Chapter 302: Who is the Illustrious and Wealthy One?

The photoshoot continued smoothly with no further issues. No one argued about their roles or secretly competed with each other anymore.

Of course, many of the campus beauties were curious about the sudden appearance of a top-tier beauty. They wanted to befriend her, especially after learning she was also a student at Linchuan University. Chu Siqi was the reigning campus belle there, so they found this development even more interesting.

The little rich girl wasn’t very sociable. She would only say, “I’m just an ordinary Feng Nanshu,” aloof like a cool moonbeam.

Meanwhile, the boyfriends who accompanied the campus beauties to the photoshoot breathed a sigh of relief.

Just yesterday they had worried, would this overbearing Linchuan University study star and young entrepreneur take an interest in their girlfriends?

But now they didn’t need to worry. This intimidating figure probably wouldn’t be interested in their girlfriends.

Still, he was infuriating! He selected all their girlfriends as campus belles and paid for them to post photos and daily updates on the platform, attracting a horde of admirers and simps. Yet he kept his own precious gem tightly under wraps, selfish to the core.

“Just yesterday, some girls were debating who would be a better match for Jiang Qin. Today, they’re all silent.”

“Yeah, especially that Chu girl. She was so haughty a few days ago, but now she’s completely deflated.”

“But I don’t get it. If the boss’s wife of 208 is so beautiful, why have us be the models? If they printed her image on the flyers, wouldn’t that be effective promotion anywhere?”

“It’s simple. He can’t bear to do that.”

The campus beauties were speechless.

Their boyfriends grumbled, “Damn him, he won’t use his own but has no qualms exploiting ours.”

In a blink of an eye, it was the end of the month. The photoshoot wrapped up smoothly and it was time to pay the models.

Jiang Qin had to rush off to a meeting downtown, so he entrusted the money to Wei Lanlan. But with the boss’s wife present, she didn’t dare take charge. Thus, the task of distributing wages to the campus beauties fell to Feng Nanshu.

As previously agreed, each person received 4,500 yuan for their daily modeling fee plus image usage rights.

In this day and age, even students from well-off families only had monthly allowances of 700-800 yuan at most. 4,500 yuan was a substantial sum for them. The stack of bills in each envelope was satisfyingly thick.

At this moment, Chu Siqi’s emotions were very complicated.

Especially when she took the envelope and made eye contact with Feng Nanshu, the sense of disparity and regret nearly suffocated her. It felt like a huge chunk of her heart had been carved out.

Countless what-ifs flashed through her mind.

What if I had been more sincere from the start? What if I hadn’t acted so high and mighty? What if I was the one standing here at this moment? What if…what if…

Unfortunately, the world has everything except what-ifs.

“Th…thank you,” Chu Siqi stammered.

The little rich girl looked at her with clear eyes. “I should thank you too.”

Chu Siqi was taken aback. “Why?”

“I don’t know. I’m just silly like that.”

“…”

After the photoshoot at 208 concluded, the first batch of orders from ShengVision had been shipped out. Through the efforts of the business department and the tireless work of the marketing department, these goods gradually flowed into various university districts in Shanghai.

There were water bottles, fans, slippers, and hangers randomly mixed into various freshmen welcome packages. Each package also included a Zhihu promotional flyer, waiting to reach the hands of new students through various channels once the semester began.

This ground promotion tactic was quite clever. The timing was perfect, and Jiang Qin had to admit he had some luck on his side.

“Is Su Nai back yet?” he asked.

“She’ll be back after 5 PM today.”

“Have her monitor new user registrations in the next while to see the effectiveness of the first batch of materials.”

“Yes, boss.”

At the same time, Yue Zhu called to report that the local ground promotion team in Shanghai had been established with a total of 128 people. They would distribute flyers and fans at school entrances to coincide with the influx of new students.

Flyers were a low-cost promotional method with no technical barrier. The conversion rate was very low as most people who received them would toss them aside. A small portion might keep them to fold into paper airplanes when bored.

But flyers were the cheapest way to do ground promotion. Even with an extremely low conversion rate, they definitely wouldn’t lose money.

Moreover, the star of these flyers was none other than the dazzling Zhang Zixuan.

Especially at the start of the semester, the flow of people was already huge. Even a rudimentary method like flyers was bound to be effective.

Fans were even more awesome. In the scorching summer heat, new students arrived on campus drenched in sweat, lugging their belongings. No one could refuse a free fan. Jiang Qin had personally verified the effectiveness of this tactic.

Simultaneously, some local Linchuan brands began cross-regional product launches, laying the groundwork early to capture the conversion from Zhihu’s promotions.

These included mineral water brands, snack brands, soda brands, daily necessities brands, beer brands, personal care product brands, and more.

These local brands didn’t need physical storefronts. They just had to secure supply channels into the university districts at a relatively low cost. This was part of the vanguard of the strategic partnership.

According to Jiang Qin’s arrangement, their cross-regional supply prices were to be kept as low as possible this time, and could even be given away for free with Zhihu account registration.

This is how promotions work. Profits and publicity must be separated.

If you want to make money, don’t aim to expand your sales territory. But once you want to expand your sales territory, be prepared to lose a bit of money.

In Boss Jiang’s words, this time it wasn’t about earning money, but purely about making friends.

After taking care of these matters, there was only one day left before the start of the semester at Linchuan University. Jiang Qin had a rare bit of free time to dote on his little rich girl, water his money tree, and work on his abs. But he always felt like something was missing until that evening at dusk when Professor Yan arrived at 208.

He didn’t come alone. In his hand, he held a leash attached to a chubby dog.

“Oh, Professor Yan, whose dog is this? It looks really familiar.”

“This is Potiangfugui (roughly translates to ‘illustrious and wealthy’).”

“Wow, what a name! Hi there, Fugui. I’m Jiang Qin. You can also call me Grandpa.”

Jiang Qin squatted down to pet the dog a couple of times. Suddenly, his expression froze. “Wait a minute. I seem to remember I also had a dog named Potiangfugui.”

Upon hearing this, Professor Yan snorted. “Don’t play dumb. What do you mean ‘seem to remember’? This is clearly your dog!”

“Holy crap, this is my dog? How did it get so fat?” Jiang Qin was startled.

Professor Yan’s face darkened. “That day when I had nothing to do, I took it out for a walk. When I got back, I found that 208 was already locked up. What could I do? I could only take it home with me. Man, this little thing eats more than a pig. I’m a university professor and it nearly ate me into bankruptcy!”

Fugui let out a couple of whimpers, looking up at Jiang Qin with pitiful eyes.

“It’s good that you’re still alive. It’s good that you’re still alive.” Jiang Qin stroked the dog with a compassionate gaze.

Professor Yan took out a stack of receipts from his pocket. “These are for the dog food expenses. You have to reimburse me. I’m telling you, it’s even more of a brat than you. It won’t eat anything but name brand dog food. It’s really put me out.”

Jiang Qin took the receipts and glanced at them. “Professor, you took care of it for so long. Don’t you have any feelings for it? How about we consider the dog as belonging to both of us and split the dog food expenses?”

“Feelings, my ass! My sofa at home is still in tatters and there’s a hole in my wardrobe. You still owe me money for the sofa and wardrobe!”

“It tore things up because it had too much energy and no outlet. Take it out for more walks and it’ll be fine. Overall, Fugui is still a good dog.”

Upon hearing this, Professor Yan’s mouth twitched. “I’m sixty years old. When I take it out, it’s not me walking the dog, but the dog walking me.”

Jiang Qin chuckled and took out a wad of cash. He also retrieved two tins of green tea from the cabinet. “Thank you for your hard work, Professor. I specially asked a friend to buy this tea from the place of origin. Give it a try and let me know if it’s good. If it is, we’ll buy more next time.”

“That’s more like it.”

Professor Yan took the money and the tea leaves and left without any hesitation. It seemed that Fugui had really put the old man through the wringer these past two months.

Not long after he left, Feng Nanshu arrived at 208. Her eyes were moist and lively, her snow-white skin flawless. Dressed in a white lady’s dress, she looked exceptionally lovely.

Seeing Fugui who had been fattened up like a pig, the little rich girl immediately let out an “ah” and pounced over to pet the dog’s head for a long time. Finally, Fugui felt a shred of warmth in this household.

But Fugui was still a bit puzzled. Both of his owners seemed quite unreliable.

It was one thing for the male owner to be unreliable, but how could the female owner be so unreliable too? This wasn’t right.

I’m the only dog in this household, right? Under these unique circumstances, how could the female owner forget about me? Unless she was keeping another dog that she liked a bit more.

“Jiang Qin, walk,” Feng Nanshu suddenly turned to look at Jiang Qin.

“Where to?”

“To the maple forest.”

Jiang Qin immediately became alert. “You’re not planning to sit in my lap again, are you?”

Feng Nanshu puffed out her cheeks. “I’m not. I’m talking about walking the dog.”

“With or without the dog?”

“Either is fine. Big brother, you lead.”