“Wanna go see a movie?”
During our core course, Wu Min, Wen Xuan, and Lin Jin were sitting around a round table. Wen Xuan was playing on a tablet on the table with a bored expression and casually asked Lin Jin.
This semester's core courses gradually shifted into the actual realm of animation. Last semester, Lin Jin was still learning about Photoshop, but this term, they started learning about original art and storyboard design, which were quite advanced for him. These courses required not just theoretical knowledge but also required drawing on the computer with a drawing tablet.
Although Lin Jin had also taken a basic sketching course in the first semester, he still found drawing difficult. Without a reference to copy, he could only draw at the level of a kindergarten student. Even with a reference image, Lin Jin’s drawings were only barely passable.
He guessed the best he could draw was Totoro, and he only knew how to draw that one pose.
“What movie?” Wu Min's drawing skills were better than both Lin Jin and Wen Xuan, but not by much. If Wen Xuan and Lin Jin were at the kindergarten level, then he was probably at the elementary school level.
“We’ll just go and see. We don't have classes this afternoon so let’s go now and come back around eight or nine in the evening. It’s quite nice” Wen Xuan, who always loved watching movies, didn't even decide on which movie to watch this time and just planned to drag them out for fun.
Lin Jin nodded. He hadn't returned to the dormitory these past few days and felt a bit distant from his two roommates. Though renting a place made his wallet a bit smaller, if it was just for watching a movie without other expenses, he could manage by skipping a couple of meals.
“Let's go. It's no problem to hang out now since the semester just started" Lin Jin had his cheek propped with one hand, bored, as he listened to the teacher talk about theories. His other hand was just casually clicking around on Photoshop.
“I'll book the tickets online first. Let's go to Wanda after morning class?” Wen Xuan got excited hearing Lin Jin support his plan to watch a movie. His face, bored from the uninteresting class, immediately lit up. “Wanna get lunch at Wanda? Then go straight to the movie and then karaoke?”
Wu Min, who was actually paying attention to the lecture, rolled his eyes. He was about to refute Wen Xuan’s self made itinerary, but then suddenly remembered something. He looked up at Lin Jin beside him and asked, “I saw on the forum, you started a Weibo account?”
“Yeah" Lin Jin nodded and said, “I thought it might be fun to have people follow me, so I just set up a Weibo to satisfy my narcissism.”
“Wasn’t it enough when you made it on the QQ News frontpage?” Wu Min laughed at Lin Jin’s statement “And if you wanted attention, wouldn’t it have been better to just do a few interviews at that time?”
“I wasn’t narcissistic back then, but I suddenly became so over the winter break, is that a problem?” Lin Jin rolled his eyes and then excitedly said to Wu Min, “Hurry up, get your followers to follow my Weibo!”
“As if I have followers" Wu Min waved his hand, saying he really couldn’t help Lin Jin gain popularity.
Now it was already Thursday yet Lin Jin hadn’t even completed half of the task assigned by the black cat on Sunday. He even checked Weibo before coming to school today and found he only had a little over a hundred followers. Nevertheless, Lin Jin insisted on making a daily Weibo post. Anyways, it was just some complaints or photos of his lunch or dinner.
Most of these hundred or so followers were guys from the school with nothing better to do. A small number would occasionally be drawn in, but it was still far from meeting the black cat’s requirement.
So does this mean he really has to start live streaming? If it was a live stream and he got lucky, maybe his popularity will skyrocket to 5000?
After all, live streams were also a type of social media, right?
But if it suddenly switched from a slice of life series to a live streaming series, would the readers mind?
Lin Jin was deep in thought, but after a while, he realized his mind had wandered off to places even he couldn't understand.
"You can leave once you've handed in your assignment" the young teacher announced, then sat down and watched with a helpless expression as the students joyfully ran out of the classroom.
This teacher was also a graduate of this school and knew exactly what the students were like. Glancing at the assignments uploaded to his computer, he noticed a few that caught his eye. However, it was clear there were only about ten assignments, yet there were more than forty students in the class.
That meant the remaining thirty or so probably spent the entire class on their phones.
"Lin Jin, wanna go to the cafeteria to eat?" Wu Min and Wen Xuan walked side by side, asked Lin Jin, who seemed to be drifting further away from them, "You moved out right at the start of the semester, let's eat together to bond a bit."
"No, I haven't fed my cat yet" Lin Jin politely declined.
Although Lin Jin also hoped to maintain a good relationship with his two roommates until graduation, he was afraid that if he got too close, the black cat would assign tasks related to them.
Like the task involving Feng Jing.
If Lin Jin and Wu Min were just ordinary friends, then the black cat wouldn't have given Lin Jin the task to undermine Feng Jing and Wu Min would probably have gotten a girlfriend.
Since he was already living alone, he might as well use this opportunity to cool down his relationship with them a bit. That way, his future tasks wouldn't involve them.
After agreeing to meet at the bus stop by the back gate at one in the afternoon, Lin Jin walked out of the teaching building alone and leisurely made his way back to his rented place through the school's front gate.
"You’re back?"
However, in front of the rented place, Lin Jin encountered someone he hadn't expected.
"Eh?" Lin Jin looked confusedly at the person in front of him. It was the driver he had met before. Although Lin Jin had seen him around, he couldn't fathom why this man, who seemed as cold as an iceberg, would take the initiative to come looking for him.
Could it be that this man was also attracted to his beauty like the others?
No, that couldn't be right. If that were the case, his name would appear in the list of admirers.
"What's up?" Lin Jin asked, still confused.
"This is your cat, right?" The man pointed towards a black cat at the end of the corridor of the rented building, "It sneaks over to my room every day to hang out with my cat."
So he had a cat too.
"My cat used to stay indoors and disliked going out. But ever since it started hanging out with your cat, it's always dirty from being outside" the man frowned, clearly displeased "And what if my cat gets pregnant? You should get your cat neutered soon."
"Alright" Lin Jin awkwardly laughed, crouching down and calling out to Braised Pork at the end of the corridor. As soon as Braised Pork heard Lin Jin calling, it scurried over, only to see Lin Jin's face darken as he grabbed it by the scruff of its neck.
"I promise to discipline it properly. I'll take it to be neutered this weekend."
Lin Jin assured the man. When Braised Pork heard this, it looked utterly dejected.
“Wanna go see a movie?”
During our core course, Wu Min, Wen Xuan, and Lin Jin were sitting around a round table. Wen Xuan was playing on a tablet on the table with a bored expression and casually asked Lin Jin.
This semester's core courses gradually shifted into the actual realm of animation. Last semester, Lin Jin was still learning about Photoshop, but this term, they started learning about original art and storyboard design, which were quite advanced for him. These courses required not just theoretical knowledge but also required drawing on the computer with a drawing tablet.
Although Lin Jin had also taken a basic sketching course in the first semester, he still found drawing difficult. Without a reference to copy, he could only draw at the level of a kindergarten student. Even with a reference image, Lin Jin’s drawings were only barely passable.
He guessed the best he could draw was Totoro, and he only knew how to draw that one pose.
“What movie?” Wu Min's drawing skills were better than both Lin Jin and Wen Xuan, but not by much. If Wen Xuan and Lin Jin were at the kindergarten level, then he was probably at the elementary school level.
“We’ll just go and see. We don't have classes this afternoon so let’s go now and come back around eight or nine in the evening. It’s quite nice” Wen Xuan, who always loved watching movies, didn't even decide on which movie to watch this time and just planned to drag them out for fun.
Lin Jin nodded. He hadn't returned to the dormitory these past few days and felt a bit distant from his two roommates. Though renting a place made his wallet a bit smaller, if it was just for watching a movie without other expenses, he could manage by skipping a couple of meals.
“Let's go. It's no problem to hang out now since the semester just started" Lin Jin had his cheek propped with one hand, bored, as he listened to the teacher talk about theories. His other hand was just casually clicking around on Photoshop.
“I'll book the tickets online first. Let's go to Wanda after morning class?” Wen Xuan got excited hearing Lin Jin support his plan to watch a movie. His face, bored from the uninteresting class, immediately lit up. “Wanna get lunch at Wanda? Then go straight to the movie and then karaoke?”
Wu Min, who was actually paying attention to the lecture, rolled his eyes. He was about to refute Wen Xuan’s self made itinerary, but then suddenly remembered something. He looked up at Lin Jin beside him and asked, “I saw on the forum, you started a Weibo account?”
“Yeah" Lin Jin nodded and said, “I thought it might be fun to have people follow me, so I just set up a Weibo to satisfy my narcissism.”
“Wasn’t it enough when you made it on the QQ News frontpage?” Wu Min laughed at Lin Jin’s statement “And if you wanted attention, wouldn’t it have been better to just do a few interviews at that time?”
“I wasn’t narcissistic back then, but I suddenly became so over the winter break, is that a problem?” Lin Jin rolled his eyes and then excitedly said to Wu Min, “Hurry up, get your followers to follow my Weibo!”
“As if I have followers" Wu Min waved his hand, saying he really couldn’t help Lin Jin gain popularity.
Now it was already Thursday yet Lin Jin hadn’t even completed half of the task assigned by the black cat on Sunday. He even checked Weibo before coming to school today and found he only had a little over a hundred followers. Nevertheless, Lin Jin insisted on making a daily Weibo post. Anyways, it was just some complaints or photos of his lunch or dinner.
Most of these hundred or so followers were guys from the school with nothing better to do. A small number would occasionally be drawn in, but it was still far from meeting the black cat’s requirement.
So does this mean he really has to start live streaming? If it was a live stream and he got lucky, maybe his popularity will skyrocket to 5000?
After all, live streams were also a type of social media, right?
But if it suddenly switched from a slice of life series to a live streaming series, would the readers mind?
Lin Jin was deep in thought, but after a while, he realized his mind had wandered off to places even he couldn't understand.
"You can leave once you've handed in your assignment" the young teacher announced, then sat down and watched with a helpless expression as the students joyfully ran out of the classroom.
This teacher was also a graduate of this school and knew exactly what the students were like. Glancing at the assignments uploaded to his computer, he noticed a few that caught his eye. However, it was clear there were only about ten assignments, yet there were more than forty students in the class.
That meant the remaining thirty or so probably spent the entire class on their phones.
"Lin Jin, wanna go to the cafeteria to eat?" Wu Min and Wen Xuan walked side by side, asked Lin Jin, who seemed to be drifting further away from them, "You moved out right at the start of the semester, let's eat together to bond a bit."
"No, I haven't fed my cat yet" Lin Jin politely declined.
Although Lin Jin also hoped to maintain a good relationship with his two roommates until graduation, he was afraid that if he got too close, the black cat would assign tasks related to them.
Like the task involving Feng Jing.
If Lin Jin and Wu Min were just ordinary friends, then the black cat wouldn't have given Lin Jin the task to undermine Feng Jing and Wu Min would probably have gotten a girlfriend.
Since he was already living alone, he might as well use this opportunity to cool down his relationship with them a bit. That way, his future tasks wouldn't involve them.
After agreeing to meet at the bus stop by the back gate at one in the afternoon, Lin Jin walked out of the teaching building alone and leisurely made his way back to his rented place through the school's front gate.
"You’re back?"
However, in front of the rented place, Lin Jin encountered someone he hadn't expected.
"Eh?" Lin Jin looked confusedly at the person in front of him. It was the driver he had met before. Although Lin Jin had seen him around, he couldn't fathom why this man, who seemed as cold as an iceberg, would take the initiative to come looking for him.
Could it be that this man was also attracted to his beauty like the others?
No, that couldn't be right. If that were the case, his name would appear in the list of admirers.
"What's up?" Lin Jin asked, still confused.
"This is your cat, right?" The man pointed towards a black cat at the end of the corridor of the rented building, "It sneaks over to my room every day to hang out with my cat."
So he had a cat too.
"My cat used to stay indoors and disliked going out. But ever since it started hanging out with your cat, it's always dirty from being outside" the man frowned, clearly displeased "And what if my cat gets pregnant? You should get your cat neutered soon."
"Alright" Lin Jin awkwardly laughed, crouching down and calling out to Braised Pork at the end of the corridor. As soon as Braised Pork heard Lin Jin calling, it scurried over, only to see Lin Jin's face darken as he grabbed it by the scruff of its neck.
"I promise to discipline it properly. I'll take it to be neutered this weekend."
Lin Jin assured the man. When Braised Pork heard this, it looked utterly dejected.
