Chapter 97: Brother, There’s a Swindler!

She had barely asked, her voice thick with suspicion, whether she was really selling a ticket to the singer's concert, warning that a game shop like hers might well be a fraud.

Shi Qingqing produced the ticket. Of course it was real. She could scan the code with her phone to verify it.

The dyed-haired girl eyed it uncertainly. She had heard the tickets were long gone. Where had Shi Qingqing gotten one? So many people were making counterfeit tickets these days. Could she take a careful look?

Shi Qingqing had done several in-person trades of game equipment before, all smoothly and with experience, so she had chosen this meeting place because it was fairly crowded and relatively safe.

Besides, the other girl was about her own age, so she had not been on guard.

She handed over the concert ticket.

The dyed-haired girl turned on her phone and made a careless scan. No one knew what button she pressed, but the phone displayed that the code could not be recognized.

She sprang up at once, raising her voice. "And here I was wondering why there are still real tickets for sale online. It's fake, sure enough! And you dare mark a fake ticket at eight thousand apiece? Why don't you just rob people? I saw through a liar like you at a glance."

Shi Qingqing was a little stunned. "No, this ticket reads as genuine when I scan it myself. How can it be fake when you scan it? Give it here, I'll show you."

The dyed-haired girl looked furious. She waved toward the door of the coffee shop. "Bro, there's a scammer here!"

At once, several boys and girls walked in from outside.

All of them were dressed in flashy, oddball outfits that made it obvious they were delinquents.

The one in the lead was a burly boy with purple hair, a nose ring, and a cigarette between his lips.

He strode over at once. "What? You think you can cheat my little sister out of her money? These days there are so many frauds selling things online, and this one is just a little girl scammer..."

Seeing this scene, Shi Qingqing knew immediately that she had run into a pack of thugs and ruffians.

Her heart sank. In the past, when she met players for trades, the equipment cost only a few hundred yuan. Today the amount involved was eight thousand.

The odds of running into such lowlifes were much higher than before.

This was her own oversight.

She could not panic.

There were other customers and the owner in the coffee shop; they would not dare to start a fight outright.

So Shi Qingqing raised her voice. "What reason do you have to call me a scammer? I'm an honest businesswoman. Fine, you don't need to shout. I'll call the police and have the officers verify whether this concert ticket is real or fake."

The dyed-haired girl let out a sneer. "Sure! Call them! Whoever comes, they'll see your ticket is fake."

As she spoke, she tossed another concert ticket onto the table.

From the outside, it looked exactly the same as the one Shi Qingqing had shown before, but the seating section was different.

It was obvious she had already switched them out, pocketed Shi Qingqing's real ticket, and replaced it with a fake.

At this point, even if the police came, Shi Qingqing would have no way to clear herself.

The other customers in the coffee shop, even those sharp-eyed enough to spot something amiss, did not dare speak. No one wanted to get involved.

The foolish ones truly believed Shi Qingqing was an online fraudster trying to cheat people with fake tickets.

They even pointed and whispered at her.

Shi Qingqing finally saw reality for what it was. This group must have planned everything in advance to frame her.

She clenched her fists, furious beyond measure. She wanted nothing more than to beat these despicable people senseless, but she was only one girl, and against that dyed-haired girl she might still have a chance. Against so many people...