Chapter 5

After adding Lu Xiao on WeChat, I didn’t dare bother the young master, and I certainly didn’t dare delete him. I just let his name sit quietly in my contacts list.

The day after my bestie’s birthday, I had the day off.

My elementary school-aged niece came over to play. As soon as she got here, she demanded my phone. I handed it over and went to the kitchen to make her lunch.

“Auntie, I want to play Candy Crush.”

“You can download it yourself, sweetie.”

“Auntie, why don’t you have an insta-liker on your WeChat? It’s not cool at all.”

Thinking “insta-liker” was some new game, I didn’t even look up from my cooking.

“If you want one, you can download it.”

“Okay~”

My niece happily went back to playing on my phone.

After she left, I didn’t bother deleting the pile of games she had downloaded, figuring she could play them next time she visited.

A week went by, then two…

One day, my bestie and I were out for dinner when she asked me a strange question.

“Lin Ting, have you had a lot of free time lately?”

“Not at all, I’ve been swamped.”

“Then how come you’re the first person to like my posts every single time? Even when I post in the middle of the night, you’re the first. It’s like you’re just sitting there waiting for me to post. If I didn’t know better, I’d think you had a secret crush on me.”

“Huh?”

I was baffled.

“I don’t think so. I’ve been so busy I haven’t even had time to look at my feed. How could I have liked your posts?”

“That’s weird. Did you accidentally turn on one of those auto-liker apps?”

Auto-liker?

I remembered my niece mentioning something like that.

Oh.

So it wasn’t a game.

“Yeah, my niece must have accidentally turned it on when she was using my phone. I’ll turn it off right now.”

I quickly opened WeChat and disabled the auto-liker program.

Finally, no more instantly liking everyone’s posts.

But two days later, Lu Xiao, who had been a silent presence in my contacts, suddenly sent me four very abstract words.

[Playing hard to get?]

I stared at my phone, completely lost.