Chapter 557: – Tycoon
Lin Jin planned to go to Xia Tian’s place and stream for two hours, then have lunch and take a good nap.
But before she even got to Xia Tian’s place, she saw her dad standing at the entrance of the community, waiting for her.
“Waiting for me?” Lin Jin walked up before her dad and looked at him in confusion.
“Yeah.” Her dad didn’t have a smile, he just somewhat coldly nodded.
During this time, Lin Jin was used to seeing her dad smiling all the time, so now she felt a bit uneasy seeing his cold appearance.
“What’s wrong?” She was a bit confused by his expression. After all, it had been a while since he showed this kind of coldness around her.
Her dad stayed silent for a moment, then said to her: “I also want to find you a stepmom.”
“...”
What the f*ck was this?!
Lin Jin blankly stared at her dad, wondering if she had misheard.
It was just mentioned to him that her mom was planning to find a partner, why was he suddenly saying this too?
Could it be that her dad had always had some lingering feelings for her mom? And he thought that they would get back together one day?
But if he really wanted that, he wouldn’t have continued going gambling and drinking after the divorce, essentially degrading him into a lazy beggar. Even though he had improved recently, who knew if he was actually still gambling. After all, Lin Jin had been living at Xia Tian’s place lately and rarely went home.
“Think about it, you’ll also marry someone in the future. Then, I’ll be all alone.” Her dad let out a bitter chuckle and said “Look at you. You haven’t even married yet but you’re already starting to not come home every day. National Day is a seven day break, yet you only came home to sleep for two days. The rest of the time, I basically don’t see you at all.”
Oh! So the meaning was that her dad was afraid of there being no one to care for him in old age?
Lin Jin nodded thoughtfully, then simply agreed: “That’s fine, I don’t mind.”
Her dad’s eyes lit up. Then he turned around and waved, and a woman around thirty five years old walked out from the community garden.
This woman wasn’t dressed fashionably and had short, dyed, permed hair, but she looked clean and full of energy.
Hmm, this was one of her dad’s mahjong buddies… Basically whenever Lin Jin went to the shop after nine, she would see this woman sitting at the same table as her dad, playing mahjong. They would usually play until eleven at night, only then did they go home.
“Hello auntie." Lin Jin greeted the woman whose name she didn’t know. She then glared at her dad and complained “Why ask me if you had already found someone?”
“We’re still just talking…”
Her dad, who had been expressionless when they met just now, suddenly seemed a bit shy.
Lin Jin had no idea what her dad liked about this woman. She wasn’t as pretty as her mom, she wasn’t as tall, and her temperament was definitely inferior.
“Hello, Lin Jin."
The auntie walked over to her dad’s side and stretched her hand out to Lin Jin for a handshake. However, Lin Jin wasn’t used to that at all. She just blankly stared at the outstretched hand for a while before she realized what to do. She hurriedly reached out and lightly shook the hand, just like on TV.
“We’re thinking of just discussing it for now. She, until now, has never been married. In your generation's words, she would be an old leftover woman…”
“Screw you!” The auntie playfully pinched her dad on the arm.
Lin Jin’s dad then lowered his head and began trying to comfort her, completely like flirting.
Lin Jin was dumbfounded. This was the first time she had seen her dad acting all affectionate in front of her. She didn’t see it coming at all and was fed a mouthful of dog food.
What the f*ck? Why did it feel so corny? Usually she and Xia Tian weren’t even this corny together.
Lin Jin stood there in a daze as her dad started introducing the auntie again.
“She works as an accountant at a relative’s company, so she’s usually pretty free. That’s why she likes to invite a few people to play mahjong in the evenings…”
Her dad continued introducing nonstop, but Lin Jin wasn’t interested in this at all. She finally made up an excuse about having something urgent to do and hurried off.
So this meant, her dad was actually in love…
But remembering what her mom had mentioned the other day, Lin Jin was a little worried whether he would end up cheating, gambling, or something else.
Once she got home, Lin Jin took a shower first, then quickly went back to Xia Tian’s place to start today’s live stream.
Because she got stalled by her dad for a while, it was almost eleven by the time the stream started.
Lin Jin had long lost most of her enthusiasm for streaming. In the past, she would answer questions asked in the chat, interact with the viewers, and even think of some funny skits to act out with Xia Tian. However, because she had been streaming alone so much lately, she began feeling too lazy to even talk.
The viewer count seemed to have dropped quite a bit, but Lin Jin didn’t really care. She figured that once Xia Tian came back and they started streaming together, those lost viewers would always return.
She had originally thought today’s stream would be as dull as usual. While Lin Jin was lazily playing Dota, she suddenly realized that the live stream chat was blowing up like crazy.
“What’s going on?” She glanced over at the second monitor and saw the chat messages flying by.
This was the most amount of barrage messages she had ever seen in chat. In the past, when there were a lot of messages flying by, she could at least still see some of the screen. But this time, the messages completely covered the entire stream screen.
“Did some tycoon send rockets?” Lin Jin’s eyes lit up and. She quickly turned the barrage messages off, and then realized that while she had been focusing on Dota, some rich tycoon had actually sent ten rockets in a row.
The f*ck!
You have to know that a single rocket would cost two thousand yuan! This was giving twenty thousand all at once, okay?! And this tycoon was still f*cking donating them!
Lin Jin just blankly stared at the screen, not even noticing that her character in game had just been killed. She was busy thinking about how much money she would get in the end.
If we count it as twenty thousand, the platform would take half, and Lin Jin would get the other. Even after deducting the tax, it was still at least seven thousand, and this was only counting ten rockets.
Thinking of this, it suddenly seemed like she was about to get rich!
“Many thanks to the tycoon for the many many rockets!” Lin Jin gulped and tried hard to steady herself. But the continuous stream of rockets made her unable to calm down.
“Does the tycoon have any requests!” Lin Jin excitedly stood up, fully ignoring the game now. She completely looked like a money grubber as she leaned her face before the camera “Sing or dance? Act cute or coquettish? I can do it all!”
However, Lin Jin didn’t see the tycoon say anything. Rather, besides the “tycoon is awesome” messages, the chat was filled with all sorts of weird requests.
Something about doing a striptease, singing songs like Eight Kills, and other weird requests.
She ignored them all...
Translator’s Note: Eight Kills (八連殺)