Chapter 549: – Dad’s dark history
Lin Chen was seeing Lin Jin stream for the first time, so he became extremely curious. He immediately ditched their mom and followed Lin Jin into the bedroom.
Lin Jin’s streaming setup was actually pretty good. After all, she had made tens of thousands of yuan from streaming, so the equipment couldn’t be too bad.
There was a professional camera, professional microphone, and the computer was even hooked up to two monitors. One monitor was to look at chat and the other one for playing the game. Also, the mouse and keyboard looked great too. Although they might not have cost thousands, they at least cost in the hundreds.
It was Lin Chen’s first time seeing such a fancy computer setup. He instantly got really excited and started poking around, feeling this and touching that, until he realized the stream was currently live.
“Sister, you’re streaming?” Lin Chen suddenly noticed he was on camera and hurriedly stepped to the side. Then he turned his head to look at Lin Jin beside him. “Sister, what games do you usually stream? I usually watch streams too, how come I’ve never seen you before? Small streamer?”
“Small streamer? I guess that’s kind of right.” Lin Jin shrugged. Although she was already one of the top three streamers in the Dota section, the issue was that no one cared about Dota. So even if she was in the top three, it was still far below those League of Legends streamers.
At least the popularity count was quite different. As for the number of real concurrent viewers, no one knew.
Lin Jin sat down in front of the computer. She had played too much RimWorld recently so she had been mixing in some Dota. Meanwhile, Lin Chen had no clue what was going on in Dota at all. He just sat off to the side looking confused, feeling that the dazzling array of skills and effects on screen was so confusing he couldn’t tell who was who.
Their mom had nothing to do, so she walked over to the bedroom door, leaned against the doorframe, and peeked inside.
“Lin Jin, what are you doing right now?”
“Live streaming." Lin Jin glanced up at her mom and said somewhat impatiently “Mom, if you have nothing to do, how about you go grocery shopping? You cook tonight.”
“It’s not like you can’t cook." Their mom standing at the door glared unhappily at Lin Jin.
Lin Jin immediately wore a cheeky smile and said: “Isn’t this just me craving mom’s cooking?”
Lin Chen quite unhesitatingly retorted: “I’ve long been sick of it.”
“You’re asking for a beating, right?”
Mom raised her hand, ready to smack Lin Chen, and the big guy immediately chickened out and hid behind Lin Jin.
After, their mom went off to the market to buy groceries, leaving Lin Jin to continue streaming while Lin Chen intently watched. However, although Lin Chen was very focused on watching, he couldn’t understand anything at all.
He didn’t understand Dota, and when Lin Jin switched to RimWorld, he didn’t really get it either. Luckily, he had a somewhat better IQ or memory, as after about three hours, he finally understood a bit of what was going on in those games.
“Hey, sister.” Lin Chen looked at the monitor that showed the chat and grinned like an idiot. “Look, they’re saying to let me play.”
“Let you play? What will you play?” Lin Jin glanced at him, then looked at the chat and found that there really were a bunch of viewers who were just here to watch the action and stir things up.
“‘That stupid idiot next to you has been watching all day, let him play a bit.”
“They’re saying you’re a stupid idiot.” Lin Jin raised an eyebrow at him “Don’t you feel mad?”
“Mad about what? Though I look like a stupid idiot, at least my school’s probably better than most of your chat, right?”
Then that line by Lin Chen instantly provoked the viewers and the chat exploded with people taking shots at Lin Chen one after another.
Afterwards, Lin Jin forgot about her younger brother beside her for a bit and focused on the stream. As usual, besides streaming, there wasn’t really much else.
And there was a Lin Chen by her side. So whenever she got tired of streaming, she would directly push Lin Chen into the spotlight to help with the stream while she went to rest in bed. Since it was Lin Chen’s first time streaming, he was really enthusiastic.
Then at around three in the afternoon, their dad came over as well.
Their mom had been gone grocery shopping for half the day for some reason. As soon as their dad heard the news, he immediately abandoned the milk tea shop and hurried over with a nervous look. He was completely not like a guest at all, directly sitting down on the sofa and making himself some tea to drink.
After opening the door to let her dad in, Lin Jin ran back to the bedroom and whispered to Lin Chen: "I’m guessing that dad wants to get back together with mom. He’s been behaving quite well lately.”
“He’s been behaving well lately, god knows how he’ll behave in the future.”
Because Lin Chen had separated from their dad when he was young and had no attachment to him, he actually thought that it would be better for their mom if she just found a new stepdad instead.
“Back when mom and him just got married, wasn’t he behaving very well too? Then later he got successful and became addicted to gambling.” Lin Chen shrugged. “I heard mom say, she said that you were born prematurely, and even almost died.”
“How come I never knew?”
While the two were secretly gossiping in the bedroom, their mom had come back into Xia Tian’s place with a shopping basket, completely unaware. As soon as she opened the door, she found their dad inside sitting on the sofa. She had been smiling just now, but it instantly vanished. With a dark expression, she questioned dad sitting on the sofa: “What’s up with you? Why are you here?”
“I originally just lived upstairs, why can’t I come see my daughter?”
“Yeah, right. Did you forget what your reaction was when you found out that Lin Jin had become a girl?” Mom coldly huffed and walked straight into the kitchen. After setting her shopping basket down in the kitchen, she walked straight into the bedroom and directly locked the door.
Lin Jin and Lin Chen looked at each other. They had originally assumed that their parents would at least talk for a bit. But as soon as they met, their mom had instantly started a fight and then holed up in the bedroom, leaving everything else aside.
This was a live stream.
With a gloomy expression, Lin Jin gave her viewers an apology and then ended the stream. After that, she turned her head towards her mom.
“Lin Jin, I’m telling you, your dad’s like a dog that can’t stop eating shit! Don’t be fooled by how nice he seems quite nice to you now, how he seems to have opened a shop and is making some money, and how he seems to have stopped drinking and gambling!” Their mom’s hand uncontrollably slapped the bed and she continued to say in agitation “Your dad, I know that guy! I lived together with him for over ten years! Would I not know what kind of person he is? Back when he was in business, he used to find a mistress outside every day!”
Lin Jin’s mind went blank. She had always assumed it was only after the divorce would her dad occasionally go find escorts.
Lin Chen however, looked indifferent. He had no feelings for his biological father.
Lin Jin let out a sigh. Originally, she had really thought her dad had changed for the better and that his dark history of gambling and drinking was now all in the past. But as a result, she heard about an even darker part of his dark history.