Lu Chi sighed with a face full of black lines. There was more than one or two people around him who misused words.
Xing Yuan hurriedly waved his hands and explained, "Of course we weren't deliberately hiding it from you. It was just a sudden idea—I thought Lu Chi might be able to help the basketball team, so I invited him to be our assistant coach. But Lu Chi already turned me down."
"Why?" Yue Bin and Zhang Yang immediately narrowed their eyes at Lu Chi. "Don't tell me you think like those top students—that everyone who plays basketball is simple-minded, physically developed, and wasting their time?"
"Of course not." Lu Chi smiled and waved a hand. "It's because I don't know the rules of basketball very well. I haven't had much exposure to formal games before, and I'm not familiar with the basketball team members either. If I agreed rashly, I might not be able to help and would only cause trouble instead."
"Mm, that makes sense." Finding Lu Chi's explanation perfectly reasonable, and thinking of the basketball team's ridiculously cocky chuunibyo delinquents, Yue Bin nodded in agreement. "With everyone's personalities, if they found out Xing Yuan had invited someone who had never played basketball to be an assistant coach without discussing it with them first, they'd definitely be unhappy about it." Forget about obediently following orders—if they took out their anger on him, they might even challenge him to a match as a show of force and leave everyone embarrassed.
Xing Yuan gave a goofy grin. "That's why I withdrew the assistant coach invitation and only invited Lu Chi to come hang out at our basketball court in his spare time." If the team members saw Lu Chi making every shot and couldn't help going over to ask