Chapter 489: – Xiamen
Run away, run away!
Lin Jin carried her bag and hurried out of the community. Glancing back, she noticed Lin Chen and them standing by the stairwell currently watching her from the stairs, seemingly on the phone with their mom. So she immediately panicked. After leaving the community area, she quickly hailed a taxi and headed to the train station as fast as possible.
Lin Jin felt she was probably crazy.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have done something like this. She didn’t even have any reason to, it was just a moment of impulse. She hadn't thought about being with Xia Tian after returning to Xiamen at all, nor considered what to do once returned. She just acted on a sudden impulse, quickly booked a ticket, packed her things, and prepared to leave.
Actually, this kind of impulsiveness wasn’t a big deal, right? Anyway, it wasn’t like she had nowhere to stay over in Xiamen. It was basically the same as going home without telling the family.
After getting into the taxi, Lin Jin finally felt a bit more at ease. She glanced at her phone and saw that her mom had reacted quite quickly and was calling her.
She answered the phone.
"Hello! Lin Jin! What are you trying to do?! Where are you going?"
Mom was clearly very anxious, even wondering if something had happened to Lin Jin.
"I'm just going back to Xiamen." Lin Jin said in a nonchalant tone. "Just suddenly felt like going back for fun."
"Back to Xiamen? It’s not that mom objects, but you’re still young, and you’ve only been a girl for a few months. It’s really easy to be deceived if you find a boyfriend now."
"I won't, and I don't have feelings for him. I'm just purely going back to Xiamen." Lin Jin had a helpless smile.
Maybe because her mom had always wanted a daughter, when Lin Jin first became a girl, her mom had showered her with all kinds of care. Even to the point where Lin Chen suspected he was just a free gift from some shopping promotion. But before her mom could even enjoy life with a daughter, she discovered that said daughter seemed to be running off with some man. Of course she would be extremely nervous.
"So! You can't go back!"
Mom warned Lin Jin in a serious tone.
"It's fine. In the next five years, I definitely won’t find a boyfriend. Is that enough?" Lin Jin bitterly smiled.
She had previously thought she might never find a boyfriend in her life, but now it had already changed to within five years.
"How can you guarantee that?"
"Anyway, I just promise. Wait until after I graduate, I’ll stay by your side every day, alright? At that time, I'll work directly in your shop, so you can see me every day, okay?"
Her mom on the other end was currently hesitating, so Lin Jin continued saying: "And I'm not stupid. How could I be so easily tricked. It’s not like you don’t know I used to be a bit of a gangster, fighting with people every day and hanging out with the street crowd. I already know what men are like, okay?"
"I've probably met more scumbags than you have, mom. I won't be that easily fooled."
Although Lin Jin used to be quite rebellious in middle and high school, at most she just skipped classes to go to internet cafes or went with a bunch of classmates to roadside stalls for barbecue and drinks or something. Fighting and whatnot rarely even happened once a year and hanging out with shady people was out of the question. However, to reassure Mom, Lin Jin could only use this kind of talk to slander her past self.
Actually, she originally wanted to say that she had been a man for almost twenty years, so how could she not tell what scumbags are like? But she was afraid the driver in front might get scared.
"Since you put it that way..." Her mom sighed and could only agree. "Alright then."
Though Lin Jin didn't feel particularly happy. She calmly hung up the phone and looked out at the scenery passing by the taxi window.
The driver was clearly not an experienced one, not saying a word the whole ride. It was completely different from the few curious and experienced drivers Lin Jin had met before.
In silence, Lin Jin arrived at the East Railway Station in Guangdong.
Although there was still an hour before her train, she still went straight into the waiting room, found a seat, and sat down, staring blankly at the bustling crowd.
So bored.
After sitting down, Lin Jin began to regret her impulsive actions just now.
Wasn’t it just her mom strictly watching over her, why did she suddenly impulsively decide to go back to Xiamen?
Lin Jin propped her chin with both hands, looking at her reflection on the floor with a lifeless expression. She had to admit, even though the reflection was somewhat blurry, she still looked very pretty.
After waiting for an hour, Lin Jin finally boarded the high speed train heading toward Shenzhen.
After that, she still needed to wait for an hour in Shenzhen before she could take the high speed train to Xiamen. To be honest, Lin Jin didn't understand why there were no direct high speed trains to Xiamen. She had searched for the reason online before and found that it seemed to be due to issues between the two local governments.
The result was that normal people like her would be inconvenienced. A journey that would originally only take three hours was stretched by an extra hour. What a waste of time.
Lin Jin sat sleepily on her seat in the train, lifelessly leaning her head against the window and feeling the vibrations of the moving train. She turned her gaze to the scenery outside, silently watching.
She was a bit sleepy, but next to her was an unknown man, which kept her in a state of being drowsy but unable to sleep.
The man beside her looked like a creep no matter how you looked at him. Long hair, thin, messy beard, and those squinty eyes. Even if he wasn't a creep, then he must definitely be a guy who stays up all night everyday rubbing his rod.
Well, anyway, that was just how Lin Jin speculated about others.
Lin Jin glanced at the man beside her but saw that he was also always watching her through the reflection in the window. She instantly felt more alert, sitting upright in her seat and looking straight ahead.
It was already noon now, and the train staff were pushing carts selling lunches costing forty or fifty yuan. Lin Jin felt a bit stingy with her money and she had also been got by these meals before. She could only endure her cravings, constantly swallowing her saliva as she began surrounded by the tempting aroma of lunches.
"Want some?" The man beside her placed the bread he brought onto the tray in front of Lin Jin.
"No thanks, I ate before getting on the train."
Lin Jin didn't like the man beside her, mainly because of his looks. If he were handsome or cute, this man’s long hair could’ve added points, making him look like an artist or a crossdresser. However, his appearance was a bit tough on the eyes.
After a total of five hours of waiting and traveling, Lin Jin finally arrived in Xiamen.
She stretched somewhat tiredly, then planned to use her phone to get a ride back to her place in Xiamen.
Then she saw Xia Tian standing over there at the exit, looking at her with a smile.
It was clearly working hours now, right? And she had never even told him when she got on the train. How was this guy here?