It's not that he was flirting, unless flirting was just about wanting to really see someone. People thought that someone like him –Â good-looking, young, cool clothes –Â was going to be dismissive, and when he wasn't, when he was just easy and open with them, they glowed. It was a feeling he tried to re-create a hundred times a day, in every interaction. It also calmed him. If he looked at someone and they looked at him and there was a true connection, no matter how brief, then it meant that he didn't need to replay the encounter anxiously afterwards, trying to find where it had all gone wrong.Jade Chang
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People think that flirting is just about getting to know someone, but for Alex there was more to it. He wanted to see if he could trigger a reaction in someone so strong that they felt their whole body tingle. If they didn't, then he would know that it wasn't a true connection and it meant nothing had really happened.
Source: The Wangs Vs. The World
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