Qian Cangyi cups his face with his left hand and uses his right hand to control the mosaic character on the screen with the mouse.
Because he has no interest in the plot of the game, Qian Cangyi barely looks at the screen and instead focuses on the happenings inside the internet café. Currently, the café manager is engrossed in a thick novel. Qian Cangyi has read such novels before where the print is tiny. However, the book is not costly, primarily because it's a pirated copy.
Not far away, three high school-aged individuals each have a cheap cigarette in their mouths, shouting vernacular outbursts from time to time, seemingly venting some internal bitterness.
A little further away, a young woman rhythmically types on a keyboard. The screen shows that she's playing some sort of rhythm game, judged by the score judging inputs via the arrow keys and the spacebar.
