Chapter 387: Now That’s Talent

A report from Boring Short Video?

Chen Mo paused for a moment. He realized he hadn’t paid attention to Boring Short Video in quite a while.

The last time he’d received a report from them was when the Academic Subject Live Stream had attracted a surge of users.

He’d kept an eye on it for a bit back then, but although there were some users, the revenue wasn’t anything significant. Compared to Boring Short Video’s current expenses, it was barely a drop in the bucket.

So, he gradually lost interest and hadn’t even opened the app in recent weeks.

Even when he watched short videos, it was on other platforms.

Now he was curious—what exactly did this new report from Boring Short Video contain?

He reached out, took the report, and flipped it open with interest.

Before long,

His brows furrowed deeply, and the hand holding the report clenched so tightly that veins bulged along his arm.

“President Chen?”

Shen Rou glanced at the now-creased report in his hand, her voice tinged with concern.

Could it be that President Chen was so overwhelmed with emotion because Boring Short Video had finally shown some progress after all this time?

“I’m fine,”

“I’m fine. You can go back to work.”

Chen Mo snapped out of it and looked up at Shen Rou standing at the office door. He waved her off.

Shen Rou hesitated for a moment, but eventually nodded and returned to her office.

Bang!

As soon as Shen Rou disappeared behind the closed door, Chen Mo could no longer contain his emotions.

He slammed the report down onto the desk.

Well played, Li Shen!

You’ve got some nerve!

Trying to exploit a loophole, huh? I banned you from promoting Boring Short Video, so you had the streamers do it instead? Clever, very clever.

He stared at the contents of the report.

Students from the Teacher-training university had taken it upon themselves to promote Boring Short Video in order to boost viewership for the Academic Subject Live Stream. Now, the number of viewers had already surpassed 80,000.

If it were just over 80,000 viewers, that would be one thing. But these 80,000 viewers had spent several million in the streaming rooms.

That’s some serious spending power.

Sure, you want your kids to study, but shouldn’t you consider their well-being too?

Buying that much study material—aren’t you afraid of exhausting your children?

Chen Mo rubbed his temples in frustration, a headache starting to form.

According to the report, the number of viewers for the Academic Subject Live Stream was still steadily increasing thanks to ongoing promotion.

And that led to a vicious cycle.

The more viewers the stream had, the more people spent money in the streaming rooms. That meant more revenue for Boring Short Video.

The thought of such a grim outcome made Chen Mo want to drag Li Shen out and deal with him personally. Wu Yu too, for that matter.

What frustrated him even more was that all he could do was sit back and watch as the number of viewers kept climbing under the streamers’ promotion, and Boring Short Video’s revenue kept growing.

Who was this streamer, anyway? So damn annoying.

You’ve got a perfectly good platform to make money from normal streaming, but no—you just had to stir things up with promotions.

Chen Mo leaned back in his chair, silent for a long while.

After some time,

He suddenly stood up. His gaze fell on the now-wrinkled report on the desk, and his eyes began to shine with a glimmer of inspiration.

He had just thought of a brilliant way to stop that streamer from continuing to promote Boring Short Video.

Without hesitation,

He pressed the call button beside him and connected to the Boring Short Video Manager’s Office, summoning Li Shen.

A short while later,

There was a knock at the door. Li Shen walked in, wearing a bright, cheerful smile.

“President Chen, do you have any instructions for me?”

Looking at Li Shen’s smiling face, Chen Mo clenched his jaw.

“Take a seat. I’ve read the report you submitted. It’s quite good, but I think there’s still something lacking.”

“You’re absolutely right, President Chen. We know we haven’t done enough yet, and we’ll keep working hard.”

Li Shen quickly made his stance clear.

His ultimate goal was to make Boring Short Video the largest short video platform in the country, and he was fully committed to that vision.

Chen Mo twitched at the corners of his mouth, silently grumbling to himself.

If you don’t understand, just say so.

Did I say that to encourage you to work harder?

“About working hard—just do what you can. Everyone has their limits. There’s no need to push yourself too far.”

“What I meant by saying you haven’t done enough isn’t that you’re not working hard. It’s that you’ve overlooked a talent.”

Overlooked a talent?

Li Shen’s heart skipped a beat. He quickly tried to recall if he had missed someone important.

But after going over everyone he’d dealt with recently, no one stood out as particularly talented.

Confused, he looked up at President Chen, eager to learn.

“President Chen, please enlighten me.”

“This is it.”

Chen Mo looked at Li Shen’s confused expression, then pushed the slightly crumpled report in front of him and tapped on the words “live streamer.”

Li Shen glanced at the wrinkled report, puzzled as to why it looked like this. But the matter of talent was more important, so he didn’t dwell on it. His eyes followed President Chen’s finger to the highlighted words.

Live streamer?

Seeing those two words, Li Shen froze for a moment, then quickly understood.

The talent President Chen was referring to must be that student from the Teacher-training university who helped promote the Academic Subject Live Stream.

“President Chen, this live streamer is just a recent graduate from a Teacher-training university. I wouldn’t exactly call her a talent.”

“No.”

Chen Mo shook his head at Li Shen.

“Talent has nothing to do with academic background. It’s about what someone actually does. This live streamer may just be a student from a Teacher-training university, but she came up with the idea to help promote Boring Short Video. That shows initiative, that shows ability. That’s what makes her a talent. Otherwise, why didn’t the other streamers promote it? Why was it only her?”

“President Chen, after they started promoting it and the number of viewers for the Academic Subject Live Stream increased, their income went up too. Of course they were willing to promote it!”

Li Shen explained.

Every increase in viewership meant their earnings could double. With such huge incentives, even other streamers would be willing to promote it.

Chen Mo shook his head again.

“That’s not the same. According to your report, she was the one who first promoted it in the group chat. It was only after you saw how effective her promotion was that you offered those incentives. So she acted first, and your rewards came after.”

“She seized the opportunity on her own. If she hadn’t promoted it, would you have given her any rewards?”

Li Shen nodded inwardly. That was true. He had only reached out and offered a better deal after seeing how effective her promotion was.

“Clearly, you wouldn’t have. Which means it was her own initiative. She saw the opportunity and took it.”

“That’s what makes her a talent, understand?”

Chen Mo said seriously.

Hearing this, Li Shen suddenly felt that it made perfect sense. Those two students from the Teacher-training university really did seem like talented individuals.

“Then President Chen, what should we do?”

“What else? With talent like this, of course we need to recruit them into the company and make them part of the team.”

Chen Mo said matter-of-factly.