Let's Squander A Billion First!-Chapter 1598: Wu Di of the Anti-Fans (29)
Ren Qi quieted down over there, and the internet wasn’t so chaotic anymore.
Chuzheng hired people to control the narrative online, and at the same time, she promoted An Ji’s new book. As soon as the pre-order link went up, sales skyrocketed.
Chuzheng re-registered an account and reposted An Ji’s pre-order Weibo.
[San Ye: Repost the original Weibo and purchase "The Twilight Return" with proof of purchase to receive 100 cash, no limit on the number of participants.]
[Born Without Money: Yes, find me!
Because Chuzheng had added a hashtag, fans involved in the topic quickly saw it, and then some people reposted it, leading it to go viral quickly.
[No limit per person with a hundred each? How much is this costing?]
[Oh my goodness, what a big spender.]
[I bought five copies, can I get five hundred?]
[Could this be fake?]
[A new marketing strategy?]
[Brothers and sisters, I’ll try it first! Wait for the good news!!]
[Holy crap, you can really get it! Screenshot!]
Quickly, many shared screenshots showing proof of purchase, demonstrating it was possible to claim the money.
However, one proof of purchase was limited to one claim.
But if you bought ten books and paid separately ten times, then you could claim it ten times.
"The Twilight Return" is priced at only 32, so even buying one book earns you a profit of sixty-eight. Who wouldn’t do such a lucrative deal?
Because the event was so drastic, word spread outside the circle quickly.
Chuzheng’s Weibo and An Ji’s Weibo were continuously reposted.
There were so many screenshot shares that some doubtful netizens tried placing orders themselves. After receiving money, they spread the word too.
#WealthyOnlineGivingMoney#
#TheTwilightReturn#
These two trending topics were quickly pushed to the top.
[Oh my god, you can actually get money.]
[Ah, if I had known earlier, I would have bought them separately, I bought six sets! What a loss!]
[I just want to ask who is this San Ye, with so much money.]
[So, are you buying books for the money, or taking money? This book’s sales figures seem a bit too fake, don’t they?]
[I feel the same way.]
[Is this how data is manipulated? Who is this author anyway, I’ve never heard of them...]
[The marketing tactics these days are terrifying!]
Gradually, similar voices began to emerge.
New book pre-orders usually come with some perks, but most of them are minor.
Unlike now, where you can receive money directly with a purchase.
Netizens below quickly rebutted: [The books are bought with real money, not fake purchases, what’s so fake about it? If someone has the money, why can’t they share some benefits?]
[Where’s this Lemon essence, so sour, they’re spending their own money, how does that bother you?]
[Which big shot doesn’t offer promotions during pre-sales? They’re just offering bigger perks, and you come out here being sour.]
The comments section was divided fiercely.
One side argued that book sales should reflect true figures, not be driven by money incentives.
The other side held that the promotion wasn’t orchestrated by the author’s team or the publisher; it was independently initiated, so why criticize just because someone has money?
The person involved didn’t care at all, she just needed to pay up.
Chuzheng originally only wanted to squander money, unexpectedly reaping some Thank-You Cards in return.
Today too, she’s trying hard to be nice!
- 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
An Ji, the author, was probably the last to learn about this.
He logged in to see his Weibo post had been reposted over 300,000 times.
Even though he had more than 3 million followers, typically, only a little over 10,000 would repost. This 300,000 was astonishing.
dollars per person.
30,000 people would mean 3 million, right?
Even if a third didn’t claim, that’s still 20,000 people...
"San Ye..."
An Ji looked at that name; it was Chuzheng’s WeChat name.
Coincidence?
An Ji really wanted to comfort himself that way, but seeing those two identical names, it felt too incredible.
[Ji: Is that San Ye on Weibo you?]
[San Ye: Yes.]
[Ji: ...]
An Ji didn’t type for a long while because he didn’t know what to say.
[Ji: Are you crazy? That’s so much money, you better stop this activity now.]
The books he sold didn’t earn that much.
[San Ye: It’s up to me, you don’t control me.] You won’t even be my boyfriend.
[Ji: That’s my book.]
[San Ye: Oh.]
Your book is your book, I wasn’t trying to steal it.
Chuzheng thought quietly and simply ignored An Ji.
Watching the ever-increasing reposts, An Ji felt heartache for Chuzheng’s money and some apprehension.
Because of Chuzheng’s audacious moves, An Ji’s twenty-four-hour pre-sale directly broke records.
Initially, many people thought it was marketing from An Ji’s side, but as time passed and the claimants didn’t decrease, they started realizing this probably wasn’t marketing.
What kind of marketing would do this?
They’d be bankrupt.
This was just a small account, following only An Ji, with only one post, and nothing else.
But netizens discovered this small account had liked a tweet.
Coincidentally, that tweet was from famous hater [68150216], a notorious figure.
So quickly, someone exposed that the login IP addresses of these two accounts were identical.
[I seem to have stumbled on some major drama.]
[I’m not even sure if what I’m eating is a drama...]
[Oh my god, what’s this storyline?]
[Wasn’t this hater always committed to hating the big shot? How did they silently pull such a big stunt?]
[They’ve been inactive recently, suddenly doing something like this is a bit frightening.]
[Does the digital big shot have family mines?]
[Is this a new hater tactic? How do I get on the hater list?]
[Is it that high a bar to become a hater now? Sorry for the intrusion.]
[I want to know what entanglements the digital big shot and the big shot have; I’ve imagined a hundred thousand words of story already!]
[After digging into the digital big shot’s previous Weibo, I found the content they criticized was very profound; this definitely isn’t written by someone who’s only read the book once.]
[So...what’s the situation now?]
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Chuzheng didn’t expect to get exposed either.
She didn’t remember using the original account; after registering, she had searched for An Ji, and the original account had a tweet at the top.
Chuzheng might have curiously clicked to take a look.
But she just took a look and clearly remembered not liking it...
How did she get exposed then!!
Did the Good Person Card know by now?!
Will the Good Person Card still see me as a good person?
How do I pay to unlock the collective undo skill?
[...] Sorry, we don’t offer that service.
King’s Account coldly and ruthlessly rejected Chuzheng.
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[I swear sometimes on Weibo, I don’t even know when I liked something, I’m the type who hardly likes things, so I’m very sure I didn’t hit like.]
