Chapter 434: – A way to not be shy
When Lin Jin got home, she sighed and collapsed onto her bed, feeling like she had failed.
She had clearly been so full of confidence earlier, planning to put on a good performance. But once she actually got there, she became too timid.
Even though Wu Min, Teacher Lin, and Zhu Dong didn’t really blame her nor did they complain too much, Lin Jin still felt really uncomfortable and was constantly blaming herself.
In the past, she was definitely not this kind of shy person…
Especially when she went up the second time to sing Little Sloppy. She had already started singing it, but was actually scared to death by the applause. She clearly had the ability to sing and dance, but for some reason, she just became so cowardly.
It was really embarrassing.
"The performance didn’t go well!" Braised Pork jumped onto Lin Jin's body. It tilted its head and at the same time, the black cat’s mocking voice came through her phone’s speaker "Hehe, I saw this coming."
"You saw it coming but didn’t even warn me a bit?"
Although Lin Jin knew the black cat wasn’t obligated to do so, she still pouted in dissatisfaction and said: "You’re happy seeing me embarrassing myself, aren’t you?"
"Yup, yup! Very happy!" Braised Pork showed a human like laughing expression and the phone once again played the black cat’s voice "Don’t you feel many things have been a bit too smooth sailing for you lately? It’s so boring~"
What smooth sailing! Never mind the robbery incident, just look at the promotional video situation. If she hadn’t endured the humiliation and gone to Xia Tian’s place to sell her body, then she probably never would’ve been able to complete that video at all, right?
At that time, she had completely no choice except to go sell herself. Otherwise, even if she later figured out how to edit the video herself, because of the task deadline, she definitely wouldn’t have been able to complete the task of raising 100,000 yuan.
"It hasn’t been smooth sailing at all." Lin Jin laid lifelessly on her bed, feeling like she had no will to live, complaining to herself "I just want to be a lazy salted fish, dutifully graduate, and then earn a little money. I don’t want to be some goddess or actress or whatever at all."
"Then that’s too bad~ Don’t you think your aspirations are extremely dreamless?" The black cat proudly said "I’m doing this to help you, this lazy salted fish, to achieve your dream!"
"But I don’t need this dream thing."
Although Lin Jin knew dreams were important, doesn’t it only count as a dream if you actually wanted it? Someone forcing a dream onto you definitely didn’t count as a dream.
Sighing, she rolled over in bed, stretched her arms out in a big star shape, and sleepily pulled the quilt over her head.
Even though her first day had been a big failure, Lin Jin couldn’t just sulk around. In the afternoon, she still had to go visit the children at the welfare institute as usual.
Going to the welfare institute every day made the originally enthusiastic Lin Jin a bit worn out. She just wanted to get a good rest every afternoon rather than taking the long bus ride to the welfare institute to play with the children.
So that was to say, it was no wonder when she searched up information about orphanages online, many people said not to casually make promises to the children or stuff.
When she thought of not going, Qiu Yufei’s sad little face would appear in her mind. As well as the children who had started calling her “big sister” recently, they would definitely be sad.
After all, she had promised before that she would go visit every day… and so far, Lin Jin had yet to break that promise.
"Hey, hey! You needed a tool that will make you not feel shy on stage, right!" Braised Pork tilted its head, acting all cute while talking to Lin Jin. "As long as you can’t hear the audience, then you can just close your eyes and pretend you're singing at home. It should be easy to sing that way, right? Of course, you can’t close your eyes while dancing."
"You have something like that?" Lin Jin immediately grew vigilant. She peeked her two big eyes out from under the quilt and eyed the Braised Pork that was sitting on her abdomen.
"I don’t!" The black cat declared shamelessly. "It’s not like I can do everything!"
"Then why are you talking." Lin Jin rolled her eyes and humphed in frustration.
"But you guys have it online! Isn’t there professional music headphones? Can’t you just have the speakers play music on the outside while you wear the headphones and listen to the music as well, right?" The black cat’s tone was full of disdain. "On the music programs for those TV shows you guys have, don’t all the singers have the same equipment?"
Ah? That actually made sense! But those things must be super expensive, right?
Actually, thinking about it a bit, she actually didn’t need those professional headphones. She just needed to wear two sets, right. One would be those phone earbuds and the second would be computer headphones. If she wore two together, then it should just about be able to block out the outside noise.
If she had done that when she sang Little Sloppy today, then Lin Jin would not have been scared by the applause as long as her eyes were closed.
So Lin Jin immediately jumped out of bed. She found the phone earbuds she hadn’t used in a long time and sat in front of her laptop. She plugged her phone earbuds into her laptop’s other audio port. She then put on her other headphones. Afterwards, she played the loudest sound possible from her phone while playing music on her computer.
Sure enough, even though her headphones were cheap, only costing a few tens of yuan and not very good at blocking outside noise, the two stacked together had amazing sound blocking abilities. Even with the phone playing loud noises placed right beside her, she still couldn’t hear anything except the music.
F*ck! If the black cat had mentioned it to her earlier, she wouldn’t have embarrassed herself at all the second time singing Little Sloppy!
Of course, this trick could only be used when singing. When dancing, she couldn’t exactly wear two earphones and dance around. After all, the long cables would easily get tangled up and affect her movements.
After testing it out, Lin Jin’s somewhat down mood just now was immediately lifted.
Although tomorrow’s performance venue wouldn’t be as crowded as at Wanda Plaza! At least it wouldn’t be embarrassing, alright?! Once she got used to singing, she would definitely not be as nervous dancing anymore either!
Thinking like this, she suddenly felt like today’s failure wasn’t such a big deal anymore. Anyways, there were still six days left for the task! As long as she was shameless enough, she’d be able to complete it!
She finally felt a lot better. She took off the earphones on her head, tidied up her things, grabbed her usual shoulder bag, and happily walked out the door while humming Little Sloppy.
Although she still grumbled about the black cat not giving her the heads up earlier, Lin Jin quickly let go of the black cat’s shortcomings. She was not thinking about how to perform well tomorrow.
If it was possible, maybe she should bring Yufei over? Yufei’s dancing now wasn’t bad. Although it was a bit rough, she was probably about the same as other kids her age, right?!
If the three generations of master and disciple could dance together, it would probably be a great scene.