My Sister’s Male God has a Secret Crush on Me

Jiang Meng came to her aunt’s house today; she specially picked this day to make herself look weaker than usual.

Growing up together, Jiang Yu probably knew what was going on. Seeing her hugging the pillow, her face pale, and her conscience a little uneasy, he got serious: “What’s the matter? Tell me.”

“I don’t want to talk about it.” Jiang Meng said it intentionally, clutching her stomach and making a very uncomfortable look.

When Jiang Meng first came to her aunt’s house in junior high school, she once rolled on the sofa in pain. At that time, Aunt Jiang had gone to the restaurant to prepare dinner for them, and there were only her and Jiang Yu at home.

Seeing Jiang Meng’s painful appearance scared Jiang Yu, who was still in elementary school at that time. He hurriedly called Aunt Jiang back home. When he saw that she was soaking Jiang Meng in a hot water bottle to cover her belly and boiling brown sugar water to drink, he immediately burst into tears, thinking that something serious had happened to Jiang Meng.

Since then, whenever Jiang Meng came to be her aunt, Jiang Yu would always be more patient with her and occasionally be extra patient with her requests.

There was a bag of rose brown sugar that Jiang Meng took out in advance on the coffee table. Jiang Yu made her a cup of brown sugar water, stirred it, and brought it to her.

“Tell me what happened.” Jiang Yu said.

Jiang Meng drank two sips of brown sugar water, pondered for a while, endured shame, and finally said Li Qianwen’s bad idea: “Have you noticed that Li Ying is a little bit interested in me?”

Jiang Yu paused and said bluntly, “No.”

Jiang Meng choked up: “… Then let me analyse it for you. Li Ying usually treats you very well, right? He waited for you for more than two hours on the first day when he came to our house. He buys you snacks and takes care of you like a younger brother. Last time, on the eve of the New Year, he drove for nearly an hour to find us to set off fireworks.”

“You said he wasn’t interested in me.” Jiang Meng stared at Jiang Yu after a short pause and asked, “Could it be that he’s interested in you?”

Jiang Yu didn’t say anything because he also guessed at first that Li Ying might be interested in Jiang Meng.

After a few seconds of silence, Jiang Yu asked, “Then why did you fail to achieve your love?”

“That’s the key point.” Jiang Meng wrapped her body in a small blanket, sniffed, and said with mixed truths, “He always showed interest in me, bought me coffee, invited me to dinner, and spoke for me in front of his classmates.”

After a slight pause, Jiang Meng drank the sugar syrup and coughed lightly: “…I almost fell down on the boat, and he hugged me and told me to pay attention to safety. There are many details; can I not be moved? If he hadn’t given me hope, you would think I’m a nympho, staring at him every day.”

Hearing the last sentence, Jiang Yu couldn’t help raising his eyes to look at her.

After talking for a long time in one breath, Jiang Meng rested for a while before continuing: “I thought the two of us were moving towards a relationship, but Li Ying suddenly started to treat me coldly.”

Hearing this, Jiang Yu paused for a while, and he realised that Jiang Meng’s situation was indeed a bit similar to his relationship with Li Ying. After Li Ying treated him well for a while, he suddenly lost contact with him.

Jiang Meng didn’t miss Jiang Yu’s subtle expression changes and continued, “After a lot of research and observation, I finally discovered something.”

Jiang Yu looked at her.

Jiang Meng made a fool of herself before saying slowly, “He has someone in his heart.”

“Oh, I know that.” Jiang Yu said.

“You know?” Jiang Meng widened her eyes unexpectedly and quickly reacted, “Then do you know who it is?”

“I don’t know that.” Jiang Yu said.

Jiang Meng asked gossipingly, “Then what did he tell you?”

“I forgot.” Jiang Yu was too lazy to gossip with her.

Jiang Meng looked at him for two seconds, then suddenly patted the armrest of the sofa beside her and raised the volume: “That’s the problem! He didn’t know me clearly and gave me hope, but at the same time he was thinking about the little fairy and finally used cold violence against me without a reason.”

Jiang Yu thought about it for a while, and no matter how he thought about it, he felt that Li Ying was not such a person.

“Have you thought too much?” Jiang Yu said, “Maybe he treated you like that just out of politeness.”

“Then why didn’t he do this to other students? Why didn’t he do this to Li Qianwen? I’m not the only one who thinks this; all my classmates think so too.” Jiang Meng paused for a while, looked at him, and asked again suggestively, “You said I was thinking too much; then he couldn’t be so polite to me because he was interested in you, could he?”

Hearing her serious tone, Jiang Yu raised his eyes and said, “There must be something wrong with you.”

“That’s fine.” Jiang Meng shrugged, “You also think that’s not possible, so what’s the possibility besides that he’s interested in me?”

Seeing that Jiang Yu didn’t react much, Jiang Meng decided to give him a strong dose of medicine: “You think I’m not good enough for Li Ying, right?”

Jiang Yu was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, then frowned: “What nonsense are you spouting?”

Jiang Meng raised her eyes and glanced at him, and as she spoke, her eyes suddenly turned red: “Don’t you think so?”

“When the hell did I think like that?” Jiang Yu was really mad at her. Although he often sarcastically talks to Jiang Meng, this is his own sister, and he would never feel that his own sister is not good enough for others.

Seeing Jiang Meng’s appearance of being about to cry, Jiang Yu endured patience, sat next to her, and hugged her shoulders: “Isn’t he just a man? What are you crying for? Think for yourself: have you ever cried for me and dad?”

Jiang Meng sniffled: “Yes, you guys are all like this, sometimes hot and cold, sometimes giving people hope, sometimes being cold and violent. What is the difference between you and those PUA scumbags?”
(vv: PUA, pick-up artist.)

Jiang Yu: “…Just tell me who you want, and I’ll help you find him at the university.”

“I don’t want anyone!” Jiang Meng took out a piece of paper and wiped her eyes very capriciously.

After a while, she said, “Go and help me find out who the little fairy that Li Ying likes is, okay?”

After a moment of silence, Jiang Yu picked up the phone and said, “Okay, I’ll call him now.”

“Don’t!” Jiang Meng snatched his mobile phone immediately, “If you call directly like this, won’t I lose face?”

Jiang Yu: “…”

She just said that she didn’t want to fall in love. If he met someone like Jiang Meng, he would buy a piece of tofu and kill himself.
(vv: the tofu is very fragile; he’s just being sarcastic.)

Jiang Yu: “Then how can I find out?”

Jiang Meng thought for a moment, then pondered: “You should help me get close to him first, ask him out more often, infiltrate his social circle, observe the people around him, and find out who that little fairy is. Don’t worry; I will cooperate with you inside and out. If you see any suspicious person, please notify me immediately, and I will tell you what to do next.”

Jiang Yu looked at her with crazy eyes and asked, “… Is there something wrong with your head?”

The siblings looked at each other for two seconds, and Jiang Meng said, “I know you just think I’m not good enough for him.”

Jiang Yu: “…”

What a fool.

……

Today, Jiang Yu finished his morning class and, according to Jiang Meng’s plan, went to their project team building to find her for dinner.

To enter the building, you need to swipe the card. After Jiang Meng came down and took him in, she asked him to sit at her desk and wait.

Jiang Yu glanced around a few times and casually opened a bottle of milk from her desk. After waiting for a while, it was a bit boring, so he simply took out my phone and swiped it.

Not long after, slight footsteps came in along with the sound of conversation outside the door.

Jiang Yu raised his head while drinking milk and saw two young men in white lab coats walking in; one of them paused slightly when he saw him.

Another young man seemed to have seen him before, looked at him for two seconds, and then said, “I remembered; you are Jiang Meng’s younger brother, right?”

Jiang Yu didn’t have any impressions of him, so he just nodded.

The young man greeted him with a smile.

Seeing this, Li Ying walked back to his desk to put things away, and when the two of them finished talking, he turned his head to look at Jiang Yu.

Sensing his gaze, Jiang Yu also turned his head. The two met their eyes, and Li Ying smiled: “Why are you here?”

Jiang Yu lazily leaned back on the chair, stared at him, and said carelessly, “I came to find my sister for dinner.”

Li Ying hummed lightly, lowered his eyes halfway, and pursed his lips slightly. He seemed to want to say something but didn’t know what to say.

Jiang Yu bit the straw and looked at him thoughtfully. To be honest, he didn’t think Li Ying looked like a scumbag at all. If he wanted to be a scumbag under such conditions, then he could circle around Jiangzhou University a few times.

But he really couldn’t stand Jiang Meng’s ability to make things happen. Fortunately, Jiang Meng promised that she would reimburse him for all his expenses during this period, so Jiang Yu reluctantly cooperated with her more.

Jiang Yu was about to ask Jiang Meng to have lunch without waiting for Jiang Meng’s plan when he heard familiar small steps running outside, and then Jiang Meng hurried in.

“Jiang Yu.” She said, gasping for breath, “I’m sorry, I still have work to do, so I can’t accompany you for dinner.”

Jiang Meng showed him a rare apology: “How about you have dinner yourself?”

Jiang Yu looked at her and sneered in his heart. It was the first time he discovered that Jiang Meng’s acting skills were so good that it was a pity not to go to film school.

“It’s okay.” Jiang Yu smiled lightly, threw away the empty bottle in his hand, and stood up. “I’ll eat by myself.”

Jiang Meng paused for a while and glanced at Li Ying from the corner of her eye: “Okay, then eat more; I’ll compensate you.”

After excusing herself, she hurried away.

Jiang Yu was about to invite Li Ying to have dinner together when he saw that the latter stood up one step ahead of him and asked, “Do you want to have dinner together?”

Li Ying paused for a while and then said, “I know there is a good restaurant nearby, which should suit your taste.”

“…Alright,” Jiang Yu said, “Are you going now?”

“En.” Li Ying glanced at the desk and said, “I’m done. Wait for me for two minutes; I’ll change my clothes.”

“Ok.” Jiang Yu nodded, leaning on Jiang Meng’s desk.

……

Li Ying brought Jiang Yu to a Sichuan restaurant with a beautiful environment and antique decorations.
(vv: Sichuan四川 cuisine or Sichuanese cuisine, alternatively romanized as Szechwan cuisine or Szechuan cuisine, is a style of Chinese cuisine originating from Sichuan province and the neighbouring Chongqing municipality.)

It was time for dinner; this Sichuan restaurant was doing well, and the lobby on the first floor was almost full of people.

The two chose a seat by the floor-to-ceiling window, and Li Ying handed him the menu: “What do you want to eat?”

Jiang Yu was not polite to him either; he opened the menu and looked at it.

Li Ying helped him unpack the tableware and poured water after unpacking.

In normal times, Jiang Yu would at most say thank you for such details and would not pay attention to them deliberately. But after he was brainwashed by Jiang Meng, he intentionally observed Li Ying’s actions.

In Jiang Meng’s words, “Know people; know faces, but not hearts. A real scumbag looks harmless to humans and animals. If you want to understand him, you must observe his extremely subtle details. The truth is often hidden in the minutiae.”
(vv: 知人知面不知心 know the face but not the heart; I’ll put about it in extra information.)

He didn’t know how Jiang Meng made such a simple thing so complicated; he just thought she was sick.

Jiang Yu flipped through the menu, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Li Ying’s movements, and there was a sense of politeness and self-restraint taught by a good tutor in every gesture. His finger joints were clearly defined, which was really good-looking; even Jiang Yu, who is a guy, couldn’t help but look at it a few more times.

Realising that his thoughts were wandering, Jiang Yu came back to his senses and quickly ordered a few dishes.

While waiting for the meal, Jiang Yu raised his hands and cupped half of his face, watching the vehicles passing by on the road outside the window.

Seeing that the water in Jiang Yu’s cup had bottomed out, Li Ying picked up the teapot and poured him another cup. When pouring, he deliberately picked up the lower half of the glass and put it back in front of him when it was 70% full.

It has to be said that the more carefully observed this kind of detail is, the more exciting it will be. If Jiang Yu was a girl, he thought he would fall in love with Li Ying.

Jiang Yu straightened up and looked at Li Ying. The other party picked up the water glass, closed his eyes slightly, and took a slow sip.

After watching for a while, Jiang Yu found a topic to cut into: “What have you been up to lately?”

Li Yingwen raised his eyes to meet his gaze: “I’m not busy; there is nothing to be busy except the project.”

“Then why haven’t I seen you play with me for a long time?” Jiang Yu looked at him and asked.

Hearing this, Li Ying seemed stunned for a moment, then raised his hand to take the water glass off the table.

Jiang Yu’s gaze slid down and landed on his hand holding the cup, and then he saw him take a sip from the cup.

Jiang Yu could clearly feel that Li Ying was nervous, but this kind of nervousness was not like the kind of nervousness for which he felt sorry for Jiang Meng.

After drinking the water, Li Ying put down the water glass and smiled faintly: “I was afraid it would delay your time.”

“I have nothing to delay.” Jiang Yu said it casually, then shrugged.

Li Ying was silent for a while, turned the water glass in his hand with his long fingers, and his eyes fell on the table: “You have a lot of homework now, don’t you?”

“En.” Jiang Yu said, “It’s okay; it’s just a matter of playing a few games less.”

Li Ying looked at him, hummed, and told Jiang Yu some things about the study plan.

Not long after, the food was served.

The two of them chatted casually while eating, and when they were half full, Jiang Yu took a spoonful of mapo tofu, raised his eyes to look at Li Ying, and then casually asked, “How are you doing with the person you like recently?”

The author has something to say:

Jiang Meng: Little fairy, little fairy, you’re the one who scolded me a little bit~

Extra Information

1. 知人知面不知心 (zhī rén zhī miàn bù zhī xīn) WELL-KNOWN PHRASE: know the face but not the heart; know a person for a long time without understanding his true nature

画虎画皮难画骨, 知人知面不知心。
(Huà hǔ huàpí nán huà gǔ, zhī rén zhī miàn bù zhī xīn.)
A tiger’s skin is easy to paint, but not the bones. One can know a man’s face, but not his heart.

One may know a person for a long time without understanding his true nature (idiom).

2. Sichuan Cuisine(s)