Su Su was an ordinary girl who loved beauty. Her phone was loaded with seven apps specifically for retouching and adding various special effects. Every photo had to go through the elaborate refining of these apps before it was posted on social media.

Like some girls these days, she tried her best to put forth her most beautiful side.

Today was the second day of her trip to Chengdu. Her destination was Kuanzhai Alley, a famous cultural tourism spot in the city.

Using a selfie stick, she took a selfie in front of the Starbucks in Kuanzhai Alley, a landmark with distinctive Chinese characteristics. Through an app, she retouched the photo to give herself fair skin, defined features, and a flawless face. She was very satisfied, and posted the photo on Weibo and WeChat Moments, adding the caption: "Kuanzhai Alley in Chengdu is so beautiful, and of course, I'm pretty too!"

Then she continued strolling, going from one shop to another. When she saw a pretty spot, she took out her phone for a selfie, immersing herself in the different sights. The sugar painting artists by the roadside, the performers disguised as sculptures, the beautiful handicrafts in the shop windows, the fragrant and tempting food displayed outside the snack bars... quickly made her forget about the Weibo and WeChat posts she had made.

It wasn't until she had been wandering around all afternoon, and was tired, that she ordered a drink at a cafe, sat down to rest, and remembered the Weibo and WeChat posts she had made. She wanted to see how many likes and replies she had received.

First, she opened WeChat Moments. Her previous post already had twelve likes and comments.

She opened it and saw that seven of the twelve were likes, and five were replies. Most of them were from her close friends praising her for being pretty, but there was one reply from a male friend. This male friend rarely replied to her WeChat posts, so much so that Su Su had to pause for a moment to remember who he was when she saw his avatar.

Thinking that this male friend, who rarely replied to her posts, had actually made a reply, Su Su felt a little smug. This showed that her charm was still quite significant...

At this point, she remembered to check what this male friend had replied.

"Pfft, Zhou Yi, you're so mischievous again!"

What the heck?!

Su Su was stunned for a long time, not understanding what this friend was talking about.

Who was Zhou Yi? What did "mischievous again" mean?

Did it have anything to do with her photo?

Her first reaction was that this friend had replied to the wrong post, making her happy for nothing. Really... So, she suppressed her anger and replied with a question mark: "?"

Then she opened the Weibo app, and was surprised... no, puzzled to find that there were a thousand mentions of her. On Weibo, forwarding a post generates a mention of the original poster. Several thousand mentions meant that her Weibo post had been forwarded a thousand times.

She had never had so many forwards before. So, after seeing the number clearly, her surprise quickly turned into confusion.

Her Weibo follower count wasn't even as high as the number of forwards. She only had a little over a hundred followers, all of whom were her classmates and friends. There were very few unfamiliar followers.

Usually, when she posted something on Weibo, it only got a few forwards, and at most a dozen or so, which was because she and her friends had started chatting in the Weibo forwards...

Why was it so crazy today?

She thought she had misread it, or that there was a problem with the Weibo data.

While she was still in a daze, she was horrified to discover that the number of forwards had increased by two hundred!

This was indeed alarming. What on earth was going on?!

She clicked on it and discovered that all the forwards were from her selfie with the Starbucks coffee that she had posted in the afternoon.

Could it be that some internet celebrity had discovered her beauty?

Su Su knew herself well enough to know that such a magical thing could not happen to her.

She clicked on those forwards, and regardless of who had posted them, there was a keyword: Zhou Yi.

And a lot of the content was similar to what her male friend had said:

"Pfft! Zhou Yi!"

"Zhou Yi, why aren't you spending time traveling with your girlfriend? Why are you photo-bombing!"

"Hello, 110? There's someone forcibly photo-bombing here!"

"Hahahaha! Zhou Yi is so cute!"

"233333333333333333, original poster, do you know you've been photo-bombed?"

Some people were surprised that Zhou Yi had actually appeared in that place:

"Zhou Yi is in Chengdu?"

"Zhou Yi appeared in Kuanzhai Alley this afternoon!"

"Zhou Yi and his girlfriend are traveling in Chengdu!"

"Wow! It's Zhou Yi! To be in the same frame as him, the original poster is so lucky!"

...

The most forwarded post was indeed from an internet celebrity, an official corporate Weibo account with a blue "V," the official Weibo of Sina Sports. They had forwarded Su Su's post and commented: "Zhou Yi and his girlfriend, Cortana, are touring Kuanzhai Alley in Chengdu hand in hand, and were captured in a selfie by a lucky netizen! But looking at Zhou Yi's actions, this seems to be a premeditated photo-bombing..."

After this Weibo post was forwarded, more and more people clicked on it to view it and forward it, including many other influential figures with massive follower counts. So, like an avalanche, the number of forwards increased exponentially, and was still growing rapidly – the speed at which Su Su flipped through the pages couldn't keep up with the number of forwards. Often, when she clicked to turn the page, she would find that she was still looking at the forward content she had just seen, indicating that the new number of forwards had already filled a page...

Even if Su Su was slow to react, she should have realized the special nature of this situation by now.

She thought of the male friend who had replied below her post in WeChat Moments. He had mentioned Zhou Yi.

At the time, she had found it inexplicable, wondering who "Zhou Yi" was.

Now her confusion was even deeper, but she wouldn't be angry because of it. She opened the mobile browser, entered the words "Zhou Yi" in the search box, and pressed search.

Next, she seemed to enter a whole new world. This girl, who never watched soccer and was completely uninterested in it, discovered that Zhou Yi was actually such a famous person. It was her own ignorance...

After understanding who Zhou Yi was, she went back to look at her selfie at the time.

In the distance behind her, there were two figures. The woman was facing the side of the camera, while the man was facing the camera directly, captured by the phone's lens. But even if that was all, it would have been fine. The key was that the man was making a "V" sign with his fingers at the camera at the same time he was being photographed. From the angle of his gaze, he was making this gesture directly at Su Su's phone lens...

The man wasn't wearing sunglasses, and the space between his eyebrows and eyes was indeed very similar to the photos of Zhou Yi that she had found online.

No wonder people were saying that Zhou Yi had photo-bombed her...

When she was retouching the photo at the time, all her attention was focused on her face, completely ignoring the background. In her opinion, those were all unimportant passersby.

She didn't expect that those insignificant passersby would give her her first Weibo post with over a thousand forwards.

Looking at Zhou Yi's gesture now, Su Su couldn't help but laugh.

A big star actually made such a photo-bombing gesture at the phone lens of an irrelevant passerby. As those netizens said, it was indeed... quite cute.

This made Su Su develop a strong curiosity about such a cute star. So, she started searching for Zhou Yi's Weibo, and then followed him, clicking on each post one by one, and quickly became fascinated...

Zhou Yi and Cortana had just finished dinner and returned to their hotel when they received a call from an acquaintance reporter.

"Hello, Zhou Yi, are you traveling in Chengdu?"

Zhou Yi was very strange: "How did you know?"

He didn't remember announcing his itinerary to the public...

"Haha! It really is you!" The reporter's happy laughter rang out on the other end of the phone.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Yi was confused.

"This afternoon, a netizen posted a selfie on Weibo, and you were discovered by netizens for photo-bombing! Haha! You should go online and take a look! I called to tell you about this, it's really too funny! You can be discovered by netizens even like this! Ha!"

After the reporter finished speaking, they hung up the phone.

"What's wrong?" Cortana asked.

"We've been discovered," Zhou Yi said.

"Ah? By reporters?" Cortana was also quite surprised. They had been quite low-key on this trip and hadn't announced their itinerary to the public. Zhou Yi's social media hadn't updated any travel news either.

"No..." Zhou Yi opened the Weibo app on his phone and found that many people were mentioning him, all in the same Weibo post, which was a girl's selfie.

In the selfie, he was a few meters behind the girl, making a V sign at the camera. Because the girl's face was angled to the right when she took the selfie, Zhou Yi happened to appear in the exact center of the photo...

"Damn, how could netizens have discovered this!" Zhou Yi exclaimed after seeing the photo.

He remembered this incident. When he was resting in that place at the time, he was bored and happened to see a girl in front of him taking a selfie. He secretly made a V sign behind her back then, out of a playful impulse.

After doing that, he had forgotten all about it.

He didn't expect this girl to post this selfie online, and even more unexpectedly, there were so many people online, and so many photos appearing on social media every day, that his photo would be discovered...

"So, it turns out that you exposed yourself," Cortana said sarcastically after seeing the photo. She had had her back to Zhou Yi at the time and hadn't seen Zhou Yi make that gesture at all.

Zhou Yi scratched his head.

He couldn't blame anyone for this.

Thinking of this, he forwarded the girl's Weibo post, writing: "You can even find this? Are you all Conan?!"