a magical girl, right? How come I've never heard you mention that before? And usually in this situation, shouldn't Liu Xiali be living in the Kingdom? Why is she still living in the Material World, being tricked into becoming a magical girl by the Grand Eunuch?
By the way... those two were actually hiding in the shadows and spying? Where did they learn that from...?
Although she had a lot of questions in her mind, Su Chenjin knew that now was not the time to ask them; she needed to answer Liu Xiali's questions first.
She planned to make up a reason to explain her relationship with "that aunt who attends parent-teacher conferences," but soon, Su Chenjin discovered a serious problem.
The character "Su Chenjin" is a helpless maid taken in by the evil organization "Where the Stars Are," who previously worked in an underground base.
Therefore, all the people she came into contact with were naturally members of "Where the Stars Are". So, anyone who could talk to "Su Chenjin" and seemed quite familiar with her... must basically be related to "Where the Stars Are".
In other words, Liu Xiali has probably begun to suspect that He Siyuan is a member of "Where the Stars Are".
But if this happens... won't Liu Xiali's mother run into some trouble? After all, if her collusion with the "rebel organization Star's Lair" is discovered, it will definitely cause problems.
And wouldn't Liu Xiali also suspect her mother? Suddenly telling her that her mother has connections with a rebel organization... wouldn't that be a bad idea?
If it were just a matter of doubting He Siyuan's identity, that would be fine... but the problem is, He Siyuan is the magical girl Maya!
The fact that she could chat so happily with the "Four Heavenly Kings" suggests that "Su Chenjin's" identity is not as simple as that of a defector. Otherwise, why wouldn't the "Four Heavenly Kings" arrest her and bring her back?
If the investigation continues, even his own undercover identity may be questioned.
Then the plan to hypnotize the eunuch to urge him to update his chapters... will be ruined!
At that moment, Su Chenjin glanced at the bedroom next door.
Fortunately, the head eunuch is currently holed up in his bedroom playing video games and is unaware of the situation here. In other words... all I need to do is come up with a reason to fool these two kids.