I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

Upon hearing Shen Kang's words, Old Zhou paused, his hand about to remove his phone.

"Online games?"

Shen Kang explained, "Online games. Grandpa, you don't know what that is, do you?"

Old Zhou spat, "Of course I know. Shengyuan Group has also ventured into this field, but it didn't succeed." In his heart, however, he thought to himself, "This kid is really smart. I didn't say anything, but he already understood what I meant."

Shen Kang chuckled and continued rambling on about random things: "Actually, the four of us do have a QQ group, but online games are different from QQ groups. In QQ groups, it's just chatting, and it's easy to run out of things to talk about. But in online games, there's content, and with content comes topics, so everyone has more to talk about."

"Furthermore, in online games, when you control a character, it's easy to immerse yourself in that character, as if you're truly living in that world. When you meet another person in a game, it's like meeting in the real world, and you can do things that are impossible in the real world, experiencing things that don't exist in the real world. Especially in dangerous game scenarios, when you fight side by side, it's easy to create a 'suspension bridge effect.' Therefore, in any online game with a large number of female players, there will be a large number of online dating cases..."

Shen Kang rambled on and on, and no one understood what he was saying, but Old Man Zhou listened thoughtfully, and the more he listened, the more feasible it seemed.

Only after Shen Kang finished speaking did Old Man Zhou finally speak, sighing, "You young people are really quick-witted."

"We need to keep up with the times. We live in the internet age now. Distances can be vast or near; we need to know how to utilize this era." After saying that, Shen Kang brought up the previous topic again, "So, sir, could you contribute some funds to online games?"

The game "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" is a free-to-play game. As we all know, paid games don't cost money, but free games do. To actually play it, you have to spend some money. Shen Kang was thinking of ways to squeeze out as much money as possible, since his own money was really useful.

Old Zhou pondered for a moment, then said, "As for your role as strategic advisor, it seems you're doing a pretty good job so far. Balancing your studies and work for so long must be quite stressful; playing a game to relax would be good. How about this, I'll personally sponsor you 10... Is that enough?"

Shen Kang was also unsure.

In his previous life, when he played "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils," he was just a leopard-headed Lin Chong, and he had no idea how much money it would cost him to become "Yi Xiao Nai He."

"I'm not too sure, that's all for now," Shen Kang said.

Old Zhou grunted in agreement, "That's settled then." He then hung up the phone.

Shen Kang looked at his phone and shook his head.

He had never been a father, so he couldn't understand Old Zhou's thoughts. The two of them were like playing a riddle.

If he weren't still quite sharp, he probably wouldn't have understood what Old Man Zhou was trying to say at all.

I myself seem to have inexplicably become the bridge for communication between this father and daughter—of course, for now, there is only communication, not a direct connection.

However, getting Professor Xiao and President Zhou to play online games might not be so easy.

Shen Kang fell into deep thought.

Mr. Zhou seems to be very busy lately; she hardly ever posts in the QQ group anymore. He doesn't want this to interfere with her important business...

Thinking of this, Shen Kang suddenly paused, finally understanding why He Qiuzhu had only mentioned "playing online games together" that day, and then unusually stopped mentioning it when he didn't agree...

After thinking silently for a while, he took out his phone, opened his contacts, and found the name "Ding Ling".

Ding Ling is President Zhou's female assistant. Shen Kang had contact with her and got her number.

He wanted to ask Ding Ling what President Zhou had been busy with lately.

Just as I was about to make the call, I suddenly burst out laughing.

He had just been laughing at Old Man Zhou for not daring to tell his daughter anything and having to go through him, an outsider. But now, he himself didn't ask President Zhou about anything and had to go through Ding Ling. It seemed that he was just like Old Man Zhou, a traditional type.

Thinking this, Shen Kang made the call, "Hey, Sister Ding, are you free now? I have something I want to ask you... liquidating non-performing assets?... Which company is it?... Okay, then send it to my email..."

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After making the call, Shen Kang went straight back to his dormitory.

Upon seeing him return, Feng Moquan asked, "What phone call? So secretive, and why did you tell us to come back first?"

Feng Moquan didn't want to talk to Shen Kang at all today, afraid that Shen Kang would remember the matter of making him eat shit. But Shen Kang's threat of "eating shit" just now at least proved one thing—Shen Kang didn't seem to intend to actually make him eat shit.

This put Feng Moquan at ease, and he dared to talk to Shen Kang.

"Oh, it's nothing."

Shen Kang sat down at his desk and casually said, "I just closed a deal worth a million."

If you're going to be a good person, multiply your efforts by ten. If Old Zhou sponsors 10, that's equivalent to sponsoring one million.

Sitting in his seat, Wang Pan, who had just taken off his left sock, didn't bother to take off his right sock. Instead, he picked up his phone and put it directly to his ear: "Hello, Mr. Zheng, it's me. I've considered the conditions you mentioned, but I think the price is still a bit too high. Twenty million, I'll take it for twenty million! Think about it some more, I'll wait for your call, that's all."

After saying that, Wang Pan put down his phone and continued his previous actions, taking off his right sock, then crossing his right leg over his left knee and starting to pick at his toes, demonstrating how simple and low-key the life of the wealthy can be.

While President Wang was on the phone, Shen Kang also turned on his computer, opened his email, clicked on the email sent by Ding Ling, downloaded the attachment, and started browsing.

According to Ding Ling, Zhou Man is currently busy clearing out a non-performing asset.

That was a project initiated by the previous general manager of Shengyuan Group's Qianlin branch, which has now become a non-performing asset. Specifically, it is a small household appliance company.

The general manager's original idea was to try to enter the small home appliance market and develop a new profit growth point.

As for the initial product for entering the small home appliance market, the general manager chose to make a smart rice cooker, and then proceeded in two steps:

The first step is to sell in the Meiguo market with high quality and low price. Whether we make money or not is not important; we just want to make friends.

The second step is to use the gimmick of "a best-selling brand in the US" and "a source of national pride" to counterattack the domestic market. In this way, they can increase brand awareness and carve out a niche in the market.

"Bestselling rice cooker in the US..."

Shen Kang pondered, wondering if Americans also used rice cookers. But as he slowly read through the information Ding Ling sent him, he discovered that Americans really did use rice cookers.

Currently, Indonesia ranks first among the countries that import the most rice cookers from China, followed by the United States.