Chapter 479: – Internet Cafe Stream
The internet cafe near Lin Jin's home was quite upscale. If you didn't have a membership card, it would cost ten yuan per hour. It was several times more expensive when compared to the two and a half yuan per hour Lin Jin paid for going online when she was in the countryside as a child.
But luckily, it wasn’t Lin Jin who was paying today.
They picked a private room for two. Lin Jin also ordered a cup of milk tea before happily sitting inside. Then resting her chin on one hand, she used the other to turn on the computer.
Speaking of which, Lin Jin didn’t actually like internet cafes nowadays, though this upscale one was still okay. Although it was still noisy, this place had a designated smoking area, so she wouldn’t feel nauseous because of the smoke smell.
Xia Tian seemed to rarely visit places like internet cafes. He looked uncomfortable all over. Lin Jin on the other hand used to frequent internet cafes during middle and high school, so coming back once again felt quite comfortable to her.
"I'll set up the stream." Xia Tian felt a bit shy about streaming in a public place like this. Even when speaking, he was a lot quieter than usual.
But Lin Jin didn't mind. She took a sip of her milk tea, clicked open the Dota 2 game, and then waited for Xia Tian to finish setting up the stream.
After about ten minutes, Xia Tian finally started the live stream. He adjusted the camera so the viewers could see both of them. Only then did he nod in satisfaction and said to the computer: "Hello everyone, I specially came all the way to Guangdong to stream together with sister Lin Jin."
"Hi." Lin Jin also joined in and waved at the camera.
Lin Jin often duo queued with Xia Tian before, so the stream this time went quite smoothly. She comfortably carried Xia Tian to free wins, then happily watched most as most of the stream chat comments praised her while belittling Xia Tian, feeling that her life was wonderful.
"Are Xia Tian and Lin Jin together now?"
"Doesn't seem like it yet."
"You two are such a good match, why aren't you married yet?"
"Sister Lin Jin is mine!"
Lin Jin's expression immediately darkened. As soon as the game ended, the chat instantly shifted to whether she and Xia Tian were together. Occasionally, a few messages like "Sister Lin Jin my wife" appeared, but they were few and couldn't distract the viewers from the main topic.
When Xia Tian saw these chat messages, he was quite happy. His eyes were full of smiles and he kept nodding as he said: "Soon, soon, no rush."
"Soon my ass!"
Lin Jin couldn't help but feel that Xia Tian had conspired with the viewers. Otherwise, why would they start talking about this kind of thing as soon as the game ended, and then once the game started, she couldn’t even find a single one of those so called pro Honor of Kings players in chat.
There was definitely something wrong, alright? Nowadays, which live stream didn’t have some so called pro players among the viewers?
The stream's popularity increased significantly because of Lin Jin's return. At the start, there were only a few thousand viewers, but after a few rounds, it quickly rose to the tens of thousands. Although this number wasn’t comparable to those big streamers, it was still at least the popularity of a mid level streamer.
However, if it was just Xia Tian streaming alone, then the viewership would probably only be one or two thousand.
Playing games and stuff was just a hobby for Lin Jin, but if the hobby lasted too long, she would feel exhausted. After all, no matter what the entertainment is, it would feel boring after a long time. Once it became boring, then it was no longer a hobby but a burden.
After about five rounds, Lin Jin was unwilling to continue no matter what. She was afraid that if she kept playing, she would lose all interest in the game.
Since Lin Jin didn't want to keep playing anymore, Xia Tian glanced at the time and also didn't plan to continue alone.
Five rounds. Although each round ended within thirty minutes thanks to Lin Jin's strong carry, including queue time and hero selection, each game still took about forty minutes. So it was already past nine at night.
On normal days, a bit past nine was just when the live stream would start, so Xia Tian didn't want to just end it like this.
"How about we chat with the viewers?"
Xia Tian turned to look at Lin Jin, who had taken off her sandals and placed her bare feet on the computer desk.
Even though Lin Jin was being captured by the camera and streamed to the viewers, she didn't care about the matter of her image at all. She casually put her legs on the table, her body half lying on the small sofa as she leisurely scooped her ice cream with a spoon.
"Up to you." Lin Jin also didn't mind. She subconsciously yawned, though she wasn't sleepy at all. She tilted her head so that her face appeared in the center of the camera and asked the viewers "What do you guys want to chat about?"
Then those viewers once again spammed.
"When are you and Xia Tian getting married?"
"Marry me sister Lin Jin!"
"How about sister do a dance? If I’m happy, I’ll marry you home."
After the previous experience, Lin Jin didn’t react to these messages. She just turned to Xia Tian and asked: "Did you say something to the viewers?"
"No, I don't know, I didn't do anything." Xia Tian shook his head without hesitation.
Tch, this guy was really skilled at the triple consecutive denials.
Lin Jin pouted, directly ignoring the chat messages about when she and Xia Tian would get together or get married. She picked a relatively normal question from chat to answer.
The question was: Does the sister have a boyfriend?
"Currently, I don't have a boyfriend. I also don’t have anyone I like." Lin Jin expressionlessly replied to that question in chat. "And I don't plan to find one in my life."
"The criteria for choosing a boyfriend?" Lin Jin thought for a bit and said, "At the very least, he can't be expressionless, like Xia Tian here. No matter how handsome, it's impossible. Yeah."
Xia Tian listened on the side with a strange expression. These criteria were obviously targeting him.
He felt a bit awkward and wanted to say something to ease the situation, but Lin Jin seemed to be addicted to teasing him.
Previously, she was still answering the viewers’ questions, but then it changed to recounting some stupid things Xia Tian had done while also talking about the scenes from when they first met, with some embellishments.
"Let me tell you. When I first met Xia Tian, he looked defeated with no job at all, he was over there doing online rideshare for a living."
"Back then, Xia Tian wore shabby clothes and had no expression on his face. People who didn't know better might have thought he was a professional killer. His car was also super old. If you didn’t know better, you would’ve thought it was a scrapped car that was somehow put back on the road, okay?"
"While I was dressed so beautifully at the time. Even wearing a short skirt in the middle of winter, exuding the youthful and vibrant feel of a pretty girl~"
Xia Tian rested his chin on one hand and looked helplessly over at Lin Jin narrating the tale there. Although what she said didn’t seem to be that different from what actually happened, he felt that she had embellished quite a bit and his sunny, handsome image had been inexplicably tarnished.