Chapter 306: – Confused Viewers
Lin Jin's feelings for Chen Xinya were probably that of a teammate, friend, or even a brother.
Basically, he didn’t have that kind of romantic feeling between a man and a woman. The kind of romantic feeling between woman and woman was even more impossible. Although Lin Jin was becoming more and more like a woman mentally, it still didn’t mean that he fully identified as a woman psychologically.
"I'm not interested, for both men and women" Lin Jin shook his head and honestly said to Chen Xinya "Anyways, I don't have anyone I like at the moment."
Lin Jin was a bit embarrassed right now. He really looked too feminine. If any girl were to like him, she'd probably be a lesbian. But despite becoming more feminine, Lin Jin was still very much a man. And the idea of being liked by another man made him feel disgusted.
The reason he got along so well with Xia Tian was because Xia Tian's cold demeanor made Lin Jin feel like he wasn't interested in him at all so it didn't disgust him.
Wu Min and Wen Xuan might have a bit of a crush on him, but it was clear they still saw him as a bro.
"Is that so..." Chen Xinya seemed unbothered as if the question was just casual chatter.
Hmm, it must have definitely been just casual chatter.
Lin Jin hadn't checked the admirer list in the app for a while. After all, as he had gotten quite a few followers from the live streams recently, the number of people on the list of admirers grew by tens of people every day. So he was too lazy to check it anymore. Otherwise, he just needed to look at the admirer list and if he found Chen Xinya’s name on there, he wouldn’t need to guess and can know for sure that she was interested in him.
"Lin Jin, do you want to join the dance team?" Chen Xinya munched on the snacks brought by the waiter and sipped her milk tea. She then explained "Teacher Lin asked me to invite you. She said if she asked you directly, you definitely wouldn't join."
"I’m not joining even if you ask, you know?" Lin Jin rolled his eyes. "Besides, you all have been practicing for so long, why would I suddenly join?"
"That's true."
After finishing the snacks and milk tea, Lin Jin felt his stomach was too full. He touched his bloated belly and looked at Chen Xinya, who was still leisurely eating her snacks.
"I’ll head back first?" Lin Jin tentatively asked.
"Go ahead." Chen Xinya's mood didn't seem great. She kept her head down and didn't look at Lin Jin.
It was already Friday. Although Lin Jin felt that his dance skills were nowhere as good as those of Teacher Lin or Chen Xinya who had trained for more than ten years, he felt he should still be able to barely pass for a beginner. Maybe in another two days, he'd meet Black Cat's requirements for beginner’s level of proficiency.
Back in his room, Lin Jin temporarily forgot about Chen Xinya and stood against the wall to correct his posture as usual.
It takes fifteen days for a person to develop a habit. Although Lin Jin usually maintained a straight back, he still occasionally forgot, causing his shoulders to hunch like they used to. So he still had to practice by standing against the wall every day.
Two hours later, Lin Jin took a short break as usual and then headed to Xia Tian's room.
"Lin Jin" As soon as he entered Xia Tian’s room, which had its doors open, Lin Jin heard Xia Tian say to him "The platform has already asked me to sign a contract."
"Really? Congratulations." Lin Jin smiled and sat down on the chair next to Xia Tian. Then, he naturally picked up the tablet on the table to check the live stream chat.
Every time Lin Jin appeared on stream, the comments would suddenly surge, mostly greeting Lin Jin the crossdresser.
"What's the monthly salary the platform is offering you?"
Nowadays, the live stream's viewer count had stabilized at around three thousand. At the same time, the stream had moved from Lin Jin’s Dota category to the Hearthstone category. But a viewer count of three thousand wasn’t very high for Hearthstone, placing it at the bottom of the second page. Although Hearthstone wasn't as popular as it used to be, it was still among the top three categories on the platform by viewer count.
"Four thousand" Xia Tian seemed quite satisfied with the monthly salary. Although his face remained expressionless, his tone revealed a hint of happiness.
"That’s not bad"
With a monthly salary of four thousand, plus various gift donations, Xia Tian could maybe make about five thousand a month. Maybe that wasn't a lot in Xiamen, but for streaming, other than rent and food, there aren't many other expenses. Also, since they were near the school, the cost of meals was quite a bit lower compared to other places. If you were willing to go eat in the school cafeteria, you could get a good meal for just ten yuan.
"Is this the streamer’s girlfriend?"
"Salted fish crossdresser isn’t playing Dota anymore."
"Crossdressing streamer, dance!"
Watching the chat, Lin Jin suddenly had an idea. He turned to Xia Tian and suggested: "How about I dance to liven up the atmosphere for your stream?"
"Dance?" Xia Tian didn’t look into Lin Jin’s recently activities, so he turned his head in surprise "Your dancing is so ugly, can it really liven up the atmosphere?"
What the f*ck? Did you need to be so rude.
"I've been learning every day recently, okay?" Lin Jin glared at him, annoyed, "My teacher said I have a real talent for dancing!"
His big eyes and slightly puffed cheeks looked cute to the viewers, but Xia Tian remained unimpressed, turning his head away haughtily and said, "Then what did you want to dance? You’ve only practiced for how long? Better go back and practice some more."
"Tch."
Lin Jin impolitely pushed his wheeled chair aside and nudged his own chair over in front of the computer. Then he used the computer and started searching for the accompanying music for the dance he had been practicing recently.
Learning classical Chinese dance for the past few days has almost caused Lin Jin’s soul to be knocked out of his body. Although his body was much more flexible than the average person's because of his yoga proficiency and doing vertical splits was not a problem, the problem was that classical Chinese dance didn’t just involve doing the splits. You also needed to simultaneously press your legs forward and bend backward while doing the splits…
This made things very difficult for Lin Jin. Usually, when he was adjusting his posture and practicing basic dance moves, Teacher Lin would press down on his back. As a result, the other students in the dance team would often find the accompanying music drowned out by Lin Jin’s cries.
Lin Jin was sure Teacher Lin was doing it on purpose! There were obviously simpler dances, but she insisted on teaching him classical Chinese dance. This type of dance was just too demanding, okay? And who starts learning classical Chinese dance at eighteen years old, when their body is already stiff? Don’t people start when they’re four or five, maybe seven or eight if they’re older?
However, although these days were painful for Lin Jin, he still learned some basic dance steps and dancing to the video was no problem.
Of course, the so called video was one of those zero technical skill classical Chinese dance tutorial videos. The movements were slow and not difficult at all. It was so simple that anyone could practice it for a day and perform decently.
So after Lin Jin finished dancing, the viewers were thoroughly confused.