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Chapter 327: Chapter 254: Christmas Battle Robes Chapter 327: Chapter 254: Christmas Battle Robes At midnight, Lin Lu finally set aside her phone at home.

“The plan to save Cheng Zhu some bonus money has declared a failure,” she lamented, playing on her bed before burying her face despondently in her pillow.

For some reason, she felt as though time flies when she played this game.

Hours had slipped by without her noticing.

Each time it was supposed to be “the last round,” but it always led to another.

And you couldn’t ignore the fact that a round of “Sheep” actually took a fair bit of time.

At least the game lets you jump out at any time, no need to tend to it when you’re busy with other things.

“It’s so annoying, I wanted to show off my smarts in front of him!” Lin Lu felt a bit defeated.

Then, she began messaging Shen Qingning on WeChat.

“Ningning, calling Ningning!”

“Just speak up, it’s already midnight,” Shen Qingning, who had just closed “Sheep”, typed back.

“Ningning, did you play Sheep today?” asked Lin Lu.

The ever proud tsundere admitted against her will: “Played it for a bit.”

“You didn’t clear it, did you?” Lin Lu probed further.

Shen Qingning also felt helpless: “No, can’t get through it.”

“That’s good, that’s good!” To Shen Qingning’s surprise, that’s what Lin Lu replied.

Could Ningning not understand her own best friend? Feeling defeated and now seeking balance with me?

This was somewhat akin to the mindset of some underperforming students: “I can’t solve this problem, but, hey, neither can the top student!”

“I’m going to sleep,” a content Lin Lu sent the message.

Then this voice-acting girl pressed the voice message button and, squeezing out a bubbly voice, said in a very low tone, “Goodnight, baby.”

But Shen Qingning had long been immune to her antics, merely replying with: “Night.”

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As night fell, in a standard room in a Hang City hotel,

the school beauty vlogger Zhang Qiqi and her cousin Meng Yiyi each lay on their beds.

Meng Yiyi’s trip to Hang City this time was for an exam.

The test spanned two days.

After it ended, it was the weekend, so she planned to enjoy Hang City for two days before returning home.

Originally, she was supposed to visit a claw machine arcade this afternoon,

but instead, the sister duo spent the entire day in the hotel playing “Sheep”.

Zhang Qiqi’s approach to the game was different from others.

Most schoolmates played to win Cheng Zhu’s money.

Only a few like Lin Lu and Shen Qingning aimed to score high ranks and save him money.

Zhang Qiqi, the school beauty, was determined to help promote Cheng Zhu on Weibo, so she was seriously studying the game, considering the best way to advertise it.

“But now, he has already partnered with Ancient Mountain Culture, and compared to those accounts, my promotional efforts seem somewhat insignificant,” she sighed inwardly.

In fact, Cheng Zhu did see her as a very useful tool.

Whether her internet celebrity attribute or her green tea attribute, both were quite handy.

Now that he was tied with Ancient Mountain Culture, Qiqi’s usefulness had indeed waned somewhat.

Late into the night, she first checked out the videos posted on Weibo by “Lele’s Mother” and “Shui Luoluo”.

After watching, the school beauty vlogger couldn’t help but envy, “Such high popularity!”

Unexpectedly, Meng Yiyi immediately leaned over, “Sister, let me see, let me see.”

She was greatly curious about the world of internet celebrities, or rather… she aspired to it.

These days, indeed, many young girls dream of becoming internet celebrities,

thinking it glamorous and lucrative.

Meng Yiyi’s thoughts were simple: “If Zhang Qiqi can make it, surely I can too.”

“Sister, is their video data impressive?” she inquired earnestly.

“It’s awesome,” Zhang Qiqi marveled.

“Look, the number of likes is much higher than their usual Weibo posts, which means many people find the content interesting.”

“And the view count too, see, it’s also higher than their other videos.”

“The most outrageous is the comment count, disproportionally high compared to the likes. It seems like the users are really engaged!”

She looked at her cousin and gave her a simple analysis.

“I see!” Meng Yiyi pondered with newfound insight.

Zhang Qiqi, still poring over the data on her phone, couldn’t hide her envy.

Her Weibo account normally received about three to four hundred comments and rarely broke five hundred; the likes hovered around two thousand.

Only the set of pure desire photos and POV dance videos that Cheng Zhu helped her with hit two waves, with likes breaking five thousand–they were her signature content.

Big internet celebrity “Lele’s Mother”, with her millions of fans, was indeed on a different scale compared to a minor internet celebrity like herself.

Even so, it was clear this video’s metrics were all impressive, Weibo would surely continue to funnel traffic its way.

“I see, it’s even hit the [Trending List].”

“Perhaps it will indeed turn out to be a win-win collaboration?” thought Zhang Qiqi.

“If I also make a video related to ‘Sheep’, might I still attract some traffic?”

After all, Ancient Mountain Culture had a second wave of promotion tomorrow.

If the game’s overall heat on the internet truly takes off, those who started playing early like her could continuously tap into a new stream of traffic.

For instance, if netizens search for this game on Weibo, their posts would rank quite high.

“This familiar feeling! Why does everything end up like this again?” Zhang Qiqi couldn’t figure it out.

It seemed since she got in touch with Cheng Zhu, every time she tried to leverage her minor internet celebrity status to help him, she’d end up profiting from their interaction!

She had intended to owe Cheng Zhu a favor, but that didn’t really work out. Instead, his influence on her seemed to grow stronger each time!

He didn’t appear to be actively doing anything, yet somehow, he managed to boost her account!

“Tomorrow I’ll use helping him promote ‘Sheep’ as an excuse to talk to him, see if he has any promotion suggestions,” Zhang Qiqi decided.

“It’s too late now, and I don’t know if he went to bed early. I’ll find him tomorrow,” the green tea senior thought.

In truth, Cheng Zhu was accustomed to going to bed late.

Zhang Qiqi’s misconception that he sometimes slept early and other times late was solely because Cheng Zhu sometimes didn’t feel like chatting with her or found it inconvenient, so he’d pretend to be asleep.

Cheng Zhu’s thoughts were simple: Sorry, green tea senior, but those tricks you often use on others, I might just let you experience what they feel like!

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The next day, Cheng Zhu woke up bright and early.

He had a packed schedule for the daytime.

Now at month’s end, he still had a monthly meeting at Persistent Visit.

This tradition had persisted since the shop opened.

However, it used to be only him and Wang Anquan attending.

Now the number had increased to dozens.

“Speaking of Persistent Visit, it’s been a while since any new products were launched,” Cheng Zhu mused.

“Ye Zi must be rather idle these days, right? I wonder if she’s finished photographing that 75E mixed-blood girl.”

He had been in less contact with Ye Zi recently.

With this thought, he checked the calendar on his phone.

“The upcoming new releases should feature holiday products.”

The idea wasn’t out of the blue; it’s just that, with only a couple of days until December and Christmas approaching, many shops would introduce Christmas-themed lingerie for the festive mood.

These bright red Christmas styles could even be worn for the New Year–it was, after all, quite festive.

“Like such Christmas styles, they’re pretty much similar across all stores.”

“After all, the color scheme is almost set in stone, and the elements too, there are just a few.”

Christmas, of course, is about stuffing gifts under the Christmas tree, yeah, you’re like the tree.

Cheng Zhu quickly envisioned several Christmas outfits in his mind.

Some were thinner styles, while others were thicker and appeared warmer.

Between the two, he personally preferred the latter.

In his previous life, he had tried on a couple of them.

One was a standard red dress.

The other was more akin to a cape.

Some naive girls only think about receiving gifts on Christmas.

Some sensible girls turn themselves into the Christmas gifts.

Sometimes, Cheng Zhu would get annoyed because during the major holidays, he often ended up with several “gifts” in one day.

Although the shop had switched lingerie models, when he envisioned the Christmas styles, his mind still pictured Ye Zi.

A brief daydream made him think that if Ye Zi wore them, they’d probably look quite tasteful.

“Speaking of which, I had considered rewarding her once she finished photographing the external model.”

“After all, with the pressure of the overseas market, Ye Zi was practically spinning like a top, taking pictures during the day and editing at night.”

“After wrapping that up, she had to go take glamour shots of Liu Jiani.”

“I remember I even promised her some rewards.”

“Later on, I totally forgot about that.”

If he didn’t take the initiative to contact Ye Zi, she wouldn’t actively message him–she’d just post a friend circle visible only to him.

Cheng Zhu wondered if this woman with an apparently strong masochistic streak was feeling itchy these days.

“I’ll talk to her later in the evening,” he decided.

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