Chapter 317: – Lin Jin is too cold!
After asking for leave, Lin Jin of course headed straight back to his rental apartment. Although he said he was taking leave to meet a friend and Director Zhu even expressed how much he hated being lied to by students asking for leave, Lin Jin certainly couldn’t tell the truth, right? He couldn’t just say, "Your class is so boring it makes me sleepy, so I'm going home for a nap," right?
Once back at the apartment, Lin Jin felt extremely sleepy and laid down on his bed. But as soon as he got into bed, the drowsiness from class suddenly vanished and he felt energetic enough to sit through several more hours of classes.
Well, I guess I should play on the computer for a bit?
Lin Jin quickly got out of bed and sat in front of his computer, wondering what game to play.
He was tired of Dota for now. He played it too much while streaming some time ago. If there weren’t any new updates coming soon, Lin Jin wasn’t planning on playing it anymore. After some thought, he picked one of Paradox Interactive’s four cute games, Europa Universalis IV.
This game was the same as staring at a map to those unfamiliar with it, can’t play it, or weren’t interested in it. Lin Jin had even heard about someone whose mother had watched him play at home and asked why he kept staring at a map.
Although Lin Jin was still just figuring things out in the game, it was still good to use it to kill time.
Paradox’s games were extremely poisonous. Lin Jin had once been obsessed with their Hearts of Iron series. Once, to accurate replicate a World War II scenario in game, he did a lot of research and even attacked at precisely the same time as in history. Back then, he could play for three to four hours straight just to win a single battle.
However, he wasn't quite so hooked on this game yet, mainly because he still wasn’t very good at it.
After fumbling around for half an hour, Lin Jin was finally getting the hang of it a bit. After some thought, he started a new game, aiming to use what he’d learned in the last half hour to conquer the world.
So two hours later, Lin Jin resignedly typed out GG.
Just as he was about to go downstairs to eat, Lin Jin noticed his phone vibrating wildly on the table. He glanced at it and saw it was a call from Wu Min, so he quickly picked up the phone.
"Hey, what's up?" Lin Jin asked as he slipped into his outdoor shoes, opened the door, and walked out of the room. "Was there something you couldn’t tell me this morning that you had to call me about?"
"It's not that, your friend is looking for you," Wu Min said helplessly. "When I got back, I saw him waiting at our dorm entrance, he said he was looking for you. His name is Liu Shengqi."
"Liu Shengqi?!"
The f*ck?! How did this guy find my dormitory! Impossible! Have I ever told him where I lived?
"What’s wrong? You got beef with this guy?" Upon hearing Lin Jin's alarmed voice, Wu Min immediately gave Liu Shengqi, who was standing at the door, an unfriendly look. "If you’ve got a problem with him, I can drive him away."
"It's not like that, don’t get worked up," Lin Jin, with a bitter smile, tried to calm Wu Min down. "That guy said he likes me or something. He chased me all the way from my hometown to Xiamen. There might be something wrong with his head, maybe water got in."
"Oh, so that’s it? So, are you going to meet him?"
Lin Jin frowned and reflexively planned to decline, but then he thought about it a bit more. Liu Shengqi had actually came all the way to his dorm door, it would seem a bit rude to not meet him now.
"Tell him to come to the back gate of the school. I was about to go out to eat anyway, so I’ll just briefly meet him," Lin Jin didn’t think too much and quickly replied "Tell him to wait for me on the street in front of the driving school."
"Okay," Wu Min replied, then quickly asked, "You won’t be seduced and run off with him, right? We can’t have our dorm's golden flower getting snatched away."
"Don't worry, didn’t you see him yourself? He’s fat and ugly."
Lin Jin silently rolled his eyes.
"He's okay, not as handsome as me, but he still look okay," Wu Min couldn't understand Lin Jin's aethetics. Although the guy standing in front of the dormitory did look a bit chubby, his facial features and contours were actually quite handsome. He looked okay, but Lin Jin said he was fat and ugly.
"Alright, I’m hanging up, I’m going to eat."
The happy mood after gaming was slightly soured by Liu Shengqi's sudden appearance. Lin Jin frowned as he walked out of the alley where his rental was located and headed towards the driving school at the school’s back gate. There, he squatted down by a telephone pole and waited for Liu Shengqi.
This Liu Shengqi fellow actually showed up...
Lin Jin pulled out his phone to check QQ and found that Liu Shengqi had told him long ago on there that he was coming. However, Lin Jin rarely used QQ and had ignored the message.
Lin Jin wasn’t sure how to face this person. Liu Shengqi said he was planning to enroll in the school, but since it was the middle of the semester, he wouldn’t be able to join now. It seemed likely that Liu Shengqi would become his junior next year then.
Liu Shengqi had been pestering Lin Jin because of the black cat. When Lin Jin came out just now, he had checked the list of admirers and found Liu Shengqi’s name at the top with a favorability of over 40. Second place was Chen Hao with a rating just over twenty.
Perhaps it wasn’t just because the black cat? If Liu Shengqi didn’t really like him, even if the black cat’s mission awarded him to Lin Jin as a bodyguard, he wouldn’t have such a high favorability.
So, how should Lin Jin face him? Should he be cold and aloof, or warmly welcome him?
While hesitating over this, Lin Jin, as if he had a third eye, suddenly turned his head and saw Liu Shengqi coming around the corner of the street with a backpack.
"You actually live off campus!" Liu Shengqi approached Lin Jin. His forehead was covered in sweat, his face beaming with a smile that made his cheeks bunch up, and his slightly curly black hair made him look like a big gorilla.
Lin Jin glanced up at him, and before he could decide how to react, his body instinctively turned away, showing Liu Shengqi the back of his head, before simply acknowledging with a short: “Hmm.”
"Why are you being so cold?" Liu Shengqi moved a bit closer.
Lin Jin could distinctly smell the sweat on Liu Shengqi and instinctively pulled away, wrinkling his nose, "You smell."
"I've been out since seven in the morning, it’s normal to be a bit sweaty," Liu Shengqi sensed Lin Jin’s disgust and voluntarily maintained a distance of more than two steps before continuing, "The weather got hotter all of a sudden, and it's even warmer here in Xiamen. I'm not used to it yet so I’m sweating a bit more."
Bullsh*t, look at what you're wearing!
Lin Jin rolled his eyes. This guy was wearing a coat and complaining it was too hot. Why not take it off?
"Let’s go eat. By the way, what did you want to see me for?"
As he spoke, Lin Jin quickly crossed to the other side of the street. Liu Shengqi hurried after him but paused when he noticed a car driving straight towards Lin Jin. Just as he was about to pull Lin Jin back, he saw that Lin Jin had already quickened his steps and reached the other side of the street.
Thus, Liu Shengqi stood there, baffled, watching as Lin Jin walked into a beef noodle shop across the street without turning back at all, while he himself was stuck in the middle of the road amidst oncoming traffic.
What the f*ck?! Lin Jin was a bit too cold, right?