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Chapter 416 0406 [Always Thinking About Business]

"Am I handsome?" Chen Guiliang stood in front of the mirror.

Bian Guanyue's eyes lit up as she looked at him, and she nodded repeatedly, "So handsome!"

The flying fish costume that Chen Guiliang is wearing cost 18.8 yuan.

This guy is rich and powerful, so he chose the traditional materials for flying fish robes - brocade gauze, brocade silk, and brocade brocade.

All three types of fabric are made of Yun brocade.

A piece of Yun brocade with a regular pattern would cost 30,000 to 40,000 yuan, but Chen Guiliang also specially commissioned a flying fish pattern.

The flying fish pattern was only unearthed from the Confucius Mansion earlier this year, and brocade weavers had to first study how to weave it. As a result, prices skyrocketed!
The flying fish costume is already so expensive, so the hat, shoes, socks, shirt, undershirt, embroidered spring knife... of course, we can't be careless.

The total cost of Chen Guiliang's outfit for the graduation ceremony exceeded 30 yuan.

"It's just too... um, too flashy," Bian Guanyue offered a fair assessment.

Chen Guiliang sighed, "You don't understand, this is called doing both public and private good. First, it makes me look cool, and second, it promotes 'My Own Swordsman'."

Chen Guiliang's outfit will become equipment in the game.

Even the money he spent on the clothes was paid for through Game Science's company accounts. After he finished wearing them, the clothes were displayed at the company, where guests could visit and take photos for promotional purposes.

The publicity effect it can bring is not something that 30 yuan can easily achieve.

Chen Guiliang felt he was becoming increasingly mercenary, approaching everything with a commercial purpose. Even his choice of clothing for his university graduation ceremony was motivated by a desire to promote the game.

The two went downstairs together and waited in the underground parking lot.

"Not here yet?"

"I'm here, I see you."

Xie Yang held the phone in one hand and waved the other.

Chen Guiliang wanted to do some publicity, so naturally he needed a photographer.

Xie Yang personally came to make a cameo appearance. In his words, bringing a professional photographer is too pretentious. Taking photos that are too professional is actually not good. These kinds of promotional photos are best positioned as being taken by passersby.

"Holy crap, you're dressed so provocatively!" Xie Yang exclaimed as soon as they met.

Chen Guiliang stood tall and proud: "How dare you talk to the boss like that? This is what I call handsome!"

Xie Yang said sourly, "I want to get one too. Damn, I'll definitely turn heads if I wear it out."

Chen Guiliang suggested, "You could have a set custom-made and go to a Hanfu event. There are usually pretty girls there, especially those in traditional costumes... you know what I mean."

"That's a great idea!" Xie Yang was instantly interested.

After several years of development, the Hanfu movement has become quite popular, with more and more related offline gatherings and events.

Including Chinese-style academic gowns, more than just one or two people wore these to their graduation ceremonies.

Following extensive public discussion, as early as the spring of 2007, a delegate to the National People's Congress proposed at the Two Sessions that faculty and students should wear uniform Chinese-style academic gowns when conferring degrees in China's three major academic programs. The design of the gowns could be developed by experts who researched historical and cultural contexts and incorporated contemporary characteristics.

This is a proposal from a delegate at the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference!

This immediately sparked heated discussions in newspapers and online.

In the same year, a Chinese academic gown design competition was held at Peking University's graduation party, where 18 Chinese academic gowns designed by students were unveiled.

This year, not only Chen Guiliang appeared in ancient costume, but just two days ago, the entire class of fashion design majors at Zhejiang University of Technology wore Chinese-style bachelor's gowns that they designed and made themselves.

When Tao Xue arrived at the gate of Peking University, she had been waiting for a long time. She was also there to attend Chen Guiliang's graduation ceremony.

"Wow, senior, did you travel from ancient times?" Tao Xue skipped over and circled around Chen Guiliang.

Not only Tao Xue reacted strongly, but all the passersby also looked over.

Even the gatekeepers at Peking University were glancing at Chen Guiliang.

Chen Guiliang is a socially anxious person, or more accurately, a "social terrorist." He showed no embarrassment whatsoever, instead bowing to the crowd as if he had truly traveled from the Ming Dynasty.

More than a dozen passersby immediately took out their phones and took pictures of Chen Guiliang.

Two of them were also posting on Weibo.

They walked into the school in high spirits, and soon encountered a girl dressed in Hanfu.

The girl was also a graduate attending the ceremony. She was overjoyed to see someone like her and quickly walked up to Chen Guiliang, bowing with her hands clasped in a gesture of respect: "Greetings, young master!"

Chen Guiliang was overjoyed and immediately bowed in return, saying, "Greetings, Miss! I am unworthy of such a compliment!"

The scene appeared rather formal and scholarly.

But the atmosphere was quickly broken when the woman in traditional Chinese clothing asked curiously, "Mr. Chen, I'm wearing a traditional Chinese academic gown designed by my Peking University classmate, Zhu Yan Ting Qin. Your outfit is so beautiful! What's it called?"

Chen Guiliang replied, "The flying fish robe. It was a second-rank official's bestowed robe in the Ming Dynasty, generally worn for formal events such as court assemblies, moonlit evenings, plowing ceremonies, and sacrificial rites. It was generally not worn out casually at other times."

Xie Yang seized the opportunity and said, "You all stand together, and I'll take a group photo."

The girl in ancient costume immediately moved closer to Chen Guiliang.

After they finished taking photos, more students came over and asked to take photos with them.

The boomerang that Chen Guiliang threw back then finally hit him on the head: Guo Feng wore Hanfu to the graduation ceremony, and because too many classmates wanted to take photos with him, Chen Guiliang suggested that he put up a sign that said "Ten Yuan for a Photo".

Now is a good time to set up a sign; you could probably make a hundred or two hundred yuan.

I took photos along the way.

The girl in ancient costume was also pulled aside to take photos.

Tao Xue followed behind them and whispered to Bian Guanyue, "Sister, why didn't you stop them? There were two beautiful girls who looked like they wanted to devour our senior."

"What did you call me?" Bian Guanyue asked in surprise.

Tao Xue smiled and said, "Sister, you are the main wife, and I will be the concubine."

Bian Guanyue said, "Why do I feel like you're using me as a pawn? You don't want him to be surrounded by beautiful women, and you're unwilling to step forward yourself, but you're encouraging me to be the villain?"

"No way, I genuinely call you 'sister'," Tao Xue smiled like a little fox. The campus was filled with graduates taking photos; as Chen Guiliang walked to the triangle area, he spotted three people wearing Hanfu.

This thing is pretty trendy.

"boss!"

"Mr. Chen!"

"Thank you, Mr. Xie!"

Several ByteDance employees stepped forward and respectfully greeted Chen Guiliang and Xie Yang.

Taking advantage of Peking University's graduation ceremony, ByteDance's Weibo team is conducting campus promotions.

Their promotional booth was right across from Sina Weibo!

On the other side, there's also Sohu Weibo.

Peking University was Chen Guiliang's home turf, and the number of students gathered in front of ByteDance's Weibo promotional booth was significantly larger.

Of course, there were also students who inexplicably disliked Chen Guiliang and deliberately went to Sina and Sohu to register Weibo accounts to receive gifts.

Suddenly, a student walked up to the Sina booth and asked, "I just received a gift from ByteDance, can I come to Sina to receive another one?"

The Sina Weibo sales representative was taken aback for a moment, then quickly smiled and said, "Of course! Just register a Sina Weibo account and post an update, and you can receive a gift right here!"

The student quickly registered a Sina Weibo account, posted updates to claim gifts, and then walked over to Sohu's booth: "Can I claim them here?"

Sohu's ground sales team replied speechlessly, "Okay."

Why insist on choosing just one?
I'm going to register for all of them so I can get more free gifts—during the promotional period, they'll also give away a one-month Weibo subscription.

Other students also realized what was happening and rushed to take advantage of the deals on the three Weibo accounts.

Chen Guiliang was both amused and exasperated: Even if you want to get something for free, don't do it in front of me!
Xie Yang said, "The same applies to celebrities. Almost all of China's top stars have three Weibo accounts. The next step is to see which one can retain users better; user experience is the most important thing."

"With the emergence of the live-streaming e-commerce model, we will definitely win decisively," Chen Guiliang said confidently.

Despise the enemy strategically and value the enemy tactically.

Finally arriving at the century-old lecture hall, even more graduates were taking photos here.

Tao Xue pulled Chen Guiliang and Bian Guanyue together, saying, "Senior, sister, let's take a group photo here."

Bian Guanyue pursed her lips but did not object.

Xie Yang was completely dumbfounded. Chen Guiliang stood in the middle, flanked by two beautiful women, and the three of them got along so well.

Shouldn't they be jealous and rivals?

He thought about his bumpy romantic history and thought, "This is infuriating!"

He finally found a student girl who looked somewhat like Zhou Jing and they successfully started a relationship. It turned out that the girl already had a boyfriend, but she wouldn't break up with him and was two-timing him.

Enraged, Xie Yang went to the school, intending to beat the man up. Only after meeting him did she realize that she was the other woman.

Damn it, just consider it a prostitute!

Xie Yang is busy with work all day long and really doesn't have the energy to date. He's also too embarrassed to date someone from his workplace, so he doesn't have many opportunities to meet girls.

He remembered Chen Guiliang's suggestion and felt that he should participate in activities outside of the company.

Hanfu events are pretty good; you might even meet some pretty girls.

"Come closer. Okay...cheese!" Xie Yang obediently acted as the photographer for the three adulterous couple.

After the three finished taking photos, they took two photos together.

Finally, they even ditched Chen Guiliang and took a photo together with Bian Guanyue and Tao Xue.

Bian Guanyue said, "Xie Yang, you two are old friends, why don't you take a picture together?"

Xie Yang laughed and said, "Haha, I won't take pictures. He's dressed too flashy today, I'm afraid I'll catch his style too."

"Stop talking nonsense and come here!" Chen Guiliang shouted.

Xie Yang then walked over happily and handed the camera in his hand to Bian Guanyue.

After taking the photos, the group chatted and laughed as they headed to the auditorium.

At the entrance, I encountered a large group of middle-aged and elderly people, who were actually principals of key high schools invited by Peking University. There were more than 80 of them.

Unfortunately, Chen Guiliang will never see the principal from his hometown.

This year's exams for students from Sichuan and Chongqing are once again facing hellish difficulty.

Last year, due to the earthquake, the college entrance exam questions were very easy. This year, the difficulty has been doubled.

Moreover, Tsinghua and Peking Universities have drastically reduced their enrollment quotas in Sichuan, with more than half of the places being taken by students from Chengdu and Mianyang!

Chen Guiliang's alma mater didn't send a single student to Tsinghua or Peking University this year. However, it ranked first in the city in both the percentage of students admitted to top-tier universities and the percentage admitted to third-tier universities.

The more than 80 principals of key high schools looked at Chen Guiliang with great surprise.

"Wearing ancient costumes to graduation ceremonies? Peking University students are really quite active."

"He looks somewhat familiar."

"Isn't this Chen Guiliang? One of Peking University's star students in recent years."

"I really didn't recognize him when he put on ancient costume."

"..."

As they were talking, more than a dozen school principals came over to shake hands with Chen Guiliang.

Chen Guiliang was also very enthusiastic, and when shaking hands with them, he asked, "Have you registered for ByteDance Weibo?"

(End of this chapter)