Chapter 3: Snagged a Thousand Yuan!
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[Zhan Su, it’s your birthday today. The brothers have been waiting for you at the bar for ages. What’s the deal with you not showing up? Who’s going to pick up the tab if you don’t come?] — Shen Shao.
Shi Qingqing snapped out of her daze. With swift hands, she copied the code and went for it—snatch!
She got it!
Hahaha, she actually got it… 99 yuan?
What?
99 yuan!
No, no, was she seeing things?
Shi Qingqing opened the red envelope message and checked carefully. This guy called Shen Shao had sent a 1,000-yuan envelope, split into five shares, and she’d gotten the smallest one.
But even so, Shi Qingqing was so excited she almost wanted to cry.
Ninety-nine yuan—she finally had enough to buy her mother’s cold medicine.
Even if someone came out now and told her this was all some elaborate prank, she wouldn’t care. She’d fight tooth and nail to defend her hard-won 99 yuan!
The red envelopes kept coming.
[Happy birthday, Brother Su. May you always smile.] — Little Sister.
Another code envelope! Shi Qingqing pounced again!
She snatched another one—16 yuan this time. The sender had put in a 100-yuan envelope, split ten ways. She really was the luckiest one this round.
Shi Qingqing was so moved she was on the verge of tears.
This was a group of real big spenders!
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She thought about her old junior high class group—just a bunch of penny-pinchers, each sending out one-yuan envelopes divided into a hundred shares…
Every time, she’d tap her phone till her fingers hurt, all for a few measly cents. It was no easy feat!
Just then, someone spoke up.
Gu Shao My Dude: Huh? When did we get a new member in our group?
Little Sister: That’s right, who’s this person called Five Elements Lacking Money? Who added them? They snatched my envelope—and even got the luckiest share…
Shen Shao: No idea, who added them?
Shi Qingqing’s QQ nickname was “Five Elements Lacking Money.” Suddenly being called out like that made her nervous.
She was still debating whether or not to say something, or what to say, when another red envelope popped up on the screen.
This time it was an ordinary envelope.
[Not coming to the bar, something came up. You guys have fun—put it on my tab.] — Zhan Shao.
Shi Qingqing’s worries vanished in an instant. She bravely reached out again!
Snatch! Snatch! Snatch!
She got it again!
When Shi Qingqing saw the number, she thought she was hallucinating.
Oh my god!
The screen displayed: 1,000 yuan!
Shi Qingqing rubbed her eyes. No mistake, she hadn’t misread the zeros—an even thousand!
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Looking at the others, it turned out to be an equal share—each person got 1,000 yuan! A total of 10,000 yuan was sent out!
At first, Tencent’s red envelope limit was 200; later, it became 1,000, then 5,000, and now they’d just raised the cap to 10,000. Even then, only a very special, high-level VIP account could send such a large envelope.
Ordinary accounts could send at most a 1,000-yuan packet.
Who exactly was this Zhan Shao? A real-life tycoon! This group was pure extravagance! Each member richer than the last!
But she liked it!
Awoo awoo awoo…
Shi Qingqing was so excited she lost all sense of direction.
She had the sudden urge to dash out and run three laps around the park in the city center.
What to do? What to do? Had she hit a streak of outrageous luck today? She’d picked up a broken phone, and through that very phone, managed to snatch the biggest red envelopes she’d ever seen in her seventeen years…
Was she so obsessed with money that she was hallucinating?
Shi Qingqing pinched herself. Ouch!
It was real…
Hahahahaha! For the next two months, as long as she was frugal, she’d have enough living expenses.
She waited another minute. The group was now in a frenzy over Zhan Shao’s appearance—everyone was trying to curry favor and the chat was buzzing.