Chapter 545: – Preparing
The morning livestream was mostly just Xia Tian playing games. Lin Jin was off to the side playing on her console and reading novels, feeling quite relaxed. At least, it was the most relaxed she had been recently.
She was leaning back in her chair with both her legs stretched out and her feet placed across Xia Tian’s lap, looking like she didn’t care about anything. Her head was lowered as she focused on playing Stardew valley on her handheld console.
Speaking of which, Lin Jin had downloaded this game on her computer before. But maybe because she never really had the patience when playing on a computer, she didn’t really play this game. Later, after she got the console and spent money on buying the game again, she played once and realized that playing this kind of game on a handheld was actually pretty fun.
It felt like when she used to play Harvest Moon on a Game Boy.
The stream started at nine in the morning. Xia Tian played four games of Dota on the computer, then he got curious about the single player game that Lin Jin had been playing recently. After taking a quick look at RimWorld, he found that this kind of high brain power strategy game didn’t really suit him.
Lin Jin had introduced simulation strategy games like Hearts of Iron to Xia Tian before, but he just couldn’t get the hang of them. It wasn’t that he was impatient, it was simply that these games were too hard to learn. He was completely clueless on what he should do, what those buttons were used for, or even how to command his troops to battle.
“Xia Tian, what time are we heading out?” Lin Jin suddenly paused her game, lifted her head, and asked Xia Tian. “Twelve o’clock? Wanda’s very crowded over there at noon, right? It’s also National Day, it’ll definitely be full of people. We’ll probably even have to line up just to eat.”
“No worries. I made a reservation yesterday at a Japanese restaurant. Didn’t you want to eat raw salmon? There’s nowhere to buy it near the school, but you still keep nagging me to go buy some.”
“I just asked you to bring some back for me on your way home, okay?” Lin Jin rolled her eyes at him. “You were just too lazy to get it for me. Isn’t your hotel just over there near Wanda? You just needed to randomly find a store and order takeout for me.”
“Raw food, in this hot weather, wouldn’t it be spoiled by the time I got back?” Xia Tian helplessly shrugged. “We’ll go in half an hour. I’ve already made a reservation, so we can just go walk in when it’s time.”
“Oh.”
Xia Tian didn’t continue playing Dota, he just answered some questions from chat or browsed through recent news online for the last bit of the live stream.
At twelve at noon, Xia Tian ended the stream, then walked over to the closet and started picking out clothes to wear.
“Lin Jin, what do you think I should wear for our date today?” Xia Tian didn’t have many outfits in his closet, but even after looking through them all multiple times, he still couldn’t find anything he was satisfied with.
Lin Jin stood up and came over, pointing to a white shirt Xia Tian used to often wear back when he was a white collar worker: “Shirt and black pants. I quite like this look, it looks quite well kept.”
“Then what are you wearing?”
“I’ll just wear whatever. Anyway, I’m pretty.” Lin Jin raised her eyebrows.
She only had one set of spare clothes at Xia Tian’s place, usually for when she needed to go to class. So after seeing Xian Tian take off his shirt and revealing a body without much fat, she just stayed in her pajamas and planned to go back home.
“You get dressed first. I’m going home to change. Should I do my makeup too?”
“Sure!”
The pajamas Lin Jin wore at Xia Tian’s place were relatively thin long sleeves and pants. Although there were a lot of cute patterns printed on them and it might feel embarrassing to wear outside, she didn’t care too much since it was just going upstairs.
When she got home, she rushed into the bathroom, tied her hair into a ponytail, and then carefully started applying makeup in front of the bathroom mirror.
The pimple on Lin Jin’s face had already cleared up without leaving any scars or blemishes, so right now, her face was as perfect as before. Makeup wasn’t that important for her, but since this was the first date they had gone on in about a month, she still tried her best to look good.
“Should’ve gotten a perm. Otherwise I’ll look like a student even if I wear a ponytail.” After Lin Jin finished putting on her makeup, she looked at her reflection with a frown “Even after makeup, I still look like a student…”
The makeup allowed Lin Jin’s face to look even more fair and rosy. Her already large eyes were made to look even bigger after some eyeliner and mascara. Lin Jin maintained her eyebrows everyday, so all she needed to do right now was outline it a bit. The subtle curve of her brows made Lin Jin look like an intellectual beauty.
But she still looked like a student.
Even though it was more of a mature older sister student type of look, when next to Xia Tian in his white shirt who looked much more grown up than her, she felt like it didn’t really fit well.
“It’ll do for now!”
Lin Jin ran into her bedroom and took out a black pleated skirt and a thin, pure white, long sleeved cotton top from her closet. She then put on a pair of black knee high socks and went back to the bathroom again.
Hmm, not bad. All she was missing was a nice wavy hairstyle.
Lin Jin tilted her head and looked at her own reflection, feeling more and more interested in getting her hair permed.
At this moment, Xia Tian, who had a key to her place, opened the door and walked in. He immediately saw her head poking out from the bathroom.
“What? Checking if it was a thief?”
Xia Tian was already dressed in his white shirt and black pants at this time. He didn’t have a very good figure, at least he didn’t have many muscles, but the straight outline of the slim fit shirt still made him look tall and pretty handsome.
He walked into the bathroom. Looking at Lin Jin’s reflection in the mirror, she said with a smile: “Beautiful. I normally couldn’t tell, but when you wear makeup, you could totally even compete in some world class beauty pageants.”
“No way. Those pageant contests are all walking around in just bikinis, I’m not interested.” Lin Jin then suddenly noticed the other half of Xia Tian’s words “Hey, what do you mean? What do you mean you normally couldn’t tell? Aren’t I pretty normally?”
“How? When did I imply that?” Xia Tian unhesitantly overturned his earlier words “What I meant was, you look even prettier with makeup on.”
“Enough. I’m thinking about getting a perm, what do you think? Wavy hair?”
“Sure. You’re already in college. It’s just a perm, you don’t need my permission.” Xia Tian leaned against the tiled wall of the bathroom, arms crossed, as he watched Lin Jin continue fine tuning her makeup in front of the mirror.
“I’ll probably get a trim first. My hair hasn’t been cut in ages, it looks a bit messy. Perm the hair, and then dye it a bit, hmm, maybe granny gray?”
“Let’s forget it? Granny gray?” Xia Tian pursed his lips. “It’s not like I’m into GILFs.”
“What’s that?” Lin Jin turned around to look at him in confusion.
Xia Tian froze for a moment, suddenly realizing what he said might have been a bit too much, and quickly explained: “I was saying, it’s not like I like that color, uh…”
Lin Jin gave him a glare and said unhappily: “Sure you did, just hearing it sounded off.”