Li Shi first glanced at how the other person addressed him.
"Oppa?"
He laughed, for it was the first time someone had called him that. He then checked the time, and it was only 8:29 am.
Then he started typing, "Why so early? And didn't you say last time that you were taking a direct flight to Tan Zhou?"
Zhang Qing Ya's written Chinese was even better than her cousin Kim Ji Yeon's, especially in the past month. In preparation for coming to China for competitions and study, she not only chatted with Li Shi on WeChat but also immersed herself in various popular online forums through several commonly used apps in China, and now she even understood many of the local Internet memes.
And she liked using them too.
"I thought I'd take a couple of days before the event starts to do some special forces-style tourism in Beijing. (smiling face)"
"I arrived yesterday afternoon, and I'm on my way to the Forbidden City right now!"