"Is that her boyfriend?"
The sun blazed overhead at Linhai University, but at that moment, the hearts of the boys in Class 4 were ice-cold.
Feng Nanshu was the universally acknowledged Celestial Maiden of Class 4. The moment she appeared yesterday, she had captivated every boy in the class. Because of her presence, the boys from other classes were so envious that they could have died, even lamenting, "Why the hell wasn't I assigned to Class 4?"
After hearing this sort of thing so often, all the boys in Financial Class 4 developed a strange sense of confidence. It seemed that being assigned to Class 4 was something worth being proud of.
Although she ignored every guy who tried to talk to her, the more she acted that way, the more people treated her like a goddess.
What else could you say? Men were just that pathetic.
She's so great. The more I can't have her, the more I like her! But now, a Celestial Maiden like her had taken the initiative to sit beside some dog of a guy from the neighboring class, looking obedient as she chatted and laughed with him.
Only then did they understand. Oh, so the girl who had made them feel proud had belonged to another boy from the very beginning. They had merely been getting excited over nothing. That was incredibly damn painful.
Thus, the pure-love warriors collapsed where they stood.
Cao Guangyu, Zhou Chao, and Ren Ziqiang, meanwhile, felt as if electricity had surged through their entire bodies, leaving them numb from scalp to toes.
They stared at Jiang Qin with complicated expressions. The disparity they had experienced yesterday struck their hearts once again.
No wonder he had been unmoved by Hong Yan and had even turned around and walked away right in front of Chu Siqi. This damn bastard knew who-knows-how-many beautiful girls. He was practically collecting them like stamps.
Cao Guangyu couldn't help recalling how, just an hour earlier, he had insisted on dragging Jiang Qin to Class 4 to see the beauty ceiling. Back then, he had praised her to the heavens, describing her as breathtakingly beautiful. That bastard Lao Jiang must have been snickering coldly the entire time.
That was his girl. He could look at her whenever he wanted. Did he even need someone else to praise her? Damn it, wouldn't Jiang Qin really make him eat shit?
Cao Guangyu swallowed, feeling that he had lost all his dignity in front of his Maternal Grandmother.
He absolutely couldn't compare himself to Jiang Qin anymore.
This man, who had claimed at the start of the semester to be Born Solo, was absolutely invincible when it came to romance! Just then, Jiang Qin suddenly remembered something and turned to Song Qingqing, who had come over earlier. "Awake now?"
"..."
Song Qingqing tugged at the corner of her mouth. She had wanted to smile confidently, say that it was nothing, and turn away with a flourish, but she found that she couldn't smile at all, because she felt that the funny one was actually herself.
What had that little bitch Pan Xiu said?
That Jiang Qin had chased a girl for three years and then failed when he confessed? She had actually believed it and come over arrogantly to kick him while he was down, saying that Jiang Qin could never win her over and should stop dreaming. Thinking about it now, it was unbearably humiliating.
Pan Xiu's face had gone pale as well. She turned to Ren Ziqiang. "You made up that story?"
Ren Ziqiang immediately waved his hands in denial. "No, Lao Jiang made it up. I finally understand now. Eleven out of ten things he says are lies. This person is unfathomable!"
"Pan Xiu, what did Ren Ziqiang say?"
"He said Jiang Qin was unfathomable!"
"Pass it on. Jiang Qin is mysterious and profound."
"Did you hear? Jiang Qin got himself a model."
"Holy shit, Jiang Qin's even keeping a model outside school!"
"..."
After a while, Feng Nanshu said, "I'm leaving," then stood up and returned to Class 4's formation with light, cheerful steps. Meanwhile, the smiles on all the boys' faces had completely shifted onto Jiang Qin's face.
"Mm, it does feel pretty good."
Jiang Qin admitted it generously. He really had been deliberately showing off just now.
Over the following three days, the freshmen trained in marching, goose-stepping, and jogging. One by one, they were tanned until they looked like African chickens.
The heavens were also very considerate and didn't send down a single drop of rain.
Cao Guangyu was the first to break down. After all, he was a pampered Young Master with delicate skin. When had he ever suffered like this? He cursed all day long in the dormitory and even damn well chanted spells to pray for rain.
Jiang Qin was so annoyed by him that he quietly gave him a pointer.
The next day, Cao Guangyu asked his family for 1,500 yuan. During the afternoon break, he went to the hospital for circumcision, then took his medical records to ask the instructor for leave.
"Lao Jiang, your method really worked! The instructor actually agreed to let me rest!"
"Mm. You're a man with lace now, so act more maturely. Stop shouting all the time."
Jiang Qin sent him away and continued looking at the "Website Operation Manual" in his hands, but then he received a text message from Su Nai.
She said that the website was more or less finished. Aside from the remaining parts that had yet to be optimized, it had basically reached the point where it could go online. She asked whether he had time and invited him to the library for a preliminary review.
After changing clothes, Jiang Qin made his way to the third floor of the library and entered the reading room in the humanities and social sciences section.
Su Nai had already logged into the website's backend. Without wasting words, she began displaying the homepage and demonstrated three types of Secondary Page switching and two different ways of presenting posts.
Jiang Qin was quite satisfied after seeing it.
To be honest, the most important thing in product development wasn't technology, but comprehension.
If you had eighty percent of the technical skill paired with a hundred percent understanding, you could create a product that met eighty percent of the customer's needs. But if you had a hundred percent technical skill while your understanding didn't even reach fifty percent, you might not be able to produce even a semi-finished product.
Fortunately, Su Nai's comprehension and technical skills were both solid. She had basically handled every step exactly as Jiang Qin wanted.
The navigation was clear, the appearance simple, and there were no overly complicated effects between page transitions, ensuring fast response times. The structure was also concise, allowing users to quickly enter the sections that interested them.
"The completed parts are pretty good. What's left unfinished?"
"The website's load testing and security testing haven't been done yet, and the popup featuring the exposed big sister isn't finished either," Su Nai answered honestly.
Jiang Qin rubbed his chin. "In other words, it basically already meets the requirements for going online?"
Su Nai pushed up her glasses. "It can go online. The follow-up optimizations can be done step by step."
"Then let's put it online first. I'll find someone to handle the content later. Once the amount of content reaches a certain level, we'll start promoting it. Can the optimization be completed before the promotion?"
"No problem at all."
Jiang Qin moved his gaze away from the computer screen and stared at Su Nai for a while. "You... went out to be a thief last night? Your dark circles are so obvious."
Su Nai coughed, then quickly lowered her head. "Senior, building a website is mentally exhausting. To ensure the result, I stayed up a little late, but it's no big deal. You don't need to worry, Senior."
"I already told you that you only needed to finish it within five days. Why did you insist on completing it in three? Don't tell me you wanted me to pay you more?"
"No, no, no. This is the first commercial web design I've completed independently, so I had to take it seriously. I looked through reference books while working and tried to achieve the best result. Besides, didn't you say that if the result was good, you would give me all the maintenance work too? I got a little excited, so I kept looking... Er, I got carried away."
Jiang Qin was silent for three seconds before clicking his tongue. "Junior, I suggest you look at less of that."
Su Nai raised her head in a panic, her cheeks flushed bright red. "Senior, don't talk nonsense. I didn't look at anything!"
"I was talking about reference books."
"Oh, oh, so you meant the reference books. Haha..." Su Nai rubbed her hands and pushed up her glasses.
Jiang Qin suddenly lowered his hand from his chin. "Could we also make a video section? Would it be difficult technically?"
"Not at all. Its playback function is very simple. We only need to upload it in the right format and embed the server code."
"Would the playback stutter?"
"It hasn't happened before. But there'll be ads at the beginning, like 'sexy dealers dealing cards online,' and they're really annoying."
As Su Nai spoke, her voice suddenly stopped. She realized the trap in his question, then her small mouth fell open as her whole body turned to stone. "I mean, I was talking about... videos for building the website. Do you believe me?"
Jiang Qin nodded very seriously. "Look at less of it. It's bad for your health."
"Wuu..."
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