Chapter 541
Chapter 541: – It’s so nice to have met you
During the long National Day holiday, Lin Jin planned to spend all seven days at home just live streaming games or sleeping all day.
After all, she was originally the kind of person who was too lazy to go out. If it wasn’t going out with Xia Tian, then she wasn’t interested in doing so at all.
But Xia Tian worked in the service industry now. If it had been the previous job, then he would have gotten at least one or two days off during the National Day holiday. It wouldn’t be like now where he basically couldn’t get home until after nine o’clock every day.
It wasn’t that the hotel closed at nine or anything, it was just that there were fewer guests around then. Xia Tian was responsible for the day shift and the night shift coworkers usually started around six in the evening and worked until late at night.
These days, if Lin Jin wanted a late night snack, it was basically always made by Xia Tian. He had been helping out in the kitchen for a while. Although he had never personally done any of the cooking, he had at least observed the chefs cooking for a long time. And even if he wasn’t good at it yet, he could take his time figuring it out.
The result was that for five days straight, Lin Jin ate late night snacks that either contained too much MSG, too much sugar, or too much other random seasonings. It was just torture, okay?
Luckily, Lin Jin herself was good at cooking. Under her careful guidance, Xia Tian slowly learned how much of each seasoning to use. At least recently, his cooking had gradually improved.
However, in the hotel, he was still just a guy who chopped the vegetables.
On the night of the second day of the holiday, Xia Tian returned at twelve o’clock at night. Feeling exhausted both physically and mentally, he opened the door, glanced at the quiet bedroom, sighed, and hung his jacket to the side.
Despite it being only October, the temperature at night was already kind of chilly. After Lin Jin’s repeated reminders, Xia Tian had no choice but to wear an extra jacket to work every day.
He turned on the living room light and sighed as he made his way into the bedroom. Just as he was about to turn on the bedroom light, he suddenly noticed that someone appeared to be lying on the bed.
He froze for a moment, then gently tiptoed over to the bed and looked down at Lin Jin, who was curled up in a ball on her side on the bed, even softly snoring while asleep.
Xia Tian, who had been sighing just a moment ago, was instantly in a great mood. He reached out his hand to pick up the blanket that had been kicked to the floor and gently covered Lin Jin with it. He was about to take a shower and then go to bed, but Lin Jin’s big eyes suddenly flew open.
“What time is it?” Lin Jin yawned, rolled onto her back, and looked up at Xia Tian standing by the bed as she quietly complained “I waited ages for you but you didn’t come back. I just fell asleep in the end.”
“There were too many guests today." Xia Tian helplessly shrugged. “The supervisor said we had to work overtime, so I could only work overtime. I don’t even think there’s overtime pay.”
“So unreasonable?” Lin Jin propped her body up while sitting on the bed, and looked up at Xia Tian’s tired expression “You hurry up and go take a shower, then sleep. You smell all over.”
“Mm.”
Watching Xia Tian leave the room, Lin Jin glanced at her phone and realized it was already past twelve at night. She directly laid back down on the bed, yawned, and pulled the quilt over her head. Too lazy to go back home.
Although her home was just upstairs, it felt too unbearable to wake up now and step out into the cold night wind after sleeping so comfortably here, right?
Also, from what she had observed recently, Xia Tian really was a man with good self control, yeah.
Lin Jin continued to curl up on her side. Listening to the sound of running water in the bathroom, she drifted back into a light sleep.
It wasn’t long before Lin Jin was awakened by the movement of the mattress. She didn’t even bother to turn around. She just felt an arm wrap around her waist, and then a warm body gently snuggled up behind her.
This Xia Tian guy always slept in just a pair of boxers. Yet for some reason, his skin temperature was always crazy high, which was also why Lin Jin refused to sleep together with him before.
After all, in such hot weather, it was already too hot if you covered yourself with a quilt. Then with an extra human furnace right next to you, it was just impossible to sleep, right?
Xia Tian’s hands were very obedient, just lightly wrapping around Lin Jin’s waist. He softly whispered in her ear: “Good night.”
“What time do you start work tomorrow?” Lin Jin suddenly thought of something else and asked Xia Tian “You worked a few extra hours today. If there’s no overtime pay, at least they should let you start a bit later, right?”
“Yeah, I start at eleven. I can accompany you for a bit tomorrow.”
Xia Tian felt very sorry and guilty towards Lin Jin during this time. He was clearly her boyfriend, but they could only see each other for a few hours every day.
Additionally, it was obvious Lin Jin didn’t really like streaming, but she still did her best to stream for him every day. Even though streaming for a few hours wasn’t a big deal to Xia Tian, it was clearly different with Lin Jin. Seeing Lin Jin’s increasingly tired look during these days caused him to feel even more sorry.
Xia Tian gave Lin Jin’s shoulder a gentle shake and she turned over to lie face to face with him. Without opening her eyes, she asked “What? I’m so sleepy.”
“Starting tomorrow, how about you stop streaming for a while? You were streaming all day today, right?”
Because the usual daily live stream hours were actually insufficient, Xia Tian used to cram in streaming hours on Sunday to make up for it. But now with it changed to Lin Jin streaming, despite the daily night time sessions occasionally being longer than before, she still needed to make up for missing hours whenever she had a break.
“Yeah, from twelve at noon until eight at night. It’s been like this for the past two days.” Lin Jin yawned and found a comfortable position, wriggled around twice, and then continued to say “I need to make up the stream hours after all. Normally, I only start at around seven in the evening.”
“Lately, I’ve been streaming single player games. It feels a lot more chill than streaming Dota, so these past two days were okay, just that my eyes are tired.” Lin Jin kept her eyes closed and lightly rubbed her temples with her fingertips.
Even though she had already slept for a few hours, her eyes were still tired and didn’t feel better at all.
Xia Tian propped himself up with his hands and leaned in to gently kiss Lin Jin on the forehead.
“Go to sleep. Tomorrow morning, I’ll get up and stream. You sleep a bit longer.”
“Mm.” Lin Jin stretched and yawned again, then rested her head on Xia Tian’s arm. “If your arm goes numb, just let me know.”
“It won’t.”
This Xia Tian guy once insisted to death on letting Lin Jin use his arm as a pillow. Lin Jin naturally wouldn’t pass up on a human pillow. Then once they woke up, Xia Tian’s arm was almost no longer his own. For that entire day, he couldn’t even hold a bowl properly with his hands.
They stopped talking and Lin Jin quickly fell asleep again. Xia Tian however, still laid there with his eyes open, looking at Lin Jin’s sleeping face in the darkness.
No matter what angle he looked from, no matter how many days passed, Xia Tian felt that he would never get tired of looking at Lin Jin’s face.
It wasn’t just because she was pretty. But more importantly, it was his girlfriend’s face.
“It’s so nice to have met you.” He quietly murmured.
He kissed Lin Jin’s forehead again before closing his eyes, listening to the sound of her steady breathing as he slowly fell asleep.
That night, he dreamed of himself and Lin Jin getting married…