Chapter 555: – Emotional
After telling her dad about what had happened, Lin Jin went back and focused on streaming.
Now that her mom and younger brother were gone, Lin Jin could finally focus on streaming. After all, when her mom was around, she didn’t dare to be too loud while streaming, but now she didn’t have to worry.
While streaming, she suddenly remembered that classes would start tomorrow. For some reason, a feeling of suffocation arose inside of her and she suddenly had the thought of dropping out of school.
Her monthly income was in the tens of thousands anyway, why go to school!
That was what she thought, but of course, Lin Jin couldn’t actually drop out of school. Not to mention her mom who had high hopes for her ever since she was young, Lin Jin had almost angered her mom to death when she only got into a vocational college, but even her usually indifferent dad would probably beat her if she really dropped out.
Lin Jin kept streaming absentmindedly and time slowly passed by. Lin Jin only snapped out of it when she heard the front door open.
For some inexplicable reason, she was in a terrible mood. With a straight face, she frowned and turned to look at the bedroom door.
A moment later, Xia Tian walked in with an unhappy look on his face. As soon as he entered the room, he complained: “Seriously, that Chen Cheng has such a f*cking big mouth. After just a single morning, everyone at the hotel who knows me had already all heard that I have a beautiful girlfriend.”
“Of course, I’m not saying it’s a bad thing.” Xia Tian saw his butt down on the bed and looked down at his phone while he continued to say “But now, as soon as I take a break, someone would run over and ask if it’s true that I have a girlfriend.”
“Hey, did you know? That Chen Cheng made you sound like some domineering CEO. She said that I’m like a little wife whenever I’m with you.” Xia Tian said with a laugh “How could I look like a little wife? I’m the boss when at home, okay?”
As he was talking, he suddenly noticed Lin Jin’s slightly gloomy expression, and the smile that was on his face instantly froze.
“That uh?” Xia Tian cautiously scooted closer to Lin Jin’s side like a little wife, and flatteringly looked at Lin Jin “That uh, what’s wrong? You’re upset?”
Lin Jin just blankly stared at him. Xia Tian got even more nervous, thinking what he had said might have annoyed her.
Could it be that Lin Jin didn’t think she was a domineering CEO?
He gulped and carefully comforted her: “Sorry, I didn’t do it on purpose. Don’t just keep looking at me like that… What's wrong? If there’s anything, just say it.”
“I’m in a bad mood.” Lin Jin pouted. She sighed, then turned back to the stream and continued “I finally got to meet my mom and younger brother, but we didn’t end up doing anything, and they had to go after just one day. But the important thing is that I also have to go to class tomorrow.”
Oh, so it was post vacation syndrome!
Xia Tian suddenly realized. Back when he was in school, whenever a long holiday ended, he would also experience this. This kind of feeling will normally disappear after two to three days of class.
“Then what to do?” Although he had experienced it before, he didn’t really know what other solutions there were besides just pushing through it.
He thought for a moment and suggested, “How about you take a nap?”
“Let’s just forget it then.” Lin Jin pouted her mouth and stood up, ordering “You stream, I’m going down to buy a couple bottles of alcohol to drink.”
“Drinking?!”
“Yeah. After drinking two bottles, I probably won’t overthink this much.” She lazily stretched “Anyway, two bottles isn’t that much.”
“That’s true, okay you go.”
Xia Tian also occasionally drank alcohol, but he mostly preferred red wine. He usually kept a bottle at home and would have a bit every now and then. As for Lin Jin, Xia Tian felt like he had never seen her drink before, so this surprised him a little.
Lin Jin leisurely walked downstairs and bought two bottles of beer from the convenience store by the community. She also bought some snacks like braised pork tongue to go with the drinks.
When she got back, Xia Tian was already streaming Dota.
The amount of viewers in the stream seemed to have dropped a bit recently. Maybe it was because Lin Jin had been randomly streaming different standalone games instead of focusing on Dota, or maybe the viewers were just tired of watching Lin Jin and Xia Tian. Anyway, the chat wasn’t as busy as before. It also might be that the viewers preferred seeing both of them together rather than just one at a time.
“Lin Jin, what alcohol did you buy?” Xia Tian turned his head towards the two bottles in Lin Jin’s hands and suddenly froze. With a bitter smile, he said to her “Didn’t you say two bottles of alcohol, why is it baijiu? And it’s even the kind with over 50%?”
“I’ve never had baijiu before, trying it out.” Lin Jin curiously looked at the bottles of Baijiu in her hands. She sat down next to Xia Tian, opened the bag, and spread the contents on the table “Want to eat some?”
“I’m good. You go ahead.”
“Then I’ll eat it myself.”
It wasn’t actually Lin Jin’s first time trying Baijiu. The first time she drank it was in high school when a friend had bought a small bottle for a few yuan after a breakup. Out of curiosity, Lin Jin had a tiny sip. It was just a tiny sip, but it burnt so much she couldn’t stand it. This resulted in her never daring to try it again.
Her experience drinking the baijiu this time was no different from the last. Just one mouthful and her face nearly deformed from the burn. She hurriedly took some more bites of the braised food she bought to finally suppress the alcohol.
Just one tiny tiny sip, yet Lin Jin’s lower abdomen started feeling like it was on fire.
“What’s wrong? Don’t like it?” Xia Tian took a glance at Lin Jin beside him, smiling as he said “If you can’t get used to it, how about I go buy you two bottles of beer?”
“No way.”
Lin Jin slumped against the table, resting her chin on it and staring blankly at the baijiu on the table.
Lin Jin only knew that she felt a little unwilling to go back to class after seven days of holiday, but if it was just unwilling to go to class, she shouldn’t be this depressed. However, she wasn’t just depressed, she was also getting a bit teary for some reason.
She figured it might be because after becoming a woman, maybe her hormones were making her more emotional than before.
You have to know that before Lin Jin encountered the black cat, she basically wouldn’t even cry a single time in many years. She didn’t even cry when she had a serious argument with her dad that turned violent, she just felt aggrieved. But now, it felt like every once in a while, her mood would drop whenever something minor happened.
Lin Jin took another sip of the baijiu and started coughing. She managed to finally stop the coughs, but her tears started falling.
“Lin Jin!” Xia Tian, who had been paying attention to her the entire time while streaming, immediately took the two bottles away. He looked at her seriously and asked “What’s really going on? Is there anything you can’t say? Do you have to drink and torture yourself?”
“I’m just not in a good mood, no idea why.” Lin Jin pouted her lips and somewhat unhappily looked at Xia Tian.
“If you’re in a bad mood, then just play some games for a bit?”
“No way. Gaming will make me feel worse.” She slumped on the table, blankly staring at Xia Tian’s computer screen.
Seeing Lin Jin’s stupid look at this moment, Xia Tian completely had no idea what to do. He could only reach out and pat her head, trying his best to convey to Lin Jin how much he cared.