King of Capital

Chapter 507 Quietly Thriving Projects
"Pinduoduo, Pinduoduo, you and I, Pinduoduo. Let's Pinduoduo together, no matter if we have something to do or not."

"Pinduoduo, Pinduoduo, the more you work, the more you save. If you want to work hard, you must work hard on Pinduoduo. Work hard anytime, anywhere, every day."

The devilish brainwashing tunes surrounded the entire dormitory building early in the morning. The girl sleeping on the bunk bed sat up in shock as if she had come back to life. Just as she was about to curse, she heard a vicious lecture from the corridor outside that was beyond her imagination.

What the hell are you yelling about? Today is the day for new students to report to school. Why don't you hurry up and get dressed? Are you unable to hold it in and want to break your temper? !

The dormitory manager spoke in authentic Beijing dialect, her voice drowning out the speakers in her hands. As she walked by, the doors of all the dorms were wide open, and the whole building was filled with peace and tranquility.

The female students of Beijing Film Academy are all very pretty and naturally more difficult to manage than ordinary girls. The school leaders often turn a blind eye and allow the dormitory managers to use poison to fight poison to calm the situation.

"Oh my god, what the hell is Pinduoduo? Stop singing, you're not Pinduoduo, you're Pinduoduo for your dad!"

The girl complained with despair, simply tied up her long hair to reveal her oval face, and climbed out of bed.

“The e-commerce platform can be found in the new WeChat mini-programs. It has raised over 300 million US dollars and is developing very fast.”

Zhou Ye was dressed neatly and stood in front of the balcony window to breathe in the fresh air. He said casually, "This song seems to be their new promotional song, targeting the sinking market. Rural areas and third- and fourth-tier cities, so we haven't heard it."

"..."

What I fear most is the sudden silence in the air. The two girls still lying on the bed poked their heads out of the quilts, and looked into the eyes of the man with the oval face getting out of bed in silence.

Zhou Ye turned around and added calmly: "Share the WeChat link to download and you can get a 100 yuan red envelope. Can you help my mother download it?"

"Uh, the ones from Didi and Meituan?"

"Almost the same, but there are a lot of fakes on the platform. My mom bought a box of Sprite and when she opened the courier, it turned out to be 'Sprite'."

"Hahahaha, this is so funny. No wonder you know so much about it. I thought you were going to change your career and do business."

The oval-faced girl was laughing so hard that the subtle atmosphere disappeared in an instant. Zhou Ye picked up the mug and took a sip of black coffee, silently breathing a sigh of relief.

During the summer vacation on the island, Xie Jingxing relied on various online meetings to advance his work. She would listen to a few words from time to time, and she became accustomed to it and almost caused trouble.

Studying art costs a lot of money, and those who can be admitted to Beijing Film Academy usually come from wealthy families. Although they are young, their vision and experience far exceed those of their peers. They are quick-witted and are particularly good at observing the words and expressions of their classmates and finding out their background so as to adjust their attitude towards them accordingly.

"Yezi, the coffee you are drinking smells so good. Did you bring it back from abroad?" The oval-faced man stretched lazily and came closer nonchalantly.

Zhou Ye just smiled and answered irrelevantly: "I don't drink coffee, just drink some to detox and reduce swelling. The coffee beans are on my desk, if you like to drink it, grind it yourself."

"Forget it, my life is hard enough." The oval-faced man sighed in a long tone.

What's so special about coffee? It's more interesting to go on vacation to an overseas island during the summer vacation.

She went there for more than a month and seemed to be staying at the Four Seasons Hotel. In the photos she posted on WeChat Moments and Weibo, there was not a single one of her family members, only herself and another girl who looked similar.

Sisters from a wealthy relative's family?

Anyway, her parents came when she reported for school last year, and you could tell at a glance that they were an ordinary family. Their daily food and clothing at school were very ordinary, and they didn't even own a luxury brand bag.

The oval-faced girl looked around and suddenly her eyes lit up: "'Molly'! It's actually the Phoenix hidden model. Yezi, how did you collect it?!"

"This is Xuanxuan's." Zhou Ye tilted his head.

The oval-faced man threw all his thoughts aside and asked excitedly, "Xuanxuan, can I pick it up and have a look?"

"Watch it, but be careful. All my money for the summer vacation is on her." Xuanxuan, my roommate who was getting dressed and getting out of bed, immediately made an exaggerated gesture of covering her heart with one hand.

'Molly' is the signature IP doll of Pop Mart's trendy blind box, and the Twelve Zodiac series was newly released during the summer vacation.

As the name suggests, the entire series of dolls are divided into different styles of the twelve zodiac signs, plus a special hidden version with a phoenix element design.

A blind box sells for 59 yuan, and it all depends on luck which design you get. This is a lottery game where non-Africans don’t deserve to live…

My roommate named Xuanxuan spent thousands of dollars to collect all twelve chess sets last semester. I wonder how much she spent to draw the hidden zodiac set in front of her.

Zhou couldn't help but curl her lips. She really didn't understand what was good about an ugly palm-sized doll. However, Pop Mart has become more and more popular in the past two years. People from Guangdong High School to Beijing University have played with it.

In their circle, people treat dolls as children and call themselves "doll moms". They can resell a hidden model to each other for a few thousand yuan, depending on the mood of the seller.

Listening to Xuanxuan and Oval Face sharing that an older friend went to a Pop Mart store after work to volunteer for free, and learned the skill of guessing the style by weight by weighing the blind box. As a result, Pop Mart added weights to the blind box, and all kinds of battles of wits and courage...

Zhou Ye suddenly felt a slight sense of accomplishment for some reason.

Pop Mart’s retail sales growth rate in the first half of this year was as high as 120%, and its market share in the trendy toy market was 4.2%, ranking first among domestic brands.

And the data is still skyrocketing. The founder's online video conference indicated that the annual growth rate is expected to exceed 200%.

Everyone else called him Mr. Xie, but he only called him Brother Jingxing. He patted his chest and guaranteed that according to the current development trend, the company would be able to go public next year. Then you can ring the bell.

"Xuanxuan, do you want to try my coffee? It's delicious. I'll grind it for you~"

The more Zhou Ye looked at his roommate who was crying out in pain, the more he thought the other person was very cute. He said he would never buy anything for him next time, but money is meant to be spent, so he still had to buy the blind box!
"Yezi, you treat me too differently. If I want to drink coffee, I can grind it myself?" The oval-faced man asked a soul-searching question with eyes wide open.

Zhou Ye smiled awkwardly: "Oh, I was just kidding you, I meant to say get up and wash up, do you really want to be seen naked by the male parents of the freshmen?"

"It's so annoying. Come on, let's go out and play." Xuanxuan raised her hand and suggested.

The oval face frowned and said, "Don't do that. We are so busy at the beginning of the school term. How can we have time to play?"

"Tonight, we're back from vacation. We were supposed to have a dinner party last night, but we didn't get together. We have to make up for it today... How about you accompany me to a concert?"

Xuanxuan calmly stated her true purpose: "Zhang Jie's is definitely worth a look."

"Oh, that's good taste. Did you get the ticket?" Another roommate who had just woken up and had been silent all the time asked with a raised eyebrow.

Xuanxuan flirted back generously: "The organizer gave my mom's company a bunch of tickets, the seats are pretty good, let's go?"

"What are you thinking about? Let's go now. I'll treat you to lunch at noon!" The oval-faced man quickly did some mental calculations and compared the concert ticket price with the average price per person at the Thai hotpot restaurant they had eaten at last time.

Zhou Ye hesitated and said, "The dormitory will be closed after the concert, right?"

"Sister, we are already sophomores, there is nothing to be afraid of. Besides, you dared to stay out all night last semester, but now you have learned your lesson?" The oval-faced man took the opportunity to make a sarcastic remark.

Zhou Ye smoothed her long hair with a cold face, not wanting to pay attention to her, turned around and sat at the desk to put on makeup.

She signed a ten-year artist management contract with Xiaoma Pentium. Now, after deducting five insurances and one housing fund, she can get more than 4,000 yuan in guaranteed salary every month. With the living expenses given by her family, she has enough pocket money. But she is not suitable to compare with Beijing natives like Xuanxuan.

The four roommates maintained their casual sisterhood, chatting and laughing as they packed up to go out. When they were waiting for the bus at the school gate, a van with a "Huolala" sticker printed on it happened to open its door and a girl got out.

"Yezi, she looks like you. Is she the girl you posted on Weibo about going to the island with?" The girl with the oval face and sharp eyes said.

"Oh, a friend."

Zhou Ye just brushed it off lightly, and his roommates didn't dare to ask any more questions. They all wondered at the same time, "Are they really not relatives?"

The four roommates went shopping in the morning and went to the Pop Mart store to draw a few blind boxes. After lunch, they returned to school to deal with the chores of the new school term. Before it got dark, they formed a group again to go out of school for shopping and eating.

As night fell, the fluorescent lights in the Wukesong Sports Center turned into a colorful ocean. Thousands of people sang Zhang Jie's famous songs together, and the "Creation Camp 303" girl group that just debuted during the summer vacation was a surprise resident guest.

The girl with the oval face looked at the girls of the same age as everyone else on the stage enjoying the spotlight, and couldn't help but make sarcastic comments about the little gangsters who didn't even graduate from middle school.

"He doesn't understand your heart and pretends to be calm; he doesn't understand love and treats it as a game."

"He doesn't know how to express his love. All he can do is sigh and say sorry."

"He doesn't understand why your heart is crying and suffocating like you can't breathe."

As the show sang the closing song, tens of thousands of spectators left the venue. Those who were agile were lucky enough to leave quickly, while those who were still reluctant to leave were stuck in the crowded crowd and couldn't extricate themselves.

The streets were blocked and there was not a single taxi to be seen. I finally opened the Didi app despite the network delay caused by the crowds of tens of thousands of people, but there were more than 99 people queuing for a taxi.

"It's over. I really won't be able to come home all night." Xuanxuan scratched her head helplessly.

Oval Face wasted time going to the toilet, so he actively offered suggestions: "Is it still in time for the subway?"

"Yes, let's go for a walk outside first, take the subway for two stops and then take a taxi." Another roommate added to the plan.

Zhou Ye lowered his head and swiped the screen of his phone: "No need, the car I called has arrived, let's go."

"Awesome, Yezi, you are amazing, I love you...Are you sure it's this car?"

The friends were running out of the crowd. Xuanxuan was so tired that she was breathing heavily, and her big watery eyes were blinking wildly in confusion.

A middle-aged man leaned out of the window of the Wuling Hongguang van parked in front of him, threw away the cigarette butt from the corner of his mouth and looked up and down: "Did you call the car? Where is the goods? I will help you move them. Just give me a small red envelope for extra money."

"Master, we don't have any goods. Can the four of us take a car?" Zhou Ye felt a little embarrassed.

The eldest brother was speechless and gave a thumbs up: "Girl, you are so funny, so creative, this is the first time I have seen such a thing!"

"We really can't get a taxi. If that doesn't work, can I give you a bonus? Please help."

Xuanxuan reacted quickly and clasped her hands together to beg for mercy, and Zhou and another roommate joined in.

Seeing this, the eldest brother responded with great enthusiasm and gestured to get in the car. He said that the job was done brilliantly. His car, which didn't even have a shabby van in the back seat, could carry a dormitory of female students from the Beijing Film Academy. He was enjoying a good life.

But in fact, if you calculate carefully, the platform is now in fierce competition with Didi Freight and Kuaigou Freight, and the fare is nearly half cheaper than that of normal online car-hailing services.

The eldest brother was talkative and chatted all the way. At the end, before getting off the car, he took a photo with the future big stars and strongly declared that he must post it on his circle of friends to share this novel experience.

"Sister Xin, the road is dark, please be careful. Why are you walking so fast?" Xuanxuan kindly reminded.

The girl with the oval face ignored him and walked quickly in front, rubbing the ground with her shoes frequently. The coconut shoes she had just bought for more than two thousand yuan were covered with rust on the car.

Not to mention comparing yourself with those classmates who are picked up and dropped off in luxury cars, at least don't ride in a shabby van that carries goods. If others see you, you'll be laughed at until you graduate from college.

Zhou Ye knew exactly where she was angry, so he raised his voice deliberately: “Thanks to Huolala, otherwise we would have to run all the way back.”

"It's really an eye-opener. I can learn this trick when I get home on weekends and get tired from walking the dog!" Xuanxuan agreed happily.

Another roommate said doubtfully: "Their fares are cheaper than Didi. If they all accept orders like ours, they will lose a lot of money."

"It's different. Huolala doesn't use a commission model. Drivers pay a fixed membership fee to the platform, and the platform provides drivers with customer order services."

Zhou Ye blurted out an explanation: "Moreover, they focus on B2B business, and their C-end users with tens of millions of users are not high-frequency consumers."

"We have raised more than 100 million US dollars so far this year, so we can afford to burn money," she analyzed in a serious manner.

"Yezi, if you are possessed by a monster, just give me a look. My mother has a say in both her workplace and the temples and Taoist temples!"

"…I met a very outstanding person who told me that most ordinary people are just empty shots in movies that flash by many years later."

"I don't understand, what do you mean?"

"A few years later, we suddenly discovered that Pinduoduo has become a mainstream e-commerce platform. People are used to using Huolala to transport pet dogs, but in fact, they already have a strong presence and are thriving in a corner that we haven't noticed."

"Does your boyfriend usually talk to you about these things?"

"I'm a man... I don't have a boyfriend."

"Yeah, I understand what you mean. He's just a good brother that you admire and emulate!"

Under the moonlight, the girls' conversations were endless, reflecting the starlight all over the ground.

…………

[Where are your screenshots of signing in on your Xuexi Qiangguo account? @张婧仪. I emphasize again, don’t forget to send your screenshots of signing in on the Xuexi Qiangguo homepage to the group every day, as this affects your daily points.]

[Go ask your seniors in the previous class. Don’t come to me to cry about the final exam. I won’t be able to save you then.]

[It’s not just our school that needs to sign in. Xuexi Qiangguo is an ideological and political learning platform of the official propaganda department. It will be fully popularized among college students across the country in the future. Students studying media should be aware of this. Don’t make me emphasize it over and over again all day long.]

In the newly created class group, the head teacher sent several messages in succession. Zhang Jingyi blushed and pursed her lips.

The underlying technical architecture of the Xuexi Qiangguo platform was supported by Kuaishou and Panda TV, and later introduced investment from state-owned enterprises under the Propaganda Department. At the end of last year, it was separated from its parent company Panda TV and wholly acquired by the Propaganda Department in an attempt to create a pure-blooded political propaganda platform.

——The first thing I reported yesterday was downloading Xuexi Qiangguo. The classmates gathered together to complain. She showed off her science knowledge to everyone in this way and won the respect of many people who did not know the truth.

As a result, I bumped into the muzzle of a gun the next day and was really embarrassed.

(End of this chapter)