Chapter 523: – Movie
Because Xia Tian had the afternoon off, Lin Jin decided not to go to the orphanage as she had originally planned. After all, Xia Tian didn’t seem to care as much about the children over there. It wasn’t that Xia Tian didn’t have compassion or anything, it was just that everyone’s personality was different. With Xia Tian’s personality, it was hard for him to get fit in at the orphanage.
Every time she went with Xia Tian, his face would always look full of complaints. Although he never said anything, his usually expressionless face would look almost twisted.
Since she knew Xia Tian didn’t like the orphanage, Lin Jin naturally chose to respect his feelings.
After lunch, the two hung out at Lin Jin’s place for a bit. Then Lin Jin took a lunchbox with food to bring to her dad. In order to leave more of an impression with his future father in law, Xia Tian also shamelessly followed.
Just as they reached the front of the milk tea shop, Lin Jin noticed that her dad was so busy he barely had time to catch his breath. None of the employees in the store had learned to make the milk tea properly yet, so basically every single cup was made by her dad alone. Her dad didn’t trust the milk tea the employees made by themselves, apparently he was once so disgusted by an employee’s attempt that he almost threw up.
The employees were also really busy. Even with three people, they were still struggling when they went out to deliver orders. Especially the orders from the girls’ dormitory, they just couldn’t keep up.
When Lin Jin arrived, her dad was still busy with the fat Braised Pork lying next to him. When it saw Lin Jin, it lifted its head and meowed before closing its eyes and continuing to rest.
She didn’t know what was up with this cat. It was clearly super close with her before, but after less than two months with her dad, it now acted very unfamiliar with her. Usually, even though it would still let her pet it, but whenever she tried to call it, the most it would do was glance at her before continuing to be a proud fatty.
“It’s so rare for you to cook. Now that you’re in school, I even need to buy my own meals.” Her dad complained with a laugh as he took the lunch box from Lin Jin’s hands. Then he turned to Xia Tian by her side “How are you treating my daughter lately? You haven’t annoyed her, right?”
“How could I?” Xia Tian wore a flattering smile on his face “I can’t pamper her enough.”
Yeah, right. He almost troubled her to death that day he got drunk, okay? And he says he pampers her.
Lin Jin rolled her eyes by the side. Her dad laughed and opened the lunch box, quickly glanced over the food inside, then picked up a few pieces of fatty meat for Braised Pork and placed it into its small bowl.
“We’re going first.”
Lin Jin said to her dad, then pulled Xia Tian by the hand and left.
“Where are we going this afternoon?” Xia Tian never had strong opinions about these things.
The same was true for Lin Jin. She rarely wandered around Xiamen, so she didn’t know where to go either.
But since they were a couple, then going to the movies should be okay, right?
The two had been together for over a month now. Lin Jin knew that Xia Tian preferred to watch those exciting action blockbusters filled with special effects, but Lin Jin herself wasn’t very interested in those. She preferred funny comedy movies, like that recently popular Never Say Die.
However, she had only watched it on her computer. She didn’t have a boyfriend at the time and had no reason to go watch movies in theaters. After all, she was poor back then and an IMAX ticket would cost seventy to eighty yuan, so she couldn’t afford to go watch.
As for now, since she had a boyfriend, then it can’t be that she would need to pay when watching a movie, right?
So Lin Jin immediately suggested to Xia Tian: “How about we go see a new movie? Let’s go back to your place first and check what movies are showing today?”
“That works." Xia Tian nodded.
Xia Tian was actually kind of a homebody like Lin Jin, or at least half of one. Back when he didn’t have to go to work, Lin Jin saw that he could spend entire days just sitting at home and ordering takeout or something. But he at least seemed to take out the garbage. That was around when they had just gotten to know each other.
Arriving at Xia Tian’s place, Lin Jin just sat down on the bed and immediately gave up on the idea of going to the movies.
“Or maybe we don’t go?” She directly laid down on the bed and yawned “I suddenly feel sleepy.”
“Don’t you mean suddenly feel lazy?” Xia Tian sat in front of the computer, turned it on, and searched online for some movies. “We could just watch something online. After I download it onto the tablet, we can watch it together on the bed. What do you want to watch?”
“I wanna watch anime… that uh what was it again…” Lin Jin frowned, trying to recall the movie her teacher had shown them near the end of last semester when the teacher had nothing better to do.
“Spirited Away! I watched half of it in class before but never finished.” Lin Jin finally remembered the title of that old movie.
“You’ve never seen that?” Xia Tian lowered his head and searched for the movie on his tablet.
Lin Jin, lying on the bed, nodded. When she was a kid, seemed to have watched some Miyazaki movies on the TV. She didn’t know at the time, it wasn’t until she saw Howl’s Moving Castle at the end of last semester did she suddenly realize that she had seen some of his work when she was young.
However, she had never seen Spirited Away. She had watched half of it in class before but then forgot about it. Now that she remembered, she really wanted to finish it.
“Oh, found it. Mandarin or Japanese?”
“Mandarin. Last time I watched it in Mandarin and I might not get used to Japanese." Lin Jin casually waved her hand.
Xia Tian took the tablet and also got on the bed next to Lin Jin, holding it up between them with one hand.
But because it was a bit too far, Lin Jin felt a little uncomfortable watching it like that. She frowned, hesitated a bit, and then rested her head on Xia Tian’s shoulder.
Very broad shoulders…
Although Xia Tian looked skinny, she had to admit that he actually had a pretty large frame and only looked skinny. He was the kind who looked thin when wearing clothes but well built when he took them off.
Even though it wasn’t all muscle, it was at least more solid than the meat on her own body.
Xia Tian was a bit surprised by Lin Jin taking the initiative to get close to him. You have to know that Lin Jin was usually kind of cold and aloof, and any affectionate actions were mostly initiated by him.
But still, Xia Tian happily accepted Lin Jin’s move and casually slid his arm behind her neck to get more comfortable.
With this human pillow, Lin Jin found that this position was actually quite comfortable. And since she didn’t have to hold the tablet up herself, she just happily focused on the movie.
Lin Jin didn’t like the art style of Spirited Away when she first saw it. The main reason was that the characters’ legs looked too thin, especially the protagonist’s legs which looked like two chopsticks.
However, after she got into it, the art style stopped mattering and she even gradually began to like it.
“Xia Tian, I’m going to nap for a bit after watching.”
“Mm.”