Chapter 64: A Sister Who's Hard to Fool

Wow, sis is so awesome—

Pei Muyin clapped her small hands excitedly, her eyes shining as she looked at Shu Shu, full of admiration.

Shu Lingchen stood aside, stunned; he had thought he was pretty good at basketball.

He felt his understanding of his mother had been refreshed again.

Seeing her daughter's interested, curious expression, Shu Shu asked: "Muyin, want to come play a bit?"

"Mm-hmm, yes!"

Pei Muyin nodded without thinking and walked over to Shu Shu.

Shu Shu handed the basketball to Pei Muyin, letting her first try bouncing it on the ground to get a feel for how it rebounds.

Pei Muyin was playing basketball for the first time; her movements were somewhat awkward from inexperience, but Shu Shu patiently guided her throughout, slowly instructing her and praising her.

"That's right, just like that."

Then Pei Muyin could soon bounce the ball smoothly.

When it came to shooting, she basically missed every ten shots—either off target or just grazing the rim.

The girl let her peach-blossom eyes droop, feeling a bit discouraged, looking pitifully at Shu Shu, thinking she was clumsy.

"Muyin isn't clumsy at all."

Seeing the girl's thought, Shu Shu said that before she barely learned basketball, she had missed over a thousand shots, she blinked and encouraged: "And Muyin has only missed a dozen or so—she's far better than I was."

So Pei Muyin regained confidence, picked up the ball, and gave it a strong throw.

The ball went into the hoop!

Pei Muyin was over the moon, immediately looking at Shu Shu, her bright eyes seemingly asking for praise.

Shu Shu: "Muyin, you're awesome."

And Shu Lingchen, sitting nearby, also gave a big thumbs-up with both hands.

He watched his mother teach his sister basketball, watched and watched, got hungry for it, and promptly volunteered: "I can teach her too."

"Fine, you go ahead."

Shu Shu made room, sat on the steps beside them, propped her chin, and quietly watched the scene below.

One taught seriously, the other learned seriously.

Warm golden sunlight fell on the brother and sister.

Peaceful times, that's probably all there is to it.

Shu Shu stood up, told them: "You play, I'm going to the kiosk to buy water."

…

Shu Lingchen pulled out all his patience to teach for a while, yet never heard Muyin say he was awesome even once.

Clearly, just now when Mom was teaching, the sister kept saying "awesome."

Shu Lingchen instantly refused to back down; the boy cleared his throat twice and asked Pei Muyin: "What do you think of my teaching?"

Pei Muyin: "Very good."

Shu Lingchen turned his head, gave a sly smile, his competitive spirit flared again, and asked: "So, do you think I teach well, or… you… Shu Shu sister teaches better?"

In Shu Lingchen's eyes, the question he asked seemed like he was asking:

"Brother awesome, or Mom awesome?"

Pei Muyin's eyes were clear; she answered almost without hesitation: "Sister."

"Okay, Mom is awesome."

Shu Lingchen: "……" Fine, he had a premonition, feeling that his sister would definitely be a momma's boy in the future.

Shu Lingchen also recalled last night when he pretended to faint, and Pei Muyin called his name; now remembering it, he just felt off.

The boy rolled his eyes and said: "Actually I'm older than you, you should call me bro, you know?"

Pei Muyin blinked, surprised at how fast the topic shifted, then she said seriously: "But we're both sophomores in high school, our ages should be about the same."

"No no." Shu Lingchen said: "I don't mean age; I mean the time of birth, down to the seconds."

Pei Muyin was a bit dazed: "Who knows their birth time down to the seconds? And how do you even know you were born earlier than me?"

"……" Shu Lingchen stumbled, feeling he almost slipped up, he stubbornly said: "I, I just know! And I'm sure I'm definitely older than you!"

"Let me tell you, when I hear someone younger than me call my name, I feel weird; anyone younger, even by a second or two, should call me bro, got it?"

—That's pretty much being unreasonable.

Pei Muyin widened her eyes slightly, obviously surprised: "Can you really do that?"

"Right." Shu Lingchen now really wanted to hear his sister call him bro; a lightbulb went off: "How about we make a bet, shooting hoops? I'll make ten in a row, you just need to make one; if I win, you call me bro; if you win, I'll call you—sis!"

On that last word, Shu Lingchen felt he had gone all out.

The result was hearing Pei Muyin say: "But I don't need you to call me sis."

The girl's voice was calm and steady, obedient and peaceful, utterly unmoved.

Shu Lingchen: "……" Really a sister who's hard to fool.

Just then, as he was annoyed, a dozen or so people walked over, saying: "Sorry, could you two move? We want to play on this basketball court."

Turning his head, he saw they were the 1 Ban class bumping into PE.

Pei Muyin had just gotten a feel for shooting, was in the mood, she originally wanted to play a bit more, but someone came, so she instinctively yielded.

Before she could even move, she heard a cold snort from beside her: "You say yield and you yield? Don't you know what first come, first served means?"

The 1 Ban crowd righteously said: "But we have more people, you're just two; hogging the court isn't wasteful?"

After speaking, the other side seemed unwilling to argue further with Shu Lingchen, wanting to rely on their numbers, grab the ball, and start playing right away.

Bang! —a loud sound.

It was the basketball in Shu Lingchen's hand, slammed onto the rim with a fierce force, shaking the hoop; the black-haired youth gave his lip a faint twitch, then spoke word by word: "I dare anyone to step forward another inch."

The moment he smashed the ball, it gave the other side's more than ten people a big fright.

Someone, looking panicked, recognized: "It's Shu Lingchen from Class 12! Forget it, I heard he'll hit people when he gets angry."

At that moment, a female voice chimed in.

"Why aren't you guys playing?"

Zhang Lu pushed through the crowd, saw Shu Lingchen, immediately understood, and said directly: "Shu Lingchen, move aside! Don't you see how many people are waiting here?"

She said that, and also noticed Pei Muyin beside Shu Lingchen.

"I was wondering why I saw someone from afar practicing basketball over here; turns out you're teaching her?" Zhang Lu gave Pei Muyin a rude up-and-down look, then sneered: "Shu Lingchen, you couldn't possibly have a crush on her, could you? Are you blind? She probably outweighs you by a ton, and she doesn't even measure up to a single finger of Xiao Lian!"

Zhang Lu wore a sneering expression; while those classmates just now were afraid of Shu Lingchen, she wasn't afraid.

Earlier, Shu Lingchen had followed behind Chu Lian for too long; Zhang Lu, following behind Chu Lian, had not missed a chance to mock and sneer at Shu Lingchen to his face. Since Zhang Lu is Chu Lian's friend, Shu Lingchen never did anything to her in return.

This resulted in Zhang Lu becoming fearless and uninhibited in front of Shu Lingchen, even feeling a sense of superiority—like the school bully that everyone fears wouldn't dare peep in front of me.

Zhang Lu was about to proudly lift her chin when a strong force suddenly grabbed her collar—