Chapter 325: – The task had been completed long ago!
Teacher Lin and her boyfriend broke up. Well, after Lin Jin repeatedly confirmed it, he finally accepted that Teacher Lin wasn't joking around but had really broken up.
Although Lin Jin didn't know her boyfriend very well, Teacher Lin had mentioned that they were at the stage of discussing marriage. They had rented a place nearby and had been living together for about a year. Just last month, they visited each other's parents to discuss wedding details. But this week, everything suddenly fell apart like a bubble.
It seemed that her boyfriend met a girl online. After secretly meeting her, he was immediately smitten. He felt that this girl was more suitable than Teacher Lin, who he thought was temperamental and not particularly pretty, as a wife. He resolutely resisted the pressure from his own family, Teacher Lin’s family, and Teacher Lin herself, and chose the girl he had just met for less than a month.
"Tsk, men are all no good." After hearing Teacher Lin's story, Lin Jin chuckled and expressed his sympathy for her experience.
However, Lin Jin didn't realize that he was also cursing himself with that statement.
"Yeah, men are all no good!" Teacher Lin wholeheartedly agreed with Lin Jin’s words. Shaking her fist with determination, she grandly declared. "From now on, I'm going to be a proud single! I'll be a single dog for life!"
Hmm, Teacher Lin didn't seem particularly sad.
When Wu Min broke up with his girlfriend, he drank himself silly for a whole day and slept it off. Then for about a week, he was completely out of it. Teacher Lin had probably been with her boyfriend for even longer, yet unexpectedly, she didn't seem like she had just broken up at all. She was still teasing Lin Jin before, and now she only showed a hint of sadness on her face.
Hmm, so was Teacher Lin just strong willed, or was she simply heartless?
"Sigh, I was feeling quite happy just now. I should have known better than to bring this up." Teacher Lin laid down on the bed with her long hair spread out on the pillow. She stretched, and her yoga and dance trained body was so dazzling it was hard for Lin Jin to keep his eyes open. "Lin Jin, why don't you drink with me?"
"Drink with you?" Lin Jin’s mouth twitched. Why did everyone around him want someone to drink with after breaking up? Was something wrong with them?
Lin Jin shook his head without hesitation. He knew his alcohol tolerance. Three or four bottles and he'd be completely out of it. There was no way he was going to drink to comfort someone.
"No, I can’t drink."
"Learn! What college student can’t drink?" Teacher Lin looked at Lin Jin with a pitiful expression. Her not too soft looking face actually looked quite endearing. "I'll teach you to drink. Just drink a couple of bottles with me?"
"Don’t want to."
Lin Jin shook his head again, giving Teacher Lin no room to persuade him further. He stood up and sat down on the chair in front of his computer desk, pretending to play games.
"Sigh... This teacher’s been so good to you, yet this is how you treat her" Teacher Lin sobbed, lying heartbroken on the bed.
Lin Jin glanced back and saw her pitiful state. He coldly snorted, not moved by her crying and continued playing his game.
Having an extra person in the apartment added some liveliness. Lin Jin enjoyed this atmosphere of bantering with others. Although it meant putting up with a bit of hassle, it was still better than being alone in the apartment where the only thing to do was play games in solitude.
Lin Jin felt that if he stayed alone in the apartment for too long, he'd probably end up with some kind of mental illness.
Teacher Lin, having nothing better to do, stood behind Lin Jin watching him play his game. She didn't understand what he was playing, but she still watched with great interest.
"Oh right" Lin Jin suddenly had a flash of inspiration and turned to look at Teacher Lin, his lips slightly parted as if he had seen a monster.
"What?" Teacher Lin looked at Lin Jin, puzzled by his astonished expression.
"Teacher Lin, do you like me?" Lin Jin took his hands off the keyboard and asked Teacher Lin seriously.
Teacher Lin was completely confused. She hesitated for a moment, touched her chin with one hand, nodded, and then said, "Yeah I like you. Why else would I be so nice to you?"
Pah! Shameless! When have you ever been nice to me?
But since she said that, it meant that Teacher Lin did have some favorability towards him. And his task this week was to hook up with a teacher and get them onto his admirers list...
There was no restriction on gender, right?
Although he hadn't seen Teacher Lin on his admirers list before, he did have a lot of admirers after all. Back when he became famous online, his admirers numbered over a thousand. Now, even though there were only a few hundred left, there were still so many that he couldn't make out all the names.
Besides, he didn't even know Teacher Lin's full name, right? Even if she had mentioned it before, Lin Jin had long forgotten.
"Wait a second." Lin Jin excitedly pulled out his phone, realizing just how stupid he'd been this week!
If he had realized earlier that Teacher Lin might be the key to completing his task, he wouldn't have bothered trying to hit on some stinky thirty year old man. If he had realized earlier, he would have dutifully attended Teacher Lin's evening dance classes every day to boost her favorability!
"What's up? Why are you so excited? It's like you're happy I broke up with my boyfriend" Teacher Lin complained, ruffling Lin Jin's short hair and turning his hairstyle into a mess. "What are you looking at?"
"Nothing" Lin Jin quickly denied, hiding his phone under the table and looking down for fear that Teacher Lin would notice something unusual about his phone.
After searching for a while, Lin Jin finally found Teacher Lin's profile picture and name in his admirers list. Her favorability was only at 5 points, but among the hundreds of admirers, she was still somewhere in the middle.
So my task was already completed!
Lin Jin was relieved that he didn't have to worry about his face suddenly reverting to its rough, manly texture and his mood instantly improved a lot.
"Teacher Lin! I'll drink with you!" Lin Jin happily hugged his phone and announced to Teacher Lin, "It’s my treat today! Let’s barbecue! And drink!"
"Sure!" Teacher Lin, seeing Lin Jin so happy, also showed an excited expression, looking just like a college student the same age as Lin Jin.
Teacher Lin, a vibrant and youthful 25 year old woman who looked like a college student, and yet some man actually didn't like her.
After silently cursing for a while, Lin Jin opened the food delivery app and started ordering.
The task that had troubled Lin Jin for a whole week was finally completed in such an unexpected way. Even though the black cat hadn't said anything, it must have kept silent to keep Lin Jin troubled. After all, the black cat took pleasure in Lin Jin's misfortunes.
But then, won't this make my chest even bigger...?