Secret Scripts
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Outline
- Proposes a five-stage model for online chatting: building rapport, shallow safety, mid-level connection, deep emotional connection, and asking her out
- Collects a large number of opening lines and chat bits for social apps (Momo, WeChat), organized by stage, claiming over 3,000 entries
- Covers categories of scripted material including humor and teasing, breaking awkward silences, push-pull, cold reading, and compliments
- The final chapter covers asking her out and case logs, including a chapter of "hookup scripts" explicitly aimed at sex
Core idea
The ultimate goal of chatting is to convert an online relationship into an in-person meeting; scripted routines are just "ammunition" — what fundamentally attracts a woman is the person themselves, but canned material can help a beginner get through the stage of not knowing how to chat.
Review
A representative sample of scripted-line collections from the era of mobile social apps in China, with some value as source material, but the mindset of memorizing scripts is fundamentally performance rather than communication, and some chapters treat sex as a direct goal — neither the values nor the methods here are worth emulating.