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Chapter 326: Chapter 253: The Special Winner Chapter 326: Chapter 253: The Special Winner Lele’s “spiritual father,” Wang Tao, opened the video and saw Lele’s Mother wearing a cotton house dress.

Despite being a long dress–seemingly quite thick–it still managed to outline her slim curves.

What’s more, the long dress was of a low-cut style.

Obviously, Lele must not have been short of “nutrition” when he was little.

Such a “granary” has enough for both adults and children to partake.

At this moment, Wang Tao was thoroughly enjoying the video.

Because Lele’s Mother today dressed very homely, it intensified the aura of maturity about her.

The video started with the doorbell ringing, she went to open the door, and then the online sensation Shui Luoluo, all smiles, walked in.

After the perfunctory pleasantries, the two women sat on the sofa with Lele to play a game, specifically “Sheep.”

Initially, they were teaching Lele how to play.

But as the game progressed, it was just the two of them playing, completely disregarding Lele at their side.

The video was edited, so it wasn’t very long, but they played several rounds of “Sheep.”

The two chattered away, one suggesting to eliminate the forks first, the other the radishes, but the actual outcome was… utterly useless!

They both somewhat played the role of the “ditzy beauty,” clearly not getting the hang of the game.

“Indeed, what this family lacks is a wise man like me,” Wang Tao amusingly thought to himself.

One could imagine that similar comments would appear under this video.

“Useless, she can’t even play a game properly with my son.”

“Don’t you get it? I’m the one who recorded this video.”

“Welcome everyone to admire my home, and my silly wife.”

However, Wang Tao initially thought this “Sheep” game didn’t seem all that special, but after watching it being played several rounds in the video, he started to think that this game seemed… somewhat cheap!

He rewound and replayed, noticing that Lele’s Mother and Shui Luoluo were stuck for a long time on one move, even used a “prop,” but to no avail.

“It seems that even if you take the radish down first, you still can’t eliminate it, right?” Wang Tao analyzed.

And you know what? The background music of this game was weirdly brainwashing.

He just watched a video, and the tune was already haunting him; he couldn’t rid his mind of it!

As the game went on, the two women got so excited that they started yelling and screaming.

Then the excitement turned into frustration.

Which progressed from frustration to silence.

In the end, as the video was about to finish, Lele’s Mother’s ample bosom under the cotton dress heaved with agitation, as if about to burst with anger!

Yet she found herself at a loss for words, struggling to find an insult.

The funniest part was that it was supposed to be the two women teaching Lele the game, right?

But they got too hooked on playing themselves.

This led to Lele’s Mother’s realization at the end of the video, “Where’s Lele?”

“Yeah, where did Lele go?” Shui Luoluo was also confused.

Yes, at some point, Lele had disappeared from the living room.

He had scooted off to the side to play with Lego…

After watching the video, Wang Tao left a comment in the section: “Brothers and sisters, I’m on it, wait for the news of my victory! I’ll nail it within an hour!”

He quickly downloaded the game and immediately, the bewitching background music echoed through the dormitory.

Thanks to the popularity of Lele’s Mother’s Weibo, an hour later, Wang Tao actually received replies under his comment: “One hour has passed!”

An hour and a half later.

“Man, did you pass it yet?”

Two hours later.

“Have you made it through, why don’t you chirp back?”

Two and a half hours later.

“Can you even do it?”

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After the promotional video on Weibo was released, “Sheep” really garnered a surge of traffic.

Clearly, a lot of new “victims” had surfaced.

You must consider it’s night time now.

Now some people will have trouble sleeping tonight~

At the game studio’s group chat, Wei Bo and others were astonished.

The reason was simple: he checked the game’s various data and saw that it had been skyrocketing since 8 p.m.!

This sudden surge was still ongoing.

In this era, Weibo dominated the social media platforms, having a certain hegemony.

Cheng Zhu hadn’t discussed the specifics of the promotion with the team in advance, saying only that he would arrange some channels, which he hadn’t described in detail.

Therefore, the game studio’s group chat was now in complete uproar over the data spike!

Cheng Zhu, calmly holding his phone, watching the collective shock of his team in the group chat, typed to explain the reason: “I got someone to help promote it for free.”

Everyone: Of course!

“Boss, who did you get to help with the promotion?” Wei Bo asked.

“Today was the first wave, there’s another wave tomorrow. Today’s was just a celeb with ten million followers, and another with just millions.”

A simple phrase sent chills down the spines in the studio.

There it is! The classic boss showing off moment, better late than never!

Celebrities with millions of followers on Weibo helping to promote a small game developed in our university studio?

And for free!?

This revelation shook Wei Bo, whose entrepreneurial experience told him the gravity of it.

Back then, when they were making their games and wanted to do some online promotion, they indeed contacted a company and received a price list.

Looking at the company’s quote made Wei Bo and team fall into silence.

Damn, so being a celebrity is this lucrative!

–Excuse the interruption.

Like hell one could afford that promotion.

Not to mention a direct advertisement on Weibo, even just asking a celebrity to “share” would cost a hefty fee!

And remember, some popular accounts aren’t even an option for collaboration on demand.

To maintain their popularity, these accounts won’t just take any offer, no matter the paycheque.

There’re certain standards.

“How exactly did the boss make it happen?” Wei Bo was puzzled.

How can one just easily freeload on this level of internet celebrity?

And listen up, he just said this is only the first wave; there’s a second wave of promotion to come tomorrow.

It might even be larger in scale!

Sure enough, at that critical moment, Dong Dong would chime in the group chat, inadvertently aiding Cheng Zhu’s boasting.

“Brother Zhu, is the second wave of promotion on Weibo too?”

“Yeah, but we’ll be changing the mode a bit. We’ll have another celebrity with tens of millions of followers leading the charge, followed by a few more with millions,” Cheng Zhu replied in the chat.

The team couldn’t help but gasp.

This situation seemed far from an ordinary college startup project!

Initially, we were thinking of organizing a competition on campus–thought to be unprecedented!

But after this comparison, they’re worlds apart!

“Also for free?” Mr. Dong inquired.

“Nonsense,” replied Cheng Zhu.

His response was simple and straightforward, with an air of inevitability.

As if it was all meant to be!

Dong Dong: I’ve learned something new.

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On the other hand, Ancient Mountain Culture was also monitoring the data related to this video.

Generally speaking, it’s difficult to make any judgments when a video is just uploaded.

It takes some time for results to settle.

But this particular video about “Sheep” had one standout feature–high fan interaction.

The growth in likes and comments was significantly higher than that of some past daily life videos.

Especially the comment section’s heat!

In the past, comments on Lele’s Mother’s account were a bit monotonous.

After all, the same few topics recurred.

But today was different; many people were discussing this game.

And as time passed, more and more people joined in the game talk!

It felt as if they were saying: I went to play after watching the video. After playing for ages, I just couldn’t help but come back to leave a message.

What kind of damn game is this, so addictive and bizarre?

What’s the actual purpose of this game’s development?

Is it for us to play, or… for it to play us?

At first, many people commented: how could this kind of match-three game break anyone’s composure?

But what happened in the end?

After people tried it themselves, their comments changed to the following sequence:

Doubt Lele’s Mother–Understand Lele’s Mother–Become Lele’s Mother–Surpass Lele’s Mother!

Wow, no wonder she’s Lele’s mother; she has such composure.

She didn’t curse or smash her phone.

Just a collapsed expression plus a bunch of messy filler words, and tousling her hair slightly.

OK, OK, clearly a gentle woman fit for marriage and motherhood.

–This wretched game. Today, it’ll either be the game or my phone screen!

Of course, as a box-opening blogger, Lele’s Mother probably had a higher proportion of female fans after all.

Even for someone like Shui Luoluo, a beauty blogger, women are the main followers too because she often does makeup tutorials.

Actually, this kind of match-three game inherently targets female players more.

Games like “Happy Elimination” are something many girls would play casually to kill time.

And you know, once a game gets popular online, and it has a significant female player base, it mysteriously also becomes social!

Helpless, we men are very simple creatures; wherever there are more women, you will find us men milling about.

–The old pervs are bloody everywhere!

Ancient Mountain Culture could confirm something: “Sheep” is a game with a high level of topical interest.

“Ordinarily, the comments don’t require us to pad data, no need for us to fake the heat by stuffing comments.

The netizens themselves have kicked off the frenzy!”

The comment count was quickly in the tens of thousands.

“If this keeps up, it feels like we could hit the popularity charts!” Zhu Youwei was astounded.

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Meanwhile, the 48-hour Technology University campus game competition was drawing to a close.

Seeing such a grand event is rare for Technology University!

Who knows how many people were playing that cunning game in the school.

Geez, it’s supposed to be Saturday, my day to team up for online battles at the internet cafe! Now I’ve saved the internet fee!

What Cheng Zhu didn’t know was that, just two hours earlier, a short and balding elderly gentleman sat at his study desk, slowly removing his reading glasses.

Dean Zhang sat in his chair, his face painted with disbelief.

“Did I clear the level?”

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