"I think that's a great idea too. When the school has competitions, we can bring Lu Chi along and let the other teams see that our assistant coach is also a top student!"
Thus, at the enthusiastic suggestion of the team members, Lu Chi, who had just filled out his application to join, immediately became the basketball team's assistant coach.
Now considering Lu Chi one of their own, the players crowded around him and "complained," "Hey, Coach Classmate, could you chat with us more often? We're all really curious about you, but you hardly ever talk to us. You seem so cold, like you look down on people."
"Exactly! Every time you come to the gym, you just hide off to the side and shoot hoops. If we don't talk to you first, you never take the initiative to chat with us. Oh, right—you've been on the basketball team for so long, but you've never even been inside the locker room, have you?"
"And you don't have a team uniform either. We're all wearing the bracelets you made!" Several players waved their arms at Lu Chi as if showing off treasures. Someone suddenly suggested, "Hey, how about we take you on a tour of the locker room? What kind of team member has never been in the locker room?"
"That's right, we should go to the locker room. Only after you've been in there are you really one of us."
A whole bunch of sixteen- and seventeen-year-old boys acted on impulse, grabbing Lu Chi and trying to drag him to the locker room. Xing Yuan stopped them in his capacity as captain. "Have you messed around enough? If you have, hurry up and train. Lu Chi still has to go to the library for evening study at seven. Instead of