I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

Du Ruowei reads emails very quickly and plans to skim through them to finish the homework in the shortest amount of time.

After quickly browsing through only a small portion of the email, Du Ruowei frowned and unconsciously uttered a soft "Hmm?" before scrolling back to the very beginning.

He started reading it again.

This time, the pace slowed down considerably; instead of just skimming, I looked at things very carefully. Every now and then, I would pause for a moment to ponder.

Initially, Du Ruowei appeared quite relaxed.

At this moment, however, he became serious, occasionally frowning or deep in thought, and intermittently pausing to ponder.

The assistant watched from the side, feeling very curious.

Based on his understanding of Du Ruowei, he knew that Du Ruowei only behaved this way when reading important documents.

But judging from the phone conversation I "accidentally" overheard just now, isn't this just the young lady's college homework?

The assistant was very curious.

However, he adhered to professional ethics and did not ask questions despite being very curious.

Du Ruowei, after looking at the computer for a while, finally put it down. Instead of calling Lan Qin back, he leaned back in his chair, motionless, his eyes unfocused, lost in thought.

The assistant didn't disturb them, but simply sat quietly to the side.

He knew that President Du was deep in thought and shouldn't be disturbed.

However, the phone isn't as obedient as an assistant.

Du Ruowei's phone suddenly rang again.

Du Ruowei snapped out of his dazed state, picked up his phone, and saw that it was Lan Qin calling again.

Lan Qin waited for a long time on the other end.

Knowing Du Ruowei as she did, he was usually very efficient, but this time, there had been no movement for half a day. This made Lan Qin wonder if Du Ruowei hadn't taken her matter to heart and hadn't dealt with it immediately, but instead gone to attend to other matters?

That's why I called again, wanting to emphasize the importance of this matter, and if necessary, to use my parents to pressure Du Ruowei.

But before Lan Qin could even speak after the call connected, Du Ruowei, who was in the car, spoke first.

"Qinqin, your homework is really good."

Du Ruowei remarked with great emotion, "When I was giving my lecture earlier, some students from Zhijiang University asked questions, but judging from those questions, it seemed that the teaching level at Zhijiang University wasn't much better than it was back then. But after seeing your assignment, I realized I was being narrow-minded. The teaching level at Zhijiang University is actually quite high now."

Lan Qin is also a student at Zhijiang University, so Du Ruowei used "we".

After expressing his feelings, Du Ruowei asked with great interest, "Who is the teacher who set this question? I'd really like to meet him; there are some things I'd like to discuss with him in person."

We live in the Internet age.

However, the internet itself is relatively new, only a few years old. Everyone is still exploring how to integrate this new technology with the real world and how to create new business models.

The dot-com bubble of the millennium was the first step in this exploration.

At the time, few effective solutions were discovered, leading to the internet bubble. However, after the bubble burst, exploration gradually got on track, with e-commerce, monetization of online social networks, and other forms emerging. But overall, it's still in an exploratory phase; the internet, this gold mine, continues to yield new discoveries.

From Lan Qin's assignment, Du Ruowei vaguely saw a new internet business mindset.

This explains why Du Ruowei is in this state now.

"what?"

Lan Qin, on the other end of the phone, was quite surprised and subconsciously asked, "Brother Du, aren't campus forums pretty common?"

"No, no, no,"

Du Ruowei on the phone repeatedly said, "It's not the campus forum, it's that online-offline closed-loop model."

Shen Kang's model?

Lan Qin asked, puzzled, "Isn't it just opening a few physical stores outside of the campus forum?"

Du Ruowei's voice came through the receiver: "On the surface, it seems that's all there is to it, but the underlying logic isn't so simple. I can vaguely sense that this is a new kind of internet thinking logic, but there are still some things within it that I haven't been able to figure out right away. I'm a bit stuck, which is why I wanted to get to know your teacher and discuss it in person..."

Lan Qin listened silently.

Du Ruowei's praise over the phone was quite obvious, which made her think to herself, "Shen Kang's stuff seems to be pretty good, even Du Ruowei seems to admire it."

After Du Ruowei finished speaking, Lan Qinqian chuckled, her words vague and ambiguous: "Well, Brother Du, the situation is a bit special. I might not be able to introduce you to this 'teacher' for the time being... Why don't you analyze this case first?"

Inside the car

Hearing that Lan Qin couldn't introduce him to that teacher for the time being, Du Ruowei was quite disappointed, but then he thought about it and it didn't seem like a big problem.

He himself graduated from Zhijiang University and had some connections there. Moreover, he had already narrowed down his target group to the teachers of Lan Qin's courses.

Even if Lan Qin didn't tell me, it shouldn't be difficult to find it if I go looking for it myself.

With that thought in mind, Du Ruowei stopped worrying about the teacher and started helping Lan Qin with her homework.

However, Du Ruowei didn't analyze it immediately. Instead, he asked a question first: "Is this all the assignment content? Is there any other information that hasn't been sent? For example, how many students are in each school in this university town, and what is the male-to-female ratio? Especially the data on the teacher training school mentioned in the assignment."

"There should be."

Lan Qin said in a mocking tone on the other end of the phone, "I'll look for it first, and I'll send it to you when I find it."

"it is good."

After hanging up the phone, Lan Qin immediately called Zheng Changhao and asked him for some data on this topic.

Zheng Changhao's Yangbei Forum has been running for two years and has accumulated a lot of data. Although it is not comprehensive, if we scale it up according to a certain ratio, the overall data ratio is basically correct.

After receiving the data, Lan Qin immediately sent it to Du Ruowei.

……

after an hour

Lan Qin then arrived at room 306 of the Yangcheng Business School's entrepreneurship base.

The two sat facing each other on the sofa as before, but this time, Lan Qin took the lead in speaking.

She spoke eloquently to Zheng Changhao in front of her, recounting Du Ruowei's analysis results one by one.

"There is definitely a conspiracy!"

"First, there's the market trap."

"Jung Chang-ho, let me ask you a question first—better to spend money, boys or girls?"

Jung Chang-ho hadn't expected there to be another question. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Girl."

Lan Qin then asked, "Which university in the North Lu University Town has the most female students?"

A sudden realization struck Zheng Changhao; he instantly understood: "Yang Shifan!"

When he decided to open a physical store, besides his home base of Yangshang University, he chose Yangshi Normal University entirely because of Shen Kang—Shen Kang had gone to Yangshi Normal University to scout the location and that's where he saw him.

He now understood why Shen Kang went to Yangshi Normal School first when he intended to expand his shop.

Lan Qin nodded, "That's right, it's Yangshifan. Especially the model of these three offline stores: a milk tea shop, a laundromat, and a board game social store. Putting aside the board game social store, the milk tea shop and the laundromat are simply tailor-made for girls. Yangshifan is the perfect location for offline stores! You could say it's a treasure trove of good fortune."

"He deliberately said it in front of you to make you run away, so he could take over this prime location without lifting a finger!"

Zheng Changhao suddenly realized, and then he understood how it was done!

Lan Qin hadn't finished speaking yet.

"In addition, there is another public opinion trap."

"He's just waiting for you to feign an attack while secretly making another move. If we actually avoid it, he'll spread the word that you, Zheng Changhao, were scared away by him, that you, Zheng Changhao, are a coward, and that you don't have the courage to compete with him head-on. He can even extend this to—why don't you dare to compete head-on? Of course, it's because your product isn't competitive enough."

"Under a series of public opinion offensives, the idea that Yangbei Forum is inferior to Beiming Community and that Yangbei Forum is not as good as Beiming Community will gradually take root in people's hearts."

"Students should use better forums, of course. If the idea that 'Yangbei Forum is not as good as Beiming Community' takes root in their minds, then Yangbei Forum is truly finished. That would be cutting off our roots!"

Zheng Changhao felt a chill run down his spine.

He genuinely believed it. After all, he had fought a war of public opinion with Shen Kang before, and he knew that Shen Kang was truly skilled at it, and his methods were very sophisticated, almost like a gazelle hanging its horns, making him unpredictable.

After listening to everything, Zheng Changhao realized that Shen Kang, that old cunning bastard, had so many tricks up his sleeve, and that he had almost fallen for Shen Kang's trap. Just thinking about it made him shudder.

On one hand, he openly tells himself that he has sued him, while on the other hand, he uses underhanded tactics to try to eradicate him from his roots...

This prompted Zheng Changhao to burst into a tirade: "How can this guy be so cunning and wicked!"

He had also experienced business competition, and had even defeated the competitor from Yang University of Science and Technology head-on. He considered himself to have some skills and brains.

Especially compared to his innocent yet foolish classmates at school, Zheng Changhao felt that he was simply a business genius, mature and experienced.

But compared to Shen Kang, he felt as pure as a little white flower.

So, where did this guy learn all this stuff? Is this the kind of thing the teachers at Yang University of Science and Technology teach?

Jung Chang-ho couldn't help but want to roar – whose school is the real business school here?!