I suggest you investigate; this person doesn't seem to be a first-time reborn individual.

"But," Xia Chan still couldn't understand, "weren't they insulting us? Why did they register after insulting us?"

Lin Ran looked at her, his expression somewhat complicated.

"Summer Cicadas".

"what?"

"Do you think those people who criticize Momo for hooking up," he said, "are they really criticizing it, or are they just wondering where they can hook up?"

Xia Chan was stunned: "Then...then why are they still cursing at us?"

"If you were a man, and you knew there was an app that offered hookups, but you weren't sure if you could find a woman on it, what would you do?"

Xia Chan was a little confused and didn't know how to make a assumption.

"Tang Chen, answer this question." Lin Ran looked at Tang Chen beside him.

Tang Chen pushed up his glasses: "I'll join the ranks of Momo's haters to prevent others from registering and reduce competition."

Xia Chan was stunned for a long time before she reacted, her eyes widening.

Holy crap, are men really this hypocritical?

"Then..." she stammered, "So we've turned misfortune into a blessing in disguise?"

Lin Ran did not answer.

Xia Chan stood to the side, still a little confused.

As she watched Lin Ran's retreating figure, she suddenly remembered the tone in which he said "I know" earlier, as if he had known from the beginning that this would happen.

She opened her mouth as if to ask something, but swallowed the words back.

It's best not to ask too many questions about capitalists' affairs.

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After hanging up Lin Ran's call, Wang Meiling stood in the living room, holding her phone, and remained silent for a long time.

Then she turned her head and glanced at Lin Feng, who was lying dead on the sofa, and then glanced in the direction of the bedroom. Meng Jingshu had just said that she was a little tired and went inside to lie down.

She lowered her voice and asked Lin Feng, "Lin Da, has your brother been through something traumatic lately?"

Lin Feng didn't even lift his eyelids: "What's wrong?"

"He just called me," Wang Meiling paused, her expression complicated, "and talked for almost twenty minutes."

"What did you say?"

Wang Meiling took a deep breath.

"They started by asking me how my wife was feeling lately."

Lin Feng opened his eyes.

"Then he said he had a dream last night."

"What kind of dream?"

"I dreamt of the Bodhisattva," Wang Meiling said. "The Bodhisattva was accompanied by two children, a boy and a girl, each holding a large honey pot."

Lin Feng was stunned for a moment: "What the hell?"

"Da Suo Le Mi, it's that thing that looks like a lollipop, round, that kids eat."

Lin Feng remained silent.

"I corrected him, saying that the Bodhisattva should be called the Guanyin of Fertility, and what the little man was holding wasn't some honey, but a jade ruyi. He wouldn't listen, insisting that wasn't the point, the point was that he later dreamed of a dung beetle."

"Dung beetle?"

Wang Meiling's expression was complicated: "Yes, a dung beetle, with two hands, pushing a ball of dung down from your belly."

Lin Feng sat up straight.

"Then he told me to take your wife to the hospital for a checkup immediately," Wang Meiling said. "He said she was definitely pregnant, and it was twins, a boy and a girl."

The living room was quiet for a few seconds.

"Lin Da, has your brother gone mad?"

Lin Feng remained silent for a long time. After seeing the public opinion about Momo, he was somewhat worried about Lin Ran's mental state. He had just spoken to Lin Ran on the phone and received a reply that everything was under control and that he did not see any mental problems with Lin Ran.

He suspected that something might have happened at the old grave site, and planned to take the day off to go check it out.

After thinking for a long time, Wang Meiling finally decided to take Meng Jingshu to get checked in a couple of days.

What if?

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After a week of speculation, the hype surrounding Momo has gradually died down.

The number of discussions dropped from tens of thousands to a few thousand. Those posts criticizing casual sex were gradually overshadowed by new trending topics.

Everything seems to have calmed down.

But this week, Momo's backend data has been steadily increasing.

Tang Chen stared at that screen every day, going from initial shock to numbness, and now he didn't know what expression to wear.

Number of registered users: 3.02 million.

A week ago, it was less than 700,000.

In just one week, it increased by more than 2.3 million.

On average, it exceeds 300,000 per day.

What does this mean?

In the domestic social media market, no one other than Tencent has ever grown this fast in all these years.

Xia Chan stood in front of the screen, staring at the string of numbers for a long time, swallowing hard.

"Where are we ranked now?"

Tang Chen pushed up his glasses.

"It's hard to say what place we'll get, but second place is a sure thing."

"second?"

"Yes," Tang Chen said, "second only to QQ."

Xia Chan opened her mouth, but no words came out.

It is the second largest social networking software in China, second only to QQ.

It's that Momo app that was being criticized as a hookup app just a week ago.

She turned her head and glanced at Lin Ran.

Lin Ran was sitting on the broken chair by the window, his face covered by a baseball cap, as if he were asleep.

Xia Chan suddenly felt a bit like she was in a dream.

Meanwhile, in Shenzhen, at the Tencent Building.

In a conference room, several people are having a meeting.

The sunlight outside the window was lovely, streaming in through the floor-to-ceiling windows and falling on the dark conference table. On the table were several printed documents, the covers bearing only two words: Momo.

The man sitting in the main seat was in his thirties, wearing a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his forearms. He tapped the table and pushed the materials forward.

Have you seen this data?

Several people below nodded.

"The number of registered users increased by more than two million in a week, and now the number of registered users has exceeded three million."

He paused for a moment: "In the domestic social media market, over the years, besides ourselves, no one else has grown this fast?"

A young man wearing glasses raised his hand.

"Manager Yao, Momo focuses on social networking with strangers, which is different from QQ's positioning. QQ is for social networking with acquaintances, while theirs..."

"The positioning is different, but the users are the same," the person in the main seat interrupted him.

The young man was taken aback.

"For every additional user they gain, we lose one less potential user."

The meeting room was silent for a few seconds.

Another middle-aged woman spoke up: "I've had someone research Momo. Their core strategy isn't to steal our existing users, but to acquire new ones. They mainly target the college student market, using offline events combined with online matching to bring in people who didn't use social media much before."

"Isn't that even more troublesome? They're expanding into new markets. Once those students graduate and get used to Momo, do you think they'll switch to QQ?"

No one answered.

A middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses cleared his throat and opened the documents in front of him.

"Manager Yao, I've seen their data. Over three million users, which sounds quite alarming, but our QQ has hundreds of millions of users. That's two orders of magnitude less."

Manager Yao nodded without saying anything.

A woman in a business skirt added, "Furthermore, it's hard to say how sticky Momo's users are right now. I had someone analyze their retention rate; it was quite high in the first week, but it started to drop after a month. Many people are just in it for the novelty; once the novelty wears off, they'll go back to QQ."

Someone nearby chimed in, "Yeah, and their functions are too limited—just matchmaking and chatting. QQ can play games, run QQ Space, post status updates, and have group chats. Its ecosystem is much richer than theirs. Once the novelty wears off, people will come back."

Some people raised objections: "Momo has over three million users now, but what about in six months? A year? Won't they add features? Won't they build an ecosystem?"

……

After a long period of debate, everyone agreed that Momo would not affect QQ's position for the time being, but it still needed to be nipped in the bud.

The specific sniping plan has not been finalized today and requires further discussion.