Chapter 493: – Reason for the iceberg face
It must be stated, even though Xia Tian's crossdressing wasn't that perfect, under camera’s beauty filter, his not so perfect face became flawless.
At least, that was how the viewers saw it.
Xia Tian sat in front of the computer, full of curses on the inside, and weakly interacted with the audience.
"Why am I crossdressing? Because I was scammed by Lin Jin, and some rich dude sent ten rockets."
He half heartedly answered questions from the chat but suddenly saw a message flash by among them: "Xia Tian, be my girlfriend!"
The corners of his mouth twitched. He glanced at Lin Jin beside him, who was already laughing so hard she couldn't sit up straight. He suddenly slammed the table and said in a serious tone: "I'll never get a boyfriend in this life! And crossdressing is also only this one time!"
"I don't believe you. Any rich guy want to send another ten rockets?" Lin Jin quickly continued off of Xia Tian’s words, her face looked full of mischief as she excitedly continued saying "If someone sends ten rockets, Xia Tian will crossdress and make a dance video with me this week!"
Xia Tian looked at Lin Jin, utterly baffled.
"I refuse!" Xia Tian righteously said. "Even if they give me a hundred rockets, I won't agree! This is about a man's dignity!"
Lin Jin rolled her eyes at him, complaining: "When you say such righteous things, could you at least have some expression on your face. Who’s going to believe you when you say it like this?"
Then, ten rocket gifts flooded the stream. The tycoon who sent them was just the one from yesterday…
Xia Tian suspected that Lin Jin had colluded with someone in the fan group. But his fan group only had a few dozen people, and he had never turned off the group notification or even seen Lin Jin speak there.
So sad... How did he end up liking this kind of person?
In tonight's livestream, Xia Tian was streaming while dressed up as a girl. This made it seem like there were two beauties on stream, one big and one small. The result was that the originally really good normal of ten thousand viewers had soared to a hundred thousand in one night.
So that was to say, this Xia Tian guy really was suitable for crossdressing!
In the last part of the stream, Lin Jin asked Xia Tian with a smile: "The door to a new world has already opened for you, are you really not going to step in?"
Xia Tian today was listlessly speaking during the livestream. After all, as a man who couldn’t fake a woman's voice, appearing as a beautiful mature woman but speaking in a rough man's voice would definitely make viewers feel grossed out. So speaking listlessly was a bit better.
"No, I never want to crossdress again." Xia Tian covered his face with one hand.
"But the ten rockets can't be returned." Lin Jin rested her cheek on one hand and looked at Xia Tian with a teasing expression "So just surrender to me. I'll properly train you into a dance master. When the video is uploaded this weekend, I won't let you be embarrassed."
Xia Tian looked utterly hopeless.
Very quickly, the two ended the stream. Xia Tian hurriedly went to change back into his regular clothes, then directly flopped onto the bed.
Lin Jin glanced at the time and saw that it was only a bit after ten at night. Her dad probably hadn’t finished playing mahjong yet, so she wasn’t in a hurry. She pulled over a small stool and sat by Xia Tian's bed, looking at that expressionless iceberg face of his.
"Xia Tian, why do you always have such a cold expression? You were even crossdressing today, but you were still an iceberg face…" Lin Jin looked helpless as she guessed "Could it be that something happened to you when you were a kid?"
After lying there for a while, Xia Tian sat up and said seriously to Lin Jin: "Do you really want to listen?"
"Yeah yeah!" Lin Jin nodded vigorously.
Xia Tian's thoughts began to slowly drift back to the past. His gaze unfocused as he looked at Lin Jin, and he slowly began to say:
"I was about ten at the time, in winter. Snow was falling heavily, the cold wind was piercing. I was riding my bike down the street, struggling towards the direction of my home…"
"On my body was just a thin long sleeved shirt. The bone chilling winter wind blew against my face, making snot and tears run uncontrollably down my face..."
Lin Jin listened closely.
Next, it should be that he finds out something happened at home, right?
"After, I rode for an hour and finally got home. And then, to my horror, I discovered..."
"Hmm?" Lin Jin's eyes lit up. "Then?"
"Then I found that because my face had been in the wind too long, I got facial paralysis." Xia Tian shrugged.
Lin Jin frowned, suddenly realizing that things weren't so simple.
If it was real pathological facial paralysis, then wouldn't his mouth and eyes be crooked? Also, if she remembered correctly, Xia Tian’s hometown was in Hainan, right? Which meant that it could also snow in Hainan?
"Listen to your nonsense, I almost believed it." Lin Jin glared at him. "Tell the truth!"
Xia Tian raised an eyebrow. He was about to continue making things up, but seeing Lin Jin's serious eyes, he could only honestly say.
"Actually, it's mainly just because I was somewhat introverted when I was a kid." Xia Tian sighed. "My grandma had some mental issues. In order to treat her illness, my parents set up street stalls outside everyday. I wasn’t sensible when I was young and always felt embarrassed that my parents were street vendors, so I was kind of introverted and had low self esteem."
It was the first time Xia Tian told anyone about this kind of thing. He sat up and began to recollect past events: "Because I was introverted at the time and also a rural kid studying in the city, my relationship with my classmates was pretty bad and I was often bullied."
Lin Jin nodded. Although she had never been bullied herself, bullying was quite common.
"Later, I found that as long as I kept a straight face and ignored others, the people who bullied me would get bored. So from then on, I got used to keeping a straight face." Xia Tian shrugged. "It's not a big deal, I just got used to it after doing it so long."
"You still are! You're too introverted!" Lin Jin smacked Xia Tian on the head. "Don't you know you're still super introverted now? If it wasn’t because we’re close, you would definitely not speak more than a few words every day!"
Xia Tian was helpless. During the time he'd known Lin Jin, he did indeed notice he was talking more.
"I can’t do anything about being introverted, I've been like this since I was little." Xia Tian suddenly asked, "Are you really planning to have me dance with you?"
"Yeah. Starting tomorrow night, you’ll start learning to dance. But you're usually busy, so we can only practice for an hour each night." Lin Jin furrowed her brows and thought a bit "It’s mainly because you have to livestream at night. Otherwise, you should be able to learn it in just three to five days."
"This week's dance video might still be just me alone. We’ll dance together next week, but you'll have to crossdress, okay?"
"Fine, got it..." Xia Tian felt that liking Lin Jin was definitely the wrong choice.