After a friend recommended a short-video app to him, Lin Xing followed the account his friend gave him. For more than a month, he tagged that account under all kinds of videos every single day, chatting about anything and everything.
Only when he met up with his friend again did Lin Xing discover that his friend had given him the wrong account…
The person he had been tagging every day was actually a famous handsome influencer named Banchi.
What had once been the casual, no-holds-barred conversations between friends instantly turned into unprovoked online harassment of a stranger.
Lin Xing feared he might never clear himself of the “creep” label.
His friend offered some half-baked consolation. “He’s a huge influencer with tens of millions of followers on this platform alone. Why would he notice you? He probably gets tagged by hundreds or even thousands of people saying weird things every day. Besides, hasn’t he never replied to you?”
Lin Xing accepted this comforting lie, quietly unfollowed the handsome guy, and pretended nothing had happened.
After several peaceful days passed without incident, Lin Xing finally relaxed and resumed his usual activity. Under one video, he tagged his friend’s real account and commented:
“Cutie, love you, love you.”
To his shock, the unlucky influencer whom he’d been tagging all summer suddenly appeared. After remaining silent the entire time, he finally replied:
“Don’t you love me anymore?”
The two comments appeared one above the other, creating a bizarre scene that invited all sorts of speculation.
Before Lin Xing could even catch his breath or react, he watched the trending topics evolve from:
“Banchi is gay and might have been cheated on?”
to
“Who is Banchi’s boyfriend??”
Lin Xing: …Just an ordinary passerby who’s about to die from embarrassment.
