Goddess Cultivation Plan - Chapter 54 – Comforting
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Walking around school with a case of beer in broad daylight isn't a comfortable thing to do, so Lin Jin had no choice but to slip in through a hole in the fence at the back gate, then cautiously made her way through the nearly deserted path to the back door of the dormitory. Although the dormitory building is also blocked by an iron fence to prevent students from running out at night and not returning until the morning, there is also a large hole. Otherwise, if Lin Jin had to use the front door, not to mention that the streets are crowded on this Monday, she wouldn't be able to fool the uncle who guards the front door.
"Wu Min?" Lin Jin peeked her head in the dormitory door and instantly saw Wu Min sitting on the floor, staring blankly at the ceiling.
She felt glad she had bought him alcohol. This way, she could drink with him and console him. If she hadn't bought the alcohol, Wu Min might have been in a rage given his current state.
"Did you get the alcohol?"
Wu Min still looked terrible. Water was dripping from his hair onto the ground and running down his face, but he seemed completely oblivious, still sitting there blankly, not doing anything.
If it weren't for the task requirement, Lin Jin wouldn't touch the situation with a ten-foot pole at this time. Even though she has a good relationship with Wu Min, it also made sense what Wen Xuan said, it would be better to let him think quietly at this time.
"What's the matter?" Lin Jin put the case of alcohol aside, squatted down in front of Wu Min, and looked at him with her wide eyes. "Just speak up if something's wrong. We're best buddies, right? Tell me what's going on. If it can be solved, that's great. If it can't be solved, at least I can be there for you, right?"
"Chen Shiqi doesn't want me anymore..." As Wu Min lifted his head, his face was covered in tears as he looked at Lin Jin, murmuring in a low voice, "She doesn't want me anymore, she doesn't want me anymore..."
"Why? I thought your relationship was going well and you hadn't fought?" Lin Jin handed him a bottle of alcohol, expressing her concern, "Drink a little less, don't get drunk."
"Cigarette..." He reached out to Lin Jin like a child asking for something.
"Okay, cigarette." Lin Jin helplessly took out a box of cheap, low-quality cigarettes from her pocket, costing less than ten yuan, gave a bitter smile, handed over a cigarette, and could only admonish him, "Smoke less."
"I know, I'm just feeling bad."
Wu Min's tears hadn't stopped, but his tone was quite normal. If Lin Jin had been talking to him on the phone, she wouldn't have been able to tell that he was in such a state.
"What's really going on? Chen Shiqi was pretty good to you, right?" Lin Jin's legs were a little sore from squatting, she raised her head and glanced at the chair next to her. She wanted to sit on it, but felt that doing so might give Wu Min the impression that she was acting superior.
"Her family disagrees..." Wu Min, with a tear-stained face, bit open the beer cap with his teeth and took a hard swig, then reached out to Lin Jin, "Lighter."
"Let me look for it." Lin Jin stood up, her face full of helplessness, but almost fell down because she had been squatting for too long. Fortunately, she braced herself against the ground and then held onto the chair next to her to prop herself up. "I haven't smoked for a long time, I don't know where I put the lighter, I have to look for it."
"I see."
Speaking of it, Chen Shiqi should be from Xiamen, right? But she had poor grades, so she went to a vocational school. If I'm not mistaken, Wu Min also went to a regular high school in Xiamen. Because the two schools were close to each other, they got together, and they've been together for three years now.
Although Lin Jin had never truly been in a relationship, it can be assumed that a three-year relationship must be especially deep. But now they've broken up because her mother-in-law disagreed. It's understandable that Wu Min is in such pain now.
Although Lin Jin could understand, she still felt helpless about him.
After finally finding the lighter, which hadn't been used for a whole week, deep in the drawer, Lin Jin walked up to Wu Min, squatted down again, and handed him the lighter.
"Thanks." Wu Min's crying wasn't intense, it was just a silent flow of tears.
His speech also didn't show any particular excitement, he just looked like someone who had lost all hope in life.
Indeed, the kind of hopelessness that made Lin Jin afraid that he might run to the balcony and jump off as soon as she turned her back.
Wu Min took turns drinking beer and smoking cigarettes, each drag consumed almost half of a cigarette. After finishing, he would toss the cigarette butt on the ground, then reach for another cigarette to continue smoking. However, he wasn't originally a smoker, and every puff would make him gag in disgust. He quickly finished a bottle of beer, then he leaned his head against the wall.
Lin Jin watched him self-punishing with furrowed eyebrows, feeling a bit heartbroken, but she didn't know what to say.
"Chen Shiqi is from Xiamen, I also live in Xiamen..." Wu Min finally began to speak, starting to confide in Lin Jin, "But I'm from Henan. Even though I've always lived in Xiamen, I'm a person from Henan."
As soon as Lin Jin heard this, she immediately pictured the scene of the mother-in-law disliking people from out of town.
Here is Xiamen, where discrimination against outsiders seems to be quite severe. Actually, it's not just Xiamen, even in Lin Jin's small hometown, her father told her not to date girls from outside the town.
"Yesterday afternoon, I went to her house again, just like before. Her mom and dad were quite satisfied with me, saying that my family background is good, that I'm young and promising..." Wu Min's tears fell again, and he finally began to sob aloud, sniffing, with tears and snot streaming down his face, "Then her mom asked where I was from, and I said I was from Henan, and her mom immediately turned against me. Originally, they were planning to have me stay for dinner, but then they said there wasn't enough food at home."
"I originally thought her mother was just suddenly reminded that there wasn't enough food at home for four people, that's why she asked me to leave. But while I was still on the bus, Chen Shiqi called me to break up..." Wu Min looked at Lin Jin with tears streaming down his face, "What's wrong with being an outsider? Are outsiders inferior to people from Xiamen? Why..."
"Chen Shiqi is also to blame, her mother told her to break up with you and she just did." Lin Jin spoke up for Wu Min somewhat discontentedly, "After all, you two have been together for three years, breaking up with you because of a single sentence from her mother, isn't that too much?"
"Don't blame her, she values her family a lot." Wu Min, however, still defended Chen Shiqi, "She must have had a fight with her mother too. When she called me yesterday, she was crying badly..."
What good does that do?
Lin Jin rolled her eyes and didn't say much more.
As Wu Min was speaking, he suddenly punched the ground, startling Lin Jin so much that she almost fell on her buttocks.
Looking carefully at Wu Min as he opened another bottle of beer and started drinking on his own, Lin Jin started to feel helpless. She had little experience in comforting others, especially comforting someone who had just been dumped. This was simply tormenting for her, even if she was made to cross-dress and perform on stage, it wouldn't be as embarrassing as this.
"How about you stop drinking? It's just a woman." Lin Jin's brain started to work quickly, trying to find some comforting words she had once seen on the Internet, "It's hard to find a toad with three legs, but aren't there plenty of women with two legs everywhere? Right?"
Upon hearing Lin Jin's words, Wu Min raised his head and glanced at her. His eyes were so terrifying that it seemed like he wanted to eat her.
Lin Jin shuddered and gave a sheepish laugh.
It seemed that she accidentally compared Chen Shiqi to a toad.