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Chapter 510: Yin Songyue's Wondrous Adventure

Zhou Yuwen's company currently occupied three floors of an office building, leased to him by Baidu at a heavily discounted rate. In the beginning, because the company had few employees, they only used the top floor. However, as the staff gradually expanded, the other two floors were slowly renovated.The bottom floor, for instance, had been directly converted into a large open-plan studio. It featured various themed set rooms, including a classroom setup, designed specifically to facilitate future short video shoots.

When Zheng Yanyan brought people over for runway training, Zhou Yuwen arranged for all of them to use this space. The lighting here was genuinely excellent, thanks to the large floor-to-ceiling windows, and the area was incredibly spacious.

The company had set up a temporary stage, and a professional teacher had been brought in to instruct the students on catwalk modeling. Since it was just a training session, they weren't required to wear anything overly flashy. Instead, they all wore a standardized uniform: black tube tops paired with matching shorts, perfectly accentuating their slender waists and long legs.

Everyone selected for this runway training was at least 170 centimeters tall. Under the teacher's direction, they practiced keeping their heads held high, chests out, and stomachs in, all while maintaining a constant, radiant smile.

Over the past few days, they hadn't practiced anything else. They either walked the runway or sat together below the stage listening to the teacher's lectures.

Yin Songyue stood out as a top performer among the group. She was already exceptionally beautiful, and her previous background in dance meant she was quite familiar with these physical routines.

Wearing the standard uniform and sitting cross-legged on the floor while listening to the teacher drone on from the stage, Yin Songyue honestly found the whole thing quite boring. This was despite their dear Department Head Zheng smugly declaring that she had personally asked Zhou Yuwen to hire this instructor at a premium rate, emphasizing that they normally wouldn't have such an opportunity and absolutely had to cherish it.

In Yin Songyue's eyes, however, this was nothing more than an exercise to satisfy Department Head Zheng's vanity.

Hah. They had all just started university and were full of curiosity about the so-called college life. Yet, simply because they had joined the Arts Department, they had to spend all their free time attending these training sessions.

Who could put up with that?

The teacher on stage was actually quite earnest, but Yin Songyue was bored to tears. Knowing that Zhou Yuwen was working just upstairs, she couldn't help but wonder what the legendary senior student Zhou Yuwen was like when he was working.

Yin Songyue really wanted to go and take a look.

Unable to hold back her curiosity, she stood up, intending to slip out.

Seeing her stand, the teacher naturally paused to ask where she was going.

Yin Songyue flashed the teacher an awkward smile. "Um, Teacher, I need to use the restroom."

The teacher glanced at her. "Go ahead."

Feeling as if she had been granted a great pardon, Yin Songyue quickly sashayed away, her slender figure retreating gracefully. During their training these past few days, they were instructed to walk on the balls of their feet. Since the floor was covered in soft carpeting, they were all barefoot. As Yin Songyue elegantly slipped out, her footsteps didn't make a single sound.

She quickly exited the large open studio, walked over to the elevator, and, without a second thought, pressed the button for the upper floors.

To be honest, Yin Songyue certainly felt a pang of a guilty conscience, like a thief sneaking around. But the feeling wasn't entirely bad; it reminded her of skipping classes back in high school.

Hehe. Yin Songyue hadn't exactly been an honest and obedient student in high school, either.

Wandering around someone else's company without permission like this just felt...

So thrilling.

With an excited heart and trembling hands, she watched the elevator ascend floor by floor.

Ding. The elevator arrived.

'Is this senior student Zhou Yuwen's company?'

Yin Songyue curiously peeked her head out.

However, she found the place completely empty.

Well, the decor was quite nice. The first thing one saw upon stepping out of the elevator was naturally the front desk, but right now, it was unmanned. Yin Songyue found it strange—where had everyone gone?

So, walking naturally as if there was no one else present, Yin Songyue strolled into the company. Past the front desk was the main public office area.

For a modern startup like Zhou Yuwen's, the work environment was far more relaxed and comfortable compared to traditional, older companies. The average workspace per employee was much larger.

Additionally, a row of treadmills was lined up in front of the large floor-to-ceiling windows for the staff to use for regular fitness, and there was also a dedicated pantry and lounge area.

'What a huge company,' she thought.

Yin Songyue couldn't help but sigh in admiration. Before, when she heard people at school talking about how amazing senior student Zhou Yuwen was, she hadn't thought much of it. But at this moment, she finally realized just how incredible he truly was.

But in such a massive company, where did everyone vanish to?

Just as Yin Songyue was wondering this, she faintly heard Zhou Yuwen's voice coming from the conference room.

Intrigued, Yin Songyue tiptoed over.

The office's conference room had full glass walls, meaning everything inside could be seen clearly from the outside. Yin Songyue found a spot near the edge and peeked in.

She discovered that the conference room was packed full of people.

Standing at the very front was a sharply dressed Zhou Yuwen. He was speaking passionately, using terms like "influencer economy" and "building personal IPs."

Zhou Yuwen was explaining that the core focus of the company's future would undeniably be short videos.

Right now, there were only a few top-tier companies in the livestreaming and short video sectors—one was YY Live, and the other was Kuaishou.

YY had started with gaming voice chat before pivoting to channel-based livestreaming. Their method of attracting traffic was simple: pushing the envelope with borderline suggestive content.

Meanwhile, Kuaishou mainly focused on rustic, low-brow entertainment.

Therefore, both companies shared one common trait—they were tacky.

If their company wanted to compete for market share against these two giants, they had to offer something those platforms lacked.

What was their company's advantage?

It was their user base. Ninety-five percent of them were university students.

This was a demographic that dared to dream and dared to act. They had both the creativity and the capability.

Because of this, their app's positioning had to differentiate itself from YY and Kuaishou. They would focus on high-quality, positive content, guiding university students to be active and uplifting.

They would primarily promote creator accounts that showcased strong technical skills and high creativity, such as a few accounts he had been observing recently.

Like this video-editing blogger.

Or this magic-trick blogger.

Dance.

Travel.

Hiking.

All of these represented positive energy. As long as they were operated properly, each of them could become a massive IP. The company's current goal should be to incubate these IPs and use them to inspire even more people.

Short videos were a brand-new industry, which was why this was a company-wide meeting. Everyone attended, and everyone was encouraged to speak freely.

Tang Yurou, who had recently returned from abroad, liked to express her opinions. She stated that their current objective was to find a creator with potential and use the company's resources to build them into their flagship brand.

Similar to Feng Timo on Douyu.

"Right, I think we should find a beautiful girl," someone quickly agreed. It was a programmer wearing a plaid shirt.

Hearing this, the crowd erupted into laughter, teasing the plaid-shirt programmer for his selfish motives.

The programmer's face flushed red, but he defended his reasoning. He said, who doesn't love looking at beautiful girls? The primary rule of short videos should be to retain the audience's attention.

If you found a stunning woman, it was guaranteed to make them stay and keep watching.

Zhou Yuwen nodded and said that was very well said.

The core of a short video was indeed those first few seconds—you had to hook the user and make them stay.

Following this line of thought, everyone continued brainstorming. Qu Jing, dressed in a black suit skirt and black stockings, crossed her legs the other way and remarked that this wasn't difficult at all.

If there was one thing their company didn't lack, it was beautiful women.

"President Zhou, with the new semester starting, our company has just brought in a fresh batch of talent. I'll pick out the prettiest ones when I get back and send their profiles to you."

Chen Wan shook her head, saying that just being pretty definitely wasn't enough. They needed to have talent, too.

"Didn't we just say we want our company to produce high-quality videos?"

Unwilling to be overshadowed, Qu Jing countered that this was easy. They just needed to manage and package them properly, right?

Inside the conference room, they debated back and forth, each person voicing their own perspectives.

Watching this scene from the outside, Yin Songyue was filled with yearning. Seeing Zhou Yuwen standing at the forefront, confidently guiding his team like a general surveying his territory, she thought he looked incredibly handsome.

He was entirely different from those immature boys at school who chased after her.

'If I ever look for a boyfriend, it definitely has to be someone like him,' she mused.

Just as Yin Songyue was completely captivated by the sight...

She suddenly heard a curious voice behind her ask, "Huh? Excuse me, which department are you from?"

That single sentence yanked Yin Songyue right out of her daydream.

At the same time, the people inside the conference room heard the voice and collectively turned their gazes toward her direction.

Swish. Countless pairs of eyes locked onto her simultaneously.

Yin Songyue's face instantly flushed crimson. Worst of all, Zhou Yuwen was also staring at her with an expression of curiosity.

Ultimately, Yin Songyue was still just a young girl. Having never faced such a high-pressure situation before, her first instinct was to flee.

Gritting her teeth, she spun around and sprinted away as fast as she could.

After she fled, Zhou Yuwen didn't rush to chase after her. Instead, he stepped out of the room and glanced at Tao Tian.

Tao Tian was wearing a V-neck cardigan. She was perfectly suited for this kind of elegant attire, which prominently accentuated her "big thunder." Below it, she wore a high-waisted black tight skirt.

Holding a stack of documents in her arms, Zhou Yuwen asked Tao Tian who that girl just now was.

Tao Tian replied that she didn't know.

"Judging by her clothes, she's probably one of the kids Yanyan brought over downstairs," Tao Tian said with a smile.

Zhou Yuwen muttered, "How did someone from downstairs end up wandering up here?"

Tao Tian suggested, "Maybe she got lost?"

Zhou Yuwen didn't pay it much mind. He pushed the door open and let Tao Tian into the conference room.

For Yin Songyue, however, this event was undeniably a wondrous adventure. After all, she had trespassed into someone else's company without permission and even eavesdropped on Zhou Yuwen.

And in the end, she had been caught.

Thinking about it now, her little heart was still thumping wildly, and her face was flushed bright red.

Just as she was rejoicing over the fact that Zhou Yuwen and his team hadn't chased after her, she hummed a tune and returned to the training room downstairs.

However, the moment she walked through the door...

She ran straight into a stern-faced Zheng Yanyan.

Zheng Yanyan looked exactly like an uncompromising, strict high school disciplinarian.

Yin Songyue originally planned to sidestep Zheng Yanyan and slip past.

But who would have thought that Zheng Yanyan would demand sharply right to her face, "Where did you go?"

That tone immediately made Yin Songyue feel annoyed.

'Who do you think you are?' she thought.

'Is it any of your business?'