Chapter 1 The Phone Crash
Tao Zi was even more excited than me.
I ignored the phone and grabbed her shoulders, voice shaking.
“Baby, I have a friend… who’s facing a life crisis. She doesn’t know what to do!”
Tao Zi looked confused by my grip. “What crisis?”
“Suppose—just suppose—my friend was online dating someone really… impressive. She broke up, and only then found out who he actually is. What should she do?”
“How impressive? Rich heir? Celebrity?”
“No, just… complicated relationship. Like you online-date a gaming king and blind-box him as your worst enemy?”
Tao Zi stepped back quickly. “Pah pah pah, don’t say such unlucky things!”
“What can he do? Does he know who your… friend is?”
“Probably not… yet.”
“Then that’s it! Online breakup, never met, never kissed. What can he do to you?”
“You’re right.” I let out a long breath and patted my chest. “Ugh, I scared myself.”
“Okay. So who is it? Spill it. Confession gets leniency, resistance—”
“Your cat is giving birth. I have to go deliver!”
“My Wang Cai was neutered eight hundred years ago!”