Chapter 74: Chapter 74: Slim Chances, Just Do Our Best, Team Dinner with Cold Sweat!
[Hint: The Douyin Newcomer Incentive Plan has been signed. You can earn supplementary income based on video views and live stream attendance.]
"1. Video view subsidy: Earn 100 yuan in traffic for every 1 million views. (You can open a storefront window to earn high product sales revenue.)"
"2. Live stream attendance subsidy: Earn 200 yuan for every 100,000 people."
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"9. Withdrawal time is the 1st of each month, with a minimum earning of 100 yuan. Funds typically arrive within 24 hours."
"Note: Douyin reserves the final interpretation rights."
He was drinking porridge and eating Guilin tofu, signing the Douyin incentive plan. Being so broke, he had to find ways to make money.
A 985 prestige university student, A+ in professional rating, top of the class every year, yet it meant nothing.
Still broke nonetheless.
After all, he’s still just a poor student, with academic pressure mounting. He wouldn’t graduate and start a proper job until June next year.
The more he studied, the more he understood why those medical PhD seniors had breakdowns.
By 30, others graduate, find jobs early, and even own cars, houses, kids, and wives, while he’s still a poor student, under a supervisor’s thumb, stressed about graduation, penniless, with parents getting old and needing money—how could he not break down?!
But isn’t Douyin a bit stingy?
A million views only get you 100 yuan in traffic support.
100,000 live stream attendees only earn you 200 yuan.
So my previous 12,000 attendees were just 24 yuan?
It shows that in the era of nationwide live streaming and short videos, too many people wanted to scoop money from Douyin, causing intense competition.
As for whether he does product placements,
Although he’s poor, he won’t do product placements.
Just milking video view subsidies and live stream attendance subsidies is enough. If he had the face to exploit family for high commissions, he would’ve become a black-hearted veterinarian long ago.
Signed the contract.
Zhang Lingchuan backed out of it.
By the way, it’s already one o’clock. I wonder if Zhou Guixiang has done the checks.
According to the system prompt, he used the X-ray Eye and found that Aunt Liu had fractured ribs, and signs of internal organ rupture and bleeding.
She likely hit a rock or something when she fell.
To be honest, this condition was more severe than her husband’s to some extent.
Just hoped that she took his words seriously.
Zhang Lingchuan finished his porridge in one go.
Using that X-ray Eye was genuinely tiring.
Now he finally understood why the system recommended using it twice. Using it a third time could really drain him.
[Task requirement: Complete 100 debridement and bandaging operations.]
[Task duration: 9 days.]
[Task reward: Super Acceleration Package*1, Special Stamina Potion*1, Professional Reputation +100.]
[Task progress: 20/100.]
He opened his system.
After completing 100 debridement operations, there’s a Special Stamina Potion.
It seems that the next time he’d need to use this thing to extensively use the X-ray Eye.
Now he’s completed 20 operations.
Hemostasis wasn’t counted.
The road to debridement surgery was still arduous, but with ample time, as a veterinarian, there’s a glitch in the system.
Time for sleep.
Done with washing dishes.
Zhang Lingchuan went upstairs.
He needed to restore some stamina.
Yet like most young people today, he couldn’t fall asleep just by lying in bed; at least he habitually took out his phone while in bed.
Open Douyin.
A few videos had decent views.
The highest view count was over 700,000.
Almost a hundred bucks in hand soon.
He opened private messages.
Found that Southern Little Girl had already updated to account 8.
Said that she looked very pretty.
Even if they didn’t add WeChat, he could open private chat, she’d send photos over.
Would he really open it? Certainly not.
Otherwise, his private messages would be full of girls claiming chest pains and sending photos over.
Swiping through,
Zhang Lingchuan suddenly saw a somewhat familiar account.
[Bright Star: Dr. Zhang, I’m today’s Xiaoying. The test results are out, the patient has traumatic liver rupture, broken ribs, spleen rupture... I thought it was nothing and let her go out alone, but unexpectedly she collapsed directly in the pharmacy... She’s currently being resuscitated, but it doesn’t look hopeful.]
Sure enough.
It was today’s instrument nurse, Li Yingying, who sent it.
Heard that internal bleeding was very severe, even blood accumulated in the pelvis.
She really admired the older generation, with their incredible pain tolerance.
Thinking everything would be fine by just enduring, but can you just endure this? It could take your whole life away.
"Dr. Zhang’s Daily: Thank you Xiaoying, we’ve done our best."
Zhang Lingchuan thought for a bit, and still clicked on the free dialogue option.
Then he replied to her with a message to not feel guilty.
After all, they’d done what needed to be done. After this, it’s up to the resuscitating doctors and the patient herself.
If it weren’t for Xiaoying taking her for a checkup, and she thought she was fine, she might have massive bleeding halfway home after her son came and lose her chance for rescue.
After replying, chatting for a while, Zhang Lingchuan took a nap.
This nap stretched on until 5:30 pm.
What he didn’t know was,
During the entire nap in the afternoon,
his live video was being circulated wildly. Countless veterinarians faced unprecedented blows, cursing the great perversity.
Even on Weibo, there were numerous discussions.
Of course, it wasn’t on the trending list, as it hadn’t gone viral.
5:30 pm sharp.
"Beep beep beep..."
In a daze, Zhang Lingchuan heard his phone ringing.
"Hello, Master Zhang, are you still sleeping? The place and time for dinner have been sent to you on WeChat, you can start heading out now."
It was Song Wanqing’s call.
Only now did Zhang Lingchuan realize there were several messages— from Ah Wei, Teacher Chen, and Wanqing.
And his nap had lasted four hours.
Bizarre.
"Okay, okay, I’ll be right there, Wanqing."
Zhang Lingchuan hung up the phone.
Followed by a quick tidy-up, he jumped on his beloved white electric scooter and set off.
Shouldn’t have much to do tomorrow.
Just right to chat with Wanqing about going to the animal rescue station.
Do a bit of debridement surgery.
In Qing County, Good to Come Again Restaurant.
This was an establishment running for over thirty years, known for its great taste in the county. Wang Liwei chose this place.
"Teacher Chen, over here, over here!!"
5:50 pm.
The restaurant was quite crowded.
"Xiaowang, Xiaoyuan, you two came quite early."
Room 05 Lucky Fortune.
Though it’s a private room, it wasn’t big inside.
With one table, a storage cabinet, and a money tree pot.
Chen Qian put her bag on the storage shelf and then sat down directly.
She originally thought she’d be the earliest.
Unexpectedly, Xiaowang and Xiaoyuan had arrived early.
"Teacher Chen, we just arrived too."
Xiaoyuan replied with a smile.
"Just a few more minutes, Wanqing and Teacher Zhang should be arriving soon."
Chen Qian glanced at the time.
The appointment was for 6 pm serving time.
It was already 5:51 pm.
"By the way, Teacher Chen."
Suddenly Xiaoyuan leaned in mysteriously.
"Hmm? What’s up??"
Chen Qian’s expression was full of curiosity.
"Teacher Chen, have you seen the rumors about Teacher Zhang online?"
Xiaoyuan asked.
"What rumors??"
Chen Qian had a face full of question marks.
"Wherever he goes, something happens... Do you think something might happen tonight at our Good to Come Again Restaurant too?"
Xiaoyuan lowered her voice.
"No, it can’t be..."
Though strangely, Chen Qian felt a sudden chill down her back when she heard this.
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