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Chapter 178 This boy is not worth planning with.

Zheng Changhao felt that Wei Mingrui's father hadn't given his son the wrong name. Mingrui, Mingrui, was indeed too wise. Sometimes he really couldn't understand what was going on in Wei Mingrui's head.

However, there was nothing he could say, so he could only sigh, sit down, and silently ponder what to do next.

Wei Mingrui then flushed the real temporary card down the toilet and came back. Seeing Zheng Changhao deep in thought, he said, "Changhao, if you ask me, we should just copy him. He's already set an example, so we can just copy him. He runs a laundromat, a board game shop, and a milk tea shop, so we'll do that too. He makes ghost money and all-in-one cards, so we'll make living money and all-in-one cards."

At this point, Wei Mingrui realized the hidden meaning in his words and became somewhat pleased. "Listen, yang coins, it sounds like they're specifically designed to counter his underworld coins, what a good omen!"

Wei Mingrui's thoughts were wandering. Just as he finished speaking, he thought of something new: "Yangbei Forum—calling it Beibi seems pretty good too. Beibi Beibi, babybaby."

After saying that, he laughed to himself, feeling that the idea was good, and added, "Moreover, his current forum is only held at Yangke University, while our Yangbei Forum covers all the universities in the University Town. We can hold it together at all these universities! Once we get it up and running and succeed, it will be basically impossible for him to use this approach to expand."

Jung Chang-ho muttered, "Does this kind of thing not cost money?"

He certainly considered replicating this system, but the question was: where would the money come from?

Without much thought, Wei Mingrui said, "Just sell both of your houses, then you'll have money, right?"

He was Zheng Changhao's confidant, and he had a good idea of ​​how much money Zheng Changhao had made and where he had spent it.

Upon hearing Wei Mingrui's words, Zheng Changhao cursed inwardly, "It's not your money, of course you don't care. You just sell it whenever you want and throw money around whenever you want."

Besides, if you spend all your money and still can't win, then all that money will have been wasted.

Unlike Shen Kang, a second-generation rich kid, Zheng Changhao was a true self-made man: his hometown was a county-level city in Qianlin Province, and his parents were ordinary wage earners. His original plan for his life was to find a good job after graduation, establish himself in Yangcheng, and become a resident of the provincial capital.

He never expected that by seizing an opportunity, he would end up creating the Yangbei Forum.

Over the course of two years, he earned several hundred thousand yuan and bought two houses and a car in Yangcheng. Before even graduating, he had already achieved his life goals ahead of schedule.

These two houses and one car were Zheng Changhao's last bit of confidence.

Zheng Changhao considered two scenarios before investing in the two houses and a car:

The first scenario, of course, is successfully replicating Shen Kang's tactics, trapping Shen Kang at Yangke University, or even launching a counter-offensive and eliminating Shen Kang—that would naturally be the best outcome. At that time, with the support of these offline stores, the Yangbei Forum's profits would reach new heights.

The second scenario is that they spent money to replicate Shen Kang's tactics, but were still defeated by Shen Kang, rendering the Yangbei Forum worthless.

By then, I'll have nothing left, just like most graduates, entering society empty-handed, and starting to run around desperately seeking a job with a monthly salary of a few thousand yuan.

It's not impossible that Zheng Changhao knew this person was definitely not simple the moment he saw Shen Kang's offline store and that new online-offline closed-loop forum model! He might have realized that even if he copied Shen Kang's model, Shen Kang might have other ways to continue dealing with him.

If something like this really happened, and we lost everything, it would be something Jung Chang-ho absolutely could not accept!

Besides these two situations, there is a third situation:

Even if he doesn't spend money and still keeps those two houses and the car, even if he is eventually defeated by Shen Kang and the Yangbei Forum becomes worthless, he will still have two houses and a car in Yangcheng, and he will still be a successful person!

This is why Jung Chang-ho had considered a replication model before, but couldn't bring himself to do it—he had a way out, so he lacked the courage to fight to the death.

Wei Mingrui, however, was talking without any real understanding of the situation.

Seeing Zheng Changhao remain silent, Wei Mingrui advised, "We can't hesitate any longer at this point, just sell the house!"

Zheng Changhao replied perfunctorily, "The economic situation is not good right now, and housing prices are also declining. It won't be easy to sell houses for the time being."

"Then let's negotiate a lower price, 10%, 20%, or even 30% off! As long as the price is right, I'm sure it will sell quickly," Wei Mingrui continued to persuade.

Zheng Changhao cursed inwardly, "You're really talking without thinking. A 30% discount? Do you know how many tens of thousands I'll lose?" But he didn't lash out, continuing to evade the question: "Hmm, I'll think about it. I'll also try to think of other solutions—"

Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, Wei Mingrui couldn't help but sigh inwardly, feeling that he could understand how Fan Zeng felt when he looked at Xiang Yu.

He now had a strong urge to pick up a palm-leaf fan, sigh, and say, "Alas, such a young man is not worth discussing things with!"

However, Wei Mingrui's history isn't very good; I don't know much about it. Fan Zeng was drawing his sword and striking the jade cup, while the one with the fan was...

Zhuge Liang.

After fussing around in the laundry room for a while and directing the Singles Association to get things done, Shen Kang had nothing else to do, so he left the laundry room and went for a stroll next door, where he happened to see Ouyang Yu in the shop.

"Old Ou, are you done with your work?" Shen Kang came up and greeted him.

During the period following the National Day holiday, Ouyang Yu said he had a lot of things to do with his classes, so Shen Kang told him to focus on those things first. This was the first time he had seen Ouyang Yu at the Yanyu Tea House since the National Day holiday.

When Shen Kang arrived, Ouyang Yu was talking to Zhu Jingdong. Upon seeing Shen Kang, Ouyang Yu stopped talking and let Zhu Jingdong go about his business.

"I'm done with my work," Ouyang Yu said. "I've also developed a new tea recipe recently. I just tried mixing it here, and it turned out pretty good. Would you like to try some?"

As she spoke, she handed over a cup of milk tea without a lid.

Shen Kang frowned.

Before he could speak, Ouyang Yu said, "Don't worry, we did taste it, but we poured it out to taste."

So, no one has ever drunk this milk tea directly before.

As she spoke, she took a small plastic cup, poured out some milk tea, and handed it to Shen Kang.

When everyone was researching milk tea before, Ouyang Yu learned that Shen Kang didn't drink anything that other people had drunk, with the only exception being his girlfriend.

"Then I'll try it." Shen Kang also relaxed his brows, took the drink, took a sip, savored it carefully, and then took another sip.

After finishing the milk tea he had poured out, he put down the plastic cup. "Okay. If you've established a standardized process and can produce this quality consistently, then this can be our store's second milk tea product."

After asking Ouyang Yu what kind of tea leaves were used for the tea soup and discussing it further, the name of this new product was decided: "Qingshan Qigu".

After discussing the milk tea incident, Ouyang Yu brought up Qin Zhen, "—Zhenzhen said she wanted to treat you to dinner a few days ago to thank you for inviting us here, but you refused outright without saying another word and just walked away. Teacher Shen, you made her quite embarrassed."

Shen Kang was taken aback, then thought to himself, "Wow, this Qin Zhen is quite something. He even openly mentioned inviting me to dinner."

Ouyang Yu smiled and said, "Don't worry, Teacher Shen, she just wanted to thank you. She didn't mean anything else."

After saying that, Ouyang Yu secretly thought that Zhenzhen's words implied that she was trying to maintain good relationships with her friends because of him, which was why she invited Shen Kang to dinner. However, Shen Kang completely misunderstood, which was somewhat narcissistic of him.

"————" Seeing Ouyang Yu's confident demeanor, Shen Kang began to wonder if he was overthinking things and being too narcissistic.

Ouyang Yu continued, "So when are you going to have her treat you to a meal?"

Shen Kang felt that the scene was a bit strange, like a scene where "Red Bull is in the refrigerator and Xuejuan is in bed".

Not knowing what to say, I replied perfunctorily, "When I have time—"

After chatting with Ouyang Yu for a while, Shen Kang originally wanted to encourage Ouyang Yu to come to study room 302 more often and meet other girls, promising to treat her to a meal. However, Ouyang Yu's words today had made him feel insecure, and he wondered if he had misunderstood Qin Zhen. If Qin Zhen was truly a good girl, wasn't he just breaking up the two of them?

After thinking it over, he decided not to mention it and just left.

After leaving Yanyu Chaji, Shen Kang planned to find Dai Qiu and ask him to help apply for two rooms at the startup base.

Of course, this wasn't because he wanted to create a private space where he could take He Qiuzhu; he simply wanted to apply for office space for Beiming Community and Xianyu.com.

As for why he didn't apply to the startup base himself, firstly, it's because Dai Qiu revealed that he was often ridiculed by the vice dean of the computer science department at Yangshang University regarding the forum. Dai Qiu probably also hoped that someone from Yangke University could come out and take down Zheng Changhao from Yangshang University, but no one had done it yet. Now that he's starting a forum, of course he should inform Dai Qiu.

Secondly, I also specifically wanted to trouble Dai Qiu.

In interpersonal relationships, "troubling" others can be a way to build closer connections. If I trouble you today, you'll have a reason to trouble me tomorrow. This back-and-forth of troubling each other strengthens the relationship. Of course, it's important to strike the right balance.

However, before going to find Dai Qiu, it was natural to make a phone call first.

After the call connected, Shen Kang heard that Dai Qiu's voice was a bit noisy, as if she was in a crowded place.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Shen Kang explained his purpose: "Dean Dai, it's like this, I recently started a campus forum and recruited some college student staff, but we don't have a suitable office space yet, so I would like to trouble you to help us apply for two rooms in the startup base to use as office space."

When Dai Qiu answered the phone, she wasn't in a good mood, but after hearing Shen Kang's words, her voice suddenly rose: "You created a campus forum?"

"Um."

There was a two-second silence on Dai Qiu's end, followed by a voice: "Are you at school right now?"

"Here I am."

"This is a bit complicated. How about this, you come over to my place and we can talk about it in person. I'll send you the address in a bit. Oh, and bring your BMW."

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