January 14.
Today was a special day.
Wang Ming, who usually slept until noon on weekends, had climbed out of bed at six in the morning.
After getting dressed and stuffing a piece of bread into his mouth, the teenager headed out.
He was going to—the town's only physical CD store.
Today, his grandfather Tong Tai had given him a strict order.
No matter what, he had to buy that thing and bring it back!
He had clearly been the one to start following them first.
Yet in the end, Grandpa had become even more obsessed than he was. Not only did he chatter about their music at home every day, but early this morning, he had even yanked away Wang Ming's blanket and forced him out of bed in weather below ten degrees Celsius in the south.
Of course, Wang Ming himself had been looking forward to this as well, and had made plans for it long ago.
But what Wang Ming couldn't understand was—
"Why do I need to get up at six just to buy a CD?"
Wang Ming grumbled as he breathed white mist into the cold air.
But when he reached his destination, the sight before him stunned him senseless.
In the frigid wind, a line dozens of meters long had formed outside the tiny CD store, taking over the entire street!
Looking down the line, people's heads appeared tiny, like a crawling caterpillar.
He hurriedly stopped a passerby standing in the middle of the queue.
"H-Hey, bro? What are you all here to buy today?"
"Huh?"
The man froze for a moment before smiling as though this was perfectly normal.
"Moonlight and Cat's new album, of course!"
"All these people are here for it?"
"Of course."
The passerby asked back, "What are you here