Chapter 304: – Roommates like these was so nice
It was early spring, but the temperature was still slightly chilly. It was fine during the day, but the temperature would drop sharply at night. Lin Jin didn’t notice it while he was inside the room, but he began shivering as soon as he stepped outside
Outside the shop, the streetlights were dim and the cold wind howled. The wind blew a broken door curtain from who knows where, making a "woo woo" sound. Outside, a few pedestrians could be seen hurriedly walking by with their heads clown, clutching their coats.
The door of the stall was closed, but the windows had been blown wide open by the night’s wind. Even sitting inside, Lin Jin could feel the cold air blowing down his neck and throughout his body, making him shiver and clutch his coat.
"Recently, the school is planning another top ten singers event." Wu Min was dressed warmly in a thick cotton jacket with a ring of white fur on the hood, looking very snug. In fact, he wasn't cold at all. His forehead even began to sweat from being under all his clothes. "I think last time was just the qualifiers, but this time it's the main competition."
"Qualifiers, yeah right" Lin Jin commented while shivering.
Wen Xuan wasn't particularly interested in this topic at all. He just lowered his head and sipped his hot bland tea. The kind of bland tea that was so tasteless it almost had no tea flavor.
"I remember the school seems to be planning a League of Legends competition" After finishing his tea, Wen Xuan exhaled a cloud of white breath, finally feeling comfortable all over. Then he looked up at the others and asked "Are you guys interested? Then we can find two more classmates and enter the competition together as a team."
"Don’t you play singleplayer games?" Lin Jin glanced at him and then focused on his phone game. He wasn’t really playing it, he was just holding it in his hands to feel the increasingly warm phone. Lin Jin asked "Is there a Dota competition too?"
"No, not many people play Dota at our school" Wen Xuan wrapped his hands around his tea cup to keep warm. While shivering all over, he complained "You had to drag me out of bed to come here and face the cold wind, Wu Min. Are you crazy?"
"It’s your birthday but I had to drag you outside to celebrate, are you crazy?" Wu Min retorted, unconcerned that Wen Xuan was the star of tonight's gathering. "If you f*cker told us about your birthday earlier, we'd have prepared gifts and met up around 5pm when it wasn't so cold. Would you have needed to be dragged out by me at 10 pm at night then?"
When Wen Xuan heard this, his lips curled up slightly in displeasure as he shot back, "What the hell does it matter to you if I celebrate my birthday or not? Oh right, so are you guys joining the competition or not? I can go find two others for us. Tell me your ranks."
"What rank are you to even consider competing?" Wu Min scoffed. "I used to be a Diamond III big shot when I played LoL, you know? Even if I don't play anymore, give me a week to prepare and I'd be back in form."
"Platinum I, not bad, right? Lin Jin, what about you?"
Just ask he was asking, the chubby stall owner served a few simple dishes that were easy to make and placed a basin of hot water for them to sanitize their utensils with. Then he opened three bottles of beer, one for each of them, and poured it for them.
The chubby stall owner smiled and said cheerily to the three of them: "It’s already so late but you’re all still out here supporting my business. Enjoy your meal, I'll gift you an extra dish later."
Lin Jin knew his appearance was no different from that of a girl’s. As soon as he heard he the stall owner was giving them some freebies, he immediately adopted a cutesy, loli voice to thank the owner, "Thank you, boss."
"What a pretty girl" the owner was overjoyed. After praising him, he turned and went back into the kitchen.
"Lin Jin, I can't stand it when you put on that loli voice" Seeing the stall owner had left, Wen Xuan immediately began teasing Lin Jin "What happened to your usual boldness? Why act like a cute little girl?"
"Right right right, you should've just slammed your hand on the table, stood up, and told the boss..." Wu Min demonstrated while speaking, standing up and putting one foot on his chair while holding up his wine glass, "Bro! I like your vibe! Come! Give this lady a toast!"
"Pfft! Am I that type of person?" Lin Jin didn’t care that Wen Xuan was the birthday boy. After sanitizing the utensils in the hot water, he grabbed some food with his chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth before he countered "If you two weren't such beasts, would I ever need to act tough like a guy?"
If he hadn’t been entangled by that beast of a black cat, he would totally look manly, okay?
"So Lin Jin, what rank are you?" Wen Xuan’s face was already starting to flush red after just one sip of alcohol. He was slightly allergic to alcohol and could get a rash and start itching if he drank more. But he seemed indifferent, probably figuring one bottle of beer wouldn’t be a problem. "If your rank is too low, I’ll look for someone else."
"Does this mean you dislike me?" Lin Jin frowned and glared at him.
"Not at all" Wen Xuan quickly shook his head, "then it's settled for us three. Wait for me to find two more, then we’ll voice call and team up at night"
"Sure."
Even though Lin Jin hadn't played LoL in a long time, he used to be quite a top player at Diamond V player. It was fine even if his current skills had dropped a bit. As long as he familiarized himself with the latest updates and then fully leveraged his beginner gaming proficiency, he should have no problem achieving Master rank.
Reaching Master rank means he’s one in a hundred, a true big shot. Probably no one else at this school was even that high.
"The server is Ionia, the school doesn't provide accounts. Also, the first place will get a thousand yuan plus five ultimate skins" Wen Xuan was very invested in this matter. He had thoroughly done his preparations and explained to Lin Jin and Wen Xuan "Second place gets five hundred, and third place gets three hundred. We'll see if we can snag first place."
"When is the competition?" As more dishes arrived, Lin Jin’s mouth began to glisten with oil. His cheeks were bulging with food and his words were slightly muffled "I'm busy this week."
"I’ve heard, you’re learning dance, right?" Wu Min ate very elegantly. He would pick up a bunch of food with his chopsticks, place it into his bowl, take a sip of his beer, and then slowly ate the food.
"Chen Xinya, that big mouth" Lin Jin muttered, somewhat annoyed. He wanted to cutely pout, but found his cheeks too full to do so. So instead, he chewed and complained "Did that person say something in the group chat again?"
"No, she just messaged me on QQ asking why you suddenly wanted to learn dance." Wu Min glanced at Wen Xuan, who had his head down and was playing on his phone, unceremoniously slapped him on the back of his head, "We’re celebrating your birthday and you’re still on the phone!"
"I'm making an update post."
Despite being slapped, Wen Xuan didn't talk back or retaliate. Instead, he handed his phone to Wu Min to let him see the post.
Wu Min glanced at it and had no more objections about Wen Xuan being on his phone.
"What's that?" Lin Jin, influenced by the internet, usually used casual speech in both online chats and when chatting "Let me see?"
"Nope" Wen Xuan quickly hid the phone back in his pocket, then haughtily refused to let Lin Jin see.
"Tch, don't show me then." Lin Jin haughtily turned his head away too.
After all, it's not like they didn’t have each other added as friends online. He could just check his profile later.
After three rounds of drinks, Wu Min and Lin Jin stood up, raising their glasses.
"Happy Birthday!"
Wen Xuan nodded, his eyes smiling and his face flushed as he clinked glasses with them and then downed his drink in one go.
Having roommates like these was so nice.