Since they are reborn, they must be supported by the school beauties.

Chapter 190 Liu Shiyu Passes the Interview
Upon returning to school, Chen Cheng immediately registered a 163 email address and sent it to Su Zishan.

The following morning, Su Zishan sent Chen Cheng several cartoon character designs and matching outfits.

Chen Cheng opened his email at noon and looked through them one by one, and was amazed by Su Zishan's drawing skills.

Her design drafts were much better than the original QQ Show, and the design of several cartoon characters was very well done, almost impeccable.

So he immediately called Su Zishan, and in addition to showering her with compliments, he also begged Su Zishan to continue designing some different facial features and hairstyles for him.

The reason why QQ Show became so popular across the country back then was not only because of its user base's desire to flaunt wealth, but also because it offered netizens the opportunity to create their own content. Nowadays, netizens go online for the sake of meager resources, much like prisoners in labor camps, just making do with whatever is available.

QQ Show allowed them to find a unique experience and pleasure in self-customization within a small space.

Not everyone likes the big-eyed cartoon characters of Japanese style. When it comes to social products like QQ Show, everyone wants to customize their image according to their own facial features. If you have single eyelids, you naturally want to choose a single-eyelid image.

However, such customized cartoon characters have never existed before.

Therefore, Chen Cheng plans to make Campus Show the first DIY cartoon character on the Chinese internet. He needs to accumulate a large enough resource library so that every netizen can create completely different combinations.

This will require Su Zishan, a beautiful woman with a background in fine arts, to design as many materials as possible for herself.

Su Zishan was in a great mood after Chen Cheng showered her with praise.

She didn't have much to do during the day, and since Chen Cheng needed her help, she was happy to oblige and readily agreed.

On the second floor of the Sichuan restaurant at lunchtime, nearly twenty people were already engrossed in their meal.

Chen Cheng wrote down the upcoming development project schedule on the whiteboard. The first project was Xiaoyutang, which was about to be launched. The second project was the merchant backend and membership function. The third project was Xiaoneixiu.

The Little Fishpond officially launched at 1:30 PM.

After several days of preparation, the activity level of users in the Fishpond has been growing rapidly. Many users are eagerly awaiting the opening of the Fishpond. As a result, the activity level of the Fishpond has risen to a new level once again after this feature was launched.

As long as a large fishpond is qualified to open a small fishpond, there will be a number of clearly marked vacant spots under that large fishpond, depending on how many qualifications it has.

If there is a qualification, then the top five most active users in each large fishpond will receive a proposal invitation for a small fishpond. Each of them can fill in the title of a small fishpond, and then the five titles will be placed at the top of the large fishpond for voting.

The voting rules are that only users who have joined this community can participate in the voting, and each person can only cast one vote.

Voting will officially stop 24 hours later. If there is one spot in a small fishpond for a large fishpond, the first-ranked option will automatically become the first small fishpond.

If a large fishpond has multiple slots for smaller fishponds, then invite active users whose slots are multiplied by 5.

For example, Jiangda Fishpond has already attracted more than 20,000 people and can open 40 smaller fishponds.

Then, the system will invite the top 200 most active people out of these 20,000 people. Each of the 200 people will initiate an option, and the top 40 options in the final voting results will automatically become the corresponding small fish ponds.

This also represents an open-ended DIY approach for users.

Therefore, these fishponds soon developed some particularly interesting small fishpond voting options.

For example, among the two hundred voting items at Jiangda University, the number one spot was not the name of a particular college, but rather Yan Ruoxuan, the most popular girl in Chen Cheng's class and the girl with the most fans on Jiangda University's intranet.

If this trend continues, and Yan Ruoxuan remains in the top forty tomorrow, then there will be a "Yan Ruoxuan Fishpond" in Jiangda's fishpond.

Yan Ruoxuan initially thought it might just be a prank by a few students, and believed that her ranking would soon plummet.

After all, in her mind, everyone should put collective honor first, and most people would definitely vote for their own college.

But by the afternoon, Yan Ruoxuan was not only still in first place, but was far ahead.

This made Yan Ruoxuan extremely anxious.

She even went so far as to ask Chen Cheng to pull strings and get her name banned.

She ran up to the second floor of the Sichuan restaurant and pleaded with Chen Cheng, saying, "Anyway, the school's intranet has rules that if the name 'Little Fish Pond' doesn't pass the review, the official team has the right to remove it. You can just say that it's not allowed to use people's names as the name of 'Little Fish Pond,' right?"

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "This is such a good thing! Why are you still so resistant?"

"What's good about it?"

Yan Ruoxuan pouted and said with a wronged expression, "The other options are all from different colleges, but only my name is first. How embarrassing..."

Chen Cheng said seriously, "This represents your popularity at school. Do you think that if we ban your fishpond, people will stop paying attention to you?"

Yan Ruoxuan said, "Let them pay attention if they want, just don't put my name under the fishpond..."

Chen Cheng said helplessly, "Have you thought about this? Using personal names as 'fishponds' is actually a very promising approach. In the future, many fishponds will even have their own celebrity-themed ones. People are incredibly enthusiastic when they're following their idols. If every school had a 'Liu Dehua's Fishpond,' it would bring a lot of activity to the school's online community. One day, we could even hold a nationwide 'Liu Dehua Fishpond Competition,' letting these fans cheer for their idols in their fishponds. But if I ban personal names today, this market will be completely gone." Yan Ruoxuan looked at him with her big, innocent eyes and asked, "Wouldn't that be a huge loss for the school's online community?"

"Of course."

Chen Cheng nodded emphatically: "It will cause incalculable losses, and if competitors use it against us, these fans may leave Renren.com and go to other platforms to support their idols."

Yan Ruoxuan opened her mouth in surprise, and after a long silence, she said seriously, "Then let's forget it, we can't delay important matters."

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "Don't worry, we will launch a reporting mechanism. If there are any inappropriate comments, we will intervene immediately if users report them. Later, when I have more money, I will also set up an online review team to review the content on the platform."

Yan Ruoxuan, no longer as resistant as before, nodded and said, "As long as it helps you."

With the enthusiastic support of countless Xianyu users, a large number of small fish ponds were launched on the school's intranet the next day.

Because it was established through a democratic vote by netizens, everyone has a particularly deep affection for Xiaoyutang, and users who enter Xiaoyutang have a very high level of engagement.
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On Friday, the merchant backend began internal testing.

This backend system combines user virtual currency authorization, transaction flow statistics, and settlement information aggregation.

Because of the addition of Campus Show, Chen Cheng no longer sells memberships directly based on duration. Instead, he plans to have users purchase Campus Coins first, regardless of what value-added services they buy.

The logic behind Campus Coins is the same as QQ Coins: one yuan per coin, and a monthly membership costs ten yuan. Users can simply recharge ten yuan of Campus Coins and then redeem them for a membership.

If a user wants to buy another 5 yuan worth of campus entertainment, they can recharge 15 yuan and then purchase and settle the payment themselves.

If a user is wealthy, they can easily buy hundreds or thousands of Renren coins, which can be used to purchase memberships and Renren Show items for themselves, as well as to gift them to friends.

The gifting system has now been developed.

This thing is actually very simple. It's just about adding a gift option to the product purchase settings, where the giver can fill in the recipient's ID number.

Once he fills in the ID number and completes the payment, the system will directly call the self-purchased code and run the code that the recipient purchased. In this way, whether it is a purchase or a gift, the same set of underlying code can be used to solve the problem, which can save a lot of development work.

In any case, the result is the same for the recipient. As for how it is implemented, Chen Cheng will naturally do whatever is most convenient for him.

However, one feature still needs to be developed and designed: the gift-giving ceremony that the recipient sees.

My brother spent the money, so we can't let it go unnoticed.

Just like the logic of the Wild Atmosphere Creation Group, the platform must ensure that the big spenders feel prestigious when they spend money.

Therefore, in addition to sending an in-app message to the recipient to inform them of the gift, Chen Cheng also wanted to design an animation effect of opening the gift box: "XXX has sent you a gift box. Click to open it, and pop, a membership card pops out, or a bunch of campus photos pop out." Girls would definitely like to see that.

This is a little bit troublesome.

Because the current development team consists entirely of low-level coders, no one understands this kind of visual design.

So Chen Cheng asked Su Zishan for help again, begging her to design a simple gift box popping out and a simple animation when it's opened.

Su Zishan has experience with Flash animation, so this is not a difficult task for her.

Fortunately, Su Zishan was very accommodating and readily agreed after just one phone call.

In the afternoon, Chen Cheng received a text message from Liu Shiyu.

The text message read: "I have great news! I passed my third round of interviews!"

Chen Cheng wasn't surprised at all, but he still added plenty of emotional value in his reply text message: "Wow, Teacher Liu is amazing! Congratulations!"

Liu Shiyu replied: "Hehe, thank you! The interviewer gave me an offer on the spot, and I can officially start working and participating in rehearsals as early as next Monday, or at the latest in November!"

Chen Cheng asked her, "When does Teacher Liu plan to start work?"

Liu Shiyu said, "I chose November because I still need to go back to Jiangda University to complete the resignation procedures."

"Fortunately, my music appreciation is not a required course for any subject, so the resignation procedures for such a position are not difficult, and there are other teachers at the school who can temporarily replace my teaching work."

Chen Cheng knew she was leaving soon, so he made an appointment with her to meet in the music room the next afternoon.

Liu Shiyu was also eager to know what fun things Chen Cheng was planning to do, and was even more curious about Chen Cheng's other original songs.

Chen Cheng was also thinking that he should hurry up and get Liu Shiyu to record the background music, as he couldn't wait to integrate this feature into the membership privileges.

A bunch of exclusive, incomplete, and zero-frame-starting catchy songs will undoubtedly create a stir on the internet and in today's Chinese music scene.

(End of this chapter)