Ma Shicheng was warmhearted and helpful. Besides, Guo Kunnan was his fellow back-row seatmate—how could he stand by and do nothing?
"I know a thing or two about dealing with girls," Ma Shicheng bragged.
"With confidence like yours, Ma Ge, I'll trust you this once."
Guo Kunnan took out his phone and unlocked it with a four-digit passcode.
He opened QQ and showed Ma Shicheng the chat window.
The girl's profile picture was a cute anime cat, pleasing at first glance.
"I'm Manman."
"Can I ask you something?"
Those were the messages she had sent.
"What does she want from me?" Guo Kunnan asked.
Ma Shicheng thought for a moment. "Check her QQ Zone first."
Guo Kunnan hesitated. "Wouldn't that be kind of inappropriate?"
He wasn't a prestigious Yellow Diamond User. If he viewed someone else's QQ Zone, it would leave a visitor trail.
"Just look first," Ma Shicheng urged.
"Fine." Guo Kunnan tapped into it. He wanted to look too, but before, he had felt completely alone. Now that Ma Shicheng was with him, he felt reassured.
The girl's QQ Zone was extremely flashy, packed with special effects. The first things that caught his eye were several posts with fashionable selfies.
"She's pretty, right?" Guo Kunnan said.
"Not bad."
Guo Kunnan kept scrolling.
There were posts complaining about trivial things in her life, as well as those paired with creepy pictures and captions like, "If you see this and don't repost it, your whole family will die within three days."
Each of her posts usually had over a hundred likes, followed by a long string of comments.
Ma Shicheng generally called girls like that internet princesses.
He tapped on her profile page, where there was some detailed information, including a phone number.
Years of online flame-war experience let Ma