Chapter 56
That morning, the warm and bright sunlight stread onto the blackout curtains in the living room. The room was bathed in a soft, wispy warmth.
Shen Pingchuan was lying on the sofa, hugging a pillow. His nostrils flared as he reached up to rub his nose. Having just woken up from a hangover, his head felt very heavy and he was still groggy, not wanting to get up.
Jin Xi crouched beside the sofa and used the white feathers she had pulled out from the down comforter to gently tickle his nostrils. Her voice was also very gentle, "Pot Pot~"
"Don't sleep anymore~~"
"Wake up and accept your punishnt~"
Shen Pingchuan brushed her hand away, then lay flat on the bed and rubbed his temples, "I had a strange dream."
"What dream?"
Shen Pingchuan reached out and pinched her chubby cheeks, "I dread I was making tangyuan dumplings, big and round ones."
Jin Xi let out a burst of laughter, holding her belly as she almost laughed herself unconscious, "You old dog!"
Shen Pingchuan kicked her bottom, "What are you laughing at?"
Jin Xi finally managed to stop laughing, "Do you rember what happened last night?"
"What happened last night?"
Jin Xi put her paws on his shoulders and shook him vigorously, "Last night, Big Sister Xia Qing rode her bike to bring you back!"
Shen Pingchuan sat up abruptly, his face full of astonishnt, "Really?!"
Jin Xi said, "She brought you to the foot of the building. Old Shen still wasn't back yet. I couldn't carry you up by myself, so Big Sister Xia Qing carried you back on her back."
Shen Pingchuan was surprised, "She carried ? You're kidding!"
Jin Xi nodded solemnly, grabbing an apple from the fruit platter on the coffee table and taking a crisp bite, "You know, you're really a little princess."
Shen Pingchuan grabbed the apple from her hand and took a dazed bite from the other side, "I'm ruined. How embarrassing."
Jin Xi snatched the apple back again, "There's sothing even more terrible. Seeing your fragile tolerance, I don't even dare say it."
"What could be more embarrassing than this?" Shen Pingchuan didn't believe it.
"Do you know what the tangyuan dumplings in your dream were?"
"Wha...what?"
"They were Big Sister Xia Qing's huge brea...sts."
Shen Pingchuan's pupils suddenly contracted.
"You shalessly groped her chest with your paws, squeezing them until her face was flushed red. After bringing you inside, you didn't even drink any water before collapsing. You just ran off after putting her down."
As she spoke, Jin Xi grabbed Shen Pingchuan's large, smooth hands covered in veins and sighed, "I didn't think my silly Pot Pot was capable of this. With just one round of aggressive action, you're not trying to pursue your sister-in-law, you're heading straight for jail with your tears streaming down the prison bars."
Shen Pingchuan looked at his own hands, stunned for a good half minute. He reached for the fruit knife on the platter—
"It seems I can only repent with my hands!"
Jin Xi grabbed the fruit knife, "Pot Pot, think this through."
Shen Pingchuan covered his face with a pillow, despairing, "I've thought it through, do it!"
Jin Xi raised the knife and shouted loudly, "Here I co!"
The sharp blade fell down, stopping just half an inch from Shen Pingchuan's palm.
"Ahhh!"
"I haven't even touched you yet, why are you screaming?"
Jin Xi shook off his hand in disgust and threw the fruit knife back on the coffee table, "The young master who screams just getting a shot, just forget about it."
Shen Pingchuan lay back down on the sofa, hugging the pillow again, his whole body weak, "Now I'm really done for."
Jin Xi leaned back against the sofa and sat down, "Don't despair yet. Think about it. If you so blatantly ate her tofu, with her fighting skills, could she have tolerated it? She would have flipped you over long ago."
Shen Pingchuan nudged Jin Xi's back with his big feet, "What are you trying to say?"
"I'm trying to say, bro, you have a great chance!"
Shen Pingchuan sat up and frowned at Jin Xi, "I have a chance?"
"I observed her expression yesterday. She only seed shy, not angry. This shows she doesn't dislike you touching her."
Shen Pingchuan's pale face instantly flushed red again. He buried his head in the sofa, using a cartoon pillow to cover his head, "Stop talking, I'm so embarrassed!"
Jin Xi looked speechlessly at this overly dramatic man, shrugging her shoulders and not wanting to bother with him as she went back to her room to read.
An hour later, Shen Pingchuan sneaked awkwardly into Jin Xi's room, carrying a bowl of freshly washed cherries, with large, juicy fruit that looked extrely cute.
Jin Xi exclaid, "Did you just go out to buy these?"
"Mm."
Jin Xi ate the cherries heartily straight from the bowl. Rather than eating them one by one, she poured the cherries into her mouth like drinking water, her mouth full of sweet juice. She then spat out a mouthful of pits.
"Giving gifts without reason, go ahead and speak your mind."
Shen Pingchuan imdiately pulled up a stool and sat next to Jin Xi, "Sis, you've got to help your brother out. I'm really at a loss right now."
Jin Xi looked at Shen Pingchuan, "Do you want to pursue her?"
"I..." Shen Pingchuan hesitated, asking uncertainly, "Do I have a chance?"
"How would I know? Just give it a try. I can be your strategist."
"Dear sis!" Shen Pingchuan put his arm around Jin Xi's arm, squeezing it under his armpit, "It's settled then! You'll be my commanding strategist."
Jin Xi struggled hard to break free of him, "Wait, wait...wait. I'm not done yet."
Shen Pingchuan was elated with high spirits, patting his chest, "Whatever you want, brother will agree to it."
Jin Xi was silent for a mont, looking at Shen Pingchuan, "Bro, doesn't Old Shen have a vacation villa up on Cangnan Mountain?"
Shen Pingchuan looked into this little girl's dark eyes. It seed she had co prepared.
"There is a sumr retreat villa up there, what are you planning?"
Jin Xi grinned slyly, "Weren't we planning a sumr trip? Why don't we go to Cangnan Mountain?"
"It's the height of sumr. The mosquitoes up the mountain form nets. You have too much blood with nowhere to spend it. Going to donate love?"
Jin Xi pushed him away, "If you can't even agree to this, forget it. We're just plastic siblings, don't expect anything from each other."
"I didn't say we're not going. We're going. Wherever my ass of a sister wants to go, it's done!" Shen Pingchuan rubbed Jin Xi's head, "I'll tell Old Shen tonight. Our sumr trip will be to the vacation villa on Cangnan Mountain."
"You're a man of honor! Consider Big Sister taken care of with
helping you."
"It's settled!"
Their big and small palms high-fived, settling the matter.
As Shen Pingchuan walked out the door, he suddenly recalled—
When he was organizing schedules in the student council's file room, he saw that the military academy's outdoor training this year was on Cangnan Mountain!
**
After the siblings reached an agreent, Jin Xi and Shen Pingchuan went to eat hot pot at the food stall every day. Shen Pingchuan took every chance he could to chat with Xia Qing, and the siblings sent Xia Qing back to her dorm at night together.
After about a week, Shen Shishan got tired of the dog siblings. Now even their farts slled like hot pot.
Not only that, Jin Xi's asshole suffered every morning. It stung terribly!
Jin Xi felt like she was really risking her life to help her brother pursue his girlfriend!
On a sultry night in early August, on the way to send Xia Qing back to her dorm, Xia Qing told Shen Pingchuan not to co anymore from now on.
"My part-ti job is almost over. I'll spend the rest of the ti on campus, hanging out at the library and stuff."
"Then...then how about I co to campus to study with you? I an,
and my ass sister coming together." Shen Pingchuan scratched his head.
Xia Qing held her bag, lowered her head hesitating for a mont, before finally speaking up, "Shen Pingchuan, I know your feelings, but you're too good for . I don't deserve you."
After saying this, she didn't wait for his reply and hurried towards the dorm building at a jog.
Shen Pingchuan stood frozen for a good while before slowly uttering, "Oh~"
Jin Xi walked over with her bike, seeing his lost and dejected appearance, she also felt sowhat heartbroken for no reason.
She pulled at Shen Pingchuan's sleeve, "Bro."
Shen Pingchuan suddenly felt his breathing beco very slow, very slow. His mind went blank, and his heartbeat seed to stop in that mont. Then a sharp pain spread from his heart through every cell in his body.
So...this is what rejection feels like.
Jin Xi tiptoed and reached up to pat Shen Pingchuan's head, "Brother, don't cry."
"Your brother didn't cry!"
"Why don't we just give up?" Jin Xi sighed, "We don't really know her."
"Give up what, no giving up." Shen Pingchuan rubbed his nose with his sleeve, suddenly quickening his pace to catch up with Xia Qing.
"I want to tell you sothing!" He walked up to her and stood in front of her, saying solemnly, "Listen to
first, then you decide."
Xia Qing looked up at him earnestly.
Shen Pingchuan took a deep breath, plucked up his courage, and said, "I still have love handles on my belly, and I'm not very physically fit either. Most of the boys at school hate
and call
a sissy. I'm a typical high IQ but low EQ person. No one wants to be friends with . Oh, and I have slly feet too, which nearly suffocates my sister every ti."
Jin Xi's mouth twitched. She thought he was going to struggle desperately, but instead...what on earth was he saying! He even brought out the ultimate "secret" of having slly feet. This is teaching you online how to not get a girlfriend!
Shen Pingchuan went on, "Xia Qing, the reasons why you said you're not good enough for , I don't accept them. In my opinion, you're ten thousand tis cuter than my bitch sister."
Jin Xi: ...
Xia Qing couldn't help laughing. She was trying to keep a straight face, but finally she couldn't hold it in anymore. Covering her mouth, she lowered her head and laughed. Her narrow peach blossom eyes curved up slightly, and there were two cute little dimples at the corners of her mouth.
"Don't say that, your sister is here too."
Jin Xi tactfully walked away: As long as my brother is happy.
Shen Pingchuan tentatively said, "Xia Qing, why don't you think about it so more?"
"Senior, you don't even know . What do you like about ?"
"You weigh 96 pounds, your asurents are 32, 25, 39. You don't have many friends and often eat alone in the cafeteria. You love chicken rice and sweet potato fries. You ranked first in the freshman final exams for the whole school, but because you didn't join any clubs, your conduct score wasn't high enough, so it might be difficult for you to get the first-class scholarship. Don't worry, I can let you join the student union this year and definitely help you improve your conduct score."
Xia Qing opened her mouth, then closed it again.
As a student union mber, it was easy for Shen Pingchuan to access her profile.
"Also, after being with , you don't have to work part-ti jobs anymore. Just do what you like, go to the library and read more books. I'll accompany you."
Her cheeks flushed red. She twisted the toe of her canvas shoes on the gravel under her feet and said in a low voice, "Senior, I eat a lot."
Shen Pingchuan quickly said, "After my third year, I'll slowly start interning with my dad on projects. I'll make a lot, a lot of money! It'll all be my own money. In the future, you can eat as much chicken rice as you want! I...I'll let you use my campus card!"
He was so excited he was even stuttering. It looked like Xia Qing's tone had softened too.
Jin Xi silently sweated for him too. Her brother didn't have many other rits, but he was quite pure-hearted. For better or worse, he had laid it all out.
It looked like this ti he was serious. If it works out, great. If not...he'd probably have to go ho and cry.
Suddenly, Xia Qing burst into tears. It was the kind of crying from being choked up, and she couldn't stop once she started. Hugging her knees, crouching down, covering her face, her body twitched and ...she wailed loudly.
Shen Pingchuan was dumbfounded.
Even Jin Xi was a little surprised. There's no need to be like this, even if you're moved. There's no need to be like this...
She hurried over and patted Xia Qing on the back. Her body was shaking badly, and her emotions had collapsed in an instant.
The despair in Xia Qing's breakdown was infectious, and a long, drawn-out tremor ran through Jin Xi's heart. It reminded her of when her mother had left, back when she was little...
With a "wah
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