86: Discharged from hospital and gained 400,000 followers!

Jiang Chuan stood up and walked over, pressing one hand on the hospital bed as he slowly leaned down, the distance between them steadily closing.

Zhang Linlin looked at the man in front of her, her breath hitching. Her little heart beat faster and faster as she tightly closed her eyes, waiting for him.

Feng Qiqi also stared with wide eyes, watching closely. Her small hands clenched unconsciously, feeling nervous for her sister.

Jiang Chuan groped around for a long while before finally finding a hard object. He picked it up and walked back toward the sofa.

Feng Qiqi: ???

Zhang Linlin waited with closed eyes for a long time, but the sensation she expected never came. She opened her eyes in confusion, only to see the stinky man sitting on the sofa playing with her phone!

"Wait! Don't look!"

She felt like she was back at the bar that night. Last time was a literal death; this time was a social death!

Ignoring the pain in her body, she struggled to stand up and snatch the phone back.

Feng Qiqi was somewhat reliable. She held her sister down to prevent further injury and comforted her, "It's fine. He'll find out sooner or later anyway. Don't worry."

Jiang Chuan skillfully unlocked the phone using a birthday as the password. He saw the image the two of them had been intently studying—a photo of a man, and he was shirtless!

"Isn't this me?"

He looked up at the two girls, who didn't dare meet his gaze, and continued scrolling. It got more and more excessive!

These were clearly photos from when the two of them were still dating. He had no memory of them at all, and looking at them now just felt like an eyesore!

He didn't dare keep scrolling, fearing he'd see something even more unspeakable.

However, he found there was nothing like that. The next photo was a screenshot of a chat log, and the contact name was Sister Qiqi.

Jiang Chuan grew interested and looked through it carefully, only to find it even more of an eyesore than the photos!

The chat logs between the two girls could probably attract the attention of the cyber police. One could only imagine what they usually talked about.

Topics included his physique, his kinks, and on the milder side, what dishes he liked or his hobbies.

The rest was all lewd stuff!

The two girls had even calculated exactly which areas his gaze lingered on the longest!

"I'm telling you, if you put this much effort into your studies, Tsinghua and Peking University would be fighting over you."

Jiang Chuan returned the phone to her and ruffled Little Green Tea's hair, speaking with utter speechlessness.

Feng Qiqi didn't stop him. She even tilted her head up to make the ruffling more comfortable, losing all semblance of a goddess.

"We don't want to get into Tsinghua or Peking University; we just want to get into you."

"Your thick skin really is a legacy of mine. Alright, go home already."

Jiang Chuan pushed her out of the ward. Little Green Tea was the type to forget the pain once the wound healed; only yesterday she was crying and calling him 'Brother' before he let her off.

Seeing she was about to be left alone, Zhang Linlin felt a bit scared. She reached out to keep her good sister there, but the bad man blocked the space between them completely.

He kicked Little Green Tea out, closed the door with a wave, turned back to sit on the chair, and looked at the restless woman on the bed.

"I was wrong~ Please don't be mad, okay~"

Zhang Linlin took his hand, pouting like her sister, and looked at him with pitifully large eyes.

After speaking, her small hand pulled upward, only stopping when it reached his shoulder.

"Mmhmm~"

The sash trembled as it was untied, and the heart grew more flustered at the touch.

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6:35 AM, Thursday

Jiang Chuan climbed out of the escort bed. After washing up, he went downstairs for his daily jog. His stamina had now reached 82 points and his constitution 83 points.

His popularity increased a bit more. At the current rate, it would reach 400,000 by tomorrow!

After running for half an hour, he saw a shop selling milky buns. He went in, ordered a portion of milky buns and jellied bean curd, and sat down to wait.

The shop was very crowded. That's the thing about restaurants near hospitals—no matter if the food is good or not, they're never short of customers, rivaling school cafeterias.

The service was quite fast. Before long, the waiter brought out his breakfast.

Jiang Chuan had rested enough. After half a month of exercise, this level of morning workout no longer made him feel tired.

He picked up a milky bun and tasted it carefully, then shook his head. It couldn't compare to the one he had last night; the difference was huge.

After eating, he went to a different place to buy another breakfast before returning to the ward. She hadn't woken up yet. He placed the breakfast on the nightstand and sat on the sofa to start working.

Deep Sea and Competitive Creation hadn't made any moves yet. He couldn't remember the exact timing of their financing, but it must be within this period.

Both companies followed the same path: using massive capital to gather traffic, then cashing out through online games, advertising, and so on.

Jiang Chuan, of course, wouldn't use such a clumsy method. It was inefficient, took too long, and yielded too little profit.

But regardless of the method, traffic was the most important thing; active users were the bottom line for everything.

With the ground promotion and the contracts signed by Eldest and Fourth, almost all the Streamers on the list were signed. He arranged for those two to go to the partners recommended by Old Shen first.

The ground promotion shifted to promoting the Starlight APP in university towns across various cities. Although the commissions for signing Streamers were gone, he increased their base salary!

The reason for choosing university towns was simple: young people were more receptive to new things. Combined with the new user lucky draw event, he predicted that download numbers would definitely not be low.

What he valued most were female users. Today, Starlight launched a female-only section. To attract traffic, he even assigned Xiao Yi to this section.

Programs specifically created for female users—such as beauty, fashion, and relationships—made their debut one after another.

The spending power of women was incomparable to that of men. This trend hadn't emerged this year yet, but he knew the future direction.

Young girls > Young wives > Children > Elderly > Dogs > Men

In Jiang Chuan's memory, Deep Sea's peak market value was only over 50 billion. By the time of his rebirth, it had already dropped to a few billion.

Why was that? Because their primary users were male!

With the spending power of men, relying on them to make money would definitely lead to financial ruin!

From the beginning, Jiang Chuan's target was female users, especially young women, a route completely different from the two giants.

After delegating the preparatory work, he turned his head and saw her sitting nearby, watching him. She had probably been there for a while, but he had been too focused to notice.

"Work finished?"

Zhang Linlin was sipping the now-cool porridge. Seeing him look over, she asked indistinctly.

"Pretty much."

Jiang Chuan stretched and closed his laptop, opening the system interface as he spoke casually.

[popularity: 398,934]

Almost 400,000!

Not long after breakfast, Little Green Tea and the doctor arrived at the ward.

The final check-up was scheduled for today. If there were no problems, she could be discharged to recover at home.

Seeing this, Jiang Chuan didn't leave the hospital and waited patiently for the test results.

Passing by Old Sun's ward, he glanced through the glass. The condition seemed okay. He didn't ask what the illness was, but he could tell from Sun Kai's mood that it wasn't good.

Sun Zhenfeng clearly noticed him as well and even smiled and waved, showing no sign of the previous enmity between them.

Finally, all the examinations were over, and Zhang Linlin could be discharged to recover at home. At the same time, the system, which had been silent for a long while, finally popped up again!