Chapter 556: – After the holidays
The first day after the seven day National Day holiday was a Monday.
Lin Jin had been depressed last night because she had class today, but she still woke up enthusiastically at 7:30 this morning. She hurried out and bought two breakfasts, one to leave home for Xia Tian, and the other for herself. After eating, she left Xia Tian’s place.
Speaking of which, Lin Jin rarely went back to her own house these days and mostly spent her time at Xia Tian’s. Her dad complained a lot, saying things like how Lin Jin hadn’t even married yet but had already become their family.
It was the first day of class after the holiday. Lin Jin went straight to the classroom where the class would be held like before. When she got there, there were only two or three girls inside playing on their phones.
She randomly picked a seat, sat down, and rested her chin on the desk in boredom.
“Lin Jin.”
“Hm?”
She heard someone beside her calling her. Looking up, she saw that it was Chen Xinya.
“What’s up? Need something?”
Speaking of which, she used to be pretty close with Chen Xinya. But maybe because Xia Tian had taken up too much of her attention, she and Chen Xinya hadn’t really talked this semester. The two of them could be considered to have gone through hardships together.
“Recently, the school’s planning to enter some dance competition again. I want to join, want to do it together?” Chen Xinya sat in the empty seat next to Lin Jin and expectantly looked at her “I think they said the first place prize is one thousand yuan. It’s a city wide competition.”
“A city wide competition?” Lin Jin blankly stared at her. After thinking for a bit, she still shook her head, explaining “There must be a lot of professionals in a city wide competition, we won’t really have any advantage if we joined.”
“But for the competition this time, half of the scoring comes from online voting. Don’t you have a lot of fans online? Just call upon them a bit, even if we can’t get the top spot, we could at least get the third place prize or something.”
“Eh, I think I’ll still pass. I’m usually pretty busy. I need to stream and I have class, there’s not really time to practice.” Lin Jin scratched her head. She took a glance at Chen Xinya and was met with her disappointed eyes. She immediately felt a bit regretful, but she really didn’t want to enter some competition.
“You really won’t join?” Chen Xinya sighed. She obviously wanted Lin Jin to participate with her.
“Probably not. I’m just too busy.” Lin Jin helplessly smiled.
Then, Lin Jin found that Chen Xinya was staring straight at her face.
Lin Jin somewhat inexplicably reached out and touched the corner of her mouth, asking: “What’s wrong? Did my breakfast stick to my face?”
Chen Xinya rolled her eyes at Lin Jin and suddenly reached out to grab Lin Jin’s chest.
Lin Jin was completely stunned, and just blankly froze there.
“So you really are a girl.” Chen Xinya quickly pulled back her hand. Her face was a little red, but her mouth was merciless. “If you don’t participate with me, then I’ll tell everyone in class that you’re actually a girl.”
“Eh?”
Lin Jin immediately scooted away from Chen Xinya, looked down at her chest, and said with a pout: “I bet most of the people in class already think I’m a girl anyway, or at least they treat me like one. What’s the use of threatening me with this?”
Lin Jin wore light long sleeved sun blocking clothing all summer. Since she usually wore a jacket, her chest wasn’t very obvious and could get away with it. Some people who suspected her as a crossdresser might have some doubts, but they just kept it to themselves.
“You really are a girl, right?” Chen Xinya pouted and stared at Lin Jin. “I always thought something was off every time I saw you, like your chest seemed pretty big...”
“Sure if you say so.” Lin Jin turned her head away, not willing to look at the sulking Chen Xinya.
“What do you mean if I say so...”
“Anyway, this doesn’t bother me. Whether you guys think I’m a guy or a girl doesn’t mean anything to me.”
Lin Jin had long since gotten used to others looking at her like she was some crossdressing weirdo. Besides, she had long gotten used to wearing women’s clothing and wore it every day to school. She could hear some people talking about her every day.
At first, she still got a bit angry, but then later, she didn’t feel anything at all.
Chen Xinya saw that she was completely helpless towards Lin Jin, so she could only stand up and walk back to her group of roommates.
Right after she left, Wu Min and Wen Xuan arrived just in time for class.
Maybe because everyone had too much fun during the National Day holiday, even though class had officially started, there were only around ten students here. Although more people trickled in, the total amount in the end was probably only around twenty.
Lin Jin usually paid attention in class. After all, the black cat had tasks related to her grades, so she didn’t dare slack off too much.
Today’s class was on 3D modeling, which meant learning how to make character and scene models. They had already learned a bit about scene modeling before, but character modeling was brand new, which was tough for Lin Jin.
Fortunately, it wasn’t just her who was struggling. There were only two or three people in class who could keep up with the teacher, everyone else was basically all lost.
When the two hour class ended, Lin Jin stretched and rubbed her temples with her fingers, her tired eyes finally feeling a bit better.
The long live streams during the National Day holiday had made her eyes tired, and now two hours of staring at a computer made her eyes even more sore and dry.
She figured she should buy some eye drops when she had time.
“Lin Jin, how come your boyfriend hasn’t been picking you up lately?” Wu Min stood up and glanced out the door window. Seeing no sign of Xia Tian, he turned his head to ask, “Broke up?”
“He switched to a somewhat busier job.” Seeing that most of the students in class had left by now, Lin Jin prepared to head out too.
“Such a shame, I had thought you guys broke up.” Wu Min laughed and said “Ever since he started picking you up every day, you stopped hanging out with us.”
“It’s not that bad. After he changed his job, the streaming thing became all me so I don’t really have much time.” Lin Jin followed Wu Min towards the classroom door and said “We only had this one class today, right?”
“Yeah, you can go back and find your little boyfriend now.”
“I already told you he’s busy at work. I still need to stream when I get back. I want to take a nap in the afternoon…” Lin Jin yawned. Since she slept quite late during the holiday, it caused her to fall asleep at one last night.
“Then alright, I was gonna find you to see a movie.”
“Let’s forget it then, in case my boyfriend misunderstands.” Lin Jin rolled her eyes.
Wu Min burst out laughing and waved his hand at Lin Jin: “Fine, then Wen Xuan and I will go watch it. You can just go home and be a shut in.”
“You’re just jealous I can even make money staying at home.” Lin Jin huffed, glaring at her friend in dissatisfaction.