Chapter 70: Li Tiantian

Jingbei, Xinglang Headquarters.

In the pantry, two people who happened to come to get coffee and slack off started chatting.

"Tina, I heard your internship period passed early? A news draft made it to the front page? Congratulations!"

A young girl with a water-snake waist was full of surprise.

Li Tiantian smiled without smiling: "It didn't pass early, there’s still a trial period later, every pass is hard to pass."

She didn't know the other party’s Chinese name, but her English name was Monica. Of course, there were at least seven or eight Monicas in this building.

The company culture was like this. Nowadays, most emerging companies require employees to call each other by English names, and some companies even have "fines for saying Chinese names."

The two were intern colleagues. One graduated from a domestic 985, and one was a returnee. Relatively speaking, the other party had more advantages. After all, she had "connected with the international track" and broadened her horizons.

"But I heard, why didn't you go to the news section? You ran to the blog side?"

Li Tiantian’s smile became more and more stiff: "Company arrangement, and it’s just a rotation."

The invisible and boring short confrontation ended, and Li Tiantian breathed a sigh of relief...

Passing the rotation with a portal front-page news, but being sent to other departments, she also couldn't accept it.

As one of the largest internet companies at present, the news section was the core of the entire Xinglang. Compared with it, the blog, which was biased toward social attributes, was much weaker.

Female reporters also had more halos than "female employees." Wherever they went, they were the "fourth public power." If they pointed the microphone forward, even the Bodhisattva had to shut up.

Top reporters and stars were almost no different. For example, "Chai Jing," who was now famous.

Money, fame, nationality... whatever you want.

Of course, for Li Tiantian now, these had become very distant.

Returning to her desk, Li Tiantian flipped through the "blog" homepage boredly. She was neither interested nor familiar with these, almost a blank sheet.

Although she interviewed that high school student at the time, she wouldn't follow someone, but later heard someone mention that the champion blog of the micro-fiction contest was very popular.

In the most conspicuous position on the homepage, a series of "featured blogs" were listed, one of which was "Bed Explorer," which caught Li Tiantian’s attention.

Clicking in to see, it was a simple sentence: "

The attached image was a strange playing card and a blue fountain pen.

Sigh... as expected, I don't understand it at all... Can this kind of thing really have over 50,000 views?

What the hell is this...

"Tina, meeting time."

Li Tiantian looked up blankly: "Ah? Me?"

"We need meeting minutes, bring your laptop."

Alright, so I'm just a gopher...

In the massive conference room, dozens of people from the blog division sat together, with even higher-ranking bigwigs present. The entire meeting revolved around the issue of "slow growth and profit difficulties in the blog division." Li Tiantian didn't understand most of it, but she didn't need to.

She just had to type until her keyboard smoked.

After a full four hours, a certain bigwig said: "In summary, the blog's professional attribute is too strong, and its social attribute is too weak... We still need to increase the proportion of travelogues and celebrity content..."

[Blah blah blah, 1000 words omitted.]

"Now, everyone brainstorm. Everyone must speak, starting from this circle in the back, one by one."

Li Tiantian looked up blankly, her eyes dull, radiating the exhaustion of a corporate drone...

After a four-hour meeting, even a fairy would get heat rash; in fact, Li Tiantian felt like her seat was soaked in sweat.

"Uh... do I have to speak too? I'm the meeting minutes taker, this is my first day on the job..."

"It's fine, we just want to hear opinions from different angles."

"I think... the reading time for blogs is too long. A single blog post is often hundreds or thousands of words, which increases the barrier to reading..."

That bigwig she didn't recognize interrupted: "I've already said that."

Li Tiantian paused: "Then... perhaps we could invite some celebrities to settle into the blogs..."

"I've said that too..."

The bigwig felt a bit speechless, but since it was her first day, there seemed no need to reprimand her, so he prepared to skip over Li Tiantian.

Li Tiantian was so anxious she was about to burn up.

Stupid mouth! Open up!

"Uh... well, I'd like to show everyone a blogger's content, maybe it can provide some reference..."

Li Tiantian pulled the IE browser she had opened four hours ago directly from her taskbar and placed it in front of the bigwig.

"Look, this blogger never posts more than 100 words at a time, but every post has high emotional value and great writing. Every single post has extremely high views. I think this is a trend."

Her brain worked faster and faster, her speech became smoother, and Li Tiantian gradually found her groove:

"The pace of life is fast now, and the online space is gradually becoming fragmented. If it were me, I'd rather receive interesting information in a few seconds than have to summarize it from hundreds or thousands of words of text and pictures..."

"Furthermore, essay-style content lowers the barrier for posters. A major reason for the slow growth of blog users is that both posters and readers need a certain level of education. Those who can patiently finish reading thousands of words will always be the minority..."

"As long as the barrier is low and there are more posters, it can even generate a certain social attribute... For example, I could casually post: 'Had a four-hour meeting today... so tired...' and things like that."

Someone retorted: "What's the point of this kind of thing... people won't remember it after reading."

Li Tiantian had a flash of inspiration and blurted out: "But in the eyes of advertisers, exposure is the most important thing... not the quality of the blog content itself... The company is chasing users, not depth."

The bigwig's eyes lit up. He looked at her name tag, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth: "Tina, right? Good ideas. Come to my office after the meeting, let's continue our discussion."

Li Tiantian sat back in her seat for the meeting minutes, her heart pounding...

Once she calmed down, she whispered to the colleague next to her: "It's my first day... who was that..."

The colleague next to her said in surprise: "You don't know Boss Cao?"

Li Tiantian asked in confusion: "Isn't the boss of the blog division surnamed Wang..."

"Boss Cao is the boss of all of Star Wave..."

Li Tiantian was stunned, keenly realizing what a huge opportunity this was.

"Bed Explorer"! You really are my lucky star!

She immediately pulled up all the content from "Bed Explorer" and began preparing for the private report later, while begging another colleague to take over the meeting minutes.

The meeting continued, and several other topics were discussed. Boss Cao summarized:

"We still need to try new things, but the 'Blog Star Project' cannot stop. Invite public figures to settle into the blogs..."

Thinking of the content he had just seen, he added:

"And that what's-it-called... Bed Driller..."

A subordinate on the side prompted: "'Bed Explorer'."

"Right... include him in the Blog Star Project as well, and give him some support."

He wanted to conduct an experiment and a trial.

"Tina, come to my office. Everyone else, meeting adjourned."

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Meanwhile, Zhai Da, thousands of miles away, didn't know he was about to receive official support from Star Wave. Of course, even if he knew, he wouldn't change his plans.

He didn't want to be famous; he only wanted to fleece the system.

Today was the third day after the subject level test, and also a Sunday.

Early in the morning, Yu Xiaoli took Lu Wei out, saying she wanted to buy Lu Wei some clothes. Zhai Da couldn't muster any interest in shopping, so he chose to do his own thing.

After counting up the unfinished items on his list, Zhai Da checked his phone, then hailed a taxi and headed to Tiantai Road.

There was nothing special here, just the only boxing gym in Dongyang County.

"Viking Fighting"

The name sounded grand, but in reality, it was just a dilapidated shop in an old, broken commercial street. The sign was made of cheap inkjet-printed fabric, looking both tacky and pretentious.

He didn't know what the situation was inside; he hadn't been in during either of his two lifetimes.

Zhai Da planned to go in and ask if they had any trial classes to see if he could make progress on the unlocking task for the [Bookworm's Eyeglass Cloth].

It was just to grind the unlocking task; as for actually training in boxing, that was impossible, and he didn't have the time.

Don't even think about tricking him into buying a membership.

Zhai Da looked around for a while, then walked in.

As soon as he entered, he saw Fan Junwei getting beaten to a pulp.