I heard she'd become an online celebrity.
I heard she'd started livestreaming language games. She seemed pretty good at them, had joined livestream events on several platforms, and even placed in an official tournament.
I heard she had over a hundred thousand followers.
As for me, I hadn't checked her social media for a full three years.
After finishing work that day, I suddenly opened Douyin and searched for her.
She had more than three hundred thousand followers now.
I clicked in. The first post was a text video with white writing on a black background.
It had more than two hundred thousand comments.
She seemed to be doing well. Lots of followers, lots of comments, all saying they missed her.
Yes, she must have been doing well.
If only the pinned post I'd come across hadn't been her obituary.
She had been dead for a week.
"Look, even as you were dying, you kept lying to me and saying you cared about me."
You didn't even tell me you were going to die.
Theme: Finding a way out of hardship.