Chapter 573: – Emotionally unstable Lin Jin
For the next five days, Lin Jin was in a bad mood.
Even though Teacher Lin tried her best to cheer Lin Jin up and did all sorts of crazy and silly things to amuse her, Lin Jin just responded with a blank expression most of the time.
The fifth day was originally when Xia Tian was supposed to be coming back, but he called and unexpectedly said that his family hadn’t seen him in a long time, so he wouldn’t be back until the day after tomorrow…
After ending the call, Lin Jin looked even more unhappy.
Lin Jin wasn’t sure why. Although she used to be very tough, ever since she became a woman, she has been more and more emotional. Even though she knew what Xia Tian said was normal and that every parent wished for their children to spend more time at home during the New Year, Lin Jin still just felt depressed.
Her tears even began to uncontrollably well up. Her eyes were wet, as if tears would start falling if she so much as blinked.
“What’s wrong? What did Xia Tian say?” Teacher Lin sat by the head of Lin Jin’s bed, watching as Lin Jin’s expression turned gloomy with her head down after the call and asked with concern: “Is he coming back soon?”
“No, he said he’ll be back the day after tomorrow.”
“So that’s it! That’s pretty good! That means we get two more days of our two person world, right?” Teacher Lin playfully hugged Lin Jin’s shoulder, trying to rub her face against Lin Jin’s.
But Lin Jin wasn’t in the mood to play along. She shrugged off Teacher Lin’s arm, stood up, and walked straight out of the bedroom.
“I’m going to live stream.”
“Huh? You haven’t had lunch yet. We’ll finish your house’s leftover dishes after one more meal.”
“Throw them away. I don’t feel like eating.”
Teacher Lin finally realized that something was wrong with Lin Jin. She quickly caught up with Lin Jin and followed her into the streaming room, watching as she started the live stream.
Lin Jin pursed her lips and had a serious expression on her face. After turning on the live stream, she didn’t even bother to greet the viewers or ask for donations like usual, she just directly opened the game and started playing without saying anything.
The number of viewers watching the live stream gradually increased.
“Why does Lin Jin seem off? Where’s Xia Tian? Wasn’t he supposed to be back today?”
“Lin Jin’s watery eyes are so cute~”
“The goddess doesn’t seem to be in a good mood today, she’s not even talking.”
The viewers were all smart people. Apart from those naive young students who didn’t know anything, many of the viewers were very good at reading people’s words and expressions. It didn’t take long for them to realize something was wrong.
“If you’re upset, just tell us. You’ll feel better if you let it out.”
“What’s making the streamer unhappy?”
But Lin Jin didn’t look at the barrage of messages in the live stream chat. In order to not embarrass herself by crying in front of the viewers, she just kept a straight face and silently focused on the game.
She ended up playing very poorly in that game, playing very recklessly and charging at anything she saw. Her other four teammates quickly started complaining, and Lin Jin, being already in a bad mood, immediately snapped back in voice chat.
The attitudes of Dota players were actually quite good. Usually, Lin Jin would only encounter teammates who flamed and argued with others maybe once every ten games. However, the game had a built in voice chat, so when players started arguing, it escalated very fast.
As a result, Lin Jin alone started a shouting match against her four teammates. Teacher Lin, off to the side, couldn’t stand it anymore and joined Lin Jin’s faction. As a teacher, even though she didn’t teach literature, since she was able to become a college teacher, her language abilities were naturally quite good. No curse words were said, but every word was sharp.
Even though Lin Jin knew what she was doing now was not very good, but her bottled emotions had to be vented out somewhere.
Some people liked to keep suppressing it inside, and some liked to randomly throw things. There were also some people like Lin Jin who liked to vent through gaming.
After the shouting match started, the whole team gave up playing and simply chose to AFK and let the other team win.
At the end of the game, Lin Jin’s account received four reports, and also three honors from the enemy team.
After the game ended, Lin Jin blankly sat in the chair and fell in a daze.
Even though Xia Tian had only been gone for five days, Lin Jin felt so empty inside.
She dumbfoundedly sat there, her mind completely blank as she stared at the computer screen. The long accumulated tears became free and started falling.
So the live stream chat exploded.
“F*ck! F*ck! They actually made the goddess cry!”
“Bros! To war!”
“Goddess, don’t try! We’ll shout at them back for you!”
Lin Jin was dazed for a long time before she slowly let out a sigh. Still without checking the chat, she used her hands to wipe away her tears and started up another game.
And then she found that those four teammates just now, two were on her team and two were on the enemy team, they were actually all matched together again.
Her rank was already pretty high up there, the total number of players in this bracket was probably only a bit over a thousand. Then adding on the fact that not many players were on at noon, and the result was her being unlucky enough to meet those people again.
This time, two of the four immediately apologized when they saw Lin Jin’s ID, while the other two continued trashing her.
Lin Jin just ignored them, she was in a bad mood and couldn’t bother caring about this. She just silently picked her hero.
“Lin Jin.” Teacher Lin, next to her, frowned.She felt that things were getting a bit out of hand.
Aside from the diehard fans in the stream chat, most of the rational fans were actually criticizing Lin Jin. After all, Lin Jin was the one who had been throwing the last game. It would’ve been fine if it just ended with some arguing, but there were even a group of people going on a witch hunt.
If that happened, things would become big. Seeing that Lin Jin didn’t tell those people to stop, some started taking action.
To be honest, as a streamer, Lin Jin should not have started arguing with the others. After all, a streamer also counted as a public figure. But with her in such a bad mood, she didn’t think that much.
In this second game, even though Lin Jin this time was still in a bad mood, maybe because she just so happened to pick the right hero, she very quickly dominated the game’s tempo and even ended the game in under twenty minutes.
“I don’t want to play anymore.” Lin Jin mumbled and suddenly stood up “Teacher Lin, you help stream for a bit, I’m going to take a shower.”
“Ah? I don’t know how to stream!”
“Just sing or dance or something, I’m going to shower.”
Teacher Lin looked troubled, but when she looked up, she saw that Lin Jin’s face looked pale and lifeless.
“What’s wrong with you? Xia Tian’s just coming back two days later, why are you this upset?”
Lin Jin shook her head: “I don’t know… I’m just upset for some reason.”
“I’m going to shower, help stream for me.”
She wobbled out of the streaming room and went into the bathroom, using a towel to wipe the tear tracks off her face.
“Want me to call Xia Tian to come back?” Teacher Lin followed her out and asked from outside the bathroom door.
“No need. Just let it be…”