Chapter 1

At 7:25 am on December 2, Xiao Fang, an ordinary worker, was awakened by the alarm clock that set every weekday.

As a local single young woman living in an old residential area in the old town of Xuncheng with her parents, Xiao Fang wailed after glancing at the time on her mobile phone and got up with difficulty.

At 7:45, Xiao Fang finished washing up and putting on a simple work makeup, then appeared at her dining table neatly dressed.

Breakfast is served.

Although living with your parents may lead to many conflicts, such as differences in concepts, being urged to get married, being nagged, and a series of other small troubles, it also has many advantages.

For example, you don’t have to pay rent, you can eat at home, you don’t have to clean when you’re busy at work, you can enjoy all the conveniences of living with your parents, and you can occasionally act like an older baby in your twenties.

"Fangfang, you're so old now, it's time to have a boyfriend. Instead of working on weekends, go out with your friends and meet some new people. What does it look like to stay at home all day? Your dad and I were watching the news a few days ago. It said something about script-killing games, which should be something you young people like to play. There seems to be some event going on recently that looks very economical. Why don't you ask your friends to go out and play a script-killing game?" Fangfang's mother nagging at the dining table.

"Mom, script-killing games are not economical at all, they're so expensive! Yuanyuan wanted to take me out to play before, but any show costs 78, which is enough to watch two movies! My monthly salary is just over 4,000, where can I have that kind of spare money?" Fang Fang said impatiently, blowing a few breaths on the tomato and egg noodles, opening her mouth to take a big bite and swallowing it. "Besides, who said we have to go out to play on weekends? I'm so tired from working every day, can't I sleep a little longer at home on weekends?"

Fang Fang's mother shook her head helplessly and went to the kitchen to get the leftover braised dishes from yesterday.

Fang Fang's eyes lit up when she saw the braised dishes, and she said excitedly, "Mom, Xinghe Braised Food Store will sell pig's trotters tomorrow. Can you buy some for me tomorrow morning? I'll come back to eat them in the evening."

"Eat, eat, eat, all you know is eat. 78 yuan is expensive for going out, but you don't think it's expensive for eating braised dishes? Do you know how expensive and hard to buy the braised dishes in this braised food shop are? Not only are they expensive, but there are also purchase restrictions. I lined up for more than an hour yesterday. I lined up at the door before the store even opened, for fear that I wouldn't be able to buy anything."

"This shop sells braised pork intestines for 160 yuan per pound, beef hearts are even more expensive, and even pig trotters are 80 yuan per pound. How come you don't think it's expensive? Why can't I ask you to go out and play?"

Fang Fang smiled apologetically: "How can this be the same? This stewed food is so popular and delicious, so it's reasonable that it's expensive."

"It's such a sin. Old Fang, how could we have such a daughter? She doesn't care about other things, doesn't even want to go out to play, and her mind is full of eating. Even now that she's grown up, she still wants me, a mother who's about to retire, to skip work to queue up for her to buy stewed food."

Fang Fang's father said helplessly: "Next weekend, you can queue up and buy it yourself."

Fang Fang smiled apologetically: "It's Pig's Trotter Day on Tuesday, so it's good to grab Pig's Trotters. Besides, I was the one who bought the braised vegetables the day before yesterday."

"How dare you say that? The day before yesterday, you lied to me that you and Zhou Yuan were going out to play, but what happened? Oh, you went out to play for two hours and came back with two bags of stewed food. It seems that you went out to play just to trick Zhou Yuan into buying stewed food with you, right? You even bought Zhou Yuan's share and made her wait in line with you for so long without leaving any for her."

"Oh, Zhou Yuan knows the owner of that stewed food shop. Doesn't she live there? It's more convenient for her to buy stewed food through the back door than for us. Yuanyuan went to play the script after queuing, but I won't go." Without giving her mother a chance to nag, Fang Fang put down her chopsticks, "I'm done eating, Mom and Dad, I'm going to work first!"

After saying that, Fang Fang rushed out of the door picking up her small bag as if running for her life.

As an ordinary office worker with a monthly salary of only 4,000 yuan, Fang Fang naturally cannot afford the luxury of taking a taxi to work every day. The company is far from home and it is troublesome to ride an electric scooter. Her home is in an old community and there are no charging stations for electric bikes, so she usually takes the bus to work.

Around 8 o'clock, the bus station was crowded with people going to work at 8:30 or 9 o'clock. Everyone was in a bad mood, and it was obvious that they were not mentally prepared to go to work on Monday.

Fang Fang was playing with her cell phone while waiting for the bus.

Looking up, Fang Fang discovered that the billboard at the bus stop seemed to have been changed.

9 script-killing stores including cc jointly launched a blind box event?

You can draw a blind box once you spend 200 yuan.

Can you also draw blind boxes in script-killing shops these days?

But why does the name cc look so familiar, as if I have seen it somewhere.

Fang Fang, whose bus had not arrived yet, began to leisurely look at the blind box gifts in small print.

A net... What is this? A small trinket? It looks OK in the picture, but it's not interesting.

A one-time free ticket for the script is pretty good.

Wash, cut and blow dry? Fang Fang touched her hair and thought it was time for a haircut.

The cat cafe gives you three coupons for petting cats, and also gives you canned drinks and cat food, which seems pretty good.

Monthly script card? Zhou Yuan would like it.

Xinghe Braised Food Store offers 15 kilograms of any braised food on designated dates during the New Year.

Ah, braised food, she only likes to eat Xinghe...

etc!

Fang Fang's eyes widened.

What did she see?!

Xinghe braised food shop!

Is it the Xinghe braised food shop that she knows?

15 pounds!

It’s still New Year period!!

If I win this lottery, how happy I will be this year!!!

Why didn’t her mother tell me earlier that this script-killing activity was a blind box draw, and if you spend over 200 yuan, there is a chance to win 15 kilograms of braised food.

If she had told her earlier, she would have gone to play a long time ago. If it really doesn't work, she can ask Zhou Yuan to help play for her.

As for the limited number of prizes.

Fang Fang believes that she will definitely be the lucky one.

It doesn't matter if you don't win the prize for the braised food, because there are still coupons for dining, free ice cream all year round, cat petting coupons, and haircut coupons. They all sound good. The net is actually not bad either. It looks pretty in the picture and can be used as a decoration on a hanging bag.

Fang Fang started to send messages to Zhou Yuan: Yuanyuan, do you know which script stores have blind box activities? Call me next time you go to play. Generally, how many scripts do you have to play to win a blind box?

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There are many people like Fang Fang who were overwhelmed by Yan Huaiyou's overwhelming advertising campaign and could not distinguish the advertisements on TV and radio from the advertisements on billboards they saw everywhere on the roadside.

For most people who have little knowledge of script-killing or have never been exposed to it, this is the same activity.

The blind box activity is very innovative.

The prizes look pretty good too.

Even the most ordinary net looks good, and it is definitely worth it to pull one out.

And the threshold is not high. You can draw once when you spend over 200 yuan. The activity lasts for more than a month, so it is very easy to draw when you spend over 200 yuan.

It can be said that all the money that Boss Zhen spent was used to help Yan Huaiyou.

"Tsk tsk tsk, your online army attack is really fierce." Jiang Qi, who had nothing to do in his own store, ran to CC to eat, drink and use the heating. Sitting in Yan Huaiyou's office, he looked at the messages in various groups and exclaimed, "You really don't let go of either online or offline."

Yan Huaiyou had said before that he had lurked at least 20 small accounts in the appointment groups of all the stores participating in the competition, and now it was time for these small accounts to come into play.

Set the rhythm.

Boss Zhen said on TV before that his original intention of holding the competition was to rectify the chaos in the industry, to give profits to players, to restore clarity to the script-killing industry, to expand the market, and to teach those irregular stores a lesson.

This statement was an indiscriminate attack, which severely offended the stores that did not participate in the competition.

Since he was talking nonsense on TV, Yan Huaiyou let his trumpet talk nonsense elsewhere.

Boss Zhen and his team are engaging in a price war, and the biggest advantage of a price war is that it is really cheap.

No matter how generous the prizes of the blind box seem, the original price of 78-258 has really no advantage compared to the 29.9-39.9.

Most customers still want to save some money. Why would they go for the expensive ones when they can go for the genuine ones at a cheaper price?

But script-killing is different from most entertainment industries and even the catering industry. If diners are not satisfied with the food in one restaurant with the same style of cuisine, they can switch to another one. If you want to eat a dish, you can eat it every day. Anyway, you have to eat every day, so it doesn't matter what you eat. But this is not the case with script-killing.

If you are not satisfied with one dungeon, you can switch to another one, but it is difficult to play the same dungeon a second time.

No means no, this is a one-time deal.

Customers really have to be snatched away. If they are snatched away by others, even if you snatch them back again, the time they were snatched away will never come back.

So Yan Huaiyou chose to wage a war of public opinion.

In short, it is rumor spreading.

It sounds highly unethical, but it works.

Aren't your 29 stores jointly reducing prices to give back to society? Selling a boxed copy at 29.9 is cheaper than pirated copies. This is not reasonable.

I don’t care whether you have a problem or not, but it’s okay for me to question whether you have a problem or not, right?

Why do all the stores participating in the blind box activities keep the original prices and not reduce the prices, but you reduce the prices so much? Is there something wrong with your originality? Or is there something wrong with your quality? Or is there something wrong with other aspects?

As an ordinary water army, one who is willing to spend one or two hundred dollars to play the game just to have fun and have fun, there should be no problem in asking reasonable questions, right?

After all, there is a saying in this world that doesn’t sound very reasonable: “Cheap goods are not good.”

You are so cheap, is there something fishy going on?

All of Yan Huaiyou's internet trolls seized on this argument and started arguing everywhere they could, using all kinds of tactics and launching an overwhelming advertising campaign online.

It can be said that the current situation is that pure passers-by have been misled and think that there is only one activity, which is the blind box activity.

Among the non-pure passers-by who are just watching the show, some have been led by the rhythm, and the rest are hesitating whether it is better to get a bargain or to draw a blind box.

Anyway, the mentality of most people is, fight, fight!

You don’t have to spend money to watch the show and enjoy the melons. Whether you play the cheap game or draw a blind box, you will not lose out. The longer this activity lasts, the better.

Yan Huaiyou, the instigator, sat in his office and calmly ate melons: "How can you say that I am setting the tone? I am just questioning it reasonably. Boss Zhen can throw dirty water on us, saying that we are irregular shops, the cancer of the industry, those who followed the trend and did not love script-killing at all, and industry trash who only wanted to make money. Can I be allowed to question it reasonably?"

"Aren't we just following the trend and entering the industry just to make money?" Jiang Qi asked himself.

"Of course we both are." Yan Huaiyou readily admitted, "Isn't the purpose of doing business to make money? If not to make money, what is the purpose? For interest? For passion?"

Jiang Qi said that my sister is really like that.

Her purpose of opening a shop and doing business has always been pure and has never been for money.

"Your store should be packed every day now, right?" Yan Huaiyou asked.

Jiang Qi nodded: "There were too many books bought at the autumn exhibition, and the customers couldn't play with them all. There is an event this time, and many people rushed to make reservations. There are also many people in the overnight show. Fortunately, I have hired a lot of part-time workers in the back of the store, so they can take shifts."

"Now it's directly divided into day shift and night shift."

"I think you need to hire a few more full-time employees, otherwise you won't have enough staff when your new store is renovated."

"That's right." Jiang Qi thought it made sense. As long as business was good, there would be no harm in hiring more people.

After the blind box event is over, it will be the winter vacation and the New Year in a while, and the business will be bustling again when the peak season arrives.

Given the current situation, I will definitely be able to save enough money for renovation in December, start renovation at the end of the month, and complete it in mid-to-late January. From a time perspective, it is appropriate to recruit people now.

"Let's discuss something." Jiang Qi looked at Yan Huaiyou and smiled, "Can you lend me the window of your store to put up the recruitment poster?"

"I don't know why, but I find it very useful to recruit people by visiting your store."

Yan Huaiyou: ???