Chapter 560: – Daily Life
The evening next day, Lin Jin brought a bunch of classmates over to Xia Tian’s place.
Wu Min, Wen Xuan, even the annoying He Yinghui were there, as well as two classmates from the neighboring dorm 433, Lin Xin and Cai Jianlai.
The one who had been acting as Lin Jin’s cameraman and whose relationship with her was improving, Zhu Dong, came too, along with his girlfriend.
Altogether, there were six classmates all crowded in Xia Tian’s home.
The three chefs Xia Tian hired had already started prepping in the afternoon. Since Xia Tian wanted them to make all the dishes on the menu for the taste test, by the time Lin Jin and the others arrived, the table was already full of food. There were so many dishes that even the living room table was filled. From a rough glance, there were at least twenty or thirty plates of different dishes.
Of the three chefs, one was good at Sichuan cuisine, another at Western food, and the last was good at making flour based foods. So on the table were stacked dishes like spicy beef tripe, grilled steak, crispy pancakes, and stuff. The array was so dazzling that nobody knew where to start.
So, what exactly was Xia Tian’s restaurant planning to do? Was it focusing on Sichuan cuisine or Western? Or maybe just flour based foods?
None of the people in the group brought by Lin Jin knew what it meant to be reserved. As soon as they arrived at Xia Tian’s place, they greeted him, and then grabbed some chopsticks and started to eat.
It must be said, the three chefs hired by Xia Tian were indeed really skilled. Every dish tasted great, just the Sichuan dishes were a bit too spicy. Even though it was delicious, it was too much for this group of students hailing from coastal areas. Only He Yinghui could handle the spiciness, chugging milk as she ate.
They were all full of praise for the food. Although there would occasionally be some dishes that didn’t suit their tastes, they were very respectful when offering their own opinions.
Something like the desserts being too sweet, the Sichuan food burned like hell, the Western food seemed a bit too ordinary, and things like that.
Xia Tian attentively noted it down one by one. Most of these students were from Xiamen or had lived here for a long time, so he really valued their opinions. Also, during this time while the restaurant was renovating, he even planned to have the three chefs modify the dishes every three days, and then get people to try them over and over again. This way, maybe once the restaurant was open, it would be able to win customers with its repeatedly refined dishes.
But even until now, Lin Jin still had no idea what kind of restaurant Xia Tian was planning on opening. After all, there always had to be a theme when opening a restaurant, right? Like a milk tea shop that just sells milk tea, or a Western restaurant focusing on Western food, or Sichuan restaurant focusing on Sichuan food.
From five in the afternoon until eight at night, there were still a lot of dishes left. Seven or eight of the dishes were completely done, but the others were only half finished at most.
After Xia Tian saw the three chefs and Lin Jin’s classmates off, he sat on the sofa staring at the leftovers in a daze.
“What’s up?”
Lin Jin looked at Xia Tian, a bit confused. She sat down next to him, tilted her head, and asked: “Feeling down?”
“No, I’m just wondering if dishes like these could actually attract customers.” Xia Tian had one hand on his chin, stroking his stubble as he said as if talking to himself “I think it should be okay, but something keeps feeling off.”
“There’s no focus?”
“I already thought of a focus, I just think that these dishes aren’t really enticing enough.” Xia Tian frowned, turned to Lin Jin, and then said “You can go stream, I still need to head out.”
“Head out?”
“To scout some restaurants, see if there’s anything we can learn from those restaurants with a lot of customers.” Xia Tian stood up, put on his jacket, and then left without looking back.
Lin Jin helplessly let out a sigh. Ever since Xia Tian started to work on his restaurant, the relationship between them seemed to have become a little cold. It had already been a long time since she heard Xia Tian say anything romantic to her. Even though she used to find it really cringe when she heard it before, but now that she hasn’t heard it in so long, she was starting to suspect if Xia Tian didn’t like her anymore.
It shouldn’t be, right?
Lin Jin cleaned up the dishes on the table, stuffing most of the leftovers into the fridge. With so much food, they would probably be eating leftovers for the next five or six days.
Then she went back to the bedroom. A bit tired, she started the live stream. She chatted with the viewers and started the game.
She had recently quit RimWorld, she was already tired of playing it and had changed to a dancing game on the Switch. Although this game got decent viewership numbers, it was very exhausting to play. Since Lin Jin felt a bit tired today, she didn’t plan to play it and decided to just grind some ranked rating in Dota.
Her rating had already reached the top 1000 on the Chinese server. But because she wasn’t as talented, she was now barely making any progress.
Nowadays, it was just win a game and then lose a game.
The wins were basically all just being carried, and the losses were just games where they fed. Very rarely would she be able to carry the game, so playing felt very tiring.
But among the female Dota streamers on this platform, Lin Jin was basically first in terms of rank and appearance. The viewers she had lost a while back were already slowly returning. Plus, the platform was running a Dota streaming event lately, so her monthly salary plus donations from streaming was almost thirty thousand.
The increased income made Lin Jin more enthusiastic about streaming a bit a while ago, but that only lasted a few days before she once again regressed to a lazy salted fish. Every day, she would stream as if clocking in for work, making her feel quite uncomfortable.
Only halfway through her stream, at around ten o’clock at night, there was a knock on the door.
Lin Jin hurried over and opened the door, only to find her dad’s new love, the woman who might become her stepmom, standing outside with a back of snacks.
“Lin Jin, here’s some snacks.” The woman handed the bag in her hand over to Lin Jin and said with a smile “I heard your dad say you live stream or something every day? It’s nice to eat some snacks while playing on the computer.”
“Mm, thank you auntie.” Lin Jin took the snacks, somewhat confused about why she was here today.
“Your dad and I are planning to get married in January.”
So that was the reason…
Lin Jin nodded, forced a smile and said: “Congratulations to you guys.”
They clearly haven’t known each other for more than half a year, and they were already preparing to get married? Lin Jin really had no idea what aspect of her dad appealed to this woman.
“At that time, remember to come. We’re thinking of holding the wedding at your boyfriend’s restaurant, just don’t know if it’ll be open yet.”
“Uh, should be ready by then. I’ll go ask and have him give you guys a discount.” Lin Jin nodded with a smile. She didn’t really feel anything towards this soon to be stepmom she didn’t know too well.
“I’ll be off then. I won’t keep interrupting your game.”
“Bye bye.”
Dad was getting married again… then what about mom?