"I'm not lying to you. Back then, two yuan really could buy a lot of things. Especially in autumn and winter—I could get as much stuff as if I were stocking up with two yuan. In summer, though, I couldn't get much. My warehouse wasn't big enough."
Lin Li shrugged and reminisced about the past with some regret.
"Ah, there are cameras now. I can't exactly livestream myself shoplifting from supermarkets, can I? It'd be kind of beneath me."
Ding Sihan and Chen Yuying: "?"
So that was how he had bought so much stuff with two yuan?
What kind of warehouse was that?!
"This isn't even about whether money was worth more back then! You were just being a thief, Lin Li!" Ding Sihan punched him twice with a bang-bang.
"Lin Li, so your sticky fingers started when you were little. No wonder you're always sneaking around when we play games." Chen Yuying also went bang-bang, though she only threw one punch.
Lin Li's reputation score for offline games really was pretty low.
"Can't blame me for that. I heard gentleman thieves accumulate merit, so I was only doing it to earn merit."
Lin Li stepped forward and quietly patted Chen Yuying's wooden-fish head.
Merit plus one. A little more fun than WeChat.
By the time Chen Yuying turned around to glare at him, Lin Li had already moved away and pretended he hadn't done it. Then he said seriously, "Hey, tell me this—if I wrote a biography about my childhood thieving experiences, would it count as an official edition or a pirated one?"
"..."
"A pirated official edition, maybe." After thinking it over, Ding Sihan tried to answer.
"Wouldn't it be more fitting to call it a confession?" Chen Yuying blinked.
"Brilliant. Then forget it, I won't write