Pampered by Short-Lived Bigshot

Chapter 1569: Chapter 907: Jiang Xiaowai’s Desire to Win, On Methods to Shut Someone Up (Part 2)

The little girl looked at him very seriously, her pretty doe eyes innocent and pure.

Tang Wan and Lin Luyou were like two old mothers, just standing to the side watching.

"Maybe they don’t usually play together, these siblings are still a bit unfamiliar with each other." Lin Luyou said with a smile.

She and Jiang Shiyi were both quite busy with work. Once they got busy, it was day and night with no distinction, and in the past two years they often flew abroad for meetings or reporting and research, so they often took their daughter along.

Don’t be fooled by how young the little girl was, she could already communicate with people overseas in simple English. It was just that the time she spent playing with Jiang Xiaowai definitely couldn’t compare to that little accident at the Huo Family.

"All I asked was for him to hold her hand, and look at him, all awkward and fidgety. If he’s like this when he grows up, how is he ever going to get a girlfriend?" Tang Wan said, half crying half laughing.

She wasn’t even asking him to date, so why was he getting so stiff about it.

But when that certain someone actually did start dating in the future, Tang Wan would probably have to worry about what to do if he was too proactive.

"Mutang." Tang Wan called out to hurry him.

Only then did Jiang Xiaowai brace himself and say, "Uh... I’ll hold your hand and we’ll go in."

"Okay." The little girl was actually quite straightforward.

The brother and sister walked in front, and only then did the two adults behind them reveal motherly, gratified smiles.

"Brother..."

"Hmm?" Jiang Xiaowai tilted his head to look at her.

"Are you very hot?"

"Huh?" By now they had already gone inside; the air conditioner was blowing a cool breeze that had long since dispelled the midsummer heat.

"Your palms are all sweaty."

Jiang Xiaowai: "..."

The little girl let go of his hand, took a packet of tissues from her pocket and handed it to him. Jiang Xiaowai sighed, and just then a tutor-class coach was already waiting in front of them. "You two kids are here to learn Taekwondo, right? Come with me over here."

They went into the office. Today there were walk-in registrations, and also people like Tang Wan who had signed up in advance.

"What are your names?" The coach sized them up.

"Jiang Mutang."

Jiang Xiaowai had just finished speaking when he heard the little girl beside him say, "Jiang Sese."

This name, as it happened, was chosen by Jiang Shiyi. Lin Luyou’s name came from the Book of Poetry, and later there are two lines, "I have fine guests, to the sound of zither and flute," in which there is the character "se" (zither).

And the two characters "Sese" also carry the meaning of "gems like pearls, the real ones are translucent green."

Apart from echoing Lin Luyou’s name, it was also meant to say that his daughter was truly like pearls and precious jade.

"Are you siblings? Seeing you come in holding hands, you must be very close." It was the coach’s first time dealing with them and he just wanted to find a topic to chat about, never expecting that the two siblings would fall silent at the same time.

The coach thought they were just shy, so he didn’t continue chatting.

...

It was only later, when the two siblings came frequently, that he slowly realized something was off.

Every time practice started, little student Jiang Sese would always take out a bottle of no-rinse hand sanitizer and rub her little hands, and once practice ended, she would definitely go change her clothes immediately.

They had part-time female college students working there, and at first they worried the kids were too little to manage on their own and planned to have the part-timers help out.

But the girl said this little girl didn’t need her help at all; she changed clothes by herself and even folded them neatly, nothing like kids her age who still needed their parents to help.

Even during training, she was especially focused.

She was the youngest student there, and also a girl, so of course the coach took extra care of her. Some kids were just there to kill time, but despite her young age, she might have been the most serious one.

The coach praised her many times and held her up as an example, telling everyone to learn from her.

This left Jiang Xiaowai incredibly depressed.

He was the older brother; if his little sister could do it, how could he not?

There was one thing, though, that made Tang Wan very happy: her son came home almost spotless every day.

No one knew if Jiang Sese had a cleanliness fetish, but with a father like Jiang Shiyi, who was especially particular about hygiene from the start, and because she often followed her parents in and out of labs and testing facilities—places that were especially strict about personal hygiene—the little girl paid great attention to this.

If Jiang Xiaowai was all grimy, he would be embarrassed to show up in front of her.

He couldn’t cut loose and play when he was with her, so naturally Jiang Xiaowai didn’t really want to stay in the same place with her.

Since his sister was taking class seriously, as her brother he absolutely couldn’t be outdone by her and could only work even harder.

So one time when Jiang Jinsang came home, he saw his son at home, squatting on Tang Wan’s yoga mat, practicing splits.

"Wanwan... what, what is he doing?"

"He said he’s reviewing what the coach taught today, so I took out the yoga mat for him to use."

This yoga mat of Tang Wan’s had been bought two or three years ago and had probably only been used four or five times.

"Isn’t he learning Taekwondo? He needs to practice splits too?"

"This is something they have to learn. Go with him to a couple of classes when you’ve got time and you’ll understand." Tang Wan laughed. "I just didn’t expect him to be this serious. It’s the first time I’ve seen him come home and still want to review his lessons."

"Dad!" Jiang Xiaowai looked at Jiang Jinsang. "Come press down on me a bit."

Jiang Jinsang walked over and pressed him down a few times, and the little guy howled and yelped nonstop...

"You still want to keep going?" Just hearing him wail made Jiang Jinsang feel pain.

"Keep going."

Another round of ghostly wails and wolf-like howls.

In the end, when a certain someone went to shower and get into bed, he was limping, and the next day he whined and refused to get up.

As soon as he heard that his sister had already set off for the Taekwondo Hall, he sprang up from the bed.

Jiang Jinsang couldn’t help but laugh and cry, and in private he even teased Jiang Shiyi about it:

"Mutang seems to be butting heads with Sese."

"Oh?"

"Anyway, I’ve never seen him work this hard. He even does extra practice every day after he gets home. What does Sese do when she gets home?"

They say high IQ doesn’t necessarily get inherited, but Jiang Shiyi’s girl really did have stronger learning ability than kids her age. Jiang Jinsang was also curious how he educated his daughter.

"When she gets home?" Jiang Shiyi frowned. "She watches cartoons."

"You don’t tutor her?"

"What is there to tutor in a kid this small? Besides, I don’t have time."

**

Jiang Xiaowai was very serious about it. He had always felt that as an older brother he absolutely couldn’t lose to his little sister, so he trained extra hard every day.

Very soon, he also started getting frequent praise from the coach, and a certain someone’s tail practically curled up to the sky.

One time after training, having been praised by the coach, he wanted to show off to her and get his sister to compliment him.

But Jiang Sese said, "Since you’re so amazing, why don’t I treat you to ice cream, big brother?"

"No need, I’ve got money, I’ll treat you." Kids these days always had some pocket money on them.

The brother and sister ate ice cream, and Jiang Xiaowai felt all pleased inside. On the way back, he made a point of showing off to Jiang Jinsang, saying that his relationship with his sister was pretty good.

"As long as you two get along, that’s what matters."

"We’re getting along great now. She even wanted to treat me to ice cream, but I ended up paying."

"She offered to treat you?"

"Yeah." Just thinking of it made Jiang Xiaowai pretty happy.

On the other side, it happened to be Jiang Shiyi’s turn to pick his daughter up from the tutoring class today, so as usual he asked her what had happened that day. When he picked his daughter up, she was still eating ice cream, so naturally he asked who had bought it.

"I said I’d treat my brother, but he was the one who paid."

"You offered?" Jiang Shiyi smiled. "Looks like you two are getting along pretty well?"

"It’s okay, it’s just..." Jiang Sese pursed her lips. "He talks so much."

Jiang Shiyi frowned:

Talks too much?

And then he heard his little girl continue, "Fourth Uncle said, the best way to make someone stop talking, to seal their mouth, is to stuff something into it!"

Jiang Shiyi’s mouth twitched hard. Just what on earth had Jiang Chengsi been teaching the child?