A Web Genius's Joke

"Huh? Liu Di, this fried rice is different from before!"

Yan Kaikai and Yan Xinxin suddenly lifted their heads from their plates, their expressions strange.

Yan Qingwen took a bite as well.

This fried rice was absolutely master-level cooking, rich and fragrant!

But...

After chewing, there was a faint trace of bitterness hidden in the rice!

"Of course. I changed one of the seasonings, so the flavor is naturally different!"

Liu Di held out his palm, where a white fruit the size of a peanut lay quietly.

"This is a ginkgo nut, the seed of a ginkgo tree."

"Though it tastes slightly bitter, it can detoxify the body and reduce internal heat!"

Liu Di pinched up the ginkgo nut and smiled faintly. "Young ladies like you, burdened with worries all day, constantly second-guessing and suspecting each other, are bound to become restless and full of internal heat!"

"Today, this ginkgo fried rice is just the thing to cool the fire in your hearts!"

Yan Qingwen slowly furrowed her brows. "Liu Di, what do you mean?"

Liu Di smiled and gently split open the ginkgo nut, removing the pale yellow sprout at its center.

"This inner sprout is the bitterest part of the whole ginkgo nut. It has to be removed before eating, or it becomes inedible!"

Liu Di curled his lip. "It's like a person. If he's constantly misunderstood, he'll inevitably develop resentment! Someone sincerely tries to help, only to be humiliated again and again. Once his heart turns bitter, naturally, he'll turn around and leave!"

Only then did Yan Qingwen understand. Her eyes widened in anger. "Liu Di, you eavesdropped on us!"

"I was busy cooking just now."

"I did hear you, but I wasn't eavesdropping."

"I can only tell you this: people are different."

Liu Di shrugged.

Yan Qingwen's frown deepened. "Liu Di, what exactly are you talking about?"

"I'm saying..."

"Can you people stop fucking misunderstanding me?"

Yan Qingwen froze, unsure how to respond. "Liu Di, you..."

"But I always see things through. Once I settle this matter, I won't stay in the Yan Family for another second!"

With that, Liu Di turned and left coolly!

Yan Qingwen stared blankly at his retreating figure, speechless!

For an instant, she felt that this young man in white was incredibly proud, scorning everything while caring about nothing!

Not to mention the entire Yan Family.

It seemed that nothing at all was worth his notice!

Yan Qingwen murmured, "Could it be... I really misunderstood him?"

"Of course!"

"But don't worry. As a man, I have to be broad-minded and big-hearted. Unlike women, who only need big breasts!"

Liu Di's voice drifted back from afar!

Yan Qingwen's face turned from red to purple!

"Sigh..."

Back in his room, Liu Di could not help but sigh.

It seemed it was time to do something for himself as well!

"Magic Child, our plan can begin."

'Ding. Integrating top-tier marketing thinking.'

'Ding. Organizing 100,000 business models.'

In an instant.

The business plan in Liu Di's mind became increasingly clear!

Every step of the strategy linked tightly together, with nothing overlooked!

Liu Di smiled faintly.

He picked up his phone and glanced at it. Emperor Yi's popularity had finally died down somewhat.

Other trending topics had gradually begun to appear as well.

"It's time."

"Magic Child, make the post."

"Okay!"

The next moment.

The entire Yan Family Manor's network suddenly lagged!

An incomparably massive stream of information was distributed outward.

And the source of it all was Liu Di's fake eye, flashing with purple light!

Ten seconds later.

A post titled "Guess-and-Win" instantly swept across the entire internet!

This post simultaneously appeared on countless forums, message boards, webpages, and all kinds of self-media platforms!

"Guess-and-Win"

"Riddle: 3 and 4, 5 and 23, Otto Red."

"The first 100 netizens to correctly guess the answer will each receive a prize of 500,000!"

"Signed: Emperor San."

At first, no one paid attention to the post.

But as time passed.

It became impossible for netizens not to notice it!

The post kept multiplying, constantly refreshing every webpage!

It appeared almost everywhere information could be seen!

A hundred thousand, a million, ten million, a hundred million posts!

In just ten minutes, the post was everywhere!

On some smaller forums, the post had nearly filled the entire site, leaving no room for any other information!

Quite a few internet companies and network monitoring departments discovered the content at the same time.

A group of network technicians stared in disbelief.

"Wh-what is this? A single post?"

"What a fucking insane post!"

"Over a hundred million posts published within ten minutes?"

"It's practically taken over all public resources!"

"What kind of team could pull off something like this?"

"It would probably take a team of a thousand people, with computers capable of billions of floating-point operations, to do this, right?"

"Does China have a company like that?"

"Absolutely not!"

"What kind of signature is Emperor San? Never heard of it!"

As if by unspoken agreement, every internet expert immediately began tracing the post's source.

The result left them deeply disappointed!

There was nothing illegal about the post!

Nor did it use any infectious virus!

And no matter how high-ranking the network specialists were, they could not trace the poster's IP address!

Emperor San's origin was a mystery!

At the same time.

Netizens began discussing it beneath the post!

"What the hell is this? Why is it everywhere?"

"What kind of ridiculous riddle is this?"

"Are you kidding? You get 500,000 for guessing this right? Who are you trying to fool?"

"A hundred people, 500,000 each—that's 50 million total. Who's paying that? I'm laughing my teeth off!"

"Yeah right, as if I'd believe that. You shady old bastard!"

"It's probably some web genius's prank!"

A thousand miles away.

Inside an old residential neighborhood in Shencheng.

A female student wearing thick prescription glasses spotted the post by chance while taking a break from her homework.

"3 and 4, 5 and 23..."

"Otto Red."

The girl thought for a while, then suddenly clapped her hands. "Wasn't Otto Red the foreign mathematician who invented the multiplication sign?"

"Could it mean multiplication?"

"3×4, 5×23..."

Suppressing the excitement in her heart, the girl replied beneath one of the posts, "Are the answers 12 and 115?"

Soon afterward, many replies appeared at once.

"Little sister, aren't you being too naive?"

"Could something like this really be that simple?"

"Besides, even if you got it right, do you really expect someone to give you 500,000?"

"Don't get your hopes up! Just treat it as an entertainment post!"

But the Little Girl did not reply.

Because she was staring blankly at the text message on her phone.

"Congratulations, you are the first person to give the correct answer!"

"Your Alipay account has received 500,000 yuan—from your friend Emperor San!"

The girl rubbed her eyes, confirming that this was not a dream!

She sprang up from her chair and shouted excitedly toward the door, "Mom, my college tuition is covered!"