I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

Fortunately, although Ye Jintong didn't tolerate Shen Kang, her boss, she wouldn't do anything to sabotage him. So she kept quiet and didn't say anything like that the Beiming Forum didn't have any GG slots.

Shen Kang turned and smiled at Ye Jintong, then called out to the singles in room 211, "I have a client, I'm going to talk business. The cleaning here is up to you guys!"

After saying that, she spoke briefly to the man who had come to her door, and then the two left the door of room 211.

In room 211, the members of the Singles Association weren't impatient with Shen Kang pushing the cleaning work onto them. The fact that they could use the place long-term and get free electricity was already a huge benefit. What was wrong with doing some cleaning? It was only right.

Therefore, everyone immediately started dividing up the tasks, clearly assigning tasks such as who would mop the floor and who would wipe the tables. Some people even carried buckets to the restroom on one side of the corridor to fetch water, preparing to start a big job and clean their future secret base spotless.

However, Yip Kam Tong is not here.

She slipped away quietly, following behind Shen Kang.

She wanted to hear how Shen Kang was going to explain things to this man, since there was no "GG" slot on the Beiming Forum. If Shen Kang couldn't give a clear answer, she would continue arguing with him about who owned the room next door.

Because room 212 was also dusty and hadn't been cleaned yet, Shen Kang didn't lead the man to room 212. Instead, he went directly to a balcony at the end of the corridor.

"Sorry, we just checked in today, and the rooms aren't cleaned yet; they're all dusty. So let's talk here first," Shen Kang said to the man.

The man didn't seem to mind and nodded.

Shen Kang then said, "I am the owner of the Beiming Forum, my name is Shen Kang. What is your surname?" "My surname is Tang..."

As Shen Kang listened, he also sized up the man in front of him: This man, who called himself Tang Yongming, was probably in his early twenties, not yet thirty. He had an ordinary appearance, dressed in a somewhat scholarly manner, and looked like he hadn't experienced much of the harsh realities of society, appearing rather innocent.

As Tang Yongming spoke, he also sized up the college student in front of him.

The boy in front of me looks like an ordinary college student—except for being somewhat handsome and quite tall—I can't really tell anything else.

I don't know if typing "GG" on this forum will be of any use.

As Tang Yongming spoke, he thought to himself...

A few months ago, Tang Yongming opened a boutique bookstore outside the north gate of Yang University of Science and Technology.

Because Tang Yongming himself is a college graduate, and given his consistent taste, his bookstore is decorated in a bourgeois style. Overall, it's somewhat similar to the bookstore in the movie "Notting Hill."

The bookstore opened in September.

Before opening, Tang Yongming was full of confidence in his bookstore, thinking that business would definitely be good as soon as it opened—isn't this the kind of vibe that college students like?

But the result was that, even after more than a month of operation, the bookstore had very little business.

When Tang Yongming first opened the bookstore, he did hire one employee. Now that business is so bad, he's even laid off the employee and is now in the bookstore himself, overseeing things all day. But even cutting the labor cost only slightly mitigated the losses; the bookstore's poor business situation hasn't improved.

Tang Yongming then started thinking of a solution, and after much thought, he came up with the idea of ​​"GG".

The first thing that came to his mind was actually the Yangbei Forum.

But just before he went to the Yangbei Forum to fight GG, while he was observing the GG posts on the Yangbei Forum, he witnessed the great battle between the Yangbei Forum and the Beiming Community.

After observing for several days, Tang Yongming also discovered that the Yangbei Forum had suffered a significant loss of customers from the Yangke University campus after this major battle, with many going to the Beiming Community. Currently, in terms of the user base of Yangke University alone, the Beiming Community has surpassed the Yangbei Forum by a considerable margin.

Tang Yongming's bookstore is located just outside the north gate of Yang-Tech University, which is quite far from other schools. Basically, it only caters to students of Yang-Tech University.

Therefore, Tang Yongming naturally changed his mind and decided to give up on the Beiming Forum.

However, no contact information or phone number was left on the Beiming Forum, so Tang Yongming had no choice but to come to the school to look for it. After asking around, he found the entrepreneurship base.

Although Shen Kang had not yet come to the startup base to pick up his room, the application process was already underway. Therefore, the people at the startup base knew that Beiming Forum was about to move in, and they informed Tang Yongming.

That's why Tang Yongming came to us today.

"...Basically, that's it. I want to type 'GG' on your forum. I'd like to ask how your forum calculates the 'GG' fee."

After listening to Tang Yongming's words, Shen Kang did not immediately mention the GG fee, but asked curiously, "Boss Tang, why did you think of opening a shop on the back street?" The area outside the north gate of Yang-Tech University is called the back street by the students of Yang-Tech University, which corresponds to the front street outside the south gate.

Because Qianjie Street is connected to the commercial street where the three universities converge, students from Yang-Ke University have to pass through Qianjie Street to get to the commercial street, so Qianjie Street is quite lively.

In contrast, the back street is quite remote, with significantly less foot traffic compared to the front street.

"Because the rent is cheaper, it saves more than half," Tang Yongming said without hesitation.

Shen Kang thought this guy's business acumen was a joke. He opened a shop there just because the rent was cheap... But he didn't say anything, and instead got back to business: "Boss Tang, you must have seen our Beiming Community, right?"

Seeing Tang Yongming nod, he continued, "Actually, our Beiming Community doesn't have any 'GG slots' (slots for male students)."

Upon hearing this, Tang Yongming was quite disappointed: Did this mean that Beiming Forum wouldn't accept GGs? And Yangbei Forum didn't have many students from Yang University of Science and Technology anymore, so he, as a GG, had nowhere to go?

Ye Jintong, standing behind Shen Kang, suddenly sharpened her gaze, staring at Shen Kang's back with a cold smile.

Shen Kang also felt a sense of unease, and immediately changed the subject: "But who says you can't play GG if you don't have a GG slot?"

Ye Jintong was taken aback: You can still keep arguing about this?

Tang Yongming was also taken aback.

Shen Kang waved his hand enthusiastically, "I can only say, Boss Tang, you've come at the perfect time! Our Beiming Community is planning to launch a brand new GG mode, three-way GG!" "If you've ever browsed our Beiming Community, you'll know that our Beiming Community users have a 'follow' option. And once you post a new thread, those who follow you will see your new post immediately in their personal space on the right."

"In other words, if you have 5,000 followers, all 5,000 people will see your new post."

"They've followed you, so naturally they want to see what content you post next. Now that they see you've posted new content, they'll most likely click to see what it is."

"At this point, what if you post something like 'GG'? They'll see that too."

"That's equivalent to five thousand people seeing this GG (Goblin)."

Upon hearing this, Tang Yongming understood Shen Kang's meaning. "You mean, you want me to find users from your forum to play GG?"

Shen Kang shook his head: "No, you can just contact us directly. We will select several suitable users for you to choose from according to your requirements. Whichever one you choose, we will contact that user to help you get the game over."

Tang Yongming still didn't quite understand some of it: "Selecting suitable users for me to choose from? What does that mean?"

Shen Kang gave him an example: "For instance, if you own a hot pot restaurant and want to boost its popularity, you need at least five thousand followers to help you with this."

"At this point, there are three people on our website who meet this requirement. Among them, A mainly posts makeup tutorials, B mainly posts fitness tutorials, and C mainly posts food reviews. Of these three, you would naturally choose C, who is the most suitable."

Upon hearing this example, Tang Yongming understood and was pleasantly surprised.

His previous idea of ​​using Google Play was simply putting a Google sign on the website's homepage; who would see it and become interested was entirely uncontrollable. But the Google Play feature on the Beiming Community was much more controllable—it allowed for precise targeting.

If there really is a user who mainly posts food reviews and has many students from Yangko University of Science and Technology following them, then once this user posts a picture of a hot pot restaurant, I believe that the number of customers that user can convert will be very large! Many people will come to this hot pot restaurant after seeing this picture.

Similarly, the same applies to bookstores.

"So what kind of users would be a good fit for my bookstore?" Tang Yongming asked impatiently.

"Uh, that requires us to conduct a survey of our website's user data."

Shen Kang said calmly.

"Is Mr. Tang interested in our three-party cooperation model?"

Tang Yongming nodded vigorously, "Interested!"

"Okay, if possible, please wait here for a moment, Mr. Tang. I'll go and select some specific user information for you, then come back and show it to you so we can discuss the details further."

After dealing with Tang Yongming, Shen Kang and Ye Jintong returned to 211.

Once they were quite far from the other end of the corridor, Ye Jintong spoke softly: "Boss, you really went all out to have this 212 room next door all to yourself. You even came up with a new 'GG' mode on short notice."

Shen Kang was indignant: "What are you saying? Who could come up with these things on a whim? This is all part of my well-thought-out plan! Sigh, Xiao Ye, you're just too narrow-minded and easily think the worst of people..." Shen Kang sighed.

Ye Jintong, however, still held her opinion: she felt that Shen Kang wanted to monopolize room 212 next door and not let her use it, so he grabbed this temporary male customer and made up some kind of three-party male customer model.

Although it sounds a bit outrageous, Ye Jintong thinks it's something Shen Kang is capable of doing.

Upon entering 211, Shen Kang saw that the members of the Singles Association were busy cleaning the room. Ma Liang was among them, squatting on the ground with his butt sticking out, trying to pick at a stubborn black spot on the floor.

"Ma Liang".

Shen Kang walked over and called out, "Don't be busy for now. Come over with your laptop and help me look at some data from the Beiming Community."

"oh."

Ma Liang planned to come and clean up today and then work here, so he brought his laptop with him.

Room 211, being a startup base, naturally has a network cable interface.

Ma Liang found a cleaned table, put his laptop on it, took out a long network cable from his bag, plugged it in, logged into his administrator account, and began to screen some user information in the Beiming Community as Shen Kang had requested.

First, it is filtered based on the number of users following.

Currently, the three users with the most followers in the Beiming Community have all exceeded two thousand followers: 2142, 2280, and 2015. Shen Kang knows two of these users: 2142 is Zhong Lin, and 2015 is Li Su. He doesn't know 2280.

After looking through the previous posts, I found that post #2280 was written by a senior student who teaches yoga.

Although this senior's breasts are not as big as Zhong Lin's, her overall figure is more well-proportioned, and from an overall aesthetic point of view, her body proportions are better than Zhong Lin's.

Moreover, some of the yoga photos posted by this senior student are quite suggestive, and they are much more alluring than Zhong Lin's innocent and pure photos. No wonder her number of followers has directly topped the current number one spot on the Beiming Community.

However, this also proves from another angle that Da Lei is still very attractive to boys—Zhong Lin doesn't need to do anything seductive; she just needs to take normal photos, and the number of followers is still close to that of the senior student.

If Chung Lin were to show off her cleavage again, she might even surpass that senior in terms of the number of people paying attention to her.

However, these people don't seem to fit in with a bookstore at all. Who among these serious lecherous men and women would read a book? ...

"Let's lower the number of followers again, and take a look at those with over 1,800 followers."

Shen Kang gave another instruction, and Ma Liang began the selection process.

After filtering twice more, Shen Kang found a very suitable user:

This user currently has 1681 followers, which is not impressive in terms of quantity, but it fits the description well in terms of quality—the content this user previously posted was all about pretentious bourgeois behavior.

For example, she elegantly enjoyed afternoon tea at a Hilton hotel restaurant, taking numerous photos from various angles to showcase the exquisite pastries, the latte with its swan-shaped design, the Chanel suit she described as "just pretty, not expensive," and her own graceful posture and serene expression while sitting on the sofa. Another example is when she took a yacht out to sea, posting countless photos of the yacht as if she would never see it again, wanting to capture every angle of it.

These posts from this user gave Shen Kang the feeling of seeing those "fake socialites who pool their money" in later generations, a strong sense of déjà vu.

But many people still fall for this, especially in this day and age, and quite a few of them are women.

Shen Kang could see from the backend data that 66% of the 1681 people following this user were female. Moreover, judging from the replies of those female users who followed her, many girls admired her lifestyle and expressed their desire to get closer to her.

Judging from Tang Yongming's description of his bookstore, it also belongs to the "petit-bourgeois pretentious" type, and the two types match.

"Wow, two outstanding talents from one family!"

Shen Kang muttered to himself.

The user who gave him a strong sense of "fake socialite who joins group buying" turned out to be someone he knew, Nana... uh, Ji Feiyan.

Zhong Lin has 2142 followers and Ji Feiyan has 1681 followers; both are from Class 2 of E-commerce, truly a pair of outstanding students.

"Okay, she's the one."

Shen Kang had Ma Liang operate it again, then picked up his laptop, went out, and went to find Boss Tang Yongming again.

Upon reaching the balcony at the end of the corridor, Tang Yongming was still there, staring blankly at the sky. Seeing Shen Kang approach, he immediately looked over and asked impatiently, "Have you made your choice?"

"I've made my choice."

Shen Kang placed his laptop on the windowsill and showed Tang Yongming the profiles of the selected users one by one: "First, Mr. Tang, take a look at these. They have the most followers, but their content might not be a good fit for your bookstore, so the results might not be ideal..."

Tang Yongming listened and watched simultaneously. After finishing, he pointed to the screen and said, "I feel like this user best matches our bookstore's needs?"

Shen Kang glanced at the profile picture and realized that the account he was referring to was Ji Feiyan's. "Yes. From the perspective of our community as a whole, she is indeed the one who best meets the needs of your bookstore."

After thinking for a moment, Tang Yongming finally decided, "Okay, it's her then!"

Once the person is selected, the next step is to negotiate the price.

Shen Kang had several GG models in mind, but since this was the first time their website had tried this business model, he didn't know which GG model was the best given the current situation.

He simply gave Tang Yongming a vague range, probably between two hundred and six hundred. He would need to discuss the specifics with the user further.

After all, as he said before, this new model is called Three-Party GG, so it naturally requires consultation and mutual agreement among the three parties.

Tang Yongming was pleasantly surprised by the price: he had initially expected a four-figure price for this GG book, but it had been reduced to three figures, saving him a significant amount of money. This was especially beneficial for his bookstore, which was currently facing difficulties.

Seeing that Tang Yongming found the general price range acceptable, Shen Kang exchanged contact information with him and told him to go home and wait for news, at least by 10 p.m. that night. Tang Yongming then left.

Ye Jintong followed Shen Kang around the whole time, trying to catch him.

But even now, with everything basically settled, she still hadn't caught the tail wagging. This made her exclaim once again, "Boss, I finally understand why you've always been so successful. You'll come up with something new just to have a room all to yourself! You're so cunning, how could you not succeed? Boss, you're a ruthless guy!"

She's said a lot.

Shen Kang remained silent, thinking to himself, "Trying to take my room? You're still too green."