My Multiple Identities Revealed After Marrying the Bigshot-Chapter 476: It’s Great to Work with the Boss

"But I have to bring up Hexing Village and talk about it so you understand your current situation," Lu Youbang said.

"I get it," Lu Youzhen said impatiently, "No need to keep reminding me. I know I’m not as sophisticated as the city girls, and even more so compared to those rich second-generation girls."

"But that’s not a problem. I’m sure I can solve it," Lu Youzhen confidently stated.

Even Lu Youbang was surprised by where Lu Youzhen got all this confidence.

Strangely, for as long as anyone could remember, whenever Lu Youzhen was confident about something, it usually worked out.

"Alright," said Lu Youbang. "Then you better get yourself together and work on improving yourself. When the time is right, I will introduce you to Lin Jingshen."

Lu Youzhen eagerly agreed, rubbing her hands together in anticipation of the opportunity.

*

Lu Youxi, on the other hand, took advantage of the summer vacation to urge Ji Deyi and Pei Jingyuan to upgrade the Little Pink Book app with their team.

"Our Little Pink Book mainly focuses on various ’planting desire’ notes," said Lu Youxi. "To make users want to ’plant,’ we need to shoot beautiful videos and photos," she continued. "To achieve beauty, we need to add a sense of atmosphere."

"For example, filters."

"Filters?" Ji Deyi and Pei Jingyuan didn’t quite understand.

"It’s like adding a thin layer of color to the original image. For instance, adding a touch of cream color can make the image look milky white. A hint of green can make the picture clearer. Add a bit of yellow, increase the saturation, reduce the brightness a bit, and you get a cinematic quality to the image."

"Got it," said Ji Deyi, tapping his right fist onto his left palm, "It’s like adjusting some settings on a DSLR camera, right?"

"Exactly, but it’s a hassle if the users have to tweak these parameters themselves," said Lu Youxi. "If you can preset these adjustments in the system, and create each set of parameters as a filter, users can easily select their favorite or the most suitable filter for their photo’s ambiance when uploading."

"Additionally, we could set up some beauty modes," Lu Youxi suggested. "Girls all love beauty, but sometimes they’re not satisfied with selfies taken with a camera. The resulting photos often look very different from what they see in the mirror and they might not be happy with their complexion. Sometimes when there are a few pimples on the face, the photos are not as pretty."

"This situation actually applies not only to selfies but also to photos taken by others. For example, when traveling or dining in a particularly beautiful restaurant and taking pictures," Lu Youxi explained. "It’s quite regrettable if one can’t capture satisfying photos."

"But with these atmospheric style filters, we can make landscape shots, food photos, and so on much more appealing. They can also make portraits look better," stated Lu Youxi.

"Understood," Pei Jingyuan nodded. "Like you just mentioned, if there are pimples on the face, we could remove the marks by matching and overlaying a similar skin tone color instead of actually eliminating the pimples."

"Right," said Lu Youxi. "And we could also include a whitening feature, which means increasing brightness, exposure, and reducing saturation, adjusting the tone towards blue, but definitely need to fine-tune some values to make the edited photos look more natural."

Ji Deyi nodded slowly, "I get it. We’ll look into it."

"If we can really introduce such features, they’re sure to be popular with our female users," Ni Jingting chimed in. "We have done user profiling for Little Pink Book, and 69% of our user base is female."

"At present, the self-portraits uploaded by our users depend on their ability to find the right angle," Yu Yiming noted. "Considering that current mobile phone pixels are quite low, the pictures taken have a bit of a soft-focus effect. But for more professional users who use cameras, the higher pixel clarity exposes the flaws of both landscapes and portraits even more."

"Even more professional users will fix their pictures with professional software," Zheng Qicong followed up. "However, this increases the difficulty, which doesn’t align with the convenience and the ’share anywhere, anytime’ philosophy of Little Pink Book. Most users are still using mobile phones and regular digital cameras."

"The reason I asked you to develop one-click filters and beauty modes is that Chengzhou is upgrading their next generation of phones, and the pixel quality will see a significant increase. Once Chengzhou successfully upgrades and the phones hit the market, other brands will inevitably follow suit. By then, at least the young user demographic will experience higher pixels on their devices."

"Higher pixel quality means higher photo quality expectations from our users. If we start scrambling to develop new features then, we definitely won’t stay ahead of the market."

Pei Jingyuan’s eyes gleamed with anticipation, "Boss, how many pixels does Chengzhou plan to upgrade the new phone to?"

Lu Youxi smiled and shook her head, "That’s a trade secret I certainly can’t disclose. Just wait for the phone release event."

With each new generation of smartphones, the increase in pixel count is inevitable.

So without Lu Youxi saying it, everyone already knew that Chengzhou’s next generation of phones would definitely come with improved pixels.

What truly remains confidential is the extent of the upgrade.

To prevent competitors from suddenly performing upgrade tests and releasing the same pixel quality ahead of them, secrecy is essential.

"Boss, if you say so, the pixel improvement of Chengzhou’s next generation phones shouldn’t be insignificant," Ji Deyi speculated.

Lu Youxi chuckled, "Well, that’s hard to say. Even if the pixels are further improved, there has to be a limit. They can’t possibly reach tens of millions, right?"

"Of course, tens of millions of pixels, imagine the clarity!" Ji Deyi hardly dared to think of it.

Thus, Ji Deyi and Pei Jingyuan quickly got back to the development of new features for Little Pink Book.

"Working for you is great," Pei Jingyuan suddenly exclaimed while busily working on his computer.

Ji Deyi looked at him astonished, "Haven’t we always said that? If it weren’t good to work for the boss, we wouldn’t have stayed here this long. What’s with the sudden sentiment?"

"Before, our sentiments were because the boss is a good and generous person who never shorts us," Pei Jingyuan explained. "But this time, I’m struck by the boss’s constant flow of ideas, which keeps us busy and always launching new things."

"In the workplace, what could be better than always having new things to develop and challenges to face?" Pei Jingyuan’s eyes shone with excitement, "I feel energized!"