The user with the sand eagle avatar was called "Black Spearman." His real name was Xing Yunyi, and he was an enthusiast of group sports in real life.
Whenever he had nothing to do, he liked chatting online. If he met a girl he clicked with, he would invite her to exercise outdoors, going running, hiking, and working out together.
"Black Spearman" looked at the Tencent app. It had a friend-finding feature specifically designed to help strangers meet.
This time, it had randomly matched him with a girl with a sand eagle avatar. She kept adding "ah" to her messages, which made her seem incredibly cute.
"Black Spearman" was already imagining what she looked like: petite and adorable, or perhaps a girl with a soft, babyish voice. Maybe her home had only just gotten internet access?
No, no. In the Koi Continent, a household only just getting internet access was far too rare. He simply couldn't picture it.
Instead, he imagined a newbie whose family had been strict and forbidden her from going online, a cute girl who had only recently started exploring the internet.
As he thought about it, he suggested singing karaoke.
To his delight, the girl with the white-feathered sand eagle avatar agreed. "Sure, ah! You sing first."
"Black Spearman" gave his phone a curious smile, growing more and more eager to hear her voice.
"Black Spearman" tapped the record button and sang into his phone without accompaniment, choosing a popular song released in the last few years with a light, breezy melody.
These days, you couldn't flirt with girls using songs that were too old, or you risked seeming out of touch.
"Black Spearman" was a middle-aged man who liked songs from older decades, but the younger generation didn't like those old tunes, so he wouldn't