Chapter 414: – Xia Tian’s Drawing
When Lin Jin arrived at Xia Tian's apartment, she noticed that he had just gotten back as well and was standing at the door, unlocking it with his key.
"Yo. Lin Jin reached her hand out and greeted.
Xia Tian turned his head and saw Lin Jin’s miniskirt. He was momentarily stunned, but didn’t say anything. He just gave her a nod and said "Perfect timing. I’m going down to grab dinner in a bit. Have you eaten yet? If not, just wait in the room for me."
"I’ve already eaten. You go ahead."
As Xia Tian opened the door, Lin Jin walked in without any hesitation and switched on his computer. Xia Tian also didn’t mind at all. He just turned around and left, closing the door behind him as he went.
Hmm, he really trusts me.
As the computer fully booted up to the desktop, Lin Jin noticed a new "sai" file there.
He had been drawing again!
Lin Jin liked watching Xia Tian draw a lot. Even though his skills weren’t the best and weren’t as good as those pros, his artworks were still pretty good. At least they were countless times better than anything Lin Jin could do.
She had no guilt about snooping into other’s stuff at all, so she opened PaintTool SAI and dragged the file in. After about two seconds, the image loaded up.
It was an image of a girl lying on a bed, with her face flushed red.
The drawing was clearly unfinished. The background was just a bunch of messy lines, but you could vaguely tell it was a girl’s bed with several cute dolls. Of course, they were still just rough sketches, but the girl herself was completely drawn. The girl had long hair reaching down to her waist, scattered onto the bed. The girl was wearing… she f*cking wasn’t wearing anything!
Xia Tian was actually this kind of person?
And the girl’s body was already colored in. You could clearly see the blush on her skin, as well as those watery eyes which made her look in heat. And that flushed face. Holy f*ck!
Lin Jin was dumbfounded. She didn’t know why, but the more she looked at the picture, the more familiar it appeared. Then, when she took a closer look at the face, she suddenly realized that the face looked a lot like her! Wasn’t this exactly the same as how she looked in that dance video intro before?
Was Xia Tian crazy?! He actually drew her like this!
Lin Jin immediately threw the image into the recycling bin, and then hit clear trash.
There were definitely more drawings of her on Xia Tian’s computer!
So, Lin Jin started searching through Xia Tian’s computer. It didn’t take long before she found a large number of images inside a folder named "tp" on the desktop.
These images seemed to be drawn by Xia Tian in his spare time and were arranged in chronological order. Thus the first picture looked particularly crude and wasn’t very good. Looking at the date, it was two years ago.
But the subsequent images got better and better, going from simple character headshots to whole body drawings. Later, probably around graduation, there appeared original scene illustrations. All the way until a Lin Jin drawing around two months ago…
Yes, Lin Jin drawings. Starting from two months ago, all the drawings Xia Tian made were of girls, and each one of them had the same face. But the scenes and poses would be different. Inside, Lin Jin even found the two drawings Xia Tian had used as the intro for her dance video and welfare institute documentary.
After seeing all these drawings, Lin Jin couldn’t help but think.
It couldn’t be that Xia Tian likes her, right?
Just then, the door opened and Xia Tian walked in carrying two bags of burger takeout.
"I got you a chicken leg and a burger. Eat it if you want. If not, just leave it for me." He handed one of the bags to Lin Jin, but then his already cold expression suddenly stiffened.
"Why are you looking at my drawings?" He immediately averted his gaze and walked over to his bed. He lowered his head and started gnawing on a chicken leg. "I’ll eat first. You can go play games. Anyways, there’s no rush."
"Why are you drawing me?" Lin Jin didn’t sense Xia Tian’s embarrassment at all. To her, his expression was always the same. She very directly questioned "Look at this, these later drawings are all of me!"
"No, this is an anime character I really like. It just so happens to look like you, so that’s why I used it for the video intro back then." Xia Tian denied.
"Really?" Lin Jin stood up and walked over to him, leaning down slightly to look at him suspiciously from above. "Then tell me what anime that character is from. I also want to see who this character that supposedly looks so much like me is."
"It’s just a 2D drawing. How could she look like you?" Xia Tian turned his head to the side, tossed the finished chicken bone into the trash, and pulled a burger out of the bag. "Don’t overthink so much."
"Hey! You drawing me is violating my portrait rights, you know!" Lin Jin indignantly put her hands on her hips. "And you just said she happens to look like me! Are you feeling guilty?"
"Could it be that you like me?" Lin Jin’s head leaned even closer to Xia Tian, wanting to get a good look at the expression on his face. But his face remained as cold as ever "Hey! Can’t you at least blush or something? You always look like an iceberg, isn’t it uncomfortable?"
"Hurry up and eat. After you’re done, I’ll teach you how to edit."
Xia Tian was completely unfazed. He even elegantly wiped his mouth with the paper napkins that came with the meal. Then he seemed to have suddenly thought of something and froze.
He abruptly looked up, almost bumping his forehead into Lin Jin’s chin. "Did you see the drawing on my desktop?"
"The f*ck?! You still dare to bring that up?" Lin Jin’s face immediately turned red, but she stubbornly kept her head up and tried her best to appear fierce "You motherf*cker actually drew me... you actually drew me naked!"
"I already said that’s just an anime character I like, that’s all." Xia Tian’s gaze lingered on Lin Jin’s thighs and tried to change the subject "Isn’t it cold wearing such a short skirt this late at night?"
"Don’t change the subject! What’s up with that drawing where she’s not wearing any clothes!"
"That’s just how I usually draw. When drawing characters, I’m used to drawing the body first, then gradually adding clothes…"
"And rub one out while you’re at it?" Lin Jin raised an eyebrow.
Xia Tian was speechless at Lin Jin’s remark.
"I'm not that kind of person." Xia Tian stood up, gently pushing Lin Jin aside and sitting down at the computer. "You didn't delete that drawing, did you?"
"Yeah, I cleared the trash too. You won't find it."
"Then I'll just draw it again." Xia Tian tried changing the topic again. "Didn't you say you wanted to learn video editing? Grab a chair, I'll teach you."
Now that they were getting down to business, Lin Jin stopped messing around. She pulled a chair over and sat next to Xia Tian, though still with a dark expression.
Xia Tian remained expressionless, completely unfazed by what had just happened. His tone was as calm and steady as always.
"This is software for editing, this is the software for subtitles, this one combines the subtitles with the video and compresses it…" Xia Tian faced the computer and introduced each program "Actually, this editing software can handle most of the tasks, but it's a bit tedious, so other programs are used to help…"