"Yes, but I don't have Apocalypse as a surname. I'm mixed-race, was born here, and was registered here too. When I got my ID card, I was too lazy to come up with another Chinese name, so I simply went with... the surname De and the given name Lisa."
"Is this some new joke?"
"So now you understand why I like the character Theresa so much... She really is so similar to me, almost like another version of myself."
Xu Qi fell silent for a moment.
"Even our experiences are similar. Neither of us had much of a childhood worth mentioning. High school was the same, and university was the same. I barely had any friends in real life, so I could only throw my weight around online."
"What a perfect picture of modern netizens." Xu Qi laughed. "Timid and submissive in real life, huh?"
"Yeah~~ I really am a little socially anxious. Do you think I'm joking?"
Xu Qi was speechless.
"It's only because it's you that I can come up and talk normally. If it were someone else, I really wouldn't dare. After all... a stranger? Are you kidding? I wouldn't be able to say a word, okay?"
That really was social anxiety.
"Anyway, after I became an adult and started university, the concept of parents gradually grew fainter. By now, they're probably somewhere overseas, each living freely in their own corner of the world."
"You don't complain?"
"If I wanted to complain, I would've complained enough as a child. So there's nothing much left now."
"You're pretty carefree."
Theresa curled her lips slightly.
"I don't think there's anything wrong with who I am now, so I especially hate those self-righteous people who come over intending to pity me. They even bring up my history of depression, saying