Chapter 567: – Lucky players vs cursed players
Lin Jin’s dad’s wedding didn’t need to be explained again. Anyway, Lin Jin, Lin Chen, and all of her friends and relatives attended. As for her mom, she went straight to Xia Tian’s place, saying she wanted to have a good talk with Xia Tian.
After all, she had only met this future son in law once and wanted to learn more about him.
To be honest, she always felt that Lin Jin and Xia Tian got engaged way too fast. In her opinion, even if the two were in love and wanted to get engaged, then they should have waited until after the winter break so she could come over and observe Xia Tian first before they made the decision.
But Lin Jin and Xia Tian were both quite insistent on it and neither Lin Jin’s mom, nor Xia Tian’s parents, could really do anything about it. Also, seeing that the two of them really did seem to be living quite happily together, her mom couldn’t really say anything.
When Lin Jin’s dad’s wedding ended, she had nothing else to do for a while.
The restaurant packed up the wedding items and resumed business as usual, while her dad and a bunch of relatives took a car to somewhere else to continue with the traditional wedding steps.
Lin Jin’s hometown also had the custom of causing trouble in the bridal room, but her dad didn’t really have a home of his own, so they just used a rental place instead.
Lin Jin wasn’t interested in that, so she just went straight back to Xia Tian’s place.
When she got home, she found her mom was still talking to Xia Tian.
“You guys still aren’t done talking?” Lin Jin just walked in, put on her slippers, and curiously looked at the two people still chatting at the dining room table. “I left at eleven o’clock, and now it’s already three. You guys are still not done?”
Her mom shot a glance at Lin Jin and huffed.
Lin Chen, meanwhile, was on the sofa playing video games. He had no feelings towards their dad at all, so he didn’t go to the wedding. Instead, he just sat on the sofa and played on the console until now.
“Sister, you know mom’s in her forties. Nagging a bit is normal.”
“Lin Chen! You’re itching for a beating, right!” Their mom got worked up by Lin Chen and didn’t plan to continue talking with Xia Tian for now. Standing up, she walked directly to Lin Chen and pinched him by the ear “Look at you! You’ve just been in college for how long? You’re already starting to be like other bad kids, just playing games all day!”
“No way~” Lin Chen tried his best to defend himself. “Look how boring it is here, I had to find something to do!”
“Then when you’re in school?”
“When I’m in school, there’s a lot fewer classes than in the last year of highschool. So I obviously have to find something else to do. And playing games is good for my physical and mental health, it can foster my aesthetics, builds collaboration skills with my friends, develops…”
He suddenly noticed their mom’s extremely skeptical gaze. In the end, he could only awkwardly laugh and scratch his head, then attempted to run by shouting at Lin Jin: “Sister! Do you need to stream this afternoon? Let’s do it together! I’ll help you out a bit.”
He immediately got up and ran into the bedroom. Their mom helplessly turned and glanced at Lin Jin. Lin Jin just shrugged with a smile and followed him in.
Xia Tian also wanted to get up and leave, but Lin Jin’s mom turned around and glared at him, so he sat back down again and continued listening to her nagging.
His own parents had taken the bus back last night. After all, they were both regular employees, not at all like Lin Jin’s parents who were their own bosses and could take leave whenever. Their salary would be deducted for taking leave.
Plus, the distance from Xiamen to Hainan was quite far.
So Lin Jin’s mom continued talking to Xia Tian, who looked quite hopeless. Lin Jin, on the other hand, started the live stream and planned to make up for the lost time from not streaming yesterday.
Even though it was already three, if she streamed all the way until twelve in the morning, she could make up for at least half of yesterday’s missed time.
Then, if she worked a bit harder tomorrow, she could finish making up her monthly streaming requirements and then relax after streaming a bit every day.
Though Lin Jin was kind of a shut in. Even if she had free time, it didn’t seem like she really had anything to do.
Besides, Xia Tian, basically the only person who would take her out and play, had been busy every day lately with the restaurant.
If her dad hadn’t booked the restaurant for half the day today, Xia Tian wouldn’t have had so much time to listen to her mom’s nagging.
Lin Jin wasn’t really interested in streaming, so she gave the main seat before the computer to Lin Chen. Then, she looked down and started slacking off by reading a novel on her phone.
To her, as long as she could complete the required hours, she would stream it even if it was just eating or sleeping!
So whenever the stream started, there would always be some comments like “A million a year by sleeping” “A million a year by eating” and there was even “A million a year by finding someone else to stream.”
Lin Jin just turned a deaf ear to these jokes.
She just huddled in the corner of the camera, head down as she went on her phone, while Lin Chen looked through her Stream library for games to play.
“Sister, is this game fun? It looks like a level based game.”
Lin Jin looked up and saw that it was Slay the Spire, a pretty popular game recently. The corner of her mouth twitched and she turned to say: “If your luck is good, you can try it.”
Even though Lin Jin had the beginner gaming proficiency, the problem was that the game Slay the Spire relied not just on skill and strategy, but most importantly, luck.
As someone who had never even gotten a “win a free bottle” in her life, Lin Jin had been completely abused by the monsters the last two days she streamed this game. It took her two days before she managed to clear once with Ironclad.
“You can try it, it’s pretty fun.” The abused Lin Jin maliciously enticed “It’s a single player card game, a bit like Hearthstone. When I played it, I beat up everything in my way. I was invincible. You should try it.”
“Really?”
Lin Chen opened the game and took a glance at the stream chat on the other screen.
“The shameless: Little Jin Jin!”
“Please tell, how did the streamer train to be so shameless?”
“As expected of Lin Jin, she can even say that sort of thing without her face blushing or her heart racing. As expected of my wife.”
Lin Chen glanced at the chat and suddenly had a not so good premonition.
However, after clicking to start the game, he actually found this game was way too easy. Even though it was just his first time playing, he just used a bunch of random good cards to beat the second act and died on the third act boss. The second run, he just went a strength build with Ironclad and directly slaughtered everything. He cleared on just his second try.
Lin Jin was completely stunned. She looked up at Lin Chen in confusion and asked: “Why is it so easy when you play?”
“Ah? This game’s just not that hard.”
Motherf*cker. Some lucky players never struggle.
“Move! Let me try!” Lin Jin unceremoniously kicked Lin Chen out of the main chair and sat on it. She then looked serious as she was determined to regain some of her dignity.
About ten minutes later, Lin Jin, with a hand full of trash cards, could only watch in despair as her character died.