Chapter 300: – Zhu Dong Came To Cause Trouble
At 6 in the evening, Lin Jin arrived on time to the school cafeteria.
When he he went back after finishing his work at noon, Lin Jin did another livestream for less than three hours. He didn’t play Dota this time, just some single player games.
He has recently decided he's definitely not touching Dota again anytime soon.
Chen Xinya hadn't arrived yet, and since Lin Jin offered to treat her, he couldn’t just order and eat alone. So he took a seat outside the cafeteria's food counter. Lounging back, he propped up one leg and began pestering Chen Xinya with his phone.
However, Chen Xinya had just woken up from her afternoon nap in the dormitory and had not even changed out of her pajamas yet. If it weren't for Lin Jin’s pestering calls, she would have continued sleeping past seven.
After urging her to hurry up, Lin Jin just idly sat there with his head looking down at his phone. He occasionally looked up to observe the increasingly bustling cafeteria and his eyes would scan around for any handsome guys or pretty girls.
The weather was getting warmer, the cold air had passed and it was already springtime. But not a single drop of rain had fallen yet. The lack of rain made the air dry and hot.
As the cafeteria grew busier, it also became warmer. Lin Jin felt the heat after sitting there for about five minutes. He took off his jacket and draped it over his arms, exposing his round necked white sweater.
"Lin Jin, how come you're getting fatter?"
Suddenly, Lin Jin heard a voice he recognized.
Looking up, he saw it was Zhu Dong, the guy he had kicked out of the dormitory room last semester. They had barely talked about he was kicked out of their room, as if they were in two different worlds now. Who would’ve thought he would pick a fight today?
Although Lin Jin didn’t pay much attention to him, he still knew that after leaving their room, Zhu Dong moved into a room from another class at first. Eventually, Zhu Dong befriended the three delinquents from Dorm 437 and moved in with them. They drove away a roommate who was too nice but was easy to bully and didn’t get along well with the rest. So Zhu Dong moved in and became a member of dorm 437.
Dorm 437 was, how should he say it... Anyway, the students in that dormitory basically didn’t interact with the other students. They usually kept to their own groups and would hang out together, though they did attend classes. They didn’t really get along with other male students but seemed to have a good rapport with the female students. Two of the four guys had found girlfriends in the class.
Behind Zhu Dong were his three roommates, Lin Jin’s classmates. Though Lin Jin could hear their names during attendance every day, he just couldn’t remember them.
"What’s it to you?"
Lin Jin coldly crossed his arms and stood up, looking at Zhu Dong who had evolved from blonde hair to black.
"You’ve been looking prettier lately." Zhu Dong approached with a smug grin. When they had lived in the same dormitory, their arguments usually ended with Zhu Dong being at fault and not gaining any edge, but today he seemed intent on getting back at Lin Jin. "Right? Damn shemale?"
"You got a screw loose?"
Lin Jin’s brows furrowed. His large eyes glared intensely at Zhu Dong and anger inadvertently stirred within him.
Lin Jin knew his appearance was now no different from a girl, he wouldn’t normally get mad if someone called him a crossdresser or said he was pretty. He probably wouldn’t get mad even if they called him a femboy. After all, "crossdresser" was a neutral term, "pretty" was a compliment, and while "femboy" was a bit derogatory, it wasn’t very serious.
But the word shemale was too much!
When people hear the word shemale these days, the first thing people thought of wasn’t someone undergoing surgery for gender transition, but rather the sex workers in Thailand. The term was equivalent to calling someone a whore or a slut.
But Lin Jin still held it in. Over the past few days of streaming, he had already encountered some ill intentioned trolls who called him a shemale. But the real issue was that Lin Jin couldn’t beat Zhu Dong in a fight. Even if he landed a surprise attack and won, there were still those three spectators behind him ready to jump in.
"You go wherever makes you happy" Lin Jin’s tone was a bit unkind. Gritting his teeth, he glared at Zhu Dong, thinking it was better to hold his tongue rather than get punished by the black cat for cursing.
"Hey, you’re temper today is quite good, huh?" Zhu Dong looked around at first, but didn’t see any of Lin Jin’s two roommates. So he didn’t let Lin Jin go and taunted "What happened to your fiery temper before? Was it because you had Wu Min backing you up and thought I couldn’t beat the two of you in a fight?"
Stupid idiot! Still acting like a kid even though you’re in college!
Lin Jin stared at him with a dark expression. After thinking it over, he felt it would be better to back off for now. So he stayed silent, just turning his head away and pursing his lips as a look of aggrievement hung on his face.
Zhu Dong’s previously cheerful expression quickly fell flat. Seeing that Lin Jin was not responding, he didn’t know how to continue his taunting.
"Forget it. You shemale is waiting for your boyfriend, right? I'm going to eat first." Zhu Dong waved dismissively, clearly bored.
Originally, he expected Lin Jin to engage in a spirited argument with him, followed by a physical showdown to prove he wasn’t what Zhu Dong called him. Unexpectedly, Lin Jin tolerated it and held back.
This person’s temper wasn’t like this before, right?
With a heavy heart, Zhu Dong followed his roommates to crowd into the cafeteria, while Lin Jin sat gloomily outside.
Being insulted out of the blue and unable to retaliate made him feel really depressed.
Maybe he can sneak into his dorm room and cause some trouble?
But that would be too childish... Zhu Dong was already childish enough. He was clearly an adult but still came over to provoke him because of some past arguments. And if he went Zhu Dong’s dormitory room to cause trouble and take revenge, wouldn’t that make him just as childish?
"Lin Jin, what are you thinking about?"
"Xinya" Lin Jin looked up to see Chen Xinya. She was standing in front of him, dressed in her dance practice attire with a large white coat thrown over it. "Let's go eat."
"You seem upset." Chen Xinya, who probably already half considered Lin Jin as one of the girls, unhesitantly hooked her arm with his, not the least bit embarrassed as she chattered away. "I slept from 2 pm straight until 6, and it was your call that woke me up. My roommates were either chatting on the phone or watching TV shows on their computers. It was so noisy I couldn’t fall asleep last night..."
"Buy some earplugs if it's too noisy." Lin Jin had a look of utter resignation on his face as he glanced at Chen Xinya clinging to his arm.
"And Teacher Lin, our dance teacher, is so strict!" Seeing that Lin Jin glossed over her complaints about her noisy roommates, Chen Xinya switched topics. "Good thing I have the basics down. Those without any were crying for their moms during class. Ms. Lin didn’t go easy on us at all when she helped us stretch, even I feel pain despite my training."
"I agree with that."
Lin Jin nodded, remembering the first time he met the gym teacher who mercilessly crushed his legs. Even now, he still vividly remembered the pain.