"hey-hey--"

Zhou Bowen hadn't expected his luck to be so good this time. He scratched his head shyly, put one arm around his girlfriend's waist, and used the other hand to verify the information: "Then let's take both of these!"

“But we have an extra one now?” Lin Zhuwan thought for a moment. “Forget it, let’s keep it for now. Maybe the scalpers will snatch it up as soon as we release it.”

As a semi-fan, she deeply despises scalpers. She can never beat them when trying to buy tickets, and in the end, she has no choice but to bite the bullet and buy tickets from them. It's really disgusting.

But there's no way around it; scalpers have so many tricks up their sleeves that ordinary people just can't compete with them.

"Then take it."

Zhou Bowen verified his identity, saying, "Don't you have any close friends or group members? They should be willing to come along."

Actually, Zhou Bowen was too embarrassed to tell his girlfriend that it wouldn't matter if he couldn't get tickets this time, because he had already made an appointment with a scalper in advance, planning to buy two tickets from the scalper at a high price if he really couldn't get tickets later.

I didn't expect the plan to go so smoothly; I got three tickets right away, exceeding my target.

"Okay, I'll go ask."

Lin Zhuwan didn't hesitate and immediately went to find someone.

While Lin Zhuwan was out meeting someone, Zhou Bowen quietly opened another chat interface, found the scalper he had previously contacted, and prepared to explain the situation and tell him that he no longer needed scalped tickets.

But before Zhou Bowen could send the message, he saw that the scalper had sent him a message.

[AAA-Scalper Ma: Sorry bro, we couldn't get tickets this time, so we can't provide you with any service.]

Zhou Bowen was somewhat surprised, and then quickly replied.

[Xiao Zhou: Okay, no problem, thank you.]

This scalper was introduced by his brother. His brother's girlfriend is also a fan of celebrities, and she's a fan of boy bands, even more obsessed than Lin Zhuwan. She tries to buy tickets for different shows every day, so she knows a lot of scalpers. This scalper called Brother Ma was recommended by her. He's said to be one of the more capable and reputable scalpers.

Zhou Bowen hadn't expected that the other party wouldn't be able to get a ticket this time.

Could it be that they're trying to raise the price on the spot?

Curious, Zhou Bowen clicked into the scalper's WeChat Moments to find out more.

As soon as I went in, Brother Ma launched into a long tirade of complaints.

[AAA-Huangniu Ma Ge: Holy crap! What kind of plugin did Xiao He and his team add to that temporary website? How is it so powerful? All my scripts were blocked, I got nothing! I knew there was something fishy about him not making an app, damn it!]

[AAA-Scalper Ma: Seriously, I'm speechless. Is he really going to go this far? Such a tight control both online and offline, is he really leaving any way for people to survive? (Hundreds of words of vile language omitted here)]

[AAA-Huang Niu Ma Ge: Damn it, Xiao He, you just wait. His birthday party better not go wrong, or I'll pay for a bad trending topic about him!]

Zhou Bowen: ?

Zhou Bowen was stunned by the scalper's posts on WeChat Moments.

Tickets for Xiao He's birthday party were not listed on any of the more well-known ticketing platforms; instead, a separate temporary website was set up to serve fans.

When people first learned about this, many were not optimistic about it.

The first problem is the server. How can a self-built website compare to a formal ticketing platform? What if the server crashes before you even see the tickets, and nobody can log in or buy tickets? That would be extremely embarrassing.

There's also the issue of anti-cheating and anti-scripting mechanisms. Professional ticketing platforms have professional teams that have spent years improving and maintaining them to create the current anti-scalping system. In contrast, Xiao He's makeshift website looks ordinary. Does it really have the ability to counter such practices?

If when the tickets go on sale, Xiao He's own fans don't manage to get many, and scalpers snatch them all up, wouldn't Xiao He and his fans become clowns?

However, now it seems the Joker has actually appeared.

But it wasn't Xiao He and his group.

cattle:……