Market Research

The next morning, Mo Jingchun was yawning nonstop as he carried his little sister, Candy, into the classroom. When the female students thanked him, he just smiled and acknowledged them.

Mo Jingchun had taken fewer than ten steps into the classroom when his arms suddenly felt empty. The little tyke had been scooped up by Li Xuanyu, who had a streak of premature white hair.

He had spent the whole night thinking things over. By the time Mo Jingchun had worked some things out and came back to himself, it was already 3:13 a.m.

A little after seven in the morning, the Alarm Clock woke him again. He had barely slept all night, so from the moment he got up until now, he had felt completely drained.

After one class in the morning, Mo Jingchun could barely keep his eyes open. His eyelids were practically fighting each other, and he was so sleepy that he could hardly stay awake. But he absolutely didn't dare fall asleep in class, afraid someone from the Student Union might take a picture of him through the window.

He finally made it to noon. After eating lunch with the little tyke, Mo Jingchun went straight to bed. By the time afternoon classes started, he had managed to perk up a little. His eyes were still tired, but at least he wasn't as out of it as he'd been that morning.

Even so, Mo Jingchun was still distracted during his afternoon classes. His mind wasn't on the lesson at all.

Mo Jingchun kept hoping time would pass faster so class would end and he could go back and do some market research online. He was desperate to find out whether there was a market for an anti-shake spoon like this, and whether patients would be willing to pay for one.

Mo Jingchun would only be willing to spend more time and effort developing the spoon if it could make money. Otherwise, what was the point of developing one that people wouldn't accept and no one would want to buy?

Did he have money to burn?

Most importantly, Mo Jingchun wanted to give his little sister, Candy, a better life!

If he didn't have the ability, that would be one thing. But if he did, why not try harder to give his little sister the best possible living and learning conditions?

"What's up with Mo Jingchun today? He's been distracted the whole time. I just called out to him, but he didn't seem to hear me. He just kept his head down and rushed out."

After the last class of the afternoon, the women gathered around to chat as they packed their bags, watching Mo Jingchun sprint away.

"Maybe Candy was fussy last night, so Mo Jingchun didn't get any sleep. I saw him dozing off all morning. He was practically about to fall asleep on his desk."

"Should we tell the counselor?"

"Maybe not. Let's see how things are tomorrow. Maybe Lan Lan is right, and Mo Jingchun just didn't sleep well last night. It's normal to lose sleep when you're taking care of a little kid, isn't it?"

"Then... let's see how things are tomorrow." Yang Xiaoyu shrugged.

It had only just gotten dark outside. The little tyke had eaten her fill, but she clung stubbornly to Mo Jingchun and refused to play by herself on the bed. With no other choice, Mo Jingchun held her while using his laptop to look up all sorts of information about smart anti-shake spoons and the products already on the market.

All evening, Mo Jingchun tirelessly searched for information online. A little after nine, the little tyke fell asleep in his arms, drooling all over his chest. He hadn't even noticed she'd fallen asleep until he felt his shirt getting wet.

Mo Jingchun carefully laid Candy on the bed and tucked her in so she wouldn't catch a cold in the chilly weather.

Mo Jingchun kept looking up research papers and information on anti-shake spoons across various online shopping platforms until after ten that night.

Based on his research, Mo Jingchun concluded that quite a few anti-shake spoons were already on the market. But among the smart anti-shake spoons, even the cheapest cost 2,315 yuan, while the most expensive one cost over ten thousand US dollars. It was also the best anti-shake spoon currently available.

As for the anti-shake spoons priced under a thousand yuan, which had the highest sales, they all relied on mechanical methods to reduce shaking. Some so-called anti-shake spoons were just ordinary spoons with a modified handle, yet they cost five to eight times more than before.

These so-called anti-shake spoons were nothing more than ordinary spoons being sold under the "anti-shake" label.

Mo Jingchun read the reviews for several of the best-selling anti-shake spoons, and they were full of complaints.

Mo Jingchun had to admit that the research team behind the best and most expensive smart anti-shake spoon, developed by American merchants, was impressive.

According to reviews by many video creators, as long as the user's hands didn't shake too violently, with the movement staying under ten centimeters, food in the spoon wouldn't easily spill out. But when the creators tested the smart anti-shake spoon by drinking water, the results were less than satisfactory.

A spoonful of water went into the user's mouth, but in the end, less than a third made it. The test reviewer had shaken more than two-thirds of the water onto the table.

Even so, that didn't take away from how impressive the smart anti-shake spoon was!

The only thing ordinary people probably couldn't accept was the price. If the smart anti-shake spoon were more affordable, with its price dropping from over ten thousand US dollars to somewhere between two and three thousand yuan, Mo Jingchun was sure it would sell like hotcakes across the internet, especially in Xia.

At a reasonable, affordable price, there would never be a shortage of children in Xia who wanted to repay their parents' kindness.

Mo Jingchun was different, though. He didn't have to consider the cost of software research at all. The main expenses would be the materials and the internal chip. And even the most expensive part—the chip—wouldn't cost that much, since he didn't need anything too powerful. Mo Jingchun figured a domestically made 28-nanometer chip would be more than enough. A smart anti-shake spoon wasn't like a smartphone, which needed powerful computing capabilities and multiple cores working together across multiple threads.

Mo Jingchun wasn't just a dreamer; he was a doer!

He decided to get started right away. Beginning the next day, after classes and dinner with his little sister, Candy, Mo Jingchun went every day to the most popular place on Jing University's campus—the school library!

According to the school's rules, each undergraduate could borrow up to five books from the library using their campus card. The books had to be returned within a month, but students could renew them on their phones, up to three times.

Without fail, Mo Jingchun went to the school library every day to borrow books on mechanics and jot down the questions he couldn't figure out.

As time passed, half a month later, Mo Jingchun had completed the first draft of his smart anti-shake spoon design. But he had also accumulated dozens of pages of mechanical questions.

If he couldn't solve those problems, then even the most powerful Attitude Balance Algorithm would be pale and ineffective without hardware to support it.

P.S. Thanks to Zhemo's Little Star, the awesome Liu Lang De Feng, Time Demon Ancestor, Xiao Li Dachuan, and Xuanzhi for the tips!!!

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