I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

Chapter 86 Is that what you call loving to study?

As dusk fell and night descended, rows of streetlights along the roads of Yangko University of Science and Technology lit up.

The shops on Xiaodong Street also turned on their lights.

Next to the Jiahe Laundry, the usually closed, nameless shop was now open, brightly lit, with a large sign at the entrance that read "Laundry Rest Area" in bold letters. Below, in smaller print, it explained that any customer wearing a Jiahe Laundry chain wristband could enter this rest area for free.

Shen Kang sat at a table in the rest area and sent a text message to He Qiuzhu, saying that he had something to do in the evening and would not be online for the day.

After receiving He Qiuzhu's "received" message, he looked up.

He was the only person in this rest area at that moment.

Shen Kang has been sitting here alone for almost half an hour, and no one has come in during that time.

Even though he was quite patient, he couldn't take it anymore at this point. He stood up, went out the door, and went to check out the laundry room next door.

The laundry room is always busy, with a constant stream of customers, some picking up clothes and others dropping them off for cleaning. There's no shortage of customers.

"Wait a little longer."

Thinking this, Shen Kang went back to the rest area and sat down.

For the rest of the night, he just sat there in the rest area, occasionally going to check on the laundry room next door, until after 9 p.m.

The number of customers in the laundry room has started to decline significantly. No one is coming to drop off clothes anymore; only people are coming to pick them up. If we wait any longer, there will only be fewer and fewer customers.

Shen Kang also took out his notebook, which recorded that only 12 guests had entered the rest area from 5 o'clock today until now, and the longest stay was less than 10 minutes.

The laundry room was very busy tonight. Shen Kang estimated that even if they were fully booked with 750 customers a day, it wouldn't be much more crowded than tonight.

"It seems that simply 'traffic interception' is ineffective."

Shen Kang seemed to be deep in thought.

His original plan was to use this rest area to intercept traffic from the laundry room, create an offline traffic pool, and then sell offline gig spaces for profit. However, judging from tonight's situation, this possibility is very low.

He also summarized the main reasons during these few hours:

First, the task-oriented nature of laundry behavior.

Students who come specifically for laundry will only come to the laundry room to pick up their clothes after confirming that the laundry is finished. It is extremely rare for them to arrive before their clothes are ready. Students who come specifically for the hand card will arrive as late as possible, and it is even less likely that they will arrive before their clothes are ready.

Secondly, there's the mindless and simple process of home and laundry rooms.

Because Jiahe's process and traffic flow design are so simple and straightforward, customers drop off their clothes and leave immediately, and customers pick up their clothes and leave immediately, with no delays at all. Therefore, even during the evening rush hour, there is no large-scale customer congestion in the store, and naturally, there is no customer traffic diverted to the rest area next door.

"Isn't this a case of shooting oneself in the foot?"

Shen Kang smiled at this thought, a carefree smile.

It's normal for business plans to fail; just keep improving them.

"It seems we can't just do simple traffic interception; the rest area itself needs to have intrinsic value. We also need to broaden our profit strategies; we can't just limit ourselves to selling GG (gifts/gifts). What's the difference what we sell? As long as we can make money—"

While pondering, Shen Kang took the large signboard inside, turned off the lights and closed the door of the rest area, and went back to his dormitory.

There was no one in the dormitory. Shen Kang checked his emails for a while before Wang Pan and the other two returned from outside. They all looked quite excited and happy. Even Jin Chao, who was usually taciturn, had a smile on his face.

"What have you been doing?" Shen Kang asked, a little curious.

Wang Pan chuckled, "A blind date. But it has nothing to do with you, Lao Shen. You already have an online girlfriend, so a blind date isn't suitable for you."

Thinking of the online girlfriend that Shen Kang was obsessed with, he couldn't help but laugh.

Shen Kang then corrected Wang Pan's mistake: "I've already said, I only love studying and don't plan to date. That's not a girlfriend, she's my younger sister, my god-sister."

Wang Pan was shocked. "Holy crap, Lao Shen, you're a bit of a pervert. 'Doing' with a younger sister?"

Jin Chao then suddenly blurted out, "Brother and sister by day, devilish baby by night."

Shen Kang was too lazy to pay attention to them anymore. Believe it or not, he continued reading his emails.

Wang Pan then said to him, "By the way, Lao Shen, don't go to the library tomorrow afternoon. There's a class meeting at 2 pm to talk about course selection, things to note, add/drop courses, etc."

"understood."

After speaking with Shen Kang, Wang Pan also said to Feng Moquan and Jin Chao, "I've arranged to meet another girls' dormitory tomorrow night, so I wanted to let you two know as well."

Wang Pan thought being the class monitor was really great. Apart from Ji Feiyan's dorm at the beginning, he could easily arrange a social event with any of the other girls' dorms. Although the girls would always ask, "Is Shen Kang coming?", Wang Pan felt that it was just a formality, and the main reason was his status as the class monitor.

Just moments ago, Feng Moquan and Jin Chao were all smiles, but upon hearing this, their expressions turned strange, a mixture of happiness and distress.

Finally, Feng Moquan hesitated before speaking up: "No, Wang Pan, this will already be the fourth one this week, right? Why don't we take a break?"

Wang Pan retorted, "Weren't you happy at the social gathering?"

Feng Moquan smiled wryly: "I'm happy, but my wallet can't take it. Even though we're splitting the bill, it's still impossible for you to go out with four people a week!"

Shen Kang, who was listening nearby, couldn't help but ask, "Seriously, you've had so many blind dates this week, and not a single one has resulted in a relationship?"

These words immediately silenced the three brothers.

Then, Wang Pan spoke first, casually saying, "Two people did send me text messages and chat with me on QQ. From what I could tell, they seemed to be interested in me, but as you all know, I have high standards."

Feng Moquan followed up, nonchalantly: "I'm in a similar situation. Two women invited me to dinner, but one of them has a heavy accent, so I can't understand her. The other one is from Handong Province. I heard that girls there don't marry outside the province, so dating there is just for fun and doesn't mean much. I'm a rather traditional man, and I also hope to go from campus to wedding."

Jin Chao spoke last, calmly: "I don't have as many as you guys, I only have one. But when I went to the library this day, she blocked me there and demanded an answer. I thought about it and decided against it. She seems a bit tough; I prefer someone a bit more delicate."

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Shen Kang was speechless, feeling as if he had seen this scene before.

Then, unable to resist asking, "Wang Pan, didn't you say you were going to pursue Na—that Ji Feiyan? Why are you starting to go on blind dates now? Are you no longer going to pursue her?"

After the three roommates finished recounting their glorious achievements, they stood facing off, each trying to move on from the topic, but none of them wanted to be the first to do so, as that would seem like a sign of weakness.

Shen Kang's words offered a way out, and Wang Pan quickly said, "After thinking about it, I think it's better to let it go. Even though you said you don't like her, I still don't think it's a good idea. Let's just forget about it."

Shen Kang stopped talking and continued reading his emails.

As I looked around, a sudden thought flashed through my mind: hadn't I been thinking about what to do with the rest area next to the laundry room? Why not organize a social gathering? Or, to put it more fundamentally, a networking event?

College students are at an age where hormones are raging and they have a strong need for social interaction. This can be seen from the three-person groups in dormitories and the tables of male and female social events that can often be seen in the cafeteria at night.

Thinking of this, Shen Kang spoke again, asking, "By the way, Feng Moquan, what do you do during your social gatherings?"

"It's nothing much. The first social gathering on Tuesday was just about drinking coffee and chatting, which was a bit boring, but today was nice."

Speaking of today's get-together, Feng Moquan got excited: "Today's get-together was in the second canteen. We brought a few decks of cards, and everyone played cards while eating sunflower seeds. It felt more interesting than before, and we chatted a lot more."

Wang Pan was also satisfied with tonight's get-together. "The atmosphere was great tonight, so I've made plans for tomorrow night again. We're going to the cafeteria, not out. Lao Feng, are you coming?"

Feng Moquan hesitated for a moment, then finally said, "Then let's go."

"Jin Chao, what about you?"

"Then I'll go too." —

Shen Kang had already opened a notepad on his computer and started thinking and jotting down key points.

He knew about the card game that Feng Moquan mentioned.

In his past life, he had also worked part-time in the school cafeteria. The last people to leave the cafeteria at night were groups of men and women going on social outings. The usual routine was to eat sunflower seeds, snacks, and play cards.

Playing cards is important; it's a form of interaction, a topic of conversation, and a medium.

When strangers are men and women, they need to find topics to talk about and interact. Playing cards naturally provides such topics, allowing people to have things to talk about and interact, thus getting to know each other more quickly.

This is why Feng Moquan felt that the previous social gatherings involving just drinking coffee and chatting were not as interesting as today's card-playing social gathering.

If his rest area is used for socializing, it needs something like "playing cards," but playing poker directly is not allowed, otherwise the school might think he is gambling in a group, which poses a policy risk.

Therefore, we need to find a substitute.

Thinking of this, some alternatives came to mind: Three Kingdoms Kill, Werewolf, Scripted Murder Mystery—just fucking killing.

After some further thought, he decided that "Three Kingdoms Kill" was a good option; history had already proven it, and 08 was the year of "Three Kingdoms Kill."

It was a year of rapid rise, quickly becoming popular among college students.

So I immediately went to Taobao, searched for it, found the store, and ordered several sets of physical cards for "Three Kingdoms Kill".

This way, there's no risk of gambling; instead, you're learning history!

Shen Kang nodded, and he also had an idea for the new name of the rest area.

Let's call it "Study Room 302".

A basic idea for the operating model has been developed: the business owners will organize the gatherings, ideally in a format of 4 men and 4 women who are strangers to each other, for a total of 8 people. It's acceptable for all participants to be complete strangers, or for one or two to know each other, but the majority of the men and women must be strangers to each other, focusing on "stranger social interaction" or "social networking."

If it's a gathering of acquaintances, they can organize it themselves and don't need to come to his shop. What his shop provides is simply a social opportunity.

That way, once Wang Pan has finished organizing matchmaking events for all the girls in Class 2 of E-commerce, and there's nothing left to match, he can still help Wang Pan organize matchmaking events.

Thinking of this, Shen Kang sighed and said, "Brother Pan, I have truly done everything I could for you."

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Wang Pan over there felt confused.

Shen Kang didn't say anything more, but continued to think about it.

He even came up with a slogan: Room 302, let male and female students at Yangko University of Science and Technology fall in love with learning!

Otherwise, you have to be a top student yourself, right? Even when you're doing business, you're thinking about helping the school encourage everyone to study.

Wang Pan and the others chatted while Shen Kang made plans. It wasn't until 11 o'clock that everyone went to bed.

At the same time, in Ji Feiyan's dormitory, the girls also went to bed, but instead of sleeping, they started their usual dormitory late-night chat.

Chu Min and Ji Feiyan shared a dorm room, and Chu Min, being someone who couldn't keep secrets, naturally revealed what she had discovered that evening: that Shen Kang was the manager of Jiahe Laundry.

This naturally sparked heated discussions among girls.

"He's a rich kid himself, why is he working for someone else? Is he lying to you?"

The speaker was a girl named Diao Ying.

This Diao Ying is the same girl who also loves learning and wanted to have a "high-frequency resonance of mathematical coupling" with Shen Kang on the day she received her military training uniform.

However, after learning that Shen Kang was a rich second-generation, Diao Ying gave up on that idea.

She's quite pragmatic; she knows she's not from the same world as those rich kids.

"I heard the shop assistant call him 'shop manager' with my own ears, and he himself admitted that he was working for someone else. How could that be fake?" Chu Min said. "I guess there's only one possibility: the senior who runs the laundromat is more powerful and influential than his family. So the two of them partnered up to open a small shop on campus to train, with the senior being the boss and him being the shop manager."

"Wow, that senior's family is even richer than 'Young Master Shen's'. What kind of family does he come from? ————"

Ji Feiyan, who usually doesn't participate much, suddenly spoke up today: "I think the owner of that laundry room is actually Shen Kang, but he's low-key, so he doesn't use his name."

Chu Min was stunned for a moment.

In the past, when people talked about these two, they always sided with Shen Kang, while Ji Feiyan sided with that senior. Why does it feel like the opposite is true today?

The other two girls also felt something was off.

However, after Ji Feiyan finished speaking, she stopped talking and seemed to have gone to sleep, so they didn't ask any further questions.

Ji Feiyan did indeed fall asleep.

Upon learning that Shen Kang was the owner of the laundry shop and that the person she had always liked was actually Shen Kang, her bad mood of the past few days vanished, she slept exceptionally well, and even had a sweet dream.

In her dream, Shen Kang radiated 20 rays of light, each bearing the words "tasteful," "charming," "handsome," "witty," and "high emotional intelligence," perfectly matching Ji Feiyan's simple requirements for a boyfriend.

And he was standing next to that Bentley.

Then, very gentlemanly, he extended his hand and gently invited, "Princess, please get in the carriage."

Ji Feiyan was so happy that she grinned from ear to ear.

Oh my god, this is so awesome!

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