Chapter 40: I Really Didn’t Watch the Video Section

“Is that her boyfriend?”

The midday sun scorched the sky above Linchuan University, but at this moment, the hearts of the boys in Class 4 felt chilled to the bone.

Feng Nanshu was the undisputed goddess of Class 4. Her appearance yesterday had infatuated all the boys, leading those in other classes to envy them to death, even lamenting “Damn, why wasn’t I assigned to Class 4?”

Hearing this so often, the boys of Financial Class 4 developed a strange confidence, as if being in Class 4 was something to be immensely proud of.

Though she ignored any boy who tried talking to her, this only made more view her as a goddess.

This is why they say men are all masochists.

She’s just so perfect, the more unattainable she is, the better I think she is!

But now, this heavenly beauty was sitting beside some lucky bastard from the neighboring class, looking all docile, chatting and laughing.

Only then did they realize, oh, so the girl that made us feel proud actually belonged to another guy from the start. We were just deluding ourselves. This realization cut deep.

With that, the pure-love warriors collapsed.

Meanwhile Cao Guangyu, Zhou Chao and Ren Ziqiang felt like they’d been electrocuted from scalp to toes.

They gazed at Jiang Qin with complex expressions, the feeling of ineptitude from yesterday striking their hearts once more.

No wonder he was indifferent to Hong Yan and walked away from Chu Siqi. You have no idea how many beauties this bastard knows, he’s practically collecting them like stamps.

Cao Guangyu couldn’t help recalling an hour ago when he dragged Jiang Qin to Class 4 to see their top beauty. Back then, he waxed lyrical, describing her as a goddess. That bastard Jiang Qin must have been sneering inside.

She was his girl after all. He could look at her whenever he wanted, what need did he have for others to hype her up?

Fuck, Jiang Qin won’t really make me eat shit, right?

Cao Guangyu swallowed, feeling like he’d lost all face.

I absolutely can’t compete with him in the future.

This guy who claimed to be a virgin at the start of school was invincible when it came to romance!

Right then, Jiang Qin suddenly remembered something and turned to look at Song Qingqing who had come over earlier. “Sobered up yet?”

“……”

Song Qingqing forced a smile. She wanted to confidently say it was nothing and turn away with flair, but found herself unable to smile at all. She felt like the joke was on her.

What was it that bitch Pan Xiu said?

That Jiang Qin chased a girl for three years only to fail when confessing?

She actually believed it and arrogantly came to kick him while he was down, saying he couldn’t get a girl like her. Recalling it now, she wanted to die of embarrassment.

Pan Xiu had also paled. She turned to Ren Ziqiang. “You made up that story?”

Ren Ziqiang immediately denied it. “No, Jiang Qin did. I finally get it now. Ten out of eleven things he says are lies. He’s an unfathomable guy!”

“Pan Xiu, what did Ren Ziqiang say?”

“He said Jiang Qin is unfathomable!”

“Pass it on. Jiang Qin is inscrutable.”

“Did you hear? Jiang Qin’s got a model.”

“Holy shit, Jiang Qin’s even keeping a model off-campus!”

“……”

After a while, Feng Nanshu said “I’m going” and stood up, gracefully returning to Class 4’s formation. The smiles on all the boys’ faces had transferred to Jiang Qin.

“Yeah, feels pretty good.”

Jiang Qin readily admitted he had been deliberately showing off just now.

Over the next three days, the freshmen underwent marching drills, quick marches, and running, all getting tanned like African chickens.

The weather obliged, not even a drop of rain.

Cao Guangyu was the first to break. As a spoiled young master, he wasn’t used to such hardship. He cursed all day in the dorm and even prayed for rain.

Fed up, Jiang Qin quietly gave him some advice.

The next day, Cao Guangyu got 1500 yuan from home and used the afternoon break to get a circumcision at the hospital. Showing the medical certificate, he got leave from the instructor.

“Jiang Qin, your method is awesome! The instructor really let me rest!”

“Yeah, you’re a man with a fancy edge now. Be more steady, don’t make a fuss.”

Jiang Qin sent him off and continued reading the “Website Operations Manual”, only to receive a text from Su Nai.

She said the site was almost done. Aside from some unoptimized parts, it was basically ready to go live. She asked if he had time and invited him to the library for an initial review.

After changing, Jiang Qin made his way to the 3rd floor of the library and entered the reading room for humanities and social sciences.

Su Nai had already logged into the site’s backend. Without preamble, she began showing the homepage, demonstrating three types of secondary page transitions and two different post display modes.

Jiang Qin was quite satisfied after watching.

Honestly, the most important thing in making a product isn’t the technology, but the ability to understand.

If you have 80% of the technical skills paired with 100% understanding, you can make a product that meets 80% of the customer’s needs. But if you have 100% technical ability yet less than 50% understanding, you’ll be hard-pressed to even make a half-finished product.

Fortunately, Su Nai’s comprehension and technical skills were both good. She basically hit all of Jiang Qin’s requirements.

The navigation was clear, the appearance simple. Page transitions didn’t have overly complex effects, ensuring response speed. The structure was concise, allowing users to quickly enter sections of interest.

“The completed parts are quite good. What’s left to do?”

“Load testing and security testing aren’t done yet. The sexy big sister popup isn’t finished either,” Su Nai answered honestly.

Jiang Qin rubbed his chin. “So basically it already meets the requirements to go live?”

Su Nai adjusted her glasses. “It can go live. Subsequent optimizations can be done step by step.”

“Then let’s put it online first. I’ll find people to make content later. When the content reaches a certain amount, we’ll start promoting it. Can the optimization keep up with the promotion?”

“No problem at all.”

Jiang Qin moved his gaze from the screen to Su Nai, staring at her for a moment. “Did you… go thieving at night? Your dark circles are so obvious.”

Su Nai coughed and quickly lowered her head. “Senior, making a website is very mentally draining. To ensure the best result, I stayed up a bit. But it’s no big deal, don’t worry.”

“I told you to finish it within five days. Why insist on doing it in three? Don’t tell me you want me to pay you more.”

“No no no, this is my first time independently completing a commercial webpage design. I have to treat it seriously. Didn’t you say if the effect is good, you’ll give me all the maintenance work too? I was a bit excited so I read… um, got carried away.”

Jiang Qin was silent for three seconds before clicking his tongue. “Junior, I suggest you read less.”

Su Nai hurriedly raised her head, cheeks flushed red. “Senior, don’t talk nonsense. I didn’t read anything!”

“I meant the reference books.”

“Oh oh, so you were talking about reference books. Haha…” Su Nai rubbed her hands and adjusted her glasses.

Jiang Qin suddenly took his hand off his chin. “Can we add a video section too? Is it technically difficult?”

“Not hard. The playback function is very simple. We just need to upload the right format and embed the server code.”

“Will there be buffering issues?”

“It’s never happened. But there’s always this annoying ad at the start, something about sexy dealers dealing cards online.”

As she spoke, Su Nai’s voice suddenly caught. She realized the trap in the question. Her small mouth gaped as she froze. “The videos I’m talking about are actually… site-building tutorials. Do you believe me?”

Jiang Qin nodded very seriously. “Watch less. It’s bad for your health.”

“Ugh…”