At noon, Miao Zhe returned from outside as usual.
He went beneath the Multimedia unit, retrieved his phone, and prepared to chat with his little girlfriend.
In this cold world, only online romance could bring him a trace of warmth, briefly letting him forget the pain of being surrounded by the class's "few golden flowers."
Miao Zhe swiped across the nine-dot pattern on the lock screen, drawing a cool design. The screen did not unlock. Wrong password.
Miao Zhe did not care. He merely assumed he had entered it incorrectly. After all, the unlock pattern he had set was rather flashy, so mistakes were inevitable.
Miao Zhe frowned. He blew on his hand and wiped it clean, then carefully drew out a pattern. This time, it was definitely right. Yet it was still wrong.
"That's impossible!"
"Absolutely impossible?"
Miao Zhe continued trying to unlock it with the pattern, but got it wrong again. Just as he wanted to try once more, his phone warned him that he had entered the wrong password too many times and would have to wait several minutes before trying again.
Miao Zhe was furious. His phone had betrayed him.
Cui Yu sat beside Ma Shicheng and burst out laughing, looking utterly smug.
Ma Shicheng, meanwhile, remained calm. There was nothing he could do; he had seen too much. Every time he used Wifi Killer at Yucai Internet Cafe to dominate the network, the students piggybacking off the Wi-Fi wore the same stunned, aggrieved expressions.
After waiting several minutes, Miao Zhe tried unlocking it again. It was still wrong, and the phone locked itself once more. Only then did he realize there was something wrong with it.
"How could there be a problem?" Miao Zhe could not understand it no matter how hard he tried. Had