Chapter 60: Cyber Romance

“Then if I really make money…”

“You brat, do you think our family is quite poor? Absolutely don’t think like that, you hear me? Your dad and I are just used to being frugal, but we do have some foundation. Let me tell you, your task right now is…”

Jiang Qin quickly coughed to interrupt his mother’s incantation: “Mom, cross-province phone calls are actually quite expensive too.”

“Beep beep beep–”

Hearing the busy tone from the phone, Jiang Qin couldn’t help letting out a long sigh of relief.

That was close. If he had said one more sentence, he estimated it would have provoked a half-hour long nagging from his mom. People of their generation have this kind of mindset, always feeling the world’s wealth has nothing to do with them. Don’t even think about it. Thinking a bit more is just a fantasy.

This made Jiang Qin recall Manager Lao Cheng from his previous life. Back then, he resolutely quit his job to start his own business, but ended up losing everything. A year later, he returned to work again.

At that time, he muttered a sentence every day: One can never make money beyond their own perception.

His own parents were like this. Regarding that wealth, they only dared to look on with a sigh, not daring to even imagine it.

In other words, besides the first pot of gold being very difficult to obtain for people starting from scratch, the height of one’s perspective is also a hard to overcome obstacle. If you don’t even dare to think about it, how would you have the guts to earn it?

“Old Zhou, are you free tonight?” Jiang Qin called out in the dorm.

Zhou Chao sat up from the bed: “Nothing planned. Is there some activity tonight?”

“Help me distribute some flyers in the dorm building.”

“?”

Jiang Qin reached under the desk and lifted up a large pack of flyers. These were made using Pang Hai’s initial design draft. Although the effect wasn’t as good as the fans, it was definitely effective. After all, using fans for ground promotion was too costly, not suitable for long-term use.

Besides, it was already mid-September now. No matter how hot the summer was, it would eventually pass. By then, distributing fans would be useless.

Zhou Chao stuck his head out from the bed and glanced at the flyers in the bag: “Distributing so many flyers? That’ll tire out my hands. You have to treat me to a meal.”

“What do you want to eat?”

“Cafeteria Two’s braised pork hock combo meal, twenty-one portions!” After saying this, Zhou Chao felt a bit embarrassed, thinking he was being a bit too greedy.

Jiang Qin took out thirty yuan from his wallet and gave it to him: “Besides the pork hock, I’ll give you an extra ten yuan for old duck soup.”

Zhou Chao instantly beamed with joy: “Thanks Brother Jiang.”

“Look at your worthless expression.”

Jiang Qin put the wallet in his pocket while speaking, thinking this guy’s level was still a bit lower than Guo Zihang’s. That guy directly called him Second Dad. “Remember to distribute to each dorm room. Don’t miss any.”

“Don’t worry.”

Zhou Chao was full of energy. He directly jumped down from the bed. Jiang Qin thought he was going to start distributing flyers, but who knew this guy picked up his phone and started making a call. His voice suddenly had a tinge of crying.

“Mom, I’m doing a part-time job. I earned thirty yuan.”

“Mom, don’t cry. I’ve grown up. I will be filial to you and Dad.”

After hanging up, Zhou Chao opened his contacts again, found a name almost at the very end, and called.

“Hello Grandpa, I did a part-time job and earned thirty!”

“Huh? What aunt-in-law? I said I did a part-time job and earned thirty!”

After finishing the call with Grandpa, Zhou Chao still looked unsatisfied. After thinking it over, he made another call. His voice deliberately turned a bit gentler.

“Hello Xiaoyu, how’s university life?”

“I earned thirty from a part-time job. Is there anything you want? I’ll buy it for you.”

“Oh oh, you’re going to take a shower. Okay, I’ll wait for you then.”

Jiang Qin watched Zhou Chao’s proud departing figure, thinking this guy really puts on a big act. “Who’s Xiaoyu?”

Zhou Chao put the phone in his pocket: “High school classmate. She used to chase me like crazy, but for the sake of studying I didn’t agree.”

“6.”

Jiang Qin gave a thumbs up, thinking that for the sake of him helping distribute flyers, he damn well won’t expose this guy for being a spineless bootlicker.

Going to take a shower, haha, laughable.

After Zhou Chao left the dorm holding the flyers, Cao Guangyu happened to walk out from the bathroom. He was tugging at his crotch and legs, clearly having just applied medicine. As soon as he saw Jiang Qin he started grumbling.

After his circumcision, he had already been recuperating for ten days. Just when he thought he could stand tall like a big pillar, a video directly made him hemorrhage again.

“Old Cao, how come I haven’t seen you play on my website recently? Not fun?”

Cao Guangyu sat on the chair and frowned: “Don’t mention it. Some time ago, I was showing off online to cheers all around. Recently, I don’t know what happened, suddenly a big group of unfamiliar IDs appeared, asking me if I won’t die if I don’t brag. Pissed me off to death.”

Jiang Qin understood. This guy was being taught a lesson by real users. “That’s impossible. Weren’t there still people saying they admired you a few days ago?”

“Not anymore now. Besides Weiwei, there are no good people online.”

After saying this, a nostalgic expression appeared on Cao Guangyu’s face. So he reached out to open the webpage, logged into the forum, and entered the private message page.

Jiang Qin curiously stuck his head over and saw five characters written in the upper right corner of the private message window – Beautiful Weiwei.

“?”

“Isn’t this username the virtual ID of the backend bot?”

Jiang Qin secretly thought for a bit, then casually leaned over and found that this guy had already been sending private messages to this virtual “Weiwei” for three days.

Things like what major are you, what year are you in, what kind of boys do you like, do you have thoughts of becoming the wife of a wealthy family’s son?

Old Cao was used to being a bootlicker. Even when there was no one on the other side, he could still chat on his own.

“This is Weiwei?”

Cao Guangyu raised a confident smile: “Yes, she used to comment on all my posts before, saying she admired me and liked me. She’s clearly a simple and kind girl.”

Jiang Qin felt his scalp go a bit numb: “Why are you sending her so many private messages?”

“To develop our relationship. When the time is ripe, I’ll ask her out to meet. I have a feeling she definitely won’t look worse than Hong Yan.”

“Heh, quite modest in your boasting. Why not say she’s prettier than Feng Nanshu?” Jiang Qin mocked.

Cao Guangyu pursed his lips. After a long while, he shook his head helplessly: “A girl like that is too unrealistic, too unbelievably beautiful.”

“But if my eyes aren’t blind, Miss Weiwei doesn’t seem to have replied to you with even a single punctuation mark.”

“She’s a bit shy,” Cao Guangyu said with a slight smile.

Jiang Qin felt goosebumps all over his body: “Old Cao, I advise you to give up as soon as possible. Don’t freaking go crazy.”

“No, do you still remember what I said at the start of the semester? Girls these days are too reserved. You only have a chance if you take the initiative to attack!”

“…”

Jiang Qin had nothing to say and decided not to burst Cao Guangyu’s fantasy.

Other people’s first crush in university is either an senior or a junior. Those who like to eat from their own plate might even go for classmates.

Cao Guangyu is impressive. He’s romancing with the auto-reply system.

If this gets exposed, he probably won’t be able to raise his head in the dorm ever again. If Ren Ziqiang accidentally finds out, the entire School of Finance will know.

Jiang Qin put his hands together in respect. As expected, cyber boys have cyber romances. Others just go online, you really want to jack into the net.

I’m catching a flight home today. Everyone, please continue reading! Love you all!!