Forcing Me to Be Reborn?!

Chapter 106: Chapter 93: Starting with a Small Fire

Inside a rented room, a fair-skinned and slightly plump girl was browsing Taobao out of sheer boredom.

She was selecting a suitable QQ uniform.

The girl’s online persona was called Mengtao, a… minor internet celebrity on Weibo.

People like her often had a character for “door” in their Weibo bios, signaling to fans to join groups or add a V, indicating there’s a threshold—to put it simply, you have to pay!

In simpler terms, you could see somewhat risqué photos of these people on Weibo.

If you paid, joined a group, or added a V, then you’d get to see subsequent… VIP content.

From a certain perspective, these edge-skating internet girls were indeed one of the primary consumer groups for QQ uniforms.

After all, they made a living by taking photos and videos, hence the need to keep changing outfits to keep their sugar daddies interested.

But in Cheng Zhu’s eyes, these were essentially “Persistent Visit” ads placed across the entire internet, serving as our free traffic drivers and promoters.

At this moment, lying on the bed and scrolling through Taobao, Mengtao seemed to be a conscientious little web-celebrity.

She actually bought her own clothes and took her own photos.

Unlike some accounts which were actually stealing images.

Secretly, it was dim-witted big guys operating these accounts, then earning a bit of intelligence tax from the old lechers.

Men, you see, are like this: they don’t spend much on proper things, but their spending power goes through the roof for all kinds of trash.

Lately, Mengtao felt she couldn’t quite pick out new clothes.

“The photos and videos I’ve been shooting recently haven’t had a great response,” she thought.

And, don’t get me wrong, she actually had quite an ambitious spirit…

And was oddly indulgent with her fans.

—”She really does, I’m crying to death.”

Mengtao recalled that, in their circle a while ago, there was an “item” called the stepmother dress that was very popular.

But she, although having the plump figure men tend to like, had a face that looked youthful.

So when she wore the stepmother dress, the overall effect was less than ideal—it was like a kid playing dress-up, lacking a mature charm.

This made her quite regretful because she knew that some people in the circle had become famous overnight with this “item”!

No helping it, who told that store to make designs this good and to have such an awesome name?

Therefore, the shop “Persistent Visit” actually enjoys high popularity in the circle of internet celebs, even catching up to those old established shops.

Of course, the fame of this store definitely had something to do with its comics.

Don’t mention it, now many who are willing to invest have also started hiring artists to create exclusive illustrations for their photos.

“I’ve heard the results are really good, I’d like to give it a try sometime,” she thought.

Sometimes, the people in this circle really admire the mastermind behind “Persistent Visit.”

They always felt this person was really innovative and creative, selling QQ lingerie online was almost a waste of talent.

He totally had the ability to make our industry flourish even more!

Easily could start an influencer company.

Mengtao was now checking out the “Graceful Flagship Store” on Taobao, where she spent most.

“How come I feel their new items haven’t kept up with the latest styles?” she couldn’t help but murmur.

“Now it seems that all QQ shops on the net are continuing to develop stepmother dresses; each model looks similar, new versions hardly differ from the old besides some minor details.”

“For someone like me, that’s really unfriendly!” she felt her youthful looks were completely overlooked.

Right at that moment, her phone vibrated. She had received a WeChat message from a “colleague.”

The one who sent the WeChat was a Weibo internet celebrity named “Seven-foot LuLu,” the two were familiar, from the same city, and often met offline to discuss experiences, sometimes releasing “collaboration models” of photos and videos to attract each other’s followers.

Just last month, they collaborated, taking a set of photos, which received a lot of attention and made some good money.

“Taozi, you should check out ‘Persistent Visit’ quick! Their new items are so perfect for us, I almost want to buy them all.”

“Ah? Don’t hoax me, Lulu,” said Mengtao, a bit shocked.

In her view, wasn’t “Persistent Visit” the originator of the stepmother dress?

According to reason, this store was the most qualified in the entire net to deeply excavate stepmother dresses, to innovate continuously on them, and to make a killing.

Although, to be honest, no matter how they were modified, they were quite similar to the original.

But now, weren’t all these shops this stubborn, squeezing every last bit of value when resting on their laurels.

Seven-foot Lulu replied: “Just hurry and place an order, and take your photos quickly so we can be among the first to shoot the new models.”

Birds of a feather flock together; obviously, this Seven-foot Lulu was ambitious too.

The Mengtao lying on the bed immediately typed in the four characters “Persistent Visit” and carefully examined the new products.

As soon as she saw the gray backless sweater, she was completely drawn in!

“This is too gorgeous, too appealing!”

“Wow, this vibe, it’s like it was tailor-made for me!”

“Plus, posting these photos on Weibo wouldn’t get pinched at all.”

“Very safe, absolutely no problems!”

“But for VIP photos, I can play around with a lot of variations.”

One word, perfect!

She quickly added it to her shopping cart, buying one size fits all, and even the package with white stockings.

Then, her gaze shifted to the nun’s costume.

“It’s hard not to order it.” She immediately added it to her shopping cart as well.

And so, she kept adding item after item into the shopping cart, buying all the new products at once.

At the same time, she also noticed those three words— “Pure Desire Style.”

“Eh, this term really suits me well,” thought the self-satisfied internet celebrity.

But indeed, if one didn’t have a good opinion of oneself, how could one think their photos and videos were worthy of being sold?

She decided to include the term “Pure Desire Style” as a topic hashtag in every Weibo post, like this—#PureDesireStyle#.

A “Topic” is one of the ways to attract traffic on Weibo.

Many people would click into a “Topic” they’re interested in to browse posts with that hashtag.

And to think that in Cheng Zhu’s previous life, the topic of “Pure Desire Style” had billions of views.

Mengtao felt that this term was quite clever, and intuitively she believed it really could become a viral catchphrase!

“This ‘Graceful Flagship Store’ and ‘Persistent Visit’ really can’t be compared!”

As a long-time fan of the former, she was starting to feel like switching sides.

As for the latter, it was the god-tier item of the current version—an impressive armory.

After making the full payment, she immediately went to show her order to Seven-foot Lulu.

“Lulu, I bought them all too!” she typed.

Seven-foot Lulu: “I was just studying the buyer shows in their shop. The heat of their buyer shows is really high, there are terrifying amounts of comments underneath. Let’s try to post there next time too; we might be able to harvest some new fans!”

“Really?” Mengtao immediately took a look.

She quickly came up with a new idea.

“Lulu, when we take photos, we could mimic the comic poses from the store!”

“Eh, that does sound pretty good,” Lulu thought it was feasible.

After hesitating for a moment, she began to type: “Taozi, I actually have a bold idea for our next shoot, I don’t know if you’d dare try it with me.”

“What’s the idea?”

“I’m thinking of wearing this gray backless sweater… outdoors!”

“What?!”

…

…

At Technology University, in dorm room 309.

Cheng Zhu was looking at the store’s backend data on his phone.

Dong Dong was scrolling through Weibo when he suddenly said, “Fuck, look at the retweets on this Weibo post.”

He shared a Weibo from the official “Persistent Visit” account into the dorm group chat.

This Weibo post contained nine buyer showcase photos of the gray backless sweater new product.

“Can’t you avoid posting this stuff in a dorm full of guys late at night?” Liu Feng couldn’t help but complain, “It’s kind of awkward.”

“It’s not the photos you should see—they are beside the point. What’s amazing is the retweets!” Dong Dong said.

The retweet count for this Weibo had reached 500 in a short period.

Not a lot, yet not a little.

After all, this was a product ad, and for the entire QQ community, this amount of retweets was explosively high!

Such is the terror of an internet celeb shop!

Of course, to an outsider like Dong Dong, he naturally didn’t understand the concept of breaking five hundred retweets in a short time.

What shocked him was certainly not the number of retweets.

On Weibo, you can type and edit your retweet content.

These content pieces were viewable under the post.

Dong Dong was stunned by the comments these retweeters made during their retweets.

“Baby, I’ll shoot these for you next time!”

“Decided, this is the outfit for the next issue haha!”

“Little preview~ I’ll wear this out for a shoot~”

“Any bros want a little static shock with my sweater?”

“Bros, can this sweater increase attack speed?”

“If I was wearing this outfit while waiting for you at home, when would you come back?”

“If I wore this sweater out with you for an hour, where would you take me?”

Internet celebs came out in droves, teasing their upcoming work.

Dong Dong clicked on these retweeters’ avatars to check their Weibo content, and damn, if Weibo cracked down on indecency, none of them would be innocent!

Mr. Dong couldn’t help but remark, “I thought this was just an internet celeb store—I had no idea it was actually a brothel!”

Damn, followed intensely!

This comment kind of upset Cheng Zhu.

We’re legitimate businessmen selling legal, compliant products; how can you describe my official store blog with such words just because a small percentage of old clients have personal attributes like that!

Clearly, those like you with the highest old lecher content are most active here!

There, the three horny dogs of dorm 309 started huddling together to ogle the internet celebs.

Cheng Zhu watched their fussing, and just felt that his three ‘sons’ really hadn’t seen the world.

“What are you even comparing this to?” he thought to himself.

After all, this was just a small circle; he’s a legitimate businessman, with products mainly for the masses.

He picked up his phone and clicked on the “Pure Desire Style” topic keyword.

“Reading volume has already broken 8 million so quickly.” Cheng Zhu was satisfied.

He wasn’t in a hurry, waiting as everything slowly fermented.

And the shop description for “Persistent Visit” had been changed by him long ago to: Founder of Pure Desire Style.

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