At the New Year’s banquet, what’s more outrageous than discovering that my online crush is my stepbrother, is that I’m still carrying the toy he asked for. How does it feel to bring a toy from an online lover to a New Year’s banquet? Thrilling. But what’s even more thrilling is that the online lover is right at the banquet. And he’s my handsome, polite stepbrother, whom I’m meeting for the first time. —The son of Song Auntie, my dad’s new love interest, and her ex-husband.

Feeling like I should retreat, I leaned closer to the table, putting on a fake smile. Do I dare move? Haha, no way, I didn’t dare move a bit. Because he’s sitting right next to me. There wasn’t even an empty seat between us.

How did I realize it? It was because of this close seating. He went to the bathroom and left his phone behind. By coincidence, I saw the screen and the message notification popping up—my own embarrassing message.

‘Little Xiugou: How fast can a little egg be? Come on, master, didn’t you eat enough today? Why are you being so soft?’

The level of cringe would make anyone black out on the spot. —A mix of social death and embarrassment.