Chapter 577: – A week later
It had been a week since Lin Jin was targeted last time. By now, all the Lin Jin drama had long died down on the internet and no one in her chat mentioned it anymore. What looked like a big incident quickly disappeared due to the fast pace online.
Originally, Xia Tian had planned to help Lin Jin get justice. But even with so many internet detectives on the case, they had still not found the person behind the hiring of online trolls.
After all, anyone good enough to become a signed streamer was basically a somewhat smart person. Apart from a few pro players who naturally had high popularity, most other streamers had started off as small streamers and worked their way up. So generally speaking, they wouldn’t have any issues handling interpersonal relationships and they wouldn’t be too stupid. Even if they were unhappy with Lin Jin or Xia Tian, they would still just openly say things like: Lin Jin is so pretty and talented.
There were a few people among her viewers who had found some streamers who had openly expressed their dissatisfaction towards Lin Jin on stream, but those people were just small streamers with a few hundred viewers at most and were unlikely to have been able to afford hiring trolls.
As time went on, people gradually forgot about the whole thing, and Lin Jin and Xia Tian went back to their usual streaming routine.
It was just that school was about to start again.
The spring semester began on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, which was exactly one day after the Lantern Festival.
Lin Jin didn’t hate going back to school. For her, it was more fun being in class than streaming every day.
After all, she could chat around with Wu Min and Wen Xuan in class, and if she focused on the lecture, the two hours would pass really fast.
Today was the Lantern Festival.
In Xiamen, the Lantern Festival tangyuan were usually sweet, but Lin Jin didn’t like sweet tangyuan. She instead preferred the ones stuffed with meat. Back in her hometown, the tangyuans filled with meat were called yuanxiao, and that was what people ate during the Lantern Festival instead.
But Xiamen didn’t have any with meat fillings.
Xia Tian went to several supermarkets in the area but couldn’t find any meat filled tangyuans. In the end, he just came home with a bunch of ground meat and glutinous rice flour to make their own tangyuan.
“Why is there meat in the tangyuan where you’re from?” Xia Tian had never had meat tangyuan in his life “Where I’m from, they’ve always been sweet. Plus, we would also have chicken.”
“Chicken? Then you go play a few rounds of PUBG and you should be able to have some.” Even though Lin Jin didn’t know how to make meat filled tangyuan, there were many tutorials onlines. Following the online recipe, she added seasoning to the ground meat and casually said: “I’ve been to Nanjing before. The tangyuan over there are tiny, with no filling at all. And they’re super sweet.”
“Really?”
“At that time, I was at some tourist spot, I forgot the name. Anyway, it also had to be accompanied with some pastries, I didn’t really like it.”
Xia Tian was kneading the dough. Physical labor like this was always his job.
“Anyway, you’re just a carnivore, right?” Xia Tian shook his head with a smile.
Since Xia Tian had experience working in a hotel kitchen, even though his cooking skills weren’t amazing, he could still handle small things like kneading dough. By the time he finished, Lin Jin had also finished seasoning the meat.
Although none of them had ever made tangyuan before and were unfamiliar with the process, they both quickly got the hang of it.
After rolling them up and tossing them into the boiling water, Lin Jin took her phone from the table and read through the chat.
In order to complete more of her streaming hours, Lin Jin didn’t miss this chance to live stream while making tangyuan.
Right now, the people in chat were arguing over whether tangyuan should be sweet or savory, but it was clear that the sweet tangyuan faction had the upper hand. There were a lot fewer messages in support of savory tangyuan. But after the chat argued for a while, someone mentioned that sweet tofu pudding was better, and a new dispute over sweet or savory tofu pudding immediately erupted.
Were these people so bored that their balls ached?
Lin Jin helplessly sighed. Because of the war between the sweet and savory factions, the chat was a total mess. Seeing that they couldn’t stop it, the chat moderators simply joined the war themselves, turning the stream chat into one big carnival.
After the Lantern Festival tangyuan were eaten, Lin Jin was quite satisfied. She ended the stream on her phone and went with Xia Tian to continue streaming games on the computer.
Xia Tian was starting to feel a bit burned out with Dota 2. It wasn’t that Dota was bad, but when it became a job, it got boring playing it so much.
So after discussing it with Lin Jin, they decided the Switch didn’t have enough games. So they simply bought a PlayStation 4 Pro, along with Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, which had just been released not too long ago.
Xia Tian was a huge fan of Fist of the North Star. He apparently had the full set of manga back in his hometown and also watched all versions of the anime. So he was immediately interested in this game after buying a PS4.
Lin Jin had never read the manga or watched the anime, but she felt like the theme song sounded very familiar, not sure where she had heard it from. She sat by Xia Tian, watching him control the protagonist, Kenshiro or Ken. He was frequently hanging out at the casino, claiming to be a casino security guard and doing quite well in the game.
But every time he gambled at the casino, he would get carried away and end up losing everything.
Lin Jin also found the game kind of interesting, but she was uncomfortable with how gory it was.
Especially when enemies exploded everytime the pressure point techniques were used, the graphics were just too gross.
Maybe because it was a new game, there were more viewers than usual.
It almost felt like Lin Jin and Xia Tian were turning into standalone single player game streamers.
“Speaking of which, business at the restaurant has been quite good recently.” Xia Tian chatted with Lin Jin as he ran around with the in game character. “The revenue is up more than fifty percent compared to last month, so the income this month should be decent.”
“Don’t you still have to pay back debt?”
“Yeah, we can probably return all the money by the middle of this year, at this rate at least.” Xia Tian had his legs crossed and leaned back in his gaming chair, holding the controller in his hands and leisurely playing the game. “And you should be graduating soon too, right?”
“A few more months of third year and then it should be time for internships. When that comes, I’m not sure where to go yet.” Lin Jin tilted her head and thought “Maybe I should just find some company and work there?”
“Enough. In Xiamen, the pay is low and the cost of living is high. If you entered some company, one or two months working there probably wouldn’t even earn you as much as a month of streaming.”
“Really? Then maybe I’ll just intern at your restaurant then.You help stamp my paperwork.”
Lin Jin realized she seemed to have been living the retired life of an elderly person ahead of time. When she had free time, she would go out for a stroll. But most of the time, she would just stay home watching TV series, or live stream.
She pulled her legs up onto her chair and half lay there, watching Xia Tian’s game with a bored expression.
“This game looks pretty intense, but the fighting is kinda nasty.”
“It can’t be helped. If you go watch the anime, it’s even nastier.”
Xia Tian shrugged: “You can go out and watch some TV shows or something, don’t bother with these gory scenes.”
“Okay.”