Chapter 345: – Xia Tian Left
After returning to Xiamen, her mother also rented a room in the building. It was just next door to Lin Jin’s unit.
Since it was Saturday, after renting the room and inspecting it, her mother left Xiamen to go back to their hometown to update Lin Jin's ID card first. Of course, she was just going to get a spot in the queue. When it was Lin Jin’s turn, Lin Jin would need to go too.
"Lin Jin, once I've sorted everything out, I'll give you some money to rent a better place. This tiny room is too cramped" her mother didn't stay long in Xiamen. After helping Lin Jin tidy up the apartment and unpack, she sat by Lin Jin's bed, holding her hand and said, "There must be bigger houses nearby, right? No way they’re all these kinds of rentals without even a kitchen."
"There should be. There are two communities nearby, there should be people renting their place" Lin Jin nodded, she felt a little reserved sticking so close to her mother when sitting. Even though they were usually close, Lin Jin still felt uncomfortable.
"Then when I come back, I’ll help you look for places." Mom said with a gentle smile. "Rent a slightly bigger place with a kitchen. It won't be too expensive."
"Okay" Lin Jin scratched her head. The reason her mom wanted a kitchen was clearly because she didn’t want Lin Jin eating out every day. After all, who knows if the food from outside was cooked with cutter oil or whatever.
But when it came to cooking, Lin Jin wasn't afraid at all. Although it was a bit of a hassle, she would be able to make whatever she wanted to eat. She wouldn’t have to look through the food delivery app, agonizing over what to order every day.
"Then let’s do that, mom’s leaving now."
Her mom stood up, turned around, and left the apartment. Lin Jin wanted to see her off but didn’t even have time to say the words.
Lying on the bed in the rental, Lin Jin found herself with nothing to do again. She stared blankly at the ceiling, imagining her future days.
Although she had become a woman, her classmates wouldn’t be able to tell, right? In their eyes, maybe they would think she just suddenly went crazy and chose to wear a wig and wear women’s clothing every day,
Even if the school changed her gender on the records, they probably wouldn’t publicize it, let alone tell her classmates. It should just be a few teachers who would know about this thing, right?
Maybe all the way until graduation, her classmates would just think she was a crossdresser?
Although in the eyes of her parents and younger brother, Lin Jin had been crossdressing for three years waiting for surgery and had even gone to Guangdong during the winter break to prepare for it, the black cat's ability couldn't change everyone's memory. So to everyone except her family, Lin Jin was still just a crossdressing master and she had only taken slightly more than a week off.
That’s to say, don’t tell anyone about this, right? Becoming a woman wasn’t a big deal, right?
For some reason, Lin Jin found lying in the bed in her rental room more comfortable than the big bed at her mother’s home. She felt more at ease. During her time in Guangdong, she always felt uneasy while sleeping. Her mother wouldn't let her lock the bedroom door and despite curtains covering the large floor to ceiling windows, it still left some gaps. Not being able to lock the door and the large windows resulted in Lin Jin not having a strong sense of security when sleeping.
Of course, this lack of security only started after she became a woman. Originally, although Lin Jin liked to sleep with the door locked, she wasn't so sensitive, at least not to the point of waking up in the middle of the night.
Lying on the bed and staring blankly at the ceiling, her eyelids grew heavy. Just as she was about to fall asleep, Lin Jin suddenly remembered she hadn't eaten dinner yet.
Hmm, better go have dinner first!
Lin Jin stood up on the bed and softly jumped down. After slipping into her long unused black slippers, she left the rental with a series of footsteps.
So, where should she go to eat?
As she locked the door, the eternal question surfaced in Lin Jin's mind.
Typically, Lin Jin’s biggest troubles every day were "What for breakfast?", "What for lunch?", and "What for dinner?" Thinking about it made her head hurt. Just as she locked the door and was about to leave, she heard the door upstairs open and the landlady came down with a bunch of keys in her hand.
"If in the future you have friends looking to rent in Xiamen, recommend my place to them. Although my facilities here aren't the best, it's cheap and quiet" the landlady was saying but then she suddenly saw Lin Jin and paused. She tried to recall her tenants but realized this girl wasn’t one of them.
Maybe someone's guest?
The landlady didn't think much of it and turned back to speak to someone upstairs: "I also offer daily rentals. I'll give your friend a 10% discount."
"Okay."
As the landlady passed by Lin Jin, the person following behind came into Lin Jin's view.
"Xia Tian, you're leaving?" Lin Jin looked up in surprise.
"Lin Jin?" Xia Tian was stunned. This was the first time he saw Lin Jin wearing women’s clothing outside. But he quickly recovered, asking Lin Jin with a smile, "Where have you been lately? The viewers have been shouting for your dances every day."
"I went to Guangdong, it was just over a week." Seeing Xia Tian carrying two large suitcases, Lin Jin took the initiative to take one from him and continued, "After you go back, will you still stream?"
"I'll look for a job while streaming, cover all the bases" Xia Tian stood before her, yawned and glanced back at where the landlady had disappeared to before curiously asking, "How come you dare to wear women's clothes outside now?"
"What do you mean dare to? I often wear women's clothes when I go out, okay?" Lin Jin rolled her eyes and pulled out her phone to check the time "Want to go get dinner together?"
"Sure, I’ll treat."
If Lin Jin doesn’t say anything, Xia Tian might go his whole life thinking that the crossdressing expert he met in the rental building was actually a man.
The two left the alley where the rental was located and casually picked a small restaurant, sitting across from each other.
"Will you come back?" After ordering, Lin Jin asked with her head down.
"Probably not. My home is in Hainan, it's too far." Xia Tian ordered a can of cola. He sipped it through a straw while playing on his phone, also casually answering Lin Jin’s question "I’ll live at home and just randomly find a two or three thousand a month job to support myself."
"Three to two thousand might not even make as much as streaming."
"Pretty much, my streams are just so so. When you’re not in the stream, the viewers don’t even hit five thousand. Now it’s becoming less and less, barely two or three thousand. Even the stream moderators keep asking me when you'll stream with me again." Xia Tian laughed helplessly. "If the viewers keep dropping, the contract will probably be terminated."
"That's really unfortunate" Lin Jin said with a slightly schadenfreude tone.
Yet she still hung her head low, feeling somewhat uneasy inside.
She had just left Lin Chen and her home in Guangdong. Now upon returning, she found that another friend was also about to leave.
It was a strangely sad feeling.