Chapter 406: – Shy Zhu Dong
Since she wanted to film a promotional video, the first step was of course to get the welfare institute’s consent and have the staff cooperate. In the afternoon, Lin Jin went directly to the director’s office and told him about the video. Naturally, the director who had previously wanted Lin Jin to shoot such a video happily nodded in agreement.
Then came the filming process. Last week, they had already recorded over ten hours of footage, which was more than enough to use, but some extra scenes were still needed. The welfare institute staff would be recording these extra scenes today.
Lin Jin also got the history of the welfare institute from the director and planned to have it as scrolling text at the end of the video.
The plan was to take a group photo of everyone at the welfare institute, and then capture a panoramic shot. Lin Jin initially thought it would be cool to get an aerial shot of the entire welfare institute with a drone, but after thinking it over, she realized she didn’t have the money to buy a drone. Even if she did have the money, it wouldn’t make sense to buy one just for this shot.
At around 3:30, the director gathered everyone in the welfare institute.
Lin Jin looked as if she was a big famous film director. She haughtily stood off to the side, constantly looking down and matching people to the name list she got from the director.
She planned to label everyone’s name above their heads one by one when they appeared in the video. This way… This way didn’t seem to have any benefits, but Lin Jin just thought it would look cool, yeah.
The group photo shoot went smoothly. It was good as long as the children and the three aunties stood there with smiles, basically like a school graduation photo.
Afterwards, Lin Jin focused on capturing the efforts of the children at the welfare institute. Such as the mentally disabled child who was focused on drawing and was now quite good at it, Qiu Yufei who focused on ballet, as well as those two little girls. These cases were probably enough to show the hard work of the children. Maybe after the promotional video was released, Qiu Yufei would be adopted by a family that likes her.
Since it was Lin Jin’s first time doing video editing, she and Zhu Dong went back immediately after filming the footage on Monday. They planned to work together to finish the post production.
"Zhu Dong, come to my rental apartment" Lin Jin straightforwardly ordered after getting off the bus. "I have to handle the video editing on my own now, but I’m not very good at it so let’s do it together."
"Go to your rental apartment?"
Why did it feel like a girl was inviting him over to her place?
Zhu Dong was in a daze. It wasn’t like he had never been to a girl’s home before, but he always felt awkward and never knew what to do. Plus, he had never seen a girl so confidently invite a guy over.
But then carefully thinking about it again, Lin Jin was a crossdressing master! Thinking this way, Zhu Dong felt his nervousness just now begin to settle down. Even though Lin Jin was indeed very beautiful, at the end of the day, wasn’t Lin Jin still a man?
However, when he followed Lin Jin to the front door of her apartment, he still found himself getting nervous.
While Lin Jin was a boy, with such a pretty boy, there was nothing wrong even if she was called a girl, right? It was definitely okay to treat her as a girl, right?
In fact, while Zhu Dong was hanging out with Lin Jin, even if he didn’t consciously think about it, he did subconsciously treat her as a girl.
He tried to convince himself that Lin Jin was just a crossdressing guy, but as he was spacing out, Lin Jin opened the door and turned around and asked with a smile: "Zhu Dong, what drink do you want? Or just plain water?"
The smile was so beautiful…
“Zhu Dong, what are you spacing out for?” Lin Jin’s big eyes widened as she leaned in closer. She stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Zhu Dong’s face “What’s up?”
“Ah! Nothing.”
At that moment, Zhu Dong was acting like a shy little boy, his face was even slightly reddening.
“Look at you, you look totally different from last semester when you were always arguing with me! You were so tough back then, we almost got into a fight" As soon as Lin Jin got home, she immediately lost the ladylike act she had outside. She jumped and hopped to kick off her shoes, put on her slippers, and then sprinted to the bathroom.
That was because last semester you were just a femboy, but this semester you could completely be considered to be a girl, alright?
Zhu Dong shook his head with a wry smile. Although he know Lin Jin was a guy, he still couldn’t convince himself that such a beautiful and adorable girl before him was actually a man.
Lin Jin washed her face and tied her long bangs into a little bun on top of her head.
It was probably that still somewhat trending apple head, just the apple on her head looked too big and looked completely like a bun instead.
After checking herself in the mirror, she found the hairstyle looked goofy in a cute way. But since she was at home, Lin Jin didn’t mind. After using the bathroom and washing her hands, she leisurely walked out.
Then she noticed Zhu Dong standing at the edge of the living room with a reserved look.
“Sit down, I’ll grab you a Coke" Lin Jin pointed to the sofa, then plop plop plopped in her slippers to the kitchen. She grabbed two cans of coke. After dividing one can per person, she curled her body on the sofa and lazily stretched. “My laptop’s in the bedroom. You can go grab it, let’s transfer the footage over first.”
“Okay.”
Zhu Dong had long felt uncomfortable sitting next to Lin Jin. He hurriedly stood up and rushed into her bedroom. He wasn’t in the mood to pay attention to the room’s decorations or anything like that, he just grabbed the laptop off the desk and hurried back out.
Putting the laptop on the coffee table, he grabbed a low stool to sit on, and began concentrating on dragging the video footage over to the laptop.
God knows why he needed to look so serious when just dragging some files.
Lin Jin glanced at Zhu Dong, then lost interest. It would probably take an hour or two to transfer all the footage onto the computer.
She curled her feet up on the sofa. Even though it was only five o'clock right now, she already felt sleepy. However, since there was an additional man at her place, Lin Jin decided not to take a nap yet.
She grabbed her phone and began to casually chat with Zhu Dong while playing on it: "By the way, what do you think of those orphans?"
"They're good, all very cute." Zhu Dong absentmindedly replied. "The orphanage is pretty nice too. I recorded their kitchen today. It wasn’t fancy, but it wasn’t too bad."
"Really? I always thought their meals were really bad."
"How could they raise three or four chubby kids if it were bad?"
Of course, while Zhu Dong thought the food wasn’t bad, it might simply be because the orphanage put in special effort today for filming.
"I was chatting with one of the kids today" Zhu Dong suddenly remembered something amusing and decided to share it with Lin Jin to make himself less nervous. "That fat auntie often scares them. If she saw anyone not sleeping at night, she would go beside them and just stare at them with wide eyes. Often, they would then be scared into having nightmares at night."
"Staring with wide eyes? If it were me, I’d be scared too." Lin Jin rolled her eyes. That seemingly easygoing chubby auntie was actually quite good at handling the children.
"Yeah, I thought that if it were me, I’d definitely have nightmares too" Zhu Dong chuckled. Then, he suddenly looked up and noticed how Lin Jin was curled up on the sofa. He was stunned for a moment, then continued to ask "Do you have any games on your computer? Uploading the footage is kind of boring."
"Steam, there’s some games on there. Just pick and play."
"Okay."