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  Chapter 29: Does Your Family Own a Mine?

  TL: Etude

  Lin Uy’s forum was almost exactly as Jiang Qin remembered it.

  The homepage was divided into four ses: Daily Chat, Campus Life, Internal Annous, and Study Materials.

  Study Materials?

  Jiang Qi a stir in his DNA and clicked on it.

  “Past Years’ Postgraduate Entrance Exam Questions and Answers”

  “plete Guide to the TOEFL Exam”

  “Full Text Version of Professor Wen’s Lectures from the School of Finand Eics”

  Jiang Qin gnced over and found that it really was study material, which he found quite dull. (lol)

  However, this was to be expected. The forum was jointly established by four nearby uies and was an official website. It was impossible to find tent that college students would typically enjoy.

  Due to the official ht on tent, the posts in the forum were dry and dull, always carrying a stodgy and serious tone.

  But college students, being a youthful and vibrant group, were uo use such a stodgy forum.

  On his way here, Jiang Qin had already decided: he would create a website.

  Targeting college students as the base users and expanding from there.

  During their hormonal years, boys and girls have a strong desire for romance, so the maiure of the early stage of the website would be a fession wall.

  Additionally, sidering the sensitivity of college students at this age, many of whom have thoughts they don’t wish to share with acquaintahe sed feature would be an anonymous venting space.

  Furthermore, to cater to is and trends, Jiang Qin po create two more ses: one fames and Anime, and the other for Fashion and Lifestyle.

  For college students, life beyond csses and romance mostly revolves around animation and looking good.

  As for study materials…

  This se would be omitted, as he didn’t want to divert all the traffi the official forum.

  In the early days of the i’s booming development, browsing forums was still a major oivity. Sites like Zhihu, Douban, and Weibo were almost all founded around this time.

  The website Jiang Qin inteo create would focus on sharing life experiences, different from the then-popur QQ Space.

  QQ Space was only visible to friends, a closed social circle, but his website would be pletely open.

  The method to attract traffic was also simple.

  Pretend to be a female college student and post a few messages.

  “Any guys here? I want to fall in love retly, who will take me home? Naturally no gag reflex (lol wtf), trained in dance, do splits, with attached photos of female i celebrities.”

  Guarahh men would howl and spend nights in the forum without sleep.

  Attrag female college users was also simple, just by creating a few points of tention.

  “Family, who uands? My boyfriend wants to go Dutch wheakes me out to eat, so disappointing.”

  “Family, who uands? Falling for the same guy as my friend, should I let go?”

  The forum’s initial profits would surely e from advertising. Later, it would o catch the i wave and find opportuo move towards short video tent.

  “First, I o buy a domain name.”

  “Right, a a virtual space.”

  Jiang Qin found a domain name marketpd briefly browsed the prices.

  Domain names were graded. The hotter the domain he more expe was. Those reted to college students were too expensive, as were those linked with Te. Popur keywords had long beeered.

  After some thought, Jiang Qin suddenly sidered a question.

  Whely was the real Zhihu (a ompany) founded?

  Wasn’t it about ten years ter?

  So, that means Zhihu does yet?

  Heh, what a ce. Well, sorry, but I’ll be taking this domain name for now.

  Jiang Qin took out a small box from his bag, ied the U-key into the puter, and bought the domain name ‘zhihu’ without hesitation.

  This name had a certaiige; ‘zhihu’ (‘知乎’) in ese, though a homophoni, carried a cultural fvor, fitting well with the college student demographic.

  “Old Jiang, what did you just spend three thousand yuan on?”

  “I bought a domain name, pnning to have some fun with a website.”

  Jiang Qin then realized that the three guys behind him had been listening all along and didn’t hide anything from them.

  Upon hearing his reply, Zhou Chao and Ren Ziqiang’s mouths fell open in shock. They didn’t have much cept of websites, but they khe value of moheir own living expenses were barely over six hundred yuan, a Jiang Qin had just spent three thousand yuan on something intangible. This seemed absurd to them.

  Cao Guangyu’s lips twitched slightly, and after p for a while, he remained silent.

  Even as a rich sed-geion, spending three thousand yuan wasn’t something he would do lightly, as the mo home still beloo his father, and his own living allowance was only a thousand yuan.

  paring the two, Cao Guangyu felt that Jiang Qin seemed more like a rich ed-geion. Could it be that he retending to be a pig to eat a tiger?

  “Old Jiang, what does your family do? How you spend money so freely?”

  “Ordinary and low-ine w css.”

  Ren Ziqiang was dumbfounded: “Then how much do you get for your monthly living expenses?”

  Jiang Qin pulled out his wallet: “Five hundred, and after buying a train ticket, I’m left with three hundred and sixty. Hey, who wants this one-yuan ?”

  “I do, give it to me!”

  Zhou Chao grabbed the : “Jiang, you’re really a spendthrift, but I like it.”

  Jiang Qin closed his wallet: “Not a spendthrift, but s are easy to lose in the pocket, better to give it away as a favor.”

  Cao Guangyu scoffed after hearing this: “Old Zhou, you’re really shameless, excited over one yuan? Haven’t you seen money before?”

  “You think I’m greedy for the one yuan, but actually, I love the national emblem on the back!”

  “You son of a… you’re really good at making excuses.”

  Zhou Chao proudly tucked the into his pocket and y ba his bed.

  Ren Ziqiang stretched zily and yawned as he ehe bathroom.

  Cao Guangyu g his phohen at Jiang Qin’s puter, his expression turning somewhat gloomy.

  He had tried to show off three times today, hoping to establish his status and dignity as the leader in the dormitory, but each time, Jiang Qin had outshone him, leaving him feelihan thrilled.

  “Old Jiang, ime I try to show off, you leave me some face?”

  “Didn’t I?”

  “Did you?”

  “Okay, I get it. ime, I’ll let you show off thhly.”

  Cao Guangyu pursed his lips, uaiher Jiang Qin was serious or not, but at least he felt somewhat relieved and began to surf the i on his new phone.

  Meanwhile, Jiang Qin noticed a QQ message notification popping up at the bottht of his puter. He clicked on it and found it was from Hong Yan, whom he had met the day before.

  “Jiang Qin, do you have time to e out for a meal?”

  “Now?”

  “How about tomorrow, after registration?”

  Jiang Qin leaned ba his chair, hands behind his head, p.

  He had only met Hong Yan ond couldn’t say they were familiar, just acquaintahough they had said they would meet agaihey had time, Jiang Qin thought it was just a polite remark. He didn’t expect that she would take it so seriously.

  “Sure, let’s get in touorrow?”

  “Ok~”

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