?Chapter 39: Episode 39 Zero Tolerance for Plagiarism 1 Chapter 39: Episode 39 Zero Tolerance for Plagiarism 1 “Come on, let’s have a morning meeting!” A new week had started, and Zhou Xueyin, looking refreshed and clear-headed, stood in the work area calling the other three people over.


    “Yinyin, it’s just a few of us, we can just have a casual chat, why bother with a formal morning meeting?” Yao Shanshan spun a drawing pen in her hand, speaking disinterestedly.


    “Shanshan! You don’t get it, this is called boosting morale! Yinyin, come on, what’s the agenda for the meeting? I’ll take notes!” Li Jin’yuan, seemingly out of nowhere, had produced a notebook and pen, ready to take shorthand seriously.


    “Get to the point!” Kang Siying urged Zhou Xueyin.


    “Ahem…” Zhou Xueyin deliberately cleared her throat and glanced around.


    “When we went to IKEA last time, how could we have forgotten to buy a blackboard to bring back… oversight, oversight…” In all the workplace dramas Zhou Xueyin had watched, a blackboard was an indispensable prop in meetings, and they’d totally forgotten to buy one.


    “Enough with that, with your spider scrawl, you dare write on a blackboard? Hurry up, drop the act, what do you have to say?” Kang Siying was moments away from throwing a mouse at Zhou Xueyin.


    “Hehe…” Zhou Xueyin chuckled foolishly but then immediately spoke seriously, “Here’s the thing, we’ve luckily gained a huge wave of coser netizens due to a misfortune, and now we have to guide them to other sections.”


    “But there’s no content in the other sections yet…” Yao Shanshan questioned.


    “Don’t rush me, let me finish.” Zhou Xueyin frowned slightly, “It’s precisely because there’s no content that we need to write some practical posts to put up!” Based on her experience browsing forums, practical posts had the highest view counts and were the content most likely to retain people.


    “Who’s going to write the posts? Or are we just transporting?” Kang Siying pushed up her glasses. sea??h thё N?vel(F)ire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.


    “I thought about it all of last night, transporting content is unreliable. We can’t always just pick up scraps after others, right? As a short-term content filler, it works! But it’s not a long-term solution…” Zhou Xueyin said thoughtfully, “Mainly, you wouldn’t really want to see content that’s tired and worn on other sites on our forum, right?”


    “Definitely not…” several people nodded in agreement, “But there are only four of us. How can we rapidly create content?”


    “Mobilize the netizens! Now that we’ve gathered a group of users, will we still worry about content creation?” Zhou Xueyin’s eyes shone as she spoke.


    “It’s up to our great operations officer, Zhou, to show off her event organizing skills!” Li Jin’yuan teased.


    “Don’t just look at me to organize events, I need you guys to chip in… Can’t you help liven up the forum content?” Zhou Xueyin pleaded with the others.


    “Tell us, what do you need us to do!” Kang Siying declared resolutely.


    So, Zhou Xueyin allocated the different sections to them: Li Jin’yuan took charge of the “What to Wear Today” section; Yao Shanshan was primarily responsible for “How to Do Makeup Today”; Kang Siying oversaw “What to Eat Today”; while she herself continued with “What to Buy Today.”


    “Post 10 pieces of content each day? That’s not a problem, right?” Zhou Xueyin tentatively asked, as she had never done it before and had no idea how much content one could actually produce in a day.


    “Ten posts each person? Or just ten total for all of us?” Yao Shanshan asked, a bit dumbfounded.


    “Definitely ten each! Shanbao, what kind of question is that…” Li Jin’yuan looked at Shanshan helplessly.


    “Ah? Ten posts a day about makeup? I’ll run out of things to say very soon…” Yao Shanshan said cluelessly.


    She was fine with drawing, but when it came to talking about makeup, she felt somewhat out of her depth.


    Despite being into cosplay, she had always been one to let her costumes do the talking, and someone else always did her makeup. As for makeup techniques, she was completely at a loss.


    “How about… we switch? You do ‘What to Wear Today,’ and I handle the makeup?” Li Jin’yuan, noticing Yao Shanshan’s concerns, offered to swap tasks with her.


    “Fine, I’ll give it a try,” Yao Shanshan said without much confidence.


    “Then will Shanbao and I hit the streets?” Zhou Xueyin tentatively asked, knowing that Yao Shanshan was not as fond of roaming around like she and Li Jiniang were.


    “Yeah, sure!” To her surprise, Yao Shanshan agreed enthusiastically this time.


    “Yinyin, how about the four of us go on a street-sweeping spree together this time? Maybe we can go to Xidan to take photos, and get all the pictures we need for the week, how about that?” Li Jiniang suggested, “That way, we save time, and also save on travel expenses…”


    “Hmm…” Zhou Xueyin thought about Li Jiniang’s proposal for a moment, “That could work! We can take a variety of stuff, like clothes, to mix and match! We can also introduce one type of cosmetics at a time, or a category. As for food, maybe we can post one at a time?”


    “Then how about this, we go to Xidan early tomorrow morning, and take care of breakfast, lunch, and dinner there? This way, we can try more varieties and also judge which shops are tastier?” Kang Siyin added to Zhou Xueyin’s idea.


    “Sounds good! Let’s do that! Xidan day trip first thing tomorrow!” Zhou Xueyin made up the plan, clearly thrilled.


    It seemed that if they followed this plan, it wouldn’t be long before every section of the forum would be bustling with activity.


    In the afternoon, everyone was busy with their own things.


    Yao Shanshan was honing her drawing skills, Li Jiniang was flipping through books on speaking techniques, Zhou Xueyin was checking out worthwhile content on other forums, and Kang Siyin was browsing major portals. Three kittens were soundly sleeping in a corner of the room, painting a serene picture of peaceful times.


    “Yinyin, Yinyin! The fake Ying Haiwei case has been cracked!” Kang Siyin’s sudden excitement broke the peaceful calm of the afternoon.


    “Really? Has the case really been cracked?” Zhou Xueyin looked at her with eyes shining.


    “I’ll send you the link!” Kang Siyin sent Zhou Xueyin a link to a news portal covering the incident of fraud involving someone impersonating Ying Haiwei.


    A cross-provincial pursuit resulted in the arrest of a major internet fraud criminal, Lei Moumou. He used the name of a famous website as bait and the most advanced virtual hosting packages as his way of making a profit, defrauding a total of 2 million RMB. The sum was huge, the crime heinous!


    The man was arrested by the police at a bank while trying to unfreeze his bank card.


    A total of 1 million RMB in stolen funds was recovered…


    “Wow… 2 million! That’s some serious deception,” Zhou Xueyin remarked, astounded, “At 5000 RMB per person, just think how many people he deceived! It’s terrifying!”


    “Some may have lost more than 5000 RMB, given there were different packages, right? It’s a relief they recovered some of it,” Kang Siyin said, visibly relieved.


    “Just wondering when we’ll get that money back…” Zhou Xueyin sighed, feeling as though the return of their money was an indefinitely distant prospect.


    “Man, this Lei guy is utterly shameless!” Yao Shanshan exclaimed as she read the article, “He’s been scamming everyone!”


    “What do you mean scamming everyone! It’s a triple scam, okay! He scammed the investors on top, the employees below, and the buyers on the side… People involved in financial crimes like this one should be prepared to rot in jail!” Li Jiniang said indignantly.


    After reading the full report, Zhou Xueyin learned that Lei had initially planned to start a virtual hosting company, but as the money started rolling in, he decided to pocket it all. So one day, he just disappeared from his office.


    Not only did he owe two months’ salary to his employees, but he also owed money for the rented servers, including the funds recently obtained from investors, as well as the money from the packages purchased by the users…


    Thankfully, someone locked the bank card he used to collect money, which allowed the police to quickly apprehend him. The prospects of getting the stolen money back seemed good!