100,000/Hour Professional Stand-in Chapter 48.1: Not a Date (1)

The younger sister is smart too, but she seems a little lacking compared to the older sister…

Such was the evaluation Ji Xinxin often heard from others in her childhood.

Ji Xinxin wasn’t a slow learner. On the contrary, she was actually smarter and more mature than her peers. She would have easily been the pride of any family, if not for the fact that her older sister was a true prodigy.

Her child mind couldn’t comprehend why she was unable to keep up with her older sister’s footsteps, no matter how hard she worked. Weren’t they supposed to be twins?

While Ji Xinxin was trying her best to get first place in school, Ji Fanyin had already clinched a tier-1 prize from Hua Luogeng’s Golden Cup.

While Ji Xinxin was desperately revising Olympiad questions, Ji Fanyin had already claimed its golden trophy.

While Ji Xinxin was revising educational material three years ahead of her peers, Ji Fanyin had already finished a bunch of university textbooks that were now piled up by the corner of her room. She was even able to help their undergraduate neighbors with their assignments!

While Ji Xinxin had just started learning about Picasso and Beethoven, Ji Fanyin was already making robots that could play any music sheet in the world.

Everyone always had their eyes focused on Ji Fanyin. Their compliments were always reserved for her. It was almost as if everything good in the world belonged to her.

Even their names were so different.

Fanyin (Vivace), Xinxin (Joyful).

No matter how hard their parents tried to explain that they had taken their names from the ancient poem—’the five notes resonate in a harmonious vivace, joyfully wishing the emperor good health’—she was still unable to curb her feelings of jealousy.

As Ji Xinxin slowly grew older and her attempts to chase after her older sister’s footsteps always ended in failure, she began to realize one thing.

No matter how accomplished she was compared to her peers, as long as Ji Fanyin existed, she could never become the center of attention. There was no way she could ever catch u

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