Chapter 41: A Surge in Followers!
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When Qin Yanran returned to the company, she immediately called for her assistant. “Xiao Lu, these are the materials we just filmed. Take them to the Operations Department for editing, then post them on our official Douyin account!”
The young assistant immediately replied, “Yes, President Qin!”
Qin Yanran then opened Douyin, preparing to contact the operator of the official account for *Traffic Talk with Officer Tan*. When the video was posted, she planned to add a co-creation credit in the publisher section.
*Traffic Talk with Officer Tan* was an officially produced public-service program dedicated to legal education. They would have to be careful about the relevant copyrights.
“Hm? Officer Tan has been injured?”
The moment Qin Yanran opened the Douyin livestream for *Traffic Talk with Officer Tan*, she saw footage of Tan Ping being injured.
At that moment, the livestream was filled with anxious comments from viewers.
One comment in particular deeply moved Qin Yanran:
“Officer Tan, you’re only an auxiliary police officer now! You make just a few thousand yuan a month. Why are you risking your life?”
She then left the livestream and began browsing the videos on the homepage of *Traffic Talk with Officer Tan*.
Before long, she exclaimed in surprise, “These videos are all extremely well made!”
High quality, however, did not necessarily mean high traffic. Qin Yanran checked the figures and found that the most-liked video had only fifty-six thousand likes.
It was the video from that morning in which a young cameraman had been impaled in the buttocks by a traffic cone.
“Perhaps I could buy the video rights to *Traffic Talk with Officer Tan*…”
After watching the videos, an idea took shape in Qin Yanran’s mind.
As someone in the self-media industry, she could naturally recognize that these videos all had the potential to become hugely popular.
The main reason they had not taken off yet was inadequate promotion. After all, this was an official account, and no one was willing to spend money promoting its videos.
Paid promotion and operations management were Qin Yanran’s strengths. Her company even possessed a well-established promotional network.
Once that network was put into action, the traffic drawn by these videos could increase dozens of times, perhaps even hundreds of times over.
And in this era, traffic meant money.
Thus, Qin Yanran called her assistant. “Xiao Lu, don’t post the video yet after it’s finished.”
“Yes, President Qin!” the young assistant replied immediately.
She always carried out her employer’s instructions to the letter.
Qin Yanran continued, “Xiao Lu, find out the going copyright prices for legal-education programs.”
“Understood, President Qin!”
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The young assistant immediately got to work.
Before long, she handed Qin Yanran a list.
“Hmm. The copyrights for these legal-education programs really aren’t expensive. The highest is only a little over 1.1 million yuan. In second place is *Let’s Talk Law*, produced by Qianzhou Television, at just 510,000 yuan. *Intellectual Property Law Education*, a legal program from Capital Television, is only 480,000 yuan!”
After looking through the quotations from the various television stations, Qin Yanran breathed a sigh of relief.
The copyright fees for legal-education programs were extremely low, not even as high as those of some moderately popular short dramas.
The main reason was that these were public-service programs with limited monetization potential.
Moreover, content creators on every platform made clips from such programs, leaving the traffic fragmented.
After reviewing the quotations, Qin Yanran immediately contacted the relevant person in charge of *Traffic Talk with Officer Tan* to negotiate the copyright price.
The entire process went exceptionally smoothly. Daqin Entertainment, represented by Qin Yanran, paid the program producers a one-time copyright fee of 500,000 yuan, with future profits to be divided on a sixty-forty basis.
Once the copyright agreement was finalized, Qin Yanran immediately began preparing the promotional campaign.
Meanwhile, Tan Ping had already been taken by ambulance to the People’s Hospital.
“Officer Tan, you’re back again?”
As soon as he was brought into the hospital, the young nurse who had treated him last time opened her mouth in astonishment, forming a perfect O.
“This time it’s only a minor injury! No needles!” Tan Ping immediately said, still haunted by his previous experience with injections.
“A-Ping, this is only a superficial wound, so you really were lucky. But the situation at the time was far too dangerous! If that knife had gone just a little farther to the side, it would have pierced your abdomen. There are all kinds of organs inside—damage any one of them, and it would have been a serious matter!”
Wang Xingyun spoke with a solemn expression.
“Master, you saw what happened yourself. In a situation like that, how could we, as officers of the people, stand by and do nothing?” Tan Ping said with a smile.
Wang Xingyun nodded at that and could not bring himself to say anything more. It was a good thing for young people to possess such passionate courage.
Still, one of his colleagues offered a suggestion. “Tan Ping, we’re traffic police. If you run into something like that in the future, you can leave it to our colleagues in the Criminal Investigation Unit.”
The cameraman, Yang Wei, nodded as well. “Exactly! Officer Tan, you didn’t even have a weapon in your hands at the time. Fighting an armed criminal bare-handed was far too dangerous. The fact that you survived this time is practically a miracle!”
He had witnessed the scene with his own eyes. It had been extraordinarily dangerous.
Yang Wei’s words also made Tan Ping begin to reflect. “I’m still not strong enough. I can’t even protect myself yet. When will I be able to draw some self-defense skills from the blind box?”
There would surely be many more situations like this in the future.
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After all, traffic police sometimes uncovered firearms during vehicle inspections.
At that very moment, Tan Ping heard a series of notification sounds ringing incessantly in his mind.
“Follower plus one!”
“Follower plus one!”
“Hm? What’s going on?”
Tan Ping was utterly bewildered.
Why had his follower count suddenly started rising so rapidly?
The growth was faster than during any previous occasion.
Before long, Tan Ping checked the system panel. His follower value, which had previously been just over one thousand, had risen to 78,001.
What he did not know was that, after Qin Yanran bought the video rights to *Traffic Talk with Officer Tan*, she had immediately posted a video titled “The Most Beautiful Traffic Officer” and begun promoting it.
The video showed Tan Ping repairing Qin Yanran’s car.
Compared with the other videos from *Traffic Talk with Officer Tan*, its content was quite ordinary. Yet under Qin Yanran’s direction, the video soon surpassed 200,000 likes.
Its number of views was even more astonishing, reaching five million.
That was why Tan Ping’s follower count was increasing so rapidly.
By then, the comment section had already accumulated more than eight thousand comments.
Every single one praised Tan Ping.
“His hands were covered in grime while he repaired the car, but he warmed the hearts of everyone he helped!”
“The way this officer knelt on one knee to repair the car was incredibly handsome!”
“This traffic officer changed my stereotypical impression of the profession. It turns out they do more than issue tickets—they help people, too!”
“This is a traffic officer with a loving heart. He must be a good son at home. Once he has a wife, he’ll surely be a good husband and a good father!”
“Judging by his badge number, he’s an auxiliary police officer. Frontline police officers work incredibly hard. Give him a like!”
And this was only the beginning. Once various self-media accounts saw that Qin Yanran’s video had gone viral, they began reposting it one after another.
After all, a positive and uplifting video like this deserved to be widely shared. Before long, even several official media outlets began reposting it.
Some viewers recognized Tan Ping and left comments in the section below:
“That’s Officer Tan! I was just watching his livestream. He was stabbed by a criminal while trying to catch a thief!”
When the other viewers saw the comment, they grew worried.
“What? Such a kind police officer was stabbed by a criminal? Does anyone know what happened afterward? How is he now?”