"Holy crap, what the hell was that?!"
Xiao Ke was stunned.
His girlfriend looked just as incredulous.
At most, two seconds had passed between Xiao Ke opening the page and tapping to pay.
It had sold out in two seconds?
"What the hell? That fast?"
His girlfriend asked in disbelief.
Xiao Ke froze for a moment, then ruefully ran a hand through his hair.
"I should've known. I should've known! Brother Yi's autobiography was bound to be a huge hit. Forget two seconds—it could've sold out in one. We shouldn't have picked how many copies we wanted. We should've just hit Buy."
"We wasted half a second, and it was gone. Sigh..."
His girlfriend, Ma Shanshan, comforted him.
"It's my fault. I insisted on buying two copies. We could've bought one first and gotten another later if we had the chance. I just had to insist on two, and now we can't get even one."
Seeing her say that, Xiao Ke shook his head. "No, it's not your fault. Come on, let's go out."
"Where?"
His girlfriend asked.
Xiao Ke replied, "Let's line up at the bookstore. We'll split up and go to two different stores. Surely one of us can get at least one copy."
His girlfriend's eyes lit up. "Good idea!"
The two of them locked the door and headed downstairs.
But when they got down there,
they spotted two lines outside the Xinhua Bookstore, still 200 meters away. Each line stretched for over a hundred meters.
It was downright absurd.
Xiao Ke and his girlfriend exchanged a look and discussed what to do.
Xiao Ke would go to a bookstore a kilometer away, while his girlfriend would head to another one, over 700 meters away.
But when they reached the two bookstores, they were both stunned again.