Chapter 55: Popular Beyond the Circle
Xu Kaiming never thought that the cotton dolls produced by his factory would become popular beyond the circle.
The fact that non-fans like Qingyi Xiaochen can buy it is purely because of the tip-off from insiders.
Other big names in the doll industry weren't so lucky. When they tried to buy them, they were almost sold out.
I wanted to buy one at a high price, but no one was willing to pay.
I set up a stall on a certain second-hand website. I watched helplessly as more and more people set up stalls around me, all of them were there to pick up babies.
You can even see some familiar IDs in the kid circle.
"Are you here to pick up the baby too?"
"That's right, that little essay written by Qingyi Xiaochen is so intriguing, ahhhh. Damn, my curiosity is piqued. But I can't buy it!!!"
"We're not the only ones who've been sold on it. Others are also buying it through various channels. It's so hard to buy something from a fangirl."
"Of course I did. I followed the clues and found the original owner's Weibo, begging him to open more and wait for pre-sales. Please don't refuse to sell!"
Several big names in the doll circle clearly have their own small groups, but they insist on chatting on the communication page of a certain second-hand platform.
There are many capable people in the doll circle, it is impossible that no one can buy it!
This lightly dressed little Chen whetted everyone's appetite. She kept changing the doll's clothes and took it to a cafe and outdoors for photos.
As big names in the doll industry, they all noticed that she was above them.
At night, the sisters who had not appeared in the small group excitedly took a photo.
Isn't this the same doll that Qingyi Xiaochen has in the photo? It's the hoodie version. I heard this is the hardest to buy of all the dolls. Did she get it?
"Where did this come from?"
"How much did you charge?"
"Is it fun?"
"Can I still buy it?"
"Seeking a channel."
Everyone has been craving it all day. Today, I saw my sisters in the group bought it, so how could I sit still?
The sisters said, "It's my little cousin's. She's a fan. I saw her Moments today and found out she's after a really good-looking guy named Gu Yanqiu. I immediately drove to her house and saw the doll."
"How is it?" Some impatient people couldn't wait any longer.
"It's fun. Every joint can move, and the face is perfectly formed, no plastic surgery needed. The clothes are just like what Xiao Chen said, the workmanship is excellent. The hems and the small details on the pants are all as if they were scaled down. My cousin just couldn't let it go, and I was screaming inwardly. And it was only a hundred yuan!"
"So you just..."
The other person was a little embarrassed: "So I shamelessly played with her doll for the whole afternoon. When I left, my aunt looked at me strangely. Don't imagine it, you can't buy it at all. They gave away the doll purely for charity. I looked up the company that gave it away, and it's a major export company. It's really different from the toy factory we work with."
She said so much in one breath, and everyone else's heart sank.
The central idea can be summed up in one sentence: fun and out of print.
Shit, what if this becomes even more appealing to the kiddie community?
I heard that the second-hand price of this doll was 5,000. They thought someone was speculating on the doll again.
As a result, everyone is now ready to take action.
Although 5,000 is a bit expensive, it's not out of my reach. This is a rare doll!
So one by one they quietly raised the price of buying second-hand goods.
The news spread back to Gu Yanqiu's fan group, and everyone was shocked again.
They only knew that Chen Duo's peripherals were hard to come by, but they didn't expect there would be such high potential for appreciation.
Everyone treats dolls more carefully, and even starts to make doll circle strategies to see how to raise a cotton doll?
Therefore, the big guys in the doll circle can receive a lot of customization requests with pictures.
After seeing more, I realized that they all have good looks.
And after I bought the baby clothes, the pictures they sent back were so cute.
It can also perform various movements and is so flexible that it doesn't look like a cotton doll.
How tempting! Those who didn’t buy it in the baby circle thought.
Everyone knows that it is difficult to impress people in the fan circle, but Qingyi Xiaochen is an insider, so she used the out-of-print big doll and the super heavy-duty Lolita haute couture doll clothes in exchange.
There is no price for this thing on the market, and if there is, it is auctioned on a certain fish platform.
This is a treasured item that is not available for sale. Although it is just a small piece of clothing, it is extremely complicated and takes more than two months to make.
Anyone who has done it will never do it again, but Qingyi Xiaochen refused.
The industry was shocked. Even such an exchange could be rejected. How fun is this kid?
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The cotton doll has become popular. Xu Kaiming doesn’t dare to log in now. As soon as he shows up online, people will block him, praise him for his handsomeness and ask for the cotton doll!
If he disagreed, the other party would scatter screenshots, the very one he secretly hired internet trolls to post and then deleted.
Thinking about it now, he wanted to go back and give himself a slap in the face. Why had he been so careless back then, doing such a little trick in public?
His original intention was to suppress the hype, but as the cotton doll became popular, his incident also spread widely... He was so embarrassed that he couldn't face people.
Until he saw a very long and serious praise in the backstage.
The other person wrote a lot of words, describing how she worked twelve hours a day without a break for a week, and how she was often on business trips. She didn't dare keep pets, and she bought a cotton doll because she was a fan.
After working overtime late into the night, she returned home to a darkened house, completely devastated. She cried and confided in the cotton doll, describing the pressures of work. She slept with it in her arms. The next morning, she woke up and, for once, didn't fold the quilt, but covered the doll with it. She had already grown up, but the doll brought her back to her childhood.
Xu Kaiming was really moved after reading it. He didn't do much, but he was able to give spiritual comfort to others and gave them a lot of new meaning.
Gu Yanqiu also received this doll. He received the supreme version, which came with many sets of small clothes.
Gu Yanqiu smiled, then pinched the doll and said, "You have more clothes than I do!"
The doll was a cute chibi doll with big, pretty eyes. Gu Yanqiu couldn't help but laugh along. He then asked his assistant to take a photo of them. In the photo, he had a warm smile, hugging the cotton doll, adding a touch of gentle boyfriend charm.
As soon as the photo was posted, fans were thrilled.
"Oh, isn't this the scene in my dream?"
"Ahhh, I really want to be transported into this doll."
"Show the same baby [picture] [picture]"
“It’s so cute.”
"What a cutie this is."
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