Chapter 115: Chapter 115 My Luck Became Your Misfortune
How could Chu Yuan not see Lv Siqi’s intention? She said coldly, “he still needs to accompany us. He doesn’t have time to ‘play’ with you.” Her word words no longer concealed her contempt and impatience for those kids.
“Yes, yes,” said Dongfang Lianren. After hearing my “glorious deeds”, she did not want me to make a fool of myself at this moment, “Elder Brother Nan does not have time to play with kids.” After saying this, a trace of disappointment flashed on her face. Clearly, she originally wanted me to make a fool of myself.
Lv Siqi’s smile became a little bit stiff. The degree of stiffness was exactly like his brain, it could not even be penetrated by the words of Chu Yuan and Dongfang Lianren, “it is just a game, and it is a way to make new friends…”
Chu Yuan frowned, and Dongfang Lianren said with a bad temper, “Would you make friends with a man who nearly killed you?”
I was speechless, Dongfang Lianren might have really suffered from selective amnesia…
“Basketball team, can you pa.s.s us a ball!” It was as if Lv Siqi did not hear the words Dongfang Lianren said. He determined to embarra.s.s me in such a childish way. After catching the ball, he bounced it twice and then smiled at me, “Maybe big brother thinks our level is too low, right? Hehe, in that way, let me show you what we can do first. Tu Lei!”
The ball guy Tu Lei knew what Lv Siqi wanted to do. Hearing what he said, he already ran toward the basketball stand. His speed was not fast, but his pace was big, giving people a very light feeling. Clearly, he was not an amateur. Just when I was wondering why he was running, Lv Siqi tossed the ball. Tu Lei jumped up and turned his head slightly, then the basketball appeared near his hand on time and accurately.
Alley-oop?!
d.a.m.n! My surprised eyeb.a.l.l.s almost dropped on the ground. Two high school students could actually perform such a difficult move. That Tu Lei guy is nearly 1.9m tall and has an impressive jumping ability, but that was not the biggest surprise. What was more surprising was Lv Siqi’s seemingly unremarkable pa.s.s.
The position we were standing in was two or three meters away from the side of the court. The distance from the basket must be more than half of the court, Lv Siqi actually turned around and immediately threw the ball out, the landing point was as accurate as if he had already calculated it.
The schoolgirls’ high-pitched screams instantly erupted around the basketball court. From this, it could be clearly seen that Lv Siqi was very popular amongst girls. Alas, perhaps it is this popularity that makes him unable to accept the frustration of being ignored by Chu Yuan and Dongfang Lianren.
“Bang!”
Two men worked together very well, but it was a shame that Tu Lei had jumped up too early. When he was about to reach the basket, his body started to descend. Even if he had already stretched out his hand, the ball was only slammed onto the metal hoop. The basketball then bounced high, flying back the same way as if it had eyes.
In the exclamations of pity, the ball bounced a few times and landed in my hands. Then Dongfang giggled in a mocking manner, “With this kind of level, you even have the audacity to boast? You really know no shame! Hahaha, Elder Brother Nan, let’s go, don’t let people think that we know him. That is so embarra.s.sing.”
Probably because the ball didn’t go in, Tu Lei wasn’t concentrating enough when falling, so he fell over with a cry of pain when he landed. Seeing this, Song Lingyun, Chen Zhiguo, and Ma Tao quickly ran over. After making a fool of himself several times, Lv Siqi’s face red with embarra.s.sment, and his shoulders trembling and his fists shaking. He was clearly a young man, but at the moment his eyes were ruddy as if he was about to cry.
Sigh, compared with my little sister and Dongfang, this was how kids should look, simple, youthful, and may even be called immature… Alas, the troubles of youth were also a valuable treasure of life.
Chu Yuan and Dongfang Lianren both wanted to pull me away. Obviously, this was the best time to leave. I couldn’t help but sigh, why do they have to treat those boys like this? As a man, of course, I knew Lv Siqi’s pain of having his self-esteem destroyed. It could probably affect his life. The two girls did not understand that it was not other people’s faces that they had scratched, but their dignity.
When a man felt ashamed to keep his head up high, he would no longer be a complete man.
Therefore, I decided to give them an out one more time, so I gently broke free from those two girls’ hugs, took off my suit jacket, gave to Chu Yuan, and then unb.u.t.toned the shirt cuff b.u.t.tons, picked up the ball walked to the court, turned to Lv Siqi and said sternly, “I am not as good as you in basketball, but you are not as good as Jordan…”
Lv Siqi was confused, wondering why I had compared him with the G.o.d of basketball. I looked at Chu Yuan and Dongfang Lianren with a bitter smile. The two girls already knew that I was going to make a fool of myself and give Lv Siqi an out, so there were fl.u.s.tered expressions on their faces, “if you like a person, what you need to show her is not your talent, but your most sincere heart. Your talent may attract people to praise you and admire you, but what they admire is only your talent. Talent can’t represent a person, it is just one aspect of the person. Maybe you don’t know what I’m talking about. So let me give you an example…”
I bounced the ball two times. Like the frequency of my own heartbeat, the feeling that pa.s.sed from my palm wasn’t that unfamiliar to me. I smiled and carried on, “Jordan was a great basketball player. However, Yuanyuan and Dongfang still wouldn’t have any feelings if he missed a shot, because they were not interested in him. However, they would laugh or feel disappointed at me if I missed this throw, because to them, what is important is me, not my talent.”
After that, I stepped on the sideline of the court at an angle of about thirty degrees and used a seemingly professional, but more strenuous posture, to throw the ball hard. I deliberately stayed away from the three-point line, so even if I missed the shot, it would not be that embarra.s.sing.
“Wow!”
There was a round of surprised gasp from around the court, and even I myself was surprised. The ball was like a sharp arrow, accurately shooting into the net without even touching the hoop when the parabola was clearly too low and the ball was too fast.
Is it my luck? Or is it not Lv Siqi’s day today? It was just a casual throw, but it went in?! Should I buy a lottery ticket today?!
Lv Siqi looked at me with an obvious resentment in his eyes. The idiom “Playing the Pig, but eating the Tiger” probably occupied more than one person’s mind at this moment.
Chu Yuan’s reaction was quite fast. The surprise on her face was quickly concealed by her. Then she snorted proudly, walked over, and hugged my arm. The way she acted was very arrogant, yet very cute. And Dongfang Lianren carried on mocking Lv Siqi and other people, sighing helplessly and shrugging her shoulders, “told you, elder brother Nan doesn’t have time to play with kids. You are asking for it…”
“You…” Lv Siqi felt like he was played by me, and almost wanted to fight me again.
My luck became his misfortune. I was also stunned by it. After a while, I clapped my hands to remove the dust in my hand, took over the suit jacket, put it on, and said lightly, “sometimes, there is no need to show off, Reserved can also make a man charming.”
At this moment, most of those envious glances have changed into contemplating, and admiring, as if my impression in their minds has increased to another level, making me both feel satisfied and ashamed.
If I said that that shot was a fluke, people would probably think that I was pretending to be modest. It would have been better if I just let them think however they like. After all, losing to a person older than him was not a shameful thing at all.
Just at this time, the cla.s.s bell rang through the campus, I smiled at Lv Siqi, very sincere, very friendly, “Young man, you are not mature enough, there is still a lot to learn.”
After that, I pulled Chu Yuan toward the teaching building without turning my head.
“Elder Brother, aren’t you a basketball idiot? How can you shoot that accurately?” Chu Yuan’s eyes were sparkling with admiration when staring at me, making me blush.
“You know that I’m a basketball idiot, but you still boasted about it in front of other people?” I glared at him while feeling strange. Although our relationship has gotten a lot better recently, Chu Yuan didn’t like me in the past at all. Why would she boast about me in front of Dongfang Lianren?