Jingyuan knew nothing of the historic meeting between the two girls. When he received Jing Zhihui's text "Take me to Beijing with you," he nearly wept tears of joy at her once-in-a-millennium Mai-Mang-style frankness—little knowing she was fully Mai-Mang-possessed at that moment. The original subtle version "Please help me buy a ticket to Beijing too" had been vetoed by strategist Mai Mang with "If you don't want the reply 'I'm not a ticket seller'" until not a crumb remained. In any case Jingy...