Business Genius

In today's internet market,

shopping and social networking were services almost everyone could not live without!

When it came to shopping,

China's Ali had always been the industry leader.

Yet rising challengers like Jingdong and Pinduoduo still carved up the market alongside it.

And in social networking,

market demand was far greater than it was for shopping!

Yet Penguin Company had always dominated alone!

There was not even a second-place contender!

Whether QQ or WeChat, they had always held a firm grip on the market!

It was not that no one had tried to break into this field.

It was that every challenger had returned in defeat!

Because once users built their social circles on a particular app,

even if they encountered a better product, they would not switch easily.

For social platforms, without anyone to chat with, all their functions were meaningless!

But...

Was WeChat truly unshakable?

If it had to be defined, WeChat could be called—social networking among acquaintances.

In other words, it was a social tool used primarily to keep in touch with people one already knew!

But were people's social needs limited to acquaintances?

Of course not!

If there truly was a way to contend with the Penguin Empire,

it would be stranger social networking!

There was one word inseparable from socializing with strangers—loneliness.

Liu Di had a unique understanding of those two words.

Over the past three years,

Liu Di had fallen from a favored prodigy to a part-time waiter.

The pain from the aftereffects of his eye injury had almost made him unable to communicate with others.

It was as though he lived in another world.

He had seen much, and thought much.

He constantly asked himself: Were there people in this world who shared the same circumstances as him?

There was no answer to that question.

But Liu Di had also realized that life was difficult in this world, and happiness was even harder to come by.

Everyone wanted a confidant they could speak openly with and pour out their hearts to.

No matter how introverted or withdrawn one might be,

deep down,

everyone wanted to break out of their existing circles and meet new friends!

Liu Di realized that this was an opportunity.

An opportunity to create an entirely new internet business empire!

Three days ago,

Liu Di had gradually refined this idea.

With his understanding of human nature, combined with Magic Child's powerful analytical capabilities,

Gemini, a mobile app specializing in stranger social networking, was born!

Design, coding, development, backend support—work that would take ordinary people months to complete—

was finished by Magic Child overnight!

And the upcoming Guess-and-Win

would be a massive publicity campaign for Gemini Software!

At that moment, this young man from humble beginnings stood atop a mountain, gazing into the sunrise.

For his first venture,

he aimed his sword at the Penguin Group!

In the backend data,

Gemini's downloads and registrations were skyrocketing!

Driven by immense curiosity,

everyone wanted to find out what it was all about!

In ten minutes, downloads surpassed one million!

In half an hour, they surpassed ten million!

In one hour, it was already approaching one hundred million users!

After registering, every netizen was deeply impressed by the system's personality analysis!

Some were excited!

Some were astonished!

Some were moved to tears!

No one had expected that the first one to pierce straight into their hearts and lay bare the world within them would actually be a mobile app!

Yet what came next

surprised them even more!

They discovered that amid the vast sea of people, there really were one or several strangers who shared their aspirations and understood them completely!

Comments beneath Emperor San's post surged once again!

"This app is truly special!"

"It can actually analyze me and hit me right in the tears!"

"I've lived for twenty-five years and been treated like a freak for twenty-five years. I never imagined there would be someone in this world who shared my tastes!"

"Haha, I met a buddy from West Mountain on Gemini. We talked for three minutes and immediately hit it off—we were totally on the same wavelength!"

"My wife wouldn't let me download it at first, but unexpectedly, she met a new best friend on it! Now she supports me and says this is a genuinely healthy social platform!"

"Although I met someone of the opposite sex on Gemini, it was purely a resonance of souls, without a single improper thought!"

"What's so impressive about that? Through Gemini, I discovered that Xiaomei upstairs has been secretly in love with me all along! Happy and thrilled!"

"I found my first love, whom I'd been separated from for five years! We still get along so well!"

"This app is amazing. I'll bring all my friends here and use it for the rest of my life!"

Seeing these comments,

Liu Di smiled in satisfaction!

Magic Child's analysis was immensely powerful; it could observe almost everything!

On the Gemini platform, all illegal content would first be filtered out. Then it would maintain an extremely pure environment, never allowing any immoral relationship between the opposite sexes to develop!

If Gemini's stranger social networking business wanted to last, these were the two principles it had to uphold!

At the same time,

major internet companies, internet experts, and economists finally noticed Emperor San, who had stirred up such an enormous storm overnight!

As well as Gemini Software!

"This is terrifying!"

"In just one hour, downloads broke one hundred million. This has never happened before!"

"And a huge number of users are still downloading it!"

"At this rate, Gemini will rise to first place on the download rankings within three hours!"

Inside an economic research institute,

an elderly professor in his sixties stared unblinkingly at the data on the screen.

His lips trembled slightly.

"This Emperor San is extraordinary!"

"Two rounds of giveaways—one cost fifty million, the other one hundred million, for a total of one hundred and fifty million. It looks like a huge figure, but it brought Gemini Software immeasurable exposure!"

"Using conventional means, there simply wouldn't be a fixed price for building an app up to one hundred million users! It could cost hundreds of millions, billions, tens of billions, or even more!"

"Not to mention that he only took one night!"

"And the reviews are overwhelmingly positive!"

"His marketing strategy achieves great results with minimal effort, his technology is superior, and his grasp of market demand is incredibly precise!"

"He is simply a business genius!"

Penguin Group headquarters.

The senior executives had gathered in the conference room at once.

The earth-shaking changes overnight made them feel a genuine sense of crisis.

A middle-aged man adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses and asked the marketing director, "What is the background of this Gemini?"

"Manager Li, the owner of this app is a technology company called Creator. It was just registered!"

"A newly registered company can have this much strength?"

Manager Li's gaze turned sharp. "Someone must be backing this Creator. Ask QianDu and Ali. Tell them there's no need to hide things like this—let's compete fairly!"

The marketing director wiped the sweat from his forehead and said nervously, "Manager Li, I've already asked around. Those two are just as alarmed now! They're terrified that Gemini will move into their businesses!"

"And..."

The sales director did not dare meet Manager Li's eyes. "Since Gemini launched, our user count has dropped by four percent, and it's still falling..."

"What?!"

Manager Li shot to his feet. "Four percent overnight? We've never experienced anything like this!"

Penguin had nearly nine hundred million users. A four percent drop in activity was no small number!

"I heard Gemini can analyze users' personalities? What technology are they using? Copy it for me!"

The sales director looked embarrassed. "Manager Li, we tested it. With the capabilities of our current technical team..."

Manager Li's eyes widened. "What, you can't copy it? I refuse to believe there's any technology our Penguin Group can't replicate!"

The sales director's legs shook in fright as he stammered, "It's not that we can't copy their technology—we simply can't understand it at all!"