Push Me Away When I Come, Don't Hold Me Back When I Leave - Chapter 171

Chapter 171: Between You and Me, This is Where Our Fate Begins

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Xiao Qinghan’s operation also directly increased Raspberry’s popularity by millions. The livestream segment about Xia Ruoming was just a small tactic. What really caused Raspberry’s popularity to skyrocket was the trending topics that never went down after being bought, various monetary benefits that were spent like they weren’t even money, and benefits meant to compete with Shark, such as being able to watch high-definition streams without logging in.

Because of this, promotional costs also increased rapidly, but Xia Ruoming could afford it, letting Xiao Qinghan take charge freely.

This included Ye Xue’s help behind the scenes. Many people in her circle started using Raspberry, naturally spreading it from one to ten and ten to hundreds. Xia Ruoming thought it was Ye Han helping her promote, but how many people could know about Ye Han’s daily promotional posts?

Of course, although Xia Ruoming’s livestream segment was a “small tactic,” it was still in a university where students all had families.

This promotional speed was far faster than normal advertising.

However… it had nothing to do with Xia Ruoming. After all, since discovering that Xiao Qinghan was even more skilled in this area than her post-rebirth self, she had already started slacking off on the Raspberry project. Whether there were issues or not, everything went to Xiao Qinghan.

Now, except for occasionally coordinating with the programming side, she had completely stepped back from the Raspberry project. She had always been clear about such things, since Xiao Qinghan did it better, an amateur shouldn’t try to guide a professional.

The only thing that could get her attention was the gaming side. However, compared to the Raspberry project, writing some plot and drawing original art every day was quite enjoyable for her and couldn’t be considered torturous work.

Although Xiao Qinghan was the nominal boss, the news that Xia Ruoming was the actual controller spread quickly. With Raspberry achieving such success shortly after launch, many people developed thoughts of connecting with this genius young lady. In Hangzhou, even if Xia Ruoming wasn’t extremely famous, she could be considered rising to prominence.

More ridiculously, there were families with good relationships with the Ye family who, knowing Xia Ruoming liked women, commissioned Ye Han to discuss marriage arrangements with Xia Ruoming. After all, their daughters weren’t meant to inherit the family anyway, so it didn’t matter if they couldn’t have children. Even a political marriage might become a beautiful story in the future. Besides, wasn’t it perfect that Xia Ruoming and their daughter wouldn’t have children? Without heirs, these assets would belong to their family anyway.

Ye Han would certainly never help with such things, as she had her own small intentions. But she also couldn’t directly refuse her father’s face, so after pretending to agree, she immediately threw such matters to the back of her mind, forgetting them completely.

As for Ye Xue, although she also helped Xia Ruoming, it would be even more impossible if asked to help with this. If she did such things, wouldn’t her wish for Xia Ruoming to live differently in this life be wasted? So she also just superficially agreed nicely, but completely ignored it once she turned away.

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“Suhe, did you see today’s video on Raspberry’s homepage?” Xu Fengwu held up her phone, asking Chu Suhe beside her. Inside was the stunning performance of Xia Ruoming and Ye Han’s duet.

From the first day Raspberry launched, Xu Fengwu became a Raspberry user. After all, from the name ‘Qinghan Culture’, Xu Fengwu knew exactly whose product this was. She knew Xiao Qinghan’s background better than anyone, how could she have the economic resources to play it so big? Just the advertising costs during this period probably needed seven digits to calculate.

At that time, still somewhat arrogant, she thought Xia Ruoming was really generous, giving such a big gift to Xiao Qinghan. She downloaded Raspberry just for entertainment, after all, she heard that the one managing Raspberry wasn’t that all-talented Xia Ruoming, but Xiao Qinghan managing this project. She was quite interested in seeing what Xia Ruoming’s attitude would be after Xiao Qinghan’s failure.

In her mind at that time, Xiao Qinghan was just a teacher who had resigned not long ago. Without any entrepreneurial experience, how could she possibly manage such a big project well?

But after Raspberry became popular and videos increased, Xu Fengwu directly transformed into someone always looking down at her phone. Walking on the road, she kept watching videos constantly, just like those people from the previous life who couldn’t go a day without reading Tomato novels. If she didn’t watch Raspberry for a while, she felt like she had nothing to do, so she would open her phone and start watching videos again.

Not to mention one time when she was walking out of the dormitory while buried in her phone, she didn’t see Chu Suhe coming back, and the two directly collided, seeing stars. If it weren’t for their slight height difference, the two might have even had a “Shocking! Female Students Caught Kissing Publicly in Dormitory” moment. Chu Suhe didn’t even care about her own scrapes, applying medicine to Xu Fengwu’s scrapes first. Only after that incident did Xu Fengwu become somewhat more restrained, not so obsessed with her phone, but she still watched plenty every day…

At least she wasn’t watching while walking anymore.

It was then that Xu Fengwu truly admired Xiao Qinghan and understood why Xia Ruoming would choose Xiao Qinghan to help complete her business. Internally virtuous, externally talented, if she lost to Xiao Qinghan, it really wouldn’t be unfair.

“Th-that… I haven’t seen it yet…” Chu Suhe answered quietly.

Hearing Chu Suhe’s words, Xu Fengwu immediately covered her mouth. Her social circle had never included someone like Chu Suhe. Although her relationship with Chu Suhe had become very good during this time, some things just couldn’t be changed immediately.

She subconsciously treated Chu Suhe as someone with a similar family background as her, until she forgot that Chu Suhe didn’t have a smartphone. Only when she saw Chu Suhe’s somewhat disappointed expression did she realize again.

“Sor…sorry, Suhe, I forgot…” Xu Fengwu said apologetically.

Perhaps due to Xu Yihan’s long-term guidance taking effect, from some point on, the usually proud Xu Fengwu had also learned to be humble.

She just wasn’t mature enough yet. Perhaps at this time, taking out her phone to share the video with Chu Suhe and pretending not to know would have been the best choice.

Fortunately, Chu Suhe was such a good girl. She was only slightly disappointed for a moment and didn’t develop any feelings of inferiority, just timidly saying “Don’t mind me, Xu classmate, it’s… it’s all my own fault…”

“Suhe always calls me that way, it feels very distant…” Looking at the now very timid girl in front of her, Xu Fengwu felt an unexplained heartache, then said softly, “How about this, I’ll call you Susu like Ruoming does, and you can call me Fengwu like Ruoming does, okay?”

Chu Suhe was stunned for a moment, she clearly hadn’t expected Xu Fengwu to make such a request. She knew that being able to be with someone like Xu Fengwu, who had been “shining brightly” in the past, was somewhat due to Xia Ruoming’s influence.