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[Haishi Vocational College of Electronic Technology has hit the jackpot!]

[If you place in the top 10% of your class, you get a full year’s tuition waived and a 500-yuan monthly meal subsidy… plus there’s an internship base worth 500 million. Next year they’re probably going to be flooded by students whose grades aren’t amazing but also not bad enough to be outrageous, or students who messed up on the college entrance exam.]

[And then there’s their talent recruitment plan. Of course, those top-tier scholars and professors probably still won’t look twice at the school—because even though they’re suddenly rich now, their foundation is still what it is. But those mid- to lower-tier experts, professors, and PhDs will definitely be very willing to join them, because the conditions they’re offering are just too generous.
Most importantly, as a junior college, Haishi Vocational College of Electronic Technology is like other junior colleges: it has almost no one with especially strong research ability. In other words, right now, even if a monkey went there, it could become king.
So guess what happens when there are too many monkeys?]

[They start competing, until in the end a Monkey King is born.]

[But who knows whether that Monkey King might one day transform into the Great Sage Equal to Heaven?]

[After Kaoshan Village got carried by Xia Ruizhe, now we’ve got Haishi Vocational College of Electronic Technology too.]

[Still the same thing—one billion yuan, and Xia Ruizhe just donated it like that.]

[Most importantly, he’s even planning to give half of the future revenue to Haishi Vocational College of Electronic Technology. Wait… are the patents Xia Ruizhe invented really worth that much? Just covering those year-end student rewards alone would cost at least… let me calculate… my god, at least close to 60 million a year!!!]

[And if you add in the salary subsidies for the school faculty, that has to be over 100 million a year no matter what.]

[So I went and searched it up on Baidu, and what I found was that those eight patents Xia Ruizhe got aren’t just profitable—they’re insanely profitable.]

[All eight of the patents he got are in the field of electronic display screens.
First of all, all eight display screens have one feature in common: high strength, and they can block, transform, and absorb blue-light radiation.
As everyone knows, blue light can damage the structural tissues of the eye, causing harm and even permanent damage.
Secondly, Xia Ruizhe named the eight screens OLEDA, OLEDB, OLEDC… all the way to OLEDH.
Among them, OLEDA has the highest color accuracy and the fastest response speed.
OLEDB has the best viewing angle and the lowest cost.
OLEDC has the highest contrast, the strongest sense of layering, and the brightest colors.
OLEDD combines all the advantages of the first three, but is slightly thicker than them and also the most expensive to manufacture.
…
OLEDG is the thinnest and has the highest brightness.
OLEDH has the lowest power consumption and the best color saturation.]

[Just two hours ago, Magellan announced that it was postponing the launch of its new phones because it was preparing to replace all the new phones’ displays with OLEDA, OLEDB, and OLEDD screens.
After that, Frank and Nuovo also issued statements, moving up the release of phones originally scheduled for next quarter to next month, and all the new phones will also be using OLEDA, OLEDC, and OLEDF displays.
For this, they will each pay their original display supplier, Five Chi Company, 100 million US dollars in breach-of-contract penalties.
The moment this news came out, it sent all three companies straight onto the hot lists of overseas social platforms.
And then Magellan immediately released a new promotional video for its new phones.
#promotional video#]

Everyone clicked open the video at once.

And the video really was unusually simple.

In the video, the host only conducted five sets of experiments. The subjects in all five sets were three older-model phones equipped with the new electronic displays, while the control group consisted of the original old-model phones.

The first test was blue-light detection.

It could clearly be seen that while the old phone equipped with the original display emitted as much as 600 units of blue-light radiation during use, the three old phones fitted with OLEDA, OLEDB, and OLEDD displays emitted less than 20 units.

[PS. I searched up some papers. Even the best blue-light screen protectors on the market can only barely reduce radiation to this level.]

The second test was a durability test.

The host held a tray containing twenty phones. After straightening up, he directly dumped all the phones out of the tray onto the floor.

After the first round of testing, one of the five original old phones had a cracked screen, while the other fifteen old phones equipped with the new displays were completely unharmed.

After the second round, two of the five original phones had cracked screens, while the fifteen old phones equipped with the new displays were still perfectly fine.

…

After the ninth round, the screens of all five original phones had shattered into pieces, while among the fifteen old phones equipped with the new displays, aside from two phones whose back covers showed fine cracks, all the others were completely intact.

…

Then look at the comments under the video.

[What kind of joke is this? Is this really technology Chinese people can master?]

[And I heard the material cost of this display is only 40 M yuan?]

[??? Five Chi Company is in trouble.]

The Chinese netizens were numb too.

[…The back cover of the phone shattered, but the screen still didn’t break, and you can’t even see more than a few noticeable scratches. Are we sure this isn’t black technology?]

[This definitely is black technology.]

[No wonder Xia Ruizhe managed to get such huge signing fees from those three companies.]

Before this, the best electronic display manufacturer in the world had been H Country’s Five Chi Company. In front of it, even the major phone companies of other countries, including China, weren’t fit to carry its shoes.

Five Chi’s best-selling high-end product was the MMOLED display, known for its high color accuracy, high brightness, and excellent viewing angles.

It was said that the average material cost for one MMOLED phone display was 110 M yuan, while the factory price was 150 M yuan.

Its top-selling product was the SMOLED display, with a material cost of 40 M yuan and a factory price of 55 M yuan.

Before this, the mid- to high-end phones of Magellan, Frank, and Nuovo had almost all used displays manufactured by Five Chi.

But now, any one of the eight phone displays Xia Ruizhe invented could crush their best product with ease, while also costing far less to produce—

[And if you look at the annual sales of those three companies combined, it’s close to 500 million units a year, with 25% of that being mid- to high-end products…]

[Just adding this in—right this moment, China’s three biggest phone makers, Jigong, Jiruo, and Ganqi, have all announced that they’re seeking patent authorization from Xia Ruizhe.]

[…]

[Alright, now add 15% of the 300 million annual domestic phone sales. Even if we calculate using the lowest patent fee of 5 M yuan per phone, and even if those companies’ sales don’t explode after they obtain the patent authorization—which they almost certainly will, since they now basically have a semi-monopoly on the overseas sales rights of these eight displays—Xia Ruizhe would still be able to make 850 million M yuan a year in patent fees.]

[Although it’s possible that these technologies will soon be cracked by the big manufacturers, leading to a lot of knockoff versions, that probably won’t happen until at least next year. Which means that just off these eight patents alone, Xia Ruizhe should have no problem casually making 20 billion.]

[According to what he said, he’ll donate half the revenue to Haishi Vocational College of Electronic Technology. Even if that 10 billion just sits in the bank, it would still generate four or five hundred million in annual interest. That’s enough to support three Haishi Vocational Colleges of Electronic Technology.]

[Wait—I suddenly understand why Xia Ruizhe was so confident when facing the Xia family. It’s not just because he’s about to become a billionaire, but because—if I remember correctly—Xiafeng Group seems to be the biggest mobile screen-protector manufacturer in China—]

[That’s right. And starting last year, Xiafeng Group began rolling out chain stores for mobile screen protector installation across the country. By last month, Xiafeng Group had already opened more than 200 stores in over 40 cities nationwide.
PS. One of those stores happens to be on a shopping street near my home, and they even pasted an introduction to their chain on the wall, so that’s why I know this so clearly.]

[But now that these eight display screens are out, do phones even need screen protectors anymore?]

[Obviously not. After all, what are the biggest functions of a screen protector? Blue-light protection and anti-drop protection.]

[So if I lose my job in the future, does that mean I won’t even be able to go install screen protectors under an overpass for a living anymore?]

[??? A disaster from the heavens!!!]

[That’s not the important part. The important part is—connecting this with the fact that Xiafeng Group is China’s biggest mobile screen-protector manufacturer, holy shit, are you telling me Xia Ruizhe invented these eight displays on purpose???]

[Do you even need to ask? That’s definitely exactly what happened.]

[So while we were all pitying Xia Ruizhe, Xia Ruizhe had already struck at the Xia family before the Xia family could strike at him?]

[…Absurd.]

When the news reached the Xia family, one could imagine just how furious Xia Yuanzheng was.

Because no matter how he thought about it, he had never expected that Xia Ruizhe, who had been like an ant in his eyes until now, would dare target the Xia family.

And it was precisely this Xia Ruizhe—whom he had never even taken seriously—who had made him, and the entire Xia family, stumble so badly.

—Because of this single matter, in just four short days, the Xia family’s market value had evaporated by 25%.

Of course, much of that was only on paper. As long as the Xia family’s foundation remained, the stock would sooner or later rise again.

But what they could not endure was that instead of standing together with the main branch through the crisis, the collateral branches of the family had all swarmed in, each trying to tear off a piece of flesh from the main branch.

Because of this, they had instantly lost two board seats in Xiafeng Group and three manager positions.

And the mobile screen-protector chain-store project, into which they had already burned more than 2 billion yuan, was now doomed to die prematurely. Xiafeng Group would also forever lose the screen-protector industry, that veritable money-printing machine.

But if Xia Ruizhe thought that with just this much, he could bring down the Xia family—

he was daydreaming.

Although Xiafeng Group was the biggest mobile screen-protector producer in the country, the screen-protector industry brought in less than one-fifteenth of Xiafeng Group’s annual income.

So this time, at most, Xia Ruizhe had only managed to tear off a chunk of flesh from Xiafeng Group.

Xiafeng Group was still one of the dominant giants of Qianshi.

At that thought, Xia Yuanzheng slammed another hard punch onto his desk.

Just wait.

Once Xiafeng Group caught its breath again, he would definitely make Xia Ruizhe understand what kind of consequences came with offending him—offending the Xia family.

Unlike the principal, the manager, and the others who were all overjoyed, Ao Ruizhe quickly put away the smile on his face.

Mainly because he had remembered something again—or more accurately, had been forced to remember it—

namely that his brain-dead fans were once again energetically praising him in the comment section. In their mouths, he had already become someone on the same level as Nobel and Yuan Longping.

If netizens’ attention weren’t currently focused entirely on how much money he was about to make, people would probably already be chasing him down to curse at him again.

The manager quickly calmed down as well. “This really isn’t easy to handle.”

“After all, no matter what, brain-dead fans are still fans. Their starting point is still to protect Ao Ruizhe. So if we offend them too harshly, it’ll inevitably provoke disgust from other fans too.”

Ao Ruizhe, however, said, “Actually, it’s very easy to deal with now.”

Manager: “Hm?”

Ao Ruizhe: “The reason they say such brain-dead things is probably because they’ve never been beaten by society.”

“Then send them to the countryside for re-education.”

Manager: “???”

That… actually wasn’t impossible.

“But do you still have that much money in your hands right now?”

After all, his brain-dead fans weren’t just one or two people, but a hundred or two hundred of them.

Ao Ruizhe: “…”

He really didn’t.

After all, he had donated all his money.

The new phones from Magellan and the others wouldn’t launch until next month, which meant he wouldn’t get any patent fees from them until at least next quarter.

“But that’s okay. I can ask my sugar daddy for it.”

Manager: “……??????”

“What did you just say?”

“Say that again?”

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