Chapter 37 ◎ You Can Look All You Want ◎
In the car, Lin Sumo received a WeChat message from Mother Lin.
[Mom]: [Son, how are you recently? I watch you on the internet every day, pulling your dad along too.]
[Mom]: [But I see many people saying you are bad and scolding you. What’s going on?]
Lin Sumo was originally leaning on the seat. Seeing the message, he propped himself up to type: [Quite good.]
Solve: [Pay attention to your health. Don’t get nearsighted in your old age.]
Solve: [It’s nothing, don’t mind them.]
Mother Lin dialed a voice call directly.
Pei Yun lifted his eyelids at the sound: “Who?”
Lin Sumo took out his headphones and put them on: “My mom.”
Pei Yun closed his eyes again: “Oh.”
“Son, those people only know how to scold you. I scolded them all back for you!”
Lin Sumo: “……?”
He opened his mouth somewhat uncertainly: “Scolded, scolded back?”
“Yes,” Mother Lin used a tone that said ‘of course’. “They scolded my son, can’t I scold back?”
“Pfft,” Lin Sumo couldn’t hold it back. “You can. Quite good. Scold more in the future.”
“Aiya,” Mother Lin said. “The class monitor’s mom from your previous class shows off to me every day about how well her son tested. You…”
“Forget him,” Lin Sumo interrupted. “Mom, do you know how much I earn a month now?”
Mother Lin was somewhat suspicious: “How much?”
Lin Sumo looked proud: “I’m a first-team starter now. They give me a signing fee of over six million a season. That’s five or six hundred thousand a month.”
Mother Lin obviously choked for a moment. She laughed for a long time on the other end of the phone, and after a while asked cautiously: “Son… this way of earning money, it should be legal, right…?”
Lin Sumo: “……”
…What kind of words are these?
Lin Sumo explained to the worried Mother Lin for a long time that his money was earned through legal means with hard work, and promised Mother Lin he would pay taxes on time. Only then did Mother Lin hang up the voice call.
Putting down the phone, Lin Sumo still wanted to laugh a little.
Did his mom have to be so sweet?
Pei Yun asked him: “What did Auntie say to you? Smiling so happily.”
Lin Sumo smiled: “Guess.”
So he repeated the conversation between him and Mother Lin.
Pei Yun also wanted to smile a little: “Your mom… really cares about you.”
“Yes,” Lin Sumo chimed in. “Otherwise she wouldn’t… ask you to help look after me…”
Speaking to the second half of the sentence, Lin Sumo paused.
They didn’t deliberately keep their voices down, so Yu Pei, who heard the whole conversation, said enviously: “Little Mo-mo, your mom is so good. I remember when I said I wouldn’t go to school but play games instead, my dad and mom almost beat me to death together. It took a few years after coming out for them to barely accept it, at least willing to recognize me as their son.”
“Me too,” Jiang He said helplessly. “It was chaotic back then. My neighbors almost called the police.”
Lin Sumo let out an “Ah”.
In comparison, it was much calmer when he came out.
“What about Pei Yun?” Lin Sumo looked at Pei Yun curiously. “What did your mom say back then?”
Pei Yun froze. He thought for a moment and said: “Quite peaceful. After knowing you were coming too…”
Pei Yun couldn’t help laughing out loud: “After that, she told me simply not to come back.”
Jiang He: “This doesn’t sound like an angry tone either.”
Lin Sumo gave Jiang He a roll of his eyes: “His mom wasn’t angry in the first place, okay?”
Pei Yun nodded: “Yes.”
Jiang He was successfully struck by the duo’s singing in harmony, so he turned his head to look at his phone.
After finishing, he dropped a sentence: “Enough, I don’t want to talk to you two.”
Lin Sumo covered his mouth and laughed for a long time. Seeing there was still a while before reaching the base, he also took out his phone to play.
Just taking out the phone, he suddenly heard Pei Yun chuckle lightly beside him.
Lin Sumo’s heart skipped a beat. Maintaining the posture of looking at the phone, he peeked at him from the corner of his eye.
Just one look, and Lin Sumo saw Pei Yun looking at him too.
“What are you looking at?”
Pei Yun suddenly spoke up.
Lin Sumo was startled: “Ah, I… nothing.”
“Looking from the corner of your eye will be discovered.”
Pei Yun reminded him.
After that, he didn’t speak again.
Lin Sumo looked at him. Pei Yun’s eyes were gentle, with some unknown emotions at the bottom of his eyes.
Lin Sumo wished he could bury himself in the ground.
Peeking at people was actually discovered.
“It’s okay,” Pei Yun said. “You can look all you want.”
Lin Sumo froze.
“Okay… ah no, no need, thanks…”
Pei Yun smiled and raised his hand, gently brushing away the broken hair on Lin Sumo’s forehead.
Lin Sumo was startled by his sudden movement. He trembled and shrank inward: “You…”
“Nothing,” Pei Yun withdrew his hand. “Your hair was messy, just fixed it casually.”
Lin Sumo gave a slow “Oh” and silently turned his body back.
Pei Yun was… going crazy ahhh…
But…
Lin Sumo covered his burning face.
He really liked letting Pei Yun touch him like this.
But it probably wouldn’t be possible in the future, right?
“Just,” Lin Sumo whispered. “Pei Yun… in the future, can you be in a good mood more often?”
Pei Yun didn’t quite understand: “What?”
“Nothing, just…” Lin Sumo seemed to have made up his mind and said boldly. “I think you look very good when you smile.”
Pei Yun froze, obviously not expecting him to think so.
A moment later, Pei Yun gently spat out a word: “Okay.”
Back at the base, the Trust group went to the replay room to listen to the review.
“Print, you made a mistake here,” Shen Chen looked at the match replay and said. “Next time, don’t be too far forward.”
“And Little Mo-mo,” Yu Pei mentioned in passing. “He and Pei Yun, the two of them, were as crazy as could be. That momentum didn’t look like playing a game, more like having a real-life battle with the opponents.”
Lin Sumo was suddenly named. He curled his lips: “Isn’t this a good thing? Otherwise, staying in the back all the time, not hitting a single person.”
“We need to push towers and the crystal in this game, okay?” Jiang He retorted.
Lin Sumo coughed lightly: “It’s fine, doesn’t affect anything.”
“Alright, alright,” Shen Chen slammed the table. “Pei Yun, got it?”
“Wait, Coach Shen,” Lin Sumo spoke hesitantly. “I carried this game. He might have been forward to provide cover for me, to avoid me being cut. This doesn’t seem to be a problem, right?”
Shen Chen looked at Pei Yun, asking with his eyes if he thought so at the time.
Pei Yun nodded: “Yes.”
Lin Sumo looked at Pei Yun with some surprise, then at Shen Chen.
“I know,” Shen Chen said. “But it’s best not to take the risk next time.”
Pei Yun: “Okay.”
Lin Sumo propped his chin looking at Pei Yun.
He seemed to have said “Okay” many times today.
After thinking, Lin Sumo scolded himself for being a mental patient in his heart again.
Paying such close attention to people, what’s the difference between him and a pervert.
The match with FU didn’t need much review. After an hour, Shen Chen let them go to train.
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