Chapter 76: Take a Break, Stop Feeling

Under the twilight, the lake water shimmered.

As soon as Jiang Qin sat down beside a rock, Su Nai called. She said the voting system could go online. Although there was still a small bug with the real-time ranking, it wasn’t a big problem. Like when building the website before, it could be used first and fixed later.

Jiang Qin listened to her report and nodded. Suddenly he heard Feng Nanshu let out a soft moan.

Then he knowingly lightened his grip, changing from pinching to holding, gently kneading with his palm, feeling softness like jade.

“Boss, why aren’t you saying anything?” Su Nai’s voice came from the phone.

Jiang Qin came back to his senses, “Oh, contact Lu Xuemei and ask if she’s done with the banner for the landing page.”

“Okay.” Su Nai agreed crisply.

“Right, also double check with Wei Lanlan. Tonghang Driving School seems interested in title sponsoring this event. Have them coordinate on all sides. Aim high for the sponsorship fee, don’t let poverty limit your imagination.”

“What if they don’t agree if we ask for too much?”

“If they don’t agree then forget it. Worst case we find someone else. But the sponsorship fee definitely can’t be too low. Otherwise the advertising fees later won’t be priced high enough. They’ll say you only asked for this little for title sponsorship, and advertising is less effective than the event, how can you ask for so much? This easily causes resistance. But if the title sponsorship fee is high and advertising low, it makes people feel they got a deal. Raising your value isn’t something others give you, it’s what you lift yourself.”

“I didn’t know that! I understand, Boss.”

Su Nai had some understanding of Jiang Qin’s convoluted train of thought. She hung up and went to find people to follow up.

At this time, Feng Nanshu was sitting sideways, gazing at the lake with a gentle look. Her toes felt ticklish and she let out soft moans from time to time.

“Does your foot still hurt?” Jiang Qin suddenly asked.

Feng Nanshu was dazed for a moment, “I didn’t say my foot hurt.”

“Nonsense, if your foot doesn’t hurt, why am I massaging it for you now?” Jiang Qin had the look of a righteous gentleman.

Feng Nanshu glanced at her small leather shoes, “Jiang Qin, you took off my shoes and socks. I couldn’t stop you.”

“I definitely wouldn’t do something like that. You must have taken off your shoes and socks yourself while I was on the phone and put them in my hands. Don’t you know there’s a foreign experiment that shows people subconsciously take things handed to them while answering the phone.”

“?”

Feng Nanshu had a dumb look. After pondering for a while, she decided not to speak and quietly enjoyed the kneading of her toes, her eyes clear and bright.

Jiang Qin continued the massage while still thinking about the title sponsorship in his mind.

In the early stages of the forum, there was enough traffic, but the conversion rate was still unknown. In this situation, Tonghang Driving School definitely wouldn’t be willing to spend too much money on the title sponsorship. After all, if everything was uncertain, this cost could very likely go to waste.

In other words, Wei Lanlan and Tan Qing’s side definitely wouldn’t go smoothly.

But there was no choice. The ceiling had to be set high in order to make things easier later.

Besides, campus belle competitions could only be held once per school. If you selected a campus belle every semester, the value would greatly decrease.

So for this one unique opportunity, room for future bargaining had to be left.

But the most critical issue now was where Tonghang Driving School’s acceptable upper limit was.

Tonghang’s registration fee was 3,200 yuan. Through a series of calculations, Jiang Qin felt the upper limit should be around 60,000 yuan.

Over 60,000 and Tonghang would definitely give up the title sponsorship opportunity.

But Jiang Qin wasn’t satisfied. He felt this price could still be raised a bit. The key problem was, besides Tonghang, no other merchants really had this scale.

Preparations had to be made on both ends for this. It absolutely couldn’t fall through.

“Jiang Qin…”

“What is it?”

“Take a break, stop feeling around.”

Jiang Qin raised his head to look. He discovered his hand had unknowingly moved up Feng Nanshu’s smooth calf. The touch was delicate and even. The little rich girl was using one hand to press down her skirt while looking at him with watery eyes.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Qin lifted his palm in disbelief.

Could it be…

My hand really has its own ideas?

At 10:30 PM, Feng Nanshu was sent back to the dorm by Jiang Qin. As soon as she entered, she was hugged by Gao Wenhui. That single dog loved gossip. Seeing others in a relationship made her more excited than being in one herself.

“Nanshu, you’re just getting back from being lovey-dovey with Jiang Qin?”

Feng Nanshu bent over to change shoes, “Jiang Qin didn’t kiss me.”

“The lovey-dovey she’s talking about are intimate behaviors between lovers, like holding hands and kissing. Those all count as lovey-dovey.” Yang Min couldn’t help explaining.

Feng Nanshu still shook her head, “I know, but there just wasn’t any.”

“You and Jiang Qin never held hands or kissed?” Gao Wenhui was like she discovered big news.

“No.”

“Then what the heck are you doing coming back so late every day?”

“Letting him touch my feet.”

Gao Wenhui directly cursed, “No hand holding, no kissing, touching feet every day? Damn, even I think that’s perverted as a pervert!”

“Friends can only touch feet. Holding hands and kissing are things only lovers can do.” Feng Nanshu changed into pajamas and spoke softly.

“Who taught you these principles?”

“I summarized them myself.”

Gao Wenhui was numb, “You really were raised into the shape Jiang Qin likes.”

“It’s fine even if they’re not lovers. That irresponsible scumbag Jiang Qin doesn’t deserve Nanshu at all!”

Fan Shuling inexplicably got angry hearing Jiang Qin’s name. She knew a scumbag before who said they were best friends but completely hurt her in the end. So seeing this kind of person made her bristle easily.

Feng Nanshu whined, very dissatisfied. She decided not to speak to Fan Shuling tonight.

Early the next morning, sunlight sprinkled on the Linchuan University campus. Passing through the window lattices, it shone golden on the balcony. Jiang Qin’s alarm hadn’t rung yet when he was woken by a call from Wei Lanlan.

“Hello? What’s the matter?”

“Boss, the talks broke down.”

Wei Lanlan went to negotiate at Tonghang Driving School this morning. She quoted 70,000 yuan and unsurprisingly, the talks fell apart.

70,000 yuan, not counting labor, vehicle wear, fuel and other costs, they would need to recruit at least 25 students to barely break even. For a new forum, with an unknown conversion rate, Tonghang wasn’t willing to be the first to eat crab.

Simply put, they didn’t believe Jiang Qin’s forum could bring them this many students in advertising, because the old forum had already provided a lesson for them.

Of course, they also made an offer based on their own psychological price – 20,000 yuan, and they wanted full title sponsorship.

Jiang Qin wasn’t surprised. He very calmly accepted this fact and directly refused this offer while grumbling.

But Tonghang was already one of the few big players at Linchuan University. If even they could only be quoted 20,000, the other merchants weren’t even worth asking.

“Boss, what do we do now? Go negotiate with other title sponsors?”

“There’s no time. You go take care of other things. I’ll think of a way.”

“?”

Jiang Qin didn’t explain much. He hung up and sat up from the bed.

Thank you to my first alliance leader, upright people don’t date. I’m pleasantly surprised, eyebrows dancing, in high spirits, delighted, beaming with joy, and beside myself with happiness.