I just want to sell products, but you're forcing me to perform talents.

The arrival of autumn sunshine accelerated the cleaning process at the convenience store.

The two of them loved playing in this little shop since they were little, so they often helped Mr. Ye clean and sell goods together.

What the two found most unforgettable was when they were children, they helped Ye's father run his shop and received a counterfeit 100-yuan bill.

The two little children were so upset that they didn't eat all day. Wiping away their tears, they insisted on helping their father carry the goods, which broke his heart.

While cleaning, the two talked about the incident: "It's our fault too. We were too stupid and didn't realize that the other party was deliberately trying to fool us."

"What do children know unless they've been specially trained?"

"What's the use of training? Aren't enough college students already being scammed?"

"Now that even a banknote is hard to find, it's hard to find a scammer like this."

"That's right, they all went to Thailand and Vietnam to commit fraud. That place is on the border of the Tang Dynasty, and it's very chaotic."

"I heard there was a case of someone being murdered a few days ago?"

"Shh, don't talk nonsense, or people will say you're spreading rumors! We don't believe or spread rumors!"

"What's the big deal? It's been reported in the news! And those internet celebrities keep saying it..."

"Don't say a word!"

……

The two of them kept their hands busy and their mouths were never stopped.

Chatting and bickering, it seemed as if time had flowed back to the innocent days of childhood.

Qiu Qing's eyes curved into crescent moons.

Is making short videos really a promising career path?

As they chatted, the conversation turned to what Ye Xian was doing, because his orange phone was still filming him cleaning.

"Yes, I guess you've seen the foreign version of Kuaiyin in the UK. This is an inevitable trend for the future. If GPT AI solves work efficiency and problems, then Kuaiyin solves people's spiritual needs. Moreover, Kuaiyin can quickly convey the value of one's works and products and monetize them, which is something that Baidu and Tencent combined couldn't do before."

"Why did you delete those photos of guys drinking alcohol that you took before?"

"The filming was so bad that I had to take some extra lessons. I changed my style, changed my approach, and stopped trying to sell alcohol directly."

"So, what should I do if I want to learn how to create an account?"

Ye Xian stopped wiping the cloth, looked up at Qiu Qing, and saw that she was staring at him intently, not joking: "Are you sure?"

"I'm currently pursuing a double major! Music and Marketing. Music is our original field, but I also want to have a backup plan for the future."

Qiu Qing blinked her big eyes, full of anticipation: "Will you teach me?"

"Creating a Kuaiyin account is very simple; I don't need to teach you."

Ye Xian felt a little embarrassed by Qiu Qing's gaze, so he quickly lowered his head and continued working: "First, choose the content direction and monetization direction you want to do, that is, decide on the track. Kuaiyin has 30 major tracks, I will send you a list later."

"After you've made your decision, use Hotspot to check the trending list for this category over the past 7 days and find the latest trending topics, whether it's music or content. Just copy and paste them."

"If you want to do this long-term, you need to find five or six comparable accounts in this field. Don't look at the top accounts with tens of millions of followers; you can't learn from them, they have their own style. Look at mid-tier accounts with two or three hundred thousand followers or one or two million followers. Use Hotspot to analyze the data of these accounts, find their best-growing videos, and copy them."

"copy?"

Qiu Qing was slightly taken aback. She had never paid attention to it before. Who would have thought that the first thing she did when making Kuaiyin was to copy?

"Yes, it's also called a tribute!"

Ye Xian smiled slightly: "Original content is great, but it takes a lot of brainpower and effort, and the risks are enormous. Many beginners fail because of it. Don't be too fastidious and feel like the sky is falling just because you copied someone else's idea or logic. It's not that scary. What's scary is knowing that you're not cut out for creativity, but still stubbornly banging your head against a wall and refusing to repent."

"For beginners creating an account, the first thing to do is learn to pay homage to others. If you pay homage well, you can quickly gather a targeted following. Ultimately, you need to be clear about what your account is for: monetization or simply showcasing yourself?"

"In fact, the ultimate goal of short video accounts is to generate sales. Short video ads, shopping cart listings, and live-streaming sales are all ways to generate sales because they are the most tangible ways to monetize. What do you think those 28 billion daily active users are doing? Are they all doing charity? Are they all dedicating their youth and passion to entertainment?"

"So, pay homage first, then develop your own style, and then shoot what you want to shoot. This is the safest shortcut."

"You can't become a top account just by paying homage to others. So once your account is doing well and you can support yourself, you'll have a professional operations team to help you organize your ideas, character design, storyline, and techniques. Then you won't have to worry about the market not accepting your original content."

"Of course, if you're a genius, everything I've said above is nonsense."

Qiu Qing felt that her worldview had been greatly impacted. The quizzes she saw abroad were quite different from those in China. Abroad, they were mostly about "why the population is smaller in foreign countries".

Moreover, she had been busy studying and hadn't watched many short videos from China. Now, after hearing Ye Xian's explanation, she realized how much knowledge was involved in those short videos.

It seems simple; you can just copy it.

However, how to copy well is not an easy task.

"This is too much trouble. I don't have any goods to carry. I can't exactly be a young and beautiful girl like you selling bar goods, can I? Forget it, I'd better focus on getting my double degree first! We can talk about this after graduation."

Qiu Qing shook her head, looked at the newly renovated convenience store, and then smiled: "This is more like what I remember."

"Once they deliver the goods on the sixth day of the lunar new year, the convenience store can start selling them."

Ye Xian looked at the shop with satisfaction. Rows of shelves were neatly arranged with goods. Although not many were piled up, it was still pleasing to the eye.

"Let's record a song!"

Back in her professional field, Qiu Qing regained her confidence.

"Okay, let me see how much you've improved in those three years abroad!"

Ye Xian also wanted to learn from Qiu Qing. After all, Ye Xian had wasted nearly a year on Blue Star. In terms of professional skills, he was already inferior to Qiu Qing, and now he was definitely lagging behind even more.

……

"Your breathing in this line is off; you need to find the rhythm again!"

"No, no, how can you sing like that? It sounds too student-like!"

"Put your emotions into it, put them into it! You're driving me crazy! What have you been doing all these years?"

Half an hour later, Ye Xian fully experienced the suppression from a third-year student at the world's top three music academies, Kolia Music Academy.

The singing that sounded perfectly fine to her ears was utterly worthless in Qiu Qing's eyes, even making her feel disappointed and frustrated.

At this point, Qiu Qing had completely forgotten the trauma that Ye Xian had suffered from the deaths of Ye's parents, and she was too lazy to care about his feelings anymore.

She has only one thought in her mind right now.

"Little Xianzi, you've fallen so low in just three years! If I don't teach you this song properly today, don't blame me for turning my back on you!"

"You're the younger sister!"

"I'm the older sister. From the moment you lost to me in every instrument—violin, piano, guitar, flute, and guzheng—you've been the younger brother!"

"You're the younger sister!"

"Say that again, and don't think I won't hit you! Didn't I beat you enough when you were a kid?"

"You're the younger sister!"

"You still dare to say that?! I'll bite you to death!"

……

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