Chapter 448: – “Pervert” Lin Jin
Her dad's life was finally on the right track. He left early and came home late every day, running the milk tea shop. Every day, he was busy hiring the necessary staff, hoping to make his shop more profitable.
Lin Jin didn’t really have high hopes for that shop. Although the taste was pretty good, it didn’t have much of an advantage over other milk tea shops. Then adding in the other random reasons, she felt that being able to make three to five thousand yuan a month would already be something to be happy about.
Since her dad had just opened the shop, right now was the period where he lacked manpower. So Lin Jin could only go help out every day during her free time after her class and work as a cashier. Luckily, the shop had signed up for several food delivery apps, so most of the orders every day were actually coming through the apps. There weren’t too many customers who actually came to the shop.
While the store was open, her dad was almost always busy making milk tea. When there were no orders, he’d research all kinds of milk tea recipes and also needed to hire some reliable staff. He originally wanted to recruit Xia Tian as a delivery person, but he had his own job after all. So he directly rejected it without a second thought.
Though luckily, the orders at her dad’s shop were steadily increasing. And besides various discounts and promotions, he even took Lin Jin's advice and set up a discount based on Honor of Kings, League of Legends and Dota rank.
If someone was a top player in any of the three games, then the milk tea will be half priced, whereas if they were at a mid to high level like Diamond rank, they would only get a 20% discount. Of course, the discount was only available when they purchased in the store, and could also be combined with the other ongoing promotions.
In other words, if a customer with mid to high rank ordered two cups of milk tea totaling sixteen yuan, they would first get a 20% discount, and then enjoy the spend 10, save 2 yuan, they currently had. This could be considered as very generous. After all, the items at her dad’s milk tea shop weren’t very expensive.
Well, compared to those places like Gong Cha where just a random cup of milk tea cost twenty to thirty yuan, it was much cheaper.
At noon, she had lunch at her dad's milk tea shop. After eating, she found a seat to sit at and went on her phone with her head down.
This was the first time in a while her dad had eaten with Lin Jin. While eating, he was dawdling like crazy, constantly trying to observe Lin Jin’s face and clothes. But as soon as Lin Jin looked up, he would immediately retract his gaze, completely like a wimp.
"Lin Jin" he suddenly said.
"What? Why are you eating so slowly? I still have to take the dishes back to wash, okay?" Lin Jin rolled her eyes. Today’s lunch was something she hurriedly made at home after finishing class. Since her dad was behaving quite well, she wouldn't be stingy towards her own dad. "If you have something to say, say it quickly. Eat faster too. I plan to go back for a nap."
"You were mad at me before, right?"
"Duh, you even sold the house. How could I not be angry?" Lin Jin rolled her eyes again and said helplessly to her dad "Actually, it’s whatever if you want to sell it. But the problem was that you didn’t even discuss it with me? How did you gamble to be able to owe that much? You even had to sell the house?"
Her dad was stunned for a moment, nodded to Lin Jin, and then said, "I wasn't talking about that..."
Then what was he talking about?
Lin Jin was confused, she had no idea what else her dad had done that could make her angry at him.
Besides gambling, was there anything else?
"Just that I said... you should marry a rich man." Her dad said somewhat hesitantly.
"Oh, that thing!" Lin Jin suddenly understood and then shook her head. "I was a bit mad at the time, but I don’t feel it now."
Indeed, Lin Jin was quite angry back then about this matter. But when she thought about it later, she felt she wasn’t going to get married anyways, so what did she need to be mad about? Even if she really did get married in the future, with her own temperament and her mom's, she would definitely choose someone she liked and wouldn't follow her dad's wishes.
After all, these days, her dad's status in the family was extremely low.
"If there's nothing else, then eat faster. Don’t talk while eating." Lin Jin propped her chin with her hands and looked straight ahead at her dad eating, just waiting for him to finish and leave.
It was already Wednesday now. This week, for some reason, the black cat was completely nonexistent. It was as if it had vanished. There weren’t even any notifications or goodbye, it was just gone.
Since the black cat disappeared, tasks and such naturally came to nothing. So Lin Jin became relaxed again, happily living her life every day without worrying about what would happen if a task failed. Of course, she wouldn’t get the task rewards either.
The black cat's disappearance had no effect on Lin Jin's life at all. She went to school and came home every day, then went to the welfare institute and so on. Occasionally, she would call a few classmates to go to the welfare institute to help take care of the children, or organize some activities to take the children out to play.Her life became more and more like that of a salted fish, but Lin Jin didn’t feel it at all. Every day, she continued with her simple daily routine. For her, living lazily every day without the black cat disturbing her was simply the best.
On Tuesday night, Lin Jin once again went to Xia Tian’s place.
She was somewhat unwilling to stay at her own home. After all, her dad's milk tea shop closed at around ten at night. When he went back, he would definitely begin bagging her as soon as he saw her. Now that her dad had started making money, he had regained his identity as her dad and nagged at her non stop every day.
Lin Jin was so annoyed she almost wanted to kick him out.
Coming to Xia Tian's place was like coming back to her own home. Lin Jin unceremoniously pushed open the half closed door.
Because she had already notified Xia Tian, the door was left a bit open.
"Yo!" Lin Jin glanced at Xia Tian, who was sitting on the chair currently live streaming, and sat down on the bed, yawning.
"Hey viewers, Lin Jin is here. Should we have her dance?" Xia Tian said to the viewers without looking back.
The f*ck? I just arrived and you’re already setting me up?
"Not doing it! Last week, I almost went crazy from dancing, okay?" Lin Jin didn't hesitate at all and directly laid down on Xia Tian’s bed. Even as a girl, she didn’t have any scruples and covered herself with Xia Tian’s quilt.
Speaking of which, usually men's bedrooms or beds had some kind of smell, especially those who lived alone or in dormitories... Mostly the smell of sweat, and a few with bad habits would smell of smoke or alcohol. But Xia Tian's bed didn't have any smell at all, it was as if it had just been washed.
Hmm...
Lin Jin pulled the pillow over and sniffed it with her nose. She found that it actually still had a bit of a shampoo smell, along with some light, pleasant smell.
"Why are you smelling my pillow, you pervert?" Xia Tian glanced at Lin Jin, very discontented.
"Ha?" Lin Jin casually threw the pillow over at him. "You're the pervert!"