Chapter 296: – Livestream 3
To be honest, Lin Jin had never loathed playing games as much as he did now.
Before, gaming was just a casual pastime for him. When he was bored, he would play alone or team up with his roommates and that Lin Xin guy next door to yell and game together. Only then could you truly enjoy it.
Back then, he felt like every day was so busy, with classes all day and no time to play games. But now, having to game non stop for an entire day really made him think he wasn’t fit to play games.
It was not about the gaming proficiency that the black cat gave Lin Jin, but rather that he can't seem to play like a true gamer who could tirelessly play a game for an entire day, or stick to a game for multiple months or even years on end.
He thought he liked playing Dota, but by ten or so at night, he was so exhausted he slumped over the desk and almost couldn’t get back up.
However, this dedication to streaming seems to have brought in a decent amount of viewers. At six in the evening, Lin Jin’s view count was still at two thousand, but during the peak viewing hours from eight to ten at night, it surprisingly climbed to five thousand.
Though the real number of viewers might not even reach a thousand, maybe barely five hundred, the weary Lin Jin still felt some solace and satisfaction from the rise in viewership.
“Swap with me if you’re tired” Xia Tian looked up at Lin Jin who was lying on the desk with his eyes closed. He spoke without expression, showing his concern, “Or why not go sleep for a couple of hours?”
“Aren’t you tired?” Lin Jin asked, lifting his head and vigorously shaking it. Then, he swapped to the livestream and watched the supportive and cheeky comments float by in chat.
“I'm still good. Though I’ve sat for an entire day so now my butt’s a bit numb.”
Lin Jin stood up and lazily stretched, then went to wipe his face with a towel to freshen up a bit. After, he returned to his seat and said while smiling to the camera, “It’s already ten o’clock tonight, but I said yesterday that I’d stream for twenty four hours, which means I won’t stop until noon tomorrow…”
“But since I haven’t pulled an all nighter in a long time, I’ll temporarily let this little brother beside me take over for two hours…”
Before Lin Jin could finish, Xia Tian abruptly cut in, “They say no, you have to play at least one more round before you can go sleep.”
Lin Jin’s face crumpled up and he swapped to the chat window. Leaning closer, he pointed to the dark circles under his eyes and sorrowfully asked the viewers “Doesn’t your conscience hurt? Look at the dark circles under my eyes, think about how handsome I was when I started at noon and how haggard I look now?”
“No conscience, no pain.”
“Then let the crossdresser go take a nap first? That iceberg beside him has been just watch for an entire day.”
Somehow, Xia Tian had been nicknamed Iceberg by the viewers and Lin Jin had been simply become crossdresser. Though he stubbornly stuck with his stage name “Zijing.”
“I'm called Zijing, don’t just call me crossdresser” Lin Jin sternly corrected the viewers, displeased “Crossdresser doesn’t sound nice, Zijing sounds much better, though calling him Iceberg fits perfectly.”
“Stop blabbering, go sleep,” Xia Tian pushed Lin Jin aside, watching as Lin Jin staggered off the chair to the ground. Unbothered, he calmly sat down on the chair and started a game of Fight the Landlord. With his iceberg of a face, he said the words a streamer would say “The king of Fight the Landlord has arrived. I just killed the one playing Dota, everyone relax.”
Honestly, it was quite cute to see Xia Tian’s expressionless face saying playful jokes, mainly because of the contrast it presented. Lin Jin was initially stunned by this contrast when they first met. Now, the viewers too were attracted by Xia Tian’s contrast over the course of the day.
So when Xia Tian took over the live stream, the viewers didn’t have much objections, especially since Xia Tian’s Fight the Landlord skills were quite good. He had gone from only three thousand Happy Beans at the start to now over twenty thousand. Though there were both wins and losses, there were still more wins.
Fight the Landlord still had a bit of an audience.
Xia Tian played two rounds of Fight the Landlord, then simply used Lin Jin’s computer to download Hearthstone.
This person didn’t like to play extremely long games like Dota, but rather preferred shorter games like Fight the Landlord and Hearthstone, where a match can end in as little as five minutes.
Since Lin Jin was going to sleep, although it might only be for two hours, Lin Jin still went to the bathroom to take a shower and changed into pajamas. Then he walked in from the balcony with a sleepy look on his face.
Xia Tian glanced back at Lin Jin and nodded, still expressionless but joking, “Not bad, even a two hour nap needs a shower.”
“What else? It’s not comfortable to sleep without a shower.” Lin Jin stood behind Xia Tian, leaning on the back of the chair and yawning as he watched Xia Tian play Fight the Landlord. “Wake me up at twelve, we’ll take turns.”
“Mm.”
Lin Jin could only be thankful that he’d impulsively found a partner for times like these. Although Xia Tian had a sharp tongue, a substitute was indeed needed right now.
Otherwise, Lin Jin felt there was no way he would be able to last until noon tomorrow when the stream was supposed to end.
“Xia Tian, hang in there. Oh, and don’t download any weird videos on my computer,” Lin Jin sat on the bed, pulling the quilt and Braised Pork over his legs, and continued to remind him, “You need to be classy on stream. No swearing. If someone curses at you, just block them…”
“Why are you acting like an old lady?” Xia Tian turned back, clearly not pleased, “I only downloaded Hearthstone on your computer. I’ll play it for a bit. Anyways, we can play anything since we haven’t signed a contract, right?”
Today, Xia Tian didn’t just sit there reading chat messages and filling in for Lin Jin. He also took advantage of the time to understand more about streaming.
Anyway, he was quite earnest about it, much more so than Lin Jin who just foolishly streamed.
Hearthstone was not a large game and the download speed in the rental house was much faster than at school. Half an hour later, the game finished downloading on Lin Jin’s computer, and suddenly, he switched from being a Fight the Landlord streamer to a Hearthstone streamer.
Although Lin Jin also played Hearthstone, he only played casually on his phone and didn't have the game on his computer.
“Zijing is already asleep.” Xia Tian glanced at Lin Jin on the bed, who was sprawled and snoring evenly, “How about I move the camera to show you guys for a bit?”
Without waiting for the chat to respond, Xia Tian directly picked up the laptop and showed Lin Jin’s bed.
Unfortunately, the camera they used was still the one that came built in to his laptop.
“Even though he looks a bit like a goddess when you watch the stream, he really looks like a man when he sleeps.” As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Tian realized something was off and he quickly corrected “I mean, he is a man.”
Although Lin Jin’s sleeping face was quite pleasant, his sleeping position and snoring were not so flattering. After showing Lin Jin's face for a few minutes, Xia Tian obediently sat back down, worried that Lin Jin might suddenly wake up and find him streaming him sleeping to the viewers.