Chapter 542: – Early Morning
The next morning, Xia Tian had already woken up at around eight. He propped himself up and sat against the head of the bed. Using the faint light shining into the bedroom through the curtains, he looked down at Lin Jin’s sleeping face.
Lin Jin seemed to have been woken up by Xia Tian’s movements. She let out some indistinct purrs, stretched out and rolled over on the bed like a cat, then curled up again with her back to Xia Tian and kept on sleeping.
Xia Tian was amused by how cute she was. He reached out and gently stroked her face, then carefully climbed off the bed to wash up.
Xia Tian had work at eleven o’clock this morning. It was only eight right now, so he still had more than two hours to spend at home. After washing up, he cooked up some congee in the kitchen pot, and then took out some pickled vegetables from the fridge for breakfast. After finishing his share, he stored Lin Jin’s portion and then went back to the bedroom to start streaming on the computer.
He had been working very hard recently, but Xia Tian felt that Lin Jin had it even harder. Lin Jin had been keeping the stream going every day without complaining, so he planned to stream for two hours this morning to help her with a bit of the required streaming hours.
This way, Lin Jin could wait two hours in the afternoon before starting the stream, or end the stream early at night to rest.
He started the live stream. Looking at the few viewers in the stream, he edited the on screen text at the top of the stream: Lin Jin’s sleeping, so silent stream for two hours today.
The amount of viewers watching the stream was naturally lower than the afternoon or at night. Even though it was the holidays right now, those viewers who usually worked basically all liked to sleep in on their days off.
Normally, there would be at least ten to twenty thousand viewers when the stream first starts, but there were only a few thousand today.
Although the speed of games in Dota had sped up a lot after multiple updates, it still took nearly an hour per game when counting the queue and hero selection process. After playing two matches, Xia Tian ended the stream. Even though there weren’t many people watching this early in the day, he had still clocked in two hours of stream time.
At this time, Lin Jin had slept enough and finally woke up.
She stretched out on the bed in a big star shape. She opened her mouth wide to yawn, and then asked in a dazed tone: “Xia Tian? Xia Tian, where are you?”
“I’m here. I just ended the stream.” Xia Tian, who had been sitting in front of the computer, quickly stood up and walked to the side of the bed. He looked at Lin Jin on the bed, who was completely unaware that her pajamas had slipped to the point where most of her shoulders were exposed.
“Oh, then you’ll need to go to work soon?” Lin Jin turned over and curled up into a ball. After a bit, she sat up on the bed like a duck and tilted her head to look at Xia Tian “Did you make breakfast? I’m hungry.”
“I’ll go get it.” Xia Tian hurried out of the room.
Lin Jin was still a bit muddled. She rubbed her eyes and yawned again. Then she uncontrollably slumped her upper body down onto the bed, half dozing off as she listened to the sounds around her.
Xia Tian quickly returned to the side of the bed with a bowl of congee loaded with pickled vegetables, but suddenly saw Lin Jin’s current pose.
At this time, she was still sitting in the duck position from earlier, but her upper body was now lying over the pillow with her butt raised in the air. Her loose pajamas had slipped down to her waist, revealing an extremely enticing stretch of snow white skin.
“Only someone like you who dances all the time can pull off a pose like this.”
Xia Tian laughed softly, placed the bowl on the bedside table, and reached his hand out to pat Lin Jin’s raised butt twice: “Time to get up! If you still don’t get up, I’m going to spank you.”
Lin Jin wiggled her hips and grumbled in dissatisfaction “Saying that after you already did…”
She stretched out her arms to prop herself up and crawled over a bit to the edge of the bed. She then sat on the edge, picked up the bowl, and slowly ate her congee.
Xia Tian’s eyes were nearly popping out. Lin Jin’s hips might not be as exaggerated as some of those beautiful fitness model pictures you see online, but she did have a slender waist and a perky butt. As she crawled on the bed, her perked up butt was really hard to not stare at.
“What’re you looking at? Never seen a beautiful lady drinking congee?” Lin Jin lifted her head and gave him a glare, then complained “Why is it congee and picked vegetables today? I like soy milk and fried dough sticks.”
“I’d have to go out and buy that. Wasn’t there not enough time? And there’s nowhere selling fried dough sticks here, though there are steamed buns.” Xia Tian sat beside Lin Jin and wrapped his arms around her waist, enjoying this ten or so minutes of intimacy.
“I don’t like congee. Sweet potato congee is okay though. Plain congee doesn’t taste good.” Lin Jin ate a couple more spoonfuls and picked up a few pieces of pickled vegetables with her chopsticks to toss in her mouth. Only then did she turn towards Xia Tian, who was holding her, and ask “How much longer until you have to go? Can you make it in time?”
“About ten minutes. I’ll leave in ten minutes.”
“So soon?” Lin Jin pouted unhappily and complained “In my opinion, you should stop thinking about starting a business. Just be an honest white collar worker at a company. You’re already this busy just starting out, when you become a boss in the future, you’ll definitely be even busier.”
“Isn’t this all for buying a house in the future? Although my family does own a house, it’s over in Hainan. And it’s in a village. “ Xia Tian helplessly said “How much does a white collar worker make every month? And I’m a technical white collar worker, not those administrative ones. Even after ten years I probably still won’t be a manager or CEO.”
“You know you’re not the administrative kind and you still want to be a boss.” Lin Jin was pouting so much you could almost hang a lantern on her lips.
“Which is why I can’t be the management type of boss, at least not at the beginning." Xia Tian was quite clear about his abilities. “Besides, I only want to open a restaurant right now. The people I’ll have to manage are at most a few servers and a chef. Later, when the business grows, I’ll appoint a head chef and floor manager. Then I wouldn’t have much to do, right?”
“Waiting until pigs fly.”
“What if we hit it big! Then we can open a chain store or something and we’ll make money even in our sleep.”
“You can go ahead and keep daydreaming.” Lin Jin gave him a little shove.
“Alright, I need to go.” Xia Tian took a glance at his phone, sighed, and could only stand up “I need to go to work now. I’ll send a message if there’s overtime. Normally, I should be back by nine.”
“Mhm, you go ahead. I’ll wash up the dishes later and stream for a bit.”
Lin Jin took a couple more sips of her congee. Seeing Xia Tian turning around to leave, she quickly set her bowl down and ran after him.
“Don’t forget your jacket. It’s going to be a bit cold tonight." Lin Jin followed behind Xia Tian and continuously reminded “And don’t forget your belt, where’s it? And your phone, oh, it’s in your pocket… Do you have your keys? Keys?”
“I’ve got everything." Xia Tian helplessly took out his keys and phone from his pocket. “The belt is hanging by the door.”
“Mm, then you take care on your way.”
“Got it.”
“Safe travels!”
Seeing Xia Tian’s figure head down the stairs and disappear from her sight, Lin Jin took a long breath, closed the door, and then turned around to get ready for her stream.