Chapter 10: Is This Even Possible?

At that moment, a rabbit avatar flashed on QQ.

Rabbit-chan: Qingqing, quick, come check out the school forum! Today is Zhan Shao’s birthday, and our school’s talented girl Lin wrote him a long, flowery confession essay. It’s gone viral, absolutely viral!

Rabbit-chan was Shi Qingqing’s desk mate and good friend, a particularly adorable girl.

Moneyless in Five Elements: Zhan Shao? That sounds familiar.

Rabbit-chan: Oh my gosh, he’s the leader of the Four Young Masters of Qingming High! The Four Heavenly Kings, the four most handsome guys at school—no, in all of the imperial capital, everyone knows Zhan Shao!

Shi Qingqing finally remembered. The wealthy group she joined last night—is that the Four Young Masters of Qingming High? Oh my god!

No wonder they’re so extravagant! It’d be an outrage if they weren’t!

Shi Qingqing coughed and replied.

Moneyless in Five Elements: Cough, why did it explode? Was the writing brilliant? Did it get thousands of shares or something?

Rabbit-chan: Pfft! I don’t know how well it was written, too long, didn’t read. The key is the comments underneath. They’re all saying, “National heartthrob Zhan Shao, we want to have your babies!” There are already over a thousand comments! It’s spectacular. I even joined the crowd and left a comment, my heart feels so sweet…

Shi Qingqing stretched lazily.

Moneyless in Five Elements: Kid, you’re seriously ill. If you’re sick, take medicine. If you’re not, take precautions. Don’t let your brain rot.

Rabbit-chan: Shi Qingqing, you’re the brainless one! You’re the queen of brainlessness… -%#?…?*!

Shi Qingqing ignored her. Since there was no notification about a red envelope, she casually quit QQ.

She was now certain—this phone could access the internet seamlessly without WiFi.

Some kind of black technology!

She examined the phone’s appearance. Though battered, it was a single piece—no ports, no slots, not even a place for a SIM card…

Wait, there wasn’t even a charging port!

Could it be disposable? Once the battery ran out, it couldn’t be used anymore?

Shi Qingqing was a bit worried.

She checked the phone’s app settings. They weren’t complicated, just like the pre-installed apps on a normal phone—contacts, music, and so on.

Only the incoming call settings section had an option that required input.

Please enter the mobile number to receive calls:

Shi Qingqing casually entered the number she used before.

“Beep!”

Successfully received. Host has bound the first receiving mobile number.

Is that all it takes?

Shi Qingqing hadn’t figured out what it meant when suddenly the phone rang, the most common ringtone for incoming calls.

It startled her.

She pressed the answer button, and before she could speak, a voice came pouring in.

“Hey, Shi Qingqing, didn’t you say your phone was broken? How come it’s working again? By the way, did you block me on QQ? Why are you like this? I wasn’t finished talking. Isn’t today Zhan Shao’s birthday? Not only did someone confess to him on the forum, but someone also released 999 balloons above the school, each one saying, ‘Zhan Su, happy birthday…’”

Shi Qingqing grumbled inwardly, My phone’s broken, and you still call—how desperate are you to talk!

Lazily, she replied, “Which patient did that?”

“It was the school director’s granddaughter, your… that…”

Shi Qingqing responded with three ohs in a row. “Got it. I’m not interested in her affairs. Hanging up now, my mom’s sick and needs rest.”