Volume 1 Chapter 37: Little Sisters Are Truly Amazing Creatures
“You… what did you just say?”
Lin Lin looked at him in confusion. She stared at Gao Liang so hard that even this sly guy felt a bit embarrassed. He scratched his hair and repeated,
“Just pretend… to be my girlfriend. Sigh, my sister keeps bothering me about this. I thought if Lin Lin helps me act for a bit, she probably won’t bring it up again in the future.”
Hmm…
Pretend girlfriend.
And in front of his family.
“……”
Sorry, I’m leaving!
The girl quickly bent down to pick up her things and tried to run away, but Gao Liang grabbed her hand. The two of them ended up in an awkward position, both half-bending in the air like they were bowing to each other. They both wore polite smiles while secretly using more strength to pull the bags, turning it into a tug-of-war.
“Haha, Gao Liang, I just remembered I have something to do. You don’t need to help me carry the bags anymore. Bye!”
“Oh, how could I let that happen, Lin Lin? Aren’t we supposed to have tutoring tomorrow? If I can’t deal with my sister, I won’t even be able to leave the house. You’ve already meowed for a whole week. If tutoring gets delayed to next week because of this, wouldn’t that be bad?”
“Gasp—”
Lin Lin’s grip on the bag loosened a little.
If tutoring gets pushed to next week, then…
Wouldn’t that mean she has to keep meowing for another whole week?
“You… you really are the most shameless and terrible person in the world. You better hope I never find any weakness of yours, or I’ll…”
The girl complained through gritted teeth. On the other side, Gao Liang sighed helplessly and explained,
“I can’t help it either, Lin Lin. My little sister is really troublesome. If you help me this time, I promise I’ll never make you meow again…”
“Brother, what are you doing?”
Suddenly, a clear and sweet voice sounded beside them. Lin Lin turned her head and saw a brown-haired girl with twin ponytails standing not far away, holding a pink purse. She looked confused as she stared at Lin Lin, Gao Liang, and the bags in their hands.
“Are you… trying to rob a girl?”
“Ahem…”
Gao Liang quickly let go of the bag, fixed his clothes, turned around, and spoke to the twin-ponytail girl.
“No, no, we just ran into each other and were joking around. Let me introduce you!”
He first pointed at the girl in front of him and said to Lin Lin,
“This is my younger sister, Gao Ye. She dragged me out here today to buy things.”
Then he pointed at Lin Lin. Even though Lin Lin was giving him desperate “don’t you dare” looks, he still said,
“This is… my girlfriend I recently started dating, Lin Lin.”
Damn it!
Gao Liang, you jerk!
She wanted to deny it right away, but before she could speak, the brown-haired girl named Gao Ye suddenly walked closer. She looked at Lin Lin’s face with curiosity, observing her carefully from top to bottom.
“Oh? Girlfriend?”
Gao Ye looked at her with great interest, finding everything about her new and amusing.
How did this simple-looking girl manage to catch my brother’s attention?
Interesting~
Lin Lin unconsciously stepped back two steps under Gao Ye’s close look. Her face turned slightly red with embarrassment, and she looked away.
This was the first time she had been this close to such a cute girl, and the other person even approached her first.
Help… help, I think I’ve fallen into heaven.
Thank you, Gao Liang.
Let me say thank you to you, because with you, girls become more beautiful~
Ah, no, that’s not what I meant.
Actually, Lin Lin still felt very nervous, because she really didn’t know how to deal with a creature known as a “pretty girl.” She always felt that sudden close contact with someone like that was too difficult for her to handle.
After quite a while, just when Lin Lin was about to be pushed into a corner by the girl, Gao Liang finally stepped in and stopped his little devil sister.
“Hey, sister, you’re scaring Lin Lin!”
“Oh? Gao Liang, you really hid your girlfriend well,” Gao Ye said with a smile. She looked back at Gao Liang with a teasing expression, then turned again to Lin Lin. “I didn’t even know I suddenly got such a cute sister-in-law.”
“N-no, don’t misunderstand, Gao Liang and I are not…”
Lin Lin tried to explain shyly while standing by the wall, but before she could finish, she felt Gao Liang’s strong gaze. She looked up and met his eyes.
‘If you say it out loud, tutoring next week might not happen either~’
That was basically what his look meant.
Gasp—
The girl took a deep breath and quickly shut her mouth. This made Gao Ye even more curious. She leaned closer to Lin Lin’s face and asked, “What? Not what?”
“Not… married,” Lin Lin said with a red face, looking away.
“Then you’re boyfriend and girlfriend?”
“I… guess so?”
“Hehe, what do you mean ‘I guess so’? Yes means yes. Then it’s fine if I call you sister-in-law, right? Oh, right!”
Gao Ye suddenly remembered something, clapped her hands, and said with a big smile, “I got too excited and forgot to introduce myself. Hello, Sister-in-law Lin Lin~ I’m Gao Liang’s little sister. You can call me Xiao Ye.”
“Oh…”
Lin Lin nodded stiffly like a piece of wood, then looked at Gao Liang for help.
Gao Liang gave her a look that said, “Don’t look at me, I can’t do anything. Just don’t expose us.” This made Lin Lin puff her cheeks in frustration.
This guy, honestly…
The girl took a deep breath. Relying on others is worse than relying on yourself. Since men can’t be trusted, she might as well handle it herself.
She decided to talk to the girl in front of her first and ask her not to call her that. If other people heard it, she would never be able to clear up the misunderstanding.
“Well… could you not call me sister-in-law? I’m… not used to that title.”
“Oh, okay then. How about Sister Lin Lin?”
Xiao Ye smiled and nodded, then said, “There are quite a lot of girls who chase after my brother, but not many can actually stay by his side. Hehe, Sister Lin Lin, why are you here? Did my brother invite you out?”
Maybe worried that the truth would come out, Gao Liang quickly interrupted, “Didn’t I tell you? We just ran into each other by chance. I wouldn’t want my girlfriend to go shopping with you. It’s tiring and annoying!”
“Who asked you to talk?” Xiao Ye rolled her eyes at Gao Liang, then turned back. “That’s how you guys think. How could a girl like Sister Lin Lin dislike shopping? Right, Sister Lin Lin?”
“Ah…”
Lin Lin nodded stiffly.
Ahem… actually, I used to be a boy.
Shopping… sorry, I really don’t like it that much.
“Hehe, so Sister Lin Lin, do you want to continue shopping with me?” Xiao Ye asked with a sly smile, which made Lin Lin quickly shake her head.
This girl is exactly like her brother! That same sly smile!
“Well… I want to go home,” the girl said as an excuse.
“Go home?”
Xiao Ye nodded. “Okay then. My brother and I are done here too. How about we give Sister Lin Lin a ride? Brother, grab the bags!”
“Oh right, right!”
Lin Lin quickly nodded. Yes, yes, making Gao Liang carry things is the most important mission!
Suddenly, she felt that having Xiao Ye as a little sister was really wonderful. Hahaha~
………………
Inside a luxury car, Lin Lin looked at Gao Liang sitting in the front passenger seat, then at Xiao Ye sitting next to her, and finally at the bags in the trunk.
Huh?
This is a bit different from what I expected.
Why are we driving?!