The next day, Saturday.
Early that morning, when Chen Shi'an arrived in the classroom, his classmates started talking to him about his TV appearance.
"Daoist Master! You were on TV!"
"You saw it in your feeds too?"
Chen Shi'an smiled. To him, it was hardly a big deal, but in the monotony of school life, it counted as news worth talking about.
He sat down at his desk and glanced over its surface. The bottle of milk that usually respawned there every day had yet to respawn.
"Huh? Class Monitor, where's your milk?"
"X!"
So greedy! Do you really think you get some every day? No more milk for you!
Lin Meng Qiu pretended not to hear him and carried on reading.
A moment later, Chen Shi'an's voice sounded beside her again, full of realization:
"Oh-it was inside the desk. You're so good at hiding things, Class Monitor. I almost missed it."
"Thank you, Class Monitor."
6 hearts 11
Chen Shi'an stuck the straw in and asked Lin Meng Qiu as he drank:
"Class Monitor, did that news clip of me show up in your feed?"
"...Yeah."
Of course Lin Meng Qiu had seen it.
She had first seen it on Wen Zhixia's Moments.
If she hadn't seen the video Annoying Cicada posted, she wouldn't even have known those two had been on TV together.
She had assumed that, like before, the post was visible only to her, only to find that Chen Shi'an had liked it-and Sister Wanyin had too.
That made her even angrier.
How dare you! Broadcasting it for everyone to see?!
Following the trail, she had gone to the original news account's video and checked its comments too.
Local news accounts like that had limited reach, and usually only a hundred or so comments. The girl