Chapter 563: – Chat
Xia Tian’s proposal overwhelmed Lin Jin, but she still accepted it. They agreed to hold their engagement party the day before her dad’s wedding.
Even though an engagement party definitely wasn’t as big a deal as a wedding, people’s engagement parties these days were basically comparable to a wedding. Especially back in Lin Jin’s hometown, engagements were exactly like weddings, which was basically like getting married twice.
In the days after the proposal, Lin Jin’s face flushed red every day and was radiating happiness all the time.
Wu Min and Wen Xuan, the two who basically always hung out with her at school, quickly noticed her strange behavior.
After all, Lin Jin would randomly zone out in class and then suddenly start giggling like an idiot. Probably everyone in class could tell that something was up.
During their morning class, right after the teacher took attendance, Lin Jin started spacing out again with the same silly smile on her face.
“Lin Jin?” Wu Min curiously glanced at the idiotically smiling Lin Jin and couldn’t hold back his curiosity anymore. He reached out to shake her shoulder and asked “What’s up with you these days? Did something good happen?”
Only then did Lin Jin finally snap out of his, then she turned her head to look at Wu Min. Her face was full of confusion as she asked: “Ah? What about me?”
“Anybody who isn’t stupid can tell that you’ve got something on your mind these days.” Wen Xuan by the side pursed his lips and said “Did something good happen? Your boyfriend bought you a house? He doesn’t look like a rich person though.”
“No way.” Lin Jin shook her head, her face flushed as she slightly smiled “He’s so stingy, how could he buy me a house. He only gave me a ring, that’s all. And it’s silver.”
“One of those hundred or so yuan rings from Taobao?”
“Yeah, a really cheap one. He’s super stingy.” As Lin Jin spoke, she couldn’t help but remember the moment he confessed, and she immediately started smiling like an idiot again.
Wu Min couldn’t stand it anymore. He helplessly shook his head and turned the other way, and even complained.
“This kind of stinky idiotic smile, I really don’t understand.”
“Exactly, it feels like Lin Jin is trying to maliciously force feed us dog food.” Wen Xuan rolled his eyes. “I’m not blind, it’s definitely because of your little boyfriend that you’re smiling like an idiot every day.”
Lin Jin didn’t deny it. She just kept resting her chin on her hands and grinning like an idiot.
“There’s no saving this child.” Wu Min took a glance at Lin Jin. His whole expression helpless as he moved his seat a bit farther away from her, worried her stupid grin would lower his IQ.
Lin Jin had definitely encountered something good these past few days. Her whole person was silly. Her smiling idiotically in class normally was whatever, but she would even randomly start giggling when walking with her. Who knew which part of her brain broke.
It might really be because that Xia Tian gave her some surprise, right? It actually made Lin Jin daydream for so long.
After class, Lin Jin didn’t go eat with them in the cafeteria. The leftovers from the past few days were still not finished yet. In order to not waste food, Lin Jin just bought a boxed lunch from outside and then hurried home to eat.
Opening the door, she had originally thought that the house would be empty, but actually found XIa Tian had already reheated the dishes. He was sitting on a chair, eating while looking at his phone.
“How come you’re free today? You’re not at the shop supervising the renovations? Not afraid they’ll cut corners?”
Lin Jin immediately went up, glanced over the food placed on the table, and slightly frowned: “Say so sooner. If you told me earlier, I wouldn’t have bought food.”
“It’s fine. I gave them the day off today. They’ve been busy for half a month straight. Even if they’re not tired, I am.” Xia Tian smiled as he waved at Lin Jin “Come, let’s eat. Do you have any plans in the afternoon? You can leave that boxed lunch for making fried rice for dinner.”
“I still have class at two in the afternoon.” Lin Jin walked to Xia Tian’s side and sat down. She put the boxed lunch in her hands on the table and yawned.
In the past few days, she had always been caught up in the good memories from a few days ago, causing her to not sleep that well.
“I’m not really in the mood for class lately. My classmates all say I’m hopeless, smiling like idiot every day.” Lin Jin pouted and unhappily said. “It’s all your whatever proposal’s fault. Couldn’t you have waited until after I graduated?”
“It’s fine, it was going to happen sooner or later.” Xia Tian lovingly reached out and stroked her head “Weren’t you always complaining about me neglecting you before?”
“No, when was that? Don’t spout nonsense, okay?”
Lin Jin unhesitatingly denied the accusations, shaking her head like crazy.
“Yeah right, whatever’s on your mind is always clearly written all over your face.” Xia Tian laughed. He took a couple bites of food, then yawned.
Recently, because he was getting ready to open the restaurant, he had been busying outside everyday. Then at night, in addition to streaming at night, he also needed to study more business knowledge. As someone who had never been the boss before and not wanting his first shop to go bankrupt, he could only do his best to look more experienced.
You have to know that Lin Jin’s cousin was also said to have opened a shop earlier, a milk tea shop. Apparently, because he didn’t do enough homework beforehand, the shop ended up losing more than three hundred thousand.
However, her cousin could rely on his two parents who opened a business overseas. So even though the three hundred thousand was distressing, it could still be lost. But it was a different story for Xia Tian, who knew how many loans he had to take to open this shop. If it failed this time, there might not be a next time. Even though live streaming could make quite a bit of money every month, all the money for the next three to five years might go to paying off debt.
Xia Tian wasn’t willing to let Lin Jin live a life of repaying debt. All he could do was hope the restaurant wouldn’t lose money and go close. As long as the restaurant could maintain its basic operations, then after a few years, it will eventually get the chance to turn a profit.
“Oh right, after it opens, do you want to go work part time there when you’re free?” Xia Tian glanced at Lin Jin, who was sitting beside him with her head leaning against her hand while eating “I’ll pay you a salary of a hundred yuan an hour, how about it?”
“Enough, What’s the point of taking from your left pocket into your right pocket?” Lin Jin rolled her eyes at him “What do you plan on having me do at your restaurant?”
“Accountant, maybe?”
“???” Lin Jin looked confused “I’ve never learned that before.”
Xia Tian shrugged and helplessly said: “There’s no other way. I don’t trust anyone we find outside. And those friends I’m close with in Xiamen all already have jobs and wouldn’t care for my low salary. I can only count on you.”
“It’s just a small shop, what’s the point of an accountant. Isn’t having a cashier enough?” Lin Jin pouted unhappily “Then I’ll study a bit when I have time?”
“That’d be best.”
After they chatted as they ate, Lin Jin got up to live stream.
She had a lot of classes today. If she only streamed at night, then she would have to stream nonstop to make up for it on the weekend.