Forcing Me to Be Reborn?!

Chapter 105: Chapter 92 Good Night, Cheng Zhu

Before, running a QQ store involved quite a jumble of thoughts.

The store didn’t hire photographers; he, as the owner, would book models in hotels alone, sometimes even two QQ models, focusing on those who were diligent and capable.

Once random thoughts piled up for a person, their attention on important matters would naturally decline.

Always playing outside would easily lead to quarrels with the wife, and quarreling was time-consuming and exhausting, affecting work.

After feeling overextended, things improved somewhat, and he began to focus solely on his career.

—Sheep’s weakness, is a blessing for middle-aged men.

At that moment, he was sitting in front of the computer with the operator, carefully examining the details of every new item from Persistent Visit.

“All are our own designs!” the operator couldn’t help but exclaim.

He had suggested to Mr. Li before that they should occasionally try their own designs, but Li Mantang was unwilling to hire people.

Because as Li Mantang saw it, the risks were too high—how could you know whether it would all be in vain?

If you copied the popular styles from the market and added some minor innovations, that would be perfectly adequate.

If they designed by themselves and failed, the overall store traffic might decrease.

Innovation was something small and medium-sized stores should do; big stores, with their resources, could just copy and be done!

“How do you think these self-designed models are?” Li Mantang, wearing reading glasses, asked.

“Quite impressive,” the operator couldn’t help but praise.

I’m not like you, Mr. Li, I am still young, and my body is still fine.

Think about it—I, who deal with QQ products all day, looking at their new products, actually feel a rush of blood to the head, feeling a tiny urge to buy, what does that tell you!?

How can ordinary customers handle it!

The most important thing is, their store’s new products and the current mainstream products on the market, are not going in the same direction!

It’s the year 2014, when everything is bold and straightforward, not much cunning involved.

But every new product from Persistent Visit is very thoughtful.

He had no idea what was going on in the designers’ heads at that store.

How could they come up with all these tricks!

When everyone else is going for lighter and thinner, you actually come out with… a sweater?

And yet, a sweater has a certain domestic feel to it.

The color grey is one of the strongest colors for that domestic feel.

From the front, the garment is fine to wear out on the street.

But from the back…

Hey! That means if you wear a coat over it, this garment can truly be worn out on the street!

“No, stop thinking! Don’t think about it! Stop!” he started to control his wandering mind.

Damn, the plot is spilling out on its own!

The operator had no idea that years later, a series of videos called “Tips for Meeting Boyfriends” would become popular on an app called TikTok.

In these videos, many girls would lift their long pants to reveal the stockings hidden inside.

This equaled a little surprise prepared before meeting a boyfriend, and where they were going to meet, well, that goes without saying, right?

Grey turtleneck sweater dress with a black coat over it is a very normal outfit.

But who could imagine that there’s a twist hidden behind it, with a big surprise prepared inside?

Li Mantang was completely unaware that his operator’s mind was wandering.

Wearing his reading glasses, he looked at the name of each product and couldn’t help muttering those three words: “Pure Desire Style?”

“What does that mean? Is this a new trendy phrase?” he wondered if he was falling behind the times again, “Have you heard of this Pure Desire Style?”

“Eh?” The operator snapped back to reality, shaking his head and saying, “No.”

He frowned and immediately started searching online for these three words, fearing he might have missed some internet trend.

Now, online trends change in the blink of an eye, and sometimes you really can’t keep up.

But his search turned up nothing.

“It’s not a trend word,” the operator frowned.

This was equal to their ‘stepmother skirt’ from Persistent Visit, uniquely created by them.

But he was puzzled, “Why create a style term instead of more interesting product terms like the stepmother skirt?”

“What’s the use of that?” the operator racked his brains but couldn’t understand.

“Forget about it, we can’t beat them in external traffic, but we must not lose internally!” Li Mantang instructed.

The money he had burned in these two months couldn’t go to waste.

The operator felt a cold sweat on his forehead, feeling a vague premonition that this time it might be tougher!

But then again, the strategy of using a high price to snatch keywords like ‘stepmother skirt’ from within the site was indeed proposed by him, the operator of the store.

The pressure immediately weighed heavier.

“However, their self-designed new models this time, although very interesting, probably won’t bring as much external traffic as before.”

“After all, the last time was when the comic had just come out, and the market had already been exploded once, and the outside world was already shaken once.”

“This move is certainly still effective for a while, but the second time, it definitely won’t reap as much as the first.”

“QQ products are, after all, not something everyone uses; these things are niche, and trying to generate traffic from outside is as hard as reaching the heavens.”

Now, the competition within the stores is severe; everyone is relying on concessions, spending money, and other means, using a form of ‘Seven Injuries Fist’ to fight with the peers within the platform.

The tactics they had previously used against Persistent Visit were actually Seven Injuries Fist.

The operator said to the boss, Li Mantang, “Boss, didn’t we try external traffic before, to be precise, haven’t all stores tried it, but has anyone succeeded in drawing traffic?”

“This store could draw traffic because of that unexpectedly popular comic.”

“After all, our QQ-related products are too hard to draw traffic; not to mention, your pictures on various social platforms will be immediately blocked by the platform, making them invisible, so naturally, the effect of drawing traffic is zero, and that’s just…”

As he spoke, the operator suddenly exchanged glances with Li Mantang, then both tacitly turned to look at the computer screen, looking at each new product from Persistent Visit, and simultaneously gasped in shock.

Because while chatting, they immediately realized that if you only look at the front of the new products from Persistent Visit, there’s absolutely no issue with any of the items!

—This is probably a high-end game!

“Finished, all done!” The operator immediately tensed up, suddenly realizing the seriousness of the situation!

…

In fact, Cheng Zhu’s contemporaries didn’t yet know that in a particular niche community, the new products from Persistent Visit were like a thunderbolt, effortlessly igniting that special circle.