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Chapter 576 - 349 This Girl is Too Cute (Subscription Requested)_1

Chapter 576: Chapter 349 This Girl is Too Cute (Subscription Requested)_1

Unexpectedly, Wen Ruohan thought the sales of "Blue and White Porcelain" had crashed, which was why she called Ding Yue on Whatsapp to ask about it.

And it was around midnight when she did that.

Obviously, Wen Ruohan did not know the reason why the sales of "Blue and White Porcelain" were so low.

"Principal Ding, why do we have to wait until tomorrow morning to look at the sales? Didn’t you say before that we could tell from the sales in the first ten minutes?" Wen Ruohan couldn’t help but ask curiously.

The previous songs "Confession Balloon" and "Fragrance of Rice" had great sales in the first ten minutes of their release.

In contrast, the much-anticipated "Blue and White Porcelain" only sold over ten thousand copies in the first ten minutes, why was the gap so large?

Wen Ruohan’s first reaction was "tall trees catch much wind", perhaps the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.

"Wen Ruohan, do you know what day is today and what most people are doing right now?" Ding Yue laughed and asked Wen Ruohan.

"Today is Double Eleven. Most people are... oh right, they’re all shopping!" Wen Ruohan realized in an instant.

It seemed she understood the situation. No wonder the sales of "Blue and White Porcelain" were so low. It was not a failure, but because most people were enjoying the Double Eleven shopping spree on various e-commerce platforms.

Were there few people on NetEase Cloud specifically to buy and listen to "Blue and White Porcelain"?

But...

Wen Ruohan had another doubt, why were the sales of the singles by Practice Boy Group and Han Hao so high?

Logically speaking, since most people from Xia country were busy shopping and grabbing flash deals on e-commerce platforms, the sales of "Subzero" and "Activate Hope" should also be low, right?

But the sales of these two songs were a tad terrifying.

One had already exceeded 300,000 and the other had exceeded 100,000 copies!

It seemed that their "Blue and White Porcelain" from Mist City Arts and Science University couldn’t even compete with them.

"Now you understand." Ding Yue smiled and said.

"Yes, it turns out that everyone is shopping. But Principal Ding, why are the sales of "Subzero" by Practice Boy Group and Han Hao’s "Activate Hope" so high?" Wen Ruohan still asked curiously.

Ding Yue smiled lightly and explained, "They rigged the sales."

The sales of these two singles were too "fake", especially "Subzero" by Practice Boy Group was glaringly obvious.

One user bought hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of copies, and some even bought 100,000 times!

This undoubtedly means that the company or capital behind Practice Boy Group had directly spent money to inflate the sales numbers. Usually, such sales numbers are not counted when evaluating the best song of the year, so such sales figures can only impress the fans and allow them to boast everywhere using these figures.

They were essentially creating the impression that their idol’s new song was very popular.

Didn’t they know in their hearts whether it was really popular or not?

Any rational passerby would know that many young male stars or boy/girl groups’ song sales are inflated.

Only the innocent and naive Wen Ruohan didn’t know the reason behind it.

"So that’s how it is. I was wondering." Wen Ruohan muttered after hearing Principal Ding’s explanation.

"Alright, it’s getting late. You still have to "work" tomorrow, go to bed early!" After saying this, Ding Yue asked Wen Ruohan to rest earlier.

He was also ready to go to bed.

"OK, Principal Ding, goodnight and sleep tight!"

"Goodnight, motherf*cker!"

"Ah? Principal Ding, what did you say?"

"Ahem, nothing, bye!"

After Ding Yue ended the Whatsapp call with Wen Ruohan, he messaged Fang Yuanyuan. He promised to pay for her shopping cart.

"Fang Yuanyuan, is your cart ready?"

About half a minute later, Fang Yuanyuan replied.

Fang Yuanyuan: Mm, okay, Principal Ding. Hehe, I just scored a killer deal, I really am so lucky. It must be because Principal Ding pulled my name out of the draw, bringing me good luck (cute emoji)

"Haha, well maybe! Send the pay link to my Alipay account." Ding Yue thought this Fang Yuanyuan student was quite adorable, and gave his Alipay account details to her.

Fang Yuanyuan: OK

A little later, a pay link was sent to Ding Yue’s Alipay account.

Usually, when shopping on e-commerce platforms, you can have someone else pay on your behalf.

The pay link sent by Fang Yuanyuan totaled the amount due for all the items in her cart, which Ding Yue saw totalled to 50,349.9 yuan!

Without a word, Ding Yue made the payment for Fang Yuanyuan, successfully emptying her shopping cart.

"Alright, it’s been paid." After making the payment, Ding Yue sent a message to Fang Yuanyuan.

Fang Yuanyuan: Hehe, thank you, Principal Ding.

Fang Yuanyuan: [Alipay transfer of 349.9 yuan]

Suddenly, Fang Yuanyuan transferred some money to Ding Yue. It wasn’t much- just the change from the total amount earlier of exactly 349.9 yuan.

Ding Yue, upon seeing that Fang Yuanyuan had transferred him money, was taken aback right away.

What’s going on?

"???"

Ding Yue sent Fang Yuanyuan a few question marks.

Fang Yuanyuan: Principal Ding, didn’t you say the clearance limit for the shopping cart was fifty thousand yuan? All the items in my cart totaled up to more than fifty thousand yuan, this is the amount in excess. Thank you for clearing my cart, I’m so happy~

Huh!

Ding Yue had never expected this. It was just a few hundred yuan in excess, so Ding Yue hadn’t thought much of it and just proceeded with the payment. After all, while they had agreed on a limit of fifty thousand yuan, what’s a few hundred more, right?

Who knew that this Fang Yuanyuan was actually so sweet to end up transferring back the extra few hundred yuan that she unintentionally received from Ding Yue.

What a cute gesture!

To be precise, she was such a pure-hearted girl. When she said fifty thousand, it meant exactly fifty thousand. Even though she received an extra few hundred yuan, she decided to return it straight away.

"Haha, Fang Yuanyuan, you’re quite adorable. It’s getting late, go to bed early." Having said this, Ding Yue didn’t say much else. Now that the money had been transferred back, Ding Yue knew that if he didn’t accept it, Fang Yuanyuan would probably feel uncomfortable.

The fifty thousand yuan shopping spree that he promised was prize money from the draw, and she had every right to feel lucky and accept it. However, the extra 349.9 yuan was not something she could comfortably accept. Such kind of girls are getting fewer and fewer.

Most people, in this situation, would forget it and think that, since they’ve paid fifty thousand yuan anyway, what’s a few hundred more?

Meanwhile, over at Fang Yuanyuan’s dorm.

"Yuanyuan, why did you transfer money back to Principal Ding?" Roommate Xiao Ping asked curiously.

Fang Yuanyuan responded with a cute pout, saying, "Principal Ding said that the shopping spree prize was fifty thousand yuan. The amount Principal Ding paid for me just now was over fifty thousand, so that 349.9 yuan was the excess, of course I have to return it to Principal Ding."

Roommate Xiao Ping nodded her head. True to her simple and adorable roommate, after living together for two or three months, Xiao Ping knew Yuanyuan quite well.

She was such a pure girl, never keen on taking undue advantage of others. The other time, she found a campus card, and while most students might use it to buy a coke or something, Yuanyuan immediately handed it in to the dorm manager. The next day, the card’s owner came and collected it.

After seeing a message from Principal Ding advising her to go to bed early, she replied: "Mm, okay, good night, Principal Ding."

Since it was past midnight before Ding Yue went to sleep, which was later than usual, he woke up quite late the next day.

The sun was high up in the sky, and yet Ding Yue was still sleeping.

But since the whole Mist City Arts and Science University was his, unless he had something special to do, Ding Yue would usually wake up whenever he wanted. This feeling of liberation was genuinely ecstatic.

That’s pretty much like a college student with no morning classes, who can sleep into the afternoon. It’s the best!

As for what they would do the previous night, who really knows? Maybe play LOL? Or maybe something else with their girlfriend...

However, when Ding Yue woke up and checked the time, he noticed that his secretary, Wen Ruohan, had made several missed calls.

"What the heck is going on now?"

Scrunching his brows, Ding Yue murmured. Since the calls were made over ten minutes ago, Ding Yue quickly dialed Wen Ruohan back.