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Chapter 157: Refusing to Meet Ding Xue
TL: Etude
Taking advantage of the time when the employees went to Shiwei Tian for lunch, Jiang Qin drove back to the dormitory, pnning to ge his clothes.
Although winter didn’t have the sweatiness of summer, ourally sweated due to the heavy clothing and staying indoors for a prolonged period.
The boiler room of Lin Uy had been supplying ample heat these past few days. The heating was so intehat it was scalding to the touch. As soon as Jiang Qiered the dormitory, he felt a warmth like spring, a stark trast to the temperature in Room 208.
Of course, the stuffy smell was indeed unpleasant, but that’s just horoper boys’ dormitory smelled.
He wondered what the dormitory of the little rich dy smelled like. Perhaps it was as fragrant as her?
No, not necessarily.
Gao Wenhui was drying socks on the heater. The dormitory’s smell couldn’t be that pleasant, but Feng Nanshu’s quilt must surely be fragrant, of that there was no doubt.
“?”“I must be really tired today.”“Heh, thinking about all these things I’m totally not ied in.”
Jiang Qin patted his head and walked into Dorm 302 expressionlessly, closing the door behind him.
Zhou Chao was sitting at the desk reading a novel, Ren Ziqiang life with a cigarette in his mouth, and Cao Guangyu was curled up in his b, chatting away, transferring his romantic feelings from offlio online.
The three maintained absolute silence, eagrossed in their own worlds, not disturbing each other.
The best part of uy life, in fact, is moments like these. A group of people huddled in a warm room, not w about tomorrow, frivolously spending their youth. Even without iion, a shout would always get a response.
“Don’t keep the window closed all the time. Let some air in. I even smell kimow!”
Jiang Qin walked in, grabbed the mop lying on the floor, and propped it up in the er.
Zhou Chao got up, opened a cra the window, and said with a grin, “Jiang, yroup buying is awesome. It saved my dinner.”
Jiang Qin gave a thumbs-up: “Thanks for spending your precious living expeo support my business.”
“Jiang, I used it too, for both lund dinner!” Ren Ziqiang immediately chimed in.
“You’re awesome too. It would be eveer if you didn’t use the dist ime. Buy at full prid I’ll call you ‘Brother Qiang’.”
After ging his clothes and shoes, Jiang Qin suddenly saw Cao Guangyu looking up from his bed, his eyes bright: “Old Jiang, we discuss something? I’ve already asked Ding Xue and her dorm mates out for dinner. you e with me?”
“No, women only slow down my money-making. Just take Old Ren.”
Jiang Qin, tying his shoeces, casually refused, his eyes cold as if he were some impressive figure.
“Old Ren won’t do. He ’t hahe situation. Ding Xue’s dorm has two girls who are always arrogant and speak sarcastically. I just want to defte their arrogance!”
Cao Guangyu stretched out an arm, making a “defting” gesture, his arm surprisingly white.
“Although I admit I’m incredibly handsome, I don’t think I defte the girls’ arrogance.”
Old Cao excitedly climbed out of his b, his expression particurly animated: “Not you, but yirl. I want them to see what a real goddess is like, so they stop ag so high and mighty!”
Jiang Qin grinned: “Old Cao, I have no idea who you’re talking about.”
“I saw you holding hands the other day, sweeter than Ding Xue and me. I, drenched iench of love, could even smell it on you.”
“Are you a sniffer dog?”
Jiang Qin spat at him, thinking to himself that even in love, Old Cao hadn’t lost his bad habit of showing off.
During the student union’s new member sele, Old Cao had used his appearao show off. Later, he pgiarized Jiang Qin’s life story on a forum, almost getting a reality check from fans.
Now, he was even more audacious, trying to use the power of the little rich dy to deal with his girlfriend’s roommates. What a sly move!
He felt that such matters were her here nor there, not rising to the level of moral principles, nor debatable in terms ht . However, he absolutely refused to let Feng Nanshu have any further tact with Ding Xue.
The little rich dy Nanshu, ristine as a bnk sheet of paper, yet after just one meal with Ding Xue, she had learo call someone “brother” in a cutesy voice.
Aime?Impossible, even Tang Seng wouldn’t be able to stand it.
Back then, when the Queen of the Women’s Kingdom called him “Imperial Younger Brother,” even Tang Seng couldn’t resist responding with “If there’s a life.”
That Tang Seng was quite wicked, really. He was ostensibly on a jouro achieve Buddhahood, yet he fantasized about “if there’s a life,” clearly breaking his vows.
“Old Jiang, this time it’s not for me!”
Cao Guangyu ed a b around himself, his expression suddenly being serious: “Ding Xue’s roommate speaks very unpleasantly. She said that a girl as ordinary as Ding Xue only barely find someone like me. Could you tolerate that?”
After hearing this, Jiang Qin frowned: “Are retionships in the girls’ dormitory really that bad?”
“It varies from person to person. Ding Xue has a votile temper, so it’s normal for her to be treated sarcastically. But she definitely doesn’t have a bad heart. Think about it, she’s my girlfriend. I don’t want others to speak about her like that.”
“Does Ding Xue know about this?”
Jiang Qin found it strange. With Ding Xue’s explosive temperament, even the Bull Demon King would have to plow two li of nd and hand over his n when leaving.
If she heard it, she surely wouldn’t just let it go.
“Ding Xue definitely doesn’t know. If she did, she would have spped them already. College is not like high school; getting physical has serious sequences. I dare not tell her, but as a man, I ’t let them badmouth her behind her back. After much thought, I still o ask Feng Nanshu for help. She doesn’t eveo speak; her presence alone will crush them!”
Cao Guangyu appeared both cowardly and reasonable.
“Old Cao, you’re a good man, and you’ve matured. I’m relieved.”
Jiang Qin affirmed his approach: “If you wa the little rich dy, I , but you have to promise me ohing.”
Cao Guangyu immediately perked up, eager for a solution: “Tell me, Old Jiang. I’ll agree to anything.”
“Don’t let Ding Xue use that cutesy voice, don’t let her call you ‘brother,’ and don’t deliberately show off your love in front of me and Feng Nanshu. It would be best if Ding Xue gave you a few beatings for satisfa.”
“Old Jiang, you’re twisted, liking this sort of thing?” Cao Guangyu alled.
Jiang Qin sneered: “If you don’t agree, fet it. o babble.”
“I agree, as long as you e, I’ll make sure everything is arranged in advance!” Cao Guangyu said, pounding his chest fidently.
“Fine, when?”
“Let’s see when the sun es out. With this lousy weather, Ding Xue doesn’t even want to go out. I’ll call you when I firm the time.”
After finishing, Cao Guangyu y back down on the bed in his coed posture.
Jiang Qin turned ahe dormitory, driving back to Room 208.
By this time, those who had goo Shiwei Tian for lunch had all gradually returned, full and energized.
Thus, the night’s marketing officially began.
The main gimmick of this marketing wave was a tdown to the first day’s dist event, urging users who hadn’t ehe dist to get on board immediately.
“Don’t miss this opportunity, act fast, no waiting, it’s the middle of winter, aren’t you stog up?”
Lu Feiyu’s keyboard ccked away, effortlessly spinning various marketing phrases, creating a sense ency that the event was about to end.
Jiang Qin watched from behind, ughiily, thinking to himself that this young guy was really a marketing genius.
Looking at this soft-selling article and its stirring power, who would have thought he was the same guy who insisted on writing elegantly for Liu Yiyi during the campus beauty test, refusing persuasion and g that a journalism student must respect objective facts.
“Boss, isn’t this a bit exaggerated?”
“Not at all exaggerated. If I were younger, I’d definitely be taken in by your spiel.”
Lu Feiyu was momentarily stunned, uo dis whether this was a pliment or a criticism.
Meanwhile, Su Nai was coordinating with Lu Feiyu’s marketing efforts, ung a tdown for the first-day dist event on the website’s homepage.
Several maer, at ten o’clo the evening, they indeed experienced a peak in traffic, particurly in new registrations, which had surpassed the total for the entire day.
“Boss, I’ve exported today’s data report.”
As the marketing campaign s end, Su Nai handed over a report detailing today’s registration and ption figures.
The Zhihu forum now had over forty thousand daily active users. Excluding half from the Uy of Sce of Teology, there were still over twenty thousand active users.
However, the actual number of new registrations on the first day of the group-buying ptform was just around three thousand, and among these registrants, less than 60% had made any purchases.
Therefore, after the first-day dist event, the marketing campaign o ti couldn’t offer such signifit dists again.
Jiang Qin was running a B2C ptform, which required not just ers but also merts. For those merts who had to bear rent and utility costs, selling at cost price was akin to making a loss.
An occasional promotion was feasible, but if it tinued for aended period, even if he could sustain it, the merts might not be able to.
Thus, when the first-day dist event officially ended, products had to return to their inal prices before undergoing further dist promotions, but a margin of profit had to be left for the merts.
“Does it look promising?”
Jiang Qin took a sip of tea: “Reasonably promising, I guess.”
Dong Wenhao, sitting nearby, was momentarily startled, then scratched his head: “So, not very promising, then?”
“Where did you get the idea it’s not promising?”
“Boss, if it were really promising, your smile would be reag your eyebrows by now.”
Jiang Qin smiled calmly: “My optimism is only iion to the first day. We are still far from the final goal, so my smile remains moderate, and everyone should keep their cool.”
Hearing this, the eaff of Room 208 immediately straightened up: “Uood!”
“Good, you’ve all worked hard. Go bad get under your bs!”
Witnessing this se, Tang Lin’s eyes couldn’t help but gze over in fusion. It was really killing her – he seemed even more handsome. Was it because he ged his clothes? How could someo more handsome day by day? Was there no w against this?
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