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    That afternoon, “Military Training Goddess’s Talent Show” was edited in just two hours. It was then affixed with Zhihu’s watermark, added with a Zhihu lead page with traffic diversion function, and Lu Feiyu was responsible for uploading it to major websites and pasting Zhihu’s URL on the details page.

    [Military training field talent show, goddess’s elegant dance moves, moving zither sound]

    Lu Feiyu typed out a string of titles and then very confidently turned the screen around for Jiang Qin to take a look, asking for the boss’s opinion.

    Jiang Qin took a look. His first feeling was that it was missing something and couldn’t make a righteous gentleman want to click it open. So he took the keyboard over and tapped his fingers, slightly modifying it for him.

    [Shock! The military training goddess actually did this kind of movement on the field in public!]

    “Let’s try this title first.” Jiang Qin let go of the keyboard.

    Seeing this title, Lu Feiyu was stunned for a long time, his eyes gradually revealing a hint of shock: “Boss, your train of thought has brought a whole new enlightenment to my career!”

    “Study it well, the boss’s belly is full of that yellow stuff, enough for you to learn for twenty years.” Dong Wenhao took the opportunity to flatter.

    “Yellow stuff? Where is there yellow stuff?”

    Before Jiang Qin could speak, Su Nai heard the keywords and came over. She carefully looked at the title on the screen and always felt that it seemed a bit familiar.

    On a quiet night when she was working overtime alone in the office until everyone was gone, she seemed to have also clicked on a similar title?

    “Boss, we wouldn’t be watching the same video, would we? Oh my god, I’m tainted…”

    Jiang Qin spat at her: “Don’t spout yellow lines, you put down the work at hand first, I’ll arrange a brand new task for you.”

    Su Nai pushed her glasses: “The website upgrade is already completed, what other tasks are there?”

    “Develop an automatic function for Zhihu to add watermarks to photos and videos.”

    As an open social platform used by college students nationwide, high-quality content being reposted by other websites will become more and more common. You can’t stop the leakage of content at all, so you have to make use of this leakage.

    To put it simply, if you want my content, you can’t blame me for leeching your traffic.

    To achieve this effect, some things have to be done at the root, such as automatically adding watermarks as soon as users upload photos and videos, which is the most effective way to divert traffic.

    “Damn boss, making me work again, my hobbies are almost being kicked by you!”

    Su Nai was so angry, thinking that she hadn’t rested at all in the past six months.

    I went for market research, I was in charge of website upgrades, I still need to cooperate with Zhihu’s ground promotion on the technical side, and now there’s new work again.

    I secretly paid for a year’s membership fee for the video website, originally planning to enjoy it when work wasn’t busy, but work kept coming one after another. If this goes on, won’t the money be wasted!

    “That kind of hobby is not good for your body. I’m just using work as an excuse to help you kick the addiction!”

    Jiang Qin showed a capitalist benevolent look, then turned and left 208.

    Since the promotion of Zhihu began, his thinking had been diverging outward. On one hand, he had to guide 208 to conduct online content in-depth optimization, and on the other hand, he had to listen to the work feedback from Zhihu’s promotion station at any time. Although his body was not too tired, he was indeed a little mentally exhausted.

    So, he decided to go back to the dormitory and have a good rest.

    In the quiet summer evening, the old fan in the dormitory was turning hard, making a buzzing sound. Ren Ziqiang was lying on the bed, using his phone to chat with his beloved junior sister like crazy.

    Seeing Jiang Qin come back, Ren Ziqiang crawled up from the bed with a gurgle, his eyes flashing with the light of hope.

    “Brother Jiang, let me ask you a question, do you believe in love at first sight or love that grows with time?”

    “I don’t believe in love, I believe money can make the devil push the millstone, but why are you asking this?”

    Ren Ziqiang sat on the bed and scratched his head: “It’s not me asking, it’s Wang Linlin asking. We’re chatting on QQ, and she suddenly asked me this question. I’m a bit at a loss as to how to answer.”

    Jiang Qin yawned: “It’s indeed not easy to answer. This is obviously a trap question. Answering love at first sight makes you seem frivolous and unstable, while answering love that grows with time makes it seem like you weren’t stunned by her at first sight. Give her a roundabout answer.”

    “What’s a roundabout answer?”

    “You tell her, love at first sight is liking, love that grows with time is deep love. Without the liking of love at first sight, where does the deep love that grows with time come from? Both sides are justified.”

    After hearing this, Ren Ziqiang directly called it awesome, and immediately sent Jiang Qin’s flirtatious words over, and by the way, worried about Zhuang Chen next door.

    Cao Guangyu couldn’t help but raise his head: “Old Jiang, is your love for Feng Nanshu at first sight or does it grow with time?”

    “My love for Feng Nanshu is eyes opening at the sight of money.”

    “?”

    Jiang Qin went to the bathroom to wash up, turned around and climbed into bed to sleep, but then he heard Ren Ziqiang let out a cheer: “Brother Jiang, she asked me out to go shopping at the off-campus pedestrian street on Saturday afternoon!”

    Old Ren excitedly got out of bed and did more than a dozen push-ups. He decided to take out his living expenses to treat the whole dormitory to dinner that night.

    Zhou Chao was also a bit bewildered. Damn, he didn’t do anything again, and he can fucking eat a free meal, simply amazing.

    “Old Ren, can I bring Feng Nanshu with me?”

    Jiang Qin asked while lying on the bed, but his eyes were fixed on the chat box on the phone screen.

    [Jiang Qin, I was a bit obedient today, are you done being busy?]

    [Jiang Qin, I saw that cat that can do backflips again this afternoon]

    [Jiang Qin, Fugui said it wants to go out for a walk]

    [Brother, my little feet are so itchy from missing you so much, I want to cry all day]

    [The above sentence was sent by Gao Wenhui, it’s actually not that itchy.]

    Jiang Qin had been busy and dizzy these past few days and hadn’t really accompanied his good friend. Now looking at the little rich girl’s messages, the main point was that she couldn’t stand a bit of loneliness, and every word was written with “want to meet” “want to meet”.

    Ren Ziqiang was now immersed in the strong pleasure of having asked out his beloved junior sister, and simply worshipped Jiang Qin like a godfather, of course he wouldn’t refuse.

    “How about this, I’ll bring Ding Xue along too. She’s a girl and knows girls’ minds best. You can ask her what kind of boys girls like.” Cao Guangyu seized the opportunity, doggedly.

    Ren Ziqiang nodded fiercely, feeling a bit of a sought-after feeling: “Okay Brother Cao, I will definitely consult well.”

    Jiang Qin sat up when he heard this: “Old Ren, you can consult all you want, but be sure to keep your voice down. Don’t let my little rich girl learn it, she learns things damn fast!”

    “Brother Jiang, I can ask in a low voice, but Sister Xue may not necessarily speak in a low voice.”

    “Makes sense. Then Old Cao, you tell Ding Xue to keep her voice down. Don’t let my little rich girl learn it.” Jiang Qin pointed his sword at Cao Guangyu.

    Hearing this, Old Cao immediately squinted his eyes: “I can keep my voice down, but you have to let me scam you for a meal, otherwise I’m always being scammed by you, it’s very embarrassing.”

    Jiang Qin laughed: “Want me to treat? Sure, the day after tomorrow night, I’ll set up a special table for you at Juxian Building.”

    “Really? That’s not very appropriate, Nanshan Restaurant is actually enough.”

    “How can Nanshan Restaurant be worthy of you, Young Master Cao, it has to be Juxian Building. How about this, you bring Ding Xue along too, and I’ll have a good chat with her about you going to the field to watch junior sisters, what do you think?”

    “…”

    Cao Guangyu’s face obviously panicked: “Brother Jiang, I was wrong, I will definitely let her keep her voice down!”

    Jiang Qin thought for a moment, “I don’t think that’s enough. You have to treat the whole dorm to another meal before I can reluctantly forgive your rudeness just now.”

    Hearing this, Zhou Chao was overjoyed on his bed. My god, what a blessed dorm! I didn’t even say a word and passively scored a second free meal. The living expenses I brought at the start of the semester can’t even be spent. Is there no more law?

    In the blink of an eye, the next day arrived. Jiang Qin went to Room 208 to check on the traffic-directing video and found it was indeed quite effective, proving this formula could continue to be used.

    So he called a meeting with the content team to systematically analyze and discuss the traffic-directing videos.

    How to cleverly produce some “accidental videos” suitable for spreading through scripting and editing, letting them shine on other platforms and direct traffic to Zhihu.

    For example, find someone to play a freshman overwhelmed by military training, have them wear a training uniform and pray for rain on the field, then cut to an empty scene spliced with the sky suddenly darkening followed by a downpour. Would that work?

    Or using interesting dialects to reenact currently popular anime scenes, could that generate traffic?

    Dong Wenhao and Lu Feiyu’s imaginations started expanding wildly in response to the ideas Jiang Qin proposed, instantly coming up with many fresh concepts.

    “Boss, I get what you mean, but the ideas in my head are very scattered and chaotic right now. Can I let them settle first?”

    “Sure, think it over carefully, then write up a plan for me. The project name will be called the TikTok Plan.”

    “Okay boss.”

    Jiang Qin waved his hand to adjourn the meeting, then opened the upgraded website to browse through it carefully. Zhihu’s content volume was growing more and more now. To facilitate searching and browsing, several sections had been separated from their previous categories to be independent.

    Additionally, the few newly added sections were also gradually accumulating rich content.

    Especially the social news search rankings Su Nai made over the summer break, which had now passed testing and officially launched. The section was decided to be called “Tonight’s Headlines”, concise and to the point, deeply loved by university students.

    “Bro Jiang, come to Nanshan Restaurant, a table has been booked. Old Cao and Ding Xue are already here!”

    “Okay, wait for me for half an hour, I’ll go pick up Feng Nanshu.”

    Jiang Qin replied to the message, got up to go to Room 207, unplugged Little Pink’s power cord, and headed to the Finance Department dorm building under the fiery sunset clouds.

    Chapter Summary

    Jiang Qin guides the team to optimize Zhihu's content and promotion. Ren Ziqiang asks for love advice and gets a date. Jiang Qin misses his "little rich girl" friend. He teases Cao Guangyu about bringing Ding Xue to Ren's date in exchange for treating Cao to dinner. Jiang Qin discusses creating viral "accidental" videos to direct traffic to Zhihu. He checks the upgraded site with new independent sections and a popular "Tonight's Headlines". Jiang Qin plans to meet friends at a restaurant after picking up Feng Nanshu.

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