14 May 2025
Hit a bit of a slump since my last update.
However, there is value in it. I have learned several important lessons (from making critical mistakes) that will tighten my game going forward.
China is a place to learn seduction fast. The girls are gorgeous, but also highly selective. Frame control here is paramount, and the slightest slip-up, as I have learned, can cause your attraction with them to plummet to zero.
I’ll go through three cases of girls I met in the past two weeks which I screwed up for different reasons, to share with you all the lessons I’ve learned, and also so that you can see that my seductions do not always go as smoothly as they might seem from my LRs.
All of them were beautiful - honestly moreso even than the majority of girls I have slept with over the past year. If I can crack the seduction code with this tier of girls, I’ll be very content with where I am in my journey.
The Accomplished Tea Master
I met this girl while wandering around downtown Chengdu. A small, petite girl with a doll-like face, thin waist and amazing breasts. As I walked past her, she glanced my way and smiled warmly - a rare overt IOI that I could not pass up. She reacted to my approach with warmth but some nervous hesitation (I have learned that dialing down the directness of my approaches here is more effective), and we exchanged contacts.
She was 25 years old, and the owner of a government-endorsed “intangible cultural heritage” studio. An expert in Chinese tea ceremony, calligraphy, and Chinese traditional dance. This is her life’s passion, and she is obviously quite successful at her work as she has a whole team of people working for her. She struck me as sharp, articulate, and educated. This, plus her beauty, made her a top tier girl in my mind (which I believe also contributed to my struggle to hold frame with her).
We met for tea in the evening. She seemed quite invested from the beginning, even bringing me a gift of a spicy rabbit head to try (not kidding - it’s apparently a local delicacy. I did not eat it…)
I did the usual stuff - deep diving, escalating on high points, and fractionating with small talk during which I maintain mild aloofness. This back and forth seems to be pretty effective here. It’s a pattern like this:
Small talk (maintaining neutral aloofness) -> she invests with interest or eye contact -> I reward with interest or escalation (more warmth, a deep dive question, deep eye contact, sometimes brief touch) -> fractionate back to small talk -> rinse and repeat
It’s classic operant conditioning. If she zones out or uses her phone, I become more aloof and stare into space with a bored expression. Then when she invests again by asking a question, I return my full attention to her. Pretty soon she stops checking her phone and is fully invested in me.
Anyway, that’s what I did with this girl, and she became very compliant - even with physical touch (which is rare for Chinese girls). However she soon said that she had to go home as she had to get up early for work. She had told me that she was free for the evening, but did not mention that she had to leave so soon. I was a little disappointed, but did not show it. I ended the date shortly after.
We met again a couple of days later for food, but this time I had to leave early for a date with another girl (who I did bang), and we did not see each other again after that.
What led to the death of this seduction was not a single mistake but a bunch of small things that weakened my frame with her. For example, she was late both of the times I arranged to meet up with her. Instead of calling her out on this, I tolerated it and said I would wait for her. She replied “that’s so romantic (rose emoji)”.
When we met, I could tell that the attraction was lessened, she was no longer as invested (she even watched some livestream on her phone while we ate dinner - something I should have called out), and the air was more stiff.
Being accommodating to women when they are not punctual communicates that your time is less important than theirs and weakens your frame.
The second mistake was simply not escalating when I should have. The second time she met me for food, she was definitely free that evening. Despite being a more traditional girl, on a subconscious level she expected escalation which I did not deliver.
The third mistake was completely losing frame with bad texting. I had told her I was leaving the next day, and she texted me in the morning:
“Are you on the train now?”
“No, something came up and I actually rebooked it for tomorrow”
“Oh, really”
“Yeah. Have you eaten yet?”
No response from her. No idea why I said that, I realised in hindsight that it’s a boring question that gives off needy orbiter vibes. I’ve massively recalibrated my texting since this.
I pinged her later with a photo of the spicy rabbit head she brought me, and her response was polite but distant. To this day she is still friendly with me, but the seduction, much like that unfortunate animal, is long dead.
Sexy 19yo Dance Student
Approached this girl in the evening outside a shopping mall near my place. She was taking a video of herself on a bicycle, and I opened indirectly by inquiring on what she was filming. She hooked, I soft closed, we exchanged contact info.
We met for coffee a couple of days later. Upon first meeting her, she had an air of haughty aloofness that I’m already familiar with in these sorts of girls. I responded with aloofness in kind, keeping the conversation going without asking too many questions or reacting too much, often letting there be pregnant pauses in the flow. I’ve found this works to portray a quiet confidence that gets girls chasing.
It worked, and soon her entire demeanour changed. She went from avoiding eye contact and talking with disinterest to holding strong eye contact and constantly asking me questions. It’s amazing how you can make girls flip like a switch by calibrating your levels of interest (operant conditioning again - I need to read further into this stuff).
Anyway, by around 40 minutes in, I got the sense that the lay was definitely there with this girl. However, like the last girl (in fact all three of them did exactly the same thing), despite telling me she was free for the rest of that day, it later turned out that she had another class in the evening, so there was simply not enough time to bounce to a second venue. No idea why these girls do this. Perhaps they’re afraid that if they say they’re busy later I won’t want to meet them? Oh well.
Continuing things over texting, her investment levels were high. The first thing she said was “I want to take you to a really nice restaurant” and sent me photos of some fancy dishes. Actually, all three girls did this. Funny that there seem to be such predictable behaviour patterns here.
Now is where I dropped the ball with her. While on the date, I had mentioned that I’d made a Chinese TikTok account, and that a few of my videos had gone kinda viral locally. She texted me asking if she could follow my TikTok. I made the foolish blunder of giving it to her.
Why was that a blunder, you might be thinking? Surely having some viral TikTok videos is a kind of DHV.
The problem is that the person I am in my TikTok videos is NOT the seductive persona I portrayed to this girl. It’s a different character, and while it certainly works well to gain virality among locals, I do not believe it is attractive in any seductive sense.
More crucially, it robbed me of all my mystique. I realised my mistake immediately after sharing it with her. I even mentioned my age in one of my videos (31) which, her being 19, would very likely trigger a FSC reaction. I knew immediately that with this one move I had pretty much blown what was almost a sealed deal.
After that, her attitude via texting changed subtly. At first, she was still acting friendly and jesting, but not investing like before. I called her the next day, thinking it might be possible to use my seductive voice to regain frame. I could sense, however, the shift in her demeanour - from highly invested and chasing, to simply friendly.
I arranged another date with her, which she agreed to but then flaked on. I called her out on this, but she did not apologise, only explaining that she was tired. At this point I should not have accepted that (actually I should have recognised this was a lost cause and moved on, but I wanted to meet her again just to confirm it for myself). I rescheduled for the next day.
But now her attitude got really cold and nasty - treating me almost like an annoying servant. I guess because deep down she resented the fact that I was not the seductive, aloof, strong-framed guy she thought I was, and also because I had shown some weakness in frame in reaction to her flaking. Her texting got downright disrespectful.
I should have punished her for this - told her to come back when she learns how to speak to me like a human being. But since we had the date scheduled for that day (and I had no other strong leads), I wanted to see her and find out if she was really like this in person or if this was just how she texts people.
We met up, and it should come as no surprise that she was indeed cold, aloof, bitchy, and self-centred - a completely different girl to what I saw on that first date. I did not hide my sour mood, and soon ended the date. She later sent a text apologising for flaking, and I said goodbye and wished her the best.
This one was a lesson in the importance of holding strong frame, in not over-revealing information (sharing my TikTok was an unnecessary risk with a girl who is already maximally invested), and that when girls show disrespect, you
must punish them because there is nothing less attractive to a girl than a man who does not demand respect.
It’s operant conditioning, again and again. Starting to feel like the key to seduction in China is becoming the strong-willed paternal figure that these girls never had in their lives…
Gorgeous 19yo Freedom-Seeker
Last one. Out of the three girls, this is the one I was the most chewed up about because she was absolutely STUNNING and her personality was exactly my type. Sweet, warm, curious, open-minded, and on a “freedom bend” having just recently moved away from her over-controlling parents. This was a sealed deal that I screwed up by hurrying things too quickly and, again, losing my seductive frame.
I had approached her the last time I was in this town a couple of weeks back. She was working at a clothing store in the mall, I spotted her on her way to work and did a pretty standard direct approach. She seemed cute, but nothing particularly exceptional (she was dressed in loose work clothes). I number-closed her anyway, figuring she could be a nice option if I have nothing else.
A few days ago, I posted on my WeChat timeline some photos of myself hanging out with friends, which she messaged me about. I found out that she recently moved to town and didn’t have many friends, so I guess she saw it as a DHV. I arranged a date for coffee the next day.
I had little expectations, barely even remembering what she looked like. When I saw her, I could hardly believe it. Just gorgeous, a lovely youthful face and the perfect figure. On top of that, she was bubbly, smiley and endlessly curious about me. She said she wanted to study English and go out and see the world because she had lived such a boring sheltered life, and she loved to hear my stories about travel. She smiled bashfully when I looked her in the eyes, saying I made her shy.
Seriously, my type to a
god damn T.
However, like the other two girls, she had told me she was free the rest of the day, but after 45 minutes of coffee, told me she had plans to meet a friend in about an hour and a half.
Now, had I not been planning on leaving that town in a few days, I would have ended the date there on a high note, maintaining her investment levels (she, like the other girls, suggested taking me out for a fancy dinner lol), and met another day to close the deal.
However, as it was, this was one of my last days in town. I would not have another opportunity to meet her, because he job gives her no rest days and only 5 days a month of morning shift in which she didn’t finish super late (that day happened to be one of them).
So I decided to go for it, even though I sensed that an hour and a half would be nowhere near enough time to pull without facing major LMR (no sexual framing or physical escalation yet - socially and emotionally she was locked in, but the arousal wasn’t there).
Still, I could have at least gotten her to my place if I had not fucked up the pull. Let me explain how that happened.
I suggested grabbing yoghurt at a convenience store nearby (downstairs from my place), and off we went. My plan was to get the yoghurt, then say to her since there’s nowhere to sit and we still have an hour or so, we could go up to my place and I’d show her photos on my laptop of my hometown (which she had asked about on the date). This would probably have been enough plausible deniability
if I’d pulled it off smoothly.
Instead, while walking to the convenience store (which was just a little bit further than it should have been - not the best logistics), I had the bright idea of using the plausible deniability excuse that I’ve seen used by a Chinese PUA:
“Actually, I might have to go back and send a document on my computer. It’ll only take about 10 minutes though. We can get the yoghurt then hang out for a bit, then I’ll take you back to the station.”
This didn’t work for several reasons.
- It was too hurried and too sudden. Delivering this while on the way to get the yoghurt probably triggered her “dodgy situation” alarm.
- For the Chinese gamer I’ve seen use this, this sort of plausible deniability works when at the date spot, in a calm state, after he has confirmed that she’s free later, and delivered in a casually indifferent sort of “you can come if you like, it’s up to you” manner. Not on the spur of the moment, and not as a change of plans from something else.
- It wasn’t the plausible deniability she was expecting. When she asked, on the date, if she could see photos from my hometown, I told her they were on my laptop. She was probably expecting that if I was going to invite her to go see them (I didn’t do that at the time, anticipating a FSC reaction, but definitely should have called back to it later.)
To put the final nail in the coffin, after grabbing the yoghurt and as we were about to part ways, I said “I’m pretty busy, we may not have many opportunities to see each other again”, basically sub-communicating needy vibes. She said “that’s okay, if we’ll meet again we’ll meet again”.
And that was it. She was still friendly over texting, but when I called her the next day to try to arrange another date after she finished work, she sounded annoyed and said it would be too late at night to meet (I knew that was extremely low odds, but wanted to try anyway to be sure).
Takeaways
Three beautiful, amazing girls who were extremely attracted to me at the outset, and I botched them all for different reasons.
Importantly, however, I am pretty clear about the mistakes I made, and I’m glad I pushed the envelope with each of them to see the final result exactly for myself.
If you don’t do that, perhaps you preserve your ego, but you lose a valuable
reference point, and I know that these sorts of uncomfortable reference points are the ones that will shape me into a skilled seducer.
Most importantly of all, I am coming back at this with a vengeance. There's a tier of girls I know I can get, I just need to hold their attraction by calibrating investment vs aloofness, maintain strong frame control,
be smooth and make as few blunders as possible.
Onwards and upwards!