I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

At the same time, Shen Kang's dormitory was empty except for Jin Chao, who was sitting at Shen Kang's desk surfing the internet.

The doors to both the small and large dorm rooms were open, so you could clearly hear sounds gradually coming from the stairwell, getting higher and higher.

"...Even without Zhu Yuanzhang, there would have been Li Yuanzhang, Wang Yuanzhang. Ultimately, it is the power of the people; only the people are the true power."

"The people? What dynasty didn't have people? Why did it have to be the end of the Yuan Dynasty? Without Zhu Yuanzhang, without his strategy of 'building high walls, storing up grain, and delaying the proclamation of kingship,' how could those starving famine victims have taken up hoes and overthrown the Yuan capital?"

Jin Chao turned his head and looked towards the door, where he saw Shen Kang, Wang Pan, and Feng Moquan walking in from outside.

Wang Pan was walking on the right, arguing with Feng Moquan on the left. Both of them were slightly red-faced.

Shen Kang walked in the middle, head down, playing on his phone, looking beautiful and quiet.

Upon seeing them return, Jin Chao subconsciously shifted his position.

Especially when Shen Kang walked over, he pretended to stand up and asked, "Do you need to use the computer, Lao Shen?"

Shen Kang didn't even look up. He put the book in his left hand on the table, pressed it in the air towards him, and said, "You can continue playing. I don't need the computer for now."

"OK."

Jin Chao, who had just moved his bottom, settled back down comfortably and continued sitting in the chair.

Shen Kang was leaning against the wardrobe, looking down at his pink phone, texting someone.

Wang Pan and Feng Moquan didn't stop causing trouble even after arriving at the dormitory.

They went to their respective seats, put down their books, pulled up a chair, and continued their argument face to face.

Feng Moquan: "...Were those 150,000 laborers who repaired the Yellow River born from your son, Zhu Yuanzhang?"

Wang Pan: "150,000 laborers, once Liu Futong died, didn't they scatter? Scattered like a plate, without anyone to lead them, what will become of them? Chen Youliang was ruthless enough, Zhang Shicheng was rich enough, weren't they both heroes of their time? Why was it that Zhu Yuanzhang had the last laugh? Because he was stronger than everyone else. The key moments in history are when such geniuses kick open the door. What does it have to do with the people? The people are just a flock of sheep following along."

Feng Moquan's face turned even redder. "This is a complete and utter heroic view of history! The textbooks clearly state that outstanding individuals can only influence the speed and details of the process, not the fundamental trend. The Yuan Dynasty must perish, and the world must be unified. No one can change this general direction!..."

The commotion these two were causing Jin Chao to lose focus on his internet. After watching for a while, he couldn't help but ask Shen Kang next to him, "Old Shen, what are those two doing?"

"Oh, when they were reviewing Marxist philosophy, these two somehow ended up talking about the people's view of history and the hero's view of history."

Shen Kang replied without looking up, continuing to play on his phone.

Jin Chao then remembered something.

"Weren't you guys going to study? It's not even dinner time yet, why are you back already?"

Based on their study routine, they usually study in the afternoon until dinner time, then go to the cafeteria for dinner and finally return to their dormitory.

It's only a little past 3 pm, it's not time for them to finish reviewing yet.

Shen Kang looked down at his phone and explained the reason.

"It was a coincidence. We didn't know which class had a lesson, but someone wrote on the blackboard in front of that classroom, 'Class at 3 PM, thank you for your cooperation.' So the classroom was unavailable, and we came back."

Upon hearing this, Jin Chao was puzzled: "There are so many study rooms, if we can't use that one, can't we just find another one?"

Shen Kang: "I think this might be fate, a sign that we shouldn't study this afternoon and should relax. Pan Ge and Lao Feng both thought I made sense, so we came back."

"..."

Jin Chao was speechless, but then he thought about it again and realized that what Lao Shen said made sense—if he had been in that study room at the time, he would have felt that it was fate.

God is the greatest, so I had no choice but to come back.

Shen Kang finally finished what he was doing on his phone and looked up at his computer screen on the table in front of Jin Chao.

This is the interface of the square on the Beiming Community website.

So he understood why Lao Jin hadn't been going to study with them these past two days.

After all, Lao Jin had previously shown some "appreciation" for Lu Tinglan. These past two days have been the climax of the Lu Tinglan incident, so Lao Jin naturally wanted to be on the Beiming Community 24/7, paying close attention to the further developments.

Jin Chao noticed Shen Kang's gaze and slapped his forehead, remembering something.

"Old Shen, I saw someone say there's a discount on your Huanhuan.com's secondhand section, 50 RMB off for purchases over 300 RMB, but I've searched for ages on your site and can't find it."

"50 off for purchases over 300?"

Shen Kang shook his head decisively, "There's absolutely no such event. Who told you that?"

"No?"

Jin Chao was somewhat disappointed. "I only heard someone mention it in the square, but when I went to look for it, I couldn't find it. I thought I was just looking in the wrong place, but it turns out it really isn't there..."

Seeing Jin Chao's expression, Shen Kang's mood improved: "You want to buy it?"

Jin Chao usually enjoys reading novels and has no particular interest in music. He listens to whatever others play, but doesn't care if he doesn't listen to music at all—this can also be seen from Shen Kang's computer.

The songs on Shen Kang's laptop, besides those downloaded by Shen Kang himself, were all downloaded by Feng Moquan; none of them were downloaded by Jin Chao.

So, for Jin Chao, an MP3 player was completely useless. Why would he suddenly want to buy one? Or even a P-type?

"Mm." Jin Chao nodded.

"Why?"

"There's no reason, I just wanted to buy it..." Jin Chao's eyes darted around.

Normally, Shen Kang would have been happy to be fooled by Jin Chao, but seeing the look in Jin Chao's eyes, he got excited and wouldn't let go, pressing for answers.

In the end, Jin Chao had no choice but to reluctantly reveal the "reason".

"This seems to be becoming a trend."

Jin Chao opened several posts, pointed to the screen, and showed them to Shen Kang one by one.

Shen Kang also leaned over, bent down, and quickly glanced at it.

On the Yangke University Square of the Beiming Community, there were two posts, both saying that they also planned to buy a second-hand P from Huanhuan.com.

Judging from the username and number of followers, he's not a KL (King of Glory) user; he's just an ordinary user on the Beiming Community.

The last post that Jin Chao showed to Shen Kang was from a user named "Let Me Sleep for Five More Minutes" who looked familiar to Shen Kang—this user had left an impression on him when Lu Tinglan showed him those posts attacking her.

After reading Teacher Wu's post, and combining it with two other posts, Shen Kang immediately understood what was going on.

"Wow, there's another surprise?"

Shen Kang glanced at the username "Let me sleep for five more minutes" a few more times and thought that this person was really talented.

Immediately afterwards, he called Ye Jintong.

"Hey, Qiuzhu, missed me? Hehe."

"I am Shen Kang."

"...What is it?" Ye Jintong's tone suddenly became lifeless.

"About work..."

Shen Kang told Ye Jintong about what he had just discovered and asked her to give the "Be Brave and Be Yourself" campaign some traffic support, give more traffic to related topics and posts, and make this grassroots initiative more popular.

Ye Jintong agreed as well.

But at the very end, she couldn't help but say, "Boss, why do I feel like when you call me using Qiuzhu's phone, it's like you're asserting your dominance?"

You're overthinking it.

Shen Kang was too lazy to say anything more to her and hung up the phone directly.

Seeing that Shen Kang had finished his call, Jin Chao continued, explaining his actions: "Look, look, Lao Shen, you also think this is going to become a trend, right? So I'm joining in the fun."

"Mmm, mmm."

Shen Kang gave a casual, perfunctory answer, then asked, "So there's no discount now, are you still buying it?"

Jin Chao thought for a moment, gritted his teeth, and said, "Buy it." Then he added, "I've been in university for half a year and haven't done anything yet. Now that I can finally catch up with a trend, I can't miss it."

After chatting with Shen Kang for a while, Shen Kang was taken away—neither Wang Pan nor Feng Moquan could convince the other, so they dragged Shen Kang over to act as a judge and ask him to evaluate who made the right point.

Jin Chao continued browsing through the posts on the Beiming Community Square.

Among them, I clicked on the post where Lu Tinglan responded today several times, watched it silently, and finally my eyes stopped on the photo of Lu Tinglan without makeup at the end of the post.

He's read this post more than ten times now...

Jin Chao suddenly remembered that a couple of days ago, Lao Shen and Lao Feng asked him if he liked the feeling of a cool breeze on the road, and he had said no.

He felt he hadn't lied at the time.

At the time, I certainly didn't like it to that extent.

But it is different now.

Looking at the words in this post, at the last photo of her without makeup, at Lu Tinglan's determined gaze as she looked at the camera...

At that moment, Jin Chao suddenly understood what it meant to be "heart-fluttering".

It's love at first sight...

Outside the window, a cold December wind howled, and wildflowers bloomed in profusion.

……

Without a doubt, the Lu Tinglan incident is the hottest topic in the Beiming Community Yangke University Square recently.

However, besides this incident, there are still some niche stories unfolding quietly.

This niche story began with a post from an ordinary netizen on Beiming.

I bought a set of second-hand civil service exam notes on Huanhuan.com, and then I scored 70 points on the test.

The poster said his score on the civil service exam had been hovering between 55 and 60, and he couldn't improve despite doing many practice questions. Last week, he bought a set of second-hand notes on Huanhuan.com. The original owner of the notes said he had "already secured a position in the provincial government."

The poster said he bought it because of the hype, thinking it would just be a psychological comfort. But today, he took a mock exam and scored 70 on the aptitude test! That's a jump of over ten points! He doesn't know if it was the notes that helped or just good luck, but he was genuinely surprised.