I posted a Moments update visible only to Song Mingqi and waited until three in the morning without a reply.
I messaged him privately: “Asleep?”
He sent back a smiley face: “Dead.”
I stared at the screen.
Could this seasoned fake-innocent schemer really be so rattled that he had dropped the act?
“Did you swallow dynamite or something?”
Three smiley faces in a row: “Yeah.
It kept me up till three.”