Chapter 543: – Streaming
After Xia Tian left, Lin Jin went to start the live stream because of boredom. Xia Tian’s earlier stream had only been offline for less than half an hour, so after Lin Jin took over, the viewer count quickly reached what Xia Tian had before. It even reached ten thousand viewers.
Lin Jin was still playing the single player game RimWorld. After playing this game for so many days, she had actually already cleared it once, but it was just on normal difficulty and without any mods. Over the past few days, she added all sorts of mods that made the game harder, plus extra events and content. Additionally, she decided to play on the highest difficulty. As a result, Lin Jin basically lost all her characters in just half an hour.
Fortunately, Lin Jin was a patient person. Although she might not have the patience to play story heavy games , she could still play these half hour games. She dropped the difficulty a little, and after that, things went a bit more smoothly.
However, since it was close to eleven when Lin Jin started streaming, she decided to just order takeout. She was too lazy to cook and she figured she could just stream while she ate to pad her hours.
Lin Jin felt happy when she thought that she could even stream while eating. She was clearly just a Dota streamer at the beginning, then she became a single player game streamer, and now she was a streamer who just ate food.
Making a hundred thousand a year just eating on stream. Yeah.
After she finished eating, Lin Jin continued with the stream. But just a few minutes later, she heard a knock on the door.
She frowned, hurriedly ran to the door, opened it, and saw her dad standing there looking at her with a smile.
“So, now that you have a boyfriend, you won’t even come home anymore?” Her dad walked in with an insulated lunch box in hand and sat down on the sofa, not acting like a guest at all. He gestured for Lin Jin to sit beside him and continued “Before when you didn’t come home, you’d at least say something. But now, you don’t even say anything when you won’t come back.”
“Yesterday was kind of unexpected. You also know how busy Xia Tian and I are. Yesterday I was waiting for him to come back, but I already fell asleep by the time he did, so I just slept over.”
Lin Jin was actually pretty satisfied with her dad at the moment. At least he wasn’t criticizing her, and he wasn’t as irritable as when he had been addicted to gambling.
Her dad used to be on the skinny side. But after settling down recently, her dad, who always gained weight easily, now looked much more prosperous.
“What are you guys busy with now? It feels like you’re never home.”
Her dad was probably also bored. After all, there weren’t many milk tea orders at noon. Lunch was a time for eating, not drinking milk tea.
“I’m live streaming, and he’s thinking about starting a business." Lin Jin was worried about the stream. Originally, it was just eating on stream for a long time which should be fine. But now there was no one there. Having the viewers just hanging for too long would be a bit much.
“Live streaming? Starting a business?” Her dad immediately became interested and sat up as he looked at Lin Jin “Tell me more?”
“Live streaming is basically just playing games online for other people to watch everyday. Xia Tian and I usually take turns doing this every day, it’s about ten to twenty thousand a month.” Lin Jin helplessly explained to her dad “Now that we’ve saved up a bit of money from streaming, Xia Tian wants to start a business. Since he wants to do it, I can’t tell him not to, right? So now it’s just me streaming. Since I’m alone, I can only be stuck here all day.”
Her dad was still a bit confused and couldn’t quite understand how playing games for others to watch could make money.
“Anyway, don’t worry about it. Just focus on properly running your milk tea shop." Lin Jin rolled her eyes at him “Don’t gamble anymore. Don’t keep getting randomly drunk and I’ll be thankful.”
“Hey. Your father, I, now just play mahjong at night with the local elderly. I won’t lose more than a hundred a day from gambling, so what’s the problem?” Her dad gave her a stare “Is that any way to talk to your father?”
Lunatic.
Lin Jin rolled her eyes at him again. Even though her dad was finally becoming more and more like a father, because of how he was before, Lin Jin still didn’t have a good temper when talking with him. After all, her dad had been a bit too much before.
After casually chatting with her dad for a bit, Lin Jin hurriedly chased him out. She then put the insulated lunch box in the fridge, planning to take it out and heat it up for dinner.
Her dad couldn’t cook, so the food in the box was clearly bought from a nearby restaurant. Although some of the food in the box wasn’t that tasty, Lin Jin wasn’t in the mood to order takeout either.
After all, after adding the takeout container fee and the delivery fees, ordering takeout was too expensive compared to just picking it up yourself.
After returning to the computer, Lin Jin apologized to the viewers and then went back to streaming.
Live streaming was a very hasslesome thing for Lin Jin, but she also had to do it. Luckily, the game RimWorld didn’t require too much focus to play, which made her live stream work these last few days a lot more comfortable.
Moreover, Lin Jin felt that she was almost becoming a relationship counseling streamer. Because she didn’t need to focus that much when playing the game RimWorld and could pause at any time, she would occasionally chat with the viewers. She even asked the viewers to send questions about any relationship issues they were facing to her email, allowing her to sometimes change the gaming stream into a full on relationship advice stream.
At around three in the afternoon, Lin Jin got a little tired of playing for now, so she announced a short break and pulled up Kugou music to play some relaxing music. She then opened up her email and got ready to give some relationship advice.
“Well, I’m not sure if the viewer is here right now. Anyway, even if they’re not, I’ll reply to their email and tell them I’ve covered the question, so they can check the recording later.”
Lin Jin clicked open the text file in the email and propped her chin on her hand, relaxing herself as she began to read the question.
“Okay, I’m a man. My appearance is okay, somewhat slightly girly. But I’ve fallen for my roommate, but my roommate is a straight man. He also has a girlfriend. Even though we get along really well normally, we would also occasionally get touchy and cuddle and stuff…”
Lin Jin read it very seriously.
“So, I want to know how I can bend my straight roommate.”
“???”
Lin Jin was full of questions. She then turned to the camera and asked: “Why is my relationship advice segment turning into an LGBT advice segment?”
“Yesterday there was a girl asking how to come out to her parents, and today we’ve got a guy wanting to bend his straight buddy?”
“Hmm, then I’ll just say this. Men! If you can’t make him bend, then just put on some women’s clothes yourself and dress up really beautifully to tempt him into committing a crime, right? Anyway, those beautiful men on the internet are all so much more beautiful than actual girls that I’m almost embarrassed to show myself. I’m sure you can do it. Yup.”
Lin Jin obviously wasn’t a professional relationship counselor, so she just messed around a bit to get over this question and then moved on to the next one.
But to be honest, ever since she started doing these segments, she had really seen all sorts of stuff.
Something about meeting their online crush was actually a crossdressing man. Something about their girlfriend cheating on them, or something like cheating on their own friend. The variety of situations was really overwhelming.