Catfished in Online Dating? The Scheming Tycoon’s Tricks Are Next-Level

The moment Game for Peace launched, Wen Zhimiao started an online romance with a mysterious big shot. She sweetly called him “big brother” every day, and flirted so much that her boyfriend, Xie Jinxu, had already picked out names for their future children. He couldn’t wait to meet her in person. At the time, Xie Jinxu’s company had just gone public, so he couldn’t return to China. He kept urging her to come abroad and meet him. Wen Zhimiao had just graduated from college, and had heard that a classmate had mysteriously vanished after traveling abroad to meet an online boyfriend. To her, her boyfriend’s urgent requests were straight out of a scammer’s playbook! She coldly blocked and deleted every way to contact her, uninstalled the game, and vanished completely for two years. Who knew her underage younger brother, Wen Zhixu, would keep getting banned from ranked matches and pester her into lending him her old account so he could climb the ranks? As luck would have it, in the final match of his promotion series, he ran into gaming big shot Xie Jinxu. His brother was furious and sent a friend request on the spot: “Hey, handsome, wanna be my in-game couple?” Xie Jinxu knew it wasn’t her, but he was afraid of missing his chance again, so he gritted his teeth and agreed. He played along, immediately switching into full-on award-winning-actor mode. He lavished five million on his future brother-in-law and played his part to the hilt. On the day they were supposed to meet in person, the younger brother blocked him and came clean: “Remember the person who turned on their mic in the tiny bathroom and begged you to spare them? That was me. I did it just to get back at you.” Instead of getting angry, Xie Jinxu chuckled. He immediately asked a friend at the police station to track down Wen Zhimiao’s phone number. When he called, his voice was low and enticing: “Miss Wen, are you free to meet? Your younger brother tricked me out of my feelings and my money…”